Down Under, it’s Protocols-of-the-Elders-of-Zion time. Jenny Leong, a member of the Greens Party who sits in the New South Wales Legislative Assembly, delivered herself of some remarks a meeting of the Palestine Justice Movement that would not have been out of place in that Czarist-era forgery. More on her antisemitic outburst can be found here: “Australian Politician Says ‘Jewish Lobby’ Uses ‘Tentacles’ to ‘Influence Power,’” by Jack Elbaum, Algemeiner, February 6, 2024:
Video of a left-wing Australian politician [Jenny Leong] discussing how “the Jewish lobby and the Zionist lobby” are using their “tentacles” to “influence power” went viral on Tuesday, sparking backlash from the Australian Jewish community.
That all-powerful “Jewish lobby” and the “Zionist lobby” — are they the same? Jenny Leong doesn’t explain. But I think she means to point the finger at all Jews. She accuses them of sending out their “tentacles” out to grasp power wherever they can. “Tentacles” suggests an all-powerful octopus, something inhuman, slithering along the floor as it winds its tentacles around others, and holds them prisoner to do its bidding. An altogether repellent image — but remember, it is Jews we are talking about, and no image is too repellent to describe them. With that one word, Leong suggests that the Jews have this occult, menacing ability to control others. You know the drill — they own all the banks, they control all the media, they control all the secret levers of power. Strange, then, isn’t it, that these all-powerful Jews were unable to prevent the Holocaust, have been unable to prevent the Arabs from making war on them almost continuously since 1948, have been unable to prevent the UN from denouncing the Jewish state more times than it has denounced all the other 192 member states put together, have been unable to prevent a worldwide campaign of calumny, baselessly accusing Israel of being a “colonial-settler apartheid genocidal state,” have been unable to stop South Africa from accusing it of “ethnic cleansing” and “genocide” at the International Court of Justice, even been unable to persuade the ICJ to dismiss that accusation altogether. It is not tiny Israel that has this tentacular grip on so much of the world but, rather, the 22 Arab and 35 non-Arab Muslim states that wish it ill.
Jenny Leong, an Australia Greens member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly, spoke on a panel for the Palestine Justice Movement in December to promote boycotting Israel.
“The Jewish lobby and the Zionist lobby are infiltrating into every single aspect of what is ethnic community groups,” Leong said during the panel. “They rock up [sic] and they’re part of the campaign,” and “they offer solidarity.”
She continued: “They [the Jewish and Zionist lobby] rock up [sic] to every community meeting and event to offer that connection because their tentacles reach into the areas that try and influence power and I think that we need to call that out and expose that.”…
Apparently this Jewish and Zionist “lobby” manages to “rock up” — I take that to mean “take part in” — various community gatherings, to attempt to present their case, to make the case for why others should support them as they support those others, and this behavior — in Jenny Leong’s view — is somehow illegitimate and sinister, even though it is exactly what all groups do, including the Palestinians who have quite a record at winning the support of others, such as members of Black Lives Matter, or of the Green Party, such as the deplorable Greta Thunberg. Somehow, environmentalists have been conned into believing that Israel is an enemy, and not the Arab oil states that have continually tried to stave off attempts by environmentalists to discourage the use of fossil fuels.
In response to the criticism, Leong apologized for specifically using the word “tentacles,” but not for her message. She said: “Speaking on a panel during a two-hour-long event last year, I acknowledge that I used a word at one point that was an inappropriate descriptor for the influence of groups backing Netanyahu’s genocidal attacks in Gaza and the ongoing occupation – I apologise that this has caused offence.”
“Genocidal attacks in Gaza”? The only “genocidal attacks” have been those carried out by 3,000 members of Hamas on October 7, who flooded from Gaza into border kibbutzim, where they beheaded babies, burned children alive, raped, tortured, mutilated, and murdered girls, sliced the breasts off women, gouged out the eyes and cut off the genitalia of men, murdered children in front of their parents and parents in front of their children. That is genocide.
