Greens Senator accuses Labor of ‘complicity’ in ‘genocide’ in Gaza

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Greens Senator accuses Labor of ‘complicity’ in ‘genocide’ in Gaza

Mehreen Faruqi has accused the Albanese government of being “complicit in *******’s genocide”, as tensions rose following the first anniversary of the ****** ******* attacks on *******.

Speaking at Parliament House alongside activists and independent senate colleagues Fatima Payman and Lidia Thorpe, the Greens senator said Labor had “taken no action” against ******* despite protesters “demanding sanctions” for a year.

“They pick and choose when and where international law will apply. They pick and choose who deserves justice,” she said.

She said both Labor and the Coalition “unequivocally decided that they will always see white people as victims and brown people as villains.”

Camera IconMehreen Faruqi says the Albanese government is ******* for not sanctioning *******. NewsWire / Martin Ollman Credit: News Corp Australia

“People are ***** and tired of this racism, of this hypocrisy and of these double standards,” Senator Faruqi said.

“We are ***** and tired of being told that we are the problem, that we should shut up that we should stop protesting, and we are being told this by politicians who are enabling a genocide that is massacring tens of thousands of Palestinians in Gaza, in the West Bank, and now thousands more in Lebanon.”

******* invaded Gaza after ******, the ********** group that runs the ************ territory, ******* around 1200 in its brutal October 7 ******** last year.

The Islamist militants wounded more than 5000 and took hundreds ******** as they retreated. Many hostages have since ***** and more than 100 remain held by ******.

The ******** response has been unrelenting and has ******* upward of 40,000 in Gaza, according to the ******-run health ministry.

The International Court of Justice has not ruled *******’s military action in the densely populated strip is genocide.

data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///ywAAAAAAQABAAACAUwAOw==Camera IconPrime Minister Anthony Albanese says the Greens are a ‘party of protest’. NewsWire / Martin Ollman Credit: News Corp Australia

Senator Faruqi’s comments come against a backdrop of rising antisemitism that has played out at universities and rallies on the streets of Australia’s biggest cities.

During Question Time, Opposition Leader Peter Dutton asked Prime Minister Anthony Albanese if he still held that the Greens had adopted “******* and antisemitic” positions since the October 7 attacks.

Mr Albanese replied “there have been moments of antisemitism and racism in some of the responses that we’ve seen in the political debate taking place here in Australia.”

“I have been critical of the stance that the Greens political party have made,” he said.

“But I make this point as well that many people in the Greens political party, like in other parties, the ******** Party, the National Party, as well as the Labor Party and independents, are people of goodwill, who join political parties because they think that is the vehicle for them to make the change that they want.”

But Mr Albanese said he would rather “be a member of a political party that’s a party of government rather than a party of protest”.

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