Complaint lists numerous public comments by the Liberal leader, a staunch supporter of Israel, which it alleges show discriminatory behaviour towards Palestinians, Muslims and Jews
discriminated against Palestinians and Muslims in public comments after the 7 October 2023 Hamas attacks and during the subsequent war in Gaza.
The lead complainants are the president of the Australian Palestine Advocacy Network, Nasser Mashni, and the academic Prof Peter Slezak, who is Jewish. “erasing the human rights and equal dignity and worth of Palestinians by denying crimes and atrocities committed against them”;It alleges racially discriminatory treatment of Jewish people in some of the public commentary by “conflating Jewish people with Israel’s conduct and putting Jewish people in the way of hostility, discrimination and even violent harm”.
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