Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and Foreign Minister Penny Wong are facing unrelenting attacks over their handling of the Gaza crisis on many fronts.
With it a new low has been reached in Australian foreign policy debate on the Middle East: to support the two-state solution for Palestine and criticise the actions of the Israeli Defence Forces on Gaza is now deemed to constitute “antisemitism”.
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correction —
The original version of this article incorrectly stated that Ayalet Shaked had “said in 2014 that all Palestinian mothers should be killed.”
James Curran is professor of modern history at Sydney University.
