This is a working Group of IPAN aimed at assisting the current people’s movements around Australia in support of the Palestinian people. Contact palestinewg.ipan@gmail.com Please consider joining IPAN!
SANCTION ISRAEL NOW!
COMING EVENTS
Melbourne Friends of Palestine events. Next rally TBC
Canberra – Rally to oppose Trump’s sanctions and attacks on Cuba, 6pm Wed 4th March, US Embassy. It will also be opposing the illegal attacks on Iran. See IPAN’s media release on the attacks on Iran, here.
Hugely successful event with 800 people – ‘Settler colonialism’: What it can tell us about the conflict in Israel/Palestine’.
With just two days’ notice, Adelaide University informed the Association for the Promotion of International Law (APIL) that Elder Hall was no longer available for their Constellations: Not Writers’ Week event Settler colonialism’: What it can tell us about the conflict in Israel/Palestine which featured Francesca Albanese, Chris Sidoti, Professor Henry Reynolds and Lana Tatour. While they may deny it, this decision by Adelaide University looks like part of a wider pattern: events featuring Francesca Albanese have been cancelled , and critical conversations about Palestine have been pushed out of public spaces. This is what repression looks like – and exactly why we must show up.
APIL secured an alternative venue with greater capacity at Norwood Concert Hall and 800 people attended in person and around 330 online.
You can watch the video of the event here.
Thanks to all who attended. As the speakers said, one of the most important things we can do at this time is to KEEP TURNING UP.
Warm regards,
The Association of Promotion of International Law
Newcastle
Click here to see the Australia Palestine Advocacy Network (APAN) page for current events and actions for Palestine around Australia.
Awarding of the Jerusalem Peace Prize will take place on April 10th, 2026 from 6:00 PM to 11:00 PM at a dinner at 17 Dukes Walk, South Wharf, Melbourne. Book here, Nominations are closing soon, visit apan.org.au.
Listen to a briefing on the hate crime laws from the Greens Here.
Progressive International – Latest from the Movement
Peoples’ Congress for the Hague Group, Amsterdam 7 March, End the Nakbah!
GREAT NEWS! – Palestine Action Ban Unlawful, rules UK court
The UK High Court has overturned the government’s ban on Palestine Action under anti-terrorism laws. In a case brought by the co-founder of Palestine Action, Huda Ammouri, the judges ruled against the proscription of Palestine Action as a terrorist organisation. Following the proscription of Palestine Action under terror legislation, which makes it illegal to express support for the group, punishable by 14 years in prison, the police have arrested more than 2,000 peaceful protestors carrying signs reading “I oppose genocide, I support Palestine Action.”
NSW anti-protest laws were rushed through to keep the peace. They’ve failed, Ben Saul, SMH, 10 February 2026.
Private Prosecution Filed in Australia Against Isaac Herzog for Genocide and Crimes Against Humanity
A landmark private prosecution has commenced in Australia following a joint complaint submitted to the Australian government by the Hind Rajab Foundation (HRF), the Jewish Council of Australia, and the Australian National Imams Council (ANIC) concerning the conduct of Isaac Herzog.
Lawyers representing Melbourne academic Tasnim Sammak have now formally filed a charge sheet before the Magistrates’ Court of Victoria, accusing President Herzog of eight grave offences under Australian law, including genocide and crimes against humanity.
HRF has announced that it will seek leave to intervene as amicus curiae (friend of the court) should proceedings advance, underscoring its position that head-of-state immunity cannot shield individuals from accountability for the gravest international crimes.
Jewish Council of Australia
Jewish Council calls on Albanese to rescind Herzog invitation, Media Release, 28 January 2026.
Support the JCA in its work with the Royal Commission on anti-semitism and social cohesion.DONATE HERE
Jewish Council Australia – Media Release: Unity, safety and prevention — not fulfilling divisive pro-Israel wishlist — must guide the Government’s response to Bondi attack, 18 December 2025.
An important Lancet (one of the foremost medical journals globally) article on ‘a textbook case of genocide denial and selective moral disengagement’ -Correspondence – Gaza: the urgent need for rigour over rhetoric – Authors’ reply, Roberto De Vogli et al, 24 January, 2026. ‘Bénédicte Nobile and Philippe Courtet’s critique of our Correspondence1 represents a textbook case of genocide denial and selective moral disengagement…The health catastrophe in Gaza, where 3 million life-years are estimated to have been lost4 and approximately 80% of deaths are civilian casualties,5 cannot be defined as “an asymmetric urban conflict”. It is genocide. ‘ READ MORE HERE
Free Dr Hussam Abu Safiya
Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya, director of Kamal Adwan hospital and a prominent voice of Gaza’s decimated healthcare sector, is still being arbitrarily detained by Israeli authorities since his arrest on 27 December 2024. A lawyer who visited him and other detainees, recently reported that he has been subjected to abuse and other ill-treatment. Join us in demanding his immediate and unconditional release. sign the Amnesty petition here
Minn’s protest ban: breathtakingly racist, authoritarian and must be resisted, Nick Riemer, MWM, 22 December, 2025.
Palestine Action Group statement on the Bondi beach attack
We are shocked and absolutely horrified by the terrorist attack at Bondi beach, which targeted the Jewish community on the first day of Hanukkah. Our thoughts are with all those who have suffered due to this appalling attack, with the families of all the dead, and especially with the Jewish community. No one, anywhere in Sydney or anywhere in the world, should have to live in fear of terrorism or racist hate.
We salute the heroic actions of Ahmed al Ahmed, who bravely tackled and disarmed one of the gunmen, saving countless lives, and being shot twice in the process.
