It’s lunatic enough that this Albanese government is wilfully letting in Palestinians from Gaza who say they support Hamas

The Muslim tail is wagging the Labor dog and the Albanese government is betraying Australia.

This is insane. New Immigration Minister Tony Burke still hasn’t said he’ll stop importing refugees who support Islamist terrorists.

Worse, in parliament on Wednesday Burke admitted it had been impossible to interview the 2900 Palestinians the government has issued with visas. They were in a “war zone”.

Nor would he guarantee all had undergone security checks, other than being checked against a daily watchlist of names.

It’s lunatic enough that this Albanese government is wilfully letting in Palestinians from Gaza who say they support Hamas, banned here as a genocidal terrorist group.

Tony Burke hasn’t said he’ll stop importing refugees who support Islamist terrorists. Picture: Martin Ollman

But ASIO boss Mike Burgess happily admitted on Sunday that his intelligence agency was indeed waving them through.

“If it’s just rhetorical support, and they don’t have an ideology or support for a violent extremism ideology, then that’s not a problem,” Burgess said.

But it seems Burgess was just describing a new government policy to woo Muslim voters.

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese on Wednesday didn’t even deny his government really was letting in Palestinians who supported the Hamas terrorists who on October 7 slaughtered 1200 Israelis, raped women, beheaded men and kidnapped 251 people.

Mike Burgess admitted his intelligence agency is waving them through Palestinians from Gaza who say they support Hamas. Picture: Martin Ollman

Instead, he hid behind Burgess and attacked Opposition Leader Peter Dutton for demanding a ban on refugees from Gaza while we have no officials on the ground to check them.

Albanese scoffed: “We’re listening to the security agencies when it comes to national security and the director general Mike Burgess will play a critical role in that.”

Unlike Dutton, “I seek to bring people together”.

Albanese brings us together by importing terrorist sympathisers?

Education Minister Jason Clare’s response was even more revealing – and poisonous.

Asked if he’d like see even more Palestinians come from Gaza, Clare dodged and launched into a vicious attack of Israel.

“I’d like to see the war end … I’d like to see the starvation end. I’d like to see Israel open the gate. There’s plenty of food and aid in Israel and plenty of trucks.”

Clare snarled at Israel: “Put the food and medicine in the trucks and stop children from starving to death.”

Jason Clare’s response was revealing and poisonous. Picture: Martin Ollman

In fact, the IPC famine monitoring group concluded in June: “The available evidence does not indicate that famine is currently occurring.”

What’s more, America’s National Public Radio last month reported Israel was getting plenty of food into Gaza, but it wasn’t being distributed well there by the United Nations.

Indeed, “looting in Gaza by armed Palestinians are crippling their ability to collect this aid”. Hamas, not Israel, is the problem.

If you’re wondering why Clare would slander Israel and defend Hamas sympathisers, know this: 30 per cent of voters in his Sydney seat are Muslim.

Same with Burke’s seat. Even worse for him, a popular Muslim doctor, Ziad Basyouny, announced on Tuesday he’d run against Burke at the next election, accusing him of going soft on Israel’s “genocide” in Gaza.

Do you really think he’ll now say he’ll ban Hamas sympathisers?

The Muslim tail is wagging the Labor dog, and the Albanese government is betraying Australia.

It’s plainly mad to let in anyone with even “just rhetorical support” for Hamas.

And how can the government be sure a refugee’s “rhetorical support” for Hamas today doesn’t turn into more concrete support tomorrow? Or that they don’t raise children more radical?

Besides, people do lie to get here. Take the father of one of our most strident anti-Israel protesters, Nasser Mashni, head of the Australian Palestine Advocacy Network.

Mashni’s father came here in 1960 after a friend, his sponsor, told immigration authorities he was a Christian convert fleeing Muslim intolerance.

Once here, Mashni’s father instead helped form the Australian wing of the Fatah movement of Islamist terrorist Yasser Arafat.

At his funeral, a tribute was read out from Ismail Haniyeh, the Jew-hating Hamas chief assassinated by Israel in Iran last month.

Nasser Mashni one of our most strident anti-Israel protesters. Picture: Tamati Smith

These are the hatreds, lies and sectarian politics this Albanese government is dabbling in, with potentially deadly consequences which even ASIO seems not to fully understand.

I was astonished to hear the previous ASIO boss, Duncan Lewis, tell a senate committee seven years ago: “I have abso­lutely no evidence to suggest there is a connection between refugees and terrorism.”

In fact, four Australians had already been killed in terrorist attacks here by Muslim refugees.

The following year there was a fifth – stabbed to death by a Somali refugee on a jihadist mission.

That’s five Australians already killed by our refugee program. Will there be more, thanks to an Albanese government that’s playing with ethnic politics just to win the next election?