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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
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Sarah Malik

Sydney’s huge Gaza protest shows there’s now no stopping the tide of public opinion

The Sydney Harbour Bridge Gaza march
The Sydney Harbour Bridge Gaza march: ‘a picture of what these maligned and villainised protests really are: peaceful, powerful, loving declarations of freedom and democracy in action.’ Photograph: Saeed Khan/AFP/Getty Images

The rain couldn’t stop us. At least 100,000 people took over the CBD and marched across Sydney’s Harbour Bridge to protest Israel’s continued genocide in Gaza. And it felt like a collective wave of energy, hope and determination against institutional and governmental intransigence, denial, obfuscation and enabling that has so many of us feeling despairing, disgusted and disquieted.

Why aren’t they listening? How is this horror continuing unabated with impunity? Why won’t Australia impose sanctions and call for arms embargos against Israel’s senseless murder of civilians, unleashed by some of the most methodical and lethal autonomous weaponry on Earth and AI machines directing bombs, as claimed by intelligence sources?

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