(Jewish Group) What the bid to unseat Josh Frydenberg reveals about white, self-defined progressives

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In response to the news that a challenge has been mounted against Treasurer Josh Frydenberg’s eligibility to sit in the Australian parliament under section 44 of the constitution, “the rules” have been cited, as have double standards.

One of the arguments goes if Labor and Greens parliamentarians were forced to resign their seats because they were found to be dual nationals, it is hypocritical of the government to shield “their man”.

I have long been critical of the tendency of both sides of Australian politics to mobilise the history of the Holocaust as a defence against criticism of its racist migration policies, the punitive asylum detention regime in particular.

It is not lost on me that Josh Frydenberg happily defends his government’s policy of locking up those who seek asylum by boat on Manus Island and Nauru and keeping countless others in limbo “on shore” while claiming special status because his mother fled the Nazis and the Hungarian fascists to come to Australia.

As Malcolm Turnbull put it when he was prime minister, to legally challenge Frydenberg over his eligibility represents a failure to think “a little deeper about the history of the Holocaust”.

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