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The opposition leader, Peter Dutton, has compared chants at pro-Palestine university protests to the ideology of Nazi leader Adolf Hitler, in comments labelled "deeply offensive" by a prominent Jewish group. Tensions are brewing over pro-Palestine encampments at universities across Australia, with leading universities writing to the attorney general, Mark Dreyfus, for legal advice on whether protesters' chants were in breach of federal law. The education minister, Jason Clare, has come under fire from opponents of the pro-Palestine demonstrations after saying the chants "from the river to the sea" and "intifada" meant different things to various groups.
Opponents of the rallies characterise the chants as calls for the destruction of Israel, while pro-Palestine demonstrators use it as a call for Palestinian freedom and security. In his weekly 2GB interview, the opposition leader was scathing of Clare's comments. "I just don't understand how somebody like .
.. Jason Clare, who would have a clear understanding of history, how they distinguish a comment like 'river to the sea' from what Hitler chanted in the 1930s.
This is about elimination, annihilation, extermination of the race of people of the Jewish faith – it's as simple as that," Dutton claimed. "If they're trying to make some sort of headroom for another interpretation that would be against what we know in the western world for that dreadful chant to be ..
. are they doing it for political reasons? Are they willing to sac.
