Police ejected a group of Australian nationalists from an anti-Islam protest in Melbourne after Christian Zionist organisers complained about their presence.
Prominent National Socialist Network activist Joel Davis and a small group of friends turned up at the sparsely attended Defending What Matters rally outside St Patrick’s Cathedral on Sunday afternoon, which was held in response to Muslims surrounding the church during a parade earlier this month.
Footage livestreamed by Rebel News host Avi Yemini shows him and rally organiser Nick Patterson confronting a black man who was wearing a “Heil Hitler” T-shirt under his jacket and telling him to leave, before accusing Mr Davis of being affiliated with him.
Mr Patterson and others, including a man in a hoodie bearing the logo of Jewish protest group Lions of Zion, repeatedly attempted to force Mr Davis to leave, before police turned up, told him he was “breaching the peace”, and dragged him away.
Attendees told Noticer News that one of organisers asked for police assistance removing Mr Davis, and that a march planned for after the rally was cancelled due to low attendance.
Just in : Members of the NSN (National Socialist Network) were removed by organizers of a Christian solidarity event for attempting to gatecrash the gathering and spread Nazi ideology in Melbourne. The fringe NSN group is known for gatecrashing rallies, which mainstream media and… pic.twitter.com/lDxhl0nm8X
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In a video posted on Telegram afterwards Mr Davis said he attended the rally because he “supported the cause” and “Muslims need to get the hell out of Australia”.
“We supported this event because recently there was a church that was surrounded by hordes of Muslims in Melbourne a couple of weeks ago, it got a lot of publicity, and this was organised as a counter-demonstration so we thought we’d come down and support the event,” he said.
“We didn’t make it about us, we didn’t come in our NSN uniforms or anything like that, we just came down to enjoy the event.
“The individual who organised this event, Nick Patterson, is a Christian Zionist who basically openly told me that he sides with Jews against his own people. He has no interest in forming a large movement against Islam with other patriots.”
White Australia leader Thomas Sewell said in a separate statement on Telegram that a day earlier Mr Patterson had requested that the NSN not attend the rally in uniform.
He said Mr Patterson told him Liberal MP Moira Deeming may attend, and that she was afraid of a repeat of the 2023 Let Women Speak rally, where she was falsely accused of being linked to Nazis after they turned up at the event with a “destroy paedo freaks” banner.
“I was asked ‘if any of my guys were planning on coming at all’,” Mr Sewell wrote.
“In good faith I replied ‘yes, but only as individuals and simply to be friendly and show support’.
“Nick Patterson knew our guys were going to be there in good faith, and he knew that they weren’t going to cause an incident.”
Mr Patterson, who runs a Telegram page called “Fight Corrupt Police”, was involved in anti-Covid tyranny protests during Melbourne’s lockdown, and last year was cleared in court after being charged over a clash with police, with a judge ruling that officers used “unlawful violence”.
A month later he spoke at an event in Melbourne on stopping mass immigration and child sexualisation in schools that was also attended by Mr Davis and other members of the NSN.
Header image: Left, Joel Davis being ejected by police. Right, Joel Davis and Nick Patterson facing off at the rally (Rebel News).
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