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Israel

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Palestine, Israel, the Australian media and the international rules-based order

“The influence of the ‘pro-Israel lobby’ on our commercial and public media and Australia’s media concentration demonstrate that our media regulatory framework needs fixing to ensure that the public interest is protected for democracy’s sake and to ensure that power is impartially scrutinised, so the rights of all humans are protected, including those of Palestinians,” says Director of News Michelle McDonald

Map of Gaza in Palestine (Image from Canva)
International

"Even the stones cry out" for Palestine and Israel

“We support the statement of the World Council of Churches executive committee on 15 May 2025 that condemns the atrocities being perpetrated in Gaza by the State of Israel, recognizing that the current government is pursuing policies that are not supported by many Israelis,” says The Rev’d John Gilmore, President of the National Council of Churches in Australia in this NCAA statement on the genocide in Gaza

International

Statement by the Episcopal Diocese of Jerusalem condemning Israel's attack at Ahli Hospital, Gaza City

“This morning at about 10:20 am local time, Israeli forces fired inside the compound of our Al-Ahli Hospital in Gaza City, killing three journalists, as well as two others, including a father who was escorting his son to our surgical unit for treatment from previous injuries. In addition, this unprovoked assault against civilians wounded thirty other bystanders, among them four of our hospital staff,” says the Episcopal Diocese of Jerusalem in this statement

Films & TV

No Other Land & Louis Theroux: The Settlers

“Both these documentaries are essential viewing as you let your own moral compass be your guide. These films deliver crystal-clear perspectives through microcosms of the ongoing decades-long situation of Indigenous Palestinians being ethnically cleansed at gunpoint from their ancestral homelands in the occupied West Bank. It is happening right now,” says Jonathan Sargeant from St Francis College as Nakba commemorations approach on Thursday 15 May