Nakba Rally
Adelaide/Tarntanya
2pm 18 May Parliament House Steps
The Nakba never ended and now Israel has turned it into a genocide right before our eyes!
Come, protest, and demand that it stops NOW!
We will conduct a SILENT PROCESSION through Rundle Mall at the end of the rally
We demand that our government sanctions Israel
For 77 years, since the creation of the state of Israel, the world has stood by and let the Israelis take more and more Palestinian land. For 77 years, the Israelis have committed massacres and atrocities and the world has let them!
The Nakba (“catastrophe” in Arabic) refers to the violent expulsion of approximately three quarters of all Palestinians from their homes and homeland by Zionist militias and the new Israeli army during the state of Israel’s establishment (1947-49). The Nakba was a deliberate and systematic act intended to establish a Jewish-majority state in Palestine. Amongst themselves, Zionist leaders used the euphemism “transfer” when discussing plans for what today would be called ethnic cleansing. (From Institute for Middle East Understanding)
Now the world is standing by and letting Israel, backed by the US and with the acquiesce of governments like our own, commit the world’s first direct-broadcast genocide!
And our global institutions and instruments, built after World War II on the basis that the horror of a genocide against the Jewish people would never happen again to any other people, are completely impotent. Palestine is THE issue that has unmasked the fallacy of human rights and equality for all. This genocide has revealed that the UN, the Security Council, the International Criminal Court, the International Court of Justice, international law and domestic law are as effective as Israel’s backers want them to be. Our politicians pick and chose which people have human rights and which state leaders are war criminals.
This has been going on for 77 years! PROTEST NOW and tell our government that we DEMAND the Israelis are stopped!
THE AUSTRALIAN GOVERNMENT MUST:
Demand an immediate and permanent ceasefire
Demand that unfettered humanitarian aid immediately is allowed into Gaza
Impose sanctions on Israel
Recall the Australian ambassador to Israel and expel the Israeli Ambassador to Australia
Establish an arms embargo on Israel and ban all defense materiel produced in Australia from being sent to Israel
Demand an end to the occupation and apartheid
Reconise Palestine as a State.