The chair of the Anti-Defamation Commission has slammed those behind an “abhorrent” Nazi parody video targeting opponents of a proposed inner-city sports stadium.
Dvir Abramovich has joined growing anger about the Stonnington Votes 2020 video, which focused on the recent council elections and the long-running saga of the proposed $26.7 million stadium at Malvern East’s Percy Treyvaud Memorial Park.
The video, recently made unavailable for public viewing, was posted by a YouTube user and depicted Ratepayers Stonnington president and affected resident Dean Hurlston as Adolf Hitler.
It used footage from the movie Downfall, which has been used in parodies about other topics on YouTube.
“This is cruel and cynical politics at its worst and should be deplored,” Dr Abramovich said.
“Whatever one thinks of this local project, to weaponize Hitler, a brutal dictator responsible for the extermination of six million Jews and millions of others, in order to score a political point and beat down opponents crosses many red lines and is abhorrent.
“There is no place for such repugnant comparisons in our civil discourse.”
The council has also condemned those behind the video with mayor Kate Hely billing it as “hateful, disrespectful and poisonous.”
Read the article by Kiel Egging in the Herald Sun.