https://www.instagram.com/p/C4HpEzirgdS/ To kick off Israeli Apartheid Week at the University of Sydney, students and allies attended a forum on intersectionality…
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Across the weekend, protests calling for a ceasefire and end to the complicity in genocide in Palestine, at Port Botany, Enmore Theatre and Sydney CBD have been met with increased police brutality.
This Wednesday Students for Palestine held a speak-out for Gaza outside Fisher Library and chanted down Eastern Avenue for a Free Palestine and the University to cut ties with Israel.
With the ongoing genocide in Palestine, enabled by Israel’s horrific dehumanisation of Palestinians, Gaza Surf Club (2016) is a necessary…
At the rally, S.A.W. member Jacob Starling, a participant of the sit-in, announced to the crowd “This campus supports Palestine. The student body supports Palestine. There is no room for apartheid on this campus.”
Born from the ink of Palestinian cartoonist Naji al-Ali in 1969, is Handala, a faceless figure, back turned and hands tied, as consolidated in 1973. By depicting a 10-year-old Palestinian child who doesn’t grow up, al-Ali uses art to represent how the world — including the Arab world — has turned its back to Palestinian dispossession and deprivation of basic human rights.
Palestine Action Group hosted their twenty-third week of protests in the Sydney CBD on March 17. The protesters called on the Albanese government to end all their ties to Israel and condemned the time it took the government to restore UNRWA funding. Over 30,000 people have been killed in Gaza since the most recent Israeli invasion.
Australia is set to resume funding to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA), the key UN aid agency that supports Palestinian refugees, while also committing millions more in funding for civilians in Gaza.
Palestine Action Group hosted their 23rd week of straight protests against the ongoing Israeli invasion on Gaza on Sunday March 10. The rally comes as Israel has defied the United States and other allies by continuing its ground invasion of Rafah.
Unionists and activists gathered on the morning of March 6 at Port Botany to stand in solidarity with Palestine and declare their commitment to direct action against the state of Israel.