Free Palestine Newcastle

27/10/2026

On the 26th and 27th of November, Waverley Council will co-host a ‘local government summit’ with the Combat Antisemitism Movement (CAM).

For those who aren't aware of CAM, it is a global organisation which operates in 40 countries. It has headquarters in the US but has very close ties to Israel. One of its aims is to introduce the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) definition of antisemitism and implant it in all levels of government, policing, law, education and health. Its aim at its local government conferences is to impose the IHRA definition across communities at a grassroots level. The IHRA definition can be misused to conflate criticism of Israel with antisemitism.

APAN - Australia Palestine Advocacy Network is urging us to contact our local councillors and ask them not to attend this event.

To make it easy, APAN has provided a template you can use, including links the recipient can access for more information on CAM, the event itself, and why an organisation attached to genocidal state is problematic.

Use the councillors' email addresses and letter template on the page linked to in the comments to send your email today!

22/10/2026

Tower Cinemas - Newcastle has kindly offered two free double-passes for their upcoming preview screenings of the documentary 'American Doctor' to give away!

SYNOPSIS: "Across late 2024 and early 2025, three doctors from the United States – Jewish orthopaedic surgeon Mark Perlmutter, Zoroastrian trauma surgeon Feroze Sidhwa and Palestinian emergency doctor Thaer Ahmad – worked in hospitals in the Gaza Strip trying to save some of the many lives being destroyed by the US-backed Israeli Defence Forces. Back home in North America, they attempt to reconcile these experiences with their day-to-day lives, as they also strive to raise awareness in the face of a world that would much prefer to look away."

If you'd like to win a double-pass, just leave a comment on this post or on the post on our Instagram. You must 'follow' our Facebook/Instagram to enter. The winners will be drawn next week. Session times are 4:45pm each day from the 5th-8th November, so you must be able to make it to one of those times.

13/10/2026

Direct from winning the Special Jury Prize at the Venice Film Festival, NAZA arrives at Tower Cinemas on October 15.
Shot at night on the rooftops of Tel Aviv, NAZA reveals in detail the systems behind Israel’s calculated mass killing of Palestinian civilians in Gaza.

The critically acclaimed film, produced with the team behind the Zone of Interest and directed by Oscar-winning film-makers Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor, includes testimony from 24 Israeli military insiders, shot at night on the rooftops of Tel Aviv. Abraham and Szor are the two Israeli directors of the four behind No Other Land, which won the Oscar for Best Documentary in 2025.

Tickets on sale now: https://www.fivestarcinemas.com.au/newcastle/movie/naza

11/10/2026

Global Day for Gaza in Muloobinba/Newcastle today, joining cities around the world in protesting 3 years of ongoing genocide against Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank.

Our government remains complicit in this heinous crime.

We won't stop until Palestine is free! Sanction Israel! End the two-way arms trade!

20/05/2026

Snap rally for the flotilla, 5:30pm TODAY

30/04/2026

Organised by UoN students for Palestine:

The IDF has illegally intercepted the Gaza Sumud Flotilla and has likely captured the activists on board.

We are calling on the Australian government to use all means at their disposal to bring about the safe return of the 14 Australian citizens.

The Labor party's obsequious attitude towards Israel has so far led to their complicity in genocide, and unless that changes now, will also lead to the torture of Australian citizens. This has to end.

Join us Friday, May 1st, 6pm, outside NUSpace.

The IDF has illegally intercepted the Gaza Sumud Flotilla and has likely captured the activists on board. We are calling on the Australian government to use all means at their disposal to bring about the safe return of the 14 Australian citizens. The Labor party's obsequious attitude towards Israel

30/04/2026

Snap rally TODAY in Newcastle, called by UoN students for Palestine:

The Gaza Freedom Flotilla has been illegally intercepted in international waters off the coast of Greece by the Israeli navy. On-board are political activists from Brisbane, Sydney, and Newcastle. We're meeting at Sharon Claydon's office to show that Labor's support for genocide will not go unchallenged in Newcastle.

28/04/2026

14/04/2026

انضموا إلينا في يوم الأسير الفلسطيني، يوم الجمعة 17 أبريل، أمام مكتب شارون كلايدون ابتداءً من الساعة التاسعة صباحًا.

شاركونا غضبكم وحزنكم ورعبكم، احتجاجًا على تواطؤ حزب العمال وتقاعسه، بينما تُقرّ إسرائيل، المستوطنة غير الشرعية، قوانين عقوبة الإعدام التي تُعدّ إبادة جماعية بحق الفلسطينيين.

يُعاني أكثر من عشرة آلاف فلسطيني (بمن فيهم أطفال) من أفظع أنواع التعذيب في معسكرات التعذيب الإسرائيلية.

نُقرّ بأنّ السجن والقتل في الأسرى أساليب إبادة جماعية استُخدمت (ولا تزال تُستخدم) في هذه القارة لأكثر من 200 عام.

Join us on Palestinian Prisoner's Day this Friday 17th April outside Sharon Claydon's office from 9am

Bring your outrage, heartache, and horror as we protest Labor's complicit inaction while the illegal settler colony of israel passes genocidal death penalty laws for Palestinians.

Suffering the most horrific torture, over ten thousand Palestinians (including children) are currently suffering in israeli torture camps

We acknowledge that incarceration and captive murder are genocidal tactics that have been (and continue to be) used on this continent for over 200 years