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Sara Dowse

Sara Dowse

Pearls and Irritations

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How Zionism proselytises

In her recent acceptance speech as recipient of British PEN’s Pinter Peace Prize, writer Arundhati Roy made special note of President Biden’s...

15.10.2024 9

Pearls and Irritations

Sara Dowse

A cautious optimism despite the savagery in Gaza

Last night I finished reading Paul Ham’s The Soul, his 856-page history of the human mind. Ham is an esteemed Australian military historian whose...

26.09.2024 10

Pearls and Irritations

Sara Dowse

What happened to the surfers in Gaza?

Sometime in 2016 , soon after I’d joined the Northern Beaches Committee for Palestine, a group of us visited the then premier of New South Wales in...

29.08.2024 10

Pearls and Irritations

Sara Dowse

War, words and denial

Eighty-six years ago Europe’s Jews suffered the most catastrophic event in their history, ending in a systematic, industrial-scale slaughter. Six...

22.07.2024 7

Pearls and Irritations

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Because of Israel, Jewish people are no longer ‘safe’

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Pearls and Irritations

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Four months since October 7

As I write, it’s exactly four months since October 7, 2023, when Hamas breached the border between the Gaza Strip and southern Israel and, with...

10.03.2024 6

Pearls and Irritations

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