Middle East

Elbit systems, the Israeli weapons and surveillance company, is a key focus of pro-Palestine activists who want their governments to stop supplying it with component parts, as William Maxwells reports.

Hands off the Gaza Freedom Flotilla, Naarm/Melbourne, June 9

Hundreds of people joined emergency protests to protest Israel’s illegal arrest of 12 activists from the Gaza Freedom Flotilla. The actions followed regular weekend protests on June 8 — the 610th day of Israel’s genocide in Gaza. Pip Hinman, Jacob Andrewartha and Alex Bainbridge report

To stifle growing pro-Palestinian activities on campuses, university authorities are developing and applying techniques of control. Universities as places of free speech, political activism and the right to protest is under attack, argues Jane Kenway.

Trinity College Dublin, 2019

The Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement won an important victory when Trinity College Dublin cut institutional ties with the Israeli universities. Alex Bainbridge reports.

a displaced family in a tent in Gaza city

Jude Alexander spoke via text message with Dr Mohammed Hamad, who is now living in a tent in Gaza with his wife and five children. He and his family have been repeatedly displaced due to the war and are barely surviving due to the blocking of distribution of food and humanitarian aid.

People sitting around a large table having a meeting

A senior delegation from the Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria (AANES/Rojava) had its first official meeting with the central government of Syria, on June 1, reports Peter Boyle.

Israel’s decision to ignore international tenets of humanitarian aid via the shoddy US-Israeli-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation company, Safe Reach Solutions, has been shown up to be nasty, inadequate and selective, writes Binoy Kampmark.

As Israel continues its genocide on starving Palestinians in Gaza, thousands of people took to the streets demanding the newly elected Labor government stop sitting on its hands and sanction Israel. Pip Hinman reports. 

Pro-Palestinian activists protested 600 days of the ongoing genocide in Gaza at Martin Place, during the Vivid festival. Photos by Zebedee Parkes.

Jews Against the Occupation ’48 was invited to be questioned by the Antisemitism in New South Wales inquiry. Judith Treanor describes how it went.

Even as Israel’s Operation Gideon’s Chariots offensive in Gaza unmasks global capitalism as the ruthless, racist and colonialist project that it is, Anthony Albanese still refuses to impose sanctions on the genocidal regime, write Sue Bolton and Jacob Andrewartha.

As Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu launched his Operation Gideon’s Chariots in Gaza — the final military campaign to create Donald Trump’s “freedom zone” — some Western elites suddenly became anxious, writes Peter Henning.