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There was no change to Labor’s platform to move towards recognising a Palestinian state at the party’s federal conference on Friday. “The Australian Labor Party has a long history of support for Israel. “This is the first National Conference since 2015, where there has not been a further move towards unilateral recognition of a Palestinian state,” the ECAJ said. In 2021, a motion “that calls on the next Labor government to recognise Palestine as a state and expects that this issue will be an important priority for the next Labor government” was elevated to Labor’s party platform. A motion calling on the federal government “to recognise the Palestinian state within the term of this Parliament” passed at Labor’s Victorian state conference in June.