The Israeli newspaper Arab 48 reports that on Monday, military police raided the Sde Teiman detention centre where Palestinian prisoners are being held, detaining nine Israel soldiers suspected of gang raping and severely sexually torturing detainees. One further suspect was not apprehended. The soldiers belong to the Force 100 unit, which has been detailed to Sde Teiman as prison guards. (more…)
Category: Israel Palestine
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Crying antisemitism drowns out the real problem
Zionism has become for some people a sort of ethnic superiority which denies equal claims to recognition by Palestinians. If we are unable to talk about this within the Jewish community we are doing a great disservice to both Palestinians and Israelis, writes Dennis Altman.
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Apartheid Israel
“(I)f pressed on legality … our position is that it is for competent judicial bodies to determine whether crimes against humanity have been committed” – (DFAT, 2022, FOI release). What then are DFAT and Australia’s obligations following the finding by the International Court of Justice that Israel has established an apartheid system in the Occupied Palestinian Territories? (more…)
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No more silence
If Zionist ideology ever fit into the modern world, and I will leave this an outstanding question, it no longer does. (more…)
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Art and popular resistance: truth telling from ANU to Gaza to Sudan
Palestinian liberation movements on this continent are intertwined with Blak liberation and resistance movements for restorative land justice around the world. To organise for Palestinian liberation, to organise for First Nations liberation on this continent and globally, is to call for a drastic restructuring of settler identity and cultural awareness of the role of settler colonialism and genocide in the current world order. (more…)
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When the spring came
When the spring finally came, we returned to our neighbourhood, and we found that wildflowers had grown amid the fallen buildings and the rubble. Wildflowers grew above it all, above all our people, and above all their dreams. (more…)
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Space and domination: The ANU Gaza Solidarity Encampment
As of the 14th of July 2024, the Gaza Solidarity Encampment at the Australian National University (ANU) is 76 days old. For Palestinians, 14,000 kilometres away, past the iridescent waters of the Riau Islands, through the rice paddies of India and the vastness of the Saudi sands; for Palestinians trying to survive in their home, an agonising struggle for liberation has raged for 76 years.
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The World Court has cleared the fog hiding western support for Israel’s crimes
The legal ruling by the world’s highest court obliges Western states not just to end their persecution of the boycott movement but to take up that cause as their own. (more…)
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The insignificant seven
In a blow that will strike little fear into the hearts of the Israeli Government, Foreign Minister Wong has announced sanctions against seven West Bank settlers. (more…)
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Declaiming antisemitism: tribal solipsism or linguistic imperialism?
Claims of antisemitism are currently the pejorative de jour, an all-purpose prosecution intended to condemn any who engage in criticism of rampaging genocidal Zionist activity to instant and unchallengeable perdition. (more…)
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Succumbing to the Zionist Lobby: higher education institutions abandon ethics and integrity
Gaza Solidarity Encampments across the colony have exposed our corrupt, wage-theft-riddled, million-dollar-VC-run universities as the hypocritical institutions they are. (more…)
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The ICJ decision – where to from here?
The ICJ delivered its advisory opinion on 19 July regarding the legal consequences of Israel’s occupation of Palestinian territories. Readers are by now familiar with the basic rulings of the Court, not from mainstream media, I might add. The ICJ’s judgment has been reported, but its consequences, and particularly for Australia, have barely raised a comment. (more…)
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Hollow liars: the day ANU called ACT police on its students
The ANU used so many resources that day, so much money, manpower and time dedicated to shutting us up. Whilst they were forcefully defending their own complicity with all the resources available to them, Israel was dropping bombs on a refugee camp. The VC was more concerned with our tents than those that were being obliterated in Gaza. (more…)
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The crack in the facade where the light gets in
The genocide, war crimes, ethnic cleansing and collective punishment in Gaza perpetrated by Israel has removed the masks from Western governments. (more…)
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Australian Leadership to end the war on Gaza: open letter to the Prime Minister
We write to express our extreme concern that Senator Payman has resigned from the Labor Government. (more…)
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ICJ severs Penny Wong’s line of retreat on Palestine
It’s easy to see why the advisory opinion of the United Nations International Court of Justice (the World Court) might give Foreign Minister, Penny Wong, a few matters for consideration. (more…)
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Why we filed a complaint against Netanyahu to the National Office of Investigation in South Korea