In Gaza, far from attempting “genocide,” the IDF makes heroic efforts to minimize civilian casualties, while Hamas tries to maximize them. The IDF warns civilians away from areas that are about to become battlefields. The Israelis warned the one million people in northern Gaza to move south of the Wadi Gaza, and 900,000 of them did. Later, as the IDF’s campaign moved southward, it sent out emails and leaflets, containing maps showing exactly which areas in southern Gaza were going to be hit, and which were safe to move to. The IDF even warns civilians away from specific buildings — schools, mosques, apartment buildings — where Hamas has hidden weapons, rocket launchers, command-and-control centers, and operatives — that are about to be targeted, so that those warned can move away. The IDF uses every means available — leafletting, messaging, telephoning, use of “the knock-on-the-roof” technique — to warn civilians to get out of harm’s way. It’s an epic effort: so far six million leaflets have been dropped, four million messages sent, 72,000 phone calls made.
Beto says
The fact is, the Jewish lobby s influence is beyond its numbers
Jack Reynolds says
Perhaps … But it has never been influential enough to prevent GENOCIDES by folks like JENNY.
bagsgroove says
Some asian is telling us about what is happening in the world. What about China,North Korea and all her leftist hoard friends. The green party everywhere has decayed into a pile of leftist garbage.
carpediadem says
Bull dust. YOu just ignore all the other intense lobbying by Arabs and others.
tim gallagher says
The Greens, of course, are far left lunatics. I tend to ignore these idiots. Unortunately you can’t just ignore them because they have around 10% of the vote here in Australia.This woman, Jenny Leong, is elected from an inner city, trendy, left wing electorate in Sydney and is someone who I would expect to have the usual far left imbecilic views on all issues (climate change, etc) and so I find that her off the planet sort of views on the Jews and their supposed power and influence are probably the sort of idiotic views that many of her fellow left wing supporters would share. It is alarming. I don’t care about this supposed inordinate amount of power that Jews are supposed to have, I care about the completely barbaric followers of islam gaining power and imposing their primitive garbage on all non-Muslims. That is the really alarming prospect for our civilised western world including Australia, though we are not as far gone as France, the UK, etc..It is definitely alarming that Leong’s views would probably be shared by many left wing wankers these days.
carpediadem says
Turns out some Jews got together and rallied at Octopus Jenny’s office.
Paywalled article but the first paragraph is I think sufficient. Check out the link for the hilarious photo:
“‘Embrace your inner octopus’: Protesters rally outside MP’s office
Inflatable Jewish squids and protesters have gathered outside Greens MP Jenny Leong’s office in response to her comments.”
Photo:
https://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/subscribe/news/1/?sourceCode=DTWEB_WRE170_a_GGL&dest=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.dailytelegraph.com.au%2Fnews%2Fnsw%2Fprotesters-rally-outside-greens-mp-jenny-leongs-office-in-response-to-comments-about-jewish-people%2Fnews-story%2F5197719550856ab8ad0866749bc500ac&memtype=anonymous&mode=premium&v21=LOW-Segment-2-SCORE
tim gallagher says
I saw a bit of footage of that small demo outside Leong’s office, carpediadem, either on Sky News or on Channel 7 news, but I have to say, being a vague type of person, I didn’t even notice the squids. I did think that the pro-Jewish protesters were brave, as I always do, because I thought a bunch of these incredibly vicious Muslim knuckle dragging scum, truly evil, murderous people from everything I see of them at their demos like the one outside the Opera House, might show up and beat them up. All I know is that Australia has become a far worse place since these Muslims have been allowed to invade this once much more peaceful country. Same for every other country that has let Muslims invade. AS for Leong, these left wingers are idiots. The Muslims would slaughter them all very quickly if they ever got power. They are merely brainless useful idiots from the Muslim point of view.
dumbledoresarmy says
The story reached the Jerusalem Post which is NOT behind a paywall. Lots of photos!
https://www.jpost.com/diaspora/antisemitism/article-786535
Quote: “The protesters, some dressed as squids, poked fun at the self-proclaimed “anti-racist” MP. “Don’t be speciesist Jenny! Embrace your inner octopus teacher,” one protester’s sign read.”
somehistory says
thanks for the link.
Her “apology” was not an apology.
hamas would do to her what they did to the innocent Jews in October and what they have been doing since they were formed.
she is the ‘racist.’ But taking the side of the terrorists wouldn’t save her.
bagsgroove says
Typical leftist wanker manouver. Insult and then apologize for some item in the total insult. Like she is really sorry for saying anything. She should go back to where she came from and quit insulting white people.
