Why I will Campaign Against Labor in the Next NSW State Election

Following the disgraceful demise of NSW Labor opposition leader Luke Foley, I received many enquiries from the media and community members asking about my position on the next state election.

As many know by now, I declared that I will campaign against NSW Labor candidates in the next election, for many reasons. We will campaign in a few seats to see Labor candidates lose or at least humiliated.

For years now, we are deeply shocked at Labor’s association with Muslim extremist groups, to the point of their sleeping in bed with them. Not only has Labor embarrassed itself at the last state election in 2015 by parachuting a close associate of several extremist organisations into the Lakemba seat, going against the local Labor members. Despite the latter’s embarrassing revelations about Jihad Dib’s confirmed role in turning Punchbowl Boy’s High School from a drug-dealer’s hub into an extremist’s hub, and the many embarrassing stories about Dib’s family members’ dark connections and actions, including allegations of his brother’s sexual assaults and domestic violence against his wife (https://thenewdaily.com.au/sport/boxing/2016/12/18/boxer-billy-dib-denies-wife-abuse-claims/). There’s also the matter of his father's close association with the Saudi embassy and support of the slaughtering of Yemeni citizens at the hands of Saudi aggression.(https://www.imlebanon.org/2016/03/12/saudi-arabia-australia-lebanon/)

Labor’s weak leadership by Luke Foley saw Mr Dib’s promotion to the shadow Ministry of Education.

When Luke Foley was parachuted into the seat of Auburn we thought that he would show strong leadership. From the beginning, he was very weak in the face of factions infighting and did nothing to bring unity and stability inside the party.

Even in dealing with the farce of Hicham Zreika's illegal activities to stack the branch with mainly Lebanese Muslim extremists in order to win preselction against Ms Barbara Berry, Mr Foley showed no leadership and settled for the compromise of freezing Hicham's membership in the local Labor branch for one year. Even after Hicham ran as an independent candidate against the local Labor candidates for the last Cumberland Council election, Mr Foley did not move to expel him from the party.

If the allegations of sexual abuse against Mr Foley prove to be true, we would be very concerned about this particular issue. Until now, we did not hear from the Labor member for Lakemba and shadow Minister for Education about any actions to condemn, or at least clarify, allegations of domestic violence committed by his brother Billy. The media widely covered the claims by Ms Sarah Shaweesh that Billy was extremely violent with her during their short marriage. She detailed that he received support from his father, Ali, and brother Jihad. There were many details in her public testimony that Jihad used his position as a politician to influence curbing any official police investigation into this matter. (Sarah's testimony is on https://www.facebook.com/shaweeshaa/posts/10209904731512471)

On another front, Mr Foley showed no leadership in dealing with other rogue Labor politicians, namely Shaoquett Moslemane. Mr Moslemane invited an academic with a deeply murky past to speak at an event organised by him at the State Parliament a few months ago.

This invitation to a member of terrorist organisation Ananda Marga, Tim Anderson, came despite the wave of community condemnation of his endorsement of deeply hateful comments towards the Australian Jewish population (https://honisoit.com/2018/08/usyd-lecturer-under-investigation/ )

Despite his condemnation of the invitation of this academic with a murky past by his colleague Shaoquett Moslemane, Luke Foley took no steps to discipline the rogue and highly unpopular Labor politician.

During the next State election campaign in 2019, we will campaign against Labor candidates in many Labor-held seats especially Lakemba and Auburn. We have not yet decided how we will do this. We might run candidates. But, if not enough resources are available, we might only run campaigns around the topic of why voters should not vote for extremism and religious hate, domestic violence against women and that they should vote for strong leadership.