Editor comment: Australians in their tens of thousands stood up over the weekend and delivered a very clear message to the Albanese Government and the global community – the killing in Palestine must end. Across the world the action did not go unnoticed. This report is from the Times of Israel. (more…)
Category: Israel Palestine
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ALP members demand more from PM on Palestine
As the genocide in Palestine continues, pressure on governments grows across the globe. In Australia, ALP members are demanding more from Anthony Albanese. (more…)
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Palestinians have a history of oppression long before 7 October, 2023
It would seem that most journalists and political commentators remain stuck on the terrible attack by the Hamas brigades (formally Islamic Resistance Movement) into Israel on 7 October 2023. (more…)
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Australia speaks of normalising Israel. My family is living through its genocide
Earlier this week, I read the Australian Government’s statement on Palestinian recognition, signed by ministers who speak the bureaucratic language of “solutions”. (more…)
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US Senate Dems vote to block arms sales to Israel – the tide is turning, says Bernie Sanders
“The American people do not want to spend billions to starve children in Gaza,” said Senator Bernie Sanders. “The Democrats are moving forward on this issue, and I look forward to Republican support in the near future.” (more…)
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Why are our Australian institutions so silent regarding the Gaza genocide?
A reality of our day: The Israeli Government, with the full support of the United States, is conducting genocide in Gaza. Numerous other countries, including Australia, as well as a multitude of corporations worldwide are complicit. (more…)
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Gaza: Options for urgent action put to parliamentarians
Organising to meet a considerable number of federal parliamentarians in Canberra during a sitting week is never easy but that was the goal of Australians for Humanity desperate for new ways for Australia to contribute to urgent humanitarian action in Gaza. (more…)
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No-one is okay
When you ask me how I am, I will answer with a lie because the truth is too painful to convey. (more…)
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The moral correctness of a conscientious ‘flotilla’
Lest anyone imagine that the recent attempt by a ship containing aid for distressed Palestinians was without precedent, they should consult a cartoon in the Sydney Morning Herald of 28 July 1995 by Alan Moir. (more…)
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Worst-case scenario of famine unfolding in the Gaza Strip
According to the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification, a worst-case scenario of famine is unfolding in the Gaza Strip. (more…)
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Humanitarian propaganda conceals the real famine in Gaza
I wrote this piece from the heart of the ongoing famine in Gaza and the chaos orchestrated by the Israeli occupation to make life in Gaza unbearable. (more…)
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Our media refuse to call out genocide in Gaza
Through its love affair with Israel and intimidated by the Zionist lobby, our legacy media has enabled the genocide of Palestinians in Gaza, Israel’s apartheid regime and the illegal occupation of Palestinian land over the past century. (more…)
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Americans’ support for Israel’s Gaza war hits record low, poll shows
Just 8% of Democrats and 25% of independents now back Israel’s campaign in Gaza, compared to 71% of Republicans, marking the largest partisan divide Gallup has recorded on the issue. (more…)
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With the UK and France moving toward recognising Palestine, will Australia now follow suit?
