10 September 2024

Australian academic's bid to be heard over Age claims dismissed

On 3 July 2024, The Age’s Chief Reporter, Chip Le Grand, emailed, called and sent a text message to my phone, posing a series of bad faith, disingenuous accusations and loaded questions which cast me as a “holocaust denier” and anti-semite. “October 7 denial, like holocaust denial,” Le Grand wrote to me, “has taken many forms, including quibbling over the number of Israeli civilians killed, shifting blame for atrocities away from the perpetrators and on to Israel, greeting survivor stories with scepticism or demand for proof, or otherwise seeking to minimise, justify or qualify the nature of the atrocities carried...

23 July 2024

In Australia, pro-Palestinian voices face a frenzy of Zionist McCarthyism

Zionism is a political ideology, not a religious or ethnic identity. The egregious, false equivalence between it and Judaism is the only way Israel and the West can justify genocide.

23 February 2023

Susan Abulhawa and Mohammed El-Kurd must speak at Australia's Adelaide writers' festival

Australias major literary festival is facing backlash as it prepares to host renowned Palestinians writers Susan Abulhawa and Mohammed El-Kurd. Once again Israels crimes against Palestinians are absent from the media storm, writes Randa Abdel-Fattah.