Jana Fayyad

Jana Fayyad

Organiser, Palestine Action Group Sydney · Sydney, NSW, Australia
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Jana Fayyad is an organiser with the Palestine Action Group (PAG) in Sydney. In April 2024 the ABC profiled her as having protested for 27 consecutive weeks and "organising pro-Palestinian rallies in Sydney"; she said: "The power of our mobilisation has been very successful" (ABC, 9 Apr 2024).

At a Sydney Palestine rally on 10 March 2024, the day after the International Women's Day rally, she told the crowd: "On this International Women's Day, we don't think of Margaret Thatcher, we don't think of Ursula von der Leyen, we don't think of Hillary Clinton... we think of Dr. Amira Al-Asouly! We think of the woman that we honor, the woman in Gaza, and beyond the woman in Gaza, we think of Leila Khaled! The woman on the forefront of Palestinian liberation!" Leila Khaled is a member of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine who took part in two airliner hijackings (1969 and 1970). Fayyad also asked Western feminists: "Are you only progressive until Palestine?" (video; Green Left, March 2024).

At the weekly Sydney CBD rally on 20 October 2024, three days after Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar was killed, she told the crowd: "He died a warrior's death amongst his men... in defense of his land... against a genocidal invader and occupier and colonizer. In his death, he became a legend, a legend to be told for centuries, for his story will live on to inspire, to inspire resistance all around the world." The Australian reported the speech the same day, describing the speaker as unidentified and quoting her: "We will never forget you (Sinwar) and we will never forget your legend... the resistance lives on." Drew Pavlou named her the following day.

Hamas's 7 October 2023 attack, which Sinwar is regarded as having masterminded, killed about 1,200 people in Israel and took 251 hostages.

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