One of the key figures in an anti-Jewish rally held outside NSW parliament earlier this month has been arrested by the Australian Federal Police.
AFP officers swooped on Joel Davis in the trendy beachside suburb of Bondi in Sydney on Thursday afternoon and he remains in custody.
‘The AFP has undertaken an operational activity in Bondi today. There is no ongoing risk to the community,’ the AFP said in a statement.
He is expected to be charged with using a carriage service to harass or menace, The Sydney Morning Herald reported.
It’s understood the alleged victim was a political figure.
Davis was on of about 60 black-clad demonstrators who were allowed to assemble outside NSW parliament on November 8 and yell Hitler youth chants.
Another of those in attendance, South African national Matthew Gruter, has since had his visa revoked.
Gruter, who has a wife and four-week-old child in Australia, is currently in immigration detention until he is deported or obtains his own ticket to leave the country.
Davis speaking at the rally outside NSW parliament on November 8
Davis is a spokesperson for the National Socialist Network, the group behind the ‘Abolish the Jewish Lobby’ rally outside parliament.
NSN is attempting to form a political party called White Australia, which will call for mass deportations of non-white Australians.
After independent federal MP Allegra Spender criticised the protest, Davis called on his supporters to ‘rhetorically rape’ her.
It’s understood she and NSW Liberal Minister Kellie Sloane, who also slammed the rally on social media, later received dozens of threats, which they both referred to police.
The Minns Labor government is also considering introducing laws which would outlaw Nazi slogans, in line with bans on Nazi symbols, and boost police powers to de-authorise rallies such as those run by white nationalists.
