Israel/Palestine

Mar 2023

As long as Israel could continue pretending to be a full democracy, the world could look aside and ignore the occupation.

The Palestinian Question: Celebrating the Liberal Media?

Arena Online

Alison Caddick

14 Oct 2021

A certain anti-intellectualism, perhaps especially rife in the Australian context, is arguably one of the major problems of mainstream respectable media.

French Crack Down on Protestors: Solidarity and Violence

Arena Online

Jyhene Kebsi

20 May 2021

…many people have been asking: ‘Would the protest have been banned if it had been pro-Israel?’

Missing a Nakba in 2021 is unforgiveable

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Micaela Sahhar, Nader Ruhayel

14 May 2021

Across a differential and fragmentary geography in all of historic Palestine, the structure of settler colonialism, which has until this point been invisible, is now visible.

Militarising Bulldozers: Demolition in Israel/Palestine as Settler-Colonial Policy

Arena Quarterly no. 6

Jeff Halper

Jun 2021

Is the solution a two-state solution...or should we be looking for a process of decolonisation?

Universities and Palestine: three kinds of silence

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Nick Riemer

8 Apr 2021

If antiracism can be switched on and off as a principle—repeatedly asserted in print, but abruptly suspended when the question of Palestine is raised—then its expressions are degraded into mere performances.

COVID Among the Palestinians

Arena Quarterly no. 5

Micaela Sahhar

Mar 2021

As the pandemic raged, it appeared that Israel’s disregard for Palestinian life, an institutionally entrenched position, would be costly not only for Palestinians but for Israelis themselves.

Stand in Solidarity with Ken Loach: against the Israel lobby’s smear campaign

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Gavin Lewis

4 Mar 2021

… in February 2021 the Master of St Peter’s College, Oxford, Judith Buchanan, apologised to Jewish students for offering a speaking invitation to Loach, who is one of its alumni, a veteran film-maker, a globally respected human rights activist, and a champion of socialist human solidarity.

Investigating War Crimes: Israel, the Palestinian Territories and the ICC

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Binoy Kampmark

11 Feb 2021

Achieving justice through international court processes tends to be celebrated by parties who either benefit directly from them or observe them with a dispassionate eye. For the rest, it’s politics.

"The fortune of a salesman and the fate of the Palestinians