By ZAK WHEELER FOR DAILY MAIL AUSTRALIA

Published: 09:52 BST, 3 May 2025 | Updated: 09:55 BST, 3 May 2025

Adam Bandt was humiliated on election day by a voter who asked him to pose for a selfie – and then accused him of exploiting the Jewish community for his own political gain.

The Greens leader was asked to appear in the short birthday message video by a man named Zac at a polling booth in North Melbourne on Saturday.

A beaming Mr Bandt obliged, thinking he had a fan, before Zac flipped the script on him while filming his startled reaction. 

Zac had asked Mr Bandt to send a birthday message to his friend, Zoe, but the encounter quickly went sideways as the Greens leader realised he had been set up.

‘I’m Zac and this is Adam,’ Zac said before Mr Bandt waved his hand and wished Zac’s friend Zoe a happy birthday.

But then Zac blindsided him by adding: ‘And let’s say this together: I’ve demonised the Jewish community for my own political gain.’

Mr Bandt immediately turned his back on Zac and walked off at the mention of the Jewish community, before he resumed handing out Greens how to vote flyers.

The Greens leader and MP for Melbourne has previously been called out for his party’s support for Palestine and not strongly condemning Hamas throughout the Israel-Gaza war.

Adam Bandt was accused of 'demonising' the Jewish community for his own political gain while out campaigning in Melbourne on election day

Adam Bandt was accused of ‘demonising’ the Jewish community for his own political gain while out campaigning in Melbourne on election day 

The Greens leader was duped into appearing in the video by a voter, Zac, who said it would be a birthday message to his friend Zoe but Bandt then turn his back on him after he was duped

The Greens leader was duped into appearing in the video by a voter, Zac, who said it would be a birthday message to his friend Zoe but Bandt then turn his back on him after he was duped

Days after the October 7, 2023 Hamas terror attack in Israel, Australian Jew Paul Roberts confronted Mr Bandt on ABC’s Q&A on October 9, 2023. 

Mr Roberts asked if the Greens were able to ‘dissociate themselves from the Australian protesters which call for a Palestine to replace Israel’.

Mr Bandt said his party had already condemned the terrorist group but when host Patricia Karvelas asked Mr Roberts if he was happy with the answer given he said ‘no’.

In 2024, Anthony Albanese accused the Greens of ‘deliberately and consciously’ spreading misinformation about the war and demanded its MPs condemn protests against parliamentarians’ offices.

Several high-profile Labor MPs and the US Consulate in Victoria had their offices vandalised by pro-Palestine protesters in the weeks leading up to June.

Greens deputy leader Mehreen Faruqi herself also garnered heavy criticism over her refusal to condemn Hamas in August of that same year.

The NSW Senator had previously minimised pro-Palestine graffiti on the Australian War Memorial as ‘paint on a building’. 

Mr Bandt has previously faced accusations of sympathising with the Palestinian terrorist group Hamas throughout the Israel-Gaza war

Mr Bandt has previously faced accusations of sympathising with the Palestinian terrorist group Hamas throughout the Israel-Gaza war 

Mr Bandt had hoped that his party would be able to use a hung parliament to force Labor to scrap negative gearing and revive free university education in the run-up to the 2025 Federal Election. 

The Greens have also campaigned to make dental visits claimable on Medicare.

The party currently holds four House of Representatives seats, but Labor and the Liberal parties are campaigning to regain, from the Greens, inner-city seats in Brisbane. 

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