Call ASIO. I want to report an anti-semite group inciting hatred

It seems they never miss an opportunity to rebuke Israel. Sometimes it seems that Australia’s Middle East foreign policy has been outsourced to far-left radicals or inexperienced university activists. The Opposition should announce that they will reverse this nasty and petty move when they are elected.”

– Director of Public Affairs for the Australian Jewish Association, Robert Gregory
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22 Responses to Call ASIO. I want to report an anti-semite group inciting hatred

  1. C.L. says:

    Labor will toughen its position on Israel, referring to the West Bank and Gaza as “Occupied Palestinian Territories”, and Israeli West Bank settlements as being “illegal under international law”.

    The major policy shift agreed by caucus on Tuesday comes ahead of the ALP conference this month, where the Albanese government was facing Left-wing backlash over Palestine and Australia’s AUKUS nuclear submarine plans.

    Labor says the move clarifies Labor’s position “after a decade of inconsistency and incoherence”.

    Former prime minister Tony Abbott referred to the territories as “disputed territories”, while previous Labor and Coalition governments’s used the term “occupied territories”.

    Foreign Minister Penny Wong told the Labor caucus the change would “strengthen” the government’s position on the Israel-Palestine conflict.

    “We are looking to strengthen the government‘s objection to settlements by affirming that they are illegal under international law and a significant obstacle to peace,” Senator Wong said, according to a Labor spokesman.

    “We will also be returning to the position of previous governments by referring to ‘the Occupied Palestinian Territories’.”

    Under Labor’s updated policy, Judaism’s holiest sites, the Temple Mount and Western Wall, are considered to be in “Occupied Palestinian Territory”.

    The move will infuriate Australian Jews and the wider pro-Israel lobby, which argue the move pre-empts a final status settlement on the Israel-Palestine issue.

    It follows Labor’s decision to reverse the Morrison government’s recognition of West Jerusalem as Israel’s capital on the grounds that “Jerusalem is a final status issue that should be resolved as part of any peace negotiations between Israel and the Palestinian people”.

    The Australian Jewish Association condemned the change as a “hostile” move by Labor.

    “It seems they never miss an opportunity to rebuke Israel. Sometimes it seems that Australia’s Middle East foreign policy has been outsourced to far-left radicals or inexperienced university activists,” the association’s Robert Gregory said.

    “The opposition should announce that they will reverse this nasty and petty move when they are elected.”

    In the caucus debate, Senator Wong’s junior minister Pat Conroy MP asked: “How do we break away from the binary nature of the Israel Palestine debates?”

    Senator Wong said a “principles-based approach is an acknowledgement we have a shared goal of peace”.

    The draft ALP platform prior to the policy change was largely the same as agreed at the previous ALP conference.

    It said national conference “supports the recognition and right of Israel and Palestine to exist as two states within secure and recognised borders”, “calls on the Australian Government to recognise Palestine as a state”, and “expects that this issue will be an important priority for the Australian government”.

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    Ben Packham in The Australian

  2. C.L. says:

    The discombobulated Julian Leeser:

    Jewish Liberal MP Julian Leeser said the Labor Government’s hardened stance on Palestine is a “huge mistake” and reflects internal party politics.

    Appearing on Sky News, Mr Leeser said the Labor party has “lost control of the national conference” ahead of the meeting in Brisbane next week.

    “This is a national conference where on the floor people want to move resolutions to tear down AUKUS and tear down the state of Isreal,” said Mr Lesser, the member for Berowra in Sydney.

    “What Labor is doing is they are sacrificing one of our traditional allies that shares our values in the state of Israel to preserve another ally, or another set of allies, in the United States and Britain through AUKUS.

    “It is a sad day for Australian foreign policy.”

    Mr Leeser also said he backs the voice to parliament.

    AUKUS is not equivalent to Israel.

  3. NFA says:

    When are the occupied ‘territories’ of Kamberri going to be cleared out of occupiers?

  4. Cassie of Sydney says:

    I wrote this on Tim Blair’s blog a few hours ago..

    Today we learn that Mr Albanese and his far-left government are dumping on the only democracy in the Middle East. Hmmm, it seems that Mr Albanese and his comrades aren’t interested in acknowledging the rights of the indigenous people of Judea and Samaria, the land we now call Israel, established in 1948. Who are those indigenous people? The Jews.

    Here’s my message to Mr Albanese, Ms Wong and the rest of the hard-left government we’re now saddled with…

    Israel, always was and always will be the land of the Jews, and its capital, Jerusalem, always was and always will be the undivided capital of the Jewish people.

