Greens MP to tour Sydney Jewish Museum and donate funds after offensive ‘tentacles’ trope

NSW Greens MP Jenny Leong has donated $2,000 to the Sydney Jewish Museum and $2,000 to the Jewish Council of Australia. Photograph: Dan Himbrechts/AAP

New South Wales Greens MP Jenny Leong will visit the Sydney Jewish Museum and has donated $4,000 after a complaint was lodged with the Australian Human Rights Commission over comments she made about Jewish lobby groups last year.

Leong apologised and said she did not intend to reference an antisemitic cartoon depicting Jews as an octopus after footage emerged of comments she made at a Palestine Justice Movement forum in Sydney in December 2023.