Hundreds Protest Netanyahu Visit in Sydney
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Voicing anger at the visit of the Zionist Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, hundreds protested at Sydney's Town Hall on Thursday evening.
In the 650-strong crowd, many waved placards and flags and chanted as they moved down Pitt Street and through the central business district while a police helicopter hovered overhead.
Riot police intervened amid tension between different groups. Officers quickly removed a man who approached the crowd yelling "long live ‘Israel'."
ABC reporter Jade Macmillan said a speaker told the protesters Australia was "embarrassing itself" by "rolling out the welcome mat" for Netanyahu.
The rally was organized by Sydney's Palestine Action Group, which accused Netanyahu of being a war criminal and criticized the Australian Prime Minister, Malcolm Turnbull, and his foreign minister, Julie Bishop, for the government's "continued support for ‘Israel's' illegal occupation and war crimes against the Palestinian people".
"We are here to oppose Australia's support for ‘Israel', for a racist apartheid nation," Randa Abdel-Fattah, a pro-Palestinian author and Australian lawyer, told AFP.
"It's disgusting to see that some of our Australian leaders have rolled out the red carpet and welcomed a war criminal into Australia. But there are so many Australians who are against this and we are raising our voices loudly and clearly today, to say Malcolm Turnbull, and Julie Bishop: not in our name."
On Wednesday Netanyahu rebuked two former Australian prime ministers, Bob Hawke and Kevin Rudd, over their calls for Australia to recognize a Palestinian state.
Netanyahu, the first serving ‘Israeli' official to visit Australia in the Zionist entity's history, said his apartheid regime could not abide a Palestinian state that refused to recognize ‘Israel's right to exist.'
Source: News Agencies, Edited by website team
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