Pro-Palestine Protestors Scale Australia’s Parliament House

Radical pro-Palestine protesters hang banners from the top of Parliament House in Canberra, Australia on July 4, 2024. (AAP Image/Lukas Coch)

Pro-Palestinian protestors scaled the roof of Australia’s federal Parliament House in the latest action by the radical activists.

On July 4, the Renegade Activists climbed onto the roof of the nation’s parliament and unfurled three banners in solidarity with the Palestinian cause, Aboriginal Australians, while also condemning supposed U.S. imperialism.

The group chanted, “From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free,” as well as, “From the sea to the river, Palestine will live forever.”

The activists soon ended the protest and were escorted away by police.

It is the latest incident instigated by radical activists supposedly in support of Palestinians.

In mid-June, protestors lit a fire and spray-painted the office of Jewish Labor MP Josh Burns in inner-city Melbourne.

“It’s a reflection of eight months of my team turning up to work and being abused and screamed at, and I’ve got really good people who are working for me,” Mr. Burns told media.

Just days earlier, the U.S. Consulate in Sydney was also heavily damaged after protestors swung a sledgehammer at the front entrance and spray-painted red triangles on the glass—the symbols are used in videos circulated by Hamas’s military wing to identify Israeli military targets.

In response to the latest incident in Canberra, shadow home affairs spokesperson James Paterson questioned the security measures around Parliament House.

“This is serious breach of the Parliament’s security, the building was modified at great expense to prevent incursions like this,” he wrote on X.