“Israel is writing one of the darkest pages in history,” United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Occupied Palestinian Territories Francesca Albanese said of the genocide against the Palestinian people.

The Special Rapporteur also observed something different about today’s genocide: While it is openly incited, cynically denied, relentlessly supported, armed and weaponised, those opposing it are beaten, criminalised and smeared.

Most people are aware of the limits of international law — that its efficacy is contingent on political will and is, as Albanese posits, in many ways the product of the same inequitable, imperialist system that shields Israel now.

This impunity is accompanied by ever-more determined attempts to criminalise the movement demanding justice.

The 2025 shooting at Bondi unleashed a new authoritarianism, as apologists for Israel seek to blame the pro-Palestine movement for the terrorist attack.

The anti-genocide movement is now being charged with responsibility for the rise in antisemitism and while we acknowledge the rise, we reject the charge.

The anti-genocide movement has consistently condemned antisemitism, as it condemns all forms of racism.

To oppose genocide is not anti-Jewish; opposition to the murderous Israeli state and the political ideology that underpins it — Zionism — is about rejecting an apartheid ethnostate.

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