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Performative hysteria from Bridget McKenzie. per the graund blog
Deputy Nationals leader, Bridget McKenzie, said Albanese had “failed Jewish Australians” and claimed the Australian government’s recognition of Palestine played a role in rising antisemitism.
McKenzie said:
Australia formally recognised Palestine in September, following the UK and Canada. A two-state solution has long been bipartisan Australian foreign policy.No one who’s been paying attention for the last two years is at all surprised that our beautiful country and this beautiful city has been hijacked as part of a global Islamic extremist terrorist campaign, a PR campaign that too many Australians signed up to in the name of compassion.
McKenzie said:
She continued:To hate Israel is to hate Jews. It that simple. Chants may seem meaningless on a beautiful summer’s day across the Sydney Harbour Bridge, but Prime Minister, they are anti-Semitic, they fuel the hate, the Islamic extremism that is in our suburbs of our cities. And you cannot fix a problem, Prime Minister, if you are not prepared to name it. We will know this Prime Minister is serious about tackling antisemitism when he names it for what it is….it’s Islamic extremism, and it’s in our suburbs. And for too long we’ve papered over that reality in some hope of, you know, this multicultural, multicultural nirvana. But it has failed. We are subject to terrorist attacks from Islamic State inspired Australians. We can’t ignore that.
It’s been his tacit support, his equivalence of Islamophobia with antisemitism… antisemitism needs own space. It shouldn’t be joined in with other experiences of racism and hate.
This recognition of Palestine, all of these your government have brought this upon us. So we need a royal commission to actually uncover that and give our Jewish community and all Australians a chance to get the answers, because there are way many questions for us all and why this occurred.



