A former head of the Jewish Defense League in Australia was fired from his job as a teacher after his criminal record became public. Michael O’Hara, who says he is Jewish and who used the name Ze’ev Korwan when in the JDL, was found guilty in a Melbourne court last year of perpetrating a bizarre fraud involving the sale of two German pistols, one of which he claimed Hitler used to commit suicide.
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