by AJDS | May 26, 2021 | Statements
AJDS made a submission to the Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT) Feasibility study on Strengthening trade and investment with Israel. Submissions closed on 30 April 2020. AJDS takes a strong Human Rights position on Israel-Palestine as a...
by AJDS | May 20, 2021 | Blog, Statements
24 May 2021 Once again, Israel and Hamas have been at loggerheads during the recent hostilities, but this time the Palestinian citizens of Israel are now involved in one of the most dangerous situations for many years. They are protesting both their own inequality and...
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...
by AJDS | Jun 6, 2017 | Blog
This is a slightly edited version of a piece that originally appeared in Overland, 23 May 2017. _ _ _ On Saturday morning I woke up at Sumud: Freedom Camp. The camp is set up in Sarura, a reclaimed Palestinian village in the South Hebron Hills in the West Bank. It...
by AJDS | Feb 15, 2017 | Blog
On the 6th of February, late in the evening, the Israeli Knesset passed a bill 60-52 termed the “Regularization Law” or ‘expropriation bill’. The bill retroactively legalises some 4,000 homes in 16 Israeli settlements in Area C of the West Bank that are on...