An image of four Greens MP sitting alone in parliament as they refused to back a motion supporting Israel’s right to defend itself against Hamas, has been called ‘disgraceful’.
Two weekends ago, Palestinian terrorists launched horrific attacks from Gaza, killing at least 1,400 people, including babies, in what has been labelled Israel’s 9/11.
Greens leader Adam Bandt was pictured alongside MPs Stephen Bates, Max Chandler-Mather and Elizabeth Watson-Brown, as every other MP in the House of Representatives voted for the motion.
Mr Bandt tried to add an amendment to accuse Israel of war crimes and declare the invasion of Gaza ‘not just a humanitarian catastrophe, but a war crime‘.
Tasmanian independent Andrew Wilkie and Sydney Teal MPs, Kylea Tink and Sophie Scamps supported this amendment.
An image of four Greens MP sitting alone in parliament (pictured top left) as they refused to back a motion defending Israel’s right to defend itself against Hamas, has been called ‘disgraceful’
Tasmanian independent Andrew Wilkie and Sydney Teal MPs, Kylea Tink and Sophie Scamps supported a Greens amendment. Ms Tink (left) and Ms Scamps (right) are pictured
Speaking on Sky News, former Victorian Liberals president Michael Kroger called the Greens MPs ‘disgraceful’ for not backing the motion and seeking to amend it.
Sky News presenter Andrew Bolt said the Teal independents would face a backlash at the next election.
‘In those (former) blue ribbon Liberal seats I can see people being disgusted with those two and Jason Falinski and Trent Zimmerman if they front up again they will probably win those seats back,’ he said.
Mr Falinski lost to Ms Scamps in the seat of Mackellar and Mr Zimmerman lost to Ms Tink in the seat of North Sydney in the May 2022 federal election.
Mr Bandt told parliament the Greens joined ‘everyone in this parliament in mourning the 1,300 Israelis who have lost their lives’, but he wanted to highlight that ‘there are also between 2,300 and 2,600 Palestinians who have lost their lives, many of whom are children’.
‘And we mourn them as well,’ he said.
‘This is now moving beyond self-defence into an invasion, and it is up to Australia as a peace-loving country to join the push to stop it.’
NSW Jewish Board of Deputies president David Ossip said Jews were shocked by the actions of the Teal independents.
‘Whilst the Jewish community expects such behaviour from the Greens … Ms Scamps and Ms Tink have turned their back on the Jewish communities in their electorates at their time of need,’ Mr Ossip told The Australian.
He added that by voting with the Greens, the two Teal MPs had aligned themselves with the most extreme MPs in the federal parliament.
Alex Ryvchin of the Executive Council of Australian Jewry said the Greens were ‘so hardwired in their loathing of Israel and distrust of the Australian Jewish community that they could not even extend symbolic solidarity with our community’.
Defence Minister Richard Marles (pictured) said what the Greens did was ‘despicable’, and that they ‘really couldn’t miss this moment more’
Mr Ryvchin also said the Teal MPs who backed the Greens amendment were undermining Israel’s efforts to save the 165 hostages taken by Hamas.
Defence Minister Richard Marles said what the Greens did was ‘despicable’, and that they ‘really couldn’t miss this moment more’.
Opposition leader Peter Dutton attacked those he called ‘apologists’ for Hamas who did not condemn anti-Semitic slurs shouted by protesters at pro-Palestinian rallies last week.
‘Their silence is, frankly, contemptible,’ he said.
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