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A notorious neo-Nazi who spoke at a rally outside NSW Parliament House last November has been charged with a hate crime.
More than 60 black-clothed members of the National Socialist Network (NSN) gathered outside parliament on November 8, 2025 after submitting a protest application that was unopposed by police. They chanted “blood and honour”, a Hitler Youth slogan, and held a banner that read “Abolish the Jewish lobby”.
Joel Davis, 32, was part of the gathering that went ahead after NSW Police sought legal advice only to be told police likely did not have the legal grounds to stop the protest.
Davis had shouted into a megaphone that the “Jewish lobby” and “Jewish-controlled media” had engineered a “fake antisemitism crisis” to justify hate speech laws. He said attacks on synagogues were the work of organised crime.
“Who paid them? Who paid these bikies to firebomb synagogues,” he asked at the rally.
He was charged on Wednesday with publicly inciting racial hatred on the grounds of race, a relatively new offence created under the current NSW Labor government.
He was given conditional bail to appear at Downing Centre Local Court next month.
Davis was granted bail back in April after several months in custody, following a message he posted on social media encouraging followers to “rhetorically rape” federal independent Allegra Spender.
After the rally, Police Commissioner Mal Lanyon had told parliament in an answer to a budget estimates committee submitted on March 26 that “a subsequent review of the actions of the protesters conducted after the protest identified no offence”.
However, a spokesperson for police said on Wednesday that he had been charged in connection with the event.
“An investigation into this matter was undertaken by the Security Investigation Unit, Counter Terrorist and Special Tactics Command, who sought legal advice in relation to the public assembly and content of the speeches,” the statement said.
More to come.
Jessica McSweeney is a reporter at The Sydney Morning Herald covering state politics and urban affairs.Connect via email.From our partners
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