Appearing yesterday at Canberra’s National Press Club, Chris Sidoti and Ben Saul laid out the things Australia can and must do to play our proper part to end the genocide. In coming days we will run the text of both speeches, and the questions that followed. For now it is well worth your time to watch two genuine leaders. (more…)
Ben Saul
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Australia should recognise Palestine. To not do so only rewards Israel’s crimes
Australia was among the first countries to recognise the state of Israel, but regrettably looks set to be among the last to recognise the state of Palestine. (more…)
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Australia must put more pressure on Israel as it occupies more and more Palestinian land
Australia’s biased friendship towards Israel undermines peace and forsakes justice for Palestinians, while serving neither Australian nor Israeli interests, writes Ben Saul. (more…)
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Explainer: the complex question of Taiwanese independence
“Strategic ambiguity” – the policy that has underpinned the West’s defence of Taiwan for half a century or more – rests on another ambiguity… (more…)
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What Ministers should do – Human Rights in the election
Human rights experts have welcomed Labor’s plan to restore merit appointments to the Australian Human Rights Commission, and to appoint a global ambassador for human rights. Nine years of partisan ‘captain’s picks’ by the Coalition government have shredded the Commission’s impartiality and subdued its voice as a champion of the vulnerable. Its funding has also been decimated. (more…)
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Festival of light: boycott was justifiable to support Palestinians
Opponents of the boycott have mounted some surprisingly weak objections,
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Why Australia needs to join global condemnation of Israel’s annexation plans (SMH 25.6.20)
As early as next week, Israel proposes to forcibly annex up to a third of the Palestinian West Bank, with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu calling it “another glorious chapter in the history of Zionism”.