The WA senator had been facing pressure to step down following a speech earlier this month, in which she declared 'from the river to the sea, Palestine will be free'.
Labor senator Fatima Payman has resigned from her position on a prestigious parliamentary foreign affairs committee, after breaking party rank to accuse Israel of genocide. The WA senator, the first hijab-wearing parliamentarian, had been facing pressure to step down from the Joint Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade following a speech earlier this month.
Jewish Liberal backbencher Julian Leeser used Question Time to ask Albanese to remove Payman from parliament’s Joint Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade. "The chant ‘from the river to the sea’ has been used from time to time by some in the pro-Palestinian movement, by some who argue that Israel should just be one state as well and that Gaza and the West Bank should be wiped out,” Albanese said in response.
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