 is what defines representative for the tertiary education union who will be doing the acknowledgement to country. We're over 65,000 years. It's really important to remember that between us as Aboriginal people and what you guys are going through, the same sort of things. Dispossessed by our land, racist attacks of people, the intellectual trauma that we're facing and your kids will face this, your grandkids will face this many years to come. It's really important to remember that in the struggle we've had, the struggle we've reviewed as well, the 60s and 70s and the Palestinian community are a part of that too, supporting us. It's really important that we do support you just like you support us. Solidarity, we had like I said, had that connection and the Serenity communities as well, like the Bidjikul to ourselves, Wombul, Baramadagul, the West as well, Kemeregul, so it's really important to remember that and remember that culture. You live on our land when you go home as well, but seriously, do some research in the past, you're an Aboriginal people, you'll see that we stood up for the struggle as well, like you guys are setting up your struggle. So it's really important that we do know your land and know your elders, elders past, present and emerging and thank you very much. Continue to celebrate the Palestinian resistance. Just until now that the occupation, shame. When they're the victims and being massacred, we're also on the side of the Palestinian oppression, because we know only a struggle against the oppression against the Palestine action group as well. He's just returned from Palestine himself and he has family in Gaza right now. So that's exactly what we're here to protest for. Please welcome Alvin. To the elders past, present and emerging, this land was never seen. Resistance is justified when Palestine is occupied. Resistance is justified as long as Palestine is occupied. Resistance is justified as long as Palestinians continue to face massacres, pogroms, land confiscation in the West Bank, Genine, Nablus, Tolkerem, day in and day out. Resistance is justified as long as more than two millions of Palestinians in Gaza are forced to live in Jerusalem and the surrounding cities are being ethnically cleansed and forced to live under the boots of the Zionist, fascist occupation day in its 75 years. And this system of occupation continues to desecrate the Palestinian sacred sites. Al-Aqsa Mosque, shame. Palestinians have the right to resist this criminal system of occupation, this system of apartheid, this settler colonial regime that is called the state of Israel. I'm not here to cite clauses and provisions from the international law, legitimating this right. I'm not here to confront or debunk the bigoted argument that Hamas is committing terrorist acts of aggression against the state of Israel. I'm not here to explain that Israel is a colonial occupying power and the Palestinians, as the indigenous people, are fighting back and struggling for liberation from decades and decades of living under the boots of the occupation. I'm certainly not here to go on and on about condemning violence, peaceful resolution for the Palestinian question and what's going on on the ground right now. Because in their just liberation struggle, the Palestinian people have every single right to use any means possible, and I mean any means possible, to protect themselves and fight for their rights and frees happening now. What's happening today has been happening for the past 75 years, but the world has just woken up to such a reality because there's Israeli blood being spilled on Palestinian in Palestine now. Because this myth of the army that can never be conquered has been crushed by the Palestinian resistance. This war is not just on Gaza. This war is against Palestinians everywhere in historic Palestine, in Geneva, in Nablus, in Algeria, in Polkerem and everywhere in Jerusalem. It is a war that is enabled by the US, by all these Arab governments who are vying to normalize with the state of Israel. And it's enabled, yes, shame, it's enabled by the EU and its all member states, as well as this country, and support this genocidal apartheid regime. For too long, for too long, the world has a disrespect international law and perpetrate this savage and barbaric regime of apartheid against the Palestinians. And what happened last Saturday was the natural and inevitable outcome. So resistance is definitely justified as long as the Palestinian land is occupied and as long as this apartheid regime system is imposed on Palestinians everywhere. And a member of the Students for Justice in Palestine at Sydney University, please welcome Jasmine. I just want to make one more announcement. And that is that we know that this struggle for freedom in Palestine has been a long one, and it's going to continue to be a long struggle. That have shown, and give it hope, I think, to many people around the world that Israel can be defeated. To back up Israel, we know the US has sent another aircraft carrier to be close to their friend. What about civilian lives, haven't you heard, in the last few days? Yeah, right. So they're planning to send even more weapons to Israel. Realist countries, there's going to be a movement. There already is a mass movement in a bunch of the Arab countries and Muslim countries in the Middle East, rising up against Israel and also against their own regimes that back Israel. They're a prison not just because