Amal Naser

Amal Naser

Spokesperson and organiser, Palestine Action Group Sydney · Sydney, NSW, Australia
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Amal Naser is a spokesperson and organiser for the Palestine Action Group (PAG) Sydney, alongside Josh Lees.

Hamas's attack on Israel on 7 October 2023 killed about 1,200 people and took 251 hostages. On 4 October 2024, at a PAG press conference with Lees ahead of the first anniversary, she said: "The genocide started on October 7. Well, this phase of the genocide started on October 7... On October 7, over 200 Palestinians were killed in airstrikes... it is very clear that the call for genocide started on this day... we have a right to declare that this is the anniversary of the start of this genocide." In the same press conference she called any suggestion that Lebanese people were "infiltrating" the movement "absolutely disgusting". PAG's candlelight vigil on 7 October 2024 went ahead after police withdrew a court application to stop it (ABC).

In October 2025 she was the named organiser in Commissioner of Police v Naser. Days after the second anniversary of October 7, the NSW Court of Appeal prohibited PAG's planned march to the Sydney Opera House, finding the risk to public safety "so significant that it would be irresponsible to allow the public assembly to proceed". She called the police action racist; the march went to Belmore Park instead (ABC, AAP).

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