Tag: Israel / Palestine Conflict

(The Age, SMH, 27/3/2025) Thank God – never should have been arrested – Mark Jerusaluem: Israeli authorities have released a Palestinian director of an Oscar-winning documentary who was detained overnight, after what he and witnesses said was an attack by Israeli settlers in the West Bank.Police said the filmmaker, Hamdan Ballal, one of the directors… Continue reading Israeli police release Oscar-winning director

  Palestinian Citizens of Israel by Jonathan Kuttab   One of the key strategic elements to Israel’s control over Palestinians has been the establishment of a focused system of fragmentation of the Palestinian community. Palestinians have been forcefully divided into distinctly separate categories, each with a different legal system, economic system, leadership, and community-specific concerns.… Continue reading “Identity Crisis: The Israeli ID System” by Visualizing Palestine

Disgraceful – Mark Jerusalem: Israeli settlers assaulted one of the Palestinian co-directors of the Oscar-winning documentary No Other Land on Monday in the occupied West Bank before he was detained by the Israeli military, according to two of his fellow directors and other witnesses.Filmmaker Hamdan Ballal was one of three Palestinians detained in the village… Continue reading Oscar-winning director allegedly attacked by Israeli settlers, detained by army

This so shocking and heartbreaking – Mark The United Nations will start pulling its workers out of Gaza as the conflict with Israel claims a growing number of aid workers, medical personnel and journalists, including two reporters killed in strikes on Monday.UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said the organisation had made the “difficult” decision to withdraw… Continue reading ‘If you’re reading this, it means I have been killed’: The final words of a young Palestinian reporter

Shameful – Mark This picture taken from Nablus on March 23, 2025 shows east of the city the new expansion of the Israeli settlement of Elon Moreh in the occupied West Bank. (AFP) JERUSALEM/RAMALLAH: The Palestinian foreign ministry and an anti-settlement watchdog group on Sunday condemned an Israeli decision to recognize more than a dozen new… Continue reading Palestinians, watchdog group denounce Israeli recognition of new West Bank settlements

In defiance of international rulings to boycott Israel for its ongoing violence and brutal occupation of Palestinian lands, Australia’s exports to Israel have increased by 20% in 12 months. by Kellie Tranter | 26 Mar, 2025 | Arms Trade, Gaza, genocide, Israel, Palestine Politics over humanity – Mark This month Israel unilaterally breached its US ‘guaranteed” ceasefire agreement with Hamas. Without a trace of… Continue reading TRADE IN A TIME OF GENOCIDE

Hossam Shabat and Mohammad Mansour were the latest Palestinian journalists to be assassinated in Gaza. Responsibility for their killings rests in part on their Western colleagues who have failed to accurately cover Israel’s genocidal assault. So very sad – Mark On March 24, 2025, we witnessed the deliberate killing of yet another Palestinian journalist. Hossam… Continue reading How Western media silence enables the killing of Palestinian journalists

March 27th, 2025 Last week, the ceasefire broke in the middle of the night, with Israeli attacks killing over 700 Palestinians in the span of 3 days. In the renewed attacks, Israel bombed a hospital as well as blocked movement from the North to the South. This push comes after 20 days of an aid… Continue reading Wave of Prayer

How I wish Fatah would focus on keeping the Palestinians safe in the West Bank from the continued Genocide by Israel – Mark Palestinian Authority President Mahmud Abbas’s Fatah movement called on its Islamist rivals Hamas on Saturday to relinquish power in order to safeguard the “existence” of Palestinians in the Gaza Strip.“Hamas must show… Continue reading Fatah tells Hamas to relinquish power in Gaza to safeguard Palestinians

(The Australian, 24/3/2025) This so sad – even honest Jews are threatened if they dare criticise Netanyahu – the Jewish soul is seriously compromised – Mark Victoria Police has taken extraordinary court action targeting an online campaigner against anti-Semitism, declaring her ¬social media posts are a risk to the personal safety of the leader of… Continue reading Police target anti-Semitism campaigner Zara Cooper over ‘offensive’ posts aimed at Jewish Council of Australia’s chief Sarah Schwartz