12/10/2025
Sumud Flotilla activist Abubakir Rafiq at today's solidarity action on Gadigal Nura: "There is nothing to fear when you are on the right side of history." And so the struggle continues, undiminished and dutifully steadfast until liberation, until return. Ceasefire is a welcome reprieve, a dire imperative. Unfortunately, ceasefire is not justice, accountability or liberation. Ceasefire is the genocide decelerating while anti-Palestinian racism, sentiment and genocidal intent perseveres, regroups. Genocidaires remain on the ground in Gaza. The occupation remains and apartheid settlements continue to expand in the West Bank. The Australian government's enrichment of the genocidal state continues unchanged, furnishing Israel with the rhetorical and diplomatic impunity it requires to continue its exterminatory violence, sanction free. Not only that, the Labor-Liberal establishment continues to enrich Israel with all manner of contracts, transactions, trade and capital. The Labor government, who has this year declared Australia an "F-35 country", has even gone so far as to cede usage of stolen Aboriginal lands, waters and airways to Lockheed Martin so it can transport parts for the F-35 genocide jet direct from Australia to Israel in the belly of commercial passenger planes. And there is of course the government's unchanged enrichment of Elbit Systems - an Israeli arms manufacturer central to Israel's commission of genocide against Palestinians. Israel also used Elbit tech to hunt and kill Australian aid worker Zomi Frankcom and her colleagues in 2024, bombing them no less than three times as they travelled along a road in Gaza. There are many other instances over the past two years, over decades, the evidence of Australia's complicity in Israel's commission of genocide only continues to mount. We will not stop, we will not rest. Palestine will be free 🇵🇸🗝️
