Friday 29 November

is the

United Nations

International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People

on this day We are gathering for a silent vigil

Meet at the Mall’s Balls

Rundle Mall, Adelaide at 6pm

Bring your corflutes, banners, flags and keffiyehs

We need you to be there to demonstrate our solidarity with the Palestinian People


Meet at Mall’s Balls
starting at 6pm and finishing at 7pm

In 1977, the General Assembly called for the annual observance of 29 November as the International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People (resolution 32/40 B). On that day, in 1947, the Assembly adopted the resolution on the partition of Palestine (resolution 181 (II))

In resolution 60/37 of 1 December 2005, the Assembly requested the Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People and the Division for Palestinian Rights, as part of the observance of the International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People on 29 November, to continue to organize an annual exhibit on Palestinian rights or a cultural event in cooperation with the Permanent Observer Mission of Palestine to the UN.

The resolution on the observance of the International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People also encourages Member States to continue to give the widest support and publicity to the observance of the Day of Solidarity.

(From UN website)

Event by Teachers and School Staff for Palestine, South Australia

Vigil for Scholasticide in Palestine

On Thursday 28 November, on the eve of International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People, South Australian educators, teachers, academics, university staff, researchers, school staff, students, education affiliates, and the broader community including families will gather to attend the Vigil for Scholasticide in Palestine.

The vigil is held in honour and in remembrance of all fallen students and school and university staff in Palestine. The vigil is held in acknowledgment of the devastation and destruction caused by Israel’s genocidal and illegal settler colonial project, and particularly the deliberate targeting of all civic infrastructure, including the Palestinian education system. In the past 13 months, Israel has systematically targeted students, teachers and academics in Palestine and destroyed schools, universities, libraries, museums, archives and other places of research, teaching, and learning.

The event in South Australia is inspired by our colleagues in Victoria who have called for vigils to be held across Australia and, organised by a group of people who represent the diverse education sector in South Australia, including members from Teachers and School Staff for Palestine SA, Academics for Palestine SA, Women in Black Adelaide, Unionists for Palestine SA and Students for Palestine Adelaide.

You are invited to our last Big Ride for 2024.

In the lead up to the Tour Down Under we wish to offer a slightly longer ride to enhance our fitness.

There will be options for riders. You can ride to Pt Adelaide for coffee and then return with a marshal escort to the city.

If you feel like a longer ride, you can ride onto Outer Harbour and then return to the city with a marshal escort.

Please wear your Big Ride Jersey or Palestinian colours.

There will be coffee stops…..naturally.

If the weather reports are unfavourable we will use FaceBook to advise you.

See you there on Sunday 24th at the Torrens Weir.

Event by Students for Palestine Adelaide

Protest the M.A.S.T. conference!

Marriot Hotel Adelaide

Here a 4 essential reasons to protest the M.A.S.T conference if you weren't already planning on going. PUT THE TIME ASIDE TO PROTEST THIS REPREHENSIBLE GATHERING OF GENOCIDE PROFITEERS, 6:30pm, Nov 18, outside the Marriot Hotel, Adelaide!

M.A.S.T. stands for “Maritime/Air/Space Technologies. The M.A.S.T. conference is to be held in Adelaide from 19-21 November 2024. The University of Adelaide is a sponsor and exhibitor at this conference.

Next AFOPA/Students4Palestine/ACarf* Rally

Adelaide, 17 November 2024 2pm

In the words of the late great Edward Said: “Remember the solidarity shown towards Palestine … in Latin America, Africa, Europe, Asia and Australia, and remember also that there is a real cause to which many people have committed themselves … Why? Because it is a just cause, a noble ideal, a moral quest for equality and human rights.”

Now, with Trump having been elected as President of the United States and Israel moving to annex the West Bank even before Trump is inaugurated, we have plenty to continue to turn up and protest about. Be one of many people around the world supporting this ‘just cause and moral quest’: join our fortnightly rallies in support of Palestine on the steps of Parliament in Adelaide.

See you there this Sunday, 2pm.

* AFOPA, Students for Palestine Adelaide and Adelaide Campaign Against Racism and Fascism organise fortnightly rallies in Adelaide

National Day of Action 16 November 2024

Check the graphic below for the time and location for the action scheduled in your city

On Saturday November 16th we’re protesting at Caltex service stations across Australia!

Caltex is owned by the US corporation Chevron, which operates in and partially owns the largest Israeli-claimed natural gas fields in the Mediterranean Sea. This is where about 70% of Israel’s power comes from. With its extraction and offshore pipelines, Chevron funnels millions of dollars into Israel making it a partner in Israel’s energy apartheid, military blockade of Gaza and the illegal exploitation of Palestinian land and natural resources.

