{"id":309195,"date":"2025-10-30T10:33:54","date_gmt":"2025-10-30T00:33:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=309195"},"modified":"2025-10-30T10:56:55","modified_gmt":"2025-10-30T00:56:55","slug":"albaneses-joy-division-t-shirt-draws-antisemitism-criticism-from-sussan-ley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=309195","title":{"rendered":"Albanese&#8217;s Joy Division T-Shirt Draws Antisemitism Criticism from Sussan Ley"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Australian Prime Minister <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?tag=anthony-albanese\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"Anthony Albanese\">Anthony Albanese<\/a> faced backlash from Deputy Liberal Leader Sussan Ley after wearing a Joy Division T-shirt upon returning from a U.S. trip on October 28, 2025.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ley called it a profound failure of judgment due to the band&#8217;s name originating from a Nazi euphemism for forced prostitution in concentration camps and demanded an apology amid global sensitivities to antisemitism. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Albanese dismissed the controversy as a non-issue, citing his fandom of the band&#8217;s anti-fascist themes, while reactions ranged from defenses of the music to accusations of insensitivity, highlighting partisan divides in Australian politics.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It has since been revealed Anthony Albanese knew the background to the name of the band <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=309202\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">having been advised of its meaning<\/a> in 2022.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ley called it a profound failure of judgment due to the band&#8217;s name originating from a Nazi euphemism for forced prostitution in concentration camps.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":309196,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[273,999,35],"tags":[9031,18605],"class_list":["post-309195","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-australia","category-australia-politics","category-breaking-news","tag-anthony-albanese","tag-joy-division"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309195","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=309195"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309195\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":309206,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309195\/revisions\/309206"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/309196"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=309195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=309195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=309195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}