[Janet Parker, from Jews for Palestine WA, gave the following speech to an emergency protest in Boorloo, called by Friends of Palestine WA on February 7.]

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I pay my respects not just to the First Nations people of this land, but to the people of Palestine.

Always was, always will be Aboriginal land.

Palestine always was, always will be Palestinian land; from the river to the sea.

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