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The depths of the Albanese government’s complicity in the dark forces of anti-Semitism staining Australian politics just keeps getting worse.
His government, after all, relies desperately on the votes of Muslim-dominated Western Sydney to even hope to cling to power. If those seats, the epicenter of anti-Semitism from the moment celebrations erupted on October 8 last year, turn on Labor, many of Albanese’s most senior ministers will be out of a job.
Not least ‘Minister for Everything’ Tony Burke, whose seat has the highest percentage of Muslim voters in the country.
Burke also turns out to have been keeping some pretty wiffy company.
Tony Burke is among a number of Labor MPs who went on a study tour to Palestine partially funded by a lobby group that has accused Israel of genocide and opposed the full designation of Hamas as a terrorist organisation.
The Australian Palestine Advocacy Network (APAN) also partially paid for WA Senator Louise Pratt’s trip to Palestine just before she spoke at an APAN fringe event at the Australian Labor Party’s annual conference in 2023, according to the Herald Sun.
According to APAN’s latest annual report, the lobby group had received $22,400 from “ALP” and $50,000 from “Union” to pay for study tours to Palestine.
Which raises questions over Labor’s denial of giving funding to the group.
The APAN is headed by Nasser Mashni, a charming fellow who advocates for the complete destruction of Israel and has used taxpayer-funded media to peddle anti-Semitic conspiracy theories that Jews run the world.
On his radio show in July last year, Mashni said: “The power structures that exist in the world all focus upon Zionism.
“Israel is the domino. Israel falls over, not just the Middle East – South America, the Africans, the world is a far better place once we destroy Western imperialist control of the world.”
“The liberation of Earth starts with the first domino, and that’s the overcoming and the decolonisation of Palestine and the ending of Zionism.”
In case you didn’t get that, he’s outright stating that Jews run the world. Straight out of the Protocols of the Elders of Zion.
Deakin University Associate Professor Josh Roose, an expert in political and religious violent extremism, said […] “The critique of Israel’s right to exist crosses a pretty clear line into antisemitism.”
Mashni, who gibbers about a ‘baying mob of Australian Jews’ and defends the genocidal ‘From the River to the Sea’ chant, also uses his propaganda show to celebrate October 7.
The day after Hamas’ attack, in which 1400 Israelis were killed and about 200 kidnapped, Mashni released a statement that did not condemn the killings. Instead, it said Gazans had “broken through the walls” […] Mashni co-hosts the program Palestine Remembered with a man who said “karma is a bitch” after Hamas’ October 7 terrorist attack, which the co-host said was an example of Hamas “fighting back”.
Several guests on Mashni’s program have compared Israeli policy to that of the Nazis, including one who compared Israeli civilians upon whom violence was committed to plain-clothed Nazi soldiers on a day off. The show has also hosted members of a group called Samidoun, which is banned in Germany after its supporters celebrated the October 7 attacks.
Like certain former mayoral candidates in New Zealand, Mashni is also accused of funneling funds to anti-Semitic terror group Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine.
The charity ‘Olive Kids’, founded by Australia Palestine Advocacy Network President Nasser Mashni, is sending money to a Gaza-based health organisation that is claimed to be affiliated with the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine terror group, known as the PFLP.
When Mashni was questioned about the claims:
He did not answer directly whether he was “sure” that money had not gone to “Hamas or terror”.
It remains to be seen whether Tony Burke or Labor come clean, either.
