While recognising Palestinian statehood gives legitimacy to Palestinians’ aspirations, to use it as a bargaining chip, as Australia is doing, is a face-saving exercise, argues Jacob Andrewartha.
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Solidarity was shown to former SBS journalist Mary Kostakidis, who the Zionist Federation of Australia is trying to silence from speaking out about Israel’s genocide in Gaza. Clint Duncan reports.
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Pro-Palestine activists demonstrated outside the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade on Gadigal Country/Sydney to demand the Freedom Flotilla activists on board the Handala be released. Suelin McCauley reports.
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Israeli human rights group B’Tselem and Physicians for Human Rights — Israel have issued new reports stating that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza. Binoy Kampmark reports.
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The NSW Supreme Court has ruled that Palestine solidarity protesters will have immunity under the NSW Summary Offences Act in the March for Humanity: Save Gaza protest on the Harbour Bridge. Pip Hinman reports.
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The global outcry from the streets against Israel’s starvation genocide in Gaza continues to grow, pushing some Western governments to wring their hands — a sign the Palestine movement is starting to exert some power.
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Niko Leka reviews Jewish Australian journalist Antony Loewenstein’s two-part video series, The Palestine Laboratory, which shows how Israel exports weapons and surveillance technology to the world.
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Janet Parker told a pro-Palestine protest outside Parliament House as Western governments dig in to support Israel, protesters will bring make them accountable.
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July 6 marked 27 years since the Biak massacre in 1998, when Indonesian security forces massacred scores of people in Biak, West Papua, reports Kerry Smith.
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Jillian Segal, with Labor’s support, wants to make it harder for people to oppose genocide and Zionism. Jonathan Strauss argues that this racist plan needs to be rejected.
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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.
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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.