Crackdown on the right to protest for Palestine at uni
Universities are cracking down on Palestine activism in a blatant attack on free speech and the right to protest.
Why hasn’t the US restrained Israel?
US President Joe Biden has spent the past 13 months tut-tutting over the death toll as Israel has committed genocide. But the flow of American weapons to the IDF has never stopped.
Israel’s bloody agenda in Lebanon and Hezbollah’s resistance
Hezbollah emerged as a resistance movement to Israeli occupation and has humbled Israel before but recent years have shown its limitations, argues James Supple.
Melb Uni students rally to cut ties with Israeli university
Eighty students joined a Students Against War rally at Unimelb on 10 September demanding the university cut its ties with Israel.
SGM for Palestine draws 500 students at UNSW
More than 500 students showed up to join a Student General Meeting for Palestine at UNSW on 25 September.
What has one year of Gaza genocide taught us?
After a year of slaughter, Israel’s genocidal war in Gaza shows no sign of stopping.
One year resisting Gaza genocide—is freedom for Palestine any closer?
David Glanz looks at what the movement for Palestine has achieved in the last year and how it can move forward.
Albanese complicit as Israel rains terror on Lebanon
Israel has murdered Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah and is now on the brink of all out war in Lebanon.
Albanese fans Islamophobia in attack on Palestine protests
The Albanese government is stirring up Islamophobia to try to demonise the Palestine movement and justify its efforts to keep out Palestinian refugees from Gaza.
NTEU members back BDS and Palestine
Support for Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) against Israel within the university staff union, the NTEU, is growing.
Israeli aggression threatens wider war as support for Gaza spreads
Israel’s escalating aggression is again risking a war across the Middle East.
Mass meeting at Sydney Uni votes to cut ties with Israel and back Palestine’s right to resist
Over 600 students at Sydney Uni have voted overwhelmingly not just to cut the uni’s ties with Israel, but affirming the right of Palestinians to armed resistance and endorsing one, secular, democratic state in Palestine from the River to the sea.
Settler-colonialism and the working class in Israel and Australia
Although Australia and Israel share a history of settler colonialism, workers here have history of fighting for Indigenous rights while those in Israel cannot, writes Paddy Gibson.
Vic teachers win union to stand with Palestine
Members of Teachers and School Staff for Palestine made a big impact as the Australian Education Union conference in Melbourne took significant steps in solidarity with Palestine.
Payman’s stand shows pressure on Albanese over Gaza still growing
Senator Fatima Payman’s resignation shows that the pressure on the Labor government over Gaza is still growing.
Israel fails to crush Gaza resistance after nine months of horror
Israel has failed to achieve its goal of eliminating Hamas after nine months of war and the butchering of 38,000 Palestinians in Gaza.
Fighting for Gaza after the end of Sydney Uni encampment
Although all encampments except those at Canberra, Wollongong and Newcastle have ended, the Palestine movement has emerged stronger from the experience.
Pine Gap base aiding Israel’s operations in Gaza
The Albanese government is directly aiding Israel’s war in Gaza through allowing the sharing of intelligence information from the spy base at Pine Gap.
Sanction Israel not Senator Payman
Every supporter of Palestine must get behind Senator Fatima Payman, following Anthony Albanese's decision to sanction her for crossing the floor in the Senate to vote with The Greens to recognise a Palestinian state.
Pressure gets to Albanese as anger at genocide complicity grows
The pressure from eight months of protests is getting to the government. Albanese has launched a wild series of attacks on Palestine protests and The Greens.
Wider support needed to force universities to break ties with Israel
The Gaza solidarity encampment at the University of Sydney has rejected an offer from management designed to have the camp clear out “and not resume”.
Construction workers walk off to support ANU encampment
Construction workers walked off the job at ANU in Canberra to support the Gaza solidarity encampment after a series of threats from the university.
Palestine activist expelled at ANU
ANU has decided to expel student activist, Palestine supporter and participant in the encampment, Beatrice Tucker, for comments they made in an ABC radio interview.
