Islamic cleric Wissam Haddad shares shocking conspiracy theory after Melbourne synagogue was firebombed [Video]

03:15 EST 09 Dec 2024, updated 04:22 EST 09 Dec 2024

A fundamentalist Islamic cleric who labelled the Jewish race as ‘vile’ and ‘treacherous’ has spread a disturbing theory online in the wake of the Melbourne synagogue firebombing.

Controversial preacher Wissam Haddad told followers on Sunday he believed the Jewish community burned the place of worship ‘in order to draw public sympathy’.

The Adass Israel Synagogue in Melbourne’s east has been boarded up in the days since it was gutted by a devastating arson attack last Friday morning which rocked the Jewish community. 

The incident has been labelled an act of ‘terrorism’ by Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and Victorian Police.

Mr Haddad claimed that the synagogue attack was a ‘false flag’ in a social media post.

‘If Israel would kill its own citizens in a ‘Hannibal directive’, call me a conspiracy theorist, but is it plausible that a synagogue would be burnt in order to draw public sympathy or swing a …