Roger Markwick
Dr Roger Markwick is Honorary Professor of Modern European History, The University of Newcastle, Australia.This article is a condensed, updated version of a paper presented to ‘The second ‘BDS – Driving Global Justice for Palestine’ conference, The University of Sydney, July 2020.
Michael Cohen
Michael Cohen is a writer based in Sydney, Australia, who in the past has contributed extensively to international news outlets and now concentrates on issues of human rights, mental health, technology, and philosophy.Most recent published article: https://independentaustralia.net/politics/politics-display/what-it-means-to-be-a-leftist-jew,19791
Zhao Bochao
Zhao Bochao is a senior research fellow at Xinhua Institute, a think tank affiliated with the Xinhua News Agency, and a senior editor at International News Department of Xinhua News Agency. He used to work as a correspondent in Kuala Lumpur for two years.
kiji noh
K J Noh is a journalist, political analyst, writer, and teacher specializing in the geopolitics of the Asia-Pacific region.
Prachi Bansal
Prachi Bansal is an Assistant Professor at the Jindal School of Government and Public Policy, O.P. Jindal Global University, Sonipat, Haryana.
Namesh Killemsetty
Namesh Killemsetty is an Associate Professor at the Jindal School of Government and Public Policy, O.P. Jindal Global University, Sonipat, Haryana.
Ling Xin
Ling Xin is a science journalist based in Ohio. She mainly covers physics, astronomy and space. Her writing has appeared in Science, Scientific American, MIT Technology Review and other English and Chinese outlets. She was a visiting journalist at Science magazine in Washington, and has a master’s degree in journalism from Ohio University.
Steph Cousins
Steph Cousins is the founder and CEO of Skill Path Australia, a non-profit organisation supporting refugees to access education, vocational training, and professional licensing pathways. She previously served as Global CEO of Talent Beyond Boundaries, leading international efforts to open skilled migration pathways for displaced people. For 20 years Steph has worked in senior roles across the human rights, refugee and international development sectors, including at Amnesty International and Oxfam. She holds degrees in arts and public policy, and a Master’s in Public and International Law from the University of Melbourne. She is based in Melbourne with her family.
Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/steph-cousins-27508827/
Ilan Pappé
Ilan Pappé (Hebrew: אילן פפה [iˈlanpaˈpe ]; born 7 November 1954) is an Israeli historian, political scientist, and former politician. He is a professor with the College of Social Sciences and International Studies at the University of Exeter in the United Kingdom, director of the university’s European Centre for Palestine Studies, and co-director of the Exeter Centre for Ethno-Political Studies. Pappé was also a board member of the Israeli political party Hadash, and was a candidate on the party list in the 1996 and 1999 Israeli legislative elections.
Ilan Pappé
Ilan Pappé (Hebrew: אילן פפה [iˈlanpaˈpe ]; born 7 November 1954) is an Israeli historian, political scientist, and former politician. He is a professor with the College of Social Sciences and International Studies at the University of Exeter in the United Kingdom, director of the university’s European Centre for Palestine Studies, and co-director of the Exeter Centre for Ethno-Political Studies. Pappé was also a board member of the Israeli political party Hadash, and was a candidate on the party list in the 1996 and 1999 Israeli legislative elections.
Mike Hutchinson
Mike Hutchinson is a retired senior public servant, non-executive company director, and consultant. His view on the monarchy was prompted as a child forced to stand in the freezing rain in the UK to wave at a fast-passing car during the late queen’s 1953 post-coronation tour.
Chris Atmore
Dr Chris Atmore is Senior Advisor, Policy and Advocacy with Allied Health Professions Australia where she specialises in aged care.
Andrew Fullarton
Andrew Fullarton is a retired factory worker from Naarm/Melbourne. Since the 1970’s he has been involved in various anti-war and progressive campaigns and is an occasional co-presenter on Community Radio 3CR of news-commentary items from the Independent and Peaceful Australia Network.
Thalia Anthony
Professor Thalia Anthony’s research examines the role of criminal laws and procedures in reproducing social relations and enforcing dispossession. She also has expertise in relation to First Nations Stolen Wages claims, legal redress for the Stolen Generations, the harms of carceral systems, and coercive controls of First Nations homelands, housing and mobility. Grounded in a critical examination of legal institutions; emancipatory fieldwork with First Nations people, organisations and communities; legal history and theory; and activist struggles, Professor Anthony’s research identifies law enforcement as a key device in the colonial project in Australia and overseas and explores sites of resistance.
Guest author Michael Breen
Michael Breen, twenty years a Jesuit, then educational psychologist (Boston College) and researcher, (Ireland) student counsellor,(Bathurst and Wollongong Unis) organisational psychologist,(private practice, mostly in W.A.) Zen practitioner Dai Boku.
Richard Medhurst
Richard Medhurst is an independent journalist from the United Kingdom whose work focuses on US politics, international relations and the Middle East.