Entryism

So apparently the Greens are, in Wales are saying, "Right, we are now going to set up a Welsh, like, Green Party because we want to be in control, and we don't want a small group of people..." I see the Greens are also suggesting they're looking at people who entered the party just before that conference because they think there was quite a lot of entries going on.

Entryism.

Um, so, you know, they just don't want their, their, their profile to be damaged in, you know, by, by inclusion in a party that they feel they can't control any, in any way at all.

So it, there's a, there's a, there's quite a lot of fallout for sure.

He was treasurer, I was, uh, co-chair, and, uh, I left the party last year when, um, when the leadership, uh, w- was elected because I could see the writing on the wall, uh, because, uh, for the...

At that time already, we had warned the party, we being the committee, about entryism.

We'd warned about, uh, people joining the party and the party f- feeling too relaxed that they could, um, expel people who didn't, uh, adhere to their values.

So, um, yes, and, um, it fell on deaf ears.

Mm-hmm.

They can now work with Zak Polanski and all the others To make this a safer place for Jewish people.

Well, c-can I, can I ask, can I ask you this? Because, I mean, look, is, is, are you a, a, a member of a party that is, is deeply divided? Because I, you know, I hear you say, "Look, this was, this was ill-thought-out and it doesn't represent the majority of, of, of, of Greens." Um, but here, uh, this one hasn't got a name on it, but it says, "There is no proof of entryism in the Greens.

It's an outrageous slur.

But what you see in a lot of these situations, these stories is, you know, there'll, there'll be, um, an organization that stands for the environment, right? Like the Sunrise Movement, which was like an environmental group.

And all it takes really is a small core, and there's a term for this actually, it's called entryism, and it's basically what the DSA is trying to do in the Democratic Party.

It's when a small core of, like, committed ideological leftists will enter a left-wing organization, say the Democratic Party or an environmental organization, and then they will use sort of underhanded tactics to take over that organization.

And I think that the main tactic that they use now, and so that, that term entryism, it originates during the early 20th century and then during the Cold War when you had communists trying to infiltrate the Democratic Party, labor unions, right, left of center organizations, and take them over, um, and basically direct them towards communist aims.

Now, what I think is, is being, this, this term should be used for, you know, very far left, anti-Israel activists who use...

They're not so underhanded, 'cause they're quite open about what they do, but they'll use sort of emotional blackmail against liberals to get them to cave and to accept their domination over them, right? So they will enter the room of an environmental group, and they will say, "Palestine is an environmental issue." And you know, the old-fashioned liberals, the Birke- kind of the Birkenstock wearing liberals who like the environment, the Sierra Club types, right? They'll say, "Well, we don't really understand that, and, you know, and we sympathize with the Palestinians, but, you know, we're here to talk about saving the trees and whatnot." And then the, the, the far leftist entryist will say, "Well, you're a racist.

Oh, first, you do not integrate.

Non-entrism.

Non-entrism is the whole notion of trying to control European society from within.

Civilization.

Bring in Sharia.

Free speech is not the enemy of tolerance, but its precondition.

Entryism should be called out, as should bigotry.

Governments nervous about collecting or releasing data live in a vacuum to be filled by speculative hyperbole.

Tackling all this will not be easy or quick, but there is hope.

As I say, all this is in there.

And entryism, by the way, is just a fascinating term because The Economist named it right out loud, put quotation marks around it.

"Entryism is the idea that a small group of ideologues can wield outsize influence by occupying positions of power." Mayor Mamdani.

Now, to the credit of The Economist, they did quote a professor, Hazem Kadhel of Cambridge University, who said that, quote, "Decision-makers don't understand that a lot of the Muslims they come across in these spaces represent Islamism and not Islam." Okay.

Now, you might say, "Well, you just quoted him as saying that they confuse...