Antisemitism envoy Jillian Segal faces calls to resign after revelations that a trust linked to her husband made a donation to a right-wing lobby group.

Segal’s husband, John Roth, is a director of Henroth Discretionary Trust, which gave $50,000 to Advance Australia in the 2023/24 financial year.

The donation was, according to Australian Electoral Commission records, disclosed by his company Henroth Investments Pty Ltd.

Segal is not listed as a director or shareholder of the company.

The donation, first reported by The Guardian and The Klaxon, has prompted Muslim community groups to call for Segal to quit as Australia’s special envoy to combat antisemitism.

Advance has previously claimed that federal Labor is backed by the Chinese Communist Party and accused left-wing politicians of being “mostly on the same side as Hamas”. It was also behind a campaign against the Indigenous Voice to Parliament and has claimed “criminal immigrants [are] running loose” in Australia.

Segal’s role involves aiding social cohesion in Australia. Last week handed a report on combating antisemitism to the Albanese government.

In a statement, Segal said she had no influence on the trust’s donations.

“No one would tolerate or accept my husband dictating my politics, and I certainly won’t dictate his,” she told the ABC.

“I have had no involvement in his donations, nor will I.”

The Lebanese Muslim Association said Segal’s position was no longer tenable and her response rang “hollow”.

“Segal cannot credibly lead efforts against antisemitism while remaining silent about, or benefiting from, the funding of organisations that fuel other forms of racism and bigotry,” it said on Monday.

“To pretend this has no bearing on her role is insulting.

“The community isn’t naive; this wasn’t a distant relative or a faceless entity.”

Treasurer Jim Chalmers said it was a matter for Segal.

“We are taking substantial steps to crack down on this disgraceful escalation in antisemitism that we’re seeing in our society,” he said in Canberra on Monday.

“We’re working our way through that. But when it comes to donations made by her husband to that organisation, she’s addressed this publicly on the record, and I see that as a matter for her.”

In her report last week, Segal made several recommendations that the government is considering. They include embedding Holocaust education into school curriculums and strengthening legislation against hateful conduct, in addition to terminating or withholding funds from universities, broadcasters and cultural institutions that fail to address antisemitism.

Segal’s report found threats, vandalism and physical violence against Jewish Australians tripled between October 2023 and September 2024.

-with AAP