"Genocide" is forbidden speech

July 26, 2026

The 50th ALP National Conference in Adelaide between 23-25 July 2026 has finished with the Prime Minister and his enablers banning debate on Palestine and Israel. Labor MP Ed Husic wanted to move an amendment to a policy statement condemning genocide in Gaza and war crimes in the West Bank. Every other delegate at the conference had been cowered into not seconding the amendment which would have enabled debate. The PM and his enablers had decided that a debate would at a minimum encourage divisiveness – and provoke Israel and its Zionist allies in Australia. This suppression of free speech serves the interests of Israel who are intent on discrediting the facts that Israel is an apartheid State intent on the ethnic cleansing and genocide of Palestinians. What is the point of an ALP National Conference? If the point is to approve whatever the PM and his enablers deem acceptable, then, there is no point – other than to demonstrate that the Federal Labor Government is afraid of free speech.