The NSW parliament’s first Muslim MP has withdrawn defamation proceedings in which he claimed this newspaper depicted him as an anti-Semitic hypocrite who described Jewish advocacy groups as malicious and cancerous.
Shaoquett Moselmane, a member of the Labor Party, withdrew his claim for damages just before the case was due to go to trial in the NSW Supreme Court. The parties have agreed to pay their own costs.
Mr Moselmane had complained that the natural and ordinary meaning of a story published in February last year in The Australian and online was that he was a racist who had made an anti-Semitic speech. He had said the story, by reporter Sharri Markson, incorrectly suggested he was a hypocrite who had decried racism but held racist views towards Jews.
Read the full article by Chris Merritt at The Australian.