AUSTRALIA: GREENS ACT LIKE BROWNSHIRTS…PUSH BOYCOTT AND DIVETMENT FROM ISRAEL
A Second Greens-Controlled Sydney Council Eyes BDS
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The Australian newspaper reported last week that an analysis by Leichhardt Labour councillor Darcy Byrne has found that over the past the two and a half years since the Greens took power in Leichhardt almost 57 out of a total of 118 motions pushed by the Greens have been devoted not to normal local government issues but with state, federal and international matters of no relevance to the council’s brief. Moreover, the council has spent hundreds of thousands of ratepayers’ money on sponsored protests dear to the Greens’ heart.
Says the newspaper:
‘A Labor-sponsored motion in Leichhardt that ruled out support for the boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) campaign was defeated on Tuesday evening, at the same time as the backdown in Marrickville.
The Greens Mayor of Leichhardt, Jamie Parker, was elected to state parliament last month while his Marrickville counterpart, Fiona Byrne, was defeated after making contradictory statements on whether she planned to push for the BDS campaign to be adopted across NSW.’
It quotes Darcy Byrne (presumably no relation to the ardent BDSer Fiona Byrne, Marrickville’s Green mayor) who moved the successful motion against BDS, as claiming the defeat showed that Parker is still bent on an anti-Israel boycott.
Said Darcy Byrne:
“One of the reasons I put the motion up is that Parker’s position has been less than clear. They’re still hoping, once the public outcry has died down, they can slip it through quietly.”
Meanwhile, according to the same newspaper report the incorrigible Fiona Byrne has refused to characterise Marrickville’s thwarted foray into overseas policy as an abject failure. She insists:
“Council has put the human rights of the Palestinian people on the national agenda – that’s success to me.
This is an ethical purchasing policy. Every organisation, every individual, has a right to decide who they’ll do business with.
There’s been an avalanche of criticism and pressure, I think from those who put politics before principles.”
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