“If you can’t ask the questions, then you can’t find the answers.”
Chris Hedges 2025
An open letter to the Adelaide Festival Board
“On Saturday 10 January 2026, an open letter written by 11 former Adelaide Festival leaders who support the reinstatement of Dr Randa Abdel-Fattah to the Adelaide Writers Week program, was sent to the Festival Board.
“As noted in the accompanying email to the Board, a small number of names are missing from the letter.
‘There are a few (not many) names missing of those living who have had artistic or executive stewardship of the Festival over its history but largely because a 24 hour timeframe to gather support has meant that some have been uncontactable. A couple have not been able to publicly express support due to extraneous factors. None have expressed disagreement with the views in this letter,’ the email read.
Article in ArtsHub 10 January 2026
Authors and Sponsors Pull Out of Adelaide Writers’ Week After Randa Abdel-Fattah Dropped From Lineup
“Authoritarianism is rising all around us. It thrives on controlling & squashing & censoring ideas it does not like. I refuse to participate in that.” Jane Caro warns of broader consequences for public debate.
Stella Prize-winning historian Clare Wright, who is also chair of the National Museum of Australia, wrote . . . she was “appalled at the moral cowardice, wrong-headedness and short-sightedness” regarding the move.
“As a Jewish Australian, I am shocked and insulted that the board could exploit the tragedy of Bondi to weaponise its much-loved and respected literary festival,” Wright wrote.
“As a writer, I stand shoulder-to-shoulder with Dr Abdel-Fattah and her democratic rights and entitlements to discuss her novel… without the political interference of a board of directors.”
The Israel Lobby’s War on Aussie Doctors | EP07
She “was let go 48 hours into a campaign by a pro-Israeli group which sent a barrage of complaints to ABC (AUS) executives, including then-chair Ita Buttrose.”
By Miklos Bolza 24 June 2025 The Nightly
Justice Darryl Rangiah handed down his judgment in a courtroom full of her supporters today 25 June 2025
Sky News Australia
Updated overview of Palestine Reporters Without Boarders
“In 2024, Palestine became the most dangerous country in the world for journalists.
“Close to 200 reporters were killed by the Israeli army in Gaza in the first 18 months of war, including at least 42 slain while doing their job, and dozens more detained in Israeli prisons.
“Trapped in the enclave, journalists in Gaza have no shelter and lack everything, including food and water.
“In the West Bank, journalists are routinely harassed and attacked by both settlers and Israeli forces, but repression reached new heights with a wave of arrests after 7 October, when impunity for crimes committed against journalists became a new rule.
January 2025 Reporters Without Boarders
The Unprecedented Killing of Journalists Is Affecting Coverage of Gaza
“The region’s media has been jolted, as the losses themselves have become part of a conflict of narratives and Western voices have wavered
By Rayan El Amine 11 January 2024 New Lines Magazine
Dr Tanya Haj Hassan criticises BBC in live interview while being interviewed by Martine Croxall on BBC News, 24 May 2025
“Over 1,400 health care workers have been killed
“You don’t ask the perpetrator of a genocide their opinion [as to whether or not they are in fact committing genocide, and if you do, then] I would appreciate if you would also mention that Amnesty International, Doctors Without Borders, Human Rights Watch, the International Court of Justice would all beg to differ.”
Dr Tanya is so succunctly speaking from the perspective of a Doctor in Gaza, that it appears to throw Martine who ends up talking over her.
American Surgeon Shares His Harrowing Experiences Working in Gaza 23 May 2025
“Ben Rhodes speaks with Dr. Feroze Sidhwa, a trauma surgeon who has volunteered twice in Gaza, about his experience treating patients in Khan Younis.
British Jordanian doctor suspended for posts against Gaza genocide
The Israeli military has destroyed every aspect of Gaza’s healthcare infrastructure; executed paramedics and threw them into mass graves; and hunted, threatened, kidnapped, tortured and killed medical workers, skilled physicians and hospital directors.
However, if you are a doctor in the UK and you express outrage about the genocide, you might lose your job with the National Health Service (NHS) and be accused of anti-Semitism.
