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The victory that was Adelaide Writers' Week ...

What began as a powerful anti-Palestinian campaign by a few Zionist organisations and individuals turned into a victory for Adelaide Writers' Week (AWW) and the Palestinian writers who attended.

The sessions featuring the Palestinians, particularly those held in conjunction with Australian First Nations writers, were phenomenally popular; hundreds of people attended these sessions.

As Louise Adler said, “People are free to deeply object. They don’t have to come. Or come, and you don’t need to agree with what people think. But people listened. These steadfast Adelaide audiences came out in their thousands and listened with courtesy and respect for the conversation. It should be something that lifts the spirits of all of us.”

The victory that was Adelaide Writers' Week (March 2022)
The Secretary
Speech to rally against adoption of IHRA ...

“The definition proposed for adoption by the South Australian parliament is one devised by the International Holocaust Remembrance Association (or IHRA). It is a flawed definition because it singles out one group of people for special treatment. This motion is specific to Israel and to Israel only. The motion moved by One Nation’s Sarah Game gives Israel a ‘get out of jail free’ card.

The motion itself determines the ways in which we might be allowed to criticise Israel without finding ourselves labelled as antisemitic.”

Speech to rally against adoption of IHRA definition of antisemitism - Sandra Kanck
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How a Palestinian shoemaker started the West ...

“What started as an experiment days after the coronavirus outbreak in the West Bank is now a factory producing thousands of masks a day.

How a Palestinian shoemaker started the West Bank’s only mask factory overnight

Gaza

News release - Human rights atrocities

News release - Human rights atrocities

This week:

  • 12 Palestinians, including a 3-year-old boy, attacked and injured on their farms by Israelis from illegal settlements in the South Hebron area of the West Bank…

  • UK Labour Party conference at Brighton passes motion condemning Israeli apartheid and calling for sanctions

  • Covid-19 spike in Gaza exacerbated by Israeli authorities disrupting vaccine supplies

  • Continued violations of al Aqsa mosque precinct.

"AFOPA calls on political parties in this country to take a stand …And on the Australian media to report on the shameful acts perpetrated every day against Palestinians…”

UN Launches Service to Facilitate Medical Transfers From Gaza to Israel, West Bank

UN Launches Service to Facilitate Medical Transfers From Gaza to Israel, West Bank

“The United Nations has launched a special temporary service to arrange for patients from the Gaza Strip to receive medical treatment in Israel, East Jerusalem and the West Bank, the organization’s Middle East envoy announced on Monday. This is the first time the United Nations has gotten involved in the issue. It did so because many Gazans have not been able to arrange urgent treatments in the months since the Palestinian Authority ceased all cooperation with Israel. The PA had previously served as the liaison between patients and the Israeli authorities.”

Gaza's 'quarantine within a quarantine' must end

Gaza's 'quarantine within a quarantine' must end

“In late August, the coronavirus, which causes COVID-19, found a foothold in the Gaza Strip, one of the most densely populated territories in the World. Since then, infections have spiked significantly, with nearly 1,000 new positive cases reported in the last two weeks alone.”

Palestine says Egypt-Gaza border crossing to open for stranded Palestinians

Palestine says Egypt-Gaza border crossing to open for stranded Palestinians

“Spokesman of the Hamas-run ministry of interior in Gaza Eyad al-Bozzom told reporters that Egypt reopened Rafah Crossing point for four days to enable hundreds of Palestinians stranded in Egypt to return to Gaza.”

 

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