STOP THE GENOCIDE IN GAZA
Next Rally: Sunday 7 June 2026, 12pm, State Library.
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NAARM/MELBOURNE – SAT. 6 JUNE 2026, 10AM
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- What’s On May 25-31 2026What’s On around Naarm/Melbourne & regional Victoria: May 24-31, 2026
- River to the Sea Fashion Fun RunSat. 6 June 2026, 10am, Fashion Fun Run, Naarm/Melbourne.
- Film Screening: TanturaFri. 19 June 2026, 6:15pm, Cinema Nova VIC: Join Free Palestine Melbourne’s screening of Tantura, a documentary film directed by Alon Schwarz that examines the events surrounding the Palestinian coastal village of Tantura in 1948 during the Nakba.
- What’s On May 18-24 2026What’s On around Naarm/Melbourne & regional Victoria: May 18-24, 2026
- What’s On May 11-17 2026What’s On around Naarm/Melbourne & regional Victoria: May 11-17, 2026
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[Campaign by BDS Australia; artwork by Sam Wallman.]
Latest posts
- Counterweight: How Australian Media Crushed Public Pressure to Prevent GenocideFor over two years, Australian media counterweighted the largest sustained protest movement in Australia’s history, dissipating public pressure to prevent Israel’s genocide. This cornerstone submission traces a lobby–media–state nexus through lobby-funded travel cultivating compliant editors; co-ordinated complaints, smears, sackings and litigation enforcing silence; and the exploitation of Bondi grief to recast solidarity as bigotry and manufacture a mandate to criminalise it. The Royal Commission now interrogating public discourse has itself adopted the lobby’s definition of antisemitism. Australian media didn’t just fail the public’s right to know; it primed consent for complicity in genocide, and for punishing those who oppose it.
- Whose ABC? How Australia’s Public Broadcaster Failed Its Legal Obligations During GenocideState-funded broadcasters carry special obligations under international law that commercial outlets don’t. When the World Court put states on notice of a plausible risk of genocide in Gaza, Australia’s public broadcaster should have reported it plainly. Instead, for over two years, it referred the word “genocide” upward; it humanised Israelis 1.58 times more than Palestinians; and it unlawfully sacked Antoinette Lattouf for sharing evidence of Israel’s crimes, then chose to spend over $2.6M in taxpayer money defending its surrender to the Israel lobby. Under cover of “impartiality”, this is how “our ABC” primed Australians to consent to complicity in genocide.
- Anti-Palestine Bias in The Australian: Dehumanisation and Erasure as Editorial PolicyThe Australian epitomises editorial complicity: it published a denial of deliberate starvation two weeks after leaked Israeli cabinet transcripts confirmed it was chosen as a strategy of war; it printed over 100 pro-Israel letters and none critical, as 300,000 Australians marched for humanity; and while it referenced Randa Abdel-Fattah in 412 articles, our research found 148 referencing Louise Adler, including 23 dedicated attack pieces, 17 alone in the fortnight of her Adelaide Writers’ Week resignation. John Lyons, its former Jerusalem correspondent, says only three people can tell its editors what to run: Rupert Murdoch, Lachlan Murdoch, and AIJAC’s Colin Rubenstein.
- How Australian Newspapers Restricted Reporting on Israel’s Crimes in Gaza – with the blackout of the killing of Hind Rajab as a case studyIn November 2023, more than 270 Australian journalists signed an open letter calling for fairer Gaza coverage. Consequently, senior editors at Nine’s mastheads, all of whom had taken lobby-funded trips to Israel, banned signatories from covering the conflict. Two months later, an Israeli tank fired on an ambulance the army had cleared to reach six-year-old Hind Rajab, killing her and the paramedics. It made headlines worldwide — but across 2024, News Corp and Nine published no original reporting on it. This editorial blackout of verified atrocity crimes is a distinct mechanism of impunity, erasing the victims and enabling the perpetrators.
- Media Release: A Failure of Responsible Journalism25 May 2026: Free Palestine Melbourne condemns the Herald Sun’s front-page headline characterising Marwan Barghouti solely as a “convicted Palestinian terrorist.” This framing, employed by journalists Alex White and Carly Douglas, reflects a troubling pattern of one-sided reporting on Palestinian affairs…
- What’s On May 25-31 2026What’s On around Naarm/Melbourne & regional Victoria: May 24-31, 2026
- River to the Sea Fashion Fun RunSat. 6 June 2026, 10am, Fashion Fun Run, Naarm/Melbourne.
- Film Screening: TanturaFri. 19 June 2026, 6:15pm, Cinema Nova VIC: Join Free Palestine Melbourne’s screening of Tantura, a documentary film directed by Alon Schwarz that examines the events surrounding the Palestinian coastal village of Tantura in 1948 during the Nakba.
- What’s On May 18-24 2026What’s On around Naarm/Melbourne & regional Victoria: May 18-24, 2026
- What’s On May 11-17 2026What’s On around Naarm/Melbourne & regional Victoria: May 11-17, 2026
- What’s On May 4-10 2026What’s On around Naarm/Melbourne & regional Victoria: May 4-10, 2026
- What’s On Apr 20-26 2026What’s On around Naarm/Melbourne & regional Victoria: Apr 20-26, 2026
- What’s On Apr 13-19 2026What’s On around Naarm/Melbourne & regional Victoria: Apr 13-19, 2026
- What’s On Apr 6-12 2026What’s On around Naarm/Melbourne & regional Victoria: Apr 6-12, 2026
- Webinar: ‘Breaking the Chain: Freedom for Palestinian Political Prisoners’ (15 April)Wed 15 April 6:30pm: Abduction, imprisonment & torture are crucial tools of Israel’s genocide & occupation in Palestine. Hear the truth from behind the bars – and demand freedom for Palestinian political prisoners.