Eleven groups, nine of them Jewish, have written to the Governor-General and Prime Minister, urging them to rescind the invitation to Israeli President Isaac Herzog. Kerry Smith reports.
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Jepke Goudsmit argues that we need to untangle the conflation between Zionism and Judaism and make clear the distinction between the worldwide community of Jews and the State of Israel.
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Change comes when enough see that a better world is possible and work towards it. Therefore, Jepke Goudsmit argues, we cannot give up. Palestinians have a word for it — “sumud”.
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Isaac Herzog cannot be welcomed in Australia as the government he represents has breached international law, including crimes against humanity including war crimes, apartheid, illegal occupation and ethnic cleansing, argue Margaret Reynolds and Stuart Rees.
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Palestine activists say South Australian Labor’s self-promotion as a “defence state” makes it complicit in the Gaza genocide. Markela Panegyres reports.
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Nearly 100 delegates from two dozen unions and peace organisations discussed the need to build the peace movement and how to go about it. Tim Gooden reports.
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Palestinian Australian Shamikh Badra and his brother Majid are determined to campaign to make sure the law against hate crimes applies equally for all sections of the community. Peter Boyle reports.
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A report says the combined revenue of the world’s 100 largest weapons corporations reached a record US$679 billion. Peter Boyle reports.
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A Palestine solidarity activist’s home was attacked in Katoomba. Kerry Smith reports.
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Pro-Palestine community members, including a local basketball coach, shut down the Ferra weapons factory. Alex Bainbridge reports.
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Community members protested outside the United States’s most important foreign spy base — Pine Gap — over its role in the Western-backed Israeli genocide in Palestine. Kerry Smith reports.
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Broader alliances still need to be built in solidarity with Palestine, as well as against all racist attacks, which means that movements should avoid tactics that could politically isolate progressive struggles from the people still deciding where to throw their support, argues Peter Boyle.