Alex Ryvchin
Jewish law precludes us from celebrating the misfortunes of others but the fact that the people of Melbourne decided to purge Adam Bandt from the federal parliament is a good thing. Bandt led a political party in this country to become institutionally antisemitic. This doesn’t mean its members, candidates and leaders merely said some antisemitic things. It means that at a time when Jews were being doxxed, threatened, boycotted and firebombed, the Greens, under Bandt’s leadership turned their influence and resources against our community and did so while leading the lie that they were progressive and anti-racist. Bandt’s defeat is a blow for socialism, that ideology of poverty that crushes the human spirit, and it is an even greater defeat for antisemitism, the socialism of fools.