Palestinian solidarity groups across Australia, including in Adelaide, are holding a national day of commemoration for the Nakba on Saturday 13 May 2023 to mark 75 years since the Nakba of 1948. See Adelaide remembrance events.
Palestinians around the world mark the ‘Nakba’, or ‘Catastrophe’, referring to the ethnic cleansing that occurred in 1948, resulting in the loss of the Palestinian homeland, with 80% of Palestinians made refugees and 20% displaced.
Dr Yara Hawari, Al Shabaka's Palestine policy fellow and AFOPA's 2022 Edward Said Memorial Lecture speaker, sums up Israelis' recent democracy protests perfectly:
" The Israeli democratic state is and always has been a myth, an illusion built to sustain the oppression of the Palestinian people and continue their dispossession."
Five final year International Studies students from the University of Adelaide - two of whom are also studying Law – undertook internships with the Australian Friends of Palestine Association. Their task was to prepare a five-part report analysing the US-based Human Rights Watch 2021 report entitled “A Threshold Crossed”, in which HRW, for the first time in its history, deemed Israel an “apartheid state”. The project expanded focus, to take in consideration of the HRW and a recent Amnesty International report, and to include references to other organisations that had reached and reported their conclusion that Israel was an apartheid state.
Australian Friends of Palestine welcome Penny Wong’s Jerusalem decision but express disappointment in terrorist link.
Australian Friends of Palestine Association Chair, Edie Bransbury has welcomed the Australian Government’s decision to rescind the former Coalition government’s decision to recognise West Jerusalem as the capital of Israel. The decision aligns Australia with the great majority of countries in the international community.
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AFOPA acknowledges that we work and organise on the lands of the Kaurna people. We also acknowledge that sovereignty of this land and the lands across this vast continent of over 250 nations has never been ceded. Always was, always will be, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Lands
