Any doubts that the Australian Labor Party have sold their souls to pander to the Muslim vote have been dispelled for good. The party’s kid-gloves treatment of ‘rat’ Fatima Payman gives the jig away for all to see.
Western Australian senator Fatima Payman has crossed the floor to vote with the Greens on an urgency motion to recognise Palestine.
She now sits beside ACT independent David Pocock.
Antisemites of a feather, flocking together.
Unlike the Coalition, who’ve long prided themselves on being a ‘broad church’, Labor have never, ever, in their 120 year history tolerated dissent. Anyone crossing the floor has always been universally condemned by the party as a ‘rat’, and subject to expulsion, ostracism, and public pillorying. From Joe Lyons and Billy Hughes, to Mal Colston and Mark Latham, Labor have never, ever, forgiven dissenters.
Unless, it seems, they’re Muslim.
The Albanese government is talking down the need to expel Fatima Payman from the ALP, despite it being a long-held convention for MPs who cross the floor against party policy.
A government spokeswoman said Senator Payman “maintains strong Labor values.”
Pandering to antisemitism is a “strong Labor value”? Tell that to Bob Hawke, who famously said that, “If the bell tolls for Israel, it won’t just toll for Israel, it will toll for all mankind.” Now, it’s ‘if the mosque sings ‘death to Jews’, we’ll sing along as loudly as it takes to win the Muslim vote’.
And there is indeed a literal Muslim Vote. That’s the name of a website, run from a suburban street (although its full address is not listed) in Western Sydney’s Muslim heartland, which ‘rates’ politicians on a scorecard that appears to be solely anti-Israel. Transparency is not the site’s long suit: although it solicits donations, no organisers or members are named, it is not registered with the Australian Securities and Investments Commission and it lists as “Backing Organisations” a series of groups that appear not to exist.
But its intent is plain: to influence Australian politics against Israel and Jews. With Labor critically dependent on the Muslim-dominated seats of Western Sydney, where a number of senior ministers are based, they have enormous leverage.
Strangely, for all the obsession with ‘right-wing Christian’ groups supposedly ‘taking over’ the Liberal party, the mainstream media are almost totally silent on this alarming sectarian development in Australian politics.
At least some Labor MPs have something resembling a moral compass left.
Labor MPs have told The Australian Senator Payman should be expelled, while others say a suspension would be sufficient.
The Australian
Compare that, though, to the unrelenting hate dished out to Mark Latham or Mal Colston.
When Queensland Labor senator Mal Colston turned rat against the ALP in 1996 – in return for the cheesy job of vice-president of the Senate – and later carried the sale of Telstra for the Howard government, the vitriol was unrelenting.
Colston was termed the “king rat”, ostracised and pursued at every turn. He was an easy target for Labor wrath: he was old, male, fat, greedy and without friends […]
But don’t hold your breath for the “loosing” of the Labor dogs of war against the two-year senator, there will be excuses made and exceptions given.
The Australian
If you’re a young, female, Muslim, Labor will coddle your antisemitism all the way to the ballot box.
