A resident-driven petition calling on Inner West Mayor Darcy Byrne to not attend a Zionist-supported summit, which purports to be against antisemitism, has attracted close to 800 signatures within a few days of being online. Peter Boyle reports.
Gadigal Country/Sydney
A contingent from the Korean community joined the nationwide march for Palestine, reports Peter Boyle.
Professor Mazin Qumsiyeh, an environmental scientist from Bethlehem University, was a keynote speaker at a forum on the Palestine ecocide. Jim McIlroy reports.
Unions NSW organised a “Unions for Peace” rally at Town Hall Square on Gadigal Country/Sydney, the first such action it has organised since Israel ramped up its genocide in Gaza in October 2023. Jim McIlroy reports.
Judith Treanor, on behalf of Jews Against the Occupation ’48, asked at the Palestine Action Group’s rally: how it is possible that 22 months into a livestreamed genocide, the world is still debating whether it is even happening?
About 300 people attended a vigil organised by the Sydney Druze community in solidarity with the people of Sweida/Suwayda, Syria, at Martin Place on Gadigal Country/Sydney. Peter Boyle reports.
Several hundred people attended climate organisation Rising Tide’s Action Camp at the Addison Road Community Centre. Jim McIlroy reports.
The historic Sydney Harbour Bridge protest on Gadigal Country has thrown up new opportunities to grow the movement for Palestine, argues Pip Hinman.
Up to 300,000 people marched across Sydney’s iconic Harbour Bridge in a historic protest to demand Labor sanction Israel and provide aid to deliberately starved Gazans. Rachel Evans and Olivia Iurincich report.
Mary Kostakidis told a public meeting, called to support her defence against the Zionist Federation of Australia, that everyone needs to stand up for the truth. Jim McIlroy reports.
Pro-Palestine activists demonstrated outside the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade on Gadigal Country/Sydney to demand the Freedom Flotilla activists on board the Handala be released. Suelin McCauley reports.
The NSW Supreme Court has ruled that Palestine solidarity protesters will have immunity under the NSW Summary Offences Act in the March for Humanity: Save Gaza protest on the Harbour Bridge. Pip Hinman reports.
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