Fatima Payman accuses Israel of genocide in Gaza in significant rupture with Labor party position

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WA senator also says ‘from the river to the sea, Palestine will be free’ phrase that Anthony Albanese argues is counter to two-state solution

and has questioned how many deaths will be enough for the prime minister, Anthony Albanese, to declare “enough”.

The WA Labor senator originally intended to read her statement to a rally outside Parliament House in Canberra on Wednesday marking the “My conscience has been uneasy for far too long. And I must call this out for what it is. This is a genocide and we need to stop pretending otherwise.” Palestinian authorities report that 35,000 people have been killed in Gaza since Israel began its military response to Hamas’s 7 October attacks, when about 1,200 people were killed and about 250 others were taken hostage.

“I ask you to join me to continue to call for freedom from the occupation, freedom from the violence and freedom from the inequality. From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free.” The co-chief executive of the Executive Council of Australian Jewry, Alex Ryvchin, said Payman “should immediately apologise for stoking hatred in such a vile way”.

 

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