Janet Parker, from Jews for Palestine Western Australia, delivered the following speech to the Converge on Canberra: Sanction Israel now protest at Parliament House, Canberra, on July 20.

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We come together in rage and in grief both as witnesses and as fierce and unstinting opponents to 22 months of deliberate mass murder.

We can name other genocides … since the Nazis extermination of Jews, but what is different here … is that ... we are seeing it on our screens every minute of every day.

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We are seeing what [Special Rapporteur on Human Rights in the Palestinian territories occupied since 1967] Francesca Albanese described recently as one of the cruellest genocides in modern history.

Jews for Palestine Western Australia recognises what is happening in Palestine today as the holocaust of our time; it is Israel’s final solution to erase the Palestinian people once and for all.

We know the role that our government and other Western governments have played in actively facilitating this holocaust. We understand that our job is to make demands on our own government, in particular, to sanction Israel, to condemn the action of the Israeli state at every level.

Our protests have been significant. Many have........

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