The first Arab party to join a government in decades, Islamists make good on promise to seek change from inside, winning billions in promised state funding for community. Ringed by flashing cameras in a luxury hotel in Ramat Gan, conservative Islamist Ra’am chief Mansour Abbas made history on Wednesday night as the first Arab Israeli…
As an active affiliate of the Australian Council of Trade Unions (ACTU) and Education International, the global confederation of education unions (EI), NTEU supports the policies and statements of both organisations that call for an end to violence in Israel and the occupied Palestinian territories and for the creation of an independent Palestinian State.[i] The…
Mr Merlino (Monbulk—Minister for Education, Minister for Mental Health) (12:04): (By leave) In recent weeks we have watched with devastation as violence has rained upon the Middle East, a region that has already known too much terror, and its people, who, like all of us, deserve peace and prosperity. Any loss of civilian life—a child,…
I would like to start by thanking the NSW Jewish Board of Deputies for providing me with the opportunity to speak here in solidarity with the Jewish community and the people of Israel. Let me please begin by telling you that I am very much personally upset by the events in Israel and Gaza in…
I am personally devastated at the violence and terror that has taken place above the homes of people who deserve peace and prosperity – across the region. Any loss of civilian lives – siblings, children, parents – any loved one – is heartbreaking and completely intolerable. I have visited Israel – and I know of…
Huge show of solidarity for Palestinian people here in Melbourne. So much anger and sadness but hope for a peaceful future. pic.twitter.com/rEY29RkyZ3 — Ged Kearney (@gedkearney) May 22, 2021
The Australian Labor Party (Caulfield / Caulfield South Branch) notes the amendment of the National Platform as it relates to Israel and Palestine recommended by Shadow Cabinet and the National Executive Committee and made at the recent 2021 National Platform Conference. The amended National Platform now calls upon a future Labor Government to recognise a…
The ACTU joins the International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC) in calling for an immediate cessation of violence in Israel and Palestine, and the unjust and illegal occupation of Palestine. The ACTU condemns the escalation of violence, with at least 192 people having been killed in Gaza in the past week, including 58 children, and at…