Good on Aussie radio host Ben Fordham. You can almost hear Senator Lee Rhiannon squirm as he takes her to task for her involvement with the BDS movement and her consequent support for the boycott of the Max Brenner chocolate outlets in Australia - Ben describes the behaviour of the mobs of BDS activists as bullying "hardworking Aussies going about their business, " reminds her of their reprehensible cry "Jews Kill Babies," and puts her on the spot in several delicious ways.
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Since Rhiannon is such a fierce feminist in the Australian context, I wish next time he interviews her Ben would ask her point blank why she is happy to appear on Press TV, given the fact that women are held in such low esteem in Iran that their life is worth monetarily in compensation half of a man's and sexual relations (short of penetration) with girl babies as young as one year have been given the all-clear by a powerful ayatollah.
Meanwhile, to remind ourselves of the bully-boy behaviour of the mobs that demonstrate against Max Brenner, let's look at footage from last Christmas, when BDS fanatics marched on and into the Brenner cafe in Brisbane, which they were prevented from accessing last weekend owing to the decent people who stood firm against them:
Daphne, Michael Danby wrote about her and her parents extremism
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Great article, Vicki!
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...not sure if I accidentally posted this comment twice or not...
Am on the case right now, Bunty!
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