This Sunday, 7 June 2026, pro-Palestine movements in Sydney are holding a rally at Hyde Park North at 1pm.
The gathering will hear Anny Mokotow and Juliet Lamont from the Global Sumud Flotilla speak about the goals of the Flotilla. They will also address the implications of their treatment when intercepted by Israel and some next steps for the movement.
Flotilla participants see their interception in international waters and mistreatment in prison ships and on land by Israel as unwarranted. These events are overshadowed by the entitlement, cruelty, disregard for international law and overreach that have characterised Israeli abuse of Palestinian civilians and Israeli attacks on bordering nations across decades.
Key objectives of the Australian delegation are:
1. Government Ministers meet with Flotilla Survivors of Israeli violence and sexual assault
2. Expel the Israeli Ambassador for misleading or wilfully lying to Australians
3. Immediately stop all military trade and cooperation with Israel
4. Australia to investigate abuses by Israeli government agencies independently.
5. End military participation by dual citizens.
Flotilla survivors have provided accounts to lawyers, undergone medical examinations and continue to pursue justice and accountability. Evidence from the Australian delegation has been submitted to the International Criminal Court or ICC.
Despite repeated requests, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has not opted to meet with the survivors or publicly condemn Israel’s treatment of Australian humanitarian volunteers sailing with the Global Sumud Flotilla and Freedom Flotilla Coalition. Nor has the treatment of Palestinian civilians been consistently condemned.
Foreign Minister Senator Penny Wong has yet to make good on her promise to meet flotilla participants having been cornered by Senators Shoebridge, Pocock and Faruqi in Senate Estimates last Thursday.
Biographies:
An Australian mother, documentary filmmaker, poet, and environmentalist from the Northern Rivers. This was the second time that Juliet was aboard the Global Sumud Flotilla (October 2025, and May 2026) and was joined by her daughter Isla. She was head of the Australian delegation. Juliet alleges she was sexually assaulted as well as beaten, dragged and abused by Israel during four days of detainment.
Anny is a dancer, an academic, a Jewish anti-Zionist organiser, and a grandmother from Melbourne. Anny was raised in Melbourne’s Jewish Bundist community by Polish Holocaust survivors who built a life grounded in equality, workers’ rights, and responsibility to others. She was taught that suffering must never be ignored – and that Jewish ethics demand solidarity, not silence.
Updates on Global Sumud Flotilla are here:
