Teachers and School Staff for Palestine - NSW

  • Forum: Eyewitness to Genocide What Can Unions Do?

    • Gadigal Country/Sydney

    Hear from Sameeh Naser a Palestinian-Australian who returned to live in Gaza in 1999. Recently, he was displaced from his home in Gaza City as Israel’s bombs rained down; arriving in Australia in December. He remains in touch with his extended family still in danger in Gaza. The meeting will be held on ground floor of MUA offices. Organised by…

  • Eyewitness report on West Bank

    • Burramattagal/Parramatta

    Speakers include: Maxie Gallo - a teacher from a Palestinian background recently returned from five weeks in the West Bank. The West Bank, with a population of around 3 million Palestinians has been occupied by Israel since 1967. An occupation that the International Court of Justice has found to be illegal, called for all Israeli settlers to…

  • Wear a keffiyeh in Harmony Week

    • New South Wales

    "Harmony Week" in schools is traditionally a week to celebrate multi-culturalism in NSW schools. With the NSW Education Department trying to suppress Palestinian identity by banning the keffiyeh (the Palestinian Scarf), we are going to say NO TO RACISM, by wearing our keffiyeh in schools proudly in solidarity. We also wear it in solidarity with Palestinians who have faced…

  • Vigil Rally at Federal Education Minister's Office

    • Gadigal Country/Sydney
    • Western Sydney

    Federal Education Minister Jason Clare should call for an immediate permanent ceasefire His electorate of Blaxland has the highest ratio of Arabic (Lebanese) peoples in the country. But he has been silent as to the genocide in Gaza, other than to speak against students taking strike action in support of their dead and injured families This vigil asks for Jason Clare to call for an…

  • Rally: Stop silencing Palestine in NSW schools

    • Burramattagal/Parramatta

    Join our rally to tell the Education Department to stop silencing Palestine in NSW schools. Speakers include: Abigail Boyd Greens MLC Lena Mozayani - teacher from Palestinian background from Teachers & School Staff for Palestine Miriam - PSA for Palestine Angus Dermody - USYD student & Students Against War activist suspended for speaking up for Gaza as part of the…

  • Rally to defend Fatima Payman

    • Gadigal Country/Sydney

    Senator Fatima Payman took a principled stand to cross the floor to vote in favour of immediate Palestinian statehood against the Parliamentary ALP. Anthony Albanese’s shameful response was to sanction her- suspending her from the Parliamentary caucus. Her resignation from the ALP soon followed. Albanese should be sanctioning Israel in response to its genocide in Gaza, not Payman…

  • RALLY: Human Rights Day rally at Federal Education Minister Jason Clare's office

    • Western Sydney

    Action called by Canterbury Bankstown Teachers Association (NSWTF). Teachers & School Staff for Palestine will join the Human Rights Day rally at Federal Education Minister Jason Clare's office. The rally is protesting the lack of federal school funding and the situation faced by refugees from Palestine in Australia. Event by Teachers and School Staff for Palestine…

  • Forum: Fighting the backlash against Palestinian solidarity

    • Western Sydney

    Speakers: Teacher Wasim El-Haj - a Palestinian-Australian teacher and member of NSWTF council, was banned from wearing the keffiyeh at Sydney Girls High School, after wearing it without issue for months. He was then forced out of his job by the NSW Education Department. Sheik Wesam Charkawi - convenor of the Muslim vote, was…

  • Stop silencing Palestine in schools!

    • Gadigal Country/Sydney

    Join us for this rally against the silencing of Palestine in schools. Staff and students are standing up against this repression. Students have organised walkouts at a number of schools protesting against the repression of solidarity with Palestinians. They will be joining us to tell their stories. Teachers in NSW have been prevented by the NSW Education Department from showing…

  • Rally to end NSW government complicity in the genocide in Gaza

    • Gadigal Country/Sydney

    Drop the charges on Palestine activists Repeal the anti-protest laws Stop arming genocide - end support for F35 production in NSW Stop silencing Palestine supporters in schools & the public service Boycott HP Cut all ties with Israel Speakers include: Paul Keating, MUA Sydney Branch Abigail Boyd, Greens MLC -Maxie Gallow, Teacher recently returned…

  • Rally: Stop anti-Palestinian racism in schools!

    • Western Sydney

    Speakers include: Wasim El-Haj - teacher from Palestinian background facing discrimination for wearing a keffiyeh Rally Chair - Gabrielle Maait from Teachers & School Staff for Palestine more tba Anti-Palestinian, anti-Arab, and anti-Muslim racism continues to be a feature of NSW schools. One visible expression of this is the suppression of wearing the keffiyeh, the…