In sermon, Australian imam says Jews are ‘bloodthirsty, treacherous monsters’

Referencing Oct. 7 attacks, Ahmad Zoud of Sydney celebrates how ‘those cowards collapsed in the face of the attacks by the mujahideen, and ran away from them like rats’

Imam Ahmad Zoud goes on an anti-Semitic rant during his Friday sermon at the Sydney mosque Masjid as-Sunnah Lakemba on December 22, 2023. )Screen capture: MEMRI, used in accordance with clause 27a of the Copyright Law)
Imam Ahmad Zoud goes on an anti-Semitic rant during his Friday sermon at the Sydney mosque Masjid as-Sunnah Lakemba on December 22, 2023. )Screen capture: MEMRI, used in accordance with clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Recordings of a recent Friday sermon at the Masjid as-Sunnah Lakemba Mosque in Sydney, Australia show Imam Ahmad Zoud making antisemitic comments, saying Jews are bloodthirsty, treacherous “monsters.”

The December 22 sermon, broadcast live on the mosque’s Facebook page, begins with several rhetorical questions, for example: “Who are these monsters from whose hearts mercy has been ripped out?” referring to Israel’s war in Gaza. Zoud answers emphatically: “These are the Zionists. These are the Jews.”

The war was triggered by Hamas’s brutal October 7 onslaught, which saw some 3,000 terrorists cross the border into Israel to slay nearly 1,200 people, mostly civilians, and take over 240 hostages, while weaponizing sexual violence on a mass scale. Hamas says the war has killed more than 22,000 people, mostly civilians. These figures cannot be independently verified and are believed to include some 8,500 Hamas fighters, as well as civilians killed by misfired Palestinian rockets.

The Australian imam can be heard mocking the victims of the Hamas onslaught, saying “those cowards collapsed in the face of the attacks by the mujahideen, and ran away from them like rats.”

After saying his statements apply only to “most Jews,” Zoud proceeds to say that “betrayal and treachery are among the characteristics of the Jews.”

And “the most important characteristic of the Jews is that they are bloodthirsty,” he shouts. “They love to shed blood!”

“From an early age they raise their children on violence, terrorism and killing,” he adds. “Jews remain Jews. They are not changed by the passing of time.”

Zoud’s sermon was translated by the Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI), a Washington-based think tank dedicated to exposing Islamic extremism.

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