Opposition leader’s comments ‘a very bad faith’ reading of protestors’ chant, Jewish Council of Australia says
In his weekly 2GB interview, federal opposition leader Peter Dutton compared chants at pro-Palestine university protests to the ideology of Nazi leader Adolf Hitler.In his weekly 2GB interview, federal opposition leader Peter Dutton compared chants at pro-Palestine university protests to the ideology of Nazi leader Adolf Hitler.
“If they’re trying to make some sort of headroom for another interpretation that would be against what we know in the western world for that dreadful chant to be … are they doing it for political reasons? Are they willing to sacrifice the safety of the Jewish community and to try and encourage some of these lunatics that we’re seeing at university campuses at the moment?”of progressive Jewish academics, teachers, writers and lawyers, claimed the negative interpretation advanced by Dutton on 2GB...
“It’s really overblown. The rhetoric is offensive to the memories of the victims of the holocaust. My grandfather and his family fled Germany after Kristallnacht, in that period in the late 30s, so to suggest this is anything remotely similar, I think is deeply offensive.” “The slogan that you refer to dismisses that, which is not in the interests of Israelis, but is also not in the interests of Palestinians,” the prime minister told a press conference.
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