{"id":308692,"date":"2025-10-29T11:08:42","date_gmt":"2025-10-29T01:08:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=308692"},"modified":"2025-10-29T11:08:43","modified_gmt":"2025-10-29T01:08:43","slug":"greens-senator-mehreen-faruqi-has-gone-on-a-racist-tirade-attacking-australians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=308692","title":{"rendered":"Greens Senator Mehreen Faruqi has gone on a racist tirade attacking Australians"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Greens Senator <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?tag=mehreen-faruqi\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"Mehreen Faruqi\">Mehreen Faruqi<\/a>, wearing a keffiyeh, has gone on a tirade attacking &#8220;you white people&#8221; in Parliament on the basis of their race, and claiming they don&#8217;t understand <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>English as she mounted a passionate defence of Senator Lidia Thorpe&#8217;s remarks to burn down Parliament House. In the rambling diatribe given by Faruqi, she went on to attack the Coalition and Labor for supporting genocide. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Faruqi has participated in many pro-Palestine\/Hamas rallies, some often attended by people waving terrorist flags and calling for the decolonisation of Australia. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She has also posted on social media an image promoting the binning of Jewish Australians as trash. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-video aligncenter\"><video height=\"568\" style=\"aspect-ratio: 320 \/ 568;\" width=\"320\" controls src=\"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/22FHRN54woXHgnlS.mp4\"><\/video><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Many Australians have questioned whether she is serving the interests of her Australian electorate or the interests of Palestine and Pakistan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Faruqi has participated in many pro-Palestine\/Hamas rallies, some often attended by people waving terrorist flags.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":304657,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[273,999,35],"tags":[5982,11279],"class_list":["post-308692","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-australia","category-australia-politics","category-breaking-news","tag-canberra","tag-mehreen-faruqi"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308692","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=308692"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308692\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":308697,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308692\/revisions\/308697"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/304657"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=308692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=308692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=308692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}