AUSTRALIA’S BOYCOTT AND DIVEST MOVEMENT SLAMMED BY KEVIN RUDD
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“It’s unproductive. It’s completely disconnected from the reality of Middle Eastern politics,” Australian Foreign Minister Kevin Rudd says of the Greens-driven BDS obsession that now is impelling the inner Sydney Marrickville Council to throw away all items in its possession with links to Israel. (Hat tip: reader Shirlee)
This BDS move, which conjures up distasteful images of the Nazi era and, not surprisngly, is widely seen as antisemitic (though they’d never admit to that, would they?), involves Hewlett Packard computers, Veolia waste services and Holden cars.
The Premier of New South Wales, Barry O’Farrell, the President of the Local Government Association of NSW, Keith Rhoades, the Federal Greens leader, Bob Brown, and the founder of the Aussie Greens, Norm Sanders, have all attacked the Council’s obsession, with Sanders saying exasperatedly on radio “What’s all this anti-Jewish stuff? I haven’t heard one word about the environment from these people [Marrickville’s self-styled Greens].”
It’s time, he indicated, for the Greens to return to their core values, which are unreflected in the policy, and for the council to return to the purpose for which it exists (namely, rates, roads, and rubbish).
O’Farrell has warned Marrickville’s boycott-happy mayor and aspiring politician Fiona Byrne (pictured, who’s reportedly “gone to ground”) that unless the council abandons the policy it may face the sack.
It seems that the cost of boycotting Israel will be $A3.7million, and in consequence at least one Green councillor appears to be backing away from the folly. Indeed, there’s some talk of a split among them.
Meanwhile, Green senator-elect Lee Rhiannon, an old hard-left anti-Zionist trouper who grew up in a Communist household, has defiantly told Sky News: “It’s not an anti-Israel position at all.”
Yep, Lee. Tell that to the marines.
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