A rally near the Royal Commission into Antisemitism and Social Cohesion protested the conflation of pro-Palestinian voices with anti-Jewish hate speech. Jim McIlroy reports.
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Six Australians participating in the Global Sumud Flotilla are among those kidnapped by Israeli naval forces on international waters, reports Caroline Smith.
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An exhibition of recent works by Gazan artist Majed Badra and a selection of historic Palestine solidarity posters was opened at the Muloobinba/Newcastle Resistance Centre on March 28, reports Peter Boyle.
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More than a month after the United States and Israel launched an illegal war on Iran, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is laser focused on regime change and expansion, writes Barry Sheppard.
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In an unprecedented attack on the right to protest, NSW Labor rammed through harsh new anti-democratic laws in the early hours of Christmas Eve, reports Rachel Evans.
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Ties between Canadian police and Apartheid Israel's security forces run deep, and mean Palestinians in Canada are being demonised and treated as a threat, reports Jeff Shantz.
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Antony Loewenstein discusses his new book, The Palestine Laboratory: How Israel exports the technology of occupation around the world.
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Supporters of justice for Palestine condemned United States President Donald Trump’s “deal” on Palestine and Israel on February 7 in Sydney, reports Jim McIlroy.
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Leaders of Palestinian political party Hamas, which governs the Gaza Strip, released a document outlining their guiding principles at a press conference in the Qatari capital Doha on May 1.
Much coverage focused on the document’s acceptance of Israel’s 1967 boundary as the basis for establishing a Palestinian state alongside Israel. The document also includes pronouncements on how Hamas views the roots of the conflict, the role of Palestinian resistance and its position towards Jewish people.
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ISRAEL BOYCOTT IS WORKING There is a reason why the Israeli government and pro-Israel organisations use everything from slander to vexatious litigation to oppose the global campaign for Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) against Israel. The campaign is working. The June 12 Financial Times reported: “This week an Israeli financial newspaper covered a leaked government report estimating that BDS could cost Israel’s economy $1.4bn a year. -
"We are here today,” Professor Stuart Rees told a media conference at Queens Square on October 30, “to express our outrage that a so-called independent law centre from Israel could attempt to stamp out freedom of speech in Australia.” "We call on the mainstream media to take an objective stand on the issue of Palestinian human rights.” The gathering concerned the move by Shurat HaDin, an Israeli-based law centre, to file a case in the Federal Court against Professor Jake Lynch of the University of Sydney's Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies. -
The Israeli Law Centre, Shurat HaDin, has filed a complaint under the Racial Discrimination Act with the Australian Human Rights Commission against the Sydney Peace Foundation’s Stuart Rees and Sydney University's Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies’ Jake Lynch. The complaint claims Rees and Lynch are supporting racist and discriminatory policies through their support for the international Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement against the Israeli government. It is the first time Australia’s anti-racism laws have been used against people involved in the BDS campaign.