Free Palestine Melbourne’s recent forum, How the labour movement can stand with Palestine, held on 14 August 2025, was attended by over 170 unionists and supporters, and another 1000 watching online. The meeting voted unanimously to support the union contingent at the upcoming nationwide March For Palestine on 24 August and to call for sanctions […]
Read MoreStatement on the Australian Government’s Announcement to Recognise the State of Palestine
12 August 2025: For 22 months, the Palestine movement has campaigned against the Israeli governments Genocide, calling for a permanent ceasefire and the imposing of immediate sanctions on the State of Israel. To end the bloodshed of innocent men, women, and children.
Read MoreStatement on the Assassination of Al Jazeera Journalists in Gaza
11 August 2025: Free Palestine Melbourne fiercely condemns the deliberate and cold-blooded assassination of five Al Jazeera journalists by the terrorist Israeli occupation forces.
Read MoreStatement on Israel’s Approval of Full Occupation of Gaza and the Escalation of Genocide
9 August 2025 – Free Palestine Melbourne expresses its unwavering solidarity with the courageous people of Gaza. We salute their steadfastness in the face of genocide, ethnic cleansing, and starvation at the hands of the terrorist Israeli regime.
Read MoreStatement on the Freedom Flotilla and the Safety of Australian Citizen Robert Martin
17 July 2025: Free Palestine Melbourne is deeply concerned by the Australian government’s silence regarding the Freedom Flotilla vessel Handala, carrying desperately needed humanitarian supplies to the besieged, brutalised people of the Gaza Strip.
Read MoreStatement: On the Antisemitism Report and the Prime Minister’s Response
10 July 2025: We are deeply alarmed by Prime Minister Anthony Albanese’s embrace of recommendations that would see public funding withheld from universities, media organisations, and arts institutions unless they adopt a deeply contested definition of antisemitism—one that dangerously conflates criticism of Israel with hatred of Jews.
Read MoreStatement: FPM condemns attack on the East Melbourne Synagogue
8 July 2025: Free Palestine Melbourne condemns in the strongest possible terms the attack on the East Melbourne Synagogue.
Read MoreMedia Release: Melbourne Man Joins Flotilla to Break the Siege of Gaza
7 July 2025: Rob Martin, a retired businessman from Clyde North, will fly to Italy tomorrow to join the international campaign to break Israel’s siege of the Gaza Strip.
Read MoreFPM Statement: Condemnation of Israeli military strikes on the Islamic Republic of Iran
13 June 2025: Free Palestine Melbourne strongly condemns the recent military strikes carried out by the Israeli occupation against the Islamic Republic of Iran, which resulted in the killing of civilians, including women and children, and targeted both civilian and strategic sites.
Read MoreMedia Release: Australian Government Must Respond to Abduction of Gaza-Bound Aid Workers by Israel
9 June 2025: Free Palestine Melbourne condemns the Israeli military’s unlawful interception and abduction of international volunteers aboard the Madleen, a civilian aid vessel operated by the Freedom Flotilla Coalition. The ship was in international waters, en route to deliver urgently needed humanitarian aid to Gaza, when it was stormed by Israeli forces and diverted to Israel.
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