King Charles heckler Lidia Thorpe once posed in a Hamas-style headband with ‘I love chocolate milk’ written on it in Arabic.
Ms Thorpe, a firebrand member of the Australian senate, was accused of mocking the victims of the October 7 attacks on Israel by wearing a headband similar in appearance to those worn by Hamas.
The headband, which she wore in July, was adorned with Arabic writing that read: ‘I like chocolate milk.’
Ms Thorpe uploaded a photo of herself wearing the headband alongside the caption: ‘I wholeheartedly support this message. I hope you do too.’
The Australian Jewish Association (AJA) slammed the post, asking: ‘Does Senator Lidia Thorpe have a mental health issue?’
The headband ‘mocks the victims of Hamas murderers, rapists and kidnappers’, according to the AJA. ‘For a senator to think this is OK is outrageous.’
Ms Thorpe removed the post and then claimed: ‘I was not aware of the resemblance between this headband, which says ”I love chocolate milk”, and items worn by Hamas members. When I became aware of this, I immediately chose to delete the post and have apologised to anyone who was upset.’
It came before Ms Thorpe berated King Charles III and shouted ‘You are not my King’ during a welcome reception, today posting a cartoon of the monarch beheaded.
Lidia Thorpe (pictured) was accused of mocking the victims of the October 7 attacks on Israel by wearing a headband similar in appearance to those worn by Hamas
Ms Thorpe reposted a cartoon of the King’s head lying next to a crown, after it was created by Matt Chun, co-editor of anti-imperialist publication The Sunday Paper
Senator Lidia Thorpe, 51, launched a foul-mouthed tirade at the King during his visit to Parliament House
Ms Thorpe waited until the end of a landmark speech Charles gave at Australia’s Parliament House in Canberra to verbally attack him and claim ‘genocide’ had been committed against the Commonwealth country’s Indigenous people.
And she has now reposted a cartoon of the monarch’s head lying next to a crown on her Instagram story, after it was created by Matt Chun, co-editor of anti-imperialist publication The Sunday Paper.
Questions have been raised over how the 51-year-old independent Senator – who demanded a treaty between Australia’s First Nations and its government – was able to speak for so long before being gently ushered from the Parliament House hall.
Charles and Camilla have faced low-key protests during their tour of Australia, from supporters of First Nations resistance to colonisation, who have been displaying a banner with the word ‘decolonise’ at a number of events.
Her tirade came during King Charles III’s first visit to Australia as monarch
But the outburst from an elected representative will be viewed as an embarrassment for Charles, who is making his first visit to Australia as King – although others labelled Senator Thorpe a ‘one-off idiot’ who was being ‘disrespectful and rude’.
Senator Thorpe refused to go away quietly, and claimed after the incident that the ‘bones and skulls’ of Aboriginal people are still in the Royal Family’s possession.
She told Sky News: ‘We have our bones and our skulls still in his possession, or in his family’s possession. We want that back. We want our land back and we want your King to take some leadership and sit at the table and discuss a treaty with us.’
During her outburst, Senator Thorpe, dressed in a native fur coat, shouted that the monarch had ‘committed genocide against our people’, adding: ‘F*** the colony’.
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