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The Greens have a blind spot on anti-Semitism and are “demonising the state of Israel” during its conflict with Hamas, Dave Sharma says.
Mr Sharma, a former Liberal MP who was picked to represent his party in the Senate, criticised the Greens for “demonising the state of Israel” and “holding it to a different standard of account”.
“If you are calling for the destruction of a member state of the United Nations, and denying the Jewish people a right to their homeland and a state that is accepted by the United Nations, yes, I consider that to be anti-Semitism,” Mr Sharma told ABC’s RN on Monday.
The former ambassador to Israel, pointed to Greens Senator Mehreen Faruqi, who shared a photo on social media with student protesters with a poster depicting the Israeli state being thrown into a rubbish bin.
She went on to remove the post.
“People can and should be allowed to advocate for Palestinian self-determination and Palestinian national rights”, Mr Sharma said.
“But it should not be a zero-sum proposition.”
“Too often we see these protests think that to be pro-Palestinian, you need to be anti-Israel, or more critically anti-Jewish people in Australia, and I think that’s where we’ve seen lines crossed many times.”
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