The Promised Land
Biblical Narratives and Gaza Now: A Theological Reflection PIEN Vice-President Rev Dr Ray Williamson On 26th January 2024, the International Court of Justice gave a ruling that Israel was ‘plausibly’...
View ArticleThe orchestrated persecution of Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian
A vicious campaign by Israeli academia, police, and media to silence the professor shows Palestinians they have no safe place in Zionist institutions. By Shahrazad Odeh April 30, 2024 This disgraceful...
View ArticleSENSELESS CRUELTY
While watching the documentary film, “Tomorrow’s Freedom,” on Marwan Barghouti, I realized that I have been very reluctant to address one particular aspect of Israel’s behavior towards Palestinians: a...
View ArticleIsrael accused of executions, using human shields in West Bank raid
(The Age, 6/5/2024) Israel accuses Hamas of crimes that they have been using for more than 50 years – shameful. Mark Nur Shams, West Bank: When Israeli soldiers arrived at Mohamad Abu Sweilem’s door...
View ArticleIsrael shuts down local Al Jazeera offices in ‘dark day for the media’
(The Guardian, 6/5/2024) Firstly they murder the journalists in Gaza and the West Bank and now shut the main media outlet that reports the truth of Israel’s genocidal activities – Mark Israeli...
View ArticleSABEEL WAVE OF PRAYER
May 9th, 2024 Israel’s military has ordered Palestinians to move out of eastern Rafah, warning it is about to use extreme force. The consequences of an invasion in Rafah would be catastrophic. 1.4...
View Article‘Like a ghost town now’: Palestinians flee for safety amid Israel’s threat of...
(The Age, 9/5/2024) Where do the USA and others expect the refuges to go – we know Israel just wants them dead but what about the so called major Governments – Mark Gaza: As battles raged on the...
View ArticleIsrael-Hamas war: Gaza hospital crisis worsens as bombardment continues
(Herald-Sun & Daily Telegraph, 9/5/2024) Easy targets are those in hospitals – Mark Hospitals in the southern Gaza Strip have only three days of fuel left, the head of the World Health...
View ArticleMuslim organisation accuses Australian Jewish Association of ‘incitement to...
(The Australian, 9/5/2024) Any criticism of murder by Israel is now antisemitism – what do we call the murder???? – Mark One of the country’s largest Muslim organisations has accused the Australian...
View ArticleGaza is the worst of it, but across the world, journalism is under...
Crikey/Peter Greste/1.5.2024 This is awful and reflects the political intent to control the media narrative if it doesn’t fit the ‘right wing’ agenda – freedom of journalists to report should be a...
View Article“And the leaves of the Tree shall be for the healing of Nations”—Revelations...
“And the leaves of the Tree shall be for the healing of Nations”—Revelations 22:2 PTSD and Trauma are not only personal and individual in character but often afflict whole nations and peoples....
View ArticleSabeel Wave of Prayer
May 23rd, 2024 After over 200 days, Israel continues its military operations in Gaza. Israeli air strikes are relentless, killing many indiscriminately and destroying Mosques, residential buildings,...
View ArticleLabor backbencher breaks ranks to label Gaza invasion a ‘genocide’
By political reporters Chantelle Al-Khouri and Jake Evans Posted Wed 15 May 2024 at 11:19amWednesday 15 May 2024 at 11:19am, updated Wed 15 May 2024 at 11:31am Some politicians are prepared to speak...
View Article‘Now all we feel is fear’: Elderly Palestinians say Gaza war worse than 1948...
Civilians in Gaza are marking 76 years since the mass dispossession of Palestinians under the shadow of a new catastrophe This is so sad and so unnecessary – Mark Gazanswho lived through the mass...
View ArticleICC backed but ‘moral equivalence’ rejected
The Age/Matthew Knott, Olivia Ireland/22.5.2024 No question that Netanyahu is right – there is no comparison between the Israeli Government and Hamas – Israel is a far more murderous organisation –...
View ArticleIsrael braces for worst as ICJ set to rule on Gaza war
The Australian | AFP | 24.05.24 Like all International Legal Rules Israel will simply ignore them if they don’t support Genocide and Mass Murder and guess what – the USA and Britain will back them and...
View Article1. Sydney pro-Palestinian students suspended after classes ‘significantly...
The Age | Daniella White | 23.05.2024 The bravery of students is a lesson we can all learn – Mark Two Sydney University students have been suspended after classes were “significantly disrupted” by...
View ArticleNorway, Ireland and Spain are formally recognising Palestine as a state
(The Age & SMH, 23/5/2024) God bless those countries who are acting for peace and justice – shows yet again the inhumanity of the USA and Britain – Mark Copenhagen: Norway, Ireland and Spain are...
View ArticleLabor senator Fatima Payman joins Melbourne uni protest
(The Australian, 23/5/2024) Putting humanity above Politics – bravo – Mark Student activists have ended their sit-in at the University of Melbourne after a full week of occupying the Arts West...
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