Labor senator Fatima Payman has rejected claims her use of a politically charged phrase promoting Palestinian freedom is antisemitic, describing these accusations as a “moral absurdity”.
In an email to Guardian Australia, the first-term Western Australian senator clarified her interpretation of the phrase “from the river to the sea, Palestine will be free” is that it means “a desire for Palestinians to live in their homeland as free and equal citizens, neither dominating others nor being dominated over”.
