At the recent ceremony of the 2019 Jerusalem Peace Prize, one of Australia’s leading peace awards that I won, I gave a speech on the themes of the night and then spoke with esteemed journalist Mary Kostakidis about my work on Israel/Palestine, drugs, disaster capitalism, Wikileaks etc. Here’s the video of my speech and Q&A…
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My Jerusalem Peace Prize acceptance speech
Last week I was awarded the Jerusalem Peace Prize in Melbourne Australia for my 15 years of work on Israel and Palestine. It was a surreal and rather overwhelming evening at Victoria’s Parliament House in front of 150 people. The audience was a diverse combination of Palestine supporters, Palestinians, Arabs and dear friends and family.…
On illegal Israeli colonies in the West Bank (and their legality or otherwise)
The Trump administration recently announced that illegal Israeli settlements in Palestine don’t violate international law (a view held by virtually nobody). I was interviewed by international broadcaster TRT World about the decision: Despite the enormous pressure from Israel and divided leadership, most Palestinians still want to stay in their homeland at any cost. “The truth…
Ongoing injustice of the Halabi case in Israel/Palestine
Back in June, +972 Magazine published my major investigation into the troubling case of Mohammed Halabi, a Gaza resident and World Vision employee who’s caught up in an ugly case of Israel prosecuting him for supposedly supporting terrorism (though there’s no evidence to prove this point). Halabi is one of many Palestinians who are unjustly…
Winning the 2019 Jerusalem (Al Quds) Peace Prize
This is finally public! I’ve been awarded the 2019 Jerusalem (Al Quds) Peace Prize, one of Australia’s major peace awards for my 15 years of journalism around the Israel/Palestine conflict. I’m truly honoured to have been selected for this prestigious award, sponsored by APAN (Australia Palestine Advocacy Network) and Australians for Palestine, in recognition of my books,…
TRT World interview on the never-ending Israeli election
I was interviewed this morning by global broadcaster TRT World on the unresolved Israeli election, one week after people went to the polls:
TRT World interview on the real outcome of the Israeli election
This week’s Israeli election has resulted in a political stalemate, the (possible/likely?) loss of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and the ongoing occupation of Palestine. I was interviewed on election night from Jerusalem by global broadcaster TRT World:
TRT World interview on Israeli attacks across the Middle East
Today I was interviewed on global broadcaster TRT World about increasingly brazen Israeli attacks across the Middle East (forgive the brief technical issues):
When anti-Semitism is weaponised to silence criticism of Israel
The anti-Semitism “crisis” consuming the UK Labour party is largely an attempt to silence serious criticism of Israel IMHO. I was asked to comment on just one angle of this story by Phil Miller in the UK newspaper The Morning Star: Labour has been labelled “undemocratic” after the party revoked a press pass for a…