Author: Jmedia Manager
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Murdered, not killed: #FreePalestine
Discussing the rhetoric surrounding Palestine. “We know too well that our freedom is incomplete without the freedom of the Palestinians.” — Nelson Mandela The Palestinian people have been subjected to the Nakba for the past 73 years. Nakba is an Arabic term meaning ‘the catastrophe’ and marks 15 May, 1948 as the beginning of Palestinian oppression via ethnic cleansing,…
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Netanyahu may be facing final curtain
Long the familiar face of Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu has held on as prime minister for more than a decade, clinging to power through a criminal indictment and four elections in the past two years alone. Now, the question is whether the 71-year-old Netanyahu, dubbed “the magician” by his admirers, has any cards left up his…
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Far-right party backs coalition against Benjamin Netanyahu
Jerusalem: Far-right party leader Naftali Bennett threw his crucial support behind a “unity government” in Israel to unseat Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, in what would be the end of a political era. Bennett’s decision, which he announced in a televised address on Sunday (Monday AEST), could enable opposition chief Yair Lapid to put together a coalition…
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Hat shop offers Star of David-anti-vax patches, creating firestorm
Nashville: The owner of a Tennessee hat shop is dealing with pushback after posting a photo of herself on social media wearing a yellow patch resembling the Star of David with the words “not vaccinated.” The photo posted by Gigi Gaskins, owner of HatWrksNashville, shows her smiling and wearing the badge that looks similar in shape…
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End of Netanyahu era could be on the cards
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has beenmanoeuvring to try to dissuade opponents from forming a “government of change”, with media reports saying a deal to unseat Israel’s longest-serving leader could be imminent. Opposition chief Yair Lapid, who has until Wednesday to put together a coalition after the fourth inconclusive election in two years, was closing in…
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Democracy, apartheid, settler-colonialism: what is Israel?
Israel is one of the strangest countries in the world. Its supporters say that it’s the only democracy in the Middle East, a beacon of liberal values in a repressive and superstitious region. It’s a place where even the military are queer-friendly and pro-vegan, a country founded by the inheritors of Europe’s socialist traditions. But…
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Remembering the first intifada
On 8 December 1987, at a Gaza checkpoint, an Israeli truck ploughed into a line of cars returning Palestinians from a day’s work in Israel. Four were killed, including three from the Jabalia refugee camp, Gaza’s largest. An outpouring of collective grief at the funeral of the victims transformed into political anger. Thousands of Palestinians…
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How can Palestine be free?
The following is a speech delivered by Omar Hassan to a post-rally event co-hosted by Socialist Alternative and Free Palestine Melbourne on 22 May 2021. The Palestinians deserve nothing less than liberation. It’s easy to forget that in the daily discussions of bombings and sieges and settlements and so-called negotiations. While it’s fine to raise slogans around immediate…
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Reflections on the assault on Gaza
More than 248 Palestinians, including 66 children, were killed in Israeli air strikes on the Gaza Strip between May 11 and 21. What makes me extremely angry about the latest bout of barbarism engaged by Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and the Zionist Establishment is the dishonour they bring to the memory of my mother,…
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The BBC cannot survive many more scandals
The BBC is still investigating one of its journalists almost one week after it emerged she had tweeted ‘Hitler was right’. Tala Halawa, who is based in the West Bank city of Ramallah, is the ‘Palestine specialist’ for BBC Monitoring and was part of the reporting team which covered the recent fighting between Israel and…