Australia repeatedly fights as the deputy sheriff in our ally’s wars. Afterwards, our contributions are forgotten and we continue to dodge blame for the disastrous results, including war crimes. Can we get away with this over Gaza? (more…)
Category: Israel Palestine
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Israel’s repeated ceasefire violations are part of its strategy to keep waging war on Gaza
Here’s Israel’s strategy to continue the war on Gaza: find a pretext, no matter how baseless, use it to kill dozens of civilians and fighters, stop fire and claim you’re honouring the ceasefire. Then do it again. (more…)
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Notice which genocides you are and are not allowed to oppose
Do you notice how nobody’s losing their jobs or getting deported for criticising the genocidal atrocities in Sudan? (more…)
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What Israel’s genocide has laid bare
Two years into an ongoing genocide — recognised as such by the UN Independent International Commission of Inquiry, Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, B’Tselem, Physicians for Human Rights, Doctors without Borders, the International Association of Genocide Scholars, the Lemkin Institute for Genocide Prevention, the University Network for Human Rights and countless scholars of international humanitarian law, genocide and Holocaust studies — we are now to normalise the obscene, and move on. (more…)
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Australian Palestinian farm in the occupied West Bank raided by Israeli settlers
Australian citizen, Palestinian farmer and vigneron Sari Kassis, whose family company Domaine Kassis wines sells both locally and overseas, has reported that over the past two weeks there has been a rapid increase in destructive raids on his farm by the Israeli “Hilltop Youth”. (more…)
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Gaza under siege: The continuation of Zionist demographic cleansing policies since the 19th century
Israeli propaganda tries to present the war on Gaza as a “defensive reaction.” Yet the historical record tells a very different story: systematic genocide, the destruction of civilian life and deliberate attempts to uproot entire populations. All of this is a direct continuation of Zionist colonial policies that began in the late 19th century. (more…)
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The leader most capable of governing a future Palestinian state is languishing in an Israeli jail
As the future of Gaza hangs in the balance, the Palestinian Authority needs renewal if it’s to eventually govern the Strip and play a key role in making the two-state solution a reality. (more…)
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The easy way or the hard way to the same result
National leaders deceive most people most of the time. Israel’s long, atrocious, US-backed assault on the Palestinians in Gaza, the West Bank, and Lebanon is the latest example, as are their joint attacks on Syria, Yemen, and Iran. (more…)
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Why the annexation of the West Bank matters to all of us
Between 1 January and 30 September 2025, Israeli authorities carried out 1288 demolitions of Palestinian-owned structures in the West Bank, including East Jerusalem. (more…)
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The unvanquished will: Gaza’s triumph of spirit against the architecture of genocide
For the last two years, my social media algorithm has been relentlessly dominated by Gaza, particularly by the voices of ordinary Gazans, displaying a blend of emotions that centres on two core principles: grief and defiance. (more…)
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From illusion to real peace: Trump’s test in Gaza and Ukraine
Real peace demands Palestinian statehood, Ukrainian neutrality and the courage to defy the war lobby. (more…)
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The three core myths driving Israel’s war on Palestine
Israeli journalist Gideon Levy, one of the most outspoken moral critics within Israel itself, once summarised what he called the “three core values of Israeli society”: the belief that Jews are the chosen people; that they are the world’s ultimate victims; and that Palestinians are not equal human beings. (more…)
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It’s no longer possible to be a Palestinian in the West Bank
In the West Bank, no one has heard about the ceasefire in Gaza: not the army, not the settlers, not the Civil Administration and, of course, not the three million Palestinians who live under their tyranny. They do not feel the end of the war in the slightest. (more…)
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The future of Palestine: What Australia must do
Responding to continuing slaughter in Gaza is a test of Australian politicians and the government’s courage. (more…)
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Australia’s role in the F-35 supply chain – what a tangled web we weave!
The government’s ducking and weaving about military exports to Israel went up a whole new notch this month, arguing in Senate estimates that just because something was shipped from Australia, doesn’t mean it was exported from Australia. (more…)
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If you write, you must also act: Reflections on the limitations of writing
I’ve been thinking about failure a lot recently in the shadow of Gaza. About the failure of humans to prevent — yet again — the most serious of crimes. About the failure of politics. About the failure of international law. And about the failure of writing. (more…)
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Chris Sidoti on the International Court of Justice Gaza ruling
Yuji Iwasawa, president of the UN’s highest court, says international law prohibits the use of starvation of the civilian population as a method of warfare. (more…)
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UN expert says all nations with ties to Israel ‘responsible in some measure’ for Gaza genocide
Francesca Albanese wrote that states that supported Israel financially and militarily “could and should be held liable for aiding, assisting, or jointly participating in internationally wrongful acts.” (more…)
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After ICJ ruling, can UN relief agency UNRWA resume full Gaza operations?
ICJ states that Israel must allow aid into Gaza, ensuring food, water, medicine, and shelter for the Palestinian population. (more…)
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Hundreds of prominent Jews and Israelis urge world powers to hold Israel accountable ‘for Gaza atrocities’
An open letter, signed by at least 460 Jewish and Israeli intellectuals, celebrities and political figures, calls on the UN and heads of state to address “the underlying conditions of occupation, apartheid and the denial of Palestinian rights” that are absent from US President Trump’s Gaza ceasefire agreement. (more…)
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The crumbling illusion: Why American public opinion on Israel is shifting
For the first time in decades, the public in the United States and across the West has begun to see Israel’s wars and occupation for what they truly are: acts of systemic injustice driven by malevolence and impunity. (more…)
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Women are missing from peace negotiations, from strategic decision-making
There’s a new international body being set up to oversee Gaza’s future, called the “Board of Peace.” It’s part of Donald Trump’s plan for Gaza, with Tony Blair already named as a leading figure. (more…)
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On Israel, Zionism and being Jewish
No political conflict contains as many journalistic minefields as that between Israel and Palestine. (more…)
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Chris Hedges’ Edward Said memorial lecture: ‘Requiem for Gaza’
Journalist Chris Hedges delivers the 2025 Edward Said Memorial Lecture, “Requiem for Gaza” in Adelaide, Australia. (more…)
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At best, a respite for Gazans
Reading Donald Trump’s 20-point Gaza peace plan is like venturing into the world of the eccentric early-twentieth-century British cartoonist, Heath Robinson, who unwittingly lent his name as a descriptor for any “unnecessarily complex and implausible contrivance”. (more…)
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After the bombing: The shape of life left by the genocide in Gaza
Since the ceasefire came into effect, I’ve been searching for a way out of all the horrors that surrounded us in Gaza, but I can’t find one. (more…)
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The armistice of 1918 and the ‘ceasefire’ of 2025
Remembrance Day is coming. More accurately it is Armistice Day. The armistice between Germany and the Western Powers was signed at Compiègne in France on the morning of 11 November 1918, after four years of war. Sadly, there are heart-chilling parallels to today. (more…)
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The onus is on Israel and its allies to end the genocide, not their victims
It’s actually never legitimate to withhold aid from starving civilians. It was never legitimate at any time. (more…)
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Gaza has a ceasefire, now Palestine needs self-determination
Whether it’s the Israeli Government, an international peacekeeping force, or a post-conflict reconstruction authority for Gaza chaired (grotesquely) by Donald Trump, the fate of Palestine still rests in the hands of outsiders. (more…)
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As Gaza starts to rebuild, what lessons can be learned from Nagasaki in 1945?
At first, there might not seem to be any immediate similarities between a devastated Nagasaki after the US atomic bombing in 1945 and Gaza today, aside from massive destruction. (more…)
