Albanese’s Herzog invitation has backfired |
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese should not have invited Isaac Herzog to visit Australia. It was a political choice and, once again, underscores how deep Labor’s ties are to the genocidal state of Israel.
The Albanese’s claim that Herzog would generate solidarity and promote “social cohesion” is a joke. Herzog, as everyone now knows, has been found by the United Nations’ Commission of Inquiry to have incited genocide and was one of the most divisive figures Albanese could have invited, save for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu himself.
Despite the spin, we need to remember that solidarity was shown in spades to the Jewish community after the Bondi attack — from diverse communities across the country. There was and is consensus that such senseless violence against innocent victims must be condemned and the perpetrators brought to justice.
However, the Zionist section of the Jewish community, as well as the Murdoch media and the conservatives, saw, and seized on, an opportunity to weaponise this tragedy, shaft Albanese and rebuild the Coalition’s stocks
The Zionists calculated that Labor would back it up because, for the past two-and-a-half years of Israel’s genocide in Gaza, Labor has been finding excuses for why it cannot sanction Israel nor end the two-way trade in weapons’ parts.
They have repeatedly claimed the anti-genocide movement was responsible for the attack — despite the shooters........