In a statement to Honi on Monday, a University spokesperson declared that “political messaging has been removed from Graffiti Tunnel for a number of years, irrespective of the content; recently that has involved both pro-Israel and Pro-Palestine graffiti.”
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With the Gaza solidarity encampment approaching its first week on the Quad lawns, student activists continue to demand for the severance of the University’s ties to Israeli universities and weapon manufacturers.
The art-making followed a small rally organised by Students For Palestine in front of the Quadrangle. Together, these two events christened the encampment occurring on Tuesday night in solidarity with the student protesters of Columbia University, who are facing police arrests en masse at their sit-ins.
As the war on Gaza enters its sixth month — and 76th year —- Palestinian women and girls find themselves condemned to immense period poverty.
A snap protest outside DFAT offices in Sydney called for the Australian government to cut ties with Israel, comply with the ICJ ruling, and offer consular assistance and visas to Australian citizens in Gaza.
On April 10, a Zoom briefing titled Gaza Crisis Response Briefing with Francesca Albanese was organised by Amnesty International Australia, and open to the general public.
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.
With the ongoing genocide in Palestine, enabled by Israel’s horrific dehumanisation of Palestinians, Gaza Surf Club (2016) is a necessary…
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.
It specified the increased and “widespread starvation”, indistinct from the “continuing egregious breaches of the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide.”