Tom Elliott had some strong views yesterday on Hezbollah flags being flown in the CBD during protests in Melbourne and Sydney over the weekend, and has questioned the organiser of the rally about it on 3AW Mornings.

Lebanese Australian and Victorian Socialists representative, Omar Hassan, took exception to the 3AW Mornings host’s line of questioning.

And it led Tom Elliott to label Mr Hassan “hypocritical”.

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“It’s interesting you say you’re more interested in the flags than 40,000 dead Gazans and 2,000 dead Lebanese,” Mr Hassan said.

“This is the problem with Australian media, we’re always looking for distractions and secondary issues.

“In my personal opinion, the Israeli state has committed far more atrocious terrorist acts than Hezbollah has.”

The two things which Tom Elliott ‘couldn’t believe’ happened in Melbourne over the weekend

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