Showcasing the very best of Palestinian cinema from around the world, the Palestinian Film Festival Australia is proud to present its 2018 program filled with gripping, award-winning features, shorts and documentaries screening in Sydney (20-27 Sept), Hobart (27-30 Sept), Melbourne (4-7 Oct), Brisbane (11-14 Oct), Canberra (18-20 Oct), Perth (26-28 Oct) and Adelaide (2-4 Nov)
Bookings at https://www.palestinianfilmfestival.com.au… Go to Article
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ISIS in Gaza
Publishers Note: WBT reposts this article by Sarah Helms from New York Review of Books | January 14, 2016. It analyses from a western perspective the effect of Israel’s bombardment of Gaza and how post-Oslo* children in Gaza are recruited to Daesh and the response by Hamas, the political authority in Gaza.… Go to Article
The House of Zion
We shall return the nightingale told me when we met on a hill that nightingales still live there in our dreams and that among the yearning hills and people, there is a place for us -Sanarjou Yawman – فيروز – سنرجع يوما (sung by Fairfous)
Publisher’s Note: In 2015, I asked Palestinian author, Ghada Karmi, the following question:
After the death of Yasser Arafat in 2004, you went to Ramallah as a consultant to the Palestinian Authority which had policed its own people opposing the settlements all over the West Bank and entered into deals with the Americans and with Israel.… Go to Article
Robert Fisk: Isn’t it important to realise who our enemies really are?
Well, heaven preserve us: the most useless “peacemaker” on earth has just used an Arabic acronym for the greatest threat to civilisation since the last greatest threat. Yup, ol’ John Kerry called it “Daesh”, which is what the Arabs call it. It stands for the “Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant”.… Go to Article
The 17 Group: ‘Israel Colonial Settler State and the New Apartheid’
The final meeting, and break-up for the year, of the 17 Group will take place on Wednesday the 3rd of December at 7 pm in unit 6 at 20 Drury St West End. It will be addressed by Joe and Phil Monsour on the topic:
“Israel Colonial Settler State and the New Apartheid.”… Go to Article
Take action: tell Bill Gates to divest from Israel’s torture prisons#StopG4S
Take action: tell Bill Gates to divest from Israel’s torture prisons #StopG4S
Dear friend,
Sign the petition now: Tell Bill Gates to divest from G4S!
We’re writing to ask you to support an important campaign against G4S, the British private security company that helps the Israeli government to run prisons at which Palestinian political prisoners are detained and subjected to torture.… Go to Article
Supporting the Palestinian BDS campaign – Stand with Professor Jake Lynch
Final reminder don’t miss this important Public Meeting
Supporting the Palestinian BDS campaign and the Academic Boycott of Israel.
Featuring Associate Professor Jake Lynch, Director of Sydney University’s Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies (CPACS)
Associate Professor Halim Rane is one of Australia’s leading scholars in Islamic Studies. He has researched and written extensively on the Israel-Palestine conflict.… Go to Article