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NSW Greens MP Jenny Leong has donated $2,000 to the Sydney Jewish Museum and $2,000 to the Jewish Council of Australia.NSW Greens MP Jenny Leong has donated $2,000 to the Sydney Jewish Museum and $2,000 to the Jewish Council of Australia.
“I am pleased we have now resolved the complaint through a conciliation process,” she said on Friday. Leong has separately donated $2,000 to the Jewish Council of Australia, which she said was a “diverse coalition of Jewish academics, lawyers, writers and teachers united in their opposition to Israel’s continued policies aimed at the destruction of Palestinian life”.
She said the lobby groups “offer solidarity” and “rock up to every community event and meeting to offer that connection because their tentacles reach into the areas that try and influence power”.
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