(Age) More than 70 Muslim community organisations have vowed to boycott the Victorian premier’s annual iftar dinner next month in protest over the ALP’s position on the Israel-Hamas conflict.
The state’s peak Islamic body — the Islamic Council of Victoria — has also told Premier Jacinta Allan’s office the group will not attend the gala dinner.
An open letter penned by a group of eight community members, which has been circulating in Victoria’s Muslim community for the past three days, calls on all “individuals and organisations within the Muslim community to boycott the premier’s iftar for this year” citing the Labor Party’s “apathy, at all levels of government, towards the live-streamed genocide of the Palestinian people.”
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