Andrew Bolt: Greens use ugly language while claiming to be for peace

Why is Labor still making preference deals that get more Greens elected when their language has become so ugly and vile?

How did the Greens become so vile? Why is Labor still making preference deals that get more Greens elected?

James Cruz is a Greens candidate in next week’s ACT election despite posting – in a since-deleted tweet – “f. king kill politicians” and “send them to The Hague and hang them in the street”.

He’s also said more people were asking why Jew-hating Hezbollah was listed here as a terrorist group.

To this the Greens wave an airy hand. Cruz was just “impassioned” and actually “abhors violence”. He wasn’t actually saying Hezbollah should be delisted as terrorists.

ACT Greens candidate James Cruz. Picture: Supplied

Or take another ACT Greens candidate, Harini Rangarajan, who wrote she’d “idolised” several martyrs, including mass murderer Che Guevara, Jesus Christ and Osama bin Laden, the al Qaeda terrorist boss.

She was just writing fiction, say the Greens. Not party policy!

NSW Greens MP Jenny Leong even used that old anti-Semitic trope of Jews having tentacles everywhere, claiming “the Jewish lobby and the Zionist lobby are infiltrating into every single aspect of what is ethnic community groups”, and “their tentacles reach into the areas that try and influence power”.

She misspoke, she said. Never meant to sound anti-Jewish. Sorry.

But Greens senator Mehreen Faruqi hasn’t apologised for being so madly anti-Israel that she couldn’t say if the Hamas terrorist group which slaughtered 1200 Jews on October 7 should be dismantled.

For a party claiming to be for peace, its language is often disturbingly aggressive and even warlike.

Greens senator Mehreen Faruqi hasn’t apologised for being so madly anti-Israel that she couldn’t say if the Hamas terrorist group should be dismantled.. Picture: Martin Ollman

Lidia Thorpe, while still a Greens senator, preached a war with white Australia last year: “This is a war! … They are still raping our women.”

But there’s another pattern here. For a political party so small, it’s astonishing how often Greens politicians and candidates accuse each other of being bullies.

In Victoria, veteran Greens candidate Alex Bhathal quit after claiming she was bullied, and Greg Barber quit as leader after allegedly calling female colleagues fat lesbians. (He denies it.)

In NSW, Jeremy Buckingham quit as a Greens MP after allegations of sexual harassment, which he says were proved false.

Lidia Thorpe preached a war with white Australia last year. Martin Ollman

Thorpe became an independent after claiming she was also bullied, and Greens senator Dorinda Cox apologised last week after former staff accused her of bullying, too.

This – and more – suggests an ugly culture. Add the Greens’ reckless neo-primitive policies that would destroy our economy and divide us into tribes, and Labor looks even crazier for swapping preferences to help elect a party so clearly sick.

Originally published as Andrew Bolt: Greens use ugly language while claiming to be for peace