One of the teal movement’s most senior strategists has savaged key Jewish community figures for years and was locked in a toxic legal and social media dispute with a former colleague that included an intervention order being taken out against her.
Online activist Alex Fein was head of strategy for independent MP Zoe Daniel and is now the president of the teal campaign in the ultra-marginal, heavily Jewish Victorian seat of Caulfield, having been appointed to the roles after many years of left-wing activism.
Ms Fein has accused an Executive Council of Australian Jewry staff member of playing “footsies” with the far right and “happily entertaining paranoid right-wing fantasies”, another senior Jewish community leader of having “shit on the memory of the six million as he cowers in the face of actual Nazi activity” and the ECAJ of producing online content that is a “magnet for Holocaust deniers”.
Her expansive social media footprint focuses heavily on the ECAJ, which has declined to comment, but several other groups also have faced strident attacks.
She had offered to help the ECAJ but said the organisation would rather continue to fail than take up her offer.
“The fact that the ECAJ page is frequented by far more Nazis than Jews is testament to this.”
Read the article by John Ferguson in The Australian.