  5. Memoryvault says:

    This Judaism versus Islam business has been going on in that part of the world for a thousand years now. Why are we even buying into it politically at all?

    Petr S

  6. calli says:

    And Cassie, it was “ceded” through well documented battle and conquest. You have years, dates, tribes and even the individual names of the conquered. And even how they did it.

    My personal favourite is Jericho.

  7. calli says:

    MV! I won’t say a hello, because this is a serious blog. 😀

  8. Cassie of Sydney says:

    “And Cassie, it was “ceded” through well documented battle and conquest. You have years, dates, tribes and even the individual names of the conquered. And even how they did it.”

    Correct calli.

  9. Memoryvault says:

    It’s okay Calli, you can seriously say hello.
    Good to see you after all this time.

    Peter S

  10. Baba says:

    Why does Israel regularly attack sites in and around Damascus with missiles? Is Syria attacking Israel or is it to keep in good stead with the US which is illegally occupying parts of Syria?

  11. C.L. says:

    Israel, always was and always will be the land of the Jews, and its capital, Jerusalem, always was and always will be the undivided capital of the Jewish people.

    👏

    Oddly, Penny Wong hasn’t recommended gender goals to Hamas. That’s only a foreign policy instrument applied to black Christians, apparently.

    Labor is now an extremist party on every front and I’m starting to think that maybe – just maybe – it’s all going to come undone faster than they think.

  12. Pat Mac says:

    When wennypong say something, you know it’s bullshqt.

    Pat

  13. NFA says:

    Emergency Pandemic Lockdowns in April 2024 after their UN/WHO vote.

    All further elections suspended until their Pandemic is resolved.

    Executions to improve morale will be broadcast at 7:30pm on their ABC 730Pandemic.

  14. Lee says:

    Oddly, Penny Wong hasn’t recommended gender goals to Hamas. That’s only a foreign policy instrument applied to black Christians, apparently.

    Has Blinken lectured any Muslim dominated countries about LGBTQ rights?

  15. Franx says:

    AUKUS is not equivalent to Israel

    No. So what really is going on here, and in Syria, as per Baba, 7.030m.

  16. cuckoo says:

    Labor is now an extremist party on every front and I’m starting to think that maybe – just maybe – it’s all going to come undone faster than they think.

    Praying and hoping.

  17. struth says:

    The left, always have been anti-semetic, from before and including the socialist Hitler.
    To be a racist you must first be a collectivist.
    And to be an Anti-semite you first have to be a collectivist.

    The left hate a democratic state existing anywhere, and Mussies hate any state not Islamic.

    What pisses me off is so called right wing pundits now “surprised” that anti-semitism is coming from the left.
    It always has.

    Thae greatest lie ever told, that a national Socialist was right wing, has really , and is still, causing the right to hide away from what they are and who they are.

    The weak ones, anyway.

  18. Mantaray says:

    As the Nobel Laureate wrote, 60 years ago..
    “As some warn victory, some downfall
    Private reasons great or small
    Can be seen in the eyes of those that call

    To make all that should be killed to crawl
    While others say don’t hate nothing at all
    Except hatred”

    Penny Wong exactly fits this bill. Years of jiggy-jiggy with fellow SA Labor luminary Jay Weatherill, leading to an unceremonious dumping, has left her 100% unhinged ever since: given her personal reasons for hating the world, and everything decent in it. ’nuff said?

    BTW: Some might know that Christopher Hitchens regarded the Nobel Laureate as the world’s Number One modern poet…..long before anyone had even suggested a songwriter receiving the Prize for Literature…, and had the song from which the quote above comes, played at his funeral. very fine recommendation indeed, eh what?

  19. Rosie says:

    Labor emboldened to show its true colours?
    What took them so long?

  20. struth says:

    And good luck with ASIO with Mike Burgess at the Helm!

  21. Mantaray says:

    2nd BTW: Time Out Of Mind is a Dylan album from 1997…..”Time Out of Mind is hailed as one of Dylan’s best albums, and it went on to win three Grammy Awards, including Album of the Year in 1998.”.

    A very fine song from that album is “Trying To Get To Heaven”….https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0BVFnF5I6NE….which Dylan recorded again, and dedicated to Christopher Hitchens following his untimely death in 20112….”in memory of St Christopher Hitchens”…..https://youtu.be/vqV8gvYsi04

    This was long before The Grammies became a Satanic Orgy-Fest!

  22. Megan says:

    Any sense of honour and decency left the Canberra mud heap years ago. We live in dark times and we haven’t bottomed out yet.

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