The core of the problem is that Palestinians do not live in freedom and dignity. To live under apartheid-type rule is inexcusable. This week Palestinians commemorate Nakba—in 1948 the Jewish military depopulated and destroyed Palestinian cities, towns and farming...
What is happening defies the international community and the resolutions endorsed by the United Nations; punishes, through draconian measures, a population exercising their basic human rights in East Jerusalem, recognised as Palestine’s capital under...
People often say, ‘Do you condemn all acts of violence?’ Of course we do, but let’s not pretend the escalation didn’t come from somewhere. The escalation we’ve seen is directly connected to the settlement movement, innocently called...
I rise tonight to express my solidarity with the Palestinian people who, for generations, have had to pay the price of settler colonialism taking their land, homes and lives. My heart goes out to the Palestinian families of Sheikh Jarrah in occupied East Jerusalem who...
I draw the House’s attention to the commemoration this month by Palestinian Australians of Al Nakba, the anniversary of the Nakba, where, in 1948, Jewish militia razed hundreds of villages and an estimated 700,000 Palestinians were forced from their homes,...
