Labor Friends of Palestine NSW

23/02/2026

Back marching through the city for Free Palestine!

19/02/2026

FRONT PAGE: SMH reports NSW Labor rank-and-file uproar over attacks on civil liberties and police violence at Town Hall protest. Many Labor branches have passed related motions already. More will get on board as members seek to protect our rights and ensure the events at Town Hall are never repeated

13/02/2026

Brisbane Times reports: Labor Friends of Palestine calls on Queensland Labor Opposition to oppose the LNP government’s draconian ‘hate speech’ laws which potentially jail protesters who chant ‘river to sea’ for two years

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12/02/2026

11/02/2026

🚨A landmark private prosecution has commenced in 🇦🇺 following a joint complaint submitted to the government by The Hind Rajab Foundation , the Jewish Council of Australia, and the Australian National Imams Council concerning the conduct of Isaac Herzog.

Lawyers representing Melbourne academic Tasnim Sammak have 𝗻𝗼𝘄 𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗺𝗮𝗹𝗹𝘆 𝗳𝗶𝗹𝗲𝗱 a charge sheet before the Magistrates’ Court of Victoria, accusing President Herzog of eight grave offences under Australian law, including 𝚐𝚎𝚗𝚘𝚌𝚒𝚍𝚎 and 𝚌𝚛𝚒𝚖𝚎𝚜 𝚊𝚐𝚊𝚒𝚗𝚜𝚝 𝚑𝚞𝚖𝚊𝚗𝚒𝚝𝚢.

Dr Sammak reports that 𝟭𝟲𝟮 𝗺𝗲𝗺𝗯𝗲𝗿𝘀 of her extended family have been 𝚔𝚒𝚕𝚕𝚎𝚍 during during Israel’s military assault on 𝙶𝚊𝚣𝚊, including relatives who were sheltering in the Bureij refugee camp.

HRF will seek permission to intervene as amicus curiae (friend of the court) if the proceedings advance, highlighting that head-of-state immunity cannot protect individuals from accountability for serious international crimes. Immunity cannot become a mechanism of 𝗶𝗺𝗽𝘂𝗻𝗶𝘁𝘆.

This private prosecution is a 𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗻𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗽𝗼𝗶𝗻𝘁, representing a rare but legal way to achieve accountability under Australian laws incorporating international criminal norms.

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11/02/2026

‘Rebel MPs’: Sarah Kaine Stephen Lawrence MLC Anthony D'Adam Cameron Murphy MLC say the police cannot investigate themselves — an independent inquiry is essential

11/02/2026

Anthony D'Adam says police culture towards protests must change

11/02/2026

Our co-convenor Peter Moss told News.com.au that Chris Minns has betrayed Labor values and stoked division with his incendiary rhetoric and smears

11/02/2026

Guardian Australia Josh Butler reports:
A group of pro-Palestine Labor members have voiced their “distress and disgust” at the police response to protests over Israeli president Isaac Herzog’s visit to Sydney, accusing the New South Wales government of overseeing a “terrible erosion of civil liberties” in its crackdown on public demonstrations.

In a letter to NSW police minister Yasmin Catley, the Labor Friends of Palestine group – an internal assembly of rank-and-file ALP members – has demanded an independent investigation of the actions of NSW police at Monday’s rally.

“We are disappointed that it is a Labor government – a government we worked to elect – that has presided over the terrible erosion of civil liberties in NSW and we are deeply distressed that it is a Labor government that enabled the violence we saw against protesters at Town Hall last night,” the letter, signed by ordinary Labor members, reads.

In the letter to NSW police minister Catley, the Labor Friends of Palestine group said some of its members were at the protest, and witnessed what they called “numerous examples of police harassment and violence”, including police pushing and shoving protesters, people being thrown to the ground, and a man being pepper sprayed while held down.

“We write to you to express our distress and disgust at the police harassment and violence we experienced and witnessed at last night’s Town Hall protest,” the letter said.

“We must also raise our deep distress at witnessing Muslim comrades being assaulted whilst praying. The police behaviour in this instance was completely unwarranted and utterly reprehensible.

“We call on you to initiate a thorough independent investigation into NSW police behaviour before, during and after the Town Hall protest.

“We also urge you to work with police and civil society representatives to develop a more progressive approach to the policing of protest to ensure that the right to political expression is protected and we never see another protest like the one we experienced yesterday.”

10/02/2026

10/02/2026

Sarah Kaine —‘We do not welcome a man who signs bombs to drop on children. Australia must demand justice for Palestine’