The Hon Shaoquett Moselmane, the only Muslim MLC in an Australian State Legislative Council (upper house), is a strong advocate for highlighting the violation of Palestinian human rights by the state of Israel. This was a speech delivered on Tuesday 11 October in the NSW Parliament House.
In my final adjournment speech, I take great pride in speaking on justice for the Palestinian people. I am honoured that I have been in a small way a part of NSW Labor and national Labor conferences that have over the years called on Labor in government to recognise the State of Palestine.
The most recent unanimous reaffirmation of Labor’s support was at the 2021 national conference, which enshrined it in the party’s policy platform. The motion called for a Federal Labor Government to recognise Palestine as a State and to support United Nations Security Council Resolution 1397, which was adopted in 2002.
I look forward to a further reaffirmation of that position passing at our upcoming NSW Labor conference next month and to the Albanese Labor Government to make good on Labor’s promise to the Arab Australian community sooner rather than later.
Since the partition of Palestine in 1948, many in Labor have supported the recognition of Palestine established on the principle of a permanent two-State solution based on the 1967 borders as the realisation of the inalienable right of the Palestinian people.
Read the article by Shaoquett Moselmane MLC in the Australian Muslim Times.