by AJDS | Jun 30, 2017 | Blog, Statements
Despite Israel’s disengagement in 2005, Israel remains the de facto ruler in Gaza. Some ten years after the beginning of the blockade – which limits access to basic supplies and movement – the people of Gaza face an increased crisis with the decision last week by the...
by AJDS | Jun 23, 2017 | Blog
Haaretz 4 June 2017. “We went in search of asses and found a kingdom,” [Samuel 9:1-10] declared Levi Eshkol, Israel’s Prime Minister, on his opening address to the government’s meeting, on 11 June 1967. Eshkol continued: “There was once talk, as though after the War...
by AJDS | Jun 23, 2017 | Blog
Read more from Just Voices #13, June 2017 – Israel/Palestine.
by AJDS | Jun 23, 2017 | Blog
Read more from Just Voices #13, June 2017 – Israel/Palestine.
by AJDS | Jun 23, 2017 | Blog
I had the pleasure of speaking with Naser Shakhtour, founder and director of the Palestinian Film Festival (PFF), about his life and work. Naser described in subtle and illuminating terms the way in which his personal experience as a Palestinian in Australia compelled...
by AJDS | Jun 20, 2017 | Blog
Sylvie Leber is an artist, an activist with Jews for Refugees, the Council of Single Mothers and Their Children, a single mother herself, and a long time social activist on countless other fronts. She became an activist when she was 15, attending her first protest in...