Concern about the election of Australia’s new left-wing Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and his political stance on Israel is already making news in local and Israeli media. Outgoing Prime Minister Scott Morrison rejected Amnesty International’s report on Israeli apartheid by merely stating, “No country is perfect.” In October 2021, Morrison also backed the endorsement of the flawed and highly controversial International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) working definition of anti-Semitism, which has been exploited by pro-Israel lobby groups to silence Palestinians in particular, as well as advocates of the Palestinian cause. “In Israel, Australia shares an affinity,” Morrison was reported as saying by the Australian Jewish News prior to the election. It was a message from one settler-colonial entity to another. … Continue reading New Australian PM will probably retain support for Israeli colonialism