Summary
- Shadow Foreign Minister Simon Birmingham introduced a motion in the Senate condemning the chant “from the river to the sea, Palestine will be free” due to its opposition to Israel’s right to exist.
- Labor Senator Fatima Payman publicly used the phrase but was not present for the vote on the motion.
- The motion received support from Labor and Coalition senators, but the Greens opposed it.
- The phrase was deemed offensive to Jewish people and seen as promoting division and antisemitism.
