Open letter to the Queensland premier David Crissafulli and my local member Di Farmer.
The Queensland Government has blood on its hands. Your government has been subsidising genocide in Palestine by allowing Ferra Engineering to export materiel for bombing Gaza. The government provides payroll tax exemption and grants for development of wing kits for the F35 program.
Queensland is also giving assistance to Boeing, a large weapons company based at 123 Albert St Brisbane. Boeing has 1500 employees in the CBD who manage key surveillance systems like the E-7A Wedgetail on the 737 currently deployed in UAE. Your government is complicit in cimial wars by the United States and Israel against Iran, Lebanon, Palestine, and Iraq, killing and starving innocent people.
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The Queensland government has spent the past two and a half years enabling Queenslanders to look away from the genocide. We will not. We will hold your government responsible.
I’m writing as a Queensland constituent about the Fighting Antisemitism and Keeping Guns Out of the Hands of Terrorists and Criminals Amendment Bill 2026.
This act was passed at the same time as Australia is committing troops to the United Arab Emirates to support the US and Israeli war against Iran. The International Criminal Court is investigating actions taken by the US and Israel against Iran as possible war crimes, a claim also supported by the United Nations. The new laws act to restrict Queenslanders from speaking about this same conflict.
I’m writing because I believe the Australian government cannot and should not criminalise legitimate political speech in support of Palestine and in opposition to war crimes.
This law was not designed to keep people safe. It was designed to protect the government from criticism about its foreign policy. That is not what Australian laws are for. It has also had the opposite effect to what is intended, exposing Jewish Queenslanders to real antisemitism especially from the far-right.
This act should be repealed, and the Queensland Government should instead engage in real consultation with all impacted communities to determine a path forward that could genuinely work to improve social cohesion.
I’m demanding that you to review this bill and answer a simple question: whose interests does it serve?
Yours sincerely,
Ian Curr
29 Fryar St, Camp Hill QLD 4152, Australia
There are 10,000 Nelson Mandela’s in Israeli prisons . They are Palestinians resisting Israel’s occupation of the land from the river Jordan to the Mediterranean Sea . This week, Israeli ministers wore pins with nooses as the government legalised executions of Palestinians — and Western governments are still giving Israel preferential trade especially in weapons and bombs. Having committed genocide in Gaza and raised whole towns in Southern Lebanon, carpet bombing Tehran and settlers murderers terrorising Palestinians in the West Bank, Israel now wants to execute 10,000 Palestinian prisoners in its cruel jails.
In the Knesset, lawmakers have pushed forward plans to execute Palestinian detainees — inside a military system where conviction rates reach 99%, and thousands are already locked behind bars.
The EU bans the death penalty outright and makes human rights a core condition of its trade deal. That means this deal can be suspended — immediately — when those principles are violated. And that pressure could help stop this law before executions are carried out.
Tell the EU: suspend the EU–Israel trade deal now — and use every lever to rescind this law.
The EU–Israel Association Agreement isn’t unconditional. It includes a binding clause that makes respect for human rights an “essential element” of the deal — meaning the EU has the legal basis to suspend it if those obligations are breached.
EU officials have already raised serious concerns about war crimes in Gaza. Now, with Israel moving to bring back executions, that breach is becoming even harder to ignore.
The EU has taken action like this before — suspending agreements with other countries over human rights violations. And as the EU is Israel’s largest trading partner, pressure is building: across Europe, a majority of Europeans support suspending the deal.
No trade with executioners. No trade with war criminals.
Let’s make this impossible for EU leaders to look away.
Add your name — and tell the EU to act.
https://action.eko.org/a/suspend-the-eu-israel-association-agreement-10?akid=157312.23210305.dsUUXJ&rd=1&source=fwd&t=28