AFP to look into flotilla activist abuse claims
Foreign Minister Penny Wong says she believes women; AJA asks the AFP to examine Australian flotilla participants themselves and if they breached terrorism laws
The Australian Jewish Association (AJA) has asked the Australian Federal Police to investigate whether Australian participants in the May 2026 Global Sumud Flotilla broke any laws.
This follows the AFP opening its own inquiry into the activists’ allegations that they were abused by Israel.
The referral, draws on findings by the United States Department of the Treasury, which has designated the Popular Conference for Palestinians Abroad (PCPA) as a main organiser of recent flotillas and a front for Hamas operating “at Hamas’s behest”.
In a letter to the AFP Commissioner, AJA chief executive Robert Gregory noted that Australian participants attended training sessions in Barcelona before departure and discussed those activities publicly.
He stressed the association was “not alleging that any particular Australian participant has committed an offence”, but asked the AFP to consider whether any provisions of Part 5.3 of the Criminal Code Act 1995, concerning support for, association with, training from or financing of terrorist organisations, may be relevant.
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