Organisers cited Australia’s endorsement of the 1947 United Nations (UN) Partition Plan and the “ongoing political alignment with policies that have enabled the illegal occupation of Palestinian territories” as contributing to Australia’s complicity in the oppression of Palestinians.
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The National Week of Action rally took place outside the Quadrangle, protesting against the ongoing genocide in Palestine and USyd’s ties with Israel and weapons companies.
Parfitt deemed the leaflets as a threat to student safety, due to the use of the word ‘genocide’.
It has been one year since Israel launched its latest phase of the genocide on Palestinians. The entire world knew…
After much media scrutiny and police intervention, Palestine Action Group’s weekly Sunday protest went ahead, marking one year of Israel’s genocide on Palestine.
On Saturday October 5, the National Council of the National Tertiary Education Union (NTEU) held a meeting where a motion was passed supporting “the institutional academic boycott of Israel”.
The rally commemorating one year of genocide will go ahead in Hyde Park on Sunday, while a vigil will occur on Monday.
The New South Wales Police, supported by Premier Chris Minns, are seeking to ban the planned Palestine Action Group (PAG)…
On Tuesday night, University management had sent a letter to the protest organisers warning that the “posters may indicate an intention for Students Against War to conduct a demonstration on University lands, contrary to the Campus Access Policy”.
On Wednesday September 4, Bea Tucker, a pro-Palestine student activist at the Australian National University in Canberra, had their expulsion overturned by the university appeals committee.