University of California workers strike for Palestine
More than 30,000 workers across six campuses of the University of California have taken weeks of strike action in solidarity with Palestine protests on campus.
ANU expels pro-Palestine student but continues links with arms manufacturers
The Australian National University in Canberra has expelled student Beatrice Tucker for comments made on ABC radio.
Melbourne uni occupation ends with a win, but beware Admin’s dirty tricks
A month after their encampment began and eight days after they occupied, students at Melbourne Uni have scored an initial win in the fight to cut the uni’s ties with Israel.
Albanese aids Israel and smears protests as horror unfolds in Rafah
Israel has begun its long-threatened assault on Rafah. Hundreds have already been killed, thousands more will likely die as Israel’s savagery continues.
Encampments show spread of solidarity with Gaza
The spread of student encampments for Palestine around the world has been an inspiration for all those fighting to end Israel’s genocidal slaughter in Gaza.
ANU threatens to discipline students and disperse Gaza solidarity camp
ANU management in Canberra is demanding a number of students leave their encampment in solidarity with Gaza, threatening them with disciplinary action if they refuse.
Direct action, mass protests and the fight for Palestine
Direct action protests that disrupt business as usual should not be seen as an end in themselves but as part of a broader strategy of mass action, writes Adam Adelpour
Blood for oil—Why the West arms Israel
Control of the Middle East has been a key focus for the world’s big powers due to its immense reserves of oil, and Israel remains vital to preserving it, writes James Supple
Melbourne Uni students occupy to cut ties with Israel
Students at Melbourne Uni have occupied the Arts West building three weeks after they began their encampment in solidarity with Gaza.
Uni encampments for Gaza demand end to ties with Israel
Gaza solidarity encampments have spread to university campuses across the country, inspired by the movement in the US.
Albanese keeps backing Israel even as aid workers murdered
After six months of slaughter, Israel’s atrocities in Gaza are becoming more and more obscene.
Australia’s defence industry is arming Israel’s genocide
Recent months have seen an increasing number of protests directed at the arms industry in Australia and its role in Israel’s genocide in Gaza.
Antisemitism and the origins of Zionism
Zionism emerged as a response to antisemitism in Europe but its aim of building a state with the support of imperialist powers has proven disastrous, writes Jacob Starling
Palestine protesters block Port Botany demanding sanctions against ZIM shipping
Nineteen people, including the Secretary of the Sydney branch of the MUA Paul Keating, were arrested as pro-Palestine protesters attempted to block Sydney’s Port Botany.
The hidden history of Jewish anti-Zionism and radicalism
Clare Fester reviews a new book that looks at the history of Jewish working class radicalism and struggle that Zionism has sought to hide.
Albanese an accessory to murder as Israel bombs and starves Gaza
After five months and well over 31,000 dead, there is no end in sight to Israel’s onslaught on Gaza.
Israel starving Gazans to death
Gaza is on the brink of widespread starvation, with Israel refusing international appeals to let aid shipments in.
Student Gaza protest shows challenge ahead
The nationwide “Student Strike for Palestine” on 29 February showed both the potential and the striking amount of work still to be done to win students to taking action over Gaza.
Smears of antisemitism over Palestine ring hollow
As the death toll mounts and hunger stalks Gaza, supporters of Israel are finding it harder to defend the genocide. Instead, they are turning to smearing supporters of Palestine as antisemitic.
The First Intifada: When Palestinians rose up against Israel
The Palestinian Intifada that began in 1987 exposed the brutality of life under occupation and how Palestinians have no choice but to organise resistance, writes Maeve Larkins.
A new McCarthyism: War and the crackdown on support for Palestine
Repression of Palestine activism echoes the crackdown during previous wars, argue James Supple and Tom Orsag.
ASU members walk off work for Palestine
Union members in social and community services in Melbourne took up to four hours of unprotected strike action for Palestine on Friday 22 February.
Israeli attack on UNRWA aid another genocidal act
Israel’s allegations against the UNRWA aid organisation in Gaza have been rapidly exposed as lies.
