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  In early February 2026 , Australia presented itself to the world as a democracy committed to free expression, human rights, and the rule of law. Yet in its streets — particularly in Sydney — those ideals were tested, strained, and for many protesters, violently denied. The occasion was the official visit of Israeli President Isaac Herzog . The response was one of the largest, most forcefully policed pro-Palestinian mobilisations in recent Australian history. What unfolded was not merely a protest against a visiting head of state. It was a confrontation between citizens demanding accountability and a state determined to shield power from dissent . Why Herzog’s Visit Sparked Outrage Isaac Herzog arrived in Australia for a high-profile visit framed by the government as an act of solidarity following the December 2025 Bondi Beach attack , in which civilians were killed at a Jewish community event. The visit included meetings with political leaders, memorial events, and appear...

  The 2026 Milano-Cortina Winter Olympics were meant to be a celebration of sport, unity, and seasonal beauty — a global festival set against the snowy peaks of northern Italy. But for many in Milan, the Games became something very different: a focal point of deep political, social, and moral grievances playing out against one of the world’s most iconic sporting stages. A Ceremony of Unity… and a Crowd Divided On February 6, 2026 , as the cauldron flames lit up San Siro Stadium in Milan, athletes from around the world marched under the Olympic banner in a spectacle of culture and pageantry. Yet beneath the music and fireworks, there was a stark reminder of fracture: segments of the crowd booed Israel’s Olympic delegation as they entered the stadium, a reaction tied directly to opposition to Israel’s participation amid the ongoing war in Gaza. Those boos, audible despite the ceremony’s celebratory atmosphere, echoed political tensions well beyond sport. The reception wasn’t l...

  Recent investigative reporting has uncovered that the U.S. government used a private jet owned by a Trump-associated businessman to deport Palestinian detainees to the Israeli-occupied West Bank , raising legal , ethical , and political concerns about transparency, human rights , and due process. What Happened According to a multi-source investigation, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) chartered a private jet owned by Gil Dezer , a Florida real estate developer and long-time business associate and donor to Donald Trump , to deport Palestinian men detained in the United States. The flights carried detainees from Arizona to Ben Gurion International Airport in Israel, after which they were reportedly transferred by Israeli security forces and released at military checkpoints in the occupied West Bank . The first of these flights occurred on January 21, 2026 , carrying at least eight Palestinian men. A subsequent flight reportedly took place on February 1, 2026 ...

There are betrayals that anger us. And then there are betrayals that leave us quiet. Noam Chomsky belongs to the second kind. For more than half a century, Chomsky stood as a moral compass in an age without direction . He taught generations how power lies, how empires manufacture consent, how language itself becomes a weapon in the hands of elites. He spoke for the voiceless when it was costly, unfashionable, and dangerous . For many of us, he was not merely an intellectual —he was a refuge . Proof that clarity could survive corruption. Proof that integrity could endure. Which is why this moment does not feel like scandal . It feels like mourning . Chris Hedges is right to frame the association between Noam Chomsky and Jeffrey Epstein not as gossip or moral theater, but as a rupture —a crack in something we believed was unbreakable . Epstein was not simply a criminal. He was the embodiment of everything Chomsky spent his life exposing : elite impunity, predation disguised as ...

History has a cruel sense of irony. Sometimes the most devastating indictments do not come from the oppressed, the bombed, the buried, or the silenced—but from the very architects of power who once swore they were different. This week, that indictment came from Moshe Ya’alon : former Israeli Defense Minister, former IDF Chief of Staff, lifelong pillar of Israel’s security establishment. Not a dissident poet. Not a radical academic. Not a Palestinian survivor. A general. And what he said shattered the last polite illusion. “ The ideology of Jewish supremacy that has become dominant in the Israeli government is reminiscent of Nazi race theory.” Pause there. Sit with it. This was not shouted at a protest . It was not scribbled on a placard. It was written calmly, deliberately, after attending a Holocaust Remembrance ceremony —then reading reports of Jewish settlers attacking Palestinians , blocking ambulances , fracturing skulls , burning homes. Never Again, apparently, now ...

There is a rule at Davos—unwritten, but strictly enforced. Reality is bad for business. Yossi Alpher learned this the hard way. Sitting on a panel at a luxury resort near the Dead Sea, surrounded by ministers, executives, and conflict “experts,” he made the unforgivable mistake of speaking honestly. Grim facts. Grim assessments. No PowerPoint optimism. No Riviera renderings. No applause. A prominent Israeli industrialist later pulled him aside and explained the crime: “ Don’t spoil the show . The idea is to radiate optimism that nourishes an investment climate . It’s all about business. No room for realism .” That sentence may be the most accurate peace-process doctrine of the 21st century. Phase II: Now With Billionaires Fast forward to Davos again. This time, the stage is Gaza—or rather, Gaza™ , the investment opportunity. Trump’s “Board of Peace,” staffed by billionaires and brand managers of global destruction , announces Phase II of a Gaza peace plan with all the s...

  There are crimes that explode in a single moment—and then there are crimes that drift. They fall quietly from the sky. They settle into soil. They poison roots before they reach lungs . And by the time the damage is visible, the perpetrators are already hiding behind language. In recent weeks, residents of southern Lebanon and parts of southern Syria have watched Israeli aircraft spray unknown substances over green and agricultural areas. Fields were coated. Farmers panicked. UN peacekeepers were told to shelter. Governments demanded answers. And once again, the world was handed a familiar script: “Non-toxic.” “Defensive.” “Unverified.” “Under investigation.” This is not a new story. This is a recycled method. What Is Known — and What Is Being Carefully Left Unsaid Let us begin with facts, not slogans. The United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) confirmed that the Israeli military notified them in advance of an aerial operation near the Blue Line in whic...

  There is a final dignity that every civilization, every faith, every moral tradition claims to respect: the dignity of the dead. In Gaza and the West Bank, even that has been revoked. Homes can be flattened. Children can be starved. Hospitals can be reduced to ash. These crimes, we are told, are “tragic necessities.” But graves ? What threat does a corpse pose to a modern army armed with drones , tanks , and nuclear ambiguity ? Apparently, enough to be bulldozed. Graves as Enemy Infrastructure According to detailed reporting by Al Jazeera , Israeli forces in Gaza did not merely fight the living — they waged war on cemeteries . Tombstones were crushed. Graves were excavated . Human remains were scattered, mixed, lost . Families returned not to mourning, but to forensic horror: bones without names, names without bodies. This was not collateral damage . This was not crossfire. This was methodical excavation . Heavy machinery was deployed to retrieve the body of one ...

On 26 November 2024 , pediatric intensive care physician Dr. Tanya Haj-Hassan stood before a United Nations body not as a politician, not as an activist, but as a witness — a doctor who has repeatedly volunteered in Gaza’s hospitals and seen, with her own eyes, the devastating toll of war on children, families, and healthcare workers. Her testimony was raw. It was unvarnished. It was deeply human. “ My name is Tanya Haj-Hassan. I am a pediatric intensive care doctor and have worked in Gaza many times over the past decade.” She described herself not as an observer from afar, but as someone embedded in suffering — someone who has treated the wounded, witnessed the destruction of life and infrastructure alike, and held the hands of children as they died. “ You cannot witness what is happening in Gaza and not emerge enraged and determined to stop it.” A Hospital Like No Other Dr. Haj-Hassan did not speak abstractly. She spoke of real hospital wards , real families , and...