Pip Hinman argues that Premier Chris Minns’ dishonest and cruel justifications for police violence against people protesting the visit of Zionist Isaac Herzog show he is not fit to lead the state.
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Janet Parker from Jews for Palestine WA told the Boorloo Palestine rally that the state’s renewed effort to shut down solidarity needs to be challenged.
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Socialist Alliance opposes Labor’s Combating Antisemitism, Hate and Extremism Bill. Jonathan Strauss argues that those who want the right to oppose genocide, or to defend democratic rights more generally, should reject these laws.
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Alana Lentin argues that by constituting racism as “hate”, it becomes detached from the policies and practices of a state and presented as a matter of attitudes qualified by individuals’ perceptions. The effect is to punish legitimate criticisms of Israel and Zionism.
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The Geelong and Victoria Southwest branch of Independent Peaceful Australia Network was attacked as they packed up their “Peak Hour for Peace in Palestine” action. Sarah Hathway reports.
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Halim Rane argues that opposition politicians, Zionist organisations and establishment media are driving the calls for a Royal Commission into the Bondi shooting.
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The looming Combat Antisemitism Movement summit on the Gold Coast is backed by an assortment of human rights advocates, astroturfers, property developers and Zionist agitators, as Wendy Bacon and Yaakov Aharon explain.
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Local councillors and mayors will attend a conference, organised by a Zionist coalition, which aims to get all levels of government to adopt the problematic International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance’s definition of antisemitism. Wendy Bacon and Yaakov Aharon report.
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The Heritage Foundation developed a blueprint to destroy the burgeoning pro-Palestine and anti-war movement, by claiming “all critics of Israel” are agents of Hamas. Barry Sheppard and Malik Miah report.
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Independent Citizens Against Apartheid protested in Martin Place with a presentation condemning Israel’s use of starvation as a weapon against the people of Gaza. Jim McIlroy reports.
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To understand what antisemitism is and what it is not, Shamikh Badra argues that you have to understand the colonialist roots of the war on Palestine and analyse the nature of the Zionist settler-colonial project.
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We need to keep the issue of settler colonialism here and in Palestine front and centre, argues Michelle Berkon, as Australia and Israel have shared values.