“This isn’t just complicity. This government is enabling war crimes and genocide.”
Australian Senator Lidia Thorpe held a pro-Palestine speech in parliament on Wednesday while wearing a keffiyeh and “Stop the Genocide” shirt. She criticised the Australian government for not calling Israel’s war on Gaza a “genocide” and supplying weapons to Israel. Drawing parallels to the foundation of the Australian Constitution, she added: “It is exactly what one would expect of a colonial institution that never even signed a treaty with its first peoples.” This came after the government rejected Thorpe’s Genocide Bill, which called for perpetrators of genocide, war crimes, and other crimes against humanity, to be held accountable. The bill would have stripped the Australian attorney general’s power to block prosecutions for war crimes, genocide and crimes against humanity in courts.
