James Paterson, Shadow Home Affairs Minister, has criticized Labor Senator Sue Lines for representing Australia at an event marking 80 years since the liberation of Auschwitz. Lines' selection sparked controversy due to her past criticism of Israel's policies towards Palestinians.
Shadow Home Affairs Minister James Paterson has criticised Labor Senator Sue Lines after it was revealed she will represent Australia at an event marking 80 years since the liberation of the Nazi concentration camp in Auschwitz. A commemoration held next week in Poland will mark eight decades since the remaining 7,000 prisoners held at Auschwitz were freed, on January 27, 1945.
Sky News understands Sue Lines, a Labor senator for Western Australia since 2013, has been chosen to lead Australia's delegation, which also includes the Special Envoy to Combat Antisemitism Jillian Segal and Jewish-Australian community leaders. In a speech to the senate in February 2022, before the last election, Senator Lines quoted an Amnesty International report in the senate, which"confirms that Israeli policies against Palestinians fit the definition of the international crime of apartheid".
"Amnesty International is calling on Israel to dismantle this cruel system, and the international community must pressure it to do so," she said at the time. Mr Paterson posted on social media platform X, writing Sue Lines is 'one of the most unhinged anti-Israel members of Parliament from the far left of the Labor Party'.
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