Middle East

Anti-Zionist Jewish groups have rejected Jillian Segal’s recommendations to the Australian government as an attempt to silence dissent about Israel’s genocide in Gaza. Kerry Smith reports.

Seated man against a backdrop of photos of Israeli detention centres

In her second interview, Australian citizen journalist Jude Alexander spoke via text message with nutritionist Dr Mohammed Hamad, about his arrest and 47-day detention by Israeli authorities in January, 2024. Dr Hamad is living in a tent in Gaza with his wife and five children.

protesters with watermelon banner

Just over a month ago, Australian Caroline Smith flew out of Perth for Egypt’s capital, Cairo, to join a global contingent of people seeking to challenge the siege on Gaza and demonstrate solidarity with the Palestinian people, who are living under conditions of genocide. This is her story.

Abdullah Ocalan delivering his message from Imrali Prison

Twenty to thirty Kurdistan Workers’ Party guerillas will come down from the mountains and destroy their weapons in front of witnesses from around the world, in a symbolic act of the PKK’s commitment to its disarmament and dissolution, reports Sarah Glynn.

Francesca Albanese’s report for the United Nations Human Rights Council makes for stark and dark reading, writes Binoy Kampmark.

'Death, death to the IDF' on a placard in Naarm/Melbourne, July 6

On the 91st week of consecutive protests, activists stand up to the media and government slurs by mobilising in their thousands. Pip Hinman and Jordan AK report.

The only beneficiaries of Australia’s reversion to colonial subservience to an increasingly authoritarian United States president will be a small section of the political and corporate elite — and at huge cost to the majority, argues Peter Henning.

Despite Trump’s most extreme ramblings and declarations that he doesn’t care about international law, Labor is still going along with it, Sam Wainwright told the Green Left Show.

The movement in solidarity with Palestine in Western Australia is continuing to grow and diversify despite repression and censorship, reports Sam Wainwright.

We didn't vote for AUKUS - protesters outside the American Chamber of Commerce luncheon

Anti-AUKUS protesters rallied against Australia’s military involvement with the United States in the Middle East outside the American Chamber of Commerce. Elias Boyle reports.

Markela Panegyres argues that while the global movement for Palestine has shifted public opinion, it has to become more organised to stop this genocide.

women standing on cars protesting

Iran’s monarchist opposition’s support for “liberation” by invasion proved to be a nightmare for ordinary people, says Iranian American socialist feminist Frieda Afary in an interview with Alternative Viewpoint’s Farooq Sulehria.