NSW Labor leader Luke Foley has directed that state MPs must spend equal time in the Palestinian areas if they accept assisted travel to Israel.
Divisions within the ALP over Middle East policy are set to flare at next month’s NSW conference over a push to ban Labor MPs, officials and Young Labor members from accepting subsidised trips to Israel.
The proposal has been put forward by the group Labor Friends of Palestine.
The motion states that while Benjamin Netanyahu’s government “continues settlements, refuses a Palestinian state [and] brutally mistreats Arab residents of the West Bank”, that no ALP officer, MP or Young Labor member “accept a paid trip from the Israel Lobby”.
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