Mick Hall analyses an Australian Broadcasting Corporation story — 11 months into a genocide — on the Israeli military’s use of the Hannibal Directive to kill its own citizens. Special to Consortium News At the weekend Australia’s national broadcaster, the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, featured a story reporting the Israeli Defence Forces had indeed carried out Continue reading »
Israel / Palestine
In a recent significant article in the US journal, Foreign Policy, David E Rosenberg, the economics editor of Haaretz, clarifies how a minority of religious extremists have come to wield so much power in Israel today. It is a chilling, informative read. Rosenberg adeptly summarises how Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu has sold his soul (if Continue reading »
“A healthy conscience can’t simply ignore the mutilated bodies of tens of thousands of dead Palestinian children,” said one human rights activist. Warning: This story includes horrific images of death and destruction in Gaza, specifically photos of Palestinian children killed or wounded by Israeli attacks. Israel’s assault on Gaza has been described as the world’s first live-streamed genocide, Continue reading »
The citizenry of past nations engaged in genocide woke up each morning focused on their challenges of everyday life, not those of the people their rulers were butchering. The victims may have been across continents or within the same population, and so awareness of the slaughter varied, but propaganda and dehumanisation were the ever-present balm Continue reading »
In today’s papers the Education Minister Jason Clare announced the decision to appoint a new National Student Ombudsman who will combat anti-Semitism at Australia Universities. He explained that Jewish students “don’t feel safe at university” and that it was obvious that antisemitism was a serious problem at tertiary institutions. Clearly these are difficult times for Continue reading »
Taking just five minutes to scroll through X, these are the first five posts we witness, the stories often not picked up in our mainstream media. The circumstances are different for the un-chosen And he’s yet to utter one cohesive sentence! pic.twitter.com/shtUJgrHYM — Rania (@umyaznemo) September 9, 2024 And how the Palestinians honour the death Continue reading »
We took a five-minute scroll through X this morning and this is what we saw in relation to issues impacting the world today, in Gaza…. Great Britain’s 1 million person protest for Palestine – the largest protest in their history One of the biggest protests in the history of Great Britain 1 MILLION people pic.twitter.com/H3XVPNi6xc Continue reading »
Our World gets worse and worse, reflected in inhumane, racist, behaviour. And what for us – Australians – is really bad is that we, as represented by our political leaders, and our media, are totally complicit in genocide. We can start with the International Court of Justice (ICJ), and its advisory opinion of 19 July. Continue reading »
What is the point of the International rule book of law and order? What is the point of UN treaties and conventions if justice is only dealt out to the chosen few? Why are they chosen and who chooses them? Continue reading »
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 Continue reading »