![]() ![]() Prime Minister Scott Morrison at the Coalition campaign launch in Melbourne in 2019. ![]() “This is a further example of the Liberal Party using my culture and trauma as a backdrop for their campaign.”ĭaniel did not respond to requests for comment in time for publication. “When I saw the Liberal MPs walking around with yarmulkes on in a museum (not culturally required, as can be seen from the fact that none of the Holocaust centre staff ), it angered and upset me personally, and that was the context of the tweet. “I am a Jewish volunteer who has watched over the past few weeks as the Liberal Party have weaponised the Jewish experience based on lies and misinformation,” the rabbi said. However, Daniel’s own website says her campaign is supported by the group. Gottlieb said the Voices of Goldstein group was not connected to Daniel’s campaign. “I would have thought that Zoe Daniel’s team would respect that the Holocaust was above politics, but it clearly falls into a pattern of behaviour, having already had to apologise for anti-Semitic comments, calling Israel an apartheid state, and exposition of her digital dark arts strategy,” he said. Wilson told The Age that Gottlieb’s tweet was representative of Daniel’s views. She has since formally apologised, saying: “ mischaracterisation of Jewish people, including myths such as their enjoying outsize wealth or power, must be identified immediately as the starting point for much worse.”ĭaniel is backed by the independent Voices of political group and partly funded by Climate 200. News Corp publications have highlighted Daniel’s previous comments, including a 2017 ABC article in which she said that then-US president Donald Trump had declared Jerusalem as Israel’s capital, in part, as way of “satisfying his wealthy Jewish donors”. Last month, Daniel apologised for a series of comments made by her and members of her team made in the past that Jewish community leaders deemed offensive. Goldstein has a substantial Jewish population, with 6.8 per cent describing their religion as Judaism in the 2016 census. Wilson tweeted back: “At some point, campaign team should show a little respect to the Jewish community as and & I have done.” A now-deleted tweet from the organiser of the ‘Voices of Goldstein’ political group. ![]()
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