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Stuart Rees

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Israel and Hamas: no moral equivalence

When asked to compare life in apartheid South Africa with conditions in occupied Palestine, Nobel Laureate Archbishop Desmond Tutu’s judgement ran...

26.05.2024 20

Pearls and Irritations

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Protesters for Palestine targeted by Group of 8 universities

14.05.2024 20

Pearls and Irritations

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US campus protests, establishment’s automatic suppression

From Columbia University in New York to the University of Texas at Austin, from Emory University in Atlanta to the University of Califiornia at...

01.05.2024 30

Pearls and Irritations

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The costs of living and the price of death: Spare a thought for Gaza and Sudan

In response to questions about starvation in Gaza and Sudan, a Federal Labor MP has explained, ‘In Australia, the cost of living is the issue....

22.04.2024 9

Pearls and Irritations

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Intervention to stop genocide: From investigative reporting to freedom flotillas

The leader of South Africa’s Palestine Solidarity Alliance insists that the ruling of the International Court of Justice ‘requires the whole world...

16.04.2024 6

Pearls and Irritations

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A Plea for Gaza: ‘Remember humanity & forget the rest.’

‘If you are not outraged by injustice, you lose touch with your own humanity.’ A ‘Gaza Plea for a Common Humanity’ was presented in the...

31.03.2024 10

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Moral cowardice hinders pleas for a Common Humanity in Gaza

Faced with war across Europe, nineteenth century poet William Wordsworth asked, ‘What a fair world were ours for verse to paint, if Power could live...

25.03.2024 10

Pearls and Irritations

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Israel: a terrorist state

Thursday February 29: starving Gazans try to obtain flour for their families. From the safety of their tanks, Israeli soldiers fire. One hundred and...

10.03.2024 40

Green Left Weekly

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Israel: a terrorist state

Thursday February 29, starving Gazans try to obtain flour for their families. From the safety of their tanks, Israeli soldiers fire. One hundred and...

04.03.2024 4

Pearls and Irritations

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Death of a Giant for Peace: the Johann Galtung legacy

On Feb 17, aged 93, Norwegian Johann Galtung, polymath Professor of Peace Studies died. In a world riven with conflicts, whose leaders appear to know...

28.02.2024 5

Pearls and Irritations

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Time to occupy Israel

Amid end time destruction, we must liberate Gaza, march to the security wall, and Occupy Israel. If the world’s Free Palestine protesters are to...

20.02.2024 8

Pearls and Irritations

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Toxic effects of censorship on Gaza

Doctors, Teachers, Journalists, Academics are being disciplined, hauled before disciplinary bodies and even sacked for criticising the slaughter in...

30.01.2024 7

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Cowardly refusal to support South Africa at the ICJ

In response to South Africa’s suit before the International Court of Justice (ICJ) charging Israel with genocide in Gaza, Australian politicians...

19.01.2024 10

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Sudanese catastrophe: male egos, women’s violation

Since April 2023, in a civil war in Sudan, an estimated 10,000 people have been killed, six million internally displaced, over one million are...

10.01.2024 10

Pearls and Irritations

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Australia must support South Africa’s International Court of Justice case against Israel

South Africa has filed a suit against Israel for committing genocide in Gaza in violation of the 1948 Genocide Convention in the International Court...

07.01.2024 10

Green Left Weekly

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Hypocrisy as Australian Foreign Policy: Oppose Russia, Ignore Israel

In the International Court of Justice in The Hague, South Africa has filed suit against Israel for committing genocide in Gaza in violation of the...

04.01.2024 10

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Israel is ‘rotten to its core’

Israeli President Isaac Herzog, presumably the moral arbiter of his nation, was photographed signing a bomb as a gift for Gaza. In a vigil outside...

01.01.2024 10

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Usman Khawaja for humanity, Australian MPs for Israel

In contrast to cricketer Usman Khawaja’s principled stand for human rights, the Liberal’s Simon Birmingham and Labor’s Josh Burns broadcast...

20.12.2023 10

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Hypocritical US vetoes UN ceasefire resolution, cowardly UK abstains

As the bloodbath in Gaza moves towards 18,000 casualties, 70% of whom are women and children, as a humanitarian catastrophe affecting a whole people...

10.12.2023 10

Pearls and Irritations

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Gaza: Why doesn’t the United Nations deploy ‘Responsibility to Protect’?

The world watches the destruction of Gaza as at least 15,500 Palestinians are killed including 6000 children. The world watches as Gazan hospitals are...

06.12.2023 10

Green Left Weekly

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De-Mystifying Hamas: who are the Israeli terrorists?

Mainstream media outlets repeat, ‘Hamas, a terrorist organisation designated by the US and other western governments.’ Tagged to that description...

04.12.2023 8

Pearls and Irritations

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What happened to the UN’s ‘Responsibility to Protect’?

The world watches the destruction of Gaza as 13,000 thousand Palestinians are killed including 5,600 children. The world watches as Gazan hospitals...

23.11.2023 8

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‘The Australian’ weaponises anti-Semitism

The Israeli media has been interpreting the October 7 attack as ‘reaching Holocaust levels’, or as ‘an equivalent of the 9-11 attack in the...

15.11.2023 9

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Expose and dismiss the dominating Israeli narrative

For decades, the western world has been fed Israeli/Zionist narratives about their country being exceptional, Palestinians not existing or being less...

05.11.2023 6

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In this conflict, context is everything

The truth of the matter is that Western Governments bear the primary responsibility for both the carnage in Israel and the genocide in Gaza. A...

26.10.2023 6

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Netanyahu’s cries for revenge

Terrible violence and massive loss of life in this latest Palestine/Israel conflict is tragic and regrettable, but commentary from western politicians...

12.10.2023 5

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The despotism of Mike Pezzullo

Journalists from The Age, The Sydney Morning Herald and Sixty Minutes have at last exposed the efforts by Mike Pezzullo, Secretary of Home Affairs, to...

27.09.2023 6

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The Richard Boyle case: Lots of persecution, no sign of humanity

The Australian public needs to know why persecution of the principled, courageous ATO whistle blower Richard Boyle has dragged on for six years. He...

20.09.2023 5

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Authoritarianism rampant

The primary site of the authoritarian cancer is the embrace of abusive power as the way to govern. Nelson Chamisa, leader of the Zimbabwean...

15.09.2023 6

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