Adelaide rally in support of Palestinians calls for action not words by Australian government

Written by: Ned K. on 28 September 2025

On Sunday 28 September, about 1500 people rallied and marched through city streets in support of Palestinian people's struggle against the Zionist state of Israel.

This rally was a "warm-up" to the National Day of Action for a Free Palestine on Sunday 12 October 2025.

The 1500 people included many Middle Eastern Australians from Palestine and nearby countries and a larger number of young people, some with children, an indication of widening support for the Palestinian people.

The main speaker was a Palestinian health worker in Adelaide, accompanied by her children and her father. Her father carried two signs supporting the flotilla headed towards Gaza with food, clothing and medical supplies. His daughter told the crowd assembled that her father had fled his Palestinian homeland as a very small child 77 years ago and that he had never given up hope that he and his family would return to a Palestine and the end of the Zionist state of Israel which was formed in the year he fled as a child refugee with his family.

His daughter also explained that her brother was on one of the ships in the Flotilla which was being targeted by Israeli Defense Force drones even while still in international waters!

Another speaker from Adelaide University student activist group read out the latest news from Italy and Germany. 

A general strike in Italy locking down all the Italian ports as well as major industries in 80 cities and towns across the country.  

While in Germany an estimated 100,000 people took to the streets to demand action by western governments, not just words against the genocide of Palestinians in Gaza.

The convenor of AFOPA also spoke and pointed out that it was the resilience of Palestinians and world-wide support for Palestinians that had forced some western governments, including the Australian government, to take the lowest common denominator "action" of verbal recognition of a Palestinian state, a state with so many qualifications and restrictions. He and other speakers said the latest move by these governments was all about how to control the mass movement against Israel and how to maintain the Zionist state of Israel under the guise of verbal recognition of a state of Palestine that would be more like a barbed wire prison than a free Palestine.

FREE, FREE PALESTINE and SANCTION ISRAEL NOW was the people's response in support of the speakers.

People then marched in high spirits through the sunny streets of Adelaide in Spring with a spring in their steps!

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