Last year, he voiced support for the Assad regime and described Syria’s chemical weapon attacks on its own people as “false flag” operations.
He has also made provocative comments about North Korea, expressing his “solidarity” with Kim Jong-Un’s US sanctions.
Similarly, Tharappel has made controversial statements in the past, such as that the flag of Hezbollah “will be raised over the Knesset”. Last April, he was under investigation by the university for describing an Armenian journalist as a “traitorous scum who desperately wants a second Armenian genocide.”
CEO of the NSW Jewish Board of Deputies, Vic Alhadeff, told Australia’s Seven News that “curse the Jews is an openly bigoted, racist statement. The others are equally problematic.”
Last week, Dr Anderson published The Future of Palestine, describing Israel as an apartheid state and a “crime against humanity” that “must be dismantled”.