Israel claims to be the only democracy in the Middle East. The reality is different.聽Nachschon Amir, Mai Saif and Meredith Lawrence聽explain the myth behind Israeli 'democracy' and how it oppresses Palestinians.聽
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The Maritime Union of Australia has just marked the 150th anniversary of its formation. MUA Victoria deputy聽branch secretary Dave Ball聽discusses the union's internationalism and enduring militancy.
In its decade-long run, Tel Aviv鈥檚 LGBT Film Festival (TLVFest) has never before been hit with such pressure from聽the support of Palestine. Now, nearly half of its international guests have pulled out from taking part.
Black Lives Matter, the US anti-police brutality group formed to oppose racist police killings, mourned the death of former Cuban president and revolutionary leader Fidel Castro in reflecting on his life. In it,聽the group discussed the lessons it has learned from his struggle against racism and imperialism.
Pitched Battle: In the Frontline of the 1971 Springbok Tour of Australia By Larry Writer Scribe Melbourne, 2016 336pp, $35.00
鈥淪port and politics don鈥檛 mix鈥 is often heard from politicians and media commentators when people target sporting events in acts of protest or athletes use their chosen sports to make political statement 鈥 for example Muhammad Ali and, more recently, US NFL star Colin Kaepernick. However, sport is often politicised in many different ways by the ruling class to reinforce the status quo.
Nafez Abed at his Gaza rooftop workspace. Photo: Momen Faiz/Electronic Intifada.
A small room on a rooftop in the occupied Gaza Strip鈥檚 crowded Beach refugee camp resembles a miniature archaeological museum.
It is the workshop of Nafez Abed, 55, who studies archaeological artefacts in order to replicate them in exquisite detail.
Photo: Arabfilmfestival.org.
Speed Sisters
Directed by Amber Fares
2015
Google 鈥渟port鈥 and 鈥淧alestine鈥 and what does the search engine return? Football, football and more football.
The author of the Harry Potter series of novels, JK Rowling, has disappointed many of her fans by signing a letter opposing a boycott of Israel.
The letter, which was also signed by other British cultural figures, such as TV presenter Melvyn Bragg, popular historian Tom Holland and author Hilary Mantel, proclaims its support for what it called 鈥渁n independent UK network鈥 called Culture for Coexistence.
Let me be clear: I am not happy, as such, that Likud Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu won Israel's March 17 elections.
Netanyahu is a blood-soaked killer. He should be put on trial for his many crimes, from the relentless theft of Palestinian land to last summer鈥檚 massacre in Gaza 鈥 and I yearn to see that day.
Israel uses cinema to shore up its carefully manufactured international image as an enlightened 鈥渂eacon of democracy in the Middle East鈥 鈥 a world away from the fanaticism of the settlements, the separation wall, the checkpoints, and the siege and butchery of Gaza.
Film festivals like the Israeli Film Festival are an attempt to culture-wash Israel鈥檚 crimes against the Palestinian people. The goal is for the international public to see Israel as a civilised country committed to peaceful, artistic pursuits 鈥 not as the warmongering power oppressing an entire people, that it really is.
On June 27, 1985, four anti apartheid activists were brutally murdered on behalf of the South African government. Twenty five years later, their killers still walk free.
The murders of these four men illustrate one of the darkest passages of South Africa鈥檚 history.
South African filmmaker David Forbes has directed, edited and produced the film The Cradock Four to tell the story of these four extraordinary men.
Samah Sabawi, from Australians for Palestine, addressed a community forum on May 13, 2011 in the Holy Trinity Church Hall, Dulwich Hill, which was called by local residents to discuss the controversy (incited by Rupert Murdoch's News Ltd media empire) around a December 2010 decision by Marrickville Council to support the global Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) campaign against Israeli apartheid.
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