Australia will soon have to choose which course to take at the United Nations General Assembly in a vote for Palestine‘s membership of the UN.

Israel and its influential lobby are pushing hard for the government to vote against Palestine‘s membership, but the government has a duty to put Australia‘s national interests, its international standing, values and commitments, above its own narrow party interests and that of Israel‘s.

Australia should do the right thing and be on the right side of history, not appease the extreme-right Israeli government and its lobby.