Good to see these finally get some press coverage. They were enormous rallies and conspicuously ignored, particularly by the ABC.
Yeah, it was bizarre. I went looking for news stories to see crowd estimates and photos, and I couldn't find any articles on them at all.
this is why we need to clean house at the ABC... too many religious extremists put in by Sco-vid
the ABC is a joke right now, they need to clean out the stooges left over from Scovid
This is the best summary I could come up with:
For five weekends running, Sayara has been leading the chants at the pro-Palestine rallies in Sydney, thundering through a popular set list that has become a defining part of the protests.
Last weekend organisers reported 100,000 people turned up to the rally in Melbourne, up to 50,000 in Sydney despite rain and more than 6,000 in Brisbane.
Collectively, they amount to the largest and most consistent anti-war rallies since the Iraq war, and the organiser of Sydney’s events, Amal Naser, says she expects them to continue growing.
In the long term, we hope to see Australia advocate for the siege on Gaza to be lifted and for an end of the occupation of Palestine.”
The UN and the International Committee of the Red Cross have stated they believe Israel is committing the war crime of collective punishment through its siege of the Gaza territory.
“I think the protests will increase the political pressure on the government to be more critical of Israel’s actions in the Gaza Strip,” Kear says.
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