Protest Israel's President – nationwide march

The genocidal President of Israel Isaac Herzog will visit Australia on February 8-12. A major protest is planned for Monday Feb 9, Sydney Town Hall 5:30pm. Herzog was shamefully invited by Anthony Albanese in a desperate attempt to exploit the Bondi attack to whitewash Israel’s crimes.

Chris Minns wants to use his draconian anti-protest laws to restrict protests in response. We can’t let this happen. We must defy the laws.

Defiance works. The call to defy the restrictions in the lead up to Invasion Day forced police to lift the restrictions covering Hyde Park, paving the way for 10,000 to march through the streets.

The NSW police commissioner has to decide whether to extend the ban on protest marches on February 4. Minns has flagged a further crackdown on protest saying “We’re going to have to confront this idea that the centre of Sydney can be dominated weekend after weekend”. The restrictions that currently cover the CBD and Town Hall could be extended to cover Hyde Park or the whole of metropolitan Sydney. If this happens the only way to march on the streets against Herzog will be to defy the law.

On Friday January 16 hundreds rallied for Palestine at Town Hall despite hundreds of police. And many defied previous attempts at intimidation with signs and clothing calling to “globalise the intifada”. On Monday 19 January a 100-strong meeting of community organisations and activists in Sydney voted to defy any Public Assembly Restriction Declaration (PARD) and to march and risk arrest if necessary both on Invasion Day and against the visit of Israeli president Isaac Herzog.

Herzog is a war criminal. He was named in the International Court of Justice ruling on genocide for his statement that there are “no innocent civilians in Gaza”. He also denied that Israel was causing starvation in Gaza and signed bombs for use in the genocide that has killed over 70,000 Palestinians.

We need to build the biggest possible protest and organise people willing to march and risk arrest if the ban is maintained. This is essential if we want to protect the right to protest and make it clear to the government that the Palestine movement will not be silenced.

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