Tag: Palestine

Threading the Needle: A Review of John Lyons’ Dateline Jerusalem

Arena Quarterly no. 9

Ned Curthoys

Mar 2022

Lyons has been witness to the activities of the pro-Israel lobby in Australia, as Zionist functionaries relentlessly and deliberately intimidate newspapers and other media organisations into self-censorship...

Professor Alison Bashford, please reconsider the Dan David Prize: an open letter from academics, researchers and students

Arena Online

Samah Sabawi, Nick Riemer

11 Mar 2021

This year’s prize rewards scholars who have contributed to advances in and understanding of medicine and public health. In reality, however, accepting it serves to legitimise and normalise Israel’s colonial violence and apartheid.

When betrayal dresses up as patriotism

Arena Online

Ali Kazak

20 Aug 2020

The US, Israeli and Emirati tripartite declaration of normalisation of relations ... has nothing to do with solving the Palestine question or helping to promote peace in the Middle East, and everything to do … with supporting US president Donald Trump’s campaign to win a second term in office as well as boosting Benjamin Netanyahu’s hold on power…

Trump’s Sideswipe, by Ihab Shalbak

Arena Magazine no. 153

Ihab Shalbak

May 2018

Palestinian refugees and UNRWA
"For Israel, the Palestinians have long since ceased being of any interest, let alone an…

Netanyahu in Australia: Just what is he selling? by Jeff Halper

Jeff Halper

26 Feb 2017

For Israel, the Palestinians have long since ceased being of any interest, let alone an existential threat. So what is really on Netanyahu's mind, and what are he and Turnbull really discussing?
"Misapprehending terror and recognising resistance in Palestine

This Is not a Truck, by Micaela Sahhar

Arena Magazine no. 146

Micaela Sahhar

Feb 2017

Misapprehending terror and recognising resistance in Palestine
"Manufactured outrage and the hypocrisy of the West

Outrage by Noam Chomsky

Arena Magazine 131

Noam Chomsky

Aug 2014

Manufactured outrage and the hypocrisy of the West

Arena Publications Podcast #1: Interview With Prof. Richard Falk (16/09/13)

1 Nov 2013

An interview with Professor Richard Falk, Albert G. Milbank Professor Emeritus of International Law at Princeton University, Visiting Distinguished Professor in Global and International Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara and United Nations Special Rapporteur on Palestinian human rights.
"Gillian Cowlishaw reflecting on the settler consciousness of place and origin

Ways to Claim a Country

Arena Magazine 108

Oct 2010

Gillian Cowlishaw reflecting on the settler consciousness of place and origin
"Despite widespread international condemnation for its policy of violent repression against the Palestinian people in…

Call for Australian Boycott of Research and Cultural Links with Israel

Arena Magazine 59

Jun 2002

Despite widespread international condemnation for its policy of violent repression against the Palestinian people in the Occupied Territories, the Israeli government appears impervious to moral appeals from world leaders.
"Jeremy Salt The roots of the current middle-east conflict were laid long before Israel was…

Armageddon in the Middle East?

Arena Magazine 58

Jeremy Salt

Apr 2002

Jeremy Salt The roots of the current middle-east conflict were laid long before Israel was founded. The last, best hope for a just peace is that the Israeli people will come to terms with the problematic history of Zionism.
"Tom Nairn: The beginnings of a new and undisguised american unilateralism has led many to…

Black Pluto’s Door

Arena Magazine 55

Oct 2001

Tom Nairn: The beginnings of a new and undisguised american unilateralism has led many to suggest global forms of justice. But peace may only be achieved by overcoming the impasse of nationalisms in the region