By Daphne Anson
On a current “as-a-Jew” petition |
I recently blogged about APAN (the Australia Palestine Advocacy Network) and its president Bishop Browning here
Aussie Israel hater rants |
APAN works assiduously to undermine Israel’s cause in the public arena, and the bishop has succeeded in getting three score prominent and so-called prominent Australians to sign a statement opposing Bibi Netanyahu’s imminent visit to Australia.
This motley assemblage includes campaigning (New Matilda, ABC) Israel-basher Michael Brull, lefty feminist Sara Dowse, actress Miriam Margolyes (who has dual British/Australian citizenship), academics Peter Slezak and Marcelo Svirsky, and Marrickville Council BDSer Cathy Peters (all of Jewish background and all with form regarding Israel), and a motley assemblage of personages from various fields including mega-wealthy businesswoman Janet Holmes à Court, former Labor politician Laurie Ferguson and academics Stuart Rees and Jake Lynch, both of whom need no introduction to this blog’s readers.
Aussie Bibi/Israel-haters rant |
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“Apartheid … BDS … Colonisation”. Those well-worn words waft into the eardrums from this speaker at today’s “Melbourne Says No to Netanyahu Rally” outside the State Library of Victoria in Melbourne.
Endorsed by a network of usual suspects including leftist as-a-Jews (Palestinian Community Association (PCA); Australians for Palestine;Women for Palestine; Coalition Against Israeli Apartheid (CAIA); Australian Jewish Democratic Society (AJDS); Casey for Palestine) the demo’s more than a tad redundant, since, to the disappointment of his many fans in “The Shtetl by the Yarra,” Bibi will not be visiting Melbourne during his imminent visit to Australia.
The odious AJDS has started an “as a jew petition” protesting Bibi’s visit Down Under which as well as those of Miriam Margolyes and the usual crowd contains the signatures of a curious number of ostensible Anglo-Celts and persons living in tiny outback towns that it takes an atlas to locate. It seems that even the AJDS smells a rat or two, since it stresses that the petition is for Australian Jews only and that persons who are not Australian Jews should remove their names.
Great speech (as usual) from Bibi:
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