One of the smallest and most exclusive clubs in the world belongs to states. The US Department of State puts the number of independent recognised states at 197, while others count 200. (more…)
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Appeal to Parliamentarians: Resist Israel/US thuggery, be advocates for peace
As though infected by a chronic illness, news of unending death and destruction in Gaza and on the West Bank leaves millions feeling frustrated, angry, despairing and powerless. (more…)
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We are starving
My body is breaking down. My mother is collapsing from exhaustion. My cousin cheats death every day for a morsel of aid. Gaza’s children are dying in front of our eyes, and we are powerless to help them. I am so hungry. (more…)
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Australian journalist in court accused of ‘antisemitism’
Mary Kostakidis was in federal court in Adelaide on Tuesday defending herself against racial discrimination charges for her reporting and commentary on Gaza, reports Joe Lauria. (more…)
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A violent Israeli settler and his Palestinian victim – only one is welcome in Trump’s America
Relentless Israeli oppression and dismissive American policy embolden settlers and further degrade Palestinian life. As a friend of Palestinian teacher and human rights activist Adwah Hathaleen said of his killing, ‘This is how Israel erases us – one life at a time.” (more…)
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‘How Israel defends itself matters’
Remember that declaration? It was a clear assertion from the Australian Government that the Israeli military response to the terrorist attack by Hamas on 7 October 2023 must have civilised limits. (more…)
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‘Unequivocal’: Israeli human rights orgs describe Gaza assault as ‘genocide’ for the first time
“Genocide is never supposed to happen,” said the executive director of B’Tselem, one of Israel’s leading human rights groups. “Not here. Not anywhere. Not at all.” (more…)
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Silencing the mandate: US sanctions on Francesca Albanese a symbol of international law’s twilight
Imagine a scene worthy of Orwell’s worst nightmare: a United Nations envoy, appointed to report on human rights violations, excellently performing in her job despite formidable difficulties, and met with sanctions by one of the world’s most powerful nations. But this isn’t satire; it’s July 2025. (more…)
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International law not only abused – but abandoned
As the world watches the destruction of Gaza unfold in real time, the legitimacy of international law faces a crisis more profound than any it has seen since its post-WWII codification. (more…)
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Guilty of the ‘crime’ of being Palestinian. Punishment: execution
My long solidarity with Palestine and Palestinians is well-known. I have written two books and countless articles on this topic, and have spoken publicly about it for years. (more…)
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Mass Palestinian starvation used as a weapon of war – Bob Carr
Former Foreign Minister and NSW Premier Bob Carr has compared the situation in Gaza with the Warsaw Ghetto, and urged the Government to move with the French on Palestinian statehood. He made his comments in an interview with ABC Radio National Breakfast host Sally Sara. (more…)
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‘Everything beautiful in their lives is gone’: US physicians read aloud the searing testimony of desperate doctors and patients in Gaza
“I have a cold. And in one hour, I’ll have finished a 24-hour shift, heartbroken again. I lost a cardiac patient because we had no medication. (more…)
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Activists read out names of 17,000 Palestinian children killed by Israel in Gaza
The names of the 17,000 Palestinian children who have been killed in Gaza by Israel over the past 22 months were read aloud outside Parliament House in Canberra on Wednesday. (more…)
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Israeli Knesset hosts conference on plan to ‘Occupy Gaza’ and ‘Relocate Gazans’
“There is a purpose to this war, and it’s a criminal one,” wrote Israeli journalist Gideon Levy in Haaretz this past weekend. (more…)
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Australia urged to investigate Australians in Israeli forces for Gaza war crimes
The Australian Federation of Islamic Councils (AFIC) has welcomed recent developments in Belgium, where Israeli soldiers were questioned under universal jurisdiction for alleged war crimes in Gaza, and similar legal actions reported in Canada, Brazil, Serbia, Thailand, and the Netherlands. (more…)
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To resist injustice in Gaza and the wider world
Egyptian-born Omar El Akkad had studied in the United States and been 10 years a journalist when, in the summer of 2021, he became an American citizen. Covering the War on Terror in Afghanistan and at the U.S. detention centre in Guantanamo Bay exposed him to the “deep ugly cracks in the bedrock of this thing they called “the free world.” Yet he believed the cracks could be repaired – “Until the fall of 2023. Until the slaughter.” (more…)
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Francesca Albanese’s bravery merits the Nobel prize
Richard Falk, international law scholar and former UN Special Rapporteur on the Situation of Human Rights in the Palestinian Territories Since 1967, talks about the July 2025 U.S. sanctions imposed on current Rapporteur Francesca Albanese. Well known for her criticism of Israel’s Gaza offensive and her classification of genocide which now includes wilful mass starvation, Albanese has become the most embattled Special Rapporteur to date. Falk himself was no stranger to such pressures during his own 2008-2014 tenure. (more…)