The direct talks between the United States and Hamas took Israel by surprise and led to an agreement that resulted in the release of the Israeli-American captive Edan Alexander. (more…)
Category: Israel Palestine
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An open letter to the Australian PM from a child of Holocaust survivors
Dear Anthony Albanese,
I am a child of Holocaust survivors. More than 95% of my extended family perished during World War II in Nazi extermination camps while others were killed by mobile death squads or through starvation in a number of ghettoes. (more…)
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Samah Sabawi – Cactus Pear for My Beloved
This 2024 Penguin publication is a highly personal account of the history of Palestinian dispossession. (more…)
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Mark Leibler on his lobbying power
In a speech he delivered back in 2018, Mark Leibler lays out how he exerts influence, from trying to block Bob Carr’s efforts on recognition of a Palestinian State to “watching” ABC correspondent Sophie McNeill in order to change her coverage of the Middle East. (more…)
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At the ICJ, only US and Hungary back Israel starving Gaza
Thirty-seven states, the UN and international NGOs all condemned Israel’s denial of aid to the starving people of Gaza at the International Court of Justice in the first week of May. (more…)
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‘This isn’t me’: Israeli war and healthcare collapse leave Gaza child unrecognisable
Under a tightening Israeli siege, Palestinian girl Rahaf Ayyad struggles with physical and emotional changes, as her mother fights for answers. (more…)
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Aid to Gaza: Moral and political dilemmas for Australia
Amidst preparations for a renewed assault intended to allow permanent Israeli occupation of Gaza, Israel and the United States are also about to establish a mechanism through which humanitarian aid will henceforth be distributed exclusively by private firms protected by the Israeli military. (more…)
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Re-elected Albanese Govt must condemn Israel’s brutality and cut ties
On 5 May, the Israeli Parliament approved plans to annex and occupy Gaza. These plans have been discussed for months. This is a blatant mission to ethnically cleanse Gaza, advancing Israel’s colonial intentions to take over the territory and rid it of Palestinians. (more…)
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Zionist lawfare comes for Australian journalist
The Zionist federation of Australia should be recognised as a duplicitous and malicious actor in Australian society and politics.
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Mainstream media and distorted Palestine reporting
Australia’s mainstream media have ignored and distorted the genocide in Palestine. A recent Australians for Humanity forum, chaired by former SBS newsreader Mary Kostakidis, and featuring Margaret Reynolds, Stuart Rees and Peter Slezak, tackled the issues and discussed what needs to be done. (more…)
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Judaism and Zionism are not the same
No doubt about it. We live in a topsy-turvy world. How Kafkaesque can it get, when some of Zionism’s most fervent supporters have been politicians like Scott Morrison, Peter Dutton or — God help us — the Mad King of Mar-a-Lago? (more…)
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‘Genocide in action’ as 60-day blockade plunges Gaza into mass starvation
The two-month-long siege is a “clear and calculated effort to collectively punish over two million civilians and to make Gaza unliveable”. (more…)
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UN chief ‘alarmed’ by Israel’s Gaza conquest plan – but minister says no concerns from Trump
“I don’t feel that there is pressure on us from Trump and his administration,” said Ze’ev Eklin. “They understand exactly what is happening here.” (more…)
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Andrew Bolt’s cynical attack on faith
On Sky News (22 April), Andrew Bolt credited Anthony Albanese with a brilliant, if devious, election ploy. (more…)
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A monstrous media and murder in Gaza
Imagine how this would have been reported if Russian soldiers had executed Ukrainians in this way. Not like this, you can be sure. (more…)
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The third Nakba in Israel’s war of genocide
Why does the Albanese Government shirk its responsibility? (more…)
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‘I am not afraid of you,’ freed Mohsen Mahdawi tells Donald Trump
A court’s order for the release of a detained student protest leader, said one lawyer, “is a victory for all people in this country invested in their ability to dissent and speak and protest”. (more…)
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Voting for humanity should come first in this election
The following is the text of a speech given by Sue Wareham at a public meeting Why genocide is a key election issue held on 27 April under the auspices of Australians for Humanity. Wareham is president of the Medical Association for Prevention of War (Australia). (more…)
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Palestine is an election issue – Australians for Humanity
The genocide in Palestine is the moral issue of our time and a key election issue. (more…)
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Human rights abuses by Israel – Amnesty report
Israel is perpetrating a “live-streamed genocide” in Gaza, committing illegal acts with the “specific intent” of wiping out Palestinians, Amnesty International said in their annual report released on Monday. (more…)
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The Fall of Saigon 1975: Fifty years of repeating what was forgotten (Part 1)
The first demonstration I ever went to was at 12, against the Vietnam War. The first formal history lesson I received was a few months later when I commenced high school. (more…)
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‘Never again’ not only for Jews, but for Palestinians and all humanity
Israel has no right of self-defence against resistance in lands that are illegally occupied. (more…)
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The resilience of Gazan writing: Resisting temporal closure
One particular aspect of Palestinian resilience during Israel’s ongoing besiegement and genocide in the Gaza Strip concerns a prodigious amount of creative writing that, besides bearing witness to circumstance and personal experience, engages cultural resistance. (more…)
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Vote for humanity: Caring for Palestine
As Australians hear the repetitive, carefully scripted announcements of the two major parties, voters are turning away from the blatant bribery of millions of dollars for marginal electorates and personal promises of tax cuts and cheaper petrol. (more…)
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On ‘moral panic’ and the courage to speak: The West’s silence on Gaza
Palestinians do not have the luxury to allow Western moral panic to have its say or impact. Not caving in to this panic is one small, but important, step in building a global Palestine network that is urgently needed. (more…)
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If Einstein spoke today, he would be accused of antisemitism
In 1948, as the foundations of the Israeli state were being laid upon the ruins of hundreds of Palestinian villages, Albert Einstein wrote a letter to the American Friends of the Fighters for the Freedom of Israel, condemning the growing Zionist militancy within the settler Jewish community. (more…)
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Even in sickness, Pope Francis reached out to Gaza’s Christians
For months, the pontiff spoke by telephone almost every night with people sheltering in a Catholic church in the battered enclave, a ritual he tried to keep up in the hospital. (more…)
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The uniform public utterances of our days
British scholar Leonard Schapiro, writing on Stalinism, observed that “the true object of propaganda is neither to convince nor even to persuade. But to produce a uniform pattern of public utterances in which the first trace of unorthodox thought reveals itself as a jarring dissonance.” And it seems that in the current sanctioned discourse, the jarring dissonance is speaking up against a genocide streamed live on our phones. (more…)
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Pope Francis dies at 88 after final appeal for Gaza ceasefire
“Will the millions who will mourn his death these coming days respect this wish of his? Will they care for Gazans and Palestinians the way he did?” (more…)