As apart of the blockade on Gaza, Israel has destroyed energy infrastructure, repeatedly bombing power plants and depriving Palestinians of adequate fuel supply. For years the supply of electricity in Gaza has been used as leverage against the population, where it has been reduced or shut off multiple times in violation of International law.

Apartheid is expensive to maintain and we have to collectively hit it where it hurts - the pocket! South Africa’s BDS campaign against apartheid proved that boycotting works! You can play your part by refusing to buy Caltex fuels.

Follow @boycottcaltex or email boycottcaltex@gmail.com for updates.

Online Book Launch - “Understanding Hamas And Why It Matters”

An online conversation with the book co-authors Helena Cobban and Rami Khouri

This event will host a conversation with Helena Cobban and Rami Khouri to discuss their initiative, their findings and to provide a much-needed insight on Hamas.

Early 2024, Just World Educational decided as a matter of urgency to launch a broad campaign to educate the global Anglophone public about the history, political development, and goals of the Hamas movement. The decision was made due to the broad, dishonest, and often virulent campaign of demonization that Israel and Western powers had long maintained against Hamas constituted a serious obstacle in the path of the attainment of a permanent ceasefire in Gaza and the ending - after 57 years - of Israel's belligerent military occupation of Gaza and the West Bank.

In May 2024 Just World Ed's president Helena Cobban and board member Rami Khouri presented a series of five weekly online briefings, in which they explored and evaluated the history, record, and goals of the movement with a carefully chosen group of subject matter experts. These included Dr. Paola Caridi, Khaled Hroub, Jeroen Gunning, Dr. Azzam Tamimi, and Mouin Rabbani.

Helena and Rami then co-authored a book based on the (very lightly edited) transcripts of those online conversations and also containing some valuable documentation on the history of Hamas. This project has culminated in the production and publication of "Understanding Hamas, and why it matters" book.

This event will host a conversation with Helena Cobban and Rami Khouri to discuss their initiative, their findings and to provide a much-needed insight on Hamas.

Join us in this highly educational conversation with Helena and Rami on Saturday the 16th of November at 12PM (Midday)

BOOK HERE

Event by Belly Dance Hilde

Your Belly Can Dance

Help raise money for Gaza/ Doctors Without Borders

1 total class — 3 hours @ A$30.00

We have all seen the horrendous pictures from Gaza. The suffering is immense. And while we can not do much to make these horrors end, we CAN send money to an organisation that makes a difference. Doctors Without Borders is doing an amazing job in Gaza, and they need all the funding they can get. So come along, open your heart, and even more importantly; your wallet, and have a great night with bellydance performances, raffle tickets and an open dance floor to the best and most danceable Arabic hits!

Event by Health Care Workers 4 Palestine Adelaide

Banquet at Pavilion in the Park for Palestine

Join us for an evening of charity and reflection as we gather at Pavilion on the Park in Veale Gardens to raise funds to support the work of PANZMA (Palestinian Australian New Zealand Medical Association).

All profits of this 3 course Gala Dinner will go towards PANZMA's work in providing medical relief to those in need, facilitating medical missions from Australia and New Zealand, or supporting education and training programs that foster the future of Palestinian healthcare needs.

There will also be an opportunity to donate further at check out or on the night through our silent auction. The

Program on the night includes talks by Farah Babaa a local Palestinian optometrist & Drs Mohammed Mustafa and Bushra Othman who will share their recent humanitarian work in Gaza.

This event is an initiative by Healthcare Workers 4 Palestine proudly supported by Al Salaam Foundation, AIMA (Australian Islamic Medical Association) and Adelaide Sisters Association.

BOOK HERE!

Supported by AFOPA

Next Boycott Caltex Event: Friday 8 November, 4:30pm

Corner North East Road & Sudholz Road, Windsor Gardens South Australia

Event by Palestine Justice Movement Sydney endorsed by AFOPA

WEBINAR VIA ZOOM

This Is Palestine: Resistance, Truth-Telling And Survival In A Time of Genocide

Revised Time! 8pm South Australian Time (ACST) 8:30pm Australian Eastern Summer Time

Over a year into the genocidal campaign against the Palestinian people in Gaza, the state of Israel is showing no sign of reining in its atrocious onslaught. With a complete impunity and unconditional military and political support from the US, UK, Australia, Germany and other western imperialist powers, Israel's genocidal campaign is now expanding into Lebanon and has the potential of triggering an all-out regional war with Iran.

