Foreign Penny Wong has labelled some of the protests about the war in Gaza on university campuses as antisemitic.
“Intifada” is an Arabic word for popular uprising, but the Anti-Defamation League, founded a century ago to counter the vilification of Jews, argues it is a slogan that calls for indiscriminate violence against Israel. Wong told Radio National breakfast on Friday that, like Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, she had a problem with the chant “from the river to the sea”.“I’ve always believed that what that says is contrary to a two-state solution,” she said. “I’ve been clear about that, in whatever context in which it’s been used and it has been used by both sides of the argument, what it expresses is a view that is not consistent with a two-state solution.
Before Friday’s vote, Wong would not say how Australia would vote but would consider the final resolution that came before the General Assembly.