A Statement of Solidarity and Refusal
We stand with those who took the streets of Sydney against the genocide in Palestine. We stand with those who refused the visit of a representative of a settler-colonial ethno-state. We stand with those met not by dialogue, but by pepper spray, intimidation, and police violence. For many, this repression came as a shock. In Australia, brutality is meant to happen elsewhere. Dissent here is supposed to be polite, fragmented, exhausted. What unfolded was no error. No excess. No failure. It was the state recognising a refusal it could no longer safely ignore.