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We have been very clear from day one that we oppose antisemitism': Bandt

Adam Bandt is asked about a photo the Greens senator and deputy leader Mehreen Faruqi put on her social media, and then took down. In the photo, Faruqi is posing with pro-Palestinian protesters, one of whom is holding a poster which showed an image of Israel being put in a rubbish bin. Faruqi took down the image and issued an apology over the poster appearing on her social media.

I just need to clarify - we have been very clear from day one that we oppose antisemitism.

We've been concerned about the rise of antisemitism in Australia for some time. It's been ongoing for a number of years now. We've thrown our weight behind ... pushes to tackle antisemitism as well as Islamophobia in this country.

From the beginning, since the attacks on October 7 ... we condemned or spoke very, very clearly in parliament, condemning - not only condemning antisemitism, as well as Islamophobia.

But we've taken a principled position to this invasion, and we do not believe that the people of Gaza should be collectively punished and we're seeing a humanitarian catastrophe unfold in front of our eyes. And the there has to be not only a temporary ceasefire, but there needs to [be] a permanent ceasefire and we have called for that.