Jewish groups have condemned prominent lawyer Julian Burnside for sharing a picture on Twitter depicting Peter Dutton as a Nazi.
Mr Burnside retweeted an image showing the Home Affairs Minister’s face superimposed on that of a Nazi official in a uniform which included the “death’s head” emblem used by the SS unit responsible for concentration camps.
Mr Burnside, a prominent barrister, has represented the likes of Alan Bond and Rose Porteous in court but he’s spent the past few years advocating for the rights of asylum seekers on Manus Island and Nauru.
He is a fierce critic of Mr Dutton and the current Coalition government and added to the retweet of the Nazi photo that Mr Dutton was “the most powerful MP in Australia, and arguably the least scrupulous.”
“He acts as if the rights of human beings are irrelevant, unless they happen to be in his electorate,” he wrote on Saturday.
Anti-Defamation Commission Chairman Dvir Abramovich said Mr Burnside’s sharing of the Nazi-Dutton photo was “profoundly offensive” to survivors of the Nazi regime which killed 6 million Jews.
Read the article by Richard Ferguson in The Australian.