Category: Israel Palestine

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…)

All the dire predictions at the time Israel banned the UN Relief and Works Agency in January 2025 have come to pass. (more…)

Those who accuse the Albanese Government of breaking with a historic Labor position of opposing recognition of a Palestinian state are wrong. (more…)

I am part of a small group of people who intended to hold an event to discuss the situation in Gaza. Shortly before our event was scheduled, the Jewish board of Deputies pressed our venue operators to cancel the event. This incursion into our right to gather was a striking example of the ethos that informs so much of the Zionist lobby’s methods of silencing any departure from what is perceived as pro-Israel lines of argument. Thus: (more…)

Prime Minister Albanese’s announcement on 11 August that Australia will recognise the state of Palestine is a dramatic break with the past. (more…)

From restricting truck crossings to preventing proper cargo securing, Israel has imposed layers of bureaucratic and physical obstacles that hinder every stage of delivering food and medical supplies to Gaza. (more…)

The great threat to Israel’s survival is not the Arab nations, the Palestinians, or Iran, but the policies of Israel’s extremist government. (more…)

During the past weeks, media coverage of Israel’s conduct of the war in Gaza, including the creation of widespread famine and instances of starvation, has motivated a majority of Western countries to support a permanent end to the war in Gaza, potentially through a UNGA-endorsed Palestine/Israeli two-state solution. (more…)