Sam Watson is a First-Nations Flotilla Participant from so-called Australia, sailing out of deep solidarity with the Palestinian people and the shared struggle for self-determination.
“In Queensland, we had an apartheid system where streets, called boundary streets, stopped us from moving after a certain time,” says Sam, who is sailing on the boat Kafr Qasim, named after the Palestinian village where people were massacred by zionist forces during the Nakba because they came home after a curfew that they were unaware of.
As our Flotilla resumes course to Gaza, Sam has a message for people in Palestine:
“250 years ago the genocide of my people began, and the nation of Australia was built on our nonexistence and our erasure. And that’s what the state of israel is built upon. But after 250 years, my people are still here because we resisted and because of our perseverance and our refusal to be erased. And that is what is going to happen to your people. One day both our lands will be free to determine our own destinies.”
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