Andrew Ferguson

Andrew Ferguson

BDS

From Antony Loewenstein:

A meeting of the Labor Left in 2010, attended by Luke Foley, Anthony Albanese, Andrew Ferguson and others, actually endorsed the BDS against Israel. Unanimously.

It wasn’t until Albanese saw an opening for political opportunism that he flipped, started attacking Greens party candidate Fiona Byrne and putting heavy pressure on his own Marrickville Councillors, particularly Mary O'Sullivan and then Deputy Mayor Sam Iskandar.

Iskandar (Albanese’s main numbers man) was holding firm under an immense amount of pressure to back down.

The real crunch was when the Greens party councillor Max Phillips publicly caved in and declared in the Sydney Morning Herald that he was now going to oppose the BDS. With no chance of the BDS remaining in place, Iskandar was off the hook and voted against it on the floor of council.

NOW WE THE PEOPLE

In July 2001, endorsers of the SEARCH Foundation's NOW WE THE PEOPLE conference in Sydney included Andrew Ferguson.