Organisers hope gatherings in Sydney and Melbourne will give a voice to ‘values’ not reflected in mainstream discussions
They gathered in coats and scarves in the dwindling light on a little hill in Bondi, a coalition of 100 or so, accompanied by dogs and children.
They expected no more than a dozen. But supporters continued to get on board until numbers exceeded 150 in the two cities.Photograph: Mike Bowers/The Guardian“I’ve personally had a number of conversations over the last few weeks with people in our community who are feeling really isolated right now … who haven’t seen their values, a call to end violence and protect civilian life, reflected in mainstream discussions about this war.
“As a community a lot of Jews don’t want the grief we are still feeling to be used justification for taking innocent lives,” she said.“It very much feels there haven’t been spaces you can mourn both the loss of Jewish and Israeli life and the loss of Palestinian life and call for the end to violence at the same time.She acknowledged there was fear about rising antisemitism was deterring people in the Jewish Australian community from turning up to public actions.
“Once violence enters into the world it can not be put back,” it read. “As many of us know, we carry it for generations.”
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