Labor Senator Fatima Payman also used the slogan “from the river to the sea, Palestine will be free”, which Anthony Albanese has criticised as provocative.
Labor Senator Fatima Payman has accused Israel of conducting a genocide in Gaza in the most strident criticism of Israel by a government MP since the war in Gaza began.
Payman, who was elected to the Senate in the 2022 election, was born in Afghanistan and is the first woman to wear a hijab in the federal parliament. “The lack of clarity, the moral confusion, the indecisiveness is eating at the heart of this nation.” Jewish groups regard the “from the river to the sea” as a coded call for the elimination of Israel while others have insisted it is simply a call for freedom and equal rights for Palestinians in the area.Albanese this week said that university students chanting “from the river to the sea, Palestine will be free” were engaging in a “provocative act”.
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