The Absolute Shame of the ALP

As we’ve seen for the last 18 months, Labor will gladly pander to the worst people imaginable if it might win them a few tawdry votes. From the moment the news of the horror of October 7 broke, two groups in Australia went wild with glee: Muslims and the Greens.

As the dark wave of anti-Semitism gathered momentum over the next 18 months, both groups were at its epicentre. Make no mistake: this is not about merely ‘criticising Israel’; this is naked Jew-hatred. The swastikas and the anti-Jewish slogans make that plain. ‘Anti-war’ and ‘opposing genocide’ are also blatant lies: neither group took to the streets to protest any other war in the Middle East. Both groups support openly genocidal terrorist organisations like Hamas and Hezbollah.

Both groups, then, should be as beyond the political pale as the National Socialist Network. Yet, here we are, with the government willfully pandering to both. Labor’s foot-dragging on tackling anti-Semitism, in a desperate bid to cling to the votes of Muslim western Sydney, was shameful enough. Its decision to preference the Greens across the board is simply disgusting.

So obviously so that the government is openly lying about it. The PM, who summarily shut down questions to one of the only Labor MPs not to preference the anti-Semitic Greens, baldly lied about preferencing a virulently anti-Semitic Green in his own seat.

Anthony Albanese has declared he doesn’t know the name of the Greens candidate contesting his seat of Grayndler, defending his decision to direct voters to put her second on their ballot paper.

“I wouldn’t have been able to tell you if you’d have asked me who the candidate was,” he claims. Does anyone seriously believe such blatant bullshit? That a career politician and notorious political animal like the PM, when the Greens are polling close to one-third of the votes in his own seat, doesn’t know the name of his most serious rival?

Pull the other one.

So, why is Albanese so obviously lying? What is he clearly desperate not to draw attention to?

Mr Albanese’s own Greens challenger, Ms Thomas, has said to vote for the Greens is to “vote with Palestine”, that the Albanese government is complicit in “genocide” in the Gaza Strip, and that it should help the International Criminal Court lock up Israel’s democratically elected leader, Benjamin Netanyahu […]

Anthony Albanese is directing supporters in his seat of Grayndler to give their second votes to a Greens candidate who claims ­Israel is guilty of genocide and ­demands the prime minister blacklist the Jewish state and expel its ambassador.

As almost all of Labor’s frontbench get into preference deals with the anti-Israel party, Mr ­Albanese has put Greens candidate Hannah Thomas as his ­number two recommendation to voters without identifying which party she represents on his how-to-vote card.

The fact that he hasn’t even the basic honesty to tell his voters which party he wants his first preference to go to speaks volumes about the level of Albanese’s shameful deceit.

The ALP’s decision to preference the Greens across the board – with just two exceptions – also makes a mockery of Albanese’s claim that he won’t do a deal with the Greens in the event of a hung parliament.

He’s a lying bastard.

Executive Council of Australian Jewry co-chief executive Alex Ryvchin told the Australian that it was “profoundly disturbing” that Mr Albanese was directing second preferences to a party and a candidate that had accused him personally of genocide.

“When the Prime Minister approves any sort of deal with such a party and tells voters in his seat to put the candidate second, it tells the country that the Greens are legitimate and one can do deals with political extremists,” he said on Tuesday.

Even Albanese knows exactly the devils he’s happy to sell his soul to.

In June 2024 Mr Albanese attacked the party he is now giving preferences to and its deputy leader Mehreen Faruqi for failing to condemn Hamas and its suggestion there should no longer be an Israeli state separate from a future Palestinian one.

“The Greens position on this (Israel) has been appalling … (Senator Faruqi) couldn’t answer whether Hamas should play an ongoing role, whether it should be dismantled,” he said.

“She had the statement that said, she had the statement that Palestinians should self-determine what happens in the region. It was unclear whether that meant, you know, one state from the Jordan River to the sea and what the implications of that were for Israel’s right to exist.

“Some of the misinformation that has been perpetrated by the Greens, for example, about defence issues is simply wrong. That’s bad, but what’s really bad is that they know that it’s wrong. They know that it’s wrong and they continue to spread it.”

And Albanese knows how vile the Greens are – yet he continues to put them ahead of every other political party or independent in the country.

As Derryn Hinch would say: Shame, shame, shame.