From the Jewish News:
Lobby group issues apology
NAOMI LEVINA REGIONAL Victorian lobby group has removed a poster from its website that compared Premier John Brumby to Adolf Hitler.
An apology to the Jewish community was also issued on the ‘Plug the Pipe’ website early Friday and the group’s chairman admitted that the image was “extremely offensive”.
The apology came after Victorian parliamentarians and the Jewish Community Council of Victoria slammed the poster, which was pictured being carried by a woman at a protest rally.
The poster depicted Hitler and Brumby with the words “Can you spot the difference between these two dictators”.
Plug the Pipe is an organisation that opposes the transportation of water from northern Victoria to the city in a project known as the Food Bowl Modernisation Project. The group was in the news last month after it threatened to trespass Brumby’s rural property.
