Fatima Payman says her use of controversial phrase is not antisemitic

Western Australia Labor Senator Fatima Payman has broken her silence to defend herself against claims her use controversial phrase ‘from the river to the sea, Palestine will be free’ is antisemitic.Western Australia Labor Senator Fatima Payman has broken her silence to defend herself against claims her use controversial phrase ‘from the river to the sea, Palestine will be free’ is antisemitic.

Ryvchin said Payman “should immediately apologise for stoking hatred in such a vile way” and reconsider her position “if she can’t refrain from using racist slogans at a time of extreme tension in our society”.Payman said the peak body needed to understand the “implications” of calling the chant antisemitic, referencing the founding charter of the ruling Israeli Likud party, which said “between the sea and the Jordan river, there will only be Israeli sovereignty”.

The Labor senator said it would be wrong for all criticisms of the policies of Israel to be labelled as antisemitic “despite those criticisms coming from Israelis or Jews themselves”.since Israel began its military response to Hamas’s 7 October attacks, when about 1,200 people were killed and about 250 were taken hostage.

The science minister, Ed Husic, supported Payman’s right to express her concern, saying it “takes a lot of guts to go out on an issue as tough as this as a first-term member of parliament”. Husic, however, said she shouldn’t have used the phrase.

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