He Has Veys of Silencing Der Juden

As I wrote yesterday, preferences are likely to be crucial in the Australian election result, which makes the Labor government’s decision to preference the Greens across the board even more disgusting. Even if hardly surprising.

The Greens are firmly on the side of anti-Semitism. They’re what happens when the boots’n’braces meet the socks’n’sandals. For the past 18 months, they’ve gleefully aligned themselves with the outpouring of Jew-hatred from Islam and the left. When a mob of Muslims stormed an October 7 vigil at the Sydney Opera House, chanting ‘Gas the Jews’, Greens MPs joined them. When pro-Hamas demonstrators daubed the Australian War Memorial with the red triangle death mark, Greens MPs defended them. When the genocidal Hamas war chant echoed through the halls of parliament, it was the Greens bellowing it.

All of this should put the Greens as far beyond the pale as the National Socialist Network (who at least have the faint excuse of being honest about their hatred). But this is a Labor government on the ropes. Principles be damned. Anthony Albanese would sell his own mother for another shot at the perks of office.

And he’s not about to let some mouthy Jew throw a spanner in the works.

Anthony Albanese has muzzled the only Labor MP who has refused to preference the Greens, as the prime minister faces an angry backlash from Jewish leaders over vote-swapping deals with the anti-Israel party and the ALP spends millions of dollars sandbagging at-risk electorates.

Josh Burns is the only Labor MP with a shred of decency. He’s also, as it happens, Jewish. But unlike Labor’s most senior Jewish MP, Mark Dreyfus, he’s not prepared to play the Kapo to the Greens’ obergruppenführer.

So Albanese is shutting him up.

On a campaign stop in St Kilda, in the heart of Mr Burns’s seat of Macnamara, Mr Albanese raised his hand and said “thanks a lot” when the Australian asked the Labor backbencher about his open ticket. Macnamara, being targeted by the Greens and Liberals, is home to a sizeable Jewish-Australian community and the Adass Israel Synagogue, which was firebombed in an anti-Semitic attack last year.

Labor are terrified that the anti-Semitic Greens in Melbourne, and the even more virulently anti-Semitic Muslim vote in Sydney, will cost them votes. Which is why the government have spent the past 18 months sitting on their hands as violent Jew-hatred swamped Australian cities with weekly demonstrations waving terror banners, kidnapping and torturing and terror attacks.

When push has come to electoral shove, Labor is standing firmly with the Jew-haters, if that’s what it takes to win.

After ducking and weaving during the campaign on Labor preference deals with the Greens, the release of how-to-vote cards last week confirmed that senior Labor ministers including Mark Dreyfus had preferenced the radical left-wing party for the May 3 election.

Mr Albanese’s intervention came as the nation’s peak Jewish body told Mr Dreyfus it would “find it difficult to believe” Labor would have refused requests from him to scrap a vote-swapping deal struck with the Greens in his safe Victorian seat of Isaacs […]

Mr Burns, who is Jewish, declined to comment when asked about the prime minister’s intervention to block questions about Mr Dreyfus’s preference deal with the Greens. A Labor source played down the incident, describing it as nothing more than Mr Albanese ensuring everyone was “keeping on message” and it was “no big deal”.

Ve haff vays of making der Juden not talk.

In another big move on preferences, Pauline Hanson’s One Nation party has reversed its previous decision not to preference the coalition. The coalition this election reversed decades of policy of refusing to preference One Nation. A policy driven mostly by fear of being branded ‘racist’ by the left media, which the left are always going to do anyway. This time, they’ve decided not to play the left’s game, and preferenced One Nation in dozens of seats.

But going into the election, One Nation were not prepared to reciprocate – until now.

One Nation is coming to Peter Dutton’s rescue with a last-minute switch preferencing the Liberals second in key seats where the Coalition is either under threat or has a chance of beating Labor or an independent.

The party, headed by Queensland Senator Pauline Hanson, is authorising the reprinting of “how to vote” cards in at least ten marginal electorates the Coalition desperately needs to win, while more are under review to determine if they would benefit from One Nation preference flows […]

With the Liberals lagging behind Labor in every published poll, the One Nation boost could be significant, particularly as Clive Palmer’s Trumpet of Patriots has opted to preference Teal independents above the Coalition.

How anyone could be stupid enough to be fooled by Palmer a second or third time is beyond me. We all know what will happen: anyone elected with Palmer’s money will almost immediately jump ship, just as they did last time. Some of them aren’t even waiting for the election.

A Trumpet of Patriots candidate in the Victorian Liberal-held seat of Flinders has withdrawn his candidacy after learning the billionaire-backed party would put the Liberal and Labor parties last behind Teal independents.

Jason Smart said he was “in utter disbelief” at Mr Palmer’s decision, and declared himself “nobody’s chump,” revealing he would instead help his local One Nation candidate in the seat.

For Good Oil readers perplexed by this whole ‘preferences’ thing, Pauline Hanson’s Please Explain does an excellent job of explaining how it operates and why preferences matter: