Janet Parker, from Jews for Palestine, gave the following speech to the protest against Israeli President Isaac Herzog on February 9 in Boorloo/Perth.

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I want to acknowledge the Traditional Owners of the land on which we meet; this land never ceded. Always was and always will be Aboriginal land.

I want to acknowledge the links between the occupation and colonisation of Aboriginal land and the occupation and genocide of the indigenous peoples of the lands of Palestine.

Both peoples have experienced mass cultural erasure, land theft and colonisation — and the genocide continues.

The two struggles are written in blood and great injustice.

What is the last thing you would do when you want to calm a situation of fear, anxiety and division?

Answer: Drop a political bomb in the middle of it!

That is the impact of Anthony Albanese’s invitation to the genocide-inciting Isaac Herzog and the war criminal Doron Almog.

I want to be very clear; we extend our full solidarity to the victims and survivors of the horrific massacre at Bondi. We condemn the senseless, indiscriminate killing of civilians in all circumstances.

But let us dwell for a moment on our slogan that emerged in the days after the Bondi killings: “Wrong in Bondi, Wrong in Gaza”.

In addition to condemning the killing of 15 Jewish civilians at........

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