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Stuart Rees

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Anti-Semitism ‘Rise’ obscures more slaughter in Gaza

Anti-Semitism ‘Rise’ obscures more slaughter in Gaza
25.01.2025 6

Pearls and Irritations

Stuart Rees

Gaza ceasefire, the missing pieces

17.01.2025 9

Pearls and Irritations

Stuart Rees

Sudan: Beyond pessimism

Sudan: Beyond pessimism
09.01.2025 10

Pearls and Irritations

Stuart Rees

Noam Chomsky, the voice silenced, the legacy unending

Voted many times by UK and US magazines as the most important public intellectual in the world, Noam Chomsky, scientist, linguist, human rights...

04.01.2025 5

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Anti-Semitism, a pandemic of concocted claims

In response to arson on a Melbourne synagogue, ill informed politicians, ignorant media commentators and a bully Israeli Prime Minister have rushed...

20.12.2024 10

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Canberra’s cowardice leaves Australian women and children stranded in Syria

US diplomat Peter Galbraith insists the Australian Government and Opposition are exaggerating the dangers of even trying to bring 10 Australian...

17.12.2024 3

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Survival of a people: Threats to Palestine’s existence as Israel kills 45,000

Israeli leaders insist that all the people of Gaza are Hamas. In the same breath, Prime Minister Netanyahu boasts that victory in his war depends...

04.12.2024 4

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Poetry in times of despair

In a search for light in the tunnels of previous dark times, poets responded with lines depicting cruelties yet leavened with resilience and hope....

23.11.2024 3

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A fighter for Palestinians’ freedom: Ali Kazak

Exceptional courage and commitment is needed to spend decades pursuing freedom for your people and to do so with few resources against considerable...

18.11.2024 5

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From Fowler to Barton, Labor HQ ignores the rank and file

With a Federal election early next year, and opinion polls showing Labor at best only level with the Coalition, it would seem wise for Labor HQ to...

12.11.2024 2

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Anomie: Enabled by Western media, Israel’s lies have become a galloping cancer

Israel’s unholy policy trinity – destroy, kill, lie – has been underway for decades. But since October 2023 it has reached horrific levels. The...

03.11.2024 2

Pearls and Irritations

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Coping with despair: Palestine, Lebanon and beyond

Israel’s atrocities for which they are not held accountable, leaves a world feeling powerless to do more than watch and protest. Intervention to...

22.10.2024 6

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Dutton thuggery, coalition compliance

In the October 13 edition of P&I, George Browning gave substantial, comprehensive analysis as to why Coalition leader Peter Dutton is ‘dishonest,...

15.10.2024 2

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Life in Gaza and on the West Bank: Political leaders invited to interpret humanity

In the current global turmoil of revenge and war, Australians want to see political leaders speaking about humanity and negotiation, not the old...

06.10.2024 1

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Lebanese and Palestinian lives mean nothing to Western politicians

The deaths of thousands of Palestinian and Lebanese civilians killed by Israel can be ignored, so too the misery of millions. Small wonder that...

05.10.2024 1

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Campus protests: A view from a seasoned observer

A letter sent by the author to Mark Scott, vice-chancellor of the University of Sydney, after he apologised during a Senate hearing for not...

27.09.2024 2

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Pager slaughter in Lebanon, humanity of no consequence

Thousands of Lebanese citizens, injured or murdered by apparent Israeli planted explosives in pagers and other communications devices, are referred...

20.09.2024 1

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Pearls and Irritations awarded an Ink & Impact award

At a lavish ceremony at the Highline Venue in Bankstown, NSW on Sunday, 15 September, the independent Australian Muslim Times newspaper celebrated...

18.09.2024 2

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Antisemitism tangle: Can ridicule depict reality?

Current responses to the Gaza “war” would seem to suggest that antisemitism is the priority issue, not the unending slaughter of Palestinians....

15.09.2024 2

Pearls and Irritations

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Sudan’s nightmare: 150,000 civilians killed

UN estimates suggest 2.5 million people will die by the end of 2024 and six million by 2027. World Health Organisation chief Tedros Adhanom...

15.09.2024 1

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Israeli hostages, Palestinian prisoners: the worthy and unworthy

Israeli citizens’ demand to bring home an estimated 100 Israeli hostages still held captive by Hamas is assumed to depend on a Gaza ceasefire...

04.09.2024 1

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Zionist bullying distorts politics, media and education

In addition to physical or psychological abuse, bullies use power in relationships to pressure others to adopt their world views. The bullying may...

09.08.2024 1

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Bangladesh’s inspiring new leader: inaugural Sydney Peace Prize recipient Muhammad Yunus

In the last several years, democracies around the world have been led by leaders of low calibre, who displayed little vision, not much courage and...

08.08.2024 2

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The language of right wing thuggery in British cities

In response to riots, attacks on police, and destruction of property in numerous British cities, Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer says ‘I utterly...

06.08.2024 1

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“No ceasefire” in Israel’s Gaza genocide, says ‘Anti-Semitism’ envoy

The appointment of Jillian Segal, immediate past president of the Executive Council of Australian Jewry, as Prime Minister Anthony Albanese’s new...

10.07.2024 2

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