NSW judge calls property damage case 'miscarriage of justice' after anti-Israel graffiti mislabeled antisemitic

Mohammed Farhat has been imprisoned for nearly two years based on charges later found to involve a miscarriage of justice, with his parole revoked and freedom still pending.

In a ruling that lays bare the dangers of conflating political speech with hatred, a New South Wales Supreme Court judge has found that a young man spent nearly two years in prison under a mischaracterization of his motives — punished not for what he truly was, but for what authorities needed him to be. Justice Desmond Fagan found that Mohammed Farhat, recruited and paid by organised crime figures to spray-paint anti-Israel slogans in Sydney, was wrongly treated as an antisemitic ideologue, while police withheld intelligence that told a different story. The ruling challenges not only the condu

NSW judge calls property damage case 'miscarriage of justice' after anti-Israel graffiti mislabeled antisemitic

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