Hitlers homeboy
Posted on 04/06/2003 4:25:23 PM PDT by ATOMIC_PUNK
Terrorist supporter He still has an outstanding charge against him of taking firearms out of Victoria without informing police. Mr O'Hara, using the name Zeev Gideon Korwan, is executive chairman of the Jewish Defence League in Australia. Writing on the JDL website, Mr O'Hara has vowed to continue the legacy of the late Rabbi Meir Kahane, whose extremist Kach group is listed by the US State Department as a terrorist organisation. His JDL website has attempted to incite Jews to violence and warned that JDL members are armed and ready to fight "our Muslim adversaries". Mr O'Hara has described Kach group members awaiting trial in the US on terrorism charges as "our glorious fighting brothers". Parents and teachers at the school said Mr O'Hara's past was revealed only after a student saw his picture on the Herald Sun website, www.heraldsun.com.au They were horrified that he was able to slip through the stringent checks all staff are supposed to be subjected to before being allowed to teach. A Victorian County Court jury found Mr O'Hara guilty in November last year of 18 counts of making false documents relating to attempts to raise $5 million by selling two guns he claimed that Hitler and his niece and lover used to kill themselves. He was sacked late last week after the principal was made aware of his criminal background. Mr O'Hara had been teaching outdoor education to year 10, 11 and 12 girls and boys since the start of the school year. A teacher at Lilydale High School, which has 2000 students, said it was the Herald Sun's expose in November last year that led to the sacking of Mr O'Hara. "A kid was doing research for a project and was going through the newspaper files in the school library and came across a Herald Sunarticle about a bloke that reckoned he was Hitler's son," the teacher said. "The student recognised the man as his outdoor education teacher, photocopied the article and it then circulated like wildfire through the school. "It came to the attention of the principal, which led to Mr O'Hara being sacked. "It is ridiculous that it is left to a kid to accidentally find out his teacher has a criminal record. "Isn't that what the principal and Education Department is supposed to find out before giving a teacher a job?" Several parents of students at the school also contacted the Herald Sun after their children brought home photocopied Herald Sun articles detailing Mr O'Hara's disturbing background. The father of one boy at the school said his son had told him that Mr O'Hara had bragged to students about being Hitler's son. "He also mentioned something about Mossad spies," the father said. "How on earth does somebody with such radical views, not to mention a criminal record, get to teach in a state school? It is scary." A spokesman for the Department of Education confirmed to the Herald Sun that Mr O'Hara had been sacked last week after working at Lilydale High School since January. But he claimed it was routine checking that led to the discovery of Mr O'Hara's criminal record, rather than the version told to the Herald Sun by several parents and teachers. "Our new registration process, which now goes through the Victorian Institute of Teachers, threw up the fact he had a police record," the spokesman said. "As soon as we were made aware of that the school was contacted and, in the interests of parents and students, he was sacked on the spot." Lilydale High School principal John Benison refused to comment. Mr O'Hara did not respond to phone messages.
a school teacher
A TERRORIST group supporter who claims to be Adolf Hitler's illegitimate son has been teaching at a Melbourne school.
Despite having recent criminal convictions, extremist organisation leader and master forger Michael O'Hara was able to talk his way into a full-time job at Lilydale High School in January.
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