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Wong cautions Cash against conflating concerns about Gaza with antisemitism

Sarah Basford Canales

Earlier in Senate question time, the government leader, Penny Wong, hit back at the opposition for conflating recent antisemitic incidents in Australia with the Albanese government’s support of UN motions critical of Israel’s actions in Gaza.

The new opposition Senate leader, Michaelia Cash, asked: “Minister, when will you acknowledge that the antisemitism crisis in Australia has been fuelled…