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There are some people who just can’t help telling you who they really are. They can prate their self-proclaimed virtues till the cows come home, but when it comes to the crunch, their real nature inevitably shows.
Case in point: the Australian Greens.
The anti-Israel Greens have shocked Australian Jews and families of Bondi terror victims after using parliament’s official condolences to claim “powerful forces” are using the massacre for political ends and that the attack could have happened to gay and trans people or Muslims.
They just can’t help but out themselves.
They can blatherskite all they want about ‘condemning anti-Semitism’, but if, in the next breath, they mutter dark conspiracy theories about Jews and “powerful forces”, we can all see who they really are. They can parrot wooden platitudes about the first massacre of Jewish Australians in our nation’s history, but when they immediately pivot to minimising the specifically anti-Jewish mass-murder with a ludicrous, ‘but what about…?’ hypothetical, we can all see who they really are.
They’re exactly what led to the Islamic pogrom at Bondi.
Rabbi Mordechai Guth – the brother-in-law of Bondi victim Rabbi Yaakov Levitan, who met with the prime minister in his Parliament House office – said the statements were proof of the need for the upcoming antisemitism royal commission.
“I think this kind of language is part of what this royal commission needs to look into because there is a subtext of antisemitism there, whether intentional, I don’t know, but it is certainly antisemitic in effect,” he said.
Indeed, it may not be intentional – because it’s simply a reflex action from the Greens.
The Greens have become the party of institutionalised anti-Semitism in Australia (and it bears keeping in mind that the Greens were first founded in Germany, by a roster of ex-Nazis: the rotten fruit doesn’t fall far from the poison tree). Their anti-Jewish hate has a long history.
In 2017, after a Greens candidate lost the mayoral race in the Green heartland of Melbourne’s Port Phillip council, a party donor left a bag of 30 pieces of silver on the desk of the Jewish deputy mayor. The meme has a long and hateful history of being used to peddle the anti-Semitic ‘Christ killers’ slur.
On the dark night of October 9, 2023, when a Muslim mob stormed the vigil at the Sydney Opera House, chanting “Gas the Jews”, multiple Greens politicians marched happily among them. In the months that followed, high-profile Greens MPs were regulars at anti-Israel protests, where the banners and flags of virulently anti-Semitic Islamic groups, from Hezbollah to ISIS, were common.
In one photo, Greens Deputy Leader Mehreen Faruqi was photographed proudly posing beside a placard urging the global genocide of Jews. Faruqi also defended the anti-Semitic ‘globalise the intifada’ chant, a call for global violence against Jews.
Even after the appalling mass-murder of Jewish Australians at Bondi, multiple Greens MPs are still trying to dismiss the heinousness of the anti-Semitic attack.
[Greens Senator Larissa Waters] said the response to the Bondi attack “must not select those to protect and leave others behind” and [Senator David Shoebridge] said the attack could have “equally” happened to women or gay and trans people.
Except that, conspicuously, it hasn’t.
If the Greens can’t help but show us who they are, Australia’s Islamic community can’t seem to offer any reassurance that their fabled ‘moderate, peaceful majority’ actually exists.
The nation’s top imams have declared Labor’s proposed antisemitism and hate bill amounts to “Islamophobia in law and practice” while Anthony Albanese’s hand-picked Islamophobia envoy has cited research from under-fire anti-Israel academic Randa Abdel-Fattah to say the laws in their current form could act as a “rallying cry” against Muslims.
Think this one through: if combatting anti-Semitism is “Islamophobia”, then it follows that anti-Semitism must be very, very Islamic.
It gets worse.
The submissions argue for more limits to Labor’s proposed hate groups regime, hate preachers, and new proposed powers to refuse visas.
Once again: think what they’re saying here.
Banning hate groups and hate preachers and expanding powers to refuse visas to people preaching anti-Semitism and hate. This, they say, is a direct attack on Muslims.
What are they trying to tell us about Muslims?
ANIC said the proposed law “disproportionately burdens religious leaders, restricts public religious discourse and constitutes systemic discrimination based on religion”.
Of the new hate groups regime, ANIC said “faith-based and Palestinian community organisations are particularly vulnerable”.
Why? What is it about Muslims and particularly “Palestinians”, which makes them “particularly vulnerable” to laws targeted at anti-Semites and hate preachers?
We might call that ‘saying the quiet part out loud’.
Remember, too, that this is the peak Islamic group and the leading representatives of the Muslim community in Australia. If there’s a Muslim mainstream, this is it.
And this is what they’re telling us.
