Stop the ban on protest slogans

Isaac Herzog’s state-sponsored visit to Australia is an outrage. Having banned pro-Palestine protests, NSW Labor Premier Chris Minns plans to ban the slogan ‘Globalise the Intifada’ as part of the government’s efforts to stifle the Palestine movement in NSW. ‘Intifada’ is the Arabic word for uprising, and is used to refer to the proud history of Palestinian resistance to Israel’s regime of occupation and apartheid.

Israel’s genocide in Gaza and the West Bank is enabled by the West, including the Australian government. Parts for the F-35 jets that Israel uses to bomb Gaza are exported from NSW; Pine Gap provides military intelligence to the US and Israel. That’s why we need to globalise the Intifada.

On Friday, 6 February, dockworkers coordinated strike action across Europe to shut down 21 ports in solidarity with Palestine, and against their own government’s war budgets. That is the kind of action that is needed internationally to stop the butchery of Palestinians, and end Israel’s occupation of Palestine. Israel relies on Western government support.

We need to cut the links between Australia and Israel’s Zionist regime. To do that we need to defy the Minns government’s laws – to rally and march and build support for Australian dockworkers and others to defy the anti-strike laws and organise the industrial action that can stop the genocide. Join the campaign to sanction Israel and globalise the Intifada.

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