MEDIA RELEASE
25 JULY 2026
As the 50th ALP National Conference runs at the Adelaide Convention Centre, the Australian Muslim Advocacy Network (AMAN) today releases evidence documenting more than 45 instances in which the verified X account of former Labor Senator Nova Peris OAM amplified content dehumanising Muslims and Palestinians — including material she affirmed in her own words. Peris is the current patron of Labor Friends of Israel, alongside former Victorian Premier Dan Andrews.
AMAN has compiled and archived 45 posts published between April 2024 and March 2026. The material has been assessed against AMAN’s twelve-category framework for identifying dehumanising speech, developed for use in legal proceedings. Every one of the twelve categories is represented.
We ask the Australian Labor Party to state that this conduct and material has no place in the movement, and to act accordingly.
Among the material documented about Palestinians
- A post asserting that Gaza is full of savages who know nothing but killing.
- A post calling Palestinians fucking monsters and, expressly including women and children, a sick, depraved society that praises death and death alone.
- A post describing the behaviour of Palestinians as like a pack of feral dogs, and asserting they should not be allowed to run a bath, let alone a country.
- A post asserting that the entire population of Gaza constitutes two million terrorists, and that a drastic change is required to fix this.
- A post proposing that Gazans be offered to Ireland, Canada and Pakistan.
- A post describing Palestinians as the most demonic culture on earth.
- A post asserting that the only people starving in Gaza are the hostages.
- A post mocking ‘“the poor children” of Gaza.’
- A post describing Palestinians as savages who want to drink our blood.
- A cartoon contrasting Palestinian and Israeli mothers, asserting that Palestinian mothers do not love their children.
- A post stating that the population of Gaza, including children and women, constitutes a rotten society that brought this upon yourselves.
·Among the material documented about Muslims:
- A post referring to Muslims as ‘satan worshipping cockroaches” that “need to be eradicated.” [now deleted]
- A post describing Muslims as primitive and savage, and as UTTER DEMONS, in relation to the assault of a 13-year-old girl at a Sydney school.
- A post objecting to a Nine News journalist reporting on air while wearing a hijab in the aftermath of the Bondi massacre.
- Footage of an Islamic prayer service in a Sydney park, captioned This does not belong in this country!
- A post demanding Australia stop importing Islam.
- A post suggesting a prominent Australian sportsman should recuse himself from public advocacy because of his association with “Islamic money.”
- A post treating Islamic faith as a slur for political candidates.
- A repost of Tommy Robinson, founder of the English Defence League.
- A post declaring that Islam should be banned in the West.
Amplification by an Olympic gold medallist, a former senator and a recipient of the Order of Australia confers on this material a standing in Australian public life that its authors could not otherwise obtain.
The frequency of Ms Peris’ dehumanising reposts has escalated in the past 12 months, showing a dangerous trajectory if she is not held to account by the Party.
Labor has a choice this week: deal with this through a process the public can see, or let it stand. There is no third option, and silence is a decision.
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