“As doctors, our morality and our moral standing has always been held against us,” Dr. Nadeem Haddadin-Crowe tells The Electronic Intifada Podcast.
15 May 2025 The Electronic Intifada Podcast
“The Shame of Israeli Medicine”: How Israeli Doctors Turned on Palestinian Colleagues & Patients.
We speak to political scientist Neve Gordon and medical anthropologist Guy Shalev about their new article, “The Shame of Israeli Medicine,” which looks at the “complicity of the Israeli medical establishment with Israel’s egregious violations of international law.” The article’s third author, Osama Tanous, is a Palestinian citizen of Israel and has not been able to make media appearances for fear of reprisal by the Israeli government. “The Israeli medical establishment in general identifies with Israel’s colonial project and puts the colonial project over the most basic ethical principles of their profession,” says Gordon, who previously served as the inaugural director of the organization Physicians for Human Rights-Israel. Shalev, the current executive director of the group, connects the Israeli military’s targeting of healthcare workers and infrastructure in Gaza with its silencing of the great number of Palestinians who make up the medical workforce in Israel. The authors call for an international boycott of Israeli medical institutions, until “Israel stops its colonial project, [and] after the Palestinians receive liberation and self-determination.”
Democracy Now! 6 Jun 2025
By Richard Sanders 16 Oct 2024 Double Down News
Chris Hedges: Who Controls Our Universities? 13 August 2025
Excerpt from Robinson’s Podcast #249 – Chris Hedges: Donald Trump, Elon Musk, and the Rise of American Fascism
In this episode, Robinson and Chris discuss Donald Trump, Elon Musk, and the rise of American fascism. More particularly, they address comparisons between Trump and Hitler, DOGE, the new crisis for the Democratic Party, Israel and Palestine, the Christian far right, Marxism, and more. Full Episode 28 April 2025
What REALLY Happened to Gary Lineker
The Video BBC & Israel Don’t Want You To See.
How is it UK Lawers for Israel seemingly hold such sway ?
“. . . the BBC is an entirely penetrated organization” , it appears the BBC is not the peoples broadcaster. There seems to be a slew of Zionists controlling the very elements of the organisation put in place to uphold independence and prevent bias.
We believe the details in this video are reflected elsewhere in western media and need to be investigated and made public knowledge.
By Lowkey 3 June 2025 Double Down News
Illegal Police Raid on my Home won’t stop me Covering Gaza
“It seems likely that, for many of the arrests and raids currently taking place against journalists and activists, they have been triggered in the first place by complaints issued to police by pro-Israel groups.
“In this way, the “counter-terror” police have been weaponised against the Palestine solidarity movement, and against journalists who report critically and accurately on Israel.3
““Anti-Semitism” is the allegation often being used against solidarity activists all over the U.K. who are being raided, arrested and in some cases even charged with various “offences” in response to their campaigns against the genocide.
By Asa Winstanley 10 June 2025 Declassified UK
One year in Gaza: how Israel orchestrated a media blackout on a region at war
“In one year, more than 130 Palestinian journalists have been killed by Israeli forces in Gaza. According to RSF’s information, at least 32 of them were targeted and killed while working. Almost all the journalists in this closed territory have been displaced several times in the past year, and the few who have been forced into exile have no prospect of returning. Meanwhile, Israeli authorities continue to close access into Gaza for foreign journalists. The few reporters who have been permitted to enter Gaza from the outside were only able to do so under the strict surveillance of the Israeli army.”
3 October 2024 Reporters Without Borders
How Israel continues to censor journalists covering the war in Gaza
By Colleen Murrell 25 April 2024 The Conversation
Colleen Murrell Full Professor in Journalism, Dublin City University
On UN Investigation
Israel obstructs UN investigation into alleged rape on 7 October, prevents interviews of victims. 16 April 2024 Middle East Monitor (MEMO)
Confirming It’s Legal to Speak About the Right Occupied Peoples Have to Armed Resistance
By Paul Gregoire 10 May 2025 Sydney Criminal Lawyers