Last week, a British Labour MP lamented that her political party, founded on fine-sounding principles of fairness and equality, was imbued with “the oldest hatred — that directed towards Jews”.
Luciana Berger, the 37-year-old MP for Liverpool Wavertree, described one of the most astonishing events she has taken part in since she was elected nearly nine years ago. It was a demonstration last year at Parliament Square organised by the Jewish community to say “enough is enough” to anti-Semitism in the Labour Party.
Instead of that being a watershed for her party, Berger wrote in The Timeslast week: “I am sick of being tainted by the stain of Labour anti-Semitism.”
Next time there is an election in Australia, remember that the Greens have no one even faintly comparable to Berger within their ranks. Theirs is a party of bigotry at the organisational level, yet no Greens MP is brave or honest enough to expose the hypocrisy. On the one hand, Greens spout sweet-sounding words about morality, compassion and tolerance; on the other hand, the party endorses bigotry.
There are a few good people in the party. Last year, NSW Greens upper house MPs Cate Faehrmann and Justin Field said the party had fallen victim to “extreme-Left ideology”. NSW Greens lower house MP Jamie Parker engages with the Jewish community too.
Read the article by Janet Albrechtsen in The Australian.