ZIM, blockades and the unions: Lessons from Webb Dock
For almost four days in January protest action with workers refusing to cross the community picket succeeded in preventing work on the ZIM shipping-line at Webb Dock in Melbourne.
Teachers won’t be silenced on Palestine
More than 70 Victorian teachers and school staff attended a forum “Teachers for Palestine: why there’s no ‘neutrality’ on genocide” on 22 January, despite the Opposition Education spokesperson calling for the Education Department to discipline attendees.
Hamas and the politics of Palestinian resistance
Hamas grew out of the legitimate Palestinian resistance to Israel’s violence, writes James Supple, but its focus on armed struggle has not delivered liberation.
Israel set to launch murderous assault on Rafah as Albanese sits by
With more than 30,000 dead and much of Gaza reduced to rubble Israel’s genocidal assault shows no sign of relenting.
‘Why we went on strike for Palestine’
Union members at the Foundation for Young Australians across the country joined the Global Strike for Gaza, demanding their employer make a statement of solidarity with Palestine.
Iran’s ‘axis of resistance’ can’t bring the challenge to imperialism needed
The Houthis are part of what some commentators have called an “axis of resistance” in the Middle East linked to Iran.
Mass action and union support key for protests against Zim shipping
The government’s continued backing for the genocide in Gaza has raised the question of what kind of movement can break its support for apartheid Israel.
Palestine movement should welcome dissenting Labor members
Palestine activists should encourage Labor members to support our demands and seek to draw them into the movement.
Victorian teachers defy intimidation to support Palestine
As Israel ramped up its genocide, and or own state and federal education ministers threw their weight behind it, teachers in Victoria used our rank-and-file networks and the Trade Unionists for Palestine campaign to take collective action.
How the Arab nationalist revolt challenged imperialism
The national independence movements of the 1950s fought Western imperialism, but the states that resulted were not capable of winning real liberation, writes Miro Sandev
How Labor supported Israel’s bloody birth in 1948
The Australian Labor Party’s leaders have backed Israel from the beginning, playing a key role in the UN partition plan in 1947 that triggered the Nakba, writes Tom Orsag.
Albanese government rejects ‘premise’ of genocide as Israel faces world court
Israel’s “genocidal acts” in Gaza have been laid out in meticulous detail in South Africa’s case at the International Court of Justice.
Attack on Yemen raises risk of wider war
Labor has backed the savage attack on at least 60 targets in 16 locations around Yemen by the US and Britain.
Israel threatens wider war on Lebanon against Hezbollah resistance
Israel is threatening to widen its war into Lebanon.
US requests Australian warship to protect Israeli shipping in Red Sea
The Australian government has declined a US request to send an Australian warship to the Red Sea. A taskforce of ten countries will patrol the area to protect commercial tankers against Houthi attacks.
Albanese still backing Israel’s onslaught despite ceasefire gesture
Anthony Albanese has shifted his position on a ceasefire under pressure from sustained protests at Israel’s genocidal onslaught on Gaza—but still won’t demand Israel stop the bombing.
How mass picket held up Israeli ship
Some 200 Palestine solidarity activists picketed the Patrick’s terminal in Fremantle, holding up an Israeli ship for 22 hours.
Solidarity Sydney manifesto for building the Palestine Movement
The heroic struggle of the Palestinian people has inspired a mass, global movement.
Step up the fight as Albanese backs Gaza genocide
There is blood on Anthony Albanese’s hands over Israel’s murderous assault on Gaza.
Israeli terror state preparing savage new assault on south of Gaza
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has vowed to continue to decimate Gaza “with full force” following the brief ceasefire.
Unionists take Palestine solidarity into schools and workplaces
Organising for Palestine in the unions continues to step up. Teachers and School Staff for Palestine in Sydney and Melbourne have held solidarity photos in schools and a vigil in Melbourne.
Israeli state and settler violence grows in West Bank
The so-called truce did not end the violence against Palestinians in the West Bank, where Israeli settlers and troops are terrorising and killing with impunity.
