The WA senator had been facing pressure to step down following a speech earlier this month, in which she declared 'from the river to the sea, Palestine will be free'.
Labor senator Fatima Payman has resigned from her position on a prestigious parliamentary foreign affairs committee, after breaking party rank to accuse Israel of genocide. The WA senator, the first hijab-wearing parliamentarian, had been facing pressure to step down from the Joint Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade following a speech earlier this month. In it, she said: "My conscience has been uneasy for far too long and I must call this out for what it is.
" That day, Labor voted in favour of an Opposition motion in the Senate declaring the slogan "opposes Israel's right to exist, and is frequently used by those who seek to intimidate Jewish Australians via acts of antisemitism." Senator Payman was absent for the vote. During Question Time that day, Liberal senator Hollie Hughes was forced to withdraw a comment in which she accused Payman of "supporting terrorists".
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