Yassmin Abdel-Magied’s Anzac Day call

Abdel-Magied has endorsed a former GetUp! director who urged for people to tweet “Lest we forget (Manus)” on April 25.

Ms Abdel-Magied currently lives in the United Kingdom. Picture: Supplied

Controversial media personality Yassmin Abdel-Magied has endorsed a former GetUp!director’s call for thousands of people to tweet “Lest we forget (Manus)” on Anzac Day.

Incoming Change.org national director Sally Rugg tweeted last night “What if thousands of us all tweeted ‘lest we forget (Manus)’ next week on April 25th…” The statement has been retweeted almost 500 times in less than 24 hours.

What if thousands of us all tweeted “lest we forget (Manus)” next week on April 25th...

— Sally Rugg 🏳️‍🌈 (@sallyrugg) April 19, 2018

Ms Rugg, who is the former marriage equality campaign director for GetUp! and played a pivotal role in the same-sex marriage postal survey last year, tweeted a follow up statement saying “Anyone who thinks this tweet is about refugees and ANZAC Day is missing the point :).”

Anyone who thinks this tweet is about refugees and ANZAC Day is missing the point :) https://t.co/5xVyjILnSt

— Sally Rugg 🏳️‍🌈 (@sallyrugg) April 19, 2018

Ms Abdel-Magied sparked widespread controversy when she wrote “Lest We Forget (Manus, Nauru, Syria, Palestine ...)” in a Facebook post last year. She later deleted the post and apologised.

The engineer and former ABC presenter endorsed Ms Rugg’s suggestion this morning, quote tweeting the original message with “Do it.”

Do it. https://t.co/Zbydp4LkwT

— Yassmin Abdel-Magied (@yassmin_a) April 19, 2018

Ms Abdel-Magied made headlines last week after she was denied entry to the US due to having the wrong visa. She has said she would have been treated better by border security if she was a “straight white male.”

Ms Abdel-Magied currently lives in the United Kingdom and will make her acting debut in the new SBS series Homecoming Queens.