Friends of Palestine Tasmania Inc is a not-for-profit community organisation working to engage Tasmanians in promoting a just peace for the Palestinian people based on international law and UN resolutions. We live and work on unceded Aboriginal land.
Coming events
Wednesday 17 september 6pm
Palestinians Don’t Need Sidewalks - a powerful documentary by Dare to Struggle that shares on-the-ground stories of life under occupation in Palestine, and the strength of those resisting apartheid and genocide. Followed by discussion about what more can be done in our Parliaments to help end the genocide. With Senator Nick McKim, Tasmanian Palestine Advocacy Network (TPAN) and Tasmanian Greens Leader Dr Rosalie Woodruff .
Wednesday 17 September – Doors 6:00pm, Screening 6:30pm
Moonah Arts Centre – fully accessible venue. Light nibbles and drinks provided
https://contact-tas.greens.org.au/civicrm/event/register?id=22624
Organised by TPAN and the Greens.
Wednesday 24 September 6pm
Tim McCormack is Professor of International Law at the UTas Law School and former Special Adviser on War Crimes to the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court in The Hague (2010-2024).
He completed his PhD on the Scope of the Right of Anticipatory Self-Defence and used the 1982 Israeli Bombing of the Iraqi Nuclear Reactor as his principal case study. In 1989 he was the inaugural Australian recipient of the Golda Meir Postdoctoral Fellowship to the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and from 2011 to 2013 he served as an international observer on the Government of Israel's Turkel Commission of Inquiry into Israel's Mechanisms for Investigating Alleged War Crimes.
From 2009 to 2011 he advised World Vision Australia in relation to an unfounded allegation by Shurat HaDin - a right wing Israeli organisation - of diversion of funds to a terrorist organisation in Gaza and between 2016 and 2024 he advised World Vision International in relation to the Israeli trial of Mohammed el Halabi - a former WVI manager in Gaza charged with diversion of aid funds to Hamas.
Tassie Dads Run Bruny Island Ultra Marathon
November 29 –Tassie Dads Run Bruny Island Ultra Marathon for Palestine. Bruny Island and Gaza are roughly the same size, around 360 km² - a group of dads will run the ultra marathon, fundraising for PANZMA (Palestinian Australian New Zealand Medical Association)
— you can support by donating at https://panzma.org/where-most-needed/ - reference “Tassie Dads”
Launceston for Palestine
Saturdays Honk for Gaza
Bunnings Intersection
Check Launceston For Palestine Facebook page for latest details