We reiterate our complete condemnation of antisemitism and all other forms of racism. For years, we have stood and marched in our hundreds of thousands, side by side with members of the Jewish community, to fight for a world free of racist violence and oppression, from Sydney to Gaza. Antisemitism has never had any place in our movement, nor in the world we want to live in.
In this context, we are utterly shocked and appalled to see the comments by Antisemitism Envoy Jillian Segal, seeking to exploit this tragedy to try to blame it on the March for Humanity, which saw 300,000 people, including thousands of Jewish people, march peacefully together to oppose genocide and racism.
We must not let Israeli politicians, Segal, or the far right, turn this tragedy into further racist hate.
Ends….
Write a Letter to your NSW MPs demanding their opposition to the Premier’s proposed protest restrictions. Coordinated by Palestinian Justice Movement Sydney.
Blame Grief and Responsibility after Bondi: “In the aftermath of a devastating attack on Sydney’s Jewish community, political leaders must resist the urge to weaponise grief or assign blame. It is far too early to make any meaningful comment about the utter devastation and cruelty suffered by Sydney’s Jewish community as they celebrated Hanukkah. But it is not too early to respond to the disgracefully self-serving, patronising rant from the Israeli Prime Minister and to a lesser degree from the Israeli president as they sheeted blame for the atrocity on Prime Minister Albanese and Australian leadership in general…”article by former Anglican Bishop George Browning in Pearls and Irritations, Dec 16, 2025.
The Antony Loewenstein Podcast: My Comments on the Bondi Attack – YouTube 16 Dec 2025.
From PALESTINE JUSTICE MOVEMENT SYDNEY (PJMS)
Ever since the genocide started in Gaza in October 2023, PJMS has sprung into action to mobilise and amplify Palestinian narrative. We initiated BDS campaigns in collaboration with existing grassroots organisations, started organising events and educational campaigns to raise awareness through panel discussions, and webinars and created a podcast and a CBAA award-winning radio show.
Therefore, please consider joining our membership and be an active part of PJMS’s future campaigns. The more people who can participate in PJMS campaigns, the more effective those campaigns can be.
The Weaponisation of the IHRA definition of anti-Semitism, conversation with Prof Neve Gordon from Palestine Justice Movement Sydney. Video here
Israel out of Eurovision: SBS must oppose genocide, apartheid & illegal occupation! Sign petition here.
Sydney Criminal Lawyers are an excellent source of articles on Palestine and politics and the law generally.
The great “Antisemitism Crimewave” was not motivated by prejudice towards Jews, Paul Gregoire, 28 Nov 2025.
Trump administration to monitor crimes committed by migrants in Australia,Paul Gregoire, 28 November, 2025. Not Palestine related, but Trump’s support of Israel is just part of his fascist agenda for the world. Australia must resist this foreign interference!
The +972 Magazine has many excellent articles on the genocide in Gaza and the West Bank. SEE HERE . “Since the [October] truce went into effect, Israel’s ongoing attacks have killed over 340 Palestinians and injured more than 900. Starvation, disease, psychological warfare, and ongoing bombardment continue to shape daily life, now intensified by the onset of winter…” ‘Israel emptied half of Gaza, what’s next?’, Muhammed Shuhada, 24 Nov, 2025.
Listen to Chris Hedges 25 Oct 2025 Edward Said Memorial talk in Adelaide, The Betrayal of Palestinian journalists, here.
The Jewish Council of Australia is doing great work against racism and on Palestine. See this article about a Melbourne event celebrating the pager attack in Lebanon sparking outrage.
Sydney Uni Protesters Vindicated, as No Evidence of Antisemitic Incidents on Campus Exists, Paul Gregoire, Sydney Criminal Lawyers, 5 Nov 2025
This is a powerful article by Yuval Abraham in +972 Magazine, titled, ‘One target at a time: The logic that helped Israeli liberals commit genocide’.
Marwan Barhouti’s son talks about his father and that ‘hopelessness is a privilege we don’t have’.
Summary
The ongoing genocide in Gaza is a collective crime, sustained by the complicity of influential Third States that have enabled longstanding systemic violations of international law by Israel. Framed by colonial narratives that dehumanize the Palestinians, this live- streamed atrocity has been facilitated through Third States’ direct support, material aid, diplomatic protection and, in some cases, active participation. It has exposed an unprecedented chasm between peoples and their governments, betraying the trust on which global peace and security rest. The world now stands on a knife-edge between the collapse of the international rule of law and hope for renewal. Renewal is only possible if complicity is confronted, responsibilities are met and justice is upheld.
Stories from the war on Gaza, by Ruwaida Amer
Stories from the war on Gaza, by young Palestinian journalist and teacher, Ruwaida
Amer was written under brutal conditions, her family sometimes homeless, sleeping
on sand and exposed to the elements. Always searching for safe housing, food and water, Amer documents the daily lives of the people of Gaza.
She will receive all proceeds from her book’s sales, which will go towards rebuilding
her and her family’s home.
Collated and published by Australian not-for-profit book publisher, Palaver, co-editor
Prof Paul Komesaroff said the collection “represents a precious archive”.
“Its remarkable details have been collected by a brave witness and will hold the
experiences of Palestinians for generations to come.”
It was written between October 2023 and September 2025 and published originally in
major news outlets.
For interviews with Ms Amer and/or with co-editors, Paul Komesaroff and Sally
Gardner, email paul.komesaroff@monash.edu or by calling Sally Gardner on
(61)405578968. Enquiries and orders can also be sent via the website .
Stories from the war on Gaza can be ordered as a book for $18 plus postage (proceeds to Ruwaida Amer). Purchase it here: https://www.palaver.com/contact
Previous posts of interest.
Here is an excellent article by John Menadue on Herzog. He would not pass the character test in the new legislation.