Pine Gap protesters say Palestinians and Indigenous peoples share ‘same interests’

Pro-Palestinian protesters last week blocked the entrance to Pine Gap. They were there to support Palestine, support Judaism, and oppose the Israeli state.

Pro-Palestine activists stage a blockade at the Pine Gap facility (Image: Facebook/Territorians for Palestine)

Pro-Palestinian protesters who blocked the entrance of Australia’s Northern Territory-based joint US defence facility with the permission of Traditional Owners said that Indigenous people in Australia shared a strong anti-colonial affinity with Palestinians.

“The colonised people here and the colonised people there share the same grievances, the same hopes, the same dreams and ultimately the same interests,” independent Arrernte artist Declan Furber Gillick, who was one of the protesters blocking the entrance on Friday, told Crikey.

“In my view, [those interests are] access to and sovereignty over our native lands.”

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