The New Zealand Jewish Council is hitting out at the Mongrel Mob after a video surfaced of lifetime member Harry Tam saying “sieg heil” – a victory salute used by Nazis at political rallies.
The video, which was shared by the National Party on Wednesday, shows Tam speaking to a group of Mongrel Mob members about voting. He also uses the offensive phrase several times despite the Mongrel Mob Kingdom vowing to stop using it after the Christchurch terror attacks.
Spokesperson for the New Zealand Jewish Council Juliet Moses condemned Tam’s comments on Friday.
“The Jewish Council is very disturbed to see the video of Harry Tam chanting the infamous Nazi salutation ‘sieg heil’.
“Our community includes many people who lost members of their family in the Holocaust (some of those people are survivors themselves), worldwide the Jewish population is not yet back to pre-Holocaust levels, and we are enduring a resurgence in Nazi and white supremacist ideology, all of which makes this distressing,” she said.
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