Israel has emerged as one of the world’s leading jailers of journalists, according to a newly released census compiled by the New York-based Committee to Protect Journalists. (more…)
Category: Israel Palestine
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Israel wants a Palestinian intifada in the West Bank
Three and a half hours. Three and a half hours from Jenin to Tul Karm. In three and a half hours you can fly to Rome, or drive to Eilat. But in the occupied West Bank today you’re barely able to drive between two nearby cities. (more…)
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The US and Australia: tethered to Israel’s genocide?
With Netanyahu now declaring Israel will not accept the creation of a Palestinian state the burning question is how the US will react. To complicate matters Netanyahu has also said that the war against Hamas will continue for months enlightening the world to the fact that the slaughter of civilians will continue. To this course of action Israel has been able to lock in US support. (more…)
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Cowardly refusal to support South Africa at the ICJ
In response to South Africa’s suit before the International Court of Justice (ICJ) charging Israel with genocide in Gaza, Australian politicians have refused to support a significant international means of ending this slaughter of Palestinians. Instead, party leaders search for words to disguise cowardice, to camouflage the lack of courage required to avoid offending Israel or the U.S. (more…)
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The Gaza Strip: A struggle for daily survival amid death, exhaustion and despair
Every time I visit Gaza, I witness how people have sunk further into despair, with the struggle for survival consuming every hour. (more…)
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Australians at risk if they serve in the IDF
Australian citizens are at risk of being prosecuted under Australian law if they commit, or are complicit in crimes being perpetrated by the Israeli Defence Forces in Gaza. (more…)
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In Gaza, the West is enabling the most transparent genocide in human history
This is extraordinary because the states supporting Israel, above all the United States, have claimed the high moral and legal ground and lectured the states of the Global South about the importance of the rule of law. (more…)
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Me and Colin Rubenstein (AIJAC)
It is hard to see how it is in Australia’s interests to support Israel’s actions in Gaza. (more…)
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Efforts to suppress Palestinian history defeated
From the first days in their Jewish day schools and youth organisations, young Jews are drilled with the lie that Palestine was ‘a land without people for a people without a land’. From its inception, the Zionist movement has sought to suppress Palestinian history and narratives. Whenever there are exhibitions or events or publications featuring Palestinian artists, writers or speakers, there is a huge geschrei from the usual suspects in the Zionist propaganda machine, protesting at this example of ‘antisemitism’. (more…)
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A crisis of humanity, a living hell, a blood bath, a situation of utter deepening and unmatched horror
The transcript of the detailed and moving closing arguments for the South African case against Israel to the International Court of Justice by London-based human rights barrister Blinne Ní Ghrálaigh KC, in the Application of the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide in the Gaza Strip (South Africa v. Israel) on 11 January, 2024. (more…)
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Judging genocide
Australia’s reluctance from afar to recognise Israel’s genocide in Gaza is being challenged by the genocide case against Israel in the World Court. (more…)
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Diplomacy, morality and media have failed the people of Gaza
Imagine this headline: “Brits bomb Belfast to obliterate IRA – 24,000 dead, 50,000 injured, all hospitals flattened – children limbless and starving”. (more…)
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Australian Jewish Lobby groups damage Judaism and its followers
In their aggressive, unrelenting attempts to protect the government of Israel, groups such as the Australian Jewish Association, the Australia / Israel & Jewish Affairs Council, the Executive Council of Australian Jewry and the Zionist Federation of Australia have all contributed to a groundswell of anger in Australia over Israel’s shocking treatment of the Palestinians in Gaza and the Occupied West bank (OWB). And in the process have done a great disservice to Australian Jews; possibly stoking a rise in antisemitism. (more…)
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A loyal apologist for Israel: Australia and the Genocide convention
Australian Foreign Minister Penny Wong is making an official visit to the Middle East this month and will need to convey a clear position to different audiences: the Palestinian Authority, Israel and neighbouring countries. But at home, many Australians are shocked that their government has been a loyal apologist for Israel and failed to condemn the military and political assault on Palestinians. (more…)
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International Court of Justice and the Global court of Public Opinion
South Africa has presented an overwhelming brief to the international Court of Justice, accusing Israel of genocidal motivation and demanding immediate cessation of such activity. The decision of the court will soon be known, but the opinion of millions, probably billons of the worlds citizens is known. Israel has crossed an uncrossable line. (more…)
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South Africa, beacon to the world, shames Australia’s enabling of Israeli genocide
Israel has just defended the indefensible in the International Court of Justice, in its quest to have the case brought by South Africa against it thrown out. (more…)
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The morality of the West on trial
The hearing at the ICJ is not only a determination of the genocidal nature of Israel’s assault on Gaza, it is also an adjudication on the morality of the West. (more…)
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Nations urged to back ICJ case against Israel after experts confirm genocide underway
“How many more alarm bells have to ring and how many more civilians must unlawfully suffer or be killed before governments take action?” asked one human rights expert. (more…)
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Gaza: Australian timidity, US hypocrisy
Just when will the horror that is Gaza today prompt the Albanese Government to acknowledge publicly that the war in the territory is now consumed by Israel’s blood-lust revenge and a hunger for ethnic reconfiguration? Is it too much to hope that the government can find a conscience of its own rather than mimicking the deceitful utterances of its US and Israeli “friends”? (more…)
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No peace to keep: Israel, the ICJ and implications for Australian policy
For the foreseeable future Israel will not commit itself to allowing Palestinian statehood. It will remain in occupation of Gaza and the West Bank. And so long as the occupation continues, there will be no peace to keep. (more…)
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The West will stand in the dock alongside Israel at the genocide court
Israel’s allies aren’t just turning a blind eye to Gaza’s killing fields. They have cheered on the bloodshed, provided diplomatic cover and supplied the arms. (more…)
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‘Horror is growing by the minute,’ says rights group, as Israel starves Gaza
“If current conditions persist,” said Israeli group B’Tselem, “there is significant risk that famine will be declared throughout the entire Gaza Strip within six months.” (more…)
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A cry from the heart
Prime Minister Albanese, “don’t wait 200 years to apologise for the brutality of a coloniser, be on the right side of history now, today.” (more…)
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“Probably the world’s last anti-colonial war”
Summary: the distinguished historian Avi Shlaim argues that in its war with Gaza, Israel openly displays its true colours as a Eurocentric settler-colonialist and apartheid state. (more…)
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‘Exceptional’ country: Where is US leadership on Palestine?
The US proudly proclaims its exceptionalism and leadership of the free world, but in the latest Israeli-Palestinian flareup US leadership has been absent. A lasting peace settlement will require the US to take the lead in pushing forward the widely supported two-state solution. (more…)
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Tony Blinken is a cold-blooded sociopath
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken just referred to the US-sponsored assassination of yet another journalist in Gaza as a “terrible tragedy”, as though the reporter was struck by lightning or died in a car crash or something. (more…)
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Israel’s genocide betrays the Holocaust
If we forget the lessons of the Holocaust, we forget who we are and what we are capable of becoming. (more…)
