Australians are joining the chorus of outrage at Israel’s escalating carnage in Gaza and the West Bank. They include Jewish Australians, but few of our political representatives. (more…)
Category: Israel Palestine
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Australia still doing little as the Gaza genocide gets worse
Australia doesn’t mind imposing sanctions on nations or groups it regards as being deserving of punishment for their nefarious activities, Russia, Iran and Zimbabwe to name a few. (more…)
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Cultural institutions are policing Palestine solidarity. Karen Wyld is just the latest target
Last week, Martu writer Karen Wyld was stripped of a literary fellowship just hours before she was due to receive it, not because of the quality of her work, but because of her expressions of solidarity with Palestine. (more…)
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I will always remember you, Ali Kazak!
I first met Ali Kazak soon after he arrived in Australia in the early ’70s when I was in my early twenties. (more…)
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ACTU statement on Gaza May 2025 ‘including the use of targeted sanctions’
The Australian Union movement is a movement of peace and solidarity. We continue to be horrified by the humanitarian catastrophe facing Palestinians in Gaza. (more…)
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The cost of conscience in post-October 7 Australia
Over the past 18 months, it has become harder and harder to speak publicly in this country if you are Muslim, brown, and pro-Palestinian. (more…)
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Gaza’s endless genocide: When killing becomes policy and justice disappears
What is happening in Gaza today is not an incidental event nor the result of a “military error” as claimed by some media outlets supporting the occupation. Rather, it is a clear extension of a colonial approach built on the foundations of extermination, exclusion, and uprooting. From the Balfour Declaration in 1917 to the Nakba in 1948, from the invasion of Beirut to the successive wars on Gaza, this genocide forms part of a clear colonial system that seeks to empty the land of its people by all means, the most horrific being the killing of children and civilians to make the Israeli settler project appear as if it faces no human obstacles. (more…)
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Message from the editor
It has been difficult to focus on anything other than the escalating genocide in Palestine this week, as we witness, and document, a shift in opinion and coverage that has been far too long coming. (more…)
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Netanyahu’s endgame: Isolation and the shattered illusion of power
It remains uncertain how long Benjamin Netanyahu will remain in power, but his political standing has significantly deteriorated. He faces widespread domestic opposition and international condemnation. (more…)
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Gaza: Finally, waves upon the sea of silence
Those who purport to lead and speak for the Western world seem to be breaking their disgraceful silence 18 months after the onset of the Zionist state’s primitive savagery. (more…)
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Urgent appeal to the conscience of humanity: Stand with Gaza
An appeal from Sami Khader, MA’AN’s director-general. The MA’AN Development Centre was established in January 1989. (more…)
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Millions want intervention to stop Israeli slaughter of Palestinians
Across Australia, around the globe, millions of people have been outraged by Israeli slaughter in Gaza and on the West Bank, their outrage compounded by despair that Israel has been given a blank cheque to ignore international law, to do what it likes. (more…)
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Diplomatic tsunami on Palestine
Europe begins to act against Israel’s “complete madness” in Gaza, in the wake of a wave of diplomatic incidents. (more…)
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Israeli officials explain balancing act between overt genocide and maintaining Western support
One of the talking points Israel apologists like to regurgitate is that Israel can’t possibly be acting with genocidal intent in Gaza, because if they had wanted to exterminate the Palestinians they could have easily done so in a matter of days. (more…)
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Weaponisation of ‘antisemitism’ hides primitive savagery of Palestinian genocide
As expressed in the UN General Assembly, the vast majority of the world’s governments and peoples agree that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza and now the West Bank. (more…)
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Time to end the silence
“In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.”
Martin Luther King Jr. (more…)
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Outrage after Israeli occupation forces shoot live rounds at foreign diplomats in West Bank
Among those shot at were representatives of three nations that threatened “concrete actions” if Israel doesn’t end its assault and siege on Gaza and others that support a genocide case against the country. (more…)
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Starvation of Gaza a continuation of a decades-old plan
Israel’s plan to push out all Palestinians from the Gaza Strip has been contemplated as long back as 1967, soon after the Six-Day War ended.
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UN warns 14,000 Gaza babies could die in 48 hours unless Israeli blockade lifted
Aid allowed into besieged area described as “a trickle among a sea of need”. (more…)
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How should Australia respond to the starvation of Gaza?
It has now been more than two months since Israel began to block the entry of food and medicine to Gaza. According to the World Food Program, about 1.94 million people across the Gaza Strip experienced high levels of acute food insecurity between 1 April and 10 May 2025, including nearly 244,000 people facing catastrophic food insecurity. (more…)
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False balance persists in ABC Palestine coverage
In December 2024, I presented an analysis of more than 450 interviews concerning Palestine and Israel on ABC Radio National Breakfast, since 7 October 2023. During this period, the host was Patricia Karvelas. Her last show was on Friday, 13 December. (more…)
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Yes, it’s a genocide
Building on Monday’s piece outlining a shift in scholarly opinions on Palestine globally, we bring you a very powerful short video, narrated by Israeli professor of holocaust studies, Amos Goldberg. He says: “A radical atmosphere of dehumanisation of Palestinians prevails in Israeli society to an extent that I cannot remember in my 58 years of living here.” (more…)
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Time for Catholic Bishops to speak up for Palestine
An open letter to Catholic Bishops. Please speak up. (more…)
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Israel’s new Gaza operation should be called ‘Chariots of Genocide’
About 70 people from dawn to noon on Wednesday. Almost twice the number of those killed in the massacre at Kibbutz Nir Oz. Twenty-two of them were children, and 15 were women. The previous evening, 23 were killed in a hospital. (more…)
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Vale Ali Kazak
On Sunday afternoon, we received the very sad news that Ali Kazak has died in Thailand, en route to Palestine. An extraordinary campaigner and shaper of the Palestinian cause for all his almost 80 years, his loss will be sorely felt. Stuart Rees wrote this tribute to Ali for Pearls and Irritations last November. More will follow in coming days. (more…)
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Even once reluctant scholars now agree on Israel’s Gaza assault: It’s a genocide
“Can I name someone whose work I respect who doesn’t consider it genocide?” said one researcher. “No.” (more…)
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Judge orders release of Georgetown scholar Badar Khan Suri from ICE detention
“My only ‘crimes’ making me a ‘national security threat’ are my marriage to a United States citizen of Palestinian origin and my support for the Palestinian cause,” wrote Badar Khan Suri in an op-ed published on 13 May. (more…)
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Our humanity is lost under the rubble in Gaza
It is a Sunday evening, and I am shopping online. But there is a difference. (more…)
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Fear, censorship and repression are keeping Israelis in the dark about Gaza
The public’s indifference to what Israel is doing in the Gaza Strip is not just the result of a lack of care, but the result of the war Israel is waging against the possibility of knowing. (more…)
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Multiple Western press outlets have suddenly pivoted hard against Israel
After a year and a half of genocidal atrocities, the editorial boards of numerous British press outlets have suddenly come out hard against Israel’s genocidal onslaught in Gaza. (more…)