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Haaretz, Israel’s oldest and most widely known newspaper, has just published a long, roughly 8,000 word feature article, about the work of Lee Mordechai, the Associate Professor of History at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. He has compiled on line a massive report entitled “Bearing Witness to the Israel-Gaza War.” The English translation of the […]

Protesting students occupy an area of the quadrangle at the University of Sydney in Sydney, Friday, May 3, 2024. Encampments have sprung up at colleges in major Australian cities as participants protest over the Israel-Hamas war in solidarity with student demonstrators in the United States. Image:AAP/AP/Rick Rycroft In a number of countries, universities are now […]

Ever since the October 7 2023 Hamas terrorist attack on Israel, the Albanese government has consistently said Australia respects Israel’s right to defend itself, but how it does so matters. To an international lawyer, those words are code for simultaneously exercising the right of self defence and respecting international humanitarian law. In effect, remaining compliant […]

When: 13 Feb 2025 - Muslim, Jewish and Christian voices share their stories and visions for peace.

When: 6 Feb 2025 - Topic: Palestine from the Nakba to the present: Resilience and steadfastness through ethnic cleansing and genocide

When: 28 Jan 2025 - Topic: Zionism: The Weaponisation of Jewish trauma and anti-semitism in the service of apartheid and empire

When: 16 Jan 2025 - Topic: Colonisation and Resistance: Palestine and the struggle for unity, sovereignty and liberation

When: 7 Dec 2024 - Coburg VIC.

20 November 2024 - Tomorrow evening, two Israeli soldiers who participated directly in the ongoing genocide in Gaza will be lauded as heroes at an event hosted by WIZO Victoria and the St Kilda Hebrew Congregation. These soldiers were part of the IDF’s Paratroopers Reconnaisance Unit, which stands accused by human rights advocates of involvement in war crimes and crimes against humanity during Israel's relentless attacks on Gaza.

When: 26 Nov 2024 - Topic: Zionism, Anti-Semitism and Palestine

When: 6 Nov 2024 - Topic: This is Palestine: Resistance, truth-telling and survival in a time of genocide

14 October 2024: Free Palestine Melbourne, the largest Palestine solidarity organisation in Melbourne, rejects calls by mayoral aspirants Nick Reece and Arron Wood to restrict the right of protestors to rally against Israel’s escalating war against the people of Palestine and Lebanon.

For American diplomacy in the Middle East, the extraordinary attack in Lebanon that simultaneously detonated hundreds of pagers used by Hezbollah members could not have come at a less auspicious moment – and may still spark an escalation that the US had been seeking desperately to avoid. A day before the coordinated sabotage, Amos Hochstein, […]