Actions, protests & rallies
Boorloo/Perth & Walyalup/Fremantle
When
12:00pm Saturday 14 September
Where
Perth Cultural Centre
47 James St
Northbridge WA 6003
AustraliaWhy
Opposition leader Peter Dutton is running a racist campaign against Palestinian refugees to deflect attention from Israel’s war crimes. However Labor has nothing to be proud of. Out of more than 10,033 visa applications by Palestinian refugees in the past 10 months, 7111 were rejected, while 2922 Palestinians were granted entry into Australia. Out of the 2922 granted entry, only about 1300 refugees have resettled into Australia, and the majority are on short-term visas with no right to work or access Medicare. This compares with over 8,700 visas granted to Israelis since October 7 and over 11,500 visas to Ukrainian nationals since 24 February 2022. Nearly 11,400 Ukraine national visa holders have since arrived in Australia.
Since last October, more than 40,000 Palestinians have been killed in Israel’s genocidal war in Gaza; tens of thousands more Palestinians lie dead, buried beneath the rubble. Two thirds of those killed are women and children and 21,000 children are missing. Western governments have not only let Israel kill and starve Palestinians, they have aided and abetted them. To date, the Australian government, like those of the US, Britain and the European Union, has failed to impose any meaningful sanctions on the State of Israel, despite the finding of the International Court of Justice that Israel is illegally occupying the Palestinian territories and that there is a plausible case Israel is committing genocide.
Instead, the Australian government has imposed sanctions on a handful of extremist Israeli settlers. Stand with us to demand an end to Israel's genocide.
We call on the Australian government to:
• introduce a humanitarian visa for all Palestinian refugees who want to settle in Australia
• impose an immediate two-way arms embargo on Israel and urge other states to do the same
• break diplomatic ties with Israel, including expelling the Israeli ambassador from Canberra and recalling Australia's ambassador in Tel Aviv
• ban entry to Australia from all Israeli government representatives and illegal settlers guilty of war crimes
• impose trade sanctions on Israel, beginning with a complete ban on the import of all products made in illegal Israeli settlements.