How did the Greens wind up getting so cozy with terror?

When it comes to numbering the Greens who have refused to condemn terrorist organisations we’re up to four-and-a-half — and that’s just in the last month.

The modern Australian Greens are often jokingly described as watermelons: Green on the outside but red in the middle.

But a string of revelations recently suggests that they may be cloaking something even worse than communism — and it’s certainly no joke.

Whether by ideology or idiocy the Greens have become infused with terrorism apologists.

The examples are now too many to write off as rogue candidates or unintended gaffes. The Greens is a party that harbours extremism.

In the latest incident an ACT Greens candidate appeared to suggest on social media that Hezbollah was not a terrorist organisation.

“Remove Hezbollah from the list of terrorist organisations?” he wrote on X. “You’re hearing it more and more.”

An ACT Greens candidate appeared to suggest on social media that Hezbollah was not a terrorist organisation. Picture: NewsWire / Damian Shaw

The candidate later claimed that he was not in fact proposing such thing, just noting that “other people have queried the listing”.

Oh, so just a misunderstanding then.

The only glitch is that this came just a day after another ACT Greens candidate was found by the ABC to have written a blog post likening Osama Bin Laden to Jesus.

Yes, really.

The blog post titled “On martyrdom” reads “I daydream about dying brutally for my country, my family, my lovers” and goes on to say “I’ve gone on to idolise several other martyrs — Bhagat Singh, Husayn ibn Ali, Guru Tegh Bahadur, Che Guevara, Jesus Christ, Balachandran Prabhakaran, Joan of Arc, Osama Bin Laden etc.”

Greens Leader Adam Bandt speaking at Melbourne's Free Palestine Rally on June 9. Picture: X

This too, it was claimed, was simply a misunderstanding: It was a creative writing exercise the candidate had undertaken for no apparent reason under an assumed name and then gone back to sneakily edit after the ABC caught them out, changing “etc” to “lmao”.

Just a coincidence then.

But oh dear! Yet another Greens candidate, this time for Bayside Council in sunny downtown Sydney, also seems to be a bit confused about what constitutes a terrorist organisation.

And this time he wasn’t splashing about in the shallows with Hamas and Hezbollah — he was going straight for the big dog: ISIS, a group even more extreme than Osama Bin Laden himself.

Greens deputy leader Mehreen Faruqi (pictured) was a star attendee at a movie night hosted by a suburban Sydney Greens candidate who said the Israeli Defence Force is worse than ISIS and Hamas.

As revealed by The Daily Telegraph, this towering political intellect declared that the Israeli Defence Force — the legitimate army of a democratic state — was worse than a bunch of terrorists whose speciality was filming themselves beheading people.

“IDF are total terrorists, it’s proven, lots of evidence out there about it, I reckon they are worse than Hamas or ISIS.”

Okay then.

But maybe these foreign policy giants are only to be found at the local government level. Surely no one would be so confused or deluded or equivocating in our national parliament?

Au contraire mon ami!

Enter the ever-reliable Senator Mehreen Faruqi, who was the guest star at an event organised by the same candidate and held at an openly pro-Hezbollah mosque.

Maybe these were the same people who “queried the listing” of it as a terrorist organisation, according to our first exhibit in this rogue’s gallery.

Yet as our first candidate panically pointed out after his own terror-adjacent experience, the Greens’ official position could not be clearer: “Hezbollah is a listed terrorist organisation and the Greens are not arguing to change that,” he said. “I back that position of the Australian Greens.”

And yet the Greens Deputy Leader Senator Faruqi was happy to headline an event in a mosque which openly celebrates Hezbollah fighters and publicly referred to its slain leader Hassan Nasrallah as “His Eminence”.

Curiouser and curiouser!

Greens Deputy Leader Senator Mehreen Faruqi has refused to say that Hamas should be dismantled. Picture: NewsWire / Martin Ollman

And this is the same Senator Faruqi who refused to even say that Hamas — another proscribed terrorist organisation — should be dismantled.

Maybe there’s something funny in the water on the Senate crossbench.

Last week former Labor Senator Fatima Payman — who was forced out of the party after siding with the Greens on Palestine — could not even bring herself to describe October 7 as an act of terror.

Oscar Wilde’s Lady Bracknell famously observed that to lose one parent was a misfortune but to lose two looked like carelessness.

When it comes to numbering the Greens who have refused to condemn terrorist organisations we’re up to four and a half — and that’s just in the last month.

And yet they maintain the fiction that they oppose these terror groups their candidates excuse, downplay or ignore.

This is the dark underbelly of today’s Australian Greens, an unhinged extremism that has infected the party and made them terrorist adjacent.

And now they are trying to inject the bloody wars of the Middle East into the centre of Australian politics — inflamed with their dangerously provocative rhetoric.

This risks torching our cohesion and destroying what’s left of our great multicultural country but that’s what these radicals rely on: Anger, division and hate.

Australians must reject this poison and expel it like the toxic waste it is.

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