Palestine Archives

Israeli forces intercept Gaza aid flotilla.

The world is cactus – take a pill for Gaza

3 October 2025 Jon Chesterson 13

The IDF (Zionist Israel) illegally hunted down the Flotilla just north, off the coast of Egypt in international waters throughout the night and early morning of Thursday 2 October 2025, under cover of darkness. The […]

American Sentence

5 September 2025 Jon Chesterson 1

‘Send these the homeless tempest-tost to me’, blind bats to my ‘golden door’, deaf to the dimming of the light and slaughter from whence they crossed those seas. Miss Liberty hurls her truncheon, shattered […]

Screenshot from Sky News Australia complaining that social cohesion is under threat here.

Decoding “social cohesion”

30 August 2025 Lucy Hamilton 7

While “social cohesion” can convey the benign sense of societies working to include rather than marginalise, to develop wholesome “collective political actions aiming at creating a coherent society”, that is not how the concept is […]

Person amidst collapsed buildings and debris.

Apoplexy

26 August 2025 Jon Chesterson 3

There is no greater sorrow on earth than the loss of one’s native land (Euripides 480-406 BC – ‘Medea’) Mors nobis inimica est invidia lucem obscurat They spit, they scowl, they squeal and bite […]

Two people speaking at a press conference.

Recognising Palestine: the far right reacts

11 August 2025 Roswell 13

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has announced that Australia will recognise Palestine as an independent state – a move that aligns us with most of the world’s nations, international law, and the long-standing global push for […]

AIM Extra

An Economy of Genocide: Israel and the Albanese Report

4 July 2025 Dr Binoy Kampmark 3

It makes for stark and dark reading. The report for the UN Human Rights Council titled From economy of occupation to economy of genocide makes mention of “corporate entities” who have been enriched by “the […]

Netanyahu pointing at map during presentation.

Back to Tried Failures: The New Offensive on Gaza

21 March 2025 Dr Binoy Kampmark 9

If at first you don’t succeed, failure may be your only option. This is proving very much to be the case with the resumption of savagely lethal strikes on Gaza by the Israeli Air Force […]

Howling wolves follow the pack

25 February 2025 Jon Chesterson 9

Wolves among the flock Jewish Journalist Exposes Israel, Katie Halper, Double Down News yesterday – not the first, not the second or the last. Australian establishment seizes on backwards comments by nurses to escalate phoney […]

Tittle-tattle, rittle-rattle: Dutton in Adelaide

21 February 2025 Jon Chesterson 6

Another fudgestone kop prank from spudsville courtesy of Sky News king of muck rakers. An unletter to the Sydney Morning Herald, and thanks to GL for the thumbs up this morning, following on from ‘How […]

Cityscape with smoke rising from explosions.

What if Chicago or Brisbane was Gaza?

28 January 2025 David Ayliffe 4

More than 46,000 dead, All Infrastructure Gone Every year since the liberation of Auschwitz and the horrors revealed then, people have continued to say “Never Again”. I remember being in Phoenix Arizona in 1995 when […]

Person expressing intense emotion or excitement.

Perpetuating Trauma

18 January 2025 Bert Hetebry 4

There was some good news yesterday. A ceasefire has been called in the Israel/Gaza conflict. It capped off a disturbing week where various issues seemed to be about ongoing inter-generational traumas. Just an ordinary every […]

Situation Critical: UNRWA and its Continued Operations

17 January 2025 Dr Binoy Kampmark 1

In April last year, UNRWA Commissioner-General Philippe Lazzarini told the United Nations Security Council that “an insidious campaign to end UNRWA’s operations is under way, with serious implications for peace and security.” Repeatedly, requests by […]