"Since late December, the festival has been embroiled in a bitter controversy after it was revealed organisers approached the Israeli embassy and accepted a $20,000 grant to support the staging of ­Israeli choreographer Ohad Naharin’s production Decadance at the Sydney Opera House.

In response, a coalition of pro-Palestinian organisations – backed by the anti-Israel Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions movement – have urged participating artists to boycott the event until the festival’s board relinquishes the embassy money. It’s believed more than 30 performances have joined the boycott.

“Certainly a lesson from political history is the role of the “useful idiot,” as Russian communists disparagingly termed their naive left-leaning sympathisers in other countries. Evidently, Hamas has some of its own useful idiots to call on. Hamas controls Gaza and notoriously deals with its opponents and gays by throwing them alive off tall buildings."

So what.

*…Hamas controls Gaza and notoriously deals with its opponents and gays by throwing them alive off tall buildings."…*

Good. But here in Australia we parade their valueless twisted morality through the streets of our cities. Cloak our iconic structures in symbolic rainbow flags, and stack our parliamentary halls with twisted individuals under the banner of equality.

The gay rights movement would qualify as terrorists in view of their history and associations with the like terrorist group ANTIFA.

Dan.

How sad it must be to be terrified of rainbows and gays.

Worse still is to falsely label an anti-facist movement (not even an organisation) as terrorist and must therefore be in support of alt-right extremists and 4chan lunatics.

SM, the term 'Useful Idiots' was attributed to Lenin, although its use was popularised many years later during the Cold War. The thought is that Lenin had directed it towards German politicians who had worked to politically undermine Russia and cause a revolt, thus taking Russia out of WWI.

Today people such as Trump supporters are useful idiots. Not understanding the concequences of Trumpism. Then again Trump probably doesn't understand Trumpism either.

"The phrase useful idiot has often been attributed to Vladimir Lenin, but he is not documented as ever having used the phrase."

The greens are the best example so far.