Over the last three years, from the world’s largest cities to the smallest hamlets, millions of voices rose in the same chant, with the same cadence: “Free, free Palestine!”
Gaza is a generational touchstone and the key dividing line of politics in the West. It has laid bare the lies of the society we live in. It has exposed the genocidal bloodlust of the political right. And it has tested official “progressive” liberal politics.
For the past three years, the corporate media have been accessories to Israel’s crimes: dehumanising Palestinians, sanitising Israel’s atrocities, and silencing its critics.
Jewish socialist and Palestine solidarity campaigner Yasmine Johnson was not only grilled at the royal commission, she was then slandered in the press. Here, she responds to the critics.
Sometimes a little bit of the truth slips out amid the lies at the royal commission. So it was in this week’s testimony from the acting University of Melbourne vice-chancellor Glyn Davis.
The royal commission’s witnesses are unreliable and prejudiced, and the commissioner seems to accept that supporting a religious/ethno-supremacist apartheid state is essential to Jewish identity.
