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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
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Daniel Hurst Foreign affairs and defence correspondent

‘There is a form of apartheid’: LNP backbencher urges PM to face facts on Israel

The national flags of Australia and Israel are seen outside the building housing the Australian Embassy in Tel Aviv, Israel
‘It confirms what I’ve seen on my two trips to Palestine.’ Nationals MP Ken O’Dowd said Amnesty International’s report on Israel came as no surprise. Photograph: Amir Cohen/Reuters

The Morrison government is being urged by one of its own backbenchers to “face facts” and accept the use of the term apartheid in relation to Israel.

The prime minister, Scott Morrison, said that “no country is perfect” in response to a new Amnesty International report that concluded Israel had “perpetrated the international wrong of apartheid, as a human rights violation and a violation of public international law”.

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