Protesters will fight a police-led legal bid to curtail an anti-Israel rally at an Australian landmark on the grounds the move is unconstitutional.

The Palestine Action Group defends as "entirely appropriate" a rally on Sunday that would start in Sydney's city centre and finish at the Sydney Opera House forecourt.

But Jewish leaders have taken the rare step of joining the police's court push against the protest, which has echoes of a controversial snap rally held at the iconic building two nights after the October 7 attack by Hamas on Israel in 2023.

The NSW Supreme Court elevated the matter to the state's highest court for a hearing set on Wednesday, when pro-Palestine lawyers will argue police opposition to the protest is unconstitutional.

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