Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has drawn parallels with the discrimination endured by ethnic communities and Indigenous Australians, in a speech to the Jewish community in which he also restated Labor’s support for the two-state solution regarding Israel and Palestine.

Speaking to the Australia-Israel Chamber of Commerce in Melbourne on Friday, the prime minister said the government was not about to change tack on foreign policy, amid a rising push among Labor’s rank-and-file to recognise Palestine as a state.