Liberal MP Julian Leeser will declare the Greens are extra racist than One Nation in a speech to the Robert Menzies Institute convention on Friday, arguing that “anti-Semitism is now a full-blown characteristic of the extremists-Greens political ideology”.
“As a Jewish Australian, I’ve all the time had an aversion to race-based politics. It’s why I’ve all the time preferenced One Nation final. However … it’s clear to me that the Greens are actually worse than One Nation.”
Since Hamas’ October 7 assault on southern Israel and Israel’s subsequent bombardment of the Gaza Strip, there was a reported surge in anti-Semitism worldwide, so it’s vital to be critical and determine the sources of this bigotry.
However how do One Nation and the Greens really evaluate? Let’s take a look at the scoreboard.
One Nation
In 1996 Pauline Hanson, then-newly elected member for Oxley, says in her maiden speech:
Current governments are encouraging separatism in Australia by offering alternatives, land, moneys and amenities out there solely to Aboriginals … I and most Australians need our immigration coverage radically reviewed and that of multiculturalism abolished. I consider we’re at risk of being swamped by Asians … A really multicultural nation can by no means be sturdy or united.
In 2006 Hanson tells AAP:
We’re bringing in individuals from South Africa in the intervening time. There’s an enormous quantity coming into Australia, who’ve illnesses; they’ve bought AIDS. They’re of no profit to this nation in any way; they’ll by no means have the ability to work.
In 2016, on her return to the Senate, Hanson says in her maiden tackle: “We’re at risk of being swamped by Muslims who bear a tradition and beliefs that’s incompatible with our personal.”
A number of instances over the subsequent few years, she requires a ban on permitting Muslims to enter Australia, at one level saying: “Islam is a illness; we have to vaccinate ourselves towards that.”
One Nation Senator Malcolm Roberts regularly cites The Secrets and techniques of the Federal Reserve by Eustace Mullins, an anti-Semitic US writer whose books embody The Organic Jew and The World Order: Our Secret Ruler. Mullins claimed that “worldwide banking households” and the US Federal Reserve had been a part of a Jewish conspiracy to introduce world socialism.
Requested to distance himself from this, Roberts says: “I repudiate something anti-Semitic that Eustace Mullins has stated, and something he has stated that tarnishes the Jewish individuals. However I cannot repudiate the details in his books.”
The identical yr conservative columnist Andrew Bolt notes Roberts’ fixation with Jewish banking households.
In 2017, Hanson grills ASIO boss Duncan Lewis in regards to the hyperlinks between refugees and terrorism. He signifies there is no such thing as a proof to again up any such assertion. Additionally in 2017, she dons a burqa within the Senate, arguing that ladies within the spiritual garb current a “safety danger”.
After the Excessive Courtroom discovering that Roberts was ineligible to be elected on account of his twin citizenship, Fraser Anning — a celebration veteran going again to 1998 — is elected in his place. He instantly quits One Nation and in 2018 provides a maiden speech calling for a “ultimate answer” on immigration, and a plebiscite on re-implementing the White Australia coverage.
In October of that yr, Hanson — who condemned Anning’s speech — places ahead a movement “that the Senate acknowledges (a) the deplorable rise of anti-white racism and assaults on Western civilisation; and (b) that it’s okay to be white”. The then-government supported the movement, one thing it later blamed on an “administrative error”.
The Greens
On November 11 the Greens put out a assertion saying the Hamas assaults of October 7 had been:
… not an act of resistance, nor a respectable navy offensive. This was a terrorist act and we’ll proceed to sentence it as such. The dimensions and brutality with which harmless civilians had been focused, slaughtered, mutilated and kidnapped rightly strikes so many within the Australian neighborhood to voice our compassion and solidarity with all members of the Australian Jewish neighborhood and all these impacted.
The celebration requires “the unconditional launch of these over 240 Israeli hostages and all political prisoners. We proceed to sentence hostage taking for the warfare crime that it’s.” The assertion goes on:
The exact same dedication to compassion, honesty, peace and justice required of us in response to the vile assaults of Hamas drives us as Greens to name out the warfare crimes and crimes towards humanity being dedicated by the state of Israel in Gaza proper now.
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We predict you’ll agree, relating to inflammatory, nuance-free rhetoric, it’s simply too near name.
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