Category: Israel Palestine

Suppose that one day the states of Europe wearied of the prolonged slaughter, genocide and war crimes in Gaza and resolved to intervene to end the fighting and to bring about a settlement. (more…)

“We stood proud and tall together because there is nothing that will stop the just civilian resistance to the genocide and occupation,” said one protester. (more…)

“No state should be above the law,” said Younis Alkhatib of the Palestine Red Crescent Society. “The international community is obliged to protect humanitarians and to stop impunity.” (more…)

Leaked Israeli intelligence confirms one of the highest civilian tolls in modern conflicts. (more…)

Our first Australian-born governor-general, Sir Isaac Isaacs, was a Jew and rejected Zionism as “undemocratic, unjust, dangerous”. (more…)

They stood facing each other – the fat man and the thin man, the strong and the weak, the oppressor and the oppressed, the conqueror and the conquered, the perpetrator of injustice facing his victim, the wicked against the righteous, in an image that said it all. (more…)

Australia will recognise Palestinian statehood in September, while at the same time continuing to supply critical components for the F-35 fighter jets used by Israel in its military operations in Gaza. (more…)

Global powers that once justified their interventions in the Middle East with rhetoric about human rights remain silent when basic rights are violated through the denial of water. (more…)

Note: At the time of writing, a summary analysis similar to the one below was published in Current Affairs, attributed to “Lex Syd.” There are a few differences in our sources and analyses, but the numbers are the same. (more…)

The media are legitimising Israel’s murder of journalists – and they are doing it because they are racist propagandists for a system of Western colonial control in the Middle East. (more…)

Israel frequently touts itself as “the only democracy in the Middle East” – a refrain echoed by Western leaders, particularly in the US and parts of Europe. (more…)

Since the outbreak of the Israeli aggression on the Gaza Strip on 7 October 2023, talk of a “nearby ceasefire” or an “imminent halt to hostilities” has never ceased. (more…)

Continued enabling by ostensibly liberal democratic governments of the ongoing genocide in Gaza (where increased condemnation remains unmatched by tangible actions to end the carnage) reveals more than the hypocrisy of those who purport to represent us. (more…)

Living through a genocide is deeply traumatic. (more…)

Recognition of Palestine is a “feel-good” gesture that will not achieve any tangible benefits for the Palestinian people and amounts to a neocolonial denial of the right of the Palestinian people to self-determination. (more…)