Three hundred thousand people have flooded the streets of Sydney, Australia, and its famous Harbour Bridge, in solidarity with the people of Gaza against Israel’s genocide:
Like its UK counterpart, the Australian government has been colluding with the Israel lobby in a war on freedom of speech about Israel and its crimes. But Australians despise Israel’s slaughter and starvation of the Palestinian people – and huge numbers of them are showing it.
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Absolutely brilliant, but I wonder how much coverage it got – they got – in the Australian MSM, much of which is owned by Rupert Murdoch of course.
I see that Julian Assange attended the above demo. Thankfully he’s looking better since his release.
https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20250803-assange-joins-pro-palestinian-protest-on-sydney-harbour-bridge
A ‘release’ that an ferociously-anti freedom DPP (yes, Keir bucking Starmer!) went out on a limb to necessitate and obstruct.
(for them that need it, read the wonderful essay on “The Political History of Keir Starmer” at Spartacus Educational https://spartacus-educational.com/spartacus-blogURL159.htm – Point 14 deals with Starmer’s vicious anti-Assange behavviour- although the other 36 are worth reading too).
Well done Australia, a fantastic turnout and in the pouring rain.
The cause of Palestine is international.♥️
From Rome to Naples: The Unstoppable Tide of Palestinian Solidarity – July 30, 2025
https://www.palestinechronicle.com/from-rome-to-naples-the-unstoppable-tide-of-palestinian-solidarity/
The similarities between Starmer and Minns (New South Wales state PM) are breathtaking. Minns tries to stop the demonstration on ‘public safety’ and ‘disruption’ grounds. The demonstration, organised by the Palestine Action Group, proceeded after a Supreme Court ruling contradicted the PM and allowed the event to go ahead. Starmer-like, Minns immediately changes tac and says he’s glad the demonstration proceed (despite his instructions to disallow it ‘for the greater good’.
PM Minns was beaten by Sydney’s “beautiful, inspiring outpouring of humanity”, a local labor party that’s still capable of dissent and independence of action and a Supreme Court that actually asserts its independence of political control.
I know skwawkbox posted about this, but Craig Murray attended the hearing and, as such, posted a detailed account of proceedings, which don’t fill one with much optimism:
Huda Ammori Wins a Judicial Review of Palestine Action Proscription
On Wednesday we were crammed into the unsalubrious court 73 at the Royal Courts of Justice to hear the judgment from Judge Chamberlain on whether Huda Ammori, co-founder of Palestine Action would be granted a judicial review of the proscription of the organisation.
Judge Chamberlain breezed in and went immediately into a summary of his judgment, beginning with an account of the process so far. This was covered in my last report; the only new information was that the Special Advocate who had been present during the closed session was Tim Buley KC.
In this extraordinary abuse of process, the security services are allowed to bring alleged “intelligence” material into proceedings, which Huda Ammori and Palestine Action are not permitted to see. Nor are their lawyers allowed to have any idea what allegations have been made.
Instead a court-appointed “Special Advocate” is supposed to represent their interests, without being allowed to tell them what the accusations are. Nor can they tell the special advocate what points to make, as in “we absolutely have no foreign funding and have never had any contact with any foreign intelligence agencies”.
Nobody is ever allowed to know what a “Special Advocate” actually does or says in the closed session, nor what the government lawyers or those giving evidence on behalf of the security services do or say.
If I were a Special Advocate, I would do nothing except hand the judge a copy of the Dossier on Iraqi Weapons of Mass Destruction, and say: “This shows the quality of security service intelligence. Now go and wipe your arse with it.”….
https://www.craigmurray.org.uk/archives/2025/08/huda-ammori-wins-a-judicial-review-of-palestine-action-proscription/
Yes, it’s not without some humour. And it’s probably about a 15/20 minute read.
Meanwhile, on the day the Samud Flotilla announce details, Genocide the Musical has it’s Premier: (with a hat tip to Andrai Martyanov)
Whilst in that other Western Sponsored proxy war some purely innocent “Trainspotters” come a cropper somewhere in the 404 area: