The primary focus of the Zionist movement and the Israeli lobby is not combating anti-Semitism but rather combating critics of Israel’s colonial apartheid regime and the crimes it is perpetrating against the Palestinian people. (more…)
Category: Israel Palestine
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In the face of genocide: a document of shame
Today, November 2nd is the 107th anniversary of one of the darkest days in the bloody history of the British Empire. For exactly 107 years ago today the then British Foreign Secretary, Lord Arthur Balfour, a Christian Zionist Lord wrote a personal letter to Lord Walter Rothschild, a Jewish Zionist Lord, in which he gifted him Palestine as a ‘homeland’ for the Jews. (more…)
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Genocidal scorecard
A United Nations report, published on Monday, lays out in chilling detail the advances made by Israel in Gaza as it seeks to eradicate “the very existence of the Palestinian people in Palestine.” This genocidal project, the report ominously warns, “is now metastasizing to the West Bank, including East Jerusalem.” (more…)
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A five-minute scroll
Bodies strewn in streets in Beit Lahia while IDF shoots at anyone who tries to help. It is the intent to destroy that defines a genocide says Francesca Albanese as her report to the UN is discussed across (independent) media channels. Arundhati Roy asks what can possibly justify what Israel is doing and the Publisher of Israel’s Ha’aretz speaks out for Palestine at their London conference. Journalist Bisan Owda shine a light on the lessons she has learned from the children of Gaza. At home, we are reminded of the reality of AUKUS by Paul Keating. (more…)
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A five-minute scroll
UN Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese speaks out for humanity, Palestine speaks in the UN, the PM of Ireland speaks out for the UNRWA and Bernie Sanders explains the difference between Kamala Harris and Donald Trump on Israel. Overnight continued Israeli attacks decimate lives in Beit Lahia, North Gaza, the US State department gives their perspective. At home, the debunking of nuclear power for Australia takes just 90 seconds. A five-minute scroll. (more…)
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“Medicide”: the killing fields of Gaza
How much longer are the world’s leaders going to stand by and watch children being shredded to bits, doctors and nurses killed, arrested, detained and tortured, hospitals destroyed and schools bombed, the environment destroyed, humanitarian aid denied and a genocide committed in Gaza? (more…)
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The Australian Government must impose sanctions on Israel NOW
Australia’s Foreign Minister Penny Wong has finally acknowledged that Israel is in gross breach of international law, and must not ignore the United Nations, as it continues its ruthless military attacks on the people of Gaza, the West Bank and Lebanon. (more…)
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Peace in Gaza: Part 2
A sustainable peace settlement in Gaza needs to meet the legitimate demands of the key parties, but given their inability to negotiate such an agreement themselves it will need to be proposed and implemented by the US and the major Arab nations under UN auspices. (more…)
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To Jews and Christians of faith: you can’t sit out a genocide
This week I read an article in Al Jazeera describing the killing in one day of hundreds of Palestinian civilians. The same day I read a piece in CNN, “Israeli soldiers returning from war struggle with trauma and suicide”. The article tried to elicit sympathy for soldiers who were traumatised from bulldozing Palestinians. (more…)
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The banning of UNWRA: The situation could not be grimmer
Let us be abundantly clear. What Israel is intending is against its obligations under international law. What Israel is intending is against its moral obligations as fellow citizens of the human race. (more…)
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Peace in Gaza: Part 1
The death and destruction in Gaza continue, and now in Lebanon as well. There have been peace negotiations for a year, but so far unsuccessful. Today, Part 1 of this article examines why. Tomorrow Part 2 will discuss a possible way forward out of this disaster. (more…)
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A five-minute scroll
Belgium MP Nabil Boukili confronts the Israel Ambassador to Belgium, while Israeli media report Netanyahu has pulled out of hostage deals and the Israeli parliament again bans UNRWA designating it as a terrorist organisation. Bisan Owda keeps us updated on what is happening in North Gaza and we witness toddlers and children being pulled from rubble. Media Watch explores the safety for journalists in Gaza while a journalist in Lebanon captures an Israeli airstrike. See a satellite map of the destruction in Gaza, where the equivalent of 38 kilograms of explosive per person has been dropped. At home, Smart Energy Council’s John Grimes calls out Peter Dutton on renewables. (more…)
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Ending Apartheid: Think local, act global
Boycotts, divestments and sanctions are back. Students are urging universities to reveal their investments and connections with Israel, and to end them. Local councils in Victoria and New South Wales have been quick to do the same. (more…)
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A five-minute scroll
Francesca Albanese warns the entire population of Gaza at risk of genocide, while the Israeli army herd Palestinian men in Jabalia and a child trapped in rubble waits for help. Courage to continue to help the injured from Dr. Hussam Abu Safiyah, Director of Kamal Adwan Hospital whose son died in the attack and horror from Al Shati refugee camp attacks. Jeffrey Sachs asks where is western civilisation while tens of thousands are massacred before our eyes and Seyed Mohammad Marandi sets the BBC straight on Israel and Iran while Woody Harrelson sets the record straight on the US. (more…)
