The New South Wales premier, Chris Minns, has warned parliamentarians about sowing division in the community after a Greens MP apologised for referring to the “tentacles” of the “Jewish lobby” and its influence across Australia.
The Newtown MP Jenny Leong said she did not intend to reference an antisemitic cartoon depicting Jews as an octopus when she made the comments at the Palestine Justice Movement forum in Sydney in December, where the boycott movement against Israel was being discussed.
