In a post on X, foreign minister Gideon Saar said it also came after the Australian government cancelled the visa of a far-right Israeli politician ahead of a speaking tour in the country.

“I decided to revoke the visas of Australian representatives to the Palestinian Authority,” Saar wrote on X, adding that the Australian ambassador to Israel “was just notified on the matter.”

“I also instructed the Israeli Embassy in Canberra to carefully examine any official Australian visa application for entry to Israel,” he said.

“This follows Australia’s decisions to recognise a ‘Palestinian state’ and against the backdrop of Australia’s unjustified refusal to grant visas to a number of Israeli figures,” Saar added.

Israeli far-right politician Simcha Rothman, whose party is part of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s governing coalition, had been scheduled to speak at events organised by the Australian Jewish Association.

But Australia on Monday cancelled his visa, with Home Affairs Minister Tony Burke saying Australia would not accept people coming to the country to “spread division”.

Event organisers branded the move to cancel Rothman’s visa “viciously antisemitic”.

“While antisemitism is raging in Australia, including manifestations of violence against Jews and Jewish institutions, the Australian government is choosing to fuel it with false accusations,” Saar wrote on X.

Meanwhile, Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese last week announced that his country would recognise a Palestinian state at the UN General Assembly in September.

Britain, Canada and France have also announced plans to recognise statehood for Palestinians in recent weeks, amid dire humanitarian conditions in the war-torn Gaza Strip.

Last year, several other European countries took the move amid the ongoing war, sparked by Hamas’s October 2023 attack on southern Israel.