Ben Saul
Ben Saul is Challis Chair of International Law at the University of Sydney and the past Whitlam & Fraser Chair of Australian Studies at Harvard University. He has been involved in technical activities with the Israeli Defence Forces and in Palestine.
Ben's recent articles
17 October 2023
Australia must put more pressure on Israel as it occupies more and more Palestinian land
Australia's biased friendship towards Israel undermines peace and forsakes justice for Palestinians, while serving neither Australian nor Israeli interests, writes Ben Saul.
20 August 2022
Explainer: the complex question of Taiwanese independence
Strategic ambiguity the policy that has underpinned the Wests defence of Taiwan for half a century or more rests on another ambiguity...
17 May 2022
What Ministers should do - Human Rights in the election
Human rights experts have welcomed Labor's plan to restore merit appointments to the Australian Human Rights Commission, and to appoint a global ambassador for human rights. Nine years of partisan 'captain's picks' by the Coalition government have shredded the Commission's impartiality and subdued its voice as a champion of the vulnerable. Its funding has also been decimated.
7 February 2022
Festival of light: boycott was justifiable to support Palestinians
Opponents of the boycott have mounted some surprisingly weak objections, when there are more serious questions to be asked.
29 June 2020
Why Australia needs to join global condemnation of Israel's annexation plans (SMH 25.6.20)
As early as next week, Israel proposes to forcibly annex up to a third of the Palestinian West Bank, with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu calling it another glorious chapter in the history of Zionism.