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A dispassionate look at Hamas
updated and tweaked to reflect not only the unfolding of events over the past six years in Palestine and ... a Jewish state in Palestine'". Hroub also notes that it is simplistic to lump Hamas in the same ... has somehow remained nation state based, limiting its struggle to one for and within Palestine, and ...
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Students protest weapons' development, climate destruction and abuse of refugees
sum of their partsβ. βA surge in extreme weather events caused by climate change has led to the forced ... Palestine to Syria, renders us directly responsible for many of the refugees and asylum seekers now fleeing ...
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Messages to congratulate ΒιΆΉΣ³»'s 1000th issue
Cathy Peters, journalist, Palestine solidarity activist and former Greens councillor in Marrickville ... congratulations to ΒιΆΉΣ³» Weekly for its 1000th issue coming up. This event represents a milestone in the ... government and business PR, we need a strong and independent voice offering the real world, from Palestine to ...
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Write on
James Thomson Adelaide Israel and Palestine Philip Mendes claims ("Write On", GLW 113) that in ... a united, democratic, secular Palestine. However, we did not advocate the "elimination" or ... eviction from Palestine of the Hebrew-speaking population that presently dominates the Israeli state. The ...
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Noam Chomsky: US role crucial to Israel's crimes
dissident, who has written extensively about Israel and Palestine, about Israelβs latest bloody campaign of ... the Palestinians, is known as one of the definitive works on the Israel-Palestine conflict. What is ... militants in Gaza. Hamas lived up to it. Israel concedes that. In April, an event took place which horrified ...
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Crean's pro-Israel sycophancy
the Werdiger Family Hall. The event was organised by the Australia-Israel and Jewish Affairs Council ... in and out through one checkpoint. Unemployment in Palestine is at least 60%, with the majority of ... of Palestine". The ADC report quoted a number of influential Jewish leaders critical of the ALP ...
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3 million Palestinian refugees wait
individuals who, following the establishment of the state of Israel, took refuge in parts of Palestine, such ... events following the Balfour Declaration of 1917 as a model of how a people, deeply rooted in their land, ... Muslims and Christians, in Palestine before the Balfour Declaration was published. The Jewish population ...
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Israeli land seizures continue as Palestinians vote
head of the PLO, is expected to be elected president. Samiha Khalil, a member of the Palestine National ... candidate. Khalil recently told the Jerusalem Times, "In the event that I win, I will suspend ... towards the elections. The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine and the Democratic Front for the ...
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Write On: Letters to ΒιΆΉΣ³» Weekly
to see the well-established machine of outright lies and slander in connection with Palestine. For ... peace" to Arafat. Israeli writer Tanya Reinhart in her book Israel/Palestine quotes US President Bill ... shocking events, including the deadly explosion in the Italian military police headquarters in Nasiriya. ...
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Community opposes far-right World Congress of Families
The final venue for the event remains unclear as they try to avoid clashes with widespread community ... Israeli occupation of Palestine; and the racist, inhumane treatment of refugees. βThe purpose of the ... just let happen.β [For more information about the protest, visit the Facebook event pages: Day of ...
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'Time of revolution' energises socialist youth conference
including refugees, equal marriage, feminism, Palestine solidarity, Aboriginal justice and sovereignty, ... will discuss Marxist theory, significant radical events in history and current examples of inspiring ... will host social events at night, including a big GLW fundraiser dinner and gig, featuring ...
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Global 'boycott Israel' campaign grows
other enemies of the Palestine solidarity movement made a lot of noise over a motion by the Marrickville ... Palestine Advocacy Network. Barr said he supported the BDS campaign, but not the protesting against Max ... many other Palestine solidarity groups and activists disagree. Independent journalist and author of My ...
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Israelis vote for one state, but no solution
Palestine by Jewish settlers and their militias. This created Israel's internationally recognised ... borders. In 1967, Israel conquered the rest of Palestine. More than half a million Jewish Israeli settlers ... and financial subsidies from the state. Israel rules all historic Palestine. About half the population ...