Why two states is no solution for Palestine
Israel has never been willing to allow any kind of Palestinian state. The solution is to fight for a single democratic state with equal rights for Jews and Arabs, argues Luke Ottavi.
How resistance can turn into revolution
Ending the domination of Israel in the Middle East and the Western imperialism behind it will require revolution, writes James Supple.
‘Labor has blood on their hands’: why I quit the ALP
Labor’s support for Israel’s horrific war on Gaza is creating tensions within the party. Solidarity spoke to one member about why she quit the ALP.
Protest blocks Zim boat in action against Israel’s genocide in Gaza
Up to 500 people staged a snap protest in Sydney last night, significantly disrupting the Israeli shipping company, Zim.
Break Australia’s military links with Israel
The horror in Gaza has shone light on the military links between Australia and Israel, as well as Australia’s growing role as an arms manufacturer and exporter.
All out to stop the slaughter as Albanese backs Israel’s genocide
Israel’s horrifying assault is targeting the entire population of Gaza. Every day brings more sickening war crimes and atrocities.
Biden’s embrace of Israel designed to cement US power
US President Joe Biden has given Israel’s murderous rampage in Gaza his full and absolute backing.
Surge in union action for Palestine builds solidarity movement’s power
Union solidarity with Palestine has exploded as anger grows over Israel’s genocide in Gaza and the Labor government's support for Israel.
Solidarity with Palestine sweeps world
From Kerala to Cairo, people are taking on their own governments in the fight for Palestinian lives in Gaza.
Australia the US’s partner in crime not puppet
Anthony Albanese and the Australian government back the US and Israel as junior partners in bullying and exploiting the world, argues David Glanz.
Revolution in the Arab world the key to Palestinian liberation
The solidarity for Palestine across the Middle East needs to feed into a revolt to bring down the corrupt regimes that collaborate with imperialism.
The first intifada: when Palestine rose against the British
Israel and Western leaders would have us believe that Palestinian resistance to Israel’s occupation began on 7 October. But the Palestinians have been fighting for liberation for generations.
Albanese backs Israel’s war crimes in Gaza
The Australian government has lined up wholeheartedly behind Israel, with Albanese declaring, “We will stand with Israel. We always will.”
Israeli attacks rain down terror on the people of Gaza
The Hamas attacks against Israel saw over 1500 fighters storm through the border wall, taking control of army bases and entering numerous settlements. Now Israel is unleashing hell on the civilian population of Gaza.
Free Palestine—why we say by any means necessary
Following the assault on Israelis by the Palestinian resistance, there are those who say a violent fightback is never justified. Isabel Ringrose explains that the oppressed have a right to take up arms against their colonisers.
Who are Hamas?
Hamas is a major part of the Palestinian resistance movement that has opposed Israeli settler-colonialism for decades.
Palestinians are right to resist Israeli terror
Hamas has staged a dramatic series of attacks against Israel. This is an act of resistance against the brutal Israeli occupation.
How Israel trades on war and occupation
Antony Loewenstein’s new book, The Palestine Laboratory, looks at Israel’s military cyber industrial complex and its role as one of the world's biggest arms dealers and seller of some of the most invasive software. He talked to Solidarity.
The Nakba 75 years on
Israel was founded 75 years ago through the massacre and expulsion of Palestinians, argues Raul Haagensen, and the brutality and dispossession continues today.
Protests as Israelis fall out over how to oppress Palestinians
Israel has stepped up its murderous rampages in the West Bank as the Netanyahu government encourages greater settler violence against Palestinians.
Can change come from inside Israel?
Israeli politics is becoming more racist and right-wing as a result of its foundation as a settler state based on Palestinian dispossession, argues James Supple.
Sabra and Shatila 40 years on—Israel’s brutal war crime
The massacre at the Sabra and Shatila refugee camps in Lebanon was one of Israel’s most shocking war crimes against the Palestinians, writes Ella Haber
Why standing up for Palestine is not antisemitic
Rob Ferguson is an anti-racist activist and a member of the Socialist Workers Party in Britain who has written widely on the use of the IHRA definition on antisemitism. He spoke to Solidarity’s David Glanz.
