Protesters have refused to stand by as "cultures are erased" during a rally calling for an end to genocide "from Sudan to Palestine and Black Australia".
Nearly a thousand people gathered outside the State Library of Victoria in Melbourne on Sunday for what has become a weekly fixture in the city for groups to call for an end to violence in the Middle East.
"This starts with imposing sanctions on Israel immediately," speaker Senator Fatima Payman said at the event.
"The Australian Labor government cannot continue to remain indifferent in the face of genocide and human rights violations."
The sentiment was echoed by Australian Greens' deputy leader Dr Mehreen Farouqi who told the crowd: "There is no justification for the world's inaction."
"They can’t keep ignoring crimes against humanity."
The rally follows a tense week of international scrutiny over the actions of protesters after Israeli football fans were assaulted after a match in the Netherlands.
Videos on social media of what happened on Thursday showed riot police in action, with some attackers shouting anti-Israeli slurs.
Footage also showed Maccabi Tel Aviv supporters chanting anti-Arab slogans before Thursday evening's match.
As a result of what political leaders have already called "anti-Semitic" attacks, Israeli fans left the Dutch capital Amsterdam on special flights on Saturday.
The Australian Jewish Association said the riots served as "a warning for Australia" in a post on X, formerly known as Twitter.
But the Australia Palestine Advocacy Network, an organiser of the Melbourne rally, also spoke out.
APAN condemned the post-match violence as a "distortion of the narrative".
"These attempts to deflect from the hateful behaviour of Israeli fans, who were filmed chanting genocidal slogans against Arabs, tearing down Palestinian flags and inciting physical altercations with Palestinian supporters, is a gross distortion of the truth," the organisation wrote in a statement.
