The Greens hosted embattled anti-Israel academic Randa Abdel-Fattah as the keynote speaker at an international women’s day event on Friday, as the left-wing party’s deputy leader said the nation had to stop using words such as inclusivity, harmony and social cohesion.
Senator Faruqi has been a strong supporter of Dr Abdel Fattah, recently grilling officials in Senate estimates of having succumbed to “racist” pressure in deciding to suspend Dr Abdel-Fattah’s grant.
“As a brown, Muslim woman … I find it deeply, deeply disturbing for a white, male education minister to lead the charge against Dr Abdel-Fattah, an Arab woman,” Senator Faruqi said during hearings.
At the women’s day breakfast, Senator Faruqi said “misogyny is on the rise globally, threatening to undo decades of work”, according to a video she posted on social media. “We need to be more clear and more resolute about what we are demanding,” she said.
“Nothing less than equality, nothing less, and we need to understand the close connections between all forms of oppression: racism, sexism, classism, and there are many others.
And we must also stop using skin-deep, superficial words like inclusivity, harmony, and social cohesion, which our governments have been using over the past 18 months, without any restraint. “Instead, our fight is for anti-racism, it is for equity, it is for justice, whether here or anywhere else in the world. Whitewashing, sexism, misogyny, racism, and bigotry is not going to move the dialogue. Telling the truth, unapologetically, and unabashedly, will. And that is what we need to do.”
https://www.theaustralian.com.au/nation/greens-host-embattled-macquarie-universi... She played all the cards there - colour card, race card & was herself racist all in one sentence.
She should be run out the Senate & the country.
Her & Payman & now that new Greens candidate in Bankstown Sydney - Omar Sakr - mourning & praising the Ayatollah of Iran.
The fool should realise the Ayatollah would have had him thrown off a tall building - Sakr is gay.