9 October 2025: This Sunday (12/10) another Nationwide March for Palestine will flood the streets of more than 27 cities and towns across Australia, marking two years of the genocide in Gaza.
Read MoreResolution: Victorian Labour Movement Stands in Solidarity with Palestine
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 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 MoreTransport to Converge on Canberra event
20-22 July 2025: Free Palestine Melbourne (FPM) is organising some transport from Melbourne/Naarm to the Converge On Canberra event and return. Please read the following details before making your registration.
Read MoreMedia Report 2025.05.25 Additional item
Australia has a proud history of standing up against human catastrophe. Gaza should be no exception https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/may/24/australia-gaza-palestinians?utm_term=683128273647fe28bbb88a7531c4b1fc&utm_campaign=GuardianTodayAUS&utm_source=esp&utm_medium=Email&CMP=GTAU_email Ed Husic Last Monday the UK, Canada and France deliberately issued the strongest joint statement to date about what they said was the “intolerable” level of human suffering in Gaza. It is a further sign that many of […]
Read MoreEndless onslaught: Would Israel’s Mordechai be attacked as ‘antisemitic’ in Australia?
Haaretz, Israel’s oldest and most widely known newspaper, has just published a long, roughly 8,000 word feature article, about the work of Lee Mordechai, the Associate Professor of History at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. He has compiled on line a massive report entitled “Bearing Witness to the Israel-Gaza War.” The English translation of the […]
Read MoreMany of Israel’s Western supporters indicate they would arrest Netanyahu. Will Australia and NZ follow suit?
Ever since the October 7 2023 Hamas terrorist attack on Israel, the Albanese government has consistently said Australia respects Israel’s right to defend itself, but how it does so matters. To an international lawyer, those words are code for simultaneously exercising the right of self defence and respecting international humanitarian law. In effect, remaining compliant […]
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