“An almost daily occurrence. At least eight schools hit in the last 10 days, including six @UNRWA schools. The war robbed the girls and boys in #Gaza of their childhood & education. Schools must never be used for fighting or military purposes by any party to the conflict. Schools are not a target. The blatant & constant disregard of international humanitarian law continues unabated. All rules of war have been broken in #Gaza. Losing our common humanity must not become the new norm.” – Philippe Lazzarini, Commissioner-General of the UNRWA
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Israel’s border closures contribute to polio outbreak in Gaza
As the world’s media is mesmerised by political events in the USA and the findings by the ICJ of the illegal occupation by Israel of Gaza and the West Bank have slipped off the headlines, health officials in Gaza have found yet another potential catastrophic virus in the waste water, the poliovirus. (more…)
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War, words and denial
Eighty-six years ago Europe’s Jews suffered the most catastrophic event in their history, ending in a systematic, industrial-scale slaughter. Six million was the body count, its physical manifestation. But the Shoah, or Holocaust, as it is also known, delivered a psychic wound that cannot be so easily measured. Nor has it ever truly healed. (more…)
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In Australia, pro-Palestinian voices face a frenzy of Zionist McCarthyism
Zionism is a political ideology, not a religious or ethnic identity. The egregious, false equivalence between it and Judaism is the only way Israel and the West can justify genocide. (more…)
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Zionist attempts to silence criticism running in top gear after ICJ ruling
Friday’s findings of the International Court of Justice on Israel’s conduct must be at the forefront of our legislator’s minds when they are pushed by the Israel lobby to enact the IHRA definition of antisemitism. (more…)
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Why Gaza is a global cause
In the West the claim is often made that Palestine is an issue that Arab or Muslim governments manipulate to stay in power by appealing to a populist cause. The deeper truth is that Palestine has become a subversive issue in the Middle East: the liberation of Palestinians through a South Africa-style dismantling of an inequitable system implies the dismantling of repressive regional systems that have managed to perfect Panopticon surveillance (with the help of Israeli technologies) and returning to the unfinished business of the Arab Spring. (more…)
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Australia, complicit in Israel’s horror, has no option but to respect ICJ ruling
Unlike the US and Israel, Australia is a signatory of the Rome Statute. It has no option but to comply with the latest ICJ decision on 19 July that the UN Security Council, the General Assembly and all states have an obligation not to recognise Israel’s occupation as legal and not to give aid or support toward maintaining it, writes Alison Broinowski.
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The unlawful presence of the State of Israel in the Occupied Palestinian Territory must cease immediately
“All States are under an obligation not to recognize as legal the situation arising from the unlawful presence of the State of Israel in the Occupied Palestinian Territory and not to render aid or assistance in maintaining the situation created by the continued presence of the State of Israel in the Occupied Palestinian Territory. […] This illegality relates to the entirety of the Palestinian territory occupied by Israel in 1967.”
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Israel’s occupation “does not qualify as an act of self-defence”
“In my view, three dimensions of Israel’s policies and practices illustrate that the maintenance by Israel of its occupation does not qualify as an act of self-defence: their intensity, their territorial scope and their temporal scope.” The policies and practices of Israel in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, some of which are discussed in the Advisory Opinion of the International Court of Justice, also give rise to forms of multiple and intersectional discrimination that disproportionately affect women and girls, writes Hilary Charlesworth.
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By failing to stop the Gaza genocide, the ICJ is working exactly as intended
The international legal order was built to administer colonial violence, not to end wars — and that poses serious questions for the Palestinian struggle. (more…)
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What happens now that Israel has formally rejected a two-state solution?
Given the Israeli Parliament’s overwhelming rejection of a two-state solution the world needs to recognise that it is no longer possible, at least in the short and possibly medium term. It’s a mirage that opinion polls show most Israelis and Palestinians don’t want. Given their long acrimony, the sad truth is that each side wants to overpower the other and have only one nation. (more…)
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Legacy media outlets also stand in dock over Gaza
How RNZ, ABC and other Western media failed to challenge Israeli war narrative. (more…)
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Israeli lawmakers vote against Palestinian statehood
“In essence, the Israeli Knesset voted to continue to wipe Palestine off the map,” said one critic. (more…)
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Western decline and media bias: The uneven narratives of Gaza and Ukraine
The stark contrast in media coverage of the conflicts in Gaza and Ukraine reveals a troubling pattern of bias that shapes public perception and policy in profound ways. (more…)