Miller calls for shift in Israel policy

A principled call for Australia to relocate its embassy from Tel Aviv to West Jerusalem, to reverse the Australian government’s recent voting record on Israel at the United Nations, and to cease funding of the UN’s Palestinian refugee agency UNRWA, was made outside Parliament House in Canberra on December 6, by Indigenous Friends of Israel International (IFII) co-founder Munganbana Norman Miller.

“I am standing here as an Aboriginal leader, on the 86th anniversary of the stand of Aboriginal William Cooper and the Australian Aborigines’ League in Melbourne,” Miller said.

“It was a stand against antisemitism then, and mine is a stand against antisemitism now.”

The statement slammed the Australian government for “reversing 20 years of bipartisanship”on December 3 when supporting a UN resolution that demanded an end to Israel’s “unlawful” presence in the “Occupied Palestinian Territories”.

“For a start – the Jews are Indigenous to Israel,” Miller said, adding how “Jews have been systematically ethnically cleansed from Arab lands”.