She had previously been critical of the party's leader, Matt McCarten, for his close associations with the Maori Party.
In response to this article, Israel's Ambassador to Australia and non-resident Ambassador to New Zealand, Yuval Rotem, sharply criticized McCarten and accused him of "blunt anti-Israel sentiment which is a camouflage for anti-Semitism".
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Comparing the situation of Gaza with that of the Warsaw Ghetto in occupied Poland, McCarten has also suggested that the next move of Israeli leaders could be "to follow the example of the Nazis who in the end massacred everyone".
Following the splintering of the Alliance, Piesse sided with the Harré-McCarten faction.
(Yuval Rotem's Reply to Matt McCarten calling Israel ‘a terrorist state that is able to wage crimes on an innocent people’)
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