Middle East

To stifle growing pro-Palestinian activities on campuses, university authorities are developing and applying techniques of control. Universities as places of free speech, political activism and the right to protest is under attack, argues聽Jane Kenway.

Trinity College Dublin, 2019

The Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement won an important victory when Trinity College Dublin cut institutional ties with Israeli universities.聽Alex Bainbridge reports.

a displaced family in a tent in Gaza city

Jude Alexander聽spoke via text message with Dr Mohammed Hamad, who is now living in a tent in Gaza with his wife and five children. He and his family have been repeatedly displaced due to the war and are barely surviving due to the blocking of distribution of food and humanitarian aid.

People sitting around a large table having a meeting

A senior delegation from the Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria (AANES/Rojava) had its first official meeting with the central government of Syria, on June 1, reports聽Peter Boyle.

Israel鈥檚 decision to ignore international tenets of humanitarian aid via the shoddy US-Israeli-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation company,聽Safe Reach Solutions, has been shown up to be nasty, inadequate and selective, writes Binoy Kampmark.

As Israel continues its genocide on starving Palestinians in Gaza, thousands of people took to the streets demanding the newly elected Labor government stop sitting on its hands and sanction Israel. Pip Hinman 谤别辫辞谤迟蝉.听

Pro-Palestinian activists protested 600 days of the ongoing genocide in Gaza at Martin Place, during the Vivid festival. Photos by Zebedee Parkes.

Jews Against the Occupation 鈥48 was invited to be questioned by the聽Antisemitism in New South Wales inquiry.聽Judith Treanor describes how it went.

Even as Israel鈥檚聽Operation聽Gideon鈥檚 Chariots聽offensive in Gaza unmasks global capitalism as the ruthless, racist and colonialist project that it is, Anthony Albanese still refuses to impose sanctions on the genocidal regime, write Sue Bolton and Jacob Andrewartha.

As Israel鈥檚 Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu launched his Operation Gideon鈥檚 Chariots in Gaza 鈥 the final military campaign to create Donald Trump鈥檚 鈥渇reedom zone鈥 鈥斅爏ome Western elites suddenly became anxious, writes Peter Henning.

Two men in the back of a car

Sydney-based Palestinian activist Khaled Ghannam recently travelled to the occupied West Bank in Palestine and wrote an account of his visit for 91自拍论坛. This is the 5th and final part.

Millions of people are outraged by Israel鈥檚 slaughter in Gaza and the West Bank, an anger that is now compounded by despair that Israel has been given a blank cheque to ignore international law, argues Stuart Rees.