Ilana Sumka lives in Belgium and is an educator, writer and activist working to end the Israeli occupation. Jordy Silverstein lives in Australia and is an historian and writer, and author of Anxious Histories: Narrating…
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Larry Stillman is an academic who trained at Hebrew University and Harvard. He leads a community development project in Bangladesh with Oxfam. This is an edited version of the original article published in Arena magazine,…
Noura Erakat is a Palestinian American legal scholar, human rights attorney, activist and writer. She recently visited Australia on a speaking tour for the Edward Said memorial lecture. This article is accessible on her website. Reproduced…
Yael Winikoff is the AJDS community organiser. This year marks 70 years since Israel became a fledgling nation-state. In our communities we have seen celebrations marking Israel’s 70 years, and commemorations of 70 years since…
Larry Stillman is an academic who trained at Hebrew University and Harvard. He leads a community development project in Bangladesh with Oxfam. This is an edited version of the original article published in Arena magazine,…
This issue of Just Voices is on the theme of the 70-year anniversary of the birth of the state of Israel. The creation of this ‘state for all Jews’ is something that has been widely celebrated amongst global Jewish communities. But as we are seeing a growing number of us dissenting and questioning Israel’s human rights abuses and policies of occupation today, we look back through history to this year, 1948, and the ways that Israel’s beginnings are woven into its political and social structures.
This text is Clare’s presentation from the Decolonisation Forum: From Australia to Israel-Palestine, organised by AJDS in Melbourne on 4 September 2016. Also on the panel were Prof Gary Foley from Victoria University, Dr Sary…
Read more on our campaign website: https://www.ajds.org.au/indigenousjustice/ The AJDS formally acknowledges that we, as an organisation, have members who live and work on the land of the Wurundjeri and Boonwurrung peoples of the Kulin nation,…
by Avigail Abarbanel. Printed with permission by the author. Originally article published in Mondoweiss. http://mondoweiss.net/2018/01/whats-wrong-colonialism/ Avigail Abarbanel was born and raised in Israel. She moved to Australia in 1991 and now lives in the north of…
by Bogaine Spearim (Kooma/Murrawarri/Gamilaraay). Printed with permission by the author. The original article appears in The Black Rising Magazine; ‘A national Aboriginal publication dedicated to informing our people about decolonization and inspiring them to take…