{"id":365519,"date":"2026-02-10T11:01:56","date_gmt":"2026-02-10T01:01:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=365519"},"modified":"2026-02-10T11:25:23","modified_gmt":"2026-02-10T01:25:23","slug":"calls-for-grace-tame-to-be-stripped-of-australian-of-year-award-after-globalise-the-intifada-chant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=365519","title":{"rendered":"Calls for Grace Tame to be stripped of Australian of Year award after &#8216;globalise the intifada&#8217; chant"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?tag=grace-tame\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"Grace Tame\">Grace Tame<\/a> has faced calls to be stripped of her Australian of the Year award after she chanted \u201cFrom Gadigal to Gaza, globalise the intifada\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=365474\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"Grace Tame Leads \u2018Globalise the Intifada\u2019 Chant at Sydney Protest\">at an anti-Israel protest<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>While Ms Tame was leading the chant which calls for the elimination of the state of Israel, members of the Jewish community were locked inside an address from Israeli President Isaac <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?tag=president-herzog\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"President Herzog\">Herzog<\/a> as a result of the violent protests.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ms Tame, who was named Australian of the Year in 2021, addressed a crowd of thousands which had gathered at Sydney&#8217;s Town Hall on Monday in protest of Mr Herzog&#8217;s arrival.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;<strong>From Gadigal to Gaza, globalise the intifada<\/strong>,&#8221; she yelled, followed by applause from the crowd.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ms Tame reshared videos of herself making the chant on Instagram.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The antisemitic chant calls for an uprising against Israel, and was directed while members of the Jewish Australian community were mourning the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?tag=bondi-beach-massacre\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"Bondi Beach Massacre\">Bondi terror attack<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-video aligncenter\"><video height=\"270\" style=\"aspect-ratio: 362 \/ 270;\" width=\"362\" controls src=\"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/9upkk5R3p5sOZdXL.mp4\"><\/video><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Australia&#8217;s Rodney King moment. I still can&#8217;t believe my eyes.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>In response, Ms Tame has received widespread condemnation for her behaviour and some have argued she should have her Australian of the Year award rescinded.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Australian Jewish Association President Robert Gregory told Sky News that calls of \u201cglobalise the intifada\u201d were \u201cunderstood as a direct threat\u201d to Jewish safety.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>\u201cThe role of Australian of the Year is to unite the nation, not to make minority communities fear for their lives,\u201d he said on Tuesday.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWhatever else Grace Tame may have achieved, she has failed to uphold the responsibility that comes with that title.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>\u201cStripping her of the Australian of the Year honour would be an important symbolic step. Failure to act sends a message that hateful and violent rhetoric is tolerated in Australia.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>This must be defined as hate speech!<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>NSW Premier Chris Minns said that \u201cglobalise the intifada\u201d represented a \u201cviolent terrorist uprising\u201d just six weeks after the Bondi Beach terror attack took 15 lives.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Six weeks ago we lost 15 members of the Jewish community to a hate crime, a violent terrorist uprising, that&#8217;s what the consequences of globalise the intifada mean,&#8221; Mr Minns said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sky News + Vibewire<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Grace Tame has faced calls to be stripped of her Australian of the Year award after she chanted &#8220;globalise the intifada&#8221; which the NSW Premier has said incited violence against Jewish Australians.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":141351,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":true,"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":[273,35,858],"tags":[19003,13977,5026,2139],"class_list":["post-365519","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-australia","category-breaking-news","category-israel","tag-bondi-beach-massacre","tag-grace-tame","tag-nsw","tag-sydney"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365519","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=365519"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365519\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":365530,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365519\/revisions\/365530"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/141351"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=365519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=365519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=365519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}