Does he have no sense of shame? Is there nothing he won’t do to defame Israel, or the local Jewish community, to push his obsessions about unilaterally recognising ‘Palestine’? He is being given a national platform despite discrediting himself over recent months as an abject mouth piece of Beijing.

Yes, I am speaking of Bob Carr and his anti-Israel obsessions, promoted again on the front page of a newspaper, this time the Australian on 3 July, ‘Labor to cast Israel adrift after 40 years’.