Labor group urges Albanese to rescind invitation to Israeli president Isaac Herzog

Friends of Palestine has criticised the decision to invite Israel's head of state to Australia in a sign of further strain within the Labor movement

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A group of rank-and-file Labor party members has urged the Albanese government to rescind its invitation for the Israeli president, Isaac Herzog, to visit Australia, voicing outrage over his country's military bombardment of Gaza.

In signs of further strain inside the Labor movement over the war in the Middle East and the response to the alleged antisemitic terror attack at Bondi beach, the Labor Friends of Palestine group said that, if Herzog does travel to Australia, federal police should investigate him for his role in what they alleged was incitement of genocide - an outcome international law experts say is unlikely to occur.