Former senator Nova Peris will call for solidarity among Indigenous and Jewish Australians at a gathering in Melbourne, echoing the legacy of Aboriginal rights activist William Cooper. The event, against the backdrop of the Gaza war, will see Cooper’s great-great-grandson present a statement of unity to a Victorian government representative.
At a small gathering in Melbourne on Friday, former senator Nova Peris will evoke the legacy of Aboriginal rights activist William Cooper to call for greater solidarity among Indigenous people towards Jewish Australians .by Nazi Germany has in recent years gained totemic status among Australian Jewry.
According to a copy of her speech provided to this masthead, Peris will tell a group of multi-faith leaders and Jewish and Aboriginal community members that, in leading an Australian Aborigines’ League protest 86 years ago against the persecution of distant people he had never met, Cooper showed a moral clarity needed today.
“He was watching his people being exterminated,” he said. “That was the correlation with what the Nazis were trying to do to the Jewish people.”
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