E-Petition

The Petition of residents of the State of Queensland draws to the attention of the House the recently passed antisemitism law called Fighting Antisemitism and Keeping Guns out of the Hands of Terrorists and Criminals Amendment Act 2026.

The law doesn't have any definition of antisemitism in it. 

The Oxford dictionary defines a Semite as: “a member of any of the peoples mentioned in Genesis 10:21–31 as descended from Shem, one of the sons of Noah, traditionally interpreted as including the Hebrews, Aramaeans, Assyrians, and Arabs. Subsequently also: a member of any of the peoples who speak or spoke a Semitic language”.

Wiki: Arabic is by far the most widely spoken of the Semitic languages with 411 million native speakers of all varieties and it is the most spoken native language in Africa and West Asia. Other Semitic languages include Amharic (35 million native speakers), Tigrinya (9.9 million speakers), Hebrew (5 million native speakers), Tigre (1 million speakers), and Maltese (570,000 speakers). Arabic, Amharic, Hebrew, Tigrinya and Maltese are considered national languages with an official status.

Your petitioners, therefore, request the House to declare the antisemitic laws are there to protect all semitic peoples and to put such a definition in the legislation.