There has been great international outcry. The session of the UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination in 2012 concluded that Israel’s policies in the Occupied Palestinian Territory—they used this term, which makes me feel chilled to the bone—are...
Naturally, I wrote to the ABC on 19 December objecting to this sin of omission. My objection was, and is, straightforward and self-evident: ABC TV viewers’ prospective concerns were minimised by saying that it was only Israel that considered Hamas to be a...
Last April, during my study tour of Palestine, I visited the Commonwealth war cemetery in Gaza again. It is still a haven, and I was happy to see that the hundreds of gravestones that had been damaged by Israeli bombardment in 2006, and again during the war on Gaza in...
Questioned the SBS view on the controversy surrounding ‘The Promise’ in Australia and the UK. I enjoyed the program. I thank SBS for sending copies of the program. Because of parliamentary commitments I had not seen it. I have now managed to see it. I knew...
Austrade is not aware of any contracts and/or agreements between Australian and Israeli companies to conduct research or business in the Palestinian Territories, including in Israeli industrial zones in the Palestinian Territories. Full speech Senator Bob Brown asked...
