Tamika Mallory, a co-chairwoman of the US Women’s March, was to be the keynote speaker at next week’s Victorian Council of Social Service “Good Life” summit in Melbourne.
Ms Mallory helped organise the five million-strong march last year in Washington and other US cities against US President Donald Trump and was named one of Time magazine’s 100 most influential people in 2017.
But Jewish groups in Australia were concerned by her engagement for the summit next Wednesday following her comments on Israel and her links to controversial Muslim cleric Louis Farrakhan, with whom she has appeared, and has praised online.
Ms Mallory addressed the US Centre for Constitutional Rights in Manhattan via video-link on Friday, saying the foundation of Israel in 1948 was a “human-rights crime”.
Read the article by Richard Ferguson in The Australian.