Before hearing any evidence, Commissioner Virginia Bell has adopted the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance definition of antisemitism, claiming it is not controversial. Abraham Edwards writes about the antisemitism royal commission’s opening session.
Protesters took action inside defence minister Richard Marles’ electoral office and near Thai Air counters in Gadigal and Naarm to demand that Labor stop approving bomb door actuators parts for Israel’s F-35 fighter jets. Kerry Smith reports.
The Queensland Liberal National government has decided to deal with an alleged antisemitic problem by introducing new laws outlawing certain phrases and prohibiting symbols that “might reasonably” cause someone to “feel menaced, harassed or offended”. Binoy Kampmark reports.
After Israel cut off fuel and electricity supplies in Gaza, fuel has become largely inaccessible, forcing thousands of Palestinians to confront an urgent and ongoing energy shortage, writes Islam Elhabil.
Thousands of people protested the Queensland government’s threats to ban Palestine freedom slogans over six protests in one week. Alex Bainbridge reports.
Israel’s President Herzog has departed leaving less “social cohesion”, while politicians, justices and NSW Police have many questions to answer, writes Wendy Bacon.
A protest outside deputy prime minister and defence minister Richard Marles’ electorate office demanded he end the two-way arms trade with Israel. Tim Gooden reports.
The police violence at the protest against the visit of Israeli President Isaac Herzog reflects a deeper political failure of the system, argues Stuart Rees.
Judith Treanor writes that had authorities facilitated a peaceful march, the huge protest against Isaac Herzog on Gadigal Country/Sydney would have concluded without incident, as it did in more than 30 other places across the country that night.
Sarah Glynn reports on the situation on the ground in Syria and Turkey, following the ceasefire and integration agreement signed by the Syrian Transitional Government and the Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria and Syrian Democratic Forces.
Mei-Ing Cheok reviews Kaouther Ben Hania’s award-winning docudrama, The Voice of Hind Rajab, which confronts us with the unbearable final hours of five-year-old Hind Rajab, one of the countless child victims of Israel’s war on Gaza.
Janet Parker argues that even though the Bondi shooters had nothing to do with the peaceful pro-Palestine movement, the pro-Israel ghouls have seized on the tragedy and now seek to use it as a weapon to shut us down and shut us up. But they won’t succeed.
