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with Richard Falk, John Dugard and Michael Lynk Richard Falk is an American professor emeritus of international law at Princeton University, and Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Monitor’s Chairman of the Board of Trustees. Falk has published extensively with multiple books written about international law and the United Nations. John Dugard is a South African professor of… Continue reading The United Nations and Palestine: Stranded Between Promise and Performance

All at FOS Australia wish all of our Muslim friends, family, and all who celebrate the month of Ramadan a blessed and delightful season. Ramadan is a blessed time of prayer, meditation, spiritual regeneration, fasting, and charitable giving. It is also a month of peace and joy, lights, entertainment, and celebration. Both Christians and secular persons living… Continue reading Ramadan Kareem

5:00PM MARCH 22, 2023 ( https://www.theaustralian.com.au/world/knesset-empowers-settlers-with-west-bank-policy-reversal/news-story/11ae0568af4342c819e1f04518e6d62e ) Israel’s settler movement are celebrating after parliament annulled part of a law banning them from living in areas of the West Bank the government evacuated in 2005. That year the government of Ariel Sharon oversaw a unilateral withdrawal by Israel from the Gaza Strip, and the removal of… Continue reading Knesset empowers settlers with West Bank policy reversal

By Ramzy Baroud The scene of Israeli Ambassador, Sharon Bar-Li, along with other Israeli delegates, being escorted out of the opening ceremony of the African Union Summit in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, on February 18, was historic. The very moment that was meant to crown twenty years of Israeli diplomacy on the African continent, in a few seconds, turned… Continue reading ‘Israel is (Not) Back to Africa’: How African Countries are Challenging Israeli Plot on the Continent

An open letter to the ABC, 22 March 2023. In a series of aggressions, Israel has been occupying Palestine from the river to the sea for over 74 years, by ethnically cleansing two-thirds of its people through over seventy massacres, killing and executing Palestinians daily (at least 89 Palestinians, including 16 children and a woman,… Continue reading Does the ABC regard Palestinians as humans, equal to Ukrainians?

Ali Abunimah Rights and Accountability 20 March 2023 ( https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/ali-abunimah/smotrich-unmasks-israels-truly-genocidal-face ) Bezalel Smotrich, the ultra-far-right Israeli finance minister, declared in Paris on Sunday that Palestinians do not exist. There is “no such thing as Palestinians because there’s no such thing as the Palestinian people,” Smotrich said. His remarks were “met with applause and cheers from attendees,” The Times… Continue reading Smotrich unmasks Israel’s truly genocidal face

Israel’s far-right Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich claimed that his family were ‘real Palestinians’ at a memorial service for a prominent Likud activist in Paris Haaretz | Jonathan Lis & Jack Khoury | 20.3.23 Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich said on Sunday that “there’s no such thing as Palestinians because there’s no such thing as a… Continue reading Far-right Minister Smotrich: There’s No Such Thing as the Palestinians, White House Must Hear the Truth – Israel News – Haaretz.com

After Hawara, we are beginning to see the occupation and the settlement enterprise for what they are – fundamentally undemocratic, racist, uncompromising and violent Haaretz | Bradley Burston | Mar 19, 2023 What would it take to radicalize a critical mass of a deeply conservative, hope-deprived Jewish community? For my Grandma Aashi (Aashi was short… Continue reading The Pogrom Against Palestinians That Brought the Occupation Home to Jewish Israelis – Opinion – Haaretz.com

Nidal Hazem among three men and a boy killed in ‘intelligence-based counter-terrorism activity’ Ben Lynfield in JerusalemFri 17 Mar 2023 16.55 GMT The shooting in the head of a motionless Palestinian militant during an Israeli raid on Jenin in which three other people were killed has enraged Palestinians as images of the incident spread across social… Continue reading Palestinians enraged after Israeli forces shoot prone militant in head in Jenin

Mohammed El Halabi has been imprisoned by Israel for nearly 7 years. He could have been out years ago, if he only agreed to confess to a crime he didn’t commit. But Mohammed has stood strong. Will you stand with him on his birthday and call for his release? Post your birthday solidarity selfie Mohammed was… Continue reading Mohammed El Halabi