Pulling children out of rubble, witnessing ill-treatment of Palestinian civilians by Israeli soldiers, witnessing the displaced Gazan population work its way through destroyed streets. In Australia, the Senate debate on housing. These are the items we found on our five-minute scroll on X. Civil defence teams rescue children from rubble @swilkinsonbc Civil defense teams rescue Continue reading »
Israel / Palestine
The nature of human cruelty is vastly complex, so I am focusing on some valued insights that have enlightened my activism.
For years, like others, I was utterly baffled by the question: how do the perpetrators sleep at night? Continue reading »
Last April a man from Bethlehem visited Australia. Like an earlier man born in Bethlehem he delivered some well directed words that did not always settle on welcoming ears. Continue reading »
The participation of four Israeli arms companies in the Land Forces International Land Defence Exposition in Melbourne is a clear instance of the Australian Government aiding and abetting the commission of an ongoing war crime in Gaza. Continue reading »
Current responses to the Gaza “war” would seem to suggest that antisemitism is the priority issue, not the unending slaughter of Palestinians. That conclusion is confirmed by the law firm Levitt Robinson’s class action which charges that in contravention to sections 9 and 18c of the Racial Discrimination Act, Sydney University has breached its duty Continue reading »
The self-defence trope used to characterise Israel's genocidal assault on Gaza Continue reading »
The capitulation by seemingly intelligent and decent-minded national leaders to the Holocaust Industry’s relentless campaign to validate any action by Israel in the current conflict in Palestine is seriously affecting the political landscape. It seems that the leaders of “the Western World” have learned nothing from nearly a century of calamitous events. Appeasement of genocide Continue reading »
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 »
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 »