Meals on Wheels NSW CEO apologises to clientsClaims to maintain his views READ MORE: Eight pro-Palestine activists charged in Melbourne
By Makayla Muscat For Daily Mail Australia
Published: 05:58 GMT, 20 February 2024 | Updated: 06:12 GMT, 20 February 2024
The boss of one of Australia’s biggest food delivery charities has been forced to apologise for a series of social media posts about Israel, Ukraine, and the CIA.
Meals on Wheels NSW CEO Ian MacDonald made the posts over a number of weeks on his personal Facebook account.
In one, he said the ‘collective West’ was struggling to ‘satisfy the vastly confused and ever changing demands of the US and its principal controller, Israel.’
‘Israel has spent the last 50 years infiltrating and developing control over a US foreign policy through a litany of crooks and spivs,’ he wrote.
‘Planted in the US power structures by (Israeli intelligence agency Mossad) and paid for by US taxpayers.’
Mr MacDonald ‘acknowledges that his statements may cause offence to some Meals on Wheels NSW clients, and for this he unreservedly apologises’.
In another post, Mr MacDonald said the British and Australian Labor Parties are both ‘obedient’ and ‘spineless’ when it comes to Israel and the United States.
‘They are both supporting the worst genocide since the Holocaust by their lap-dog actions with respect to the vast criminality being practiced by both of those nations in Gaza and the West Bank,’ he said.
In a further post, he shared a YouTube video titlted: ‘How the CIA destabilises the world’.
‘Unaccountable, illegal, vicious, and the most dangerous organisation on the planet!!!’ the caption read.
Mr MacDonald also shared posts from Russian media outlets accusing France of censoring Telegram channels to prevent people from knowing ‘that Ukraine is deliberately killing civilians with weapons supplied to it by Western countries.’
Mr MacDonald, who has been in the top job for 22 years, told Daily Mail Australia his statements stem from his Jewish family heritage and the pain and suffering being felt by many around the world as a result of the conflict in Israel and Palestine.
Ian MacDonald, CEO of Meals on Wheels NSW , made the posts over a number of weeks on his personal Facebook account.
He acknowledged that his comments may cause offence to some Meals on Wheels NSW clients and volunteers, and for this reason he has apologised.
He then went on to explain that these are ‘personal views’ which he holds as a ‘private citizen’, maintaining that he ‘wasn’t withdrawing his views’.
‘My views are shared widely by people in the Jewish community,’ Mr MacDonald said.
‘It was really an apology to any of our clients or volunteers who felt offended by the comments that I’ve made on my page.’
Mr MacDonald emphasised that his statements do not reflect the views of Meals on Wheels NSW.
‘There’s nothing on Facebook that would identify me as being in any particular profession,’ he said.
‘I’ve been very careful to separate my professional life from my personal life.’
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