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"Harmony Week" in schools is traditionally a week to celebrate multi-culturalism in NSW schools.
With the NSW Education Department trying to suppress Palestinian identity by banning the keffiyeh (the Palestinian Scarf), we are going to say NO TO RACISM, by wearing our keffiyeh in schools proudly in solidarity.
We also wear it in solidarity with Palestinians who have faced genocide in Gaza, and are facing increasingly murderous army and settler attacks in the West Bank.
Take photos and send to us to put up on social media.
You can also organise a Watermelon Wednesday, or group photos with signs "No to Racism, Yes to Keffiyeh".
Students have been disciplined and discriminated against for wearing keffiyeh at many schools. Palestinian Australian teacher Wasim El-Haj has been stood aside from his school for wearing the keffiyeh, you can read about his case here
and sign the open letter https://tinyurl.com/muucajhf
and petition https://everythingisfine.beehiiv.com/p/sydney-high-school-teacher-speaks-out
https://www.change.org/p/demand-apology-and-support-for-teacher-s-cultural-expression
We demand that Wasim is reinstated to Sydney Girls High School and allowed to wear the keffiyeh.
"Harmony Day" was originally the International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination, before it was renamed by ex Coalition PM John Howard to tone it down. Join us in reviving its anti-racist spirit, and stopping the racist suppression of Palestinian identity in NSW schools.