Tasnim Sammak is a Melbourne Palestinian activist and academic (PhD in Education, Monash University) who founded and speaks for the Free Palestine Coalition Naarm, which says it "opposes the two-state solution", and acts as a lead marshal at the weekly Melbourne Palestine rallies. On 10 November 2023 a pro-Palestine rally was held in Princes Park directly outside Central Shule, and 150 congregants were evacuated during Shabbat worship; Free Palestine Melbourne said it did not authorise a post by Sammak promoting the rally. The Australian Jewish News reported that she had accused Israel supporters of the firebombing of the Burgertory restaurant in Caulfield South, hours before that rally, and that she was the respondent in a Victorian Civil and Administrative Tribunal (VCAT) proceeding brought by a Jewish community activist, which was settled.
At the rally on the steps of Flinders Street Station, Melbourne, on 12 February 2026, as Israeli President Isaac Herzog ended his visit, she told the crowd of about 10,000 (AAP): "As we gather here today, we condemn the genocide of the indigenous people of this land, whose land is stolen, and as a consequence, we have a white government that thinks it is the authority over this land... It is white sovereignty that brought Herzog here... The colonization here has not ended, and it's time for colonization to end here and across the world. It's overdue... We live under settler colonialism, white supremacy, and apartheid here... It is time for the Israeli colony to decolonize, and that is not hateful... it is a time up for the Zionist colonization of Palestine."
In the days before that rally, lawyers for Sammak filed a private prosecution against President Herzog in the Magistrates' Court of Victoria: a charge sheet of eight offences including genocide, crimes against humanity, war crimes and incitement under Victorian law. The charges had not been authorised by the court (Deepcut News, 11 Feb 2026; Hind Rajab Foundation, 10 Feb 2026). No outcome has been found. No record has been found of Sammak herself being charged with any offence.
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Free Palestine Coalition Naarm
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Tasnim Sammak, Flinders Street Station rally against the Herzog visit, Melbourne, 12 Feb 2026: 'we have a white government that thinks it is the authority over this land... The colonization here has not ended' (video)
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