Bandt hits back after Albanese and Dutton accuse Greens of inflaming Gaza protests

, hit back at the prime minister and the opposition leader, accusing them of “attempting to distract from their complicity” and adding: “I will not be lectured to about peace and non-violence by people who back the invasion of Gaza.”

The prime minister said all political leaders must “prevent conflict in the Middle East from being used as a platform for prejudice here” and there was “no place for antisemitism, prejudice of any sort, Islamophobia, in our communities, at our universities or outside electorate offices”. The major parties had united to defeat Bandt’s attempt to suspend the normal business of parliament to bring on debate about recognising Palestine.“The question of recognition was never before this parliament and yet the Greens chose to message something to Australia and to the world that was inaccurate,” Burke told the parliament on Wednesday.

The opposition leader went on to make a generic accusation that unnamed pro-Palestine protesters were engaged in Holocaust denial, without providing further detail for his assertion. He did not make this accusation against the Greens.

“This house is united in condemning antisemitism and condemning Islamophobia – and we also condemned the invasion of Gaza,” Bandt told parliament. Bandt then attempted to suspend standing orders to debate a motion calling on the government “to immediately end all direct and indirect trade of military equipment with the state of Israel, including the provision of critical components of the F-35 fighter jet supply chain”.

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