Thousands march against Palestinian Authority in West Bank
Thousands of Palestinians have joined marches against the Palestinian Authority in the occupied West Bank, after it launched a wave of arrests against protesters and activists.
Zionism and the Middle East—why the West arms Israel
Israel was established as a colonial settler state with the backing of the great powers, argues James Supple, and is still key to imposing Western control of the Middle East
Israel’s brutal dispossession continues despite halt to bombing
Israel has paused its pummelling air strikes on the Gaza Strip, but its genocidal war against the Palestinians continues.
Palestinians are right to resist Israeli terror
Israel’s latest assault has exposed it as a racist, violent state. People who say ‘both sides’ must end violence are really siding with the oppressor, argues Nick ClarkTwo recent...
Palestine strikes ‘from the river to the sea’ to defy Israeli terror
Palestinians are fighting back against Israeli terror. On 18 May, they held a general strike across Israel and the occupied territories.
Palestinians defy campaign of Israeli terror
Israel has unleashed a reign of terror on Palestinians, first attacking worshippers at the Al-Aqsa mosque in Jerusalem and then bombing the Gaza Strip, killing at least 67 since Monday. But Palestinians are fighting back.
Morrison’s Jerusalem move sparks international blowback
During the Wentworth by-election campaign, amongst growing fears that the government would lose the seat, Scott Morrison raised the possibility of moving Australia’s embassy in Israel to Jerusalem.
Corbyn under attack, but opposing Israel is not anti-semitic
Opponents of Britain’s left-wing Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn have mounted a major campaign accusing supporters of the Palestinians, and Corbyn himself, of anti-semitism.
Palestinian marchers massacred in brutal Israeli assault
Palestinians in Gaza have defied a murderous Israeli assault as they stage protests marking 70 years of dispossession.
Israel’s 1967 war: Six days that entrenched imperialism
Israel’s war on the Arab states 50 years ago entrenched Western imperialism in the Middle East and led to misery for Palestinians in the Occupied Territories, writes Tooba Anwar
Has Trump killed the Israel-Palestine ‘peace process’?
It might be too early to declare the death of the so-called Palestinian “peace process” but after Donald Trump’s visit it is sicker than ever.
Divided over how to continue Israel’s occupation
A dispute over illegal settlements in occupied Palestinian territory has exposed tensions between the US and Israel.
A new generation rekindles Palestinian resistance
Palestinians have launched a new wave of resistance in response to decades of dispossession, discrimination and humiliation.
Netanyahu re-election exposes racism at Israel’s heart
In March Israelis voted overwhelmingly to re-elect Benjamin Netanyahu’s Likud party. The result shows how clearly the Israeli state relies on deep racism and savagery towards Palestinians.
Gaza punished, but Israel can’t eradicate resistance
As Palestinian children in Gaza restarted school on 14 September, the number of their classmates slaughtered during Israel’s recent war stood at approximately 500, while upwards of 3000 had been injured.
Israeli academic: ‘a regime based on brutal military occupation’
Israeli academic Marcelo Svirsky, now at Wollongong Uni, explains his opposition to Zionism and why he supports BDS, in a speech from Solidarity’s Keep Left conference
Palestine needs solidarity against Israeli terror
After weeks of bombing and a ground invasion by Israeli troops, up to 30 per cent of Gaza’s population, or 520,000 people, are now without a home.
Collusion by Arab regimes allows Israel to punish Gaza
When it comes to support for Palestine, there is a yawning gap between the mass of the Arab population and their leaders.
Israeli terror aims to strangle Gaza
After slaughtering over 230 Palestinians and leaving another 1300 injured so far in its latest bombing campaign, Israel has now launched a ground invasion of the Gaza strip.
Israeli terror state stirs up violent racism
The reaction to the deaths of three Israeli teenagers has exposed the brutal racism behind Zionism.
