Doctored images of federal MPs giving the Nazi salute are being used in anti-Semitic propaganda circulating through the inner east.
Federal MPs have been targeted in a neo-Nazi manifesto that boasted recruiting “entire family units” with kids as young as 13 years old.
Both Victoria Police and the Australian Federal Police will probe the document obtained by the Herald Sun, which includes a photoshopped depiction of independent Kooyong MP Monique Ryan performing the Nazi salute while seated in front of an image of Adolf Hitler.
The document’s anonymous author makes derogatory references to former Treasurer Josh Frydenberg, who is Jewish, and praised Zoe Daniel for ousting Liberal MP Tim Wilson, who is gay, from the seat of Goldstein.
A “quarterly report” written by extremist group Aryan Operations, which was distributed to businesses and homes across Melbourne, said the group had seen recent “unprecedented growth”, particularly in Victoria.
It said it was signing up whole families, which sources say include young teenagers aged 13 and 14 years old.
The report said the group was forming Australia’s own “Brevik Battalion”, drawing links to Norwegian far-right domestic terrorist Anders Breivik, who was convicted of killing 77 people in 2011.
Dr Ryan slammed the “awful, anti-Semitic, vitriolic flyer” after a Kooyong resident also received a copy of the report.
Read the article by Olivia Jenkins in the Herald Sun.