Middle East

NSW Police took eight weeks to locate a Zionist who planted a bomb on a Palestine supporter’s utility. David Wise was eventually arrested and has been held on remand since early March. Rachel Evans reports.

Anthony James, a once longtime Labor supporter, writes that since Labor has shown no support for Palestine since Israel's genocidal war on Palestine, he has cut ties.

Green Left News Podcast Ep 37, April 6, 2024

Green Left journalist Isaac Nellist goes through the latest news from across the continent and around the world.

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Dipankar Bhattacharya, a leader of the Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) Liberation told a Palestine solidarity meeting in India’s capital New Delhi on February 23 that the ideological ties between Hindutva and Zionism means opposing Israel's genocidal war is linked to fighting Narendra Modi's fascist agenda in India.

Israel is losing the war of public relations, argues Binoy Kampmark, and even more so after it claimed responsibility for killing humanitarian workers in Gaza.

Green Left speaks to Nachshon Amir about his experiences in the Israeli Defense Forces and his journey from growing up Zionist to becoming a supporter of Palestinian rights.

The Jewish Council of Australia has again called on governments to cut all military ties and to apply sanctions to Israel, as it did after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Pip Hinman reports.

 Australasian Muslim Times editor Zia Ahmad

Zia Ahmad, editor in chief of the Australasian Muslim Times, spoke to Vivienne Porzsolt about a unique progressive publishing project that encourages respect for different points-of-view.

Easter Sunday rally in Naarm/Melbourne against genocide

Thousands rallied in Gadigal/Sydney and Naarm/Melbourne on Easter Sunday, in the 25th week of continuous protest actions. Alex Bainbridge, Rachel Evans, Chloe DS, Niko Leka and Fred Fuentes report.

On the 167th day of the latest genocide, the Tzedek Collective with Jews Against the Occupation ‘48 led a second public sit-in of diaspora Jews, Palestinians and allies to show solidarity with Palestine. Shula Kirovsky reports.

 

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Israel’s genocidal assault on Gaza has largely eclipsed their actions in the West Bank since October 7, says Ammar Abu Shamleh.

The Anthony Albanese government’s treatment of Palestinian refugees escaping the genocide in Gaza presents another blatant example of state-sponsored racism, argues Jonathan Strauss.