Macnamara MP Josh Burns said the motion was “disappointing and blatantly one-sided”, but insisted, “it in no way represents federal Labor’s balanced policy in support of Israel”. A MOTION passed by the Queensland branch of the ALP panning Israel’s “systematic injustices meted out to the Palestinian people” has drawn condemnation from leading Labor politicians and…
Mr Carr, an influential supporter of Palestine in the NSW Right, said there was nothing wrong with Labor being critical of Israel “for its settlement expansion, its evacuation of Palestinians, (and) its nation-state law which creates two categories of citizenship”. His comments come after Jewish groups and opposition foreign affairs spokeswoman Penny Wong condemned a…
Penny Wong says viewing the Israeli-Palestinian conflict from one perspective ‘will not advance the cause of peace’. Opposition foreign affairs spokeswoman Penny Wong has condemned an anti-Israel res¬olution backed by Queensland Labor Party members, as Jewish groups have accused the Left ¬faction-dominated state branch of using “talking points disseminated by Hamas”. Senator Wong said viewing…
For a half century, for good and for ill, Western universities have been incubating world views which go on to reshape mainstream opinion. Today’s global anti-Israel movement poses as a defender of internationalist values, but in practice demands a zero-sum solution based on creating a state of Palestine in place of Israel. It totally negates…
This State Conference notes and congratulates the Federal ALP for re-affirming the 2018 National Conference resolution towards the recognition of Palestine: Condemns the current violence and incitement in Jerusalem which was sparked by: • the forced evictions in Sheik Jarrah to remove Palestinians from their homes and replace them with Israeli settlers, • the shooting…
The first Arab party to join a government in decades, Islamists make good on promise to seek change from inside, winning billions in promised state funding for community. Ringed by flashing cameras in a luxury hotel in Ramat Gan, conservative Islamist Ra’am chief Mansour Abbas made history on Wednesday night as the first Arab Israeli…
As an active affiliate of the Australian Council of Trade Unions (ACTU) and Education International, the global confederation of education unions (EI), NTEU supports the policies and statements of both organisations that call for an end to violence in Israel and the occupied Palestinian territories and for the creation of an independent Palestinian State.[i] The…
Mr Merlino (Monbulk—Minister for Education, Minister for Mental Health) (12:04): (By leave) In recent weeks we have watched with devastation as violence has rained upon the Middle East, a region that has already known too much terror, and its people, who, like all of us, deserve peace and prosperity. Any loss of civilian life—a child,…
I would like to start by thanking the NSW Jewish Board of Deputies for providing me with the opportunity to speak here in solidarity with the Jewish community and the people of Israel. Let me please begin by telling you that I am very much personally upset by the events in Israel and Gaza in…