A senior Labor minister has taken issue with the Israeli prime minister linking a suspected arson attack on a synagogue to Australia's support of a UN resolution demanding Israel end its 'unlawful presence' in the occupied Palestinian territories.
A Labor cabinet member has hit back at Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's statement that it was "impossible to separate" a suspected arson attack on a Melbourne synagogue with the Australian government's support of a United Nations resolution calling on Israel to end to its "unlawful presence in the Occupied Palestinian Territory".
"I thanked him for his ongoing efforts to combat antisemitism, and expressed my trust that the local law enforcement would do everything in their power to bring the perpetrators to justice." Opposition Home Affairs spokesperson James Patterson weighed in on the Adass Israel incident on Saturday, saying that Albanese should explain why his government had not yet categorised the suspected arson attack as an act of terrorism.
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