The Greens backdown on boycotting Israel: another Greens political whoring!

Marrickville council has decided last night to overturn its original decision to endorse campaign to boycott Israeli products, known internationally as BDS campaign. The motion was introduced to the council last December by Greens councilors. The decision to overturn the original one was not possible without the support of the introducing party, the Greens.

The Social Justice Network (SJN) condemns in the strongest words the Greens political whoring attitude tonight.

“The Greens had done it again. In the last few months, the Greens has sent too many conflicting messages in too many directions that the message was lost at the end” said Jamal Daoud, the spokesperson of SJN. “Three Greens councilors opposed withdrawing the original motion. While two have supported the withdrawal. The Greens deliberately misled the Australians by splitting the vote on the motion last night”

“From the first day, we knew and we expressed our pessimism of the real agenda behind the original motion. We have questioned many aspects of the motion, including its timing just few months before the NSW election”

“The draft of the motion was clear that it was designed for electoral use. The Greens had big hope to snatch Marrickville seat from Labor. They wanted to do so on a sea of Palestinian bloods”.

“The Greens political whoring has great negative impact. It divided the community, divided the movement for Palestine Freedom and demoralised the activists and community members”

“We have warned from day one of the original motion that the Greens enthusiasm for this campaign will be evaporated once the election dust settles. This is what exactly happened last night”.

“The Greens is not new for such political whoring attitude. The Greens party has backflipped on many issues in the last decade to the point that no politician or analysts know where they are really standing on issues”.

“The Greens has vowed to abolish private health rebate. This is the party’s official policy. But in fact, the Greens has voted against partially abolishing the rebate when it was introduced by Kevin Rudd’s government”.

“It also backflipped on political donations, refugees rights, selling public assets, Afghanistan war, Multiculturalism and issue of Israeli occupation of Palestine”.

The Greens mouthpiece on Palestine – Israel issue, the Coalition for Justice and Peace in Palestine (CJPP) should come up with convincing argument if they want to keep fooling Australians on the Greens progressiveness on this issue. The CJPP should issue media release explaining what we can expect from them and their party.

We will continue exposing this highly opportunistic party on all levels. We are very concerned that continued Greens chameleonic attitude of constantly changing skin colours, will affect the communities’ faith in the political system. We have witnessed in the last decade growing decrease of marginalised communities participation in the political process. The total lack of any alternative party on issues important for large section of community will deepen this feeling of hopelessness among growing numbers of Australians.

For media contact, Jamal Daoud can be contacted on 0404 447 272