The federal government will harden its language on the Palestinian territories, with Labor to begin officially referring to Israel’s settlements in the West Bank as “illegal” and the territories as “occupied”.
The federal government will harden its language on the Palestinian territories, with Labor to begin officially referring to Israel’s settlements in the West Bank as “illegal” and the territories as “occupied”.
While not yet in line with the party’s national platform or its recent conferences in so far as the demand for recognition of Palestine, this is at least a step in the correct direction from a federal parliamentary party still well to the right of its own rank and file membership