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.