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The Palestine Laboratory Podcast | Episode 1: Start-up Nation
Investigative journalist Antony Loewenstein questions the narratives he was taught growing up in the Jewish Diaspora as he traces the origins of Israel’s military-industrial complex, examining how Israel became one of the world’s leading arms and tech exporters. When a military force essentially creates a nation, can they ever be truly separated? (more…)
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‘No propaganda on Earth can hide the wound that is Palestine’
‘I refuse to play the condemnation game. Let me make myself clear. I do not tell oppressed people how to resist their oppression or who their allies should be.’ (more…)
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Israeli war crimes and crimes against humanity “extreme under any circumstances”
“The events since October 7 have been absolutely overwhelming. And that means they are overwhelming for everybody, but particularly for the people who are experiencing them, those who are suffering. The victims. It’s regularly said that October 7 represented the greatest killing of Jewish people since the Holocaust. And that’s correct. What’s said less frequently is that the killing of Palestinians since then represents the greatest Slaughter of Palestinians in their recorded history.” (more…)
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When the Holocaust returned it came denouncing Anti-Semitism and wearing a star of David
When the Holocaust returned it came denouncing anti-semitism and wearing a Star of David. It was never going to look how we were expecting. It wasn’t going to show up in its old familiar costume with the bent cross and the tiny mustache, blaming all the problems on the Jews. It had to look different. If it didn’t look different, we never would have let it in the door.
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The world must stop the ethnic cleansing of northern Gaza
The magnitude of the crimes Israel is currently committing in the northern Gaza Strip in its campaign to empty it of however many residents are left is impossible to describe, not just because hundreds of thousands of people enduring starvation, disease without access to medical care and incessant bombardments and gunfire defies comprehension, but because Israel has cut them off from the world. (more…)
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The terrifying parallels between 9/11 and Israel’s response to Oct. 7
The tragedy in the Middle East is that what Hamas’ Sinwar was to bin Laden, Israel is to America. (more…)
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Horror upon unimaginable horror. Bezalel Smotrich and Itamar Ben Gvir announce ‘the moral solution’ while the scale of devastation for the besieged Palestinian people in northern Gaza—Jabalia, Beit Lahiya—is incomprehensible. Men shackled and blindfolded, taken away by the Israeli army. Women and children murdered in their homes and subjected to psychological terror under the actions of the IDF. We have witnessed and share horrific scenes from North Gaza while our government looks away. (more…)
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What is Israel’s ‘Generals’ Plan’ and what does it mean for the war on Gaza?
Also known as the Eiland Plan, the strategy was published in a military forum critical of the army’s efforts against Palestine. Why is it being discussed now? (more…)
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Coping with despair: Palestine, Lebanon and beyond
Israel’s atrocities for which they are not held accountable, leaves a world feeling powerless to do more than watch and protest. Intervention to cope with a pandemic of despair, requires life enhancing responses to foster peace and revive respect for international humanitarian law. (more…)
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Israel: rogue state or righteous ally?
As Israel risks yet further charges of war crimes and crimes against humanity in its siege of northern Gaza, its defence of the indefensible is built on a preposterous inversion of morality. That is, the portrayal of Israel as the West’s protector of its very civilisation in a sea of evil and a bastion of democracy. (more…)
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Malicious intent: The war on Palestine, the Palestinians and everything Palestinian has been going on for over a century
It’s often said that faith moves mountains. (more…)
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Israel-Gaza war, justice and hope: the ‘sublime ideal’ of inalienable dignity
Distinguished moral philosopher and public intellectual Raimond Gaita (FAHA), Professor, University College London, and Melbourne Law school, discusses his approach towards a moral understanding of the Israel Gaza war based on the ideas collected in the book ‘Justice and Hope: Essays, Lectures and Other writings’, (Edited by Scott Stephens), Melbourne University Publishing, Paperback edition October 2024. (more…)
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Bisan: Are you following what’s happening in North Gaza?
Emmy award-winning journalist Bisan Owda who continues to share what’s happening with the world, provides an overview of what’s happening in North Gaza, including maps to show the movement of the displaced people of Palestine and the Israeli army. (more…)
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Yahya Sinwar – history will judge the living and the dead
The political and military leader of Hamas is dead. Some cheer. Some weep. History will judge the living and the dead. I wish Ismail Haniyeh and Yahya Sinwar had appeared before an international tribunal of judges for their role in October 7th, rather than being murdered by the Israelis. All who committed crimes in the past year should face justice. (more…)
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Sanitising genocide
The Los Angeles Review of Books (LARB) has just published “The Most Moral Army”- an excoriating review of Israel’s continuous reliance on deceitful medical imagery to disinfect its horrific abuse of power in Gaza. (more…)
