Watch: police violently remove elderly Palestine flag-holders from NSW Labor conference

Australian police have violently removed two elderly people from the Labor party’s New South Wales conference. Their ‘crime’ was to hold a Palestinian flag:

NSW Police have forcibly removed a Palestinian flag at NSW Labor State Conference. #auspol #nswconference pic.twitter.com/5achLZTwSK

— Oscar Thompson (@oscarjthompson) July 4, 2026

Familiar scenes

The scenes are reminiscent of the removal of Walter Wolfgang from a UK Labour conference under Blair for daring to heckle then-home secretary Jack Straw over the illegal Iraq war:

They are also reminiscent of the violent removal of an anti-genocide protester from Labour’s 2024 annual conference under Keir Starmer.

And they may remind readers of Starmer’s tactic of placing armed police at the end of each row in Labour’s 2021 conference, in an attempt to intimidate potential protesters:

The gang of officers posted themselves at the end of each of the rows of seats, and then walked through each line to stand at the side of the next block.
This is intimidation. pic.twitter.com/UOtikPX1ls

— #GetActive #JoinYourUnion #CeasefireNow (@BonnieCraven) September 29, 2021

The common thread? Labor in Australia and Labour in the UK are slavish supporters of Israel and run by thin-skinned politicians who hate criticism. So much so that the Australian government is trying to make ‘ratioing’ the government a crime. The Starmer regime is going further, giving itself and future regimes power to imprison people even for quoting facts from a group the government dislikes.

As in the UK and the EU, Australian police have used shocking brutality against peaceful anti-genocide protesters. Israel’s crimes in Gaza have forced western ‘democracies’ to expose their real nature and priorities.

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