Greens ‘in total denial’
At the election the Greens' four lower-house seats were reduced to one.
Communal leaders are lamenting that new Greens leader Larissa Waters hasn’t steered the party away from its anti-Israel stance.
In a media conference, the Queensland senator who replaced Adam Bandt after he lost his seat of Melbourne, stated, “We stand firm always on social justice and human rights … whether that’s a free Palestine, whether that’s peace and human rights. Globally, we will always be there, calling out atrocities, calling out a genocide.”
Waters added, “I know a lot of wonderful Jewish voters who are backing the Greens because they don’t want a genocide either.”
Stating that the Greens “have not learned a thing from the resounding rebuke they recently received from voters”, Executive Council of Australian Jewry president Daniel Aghion said, “They are still acting as judge and jury in their outrageous statements accusing Israel of genocide and other crimes, when no one has been tried and convicted. The Greens have a new leader, but are still parroting the same old extremist messages.”
On Waters’ claim of Jewish support, Aghion noted, “We have observed that the very small number of Jewish supporters they used to have are leaving the party, or have been excluded, because of the antisemitism that has become institutionalised within the Greens party in recent years.”
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