Below is an slightly abridged speech by Janet Parker from Jews For Palestine (J4P) which she delivered outside the United States Consulate in Western Australia on May 23.

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We are here in solidarity with the people of Palestine — a people who have experienced mass cultural erasure, land theft and colonisation and for whom the genocide continues.

We are here at this edifice of the US empire because we are devastated and furious about Israel enacting its very own “final solution” on the beleaguered people of Palestine. I, as a J4P member, use that term very deliberately because we consider that the actions of the Israeli state over the last 18 months constitute a holocaust; one which is reaching a horrifying crescendo.

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