With the inability of International Law to hold Israel to account and achieve cease fire, now more than ever, the Palestinian struggle for liberation is at a critical juncture and the risk of Israel achieving a complete victory and reshaping the entire region may result in devastating consequences and redefine the lives of millions in the Arab world:

• Can the International Court of Justice halt or, at least, hold Israel accountable for the Gaza genocide?

• Will Israel and its allies succeed in normalising the “greater Israel” regime of apartheid from the river to the sea.

• Does the Palestinian Authority still represent the Palestinians, or has it become an accomplice in their oppression?

• What are the impacts of the current genocide in Gaza on Palestinians citizens of Israel?

• In a time of extermination, displacement, sexual violence and industrial-scale torture, what is the future of the Palestinians' struggle for liberation?

To address all these questions and more, this online discussion will host Diana Buttu.

Diana is is a Palestinian-Canadian lawyer, analyst and former legal advisor to the Palestinian Liberation Organisation (PLO). Her podcast series, This is Palestine, is produced by the Institute of Middle East Understanding and includes interviews with Palestinian student activists, human shields and torture camp survivors.

Join us in this highly educational conversation with Diana on Wednesday the 6th of November.

BOOK HERE

Rally again in solidarity with the Palestinian people!

Hear from Palestinian-AustraliaN Writer, Samah Sabawi, whose family is deeply rooted in Gaza, and from Psychologist, Malcolm Hugo who has recently returned from an humanitarian tour in Gaza with Medicines San Frontiers

As Israel, with impunity, takes the Middle-East to the brink and continues with its extermination of the Palestinian people, come again to the steps of Parliament House and make your voice heard.

Australia MUST, by international law (given the finding of the International Court of Justice of 19 July 2024) not give assistance to the Israeli occupation of Palestine. It MUST enact sanctions on Israel and cease trade and diplomatic relations with this rogue state. Australia MUST put pressure on Israel to end the genocide. CEASEFIRE NOW!

Go to our web page to see what you can do to make your voice heard.

TAKE URGENT ACTION: Call out Australia’s double standards!

2024 Edward Said Memorial Lecture

AFOPA proudly presents

The Australian 2024 Edward Said Memorial Lecture

to be delivered live on stage in Adelaide on 2 November by Dr Samah Sabawi.

(Live streaming available)

"The Ethnocentric State and Our Fragile Australian Democracy: How Support for Israel Erodes Democratic Values and Practices in Australia and the West”.

In this Edward Said Memorial Lecture, Dr Sabawi will critique Israel's self-portrayal as a democracy, arguing that this narrative serves to justify Western powers' allegiance to its regime, at the expense of the erosion of western democratic principles around the world. It posits that Israel functions as an ethnocratic apartheid state, privileging Jewish citizens over others. Israel’s policies, territorial expansion, and control are driven by an ethnonational agenda, one that contradicts the basic democratic and multicultural principles of modern Western states. The consequences of supportng this ethnocratic regime is eroding global democratic values, especially in countries like Australia where political discourse has similarly demonized Palestinians and targetted Palestinian solidarity groups, leading to censorship and repression of fundamental democratic rights like free speech and protest.

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Dr Samah Sabawi is an author, playwright and poet and a recipient of multiple national and international awards.

Her theatre credits include the critically acclaimed and award-winning plays, Tales of a City by the Sea and THEM. In 2020 Samah received the prestigious Green Room Award for Best Writing in the independent theatre category, and was shortlisted for both the NSW and Victorian Premiers' Literary Awards.

Samah co-edited along with Stephen Orlov the anthology, Double Exposure: Plays of the Jewish and Palestinian Diasporas, which won the 2017 Patrick O’Neill Award. She co-authored I Remember My Name: Poetry by Samah Sabawi, Ramzy Baroud and Jehan Bseiso, edited by Vacy Vlazna, which won the 2016 Palestine Book Award.

Samah is the host of the webinar/podcast series The Book Room.

She received a Doctor of Philosophy degree from Victoria University for her thesis entitled Inheriting Exile, transgenerational trauma and the Palestinian Australian Identity.

Samah's debut novel  Cactus Pear for my Beloved, has just been released.

Samah is the founder of Hakawatieh Productions, whose first animation film is How We Fall in Love which is set to be released in 2025 .

BOOK HERE FOR IN PERSON ATTENDANCE

BOOK HERE FOR LIVESTREAM

Non AFOPA event

Join in and help tell passing motorists on this busy corner about the CALTEX role in the Israeli genocide of the Palestinians!

Just turn up and hold a banner and celebrate to hundreds of honks of support you will get in standing for Palestine!

Corner ANZAC Highway and Marion Road, Plympton