No Fear says
“Rock up” is an Australian expression meaning “to arrive”.
carpediadem says
@timgallagher
Here is a report on proPalestinian advocacy by a coalition of groups for “palestine” in Australia. NOTE use of the word “lobbying”:
APAN continued to build on our relationships with Federal Parliamentarians. In November 2023 parliamentarians spoke up for Palestine at the UN Day of Solidarity for the Palestinian people.
The Australian policy has also seen some promising shifts. There has been a reinstatement of some Australian aid funding to Palestine; the Government reversed the decision indicating West Jerusalem belongs to Israel; and votes at the UN General Assembly have shifted markedly. We undertook a lobbying trip in February where we had 28 meetings; and another in June with
22 meetings, and other online meetings in between. Included in these meetings have been two meetings with the new First Assistant Secretary of the Middle East Branch in DFAT; meeting with the Chief of Staff of the Foreign Minister; several meetings with members of the Executive of the Government; meeting with the Shadow Foreign Minister and the leaders of the Australian Greens.
We have also met with a further 6 new MP’s elected in 2022, which means we’ve met with 60% of the new cohort (28/48). In this period, we’ve also met with other parliamentarians who haven’t met with us previously, predominantly in the National Party, bringing to 131/227 of the current parliamentarians we’ve met with. Most of our focus in these last six months has been to seek active support from sympathetic parliamentarians.
We’ve hosted two events in the federal parliament with Parliamentary Friends of Palestine. The first event in March was regarding aid to Palestine, where we coordinated presentations from Australian aid agencies as well as online presentations from UNRWA in Gaza and Jordan and Palestinian partner organisations. There were about 20 people present, including parliamentarians and staffers. The event highlighted how Australian aid to Palestine has been the lowest it has been in over a decade, and the subsequent May budget boosted Aid to Palestine by over $2million dollars.
The second event was with former Foreign Minister, The Hon Prof Gareth Evans AO KC in June, about Palestinian recognition. Gareth’s standing in the parliamentary community was clear by both the number of people in the audience, but also the weight in which they held his words. He addressed 21 parliamentarians and a similar number of staff and diplomats. Prof Evans made the legal, moral and political case for why Australia must recognise Palestine. Professor Evan’s piece was published in The Conversation, and widely cited in following news articles about the Labor debate about Recognition.
We asked for parliamentarians to speak up for Nakba, and 23 state and federal parliamentarians did – posting on social media; posing with an image we’d provided; attending or speaking at events. We undertook a campaign to make it
easy for supporters to thank parliamentarians for doing so, and hundreds did. When visiting parliamentarians in June, several said that they were swamped with gratitude after speaking up for Palestine, and others noted the things they’d learned in our weekly Palnews bulletins.
In August 2023 APAN participated in the ALP National Conference, hosting a very successful fringe event which had parliamentary and union speakers who had just returned from our study tours. We also printed hundreds of “Palestine: Its
Time” badges which delegates wore with pride during the conference. We had hoped that Labor would strengthen its platform, but the party did repel attempts to weaken the policy.”
Much more in the Political Advocacy Section in Annual Reports section here: https://apan.org.au/about/
tim gallagher says
Thanks for that information, carpediadem. I can’t stand any of these politicians, or most other people, who support the cause of the Muslim enemy, including the Palestinians. It took me quite a while to wake up to islam’s vile nature and its complete incompatibility with western societies civilised, enlightened values, but once I did wake up, probabaly in the late 1990s I began writing to our politicians trying to wake them up, because i knew that most of them knew bugger all about islam, (I always included those quotes from the Koran calling on Muslims to kill the non-Muslims when they got the chance) and I said that they should stop letting Muslims into the country. I’m pretty sure my firt letter was to Philip Ruddock way back in 2000. I got a reply from someone in his office telling me that Australia did not discriminate on grounds of religion, race, etc. If only enough of the average people here in australia would wake up to islam’s nature, we could stop the rot. I think people are going to wake up far too late. As I often say, I believe that letting Muslims into non-Muslim countries is the dumbest move ever made. I also believe that the children and grandchildren of the fools who cosy up to the Muslims and keep letting hem into the country will loathe them for the appalling situation they have created years from now..
Kuffar says
Do not try to understand these leftist commies. Don’t try to make them understand you. Better to hang them on the park and burn their houses the ground.
bagsgroove says
All palestinians want is the money the non-muslims must pay them according to sharia law so they don’t have to do any work like the rest of humanity. Disgusting