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

Ken O'Dowd wants the government to take Amnesty International's report on Israel on board after Morrison said no country is perfect'

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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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