Why didn’t the Sumud flotilla go down the Nile River to Sudan. They are needed there. – Peter Robinson.
This person is demonstrating common ignorance of both Palestine and Sudan.
1. Geography. It is not possible to navigate along the Nile to al Fashir where Darfurian people are being murdered by the RSF.
2. Sudan is engulfed in an genocidal proxy war.
3. Palestine is suffering a genocide by Israeli occupation forces supported by the majority of the citizens of Israel and by the United States government.
4. The Sumud flotilla sailed to Palestine bringing aid on the invitation of the people of Gaza.
Here is a Palestinian woman showing solidarity with the Sudanese people. If all the people like Peter Robinson who have lectured the Palestine Solisarty movement: “Why don’t you support Sudan?” then this rally would have been huge. As it turned out the Sudanese community turned up and people who support Justice for Palestine and none of the Peter Robinson’s of this world.
This what the Palestinian woman had to say:
“I’d like to pay my respects to the elders past and present, and my acknowledgement I also recognize the responsibility that comes with it, the stand always was, always will be Aboriginal land. It’s such an incredible honour to speak here today. I was just asked to speak, and I said, Hell yeah, I’m going to stand here as a Palestinian woman who understands what it means to have my own land stolen, my own people massacred, and our own resources extracted under the name of colonialism and under the banner of peace and civilization.
There is no peace with RSF.
There is no peace with colonialism.
There is no peace with capitalism.
We stand against all of these systems that keep us apart, but us standing here today is a testament to our ability as humans to stand in solidarity with each other, despite all the systems and all the corruption that tries to keep us apart, and everyone puts in to explain what is happening.
What is happening in our homeland and what’s happening there is not separate from our lives here on this stolen land.
It is not separate from each other. It is the most tremendous aspect of our being to think of our lives as separate from each other, as separate from the lives of our brothers and sisters and siblings in our homeland.
If they’re hurting, we’re hurting here.
If they’re suffering, we’re suffering here.
Justice will prevail. Thank you very much.
And when they’re thriving, we’ll thrive here. And it’s our responsibility to keep resisting and standing in solidarity to ensure that this world is a just world, and peace not not just some word that colonialists and top capitalists will wave on our faces when our people are being massacred and the 10s of 1000s, we will ensure that justice prevails in us standing in slow dialog with each other, from a Palestinian to all of my Sudanese siblings here and in Sudan.
I stand in solidarity with you.
I see you, I hear you and we will prevail.
Report by Ian Curr with much thanks to K. for video etc
21 Dec 2025