‘You fuel antisemitism’: Netanyahu slams Australian PM; links Palestine stance to Sydney attack

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu criticised Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese connected Sunday implicit Australia's enactment for a Palestinian state, pursuing a wide shooting astatine a Jewish vacation lawsuit successful Sydney that killed 11 people.Netanyahu claimed that Australia's stance connected Palestinian statehood contributes to antisemitic incidents, stating "your telephone for a Palestinian authorities pours substance connected the antisemitic fire."During the ongoing Gaza war, Netanyahu has consistently connected planetary calls for Palestinian statehood and disapproval of Israel's subject operations to rising planetary antisemitism.Other Israeli authorities officials joined Netanyahu successful urging Australia to instrumentality stronger enactment against expanding antisemitic attacks, but Netanyahu specifically linked the Sydney shooting to enactment for a Palestinian state.Australia was among respective nations that officially recognised Palestine arsenic a authorities during the United Nations gathering successful September. The Palestinian overseas ministry reports that 159 countries person recognised Palestine.The bulk of the planetary assemblage supports a two-state solution arsenic the lone way to resoluteness the long-standing conflict, but Netanyahu's authorities maintains that planetary unit for Palestinian statehood serves to reward Hamas.