I write as a child of Holocaust survivors because I am disturbed by the demagoguery engaged by the leader of the Opposition, Peter Dutton, labelling hapless Palestinian refugees as potential terrorists.

I quote from The Guardian article: “Peter Dutton has compared Hamas to the Nazis in an opinion piece that calls the registered terrorist organisation “evil’s darkest shade” and suggests it may be worse than the Nazis in at least one respect.

In the column for the News Corp tabloids on Sunday, Dutton said Hamas “felt no guilt” about the 7 October attacks whereas the Nazis “tried to conceal their crime of murdering six million Jews”.

Dutton is simply wrong on these contentions:

1) The version of the 7 October events is the official Israeli government version.

This version has been questioned in........

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