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Helen MccuePearls and Irritations |
Israel has knocked yet another nail in the United Nations system. This week, with an extraordinary result of 92 to 10 (the 10 being presumably the...
How much longer are the world’s leaders going to stand by and watch children being shredded to bits, doctors and nurses killed, arrested, detained...
The past twelve months have been the most catastrophic for Palestinians since the 1948 Nakba. Everything that is needed to sustain life in Gaza has...
Innocent citizens in Gaza (80 % of whom are refugees), the West Bank, Lebanon and Yemen are being blown to bits in horrific numbers. But it is...
Why won’t there be a long term ceasefire in Gaza any day soon? In spite of the murder of 16,500 children, the most in any modern day conflict, and...
American supplied Israel bombs killed at least 100 people as they stood while performing Fajr (dawn) prayers at the Al-Tabin school in the Daraj area...
What democracy would accept a member of parliament agreeing that it was permissible and acceptable for its soldiers to sexually abuse political...
As the world’s media is mesmerised by political events in the USA and the findings by the ICJ of the illegal occupation by Israel of Gaza and the...
As the Israeli military obliterates Gaza, massacres refugees living in tents in so called “safe zones” and slaughters 39,000 people including at...
Senator Fatima Payman’s riveting conversation with David Spears on Sunday’s ABC Insiders program was powerful, erudite, compassionate and...
Since October 7th last year more than 9,500 Palestinians including 635 minors from the West Bank and Occupied Jerusalem have been held in Israeli...
To rescue four Israeli hostages Israel massacred two hundred and ten or more innocent Palestinian souls to prove that the War on Gaza was worth it,...
In a calculated and vicious attack Israel bombed an area in Rafah, Gaza designated as a “safe zone’ by the Israeli military, incinerating women...
Why has Egypt confirmed that it will support South Africa’s case at the International Court of Justice accusing Israel of genocide? The answer lies...
Australian university students are setting up encampments in universities across Australia. They are not only calling for an end to the war on Gaza...
Israel’s war on Gaza is a war on children, a war on their childhood and a war on their future. Children are dying at an alarming rate from...
Receiving the Jerusalem Peace Prize is a great honour and I am overwhelmed and humbled indeed. It is particularly poignant at this time as...
The Australian government remains silent, continues to call Israel “our friend”, and rewards Israel’s war machine in a new contract with the...
Israel has for years been determined to cut aid to the refugees both in Gaza and the West Bank. While the UN Secretary General and head of UNRWA...
As the International Court of Justice received submissions from South Africa and Israel on the 11th and 12th of January on the claims by South Africa...
The victimisation by Israel of Palestinian children is so profound that Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkain, a Hebrew University of Jerusalem law professor, has...