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She says she didn’t do it.

Scarborough-Agincourt NDP candidate Tasleem Riaz insisted Thursday she did not post a supposedly inspirational meme from Nazi leader Adolf Hitler on her personal Facebook page in 2013.

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She told reporters during a whistle stop in Scarborough by party leader Andrea Horwath she was hacked at least twice “a few years back.”

“When I was out of the country it (my Facebook page) was hacked,” she said, contending she only noticed it when the media brought it to her attention.

She added that her Jewish friends (she named two when asked) hadn’t seen it either.

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“Honestly, honestly, I’m the person who’s spreading love and peace in the community,” she said dramatically.

“It was horrifying … how it came up on my Facebook I have no idea.”

She said when people heard about the meme, they told her she didn’t “deserve this” because she’s done so much for the community.

Riaz said she’s not apologizing to Ontario’s Jewish community because she didn’t do it “knowingly.”

But PC candidate Gila Martow, who is running in Thornhill and first brought the meme to the media’s attention a week ago, countered that “openly Nazi messages” are not pushed on social media by mistake — a message that was “liked” by at least seven of Riaz’s friends at the time.

“This has crossed the line,” she said Thursday. “It goes without saying that keeping Ms. Riaz on a ballot in this election is offensive to every Jewish person in Ontario … just as it is offensive to every race and nationality murdered by Ms. Riaz’s apparent hero.”

When I first approached Riaz for comment Thursday, she was shuffled out the door by NDP handlers. She then subsequently claimed to other media “she was very busy” — too busy to comment as she sat schmoozing with assorted NDP staffers.

slevy@postmedia.com