How should Australia respond to the starvation of Gaza?
It has now been more than two months since Israel began to block the entry of food and medicine to Gaza. According to the World Food Program, about 1.94 million people across the Gaza Strip experienced high levels of acute food insecurity between 1 April and 10 May 2025, including nearly 244,000 people facing catastrophic food insecurity.
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21 May 2025
False balance persists in ABC Palestine coverage
In December 2024, I presented an analysis of more than 450 interviews concerning Palestine and Israel on ABC Radio National Breakfast, since 7 October 2023. During this period, the host was Patricia Karvelas. Her last show was on Friday 13 December.
20 May 2025
Yes, it's a genocide
Building on Monday's piece outlining a shift in scholarly opinions on Palestine globally, we bring you a very powerful short video, narrated by Israeli professor of holocaust studies, Amos Goldberg. He says: A radical atmosphere of dehumanisation of Palestinians prevails in Israeli society to an extent that I cannot remember in my 58 years of living here.
20 May 2025
Time for Catholic Bishops to speak up for Palestine
An open letter to Catholic Bishops. Please speak up.
20 May 2025
Israel's new Gaza operation should be called 'Chariots of Genocide'
About 70 people from dawn to noon on Wednesday. Almost twice the number of those killed in the massacre at Kibbutz Nir Oz. Twenty-two of them were children, and 15 were women. The previous evening, 23 were killed in a hospital.
19 May 2025
Vale Ali Kazak
On Sunday afternoon, we received the very sad news that Ali Kazak has died in Thailand, en route to Palestine. An extraordinary campaigner and shaper of the Palestinian cause for all his almost 80 years, his loss will be sorely felt. Stuart Rees wrote this tribute to Ali for Pearls and Irritations last November. More will follow in coming days.
19 May 2025
Even once reluctant scholars now agree on Israel's Gaza assault: It's a genocide
Can I name someone whose work I respect who doesn't consider it genocide? said one researcher. No.
17 May 2025
Judge orders release of Georgetown scholar Badar Khan Suri from ICE detention
My only 'crimes' making me a 'national security threat' are my marriage to a United States citizen of Palestinian origin and my support for the Palestinian cause, wrote Badar Khan Suri in an op-ed published on 13 May.
17 May 2025
Our humanity is lost under the rubble in Gaza
It is a Sunday evening, and I am shopping online. But there is a difference.
16 May 2025
Fear, censorship and repression are keeping Israelis in the dark about Gaza
The public's indifference to what Israel is doing in the Gaza Strip is not just the result of a lack of care, but the result of the war Israel is waging against the possibility of knowing.
15 May 2025
Multiple Western press outlets have suddenly pivoted hard against Israel
After a year and a half of genocidal atrocities, the editorial boards of numerous British press outlets have suddenly come out hard against Israel’s genocidal onslaught in Gaza.
15 May 2025
The first-ever historic agreement between the US and Hamas – with Netanyahu in a secondary role
The direct talks between the United States and Hamas took Israel by surprise and led to an agreement that resulted in the release of the Israeli-American captive Edan Alexander.
15 May 2025
An open letter to the Australian PM from a child of Holocaust survivors
Dear Anthony Albanese, I am a child of Holocaust survivors. More than 95% of my extended family perished during World War II in Nazi extermination camps while others were killed by mobile death squads or through starvation in a number of ghettoes.
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