Muslim Votes Matter speaker describes Australians as ‘the enemy’ at national campaign launch
A speaker at the national campaign launch of a Muslim voting bloc described Australia Day as “Invasion Day” in a radical speech declaring that aboriginal people and Palestinians share the same “struggle” and calling Australia “stolen land”.
Political advocacy group Muslim Votes Matter held their launch in front of about 300 people in Broadmeadows, Melbourne, on Sunday where they announced they were planning to campaign in 32 federal seats with large Islamic populations, in order to pressure the government into focusing on issues important to Muslims.
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During the event a series of maps were displayed comparing “shrinking Palestine” with “indigenous held land in Australia”, and far-left activist Dr Umber Rind made an anti-Australian speech where she linked “First Nations and Palestinian voices”.
“From Gaza to the Northern Territory we are fighting the same enemy,” the hijab-wearing anti-racism campaigner said.
“The Palestinian cause is integral to all anti-colonial struggles and resonates with all First Nations peoples. And remember, what’s happening there, it’s not a foreign issue, it’s our issue here because it’s all part of the same oppressive system.
“Now the Australia we live in prefers us as caricatures of model migrants, good polite Muslims, draped in the occupiers’ blood-soaked flag. We have barbecues on Australia Day, I mean Invasion Day.”
During the event a series of maps were displayed comparing “shrinking Palestine” with “indigenous held land in Australia”, and far-left activist Dr Umber Rind made an anti-Australian speech where she linked “First Nations and Palestinian voices”.
“From Gaza to the Northern Territory we are fighting the same enemy,” the hijab-wearing anti-racism campaigner said.
“The Palestinian cause is integral to all anti-colonial struggles and resonates with all First Nations peoples. And remember, what’s happening there, it’s not a foreign issue, it’s our issue here because it’s all part of the same oppressive system.
“Now the Australia we live in prefers us as caricatures of model migrants, good polite Muslims, draped in the occupiers’ blood-soaked flag. We have barbecues on Australia Day, I mean Invasion Day.”
“First Nations people were the first to work on these stolen lands”.
Dr Rind also urged attendees to see their votes as “a powerful tool to disrupt the status quo”, and said “the era of accepting tokenistic tolerance is over”.
Ghaith Krayem, former president of the Islamic Council of Victoria and chief executive of the Australian Federation of Islamic Council, said Muslims were upset with the way the major parties have handled the conflict in Gaza, feeling ignored by the Coalition and taken for granted by Labor.
He said MVM would also focus on non-religious issues such as gambling, alcohol, drug addiction and domestic violence.
Sky News senior reporter Caroline Marcus said in a panel discussion after the event that she was worried a Muslim voting bloc would influence Labor’s treatment of the Gaza war.
“What concerns me, not just as a member of the Jewish community, but as someone who cares about democracy in Australia, about peace, about maintaining Western values, is the impact it will have on Labor’s policies, how it will cause them to lean even more heavily into this pro-Palestinian anti-Israel position that they currently have,” she said.
“We’re already seeing the first Palestinian-Australian candidate being touted for a Melbourne seat at the moment.
“We’re going to see, more and more, Labor trying to stave off any accusations that they’re not there for their Muslim voters by increasingly looking at not just candidates but policies which will cater for them.”
MVM have said they will not run their own candidates and will instead back those who share its values, but a separate group, The Muslim Vote, does intend to do so, and has been taking applications since June.
A table of federal seats on their website notes the Muslim population percentage, and the record of each sitting Labor MP on Israel and Palestine-related issues.
For Blaxland in western Sydney, which was 31.7% Muslim at the time of the 2021 Census, The Muslim Vote labels Labor MP Jason Clare’s position as “strong solidarity with Israel, mostly silent on Palestine, weak on Palestine, rejected ceasefire motion 16th Oct”.
Other electorates being targeted by the group include Watson, MacMahon, Parramatta and Macarthur, also in western Sydney, which are 25.1%, 13.8%, 10.5% and 9.8% Muslim respectively, and 24 other seats around the country.
Source: https://www.noticer.news/muslim-votes-matter-melbourne-launch-anti-australia/
Australia is good at pointing fingers elsewhere outside its borders when it comes to crimes and corruption. The lady is correct in that the Aboriginal struggle, though not as in-your-face violent ANY MORE as the current genocide in Palestine, does have parallels. However, there is great time divide between the stolen land parallel in Palestine today and Terra Australis 200 years ago when white British invaders took over this land. In those days the thinking of all the world’s people was rather different compared with our understanding of what’s morally right and wrong today. Except for Israeli people, it seems, who cannot even recognise the evil they’ve been committing since 1948.
The reason why Australian politicians aren’t speaking out loudly against the current genocide of Palestinians is either their agreement with or fear of our Zionist lobby in Australia: the Zionist Federation of Australia (https://www.zfa.com.au)
Here’s an excerpt from an article by Philip Giraldi on Global Research:
Nearly every western country has an Israel lobby
Indeed, it is a global phenomenon. Wherever one goes – Western Europe, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and the United States – there is a well-organized and funded lobby ready, willing and able to go to war to protect Israel. Most of the organizations involved take at least some direction from officials in Tel Aviv. Many of them even cooperate fully with the Israeli government, its parastatal organizations and faux-NGOs like the lawfare center Shurat HaDin. Their goal is to spread propaganda and influence the public in their respective countries of residence to either hew to the line coming out of Tel Aviv or to confuse the narrative and stifle debate when potential Israeli crimes are being discussed.
Israel’s diaspora allies are backed up by a formidable government organized machine that spews out disinformation and muddies the waters whenever critics surface. The Israeli Foreign Ministry has a corps of paid “volunteers” who monitor websites worldwide and take remedial action and there is a similar group working out of the Prime Minister’s office. That is why any negative story appearing in the U.S. about Israel is immediately inundated with pro-Israel comments, many of which make exactly the same coordinated points while exhibiting the same somewhat less than perfect English.
AIPAC exists in various forms in a number of other countries. BICOM , the Britain Israel Communications and Research Centre, is located in London. The French equivalent is the Conseil Representatif des Institutions Juives de France (CRIF). In Canada there is a Center for Israel and Jewish Affairs (CIJA) , in Australia a Zionist Federation of Australia and in New Zealand a Zionist Federation of New Zealand.