NSW Opposition Leader Luke Foley has apologised to a prominent Jewish leader who was asked to leave a Labor multicultural event by Muslim MP Shaoquett Moselmane.
The NSW Jewish Board of Deputies chief executive, Vic Alhadeff, was invited to the launch of the Labor Union Multicultural Action Committee but was turned away at the door by Mr Moselmane.
Ms Moselmane, Labor’s whip in the upper house, was one of the hosts at the event at Trades Hall on Monday night and Mr Alhadeff was invited by the Labor’s general secretary, Kaila Murnain.
But Mr Moselmane, who was the first Muslim MP in NSW Parliament, told Mr Alhadeff that he could not enter because it was restricted to members of the Labor party.
The incident prompted outrage from Mr Moselman’s Labor colleague, Walt Secord, who said it was “stupid, malicious and vindictive” to refuse Mr Alhadeff entry into a multicultural event.
Read the article by Alexandra Smith in The Sydney Morning Herald.