Knowing the truth will scare off voters

The boycott campaign, which its activists like to call by the less threatening, disembodied acronym "BDS", is a tactic designed by extremist organisations such as Hamas to mask the strategy of the "one state solution", a single state between Jordan and the Mediterranean.

This would lead to the destruction of the independent Jewish state of Israel. Any Israeli Jews who are not killed, who did not flee for their lives, would be left as a benighted minority (the Arab word for which is "Dhimmis"), in a Hamas-ruled theocratic state.

I doubt many Greens voters realise that Lee Rhiannon supports a boycott that would ban the Batsheva Dance Company from returning to Australia and the Israeli Philharmonic from playing at the Sydney Opera House.

I'm sure few Greens voters would support such a policy if they did know about it.

Most Greens supporters are concerned to see stronger protection of our Australian environment. But the NSW Greens party harbours a core of long-time hard-Left political operatives like Ms Rhiannon, who focus on promoting extreme foreign policy views unrepresentative of Greens members and voters.

These extreme foreign policy views are very harmful to the Greens, as we saw with the defeat of Ms Rhiannon's acolyte, Fiona Byrne, in Marrickville. The swing against Labor in Marrickville was much less than that across the state, and most analysts, including Greens national leader Bob Brown, agree that this extreme foreign policy stance cost the Greens the seat.

The "watermelon faction" of the Greens party is guilty of hypocrisy as well as promoting extreme policies. I have never heard any of them speak out in support of the many thousands of political prisoners in North Korean labour camps, of the 300,000 murdered African Muslims of Darfur, or the Uighur people in western China, whose ancient heritage in areas like Kashgar is being bulldozed by the Chinese Communists as I write. Perhaps the common attribute of these struggles which does not endear them to Rhiannon and her watermelon faction is that they do not support violence and they are not anti-American.

I have my differences with Bob Brown, but I generally respect his stands on environmental issues. But Bob Brown needs to wake up to the fact that Ms Rhiannon and the watermelon faction will destroy his work, and make the Greens unacceptable to voters, unless he takes action to stop them promoting such extreme and dangerous policies.