Albanese and Wong helped fuel Jew-hatred in Australia

Australia’s Prime Minister Albanese and Foreign Minister Wong’s joint statement on 11 August 2025 (Joint Statement) to “recognise the State of Palestine at the 80th Session of the United Nations General Assembly in September, to contribute to international momentum towards a two-state solution...” was based on a false statement of fact that had been underpinning Australia’s policy position for 11 months.

That false statement of fact was first contained in the National Statement to the United Nations General Assembly delivered by Wong on 28 September 2024:

“Australia shares the frustration of the great majority of countries, more than 77 years since the General Assembly adopted Resolution 181: a plan for two states side by side – one Jewish, one Palestinian”

I informed Wong of her error on 2 October 2024.

It was to be repeated again in the Joint Statement headlined Australia to recognise Palestinian State:

Australia was the first country to raise its hand at the United Nations in support of Resolution 181, to create the State of Israel – and a Palestinian state.

Albanese and Wong fabricated what Resolution 181 - adopted on 29 November 1947 - actually said:

Independent Arab and Jewish States and the Special International Regime for the City of Jerusalem, set forth in part III of this plan, shall come into existence in Palestine two months after the evacuation of the armed forces of the mandatory Power has been completed but in any case not later than 1 October 1948. The boundaries of the Arab State, the Jewish State, and the City of Jerusalem shall be as described in parts II and III below.

Wong and Albanese’s substitution of the word “Palestinian” for “Arab” needs explaining.

There was no identifiable group called “Palestinians” in 1947. There were “Palestinian Arabs”, “Palestinian Jews” and “Palestinian Christians” but no “Palestinians”

Claiming there was advances the false narrative that the “Palestinians” are an ancient people preceding the 12 Tribes of Israel – whereas their existence as a people was never raised until 1964 with the birth of the Palestine Liberation Organization – when “Palestinians” were defined for the first time in history as:

“Arab citizens who were living normally in Palestine up to 1947, whether they remained or were expelled. Every child who was born to a Palestinian parent after this date whether in Palestine or outside is a Palestinian.”

Resolution 181 was passed in contravention of Article 80 of the United Nations own Charter which preserved the right of the Jewish people under the 1922 League of Nations Mandate for Palestine to reconstitute the Jewish National home in that part of Palestine located west of the Jordan River (22%) – leaving the remainder east of the Jordan River (78%) for Arab self-determination.

Albanese and Wong appear to have no knowledge of the Mandate and Article 80.

This Australian Government’s policy position should never have been allowed to be formulated and progressed. All those responsible should be outed to provide an explanation as to how this critical one word change was made to Resolution 181 - and why.

This falsely-based policy was praised by Hamas. Need I say more?

I have published two articles here and here exposing Albanese and Wong’s deliberate change to the wording of Resolution 181.

Those who had been attending countless demonstrations since 7 October 2023 with posters and chants calling for:

• “From the River to the Sea - Palestine shall be free”,
• “Free Palestine”, and
• “Globalise the Intifada”

felt justified and emboldened in believing that the Australian Government had caved in to their hate-filled demands.

Albanese and Wong had poured fuel on to the fire of Jew-hatred escalating throughout Australia using two fabricated statements.

Shame on them.

Author’s note: The cartoon was drawn in November 2017 by Yaakov Kirschen aka “Dry Bones”- one of Israel’s foremost political and social commentators – who passed away on 14 April 2025 and whose cartoons graced the columns of Israeli and international media publications for decades.

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