One Nation leader Pauline Hanson has declared antisemitism must be stamped out of Australian politics, claiming that hatred of Jewish people is “rampant” in the Greens and has become a “cancer” within the Labor party.

In a fiery address to the local Israeli business community three years on from the October 7 terrorist attacks, Senator Hanson has called for tougher action to combat what she describes as Australia’s “radical Islam problem”.

Senator Hanson also slammed pro-Palestine protesters, who she described as “useful idiots” that have enabled antisemitic hatred across the country.

“My problem is with the useful idiots in keffiyehs, waving Palestinian flags who shut down our cities and menace those in Jewish neighbourhoods.

“And with the ones in Canberra and state parliaments who look the other way and say they can do nothing about it.

“Antisemitism has to be stamped out of Australian politics. All of it. It’s rampant in the Greens. It’s a cancer within the Labor Party,” the One Nation leader has told a lunchtime event hosted by the Israeli Australian Chamber of Commerce Crown.

“And the Prime Minister won’t lift a finger because he’s counting votes in western Sydney. I will hold my party to the same standard that I expect of others,” she told the audience in Melbourne.

Referencing the terrorist attack on 7 October 2023 in which twelve hundred people were massacred at an Israeli music festival, and subsequent protests against Israel in Sydney, she said Jewish Australians “have been living in understandable fear” since.

“On that day, fundamental Islamic terrorists invaded and massacred twelve hundred Jews and Israelis. They did this in the most cruel and barbaric ways. Two hundred and fifty one were then dragged as hostages into Gaza. Babies. Grandmothers.”

“And while there were still hostages in the tunnels of Gaza, this Labor Government recognised a Palestinian state. Just a few months later came the horrific Bondi attack.”

She also hit back at suggestions she’s against “every Muslim” but instead insisted she wanted to see a widespread crackdown on hate preachers and their places of worship saying ASIO and the Australian Federal Police must be given greater powers.

“I’m talking about the preachers of hate and terrorism. The recruiters and the networks behind them,” she will say.

“I want the power to shut down the prayer halls where this hatred is preached.

“I want foreign preachers who incite violence on a plane out of this country … I want the ones born here in front of a judge.”

She told the crowd of Israeli and Australian business leaders she does not believe there are no good Muslims, pointing to Ahmed al Ahmed who heroically disarmed one of the Bondi gunmen.

“The man who tackled one of those gunmen and ripped the gun out of his hands was a Muslim.

“I said it at the time of the attack, and I will say it again today. He’s a hero.

“So don’t let anyone tell you I’m talking about every Muslim in this country. I’m not.”

Back in February Senator Hanson sparked controversy by asking “How can you tell me there are good Muslims?” while appearing on News24 – but she later walked back the comments.

Australia’s neo-Nazi movement has recently expressed political support for One Nation while Senator Hanson has also previously admitted her party is being “infiltrated by extremists”.

During her speech to business leaders, Senator Hanson also called for Australia to learn from Israel’s innovation and resilience and backed closer commercial ties and stronger domestic industry links between the two nations.

“Israel has shown what a small country can do when it backs itself. We should be doing more of it together. This Chamber has been doing that work for more than fifty years,” she told the business gathering on Friday.