Gideon Polya Rally Speech Demanded Action On 680,000 Gaza Deaths By 25/4/25 – Now 872,000
By Dr Gideon Polya.
I was a founding member of Free Palestine Melbourne that has helped organize huge Sunday Rallies for Gaza in Melbourne at 12 noon every Sunday at the Victorian State Library for over 100 weeks since the commencement of the Gaza Genocide on 7 October 2023. On 21 September 2025 I addressed the Rally about 680,000 Gaza deaths from violence and deprivation by 25 April 2025. However by 7 October 2025 Gaza deaths in 2 years of the Gaza Genocide have reached 875,000.
My short but powerful speech got a good reception at the Rally and is reproduced below:
START. “I pay my respects to the Wurrundjeri people of the Kulin Nation and to all Indigenous Australians and their leaders past, present and emerging. Indigenous Australian land like Indigenous Palestinian land was never ceded.
I am an anti-racist Jewish Australian scientist, humanitarian writer and activist. I’m a founding member of Free Palestine Melbourne.
The core ethos of Humanity is Kindness and Truth, and the core messages from the WW2 Jewish Holocaust, from all WW2 Holocausts, and indeed from some 70 genocides and holocausts is “zero tolerance for lying”, “zero tolerance for racism”, “bear witness” and “never again to anyone”.
However these key moral injunctions are grossly violated by Apartheid Israel and its genocidally racist Western supporters.
Those supporting Apartheid Israel and hence the utterly vile crime of Apartheid are utterly unfit for decent company, public life and public office.
Israeli Zionism or Zionazism is genocidal racism and Nazism without gas chambers but with 90 nuclear weapons, a world-leading high technology military and arms industry, and an appalling record of human rights abuse, ethnic cleansing and militarily attacking about 16 countries.
I am a half-century career Biochemist but for the past 3 decades I have also been researching “deaths from violence and deprivation” in wars, occupations, colonialism, man-made famines and exploitative hegemony.
My findings have been published in a thousand huge and exhaustively referenced articles and in 9 huge books.
I am invited here today because Middle East Monitor has posted on X my published estimate with Professor Richard Hil of 680,000 Gaza deaths from violence and deprivation by 25 April 2025.
This post has garnered 700,000 views and the 680,000 estimate is being widely reported by social media but not by mendacious, racist and Zionist-perverted Mainstream media presstitutes.
The wartime ratio of indirect deaths from imposed deprivation to direct, violent deaths ranges from 2 (Iraq War, 1990-2011) to 16 (Afghan War, 2001-2021).
Expert epidemiologists published in the leading medical journal The Lancet estimated that 64,260 Gazans had died violently by 30 June 2024 (day 269 of the killing) and hence that 136,000 Gazans had died violently by 25 April 2025 (day 569).
Epidemiologists “conservatively” estimated 4 deaths from imposed deprivation in Gaza for every violent death, this indicating 544,000 non-violent deaths and 680,000 Gazans in total killed by violence and imposed deprivation by 25 April 2025.
680,000 Gaza deaths is 11 times greater than the 64,000 Gaza deaths presently reported by Mainstream media and 28% of the pre-war Gaza population of 2.4 million.
Under -5 year old infants are about 70% of avoidable deaths from deprivation in impoverished countries.
It is estimated that the 680,000 deaths in the Gaza Holocaust include deaths of 380,000 under-5-year-old infants, 479,000 children in total, 63,000 women and 138,000 men
This is an Australia-, US- and West-complicit Zionist Israeli crime.
Inaction, non-reportage and silence all constitute unforgivable complicity in genocide.
For decades my mantra has been “Peace is the only way but silence kills and silence is complicity”.
Labor and the Coalition are complicit in the Gaza Genocide in 20 ways and lie for Apartheid Israel in 35 ways. Those [Australians] voting for Labor, the Coalition or like-minded candidates are complicit in genocide.
Presently decent Australians can only vote for the Greens, and like decent candidates, notably Senator Lidia Thorpe, Senator Fatima Payman and her Australia’s Voice associates, and some other decent folk.
The world must impose draconian Sanctions on the terrorist state of child-killing, genocidally racist Apartheid Israel and all supporting countries” END.
2 years have now passed since the commencement of the Gaza Genocide on 7 October 2023. Racist, mendacious and US-, Zionist- and Apartheid Israel-perverted Western and Australian Mainstream media still resolutely ignore non-violent Gaza deaths from imposed deprivation. Indeed assuming the same rate of killing, Gaza deaths “from violence and deprivation” (Google the phrase and be astonished) are estimated to have increased from 680,000 (by day 569 of the Gaza Genocide) to 875,000 (by 7 October 2025, day 730 of the Gaza Genocide or 2 years after the foolhardy Gaza Breakout on 7 October 2023).
On the occasion of this 2nd anniversary of the beginning of the Gaza Genocide on 7 October 2023 I individually addressed the following Letters to 18 major Australian media (they are extremely unlikely to be published in US-, Zionist- and Apartheid Israel-perverted Australia) :
5 October 2025. Facts ignored by US- and Zionist-perverted Mainstream media re the Occupied Palestinian Breakout from the Gaza Concentration Camp on 7 October 2023: (1). The Israelis were aware of the attack plans for a year (New York Times). (2). The IDF withdrew 2 battalions before the attack, ignored attack reports, and responded belatedly. (3). The Breakout happened despite world-leading Israeli intelligence and population surveillance and incarceration technology. (4). 1,600 Gazan attackers in Israel were killed on Days 1-2. (5). Of the 1,200 Israelis killed 97.5% were adults and hence because of compulsory military service were overwhelmingly past or present Occupier soldiers. (6). The Occupied have a right to rebel but the Occupiers have no right to self-defence in a belligerently occupied territory. (7). IDF high explosive missiles and shells killed many or most of the 1,200 Israelis killed. (8). 10,000 imprisoned Palestinian hostages, 5.6 million Occupied Palestinian hostages. (9). 680,000 Gazans killed by violence and deprivation by 25/4/2025 (data in The Lancet) and 872,000 Gazans killed, mostly children, in 2 years. (10) Labor and the Coalition are unforgivably complicit in the Gaza Genocide in 20 ways and lie for Apartheid Israel in 35 ways. Inaction and silence mean complicity.
7 October 2025. The 7 October 2023 Palestinian Breakout from the Gaza Concentration Camp was the commencement of the Gaza Genocide and Gaza Holocaust in which (as estimated from the data of expert epidemiologists in the leading medical journal The Lancet) 680,000 Gazans died from violence and deprivation by 25/4/2025 and 872,000 by 7 October 2025, this including 614,000 children, 81,000 women and 177,000 men. Yet mainstream media report 67,000 Gaza deaths in what acclaimed American analyst Ralph Nader called a massive “undercount” in an essay placed on the US Congressional Record. Western and Australian mainstream media and politicians ignore the horrendous magnitude of the Gaza Holocaust. Indeed outstanding truth-telling Australian journalist Mary Kostakidis has stated: “Many are increasingly seeing the mainstream media as enablers of genocide”. Labor and the Coalition are unforgivably complicit in the Gaza Genocide in 20 ways and lie for Apartheid Israel in 35 ways. Australia has hugely assisted Apartheid Israel by fervent support, intelligence, diplomacy and a large 2-way arms trade. I recently addressed the huge weekly Sunday Gaza Rally in Melbourne and stated: “Those voting for Labor, the Coalition or like-minded candidates are complicit in genocide”. Gaza Genocide inaction and censorship mean complicity.
Final comments and conclusions.