Debating a one state solution for Palestine
After Zionism: One State for Israel and Palestine
Edited by Antony Loewenstein and Ahmed Moor
Saqi BooksIn their collection of essays After Zionism editors Antony Loewenstein and Ahmed Moor rightly argue,...
Right wing sweeps to victory in Israeli elections
In January Israelis re-elected Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and gave unprecedented seats to far right settler parties. They now control a third of the Israeli parliament, the Knesset.Their policies...
The myths behind Zionism’s claim to Palestine
The Invention of the Jewish People
By Shlomo Sand
Verso, $25“Zionism is the Jewish national movement of rebirth and renewal in the land of Israel—the historical birthplace of the Jewish people....
Sign on statement: Support Dr Jake Lynch’s Academic Boycott of Israel
Sign a statement in support of Dr Jake Lynch and the Sydney University Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies' support for Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions against Israel, and demand...
Palestinian prisoners hunger strike sparks new wave of solidarity
Since April 17 this year (Palestinian Prisoners Day) a new wave of resistance has been launched by political prisoners in Israeli jails. Around 1600 prisoners declared that they were...
Boycotting Israel is not anti-Semitic
An unholy alliance of Labor and Liberal politicians together with the media are running a nasty smear campaign against pro-Palestinian protesters targeting Max Brenner stores.
Newspapers like The Australian accuse...
As the Arab spring jumps borders, Palestinian leaders play catch up
“THE PEOPLE want Tahrir in Palestine”—this was the chant unifying the thousands attempting to march on Israel’s borders from Lebanon and Syria and protesting in the Palestinian Occupied Territories...
Murdoch’s attack on Greens and BDS could have been beaten
The NSW Greens and Marrickville council’s support for the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) campaign against Israel has faced a vicious right-wing onslaught led by the Murdoch press. During...
Revolt threatens Palestine’s own collaborator regime
For Palestinians, who are every day humiliated both by Israel and by their own “regime”, the reassertion of dignity by the Tunisian, Egyptian and Middle Eastern masses continues to...
Flotilla slaughter exposes Israel as a terrorist state
In the early hours of Monday morning, Israeli naval ships and helicopters descended upon an international aid flotilla headed toward the Gaza strip. The trained killers of the Israeli...
Israel is still the US’s watchdog
Israel’s determination to build settlements on occupied Palestinian territory is worrying the US government. John Rose answers questions on the US-Israel relationshipWhat is the historic relationship between the US...
Palestine: how can there be peace?
Despite Israel’s declaration of ceasefire, the number of dead in Gaza continues to rise. Bombings and incursions into the Strip are still claiming civilian lives. Israel’s blockade still restricts...
Stop Israel’s massacre in Gaza
Israel has expanded its murderous air attack on Gaza into a full ground assault. With all borders sealed, 1.5 million Palestinians are trapped—with little electricity or fuel and severe...
Gaza and the US war for control of the Middle East
The assault on Gaza is part of the wider US-backed "war on terror" across the Middle East. Ending the Australian government's continued backing for US wars in Iraq and...
Hamas and the struggle to liberate Palestine
The US has blamed Hamas for causing Israel’s assault. Kevin Rudd has called them a “terrorist organisation”. In fact Hamas are the legitimate elected leaders of the Palestinians. ...
Stop the siege! Protests demand justice for Gaza
THOUSANDS of people have rallied across Australia in the last week to protest Israel's recent military bombardment and siege of the Gaza strip. They are part of a global response...
A graphic and haunting soldier’s tale
Review: Waltz With Bashir
Directed by Ari Folman, Limited cinema release
ARI FOLMAN was only 19 when he was conscripted as part of Israel’s 1982 invasion of Lebanon, which installed...
Letters
Time for an end to 'wage restraint'Kevin Rudd and Julia Gillard talk a lot about working families. But when Qantas workers, university workers or teachers ask for wage...
Israel launches murderous assault
Israel has unleashed a new murderous offensive against Palestinians in the Gaza strip.But in the same week Kevin Rudd plans to honour Israel with a special reception in...
