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10 May 2025: In recent days, we’ve seen a wave of commentary linking the Greens’ electoral losses to their principled support for Palestinian human rights and pro-Palestine rallies. This narrative is not only inaccurate—it is irresponsible.

Anti-Semitism isn’t a party matter, Mark Dreyfus https://www.theaustralian.com.au/commentary/antisemitism-isnt-a-party-matter-mark-dreyfus/news-story/ff3646bc82631c9dbeae8f70fee39ad8 Until recently I was convinced that Attorney-General Mark Dreyfus had no sense of humour. Zero, zip, zilch. How wrong I was. In my defence, the priggish Dreyfus had given every impression he is devoid of humour. It was, I had thought, a perception reinforced beyond doubt in […]

FPM Media Report 26.04.2025 IN POLL SHADOW, RYAN’S FIRMLY A ZIONIST https://todayspaper.theaustralian.com.au/html5/reader/production/default.aspx Mohammad Alfares – Alexi Demetriadi Kooyong MP Monique Ryan has declared she’s a supporter of Zionism and conceded that she made “mistakes” after October 7, having previously backed an arrest warrant for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and voiced support for the United […]

Look to his stand on Gaza: Pope Francis gave us moral leadership in amoral times With his outspokenness about Israel’s outrages, the late pope showed up the hypocrisy of the media and politicians Owen Jones 23 April https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/apr/22/gaza-pope-francis-israel-outrages-hypocrisy The deaths of major public figures can provoke the most grotesque outpourings of hypocrisy. So it goes […]

Just not kosher. The diabolical dilemma facing Jewish voters in Macnamara (The Age, 24/4/2025) ( https://www.theage.com.au/national/just-not-kosher-the-diabolical-dilemma-facing-jewish-voters-in-macnamara-20250423-p5ltm6.html ) Jewish Australia’s relationship with the Albanese government is, to put it mildly, complicated. Nowhere is this more acutely felt than in Australia’s most Jewish electorate, Macnamara, currently held by Jewish Labor MP Josh Burns. With early voting now […]

Just not kosher. The diabolical dilemma facing Jewish voters in Macnamara (The Age, 24/4/2025) ( https://www.theage.com.au/national/just-not-kosher-the-diabolical-dilemma-facing-jewish-voters-in-macnamara-20250423-p5ltm6.html ) Jewish Australia’s relationship with the Albanese government is, to put it mildly, complicated. Nowhere is this more acutely felt than in Australia’s most Jewish electorate, Macnamara, currently held by Jewish Labor MP Josh Burns. With early voting now […]

  ISRAEL-PALESTINE MEDIA REPORT 16.4.25   US must act on killings The Age | Letters | 16 April 2025 https://edition.theage.com.au/shortcode/THE965/edition/78aeee5a-b151-c9b3-75b7-3e3dd9564559?page=da8fdc97-df47-1e8f-ccfb-9b21b04711dc Since when did children’s playgrounds, schools and places of worship become legitimate military targets for Russian and Israeli drones to kill and maim unsuspecting Ukrainians and Palestinians, many of them women and children? Dismissing such […]

ISRAEL-PALESTINE MEDIA REPORT 20.4.25 Israeli strikes pound Gaza as Hamas rejects new truce Canberra Times | Nidal Al-Mughrabi, Jaidaa Taha & Alexander Cornwell | 20 April 2025 https://www.canberratimes.com.au/story/8946355/israeli-strikes-pound-gaza-as-hamas-rejects-new-truce/ Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says he has instructed the military to intensify pressure on Hamas after the Palestinian militant group rejected an Israeli proposal for another […]

Israel says 30pc of Gaza turned into buffer zone (The Australian, 17/4/2025) ( https://www.theaustralian.com.au/world/israel-says-30pc-of-gaza-turned-into-buffer-zone/news-story/eb54c39c1252749b9a0b4ada6ee68983 ) Israel has announced that it had converted 30 per cent of Gaza’s territory into a buffer zone as it pressed its unrelenting military offensive, vowing to maintain its blockade on humanitarian aid to the war-ravaged territory. Israel resumed air and […]

FPM Media Report 15.4.2025 WHO says child dies after Israel strike hits Gaza hospital https://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/latest-news/gaza-hospital-hit-as-israel-intensifies-assault/news-story/c0602080d495e74c06bafd9877e41324 AFP An Israeli air strike Sunday hit one of Gaza’s few functioning hospitals, resulting in the death of a child according to the World Health Organization, as Israel warned it would expand its offensive if Hamas does not release hostages. […]

ISRAEL-PALESTINE MEDIA REPORT 16.4.25 US must act on killings  The Age | Letters | 16 April 2025 https://edition.theage.com.au/shortcode/THE965/edition/78aeee5a-b151-c9b3-75b7-3e3dd9564559?page=da8fdc97-df47-1e8f-ccfb-9b21b04711dc Since when did children’s playgrounds, schools and places of worship become legitimate military targets for Russian and Israeli drones to kill and maim unsuspecting Ukrainians and Palestinians, many of them women and children? Dismissing such war crimes […]

On Tuesday 15th April, 6:30pm, Free Palestine Melbourne and Muslim Votes Matter are hosting a joint Justice at the Ballot Box forum of political candidates and community leaders at Schoolhouse Studios in Coburg.

The horrific situation in the Middle East has landed Foreign Minister Penny Wong with a difficult and frustrating job. She is wedged between a so-far unacknowledged obligation to honour Australia’s legal commitments to condemn Israeli genocide and apartheid on the one hand, and on the other, a vociferous campaign by local Zionists and their supporters […]

There is no alternative to the UN agency supporting Palestinian refugees, its chief insisted, following Israel’s order to ban the organisation that coordinates nearly all aid in war-ravaged Gaza. “There is no plan B,” head of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees, Philippe Lazzarini, told reporters in Geneva. Within the UN […]

In many ways, the issuing of arrest warrants for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former defence minister Yoav Gallant for alleged crimes against humanity and war crimes is the realisation of Israel’s worst fears about the International Criminal Court (ICC), and the reason it is not a state party. Both are unlikely to travel to […]

Article link: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/nov/18/lebanon-civil-defence-reels-after-deadly-israeli-strikeArticle source: The Guardian/ William Christou,19.11.20248211

Why won’t you hold Israel to account? You don’t have to wait for the rest of the world. You can be the leaders, you can be the leaders to hold Israel to account, for the slaughter of tens of thousands of Palestinians, for the killing of Zoni Frankcom.” – Senator Mehreen Faruqi, addressing the Australian […]

Australia has split with US President Joe Biden over an international arrest warrant for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for alleged war crimes, after Foreign Minister Penny Wong refused to oppose or endorse the International Criminal Court’s decision. The ICC issued warrants on Thursday for Mr Netanyahu and his sacked defence minister Yoav Gallant, accusing […]

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 […]

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 […]

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, […]