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'Everyone should be supporting the Palestinians'
that Resistance decided to organise a speak-out on April 10 in defence of Palestine, and from there ... initiated a Palestine Solidarity Network (PSN). "We thought there might a few people on campus willing ... β full of people." Since then, the PSN has organised another protest, and contingents to Palestine ...
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Imperialism and Islam
setting, local and global. The events of 11 September 2001 are no exception... ΒI want to write of the ... setting, of the history that preceded these events, of a world that is treated virtually as a forbidden ... subject matter, and an historical materialist method of analysis which clearly explains cultures, events ...
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Democracy and the 'destruction' of Israel
older position of a "democratic, secular state" in all of Palestine and hence the destruction ... living there. The PLO's 1968 program of "a democratic, secular Palestine for Jews, Christians ... difficult to argue with a Bosnian that their society had not undergone a holocaust. These events of 1947-8 ...
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Council defeats attempt to overturn Israel boycott
Middle East Pip Hinman It was ironic, but only supporters of Palestine were clapping after ... of Palestine, and choosing not to do business with them.β Australia March 19, 2011 873 Fiona Byrne. ...
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Henning Mankell β an author who stood up to Israeli apartheid
apartheid state. βThe connection between Africa and Palestine is the apartheid system that the Israelis have ... literary festivals in the occupied West Bank and visited other parts of Palestine. In 2009, Mankell β who ... Israeli soldiers who told him that βthere will be no discussionβ and closed down the event. In a 2011 ...
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Protest condemns Israelβs drive for war on Iran
Peace Foundation, the Coalition for Justice and Peace in Palestine (CJPP), Stop the War Coalition Sydney ... Councillor and CJPP activist Cathy Peters said event organisers had sent invitations to councillors across ... refusal to abide by UN resolutions against its occupation of Palestine: βIsrael has violated international ...
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Gaza: Israel targeting sports to destroy hope
a fact. On November 16, the Israeli Air Force bombed the 10,000-seat Palestine Stadium βinto ruinsβ. The ... several thousand people gather to watch a girls sporting event is a way of life. It is a community event ... Gaza's Palestine Stadium in ruins after an Israeli air strike. World ...
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Sydney Writers' Festival allows needed stories to be told
stop.β The Dissident Cafe: Tweeting from the Middle East This session was held as an interactive event ... β especially in the context of Iraq, Afghanistan, Palestine and across the Middle East. Pointing out the impact ... David Hicks, who recounted his five-and-a-half years in Guantanamo Bay and the events that led to his ...
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Youth speak out against imperialism and neo-liberalism
from Guatemala, the Palestine Liberation Organisation, fighters in the Kurdish struggle, East Timorese ... around the world, including the anti-colonial struggles of the peoples of Palestine, Western Sahara, the ... session was an electric event, with chants and songs culminating in a spontaneous march by some delegates ...
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International Women's Day marches to protest Gulf War
The Israeli invasion of Palestine, expelling millions of Palestinian people and the massacres that ... spokesperson for Jewish Women for an Independent Palestine, remarks: "So long as Israel claims the ... discrimination and harassment against lesbians. To publicise the events planned for IWD and provide a forum for ...
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European Left summer school organises to βstand up for peaceβ
topic of Palestine and Israel also featured strongly in light of current events. During the Ukraine ... communicative, people from at least 32 countries worked together during this unique annual event of the Party of ... participation in government. A welcome addition to the school was supplied by the many events of the EL-FEM, the ...
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Palestinian theatre performs stories from Egypt's revolution
trauma recovery. In a playback event, audience members share thoughts, feelings, memories and ... the revolution I didnβt go into the street. I only followed the events from home, via Facebook. βBut ... angry! I felt like it was me β like it was all women in Egypt who had been violated. βThis event changed ...