of Israel, but also because of the Egyptian regime that locks up and imprisons the Palestinians that are off a crossing as well. So that is that we are going to come back and protest again next weekend and all around the world. Please hear coming back. All right, our final spin. Let me go talk to us more. I might go a bit off the cuff. So please excuse me. The first thing I want to say is I've been Palestinian my whole life. Every single day you are faced with the cruel injustice. You are faced with the horrific atrocities that Israel delivers to our people. It's not a surprise. It is not new. This is our reality, all right? So when Gaza was being bombed, it was not something to me that came out through this before. It's not the first time this has happened. But this is the first time come together is because there is very little that I see in the conflict, in the war, in the aggression of the Zionist regime onto our people that moves me to tears. But this morning I cried. And the reason I cried was because I was so of support that so many people on a Monday quote with you had been barred to us that the decision was made to embark on violent forms of political struggle. We did so not because we desired such a course, but solely because the government had left us with no other choice. Who do you think said that? He said that. Do you think it was a Palestinian response from the South African government? Our Tide South Africa's history is occupied Palestine's reality. As a result, the decision by Palestinians to respond to the brutality of the settler Israeli apartheid regime is unsurprising. If you want to know what Palestine and who better to trust than the people who went through it first. If there's any South Africans in the house tonight, please make some noise. And thank you, South Africa. I'm feeling right now. We suffered 75 years of dispossession. We've been denied our rights to life and liberty, loosening occupation by a colonial regime that has perpetrated every kind of atrocity upon us. We have begged and we have pleaded for the world to intervene. We've organized protests. We've organized boycotts. We've given the world so much. We come here and we speak truth. Every single time bombs are dropping on Gaza, we speak truth. We speak truth to power. And we don't shy away from it. But what have we gained in return? Nothing. The world has done nothing to support us. Nonviolent protesters have been criminalized. Governments, including the government of this colonial entity that we call Australia, are tripping over themselves to outlaw boycott, divestment, and sanctions on Israel. Free speech of Palestinians ever before. You tell me when 2,000 civilians were killed in Gaza in 2014, did they light up like in criticize and they can condemn or get to silence us? They don't get to refuse to show any support and solidarity and then claim to have them more justified for as long as Palestine is occupied. It's a kind of unique arrogance on the part of these settlers to think that they can keep a population of 2 million people in Gaza captive indefinitely and expect no consequences for that. Out of her exploding. Palestinians have ever been before you and shed tears over the settlers, the terrified settlers who have sat in years past and cheered on as bombs were dropping on Gaza. They would set up chairs and picnics on the hills to watch the bombs dropping down on us. Disgusting and foreign activists who said, colonialism is violence in its most natural state and it will only be overcome with greater violence. So if you don't like it, if you don't like the violence, what are we going to do? Are we going to have a picnic of our own? Are we going to beg Israel to please be nice, to please stop bombing us? Like we've been calling for decades, if they're not going to listen to international law, if they're not going to listen to the pleading of Palestinians every time we come to these protests, then they cannot act surprised. In resistance or the ability of the resistors, it's because, until liberation, the big defeaters, because... Why have you come here today? Because oppressed people need to support oppressed people and Israel is a colonial, apartheid, genocidal state and it does not represent anything to do with being Jewish at all. It exploited my innocence when I was younger, I was a Zionist and I lived in Israel, I learned the language and then I learned and as soon as I started to learn, I went further and further and I realised the horror of this state, exploiting our trauma from the Holocaust, ruthlessly exploiting us to oppress another people. Deserved the same human and national rights as everybody else. It's the least. It's the least. So to stand up in support is the very least I can do, especially after having been made complicit in their criminality when I was too young to know. I joined in 2014, which was the first time I had a television after many years and I saw Israel's massacre in Gaza and I was glued for 51 days to this horror and that was when I fully and finally separated my Jewishness from this brutality, this occupying, fascist, supremacist brutality. So you're marching today with the... I march today with the Palestinians, just as I march with Aboriginals for justice in this colonial settlement and I will always support them. Thank you very much. Sorry, your name, please. My name is Michelle Birkon. Michelle Birkon. Thank you so much for talking to us. Nice to ask, isn't it?