Jewish Collectives for Human Rights

Jewish Council of AustraliaWe provide an independent expert Jewish voice supporting human rights and opposing antisemitism and racism.” News Media

Jewish Voice for Peace is guided by a vision of justice, equality and freedom for all people. We unequivocally oppose Zionism because it is counter to those ideals.  Our Approach to Zionism  

Scholars Warn of Genocide

Public Statement: Scholars warn of potential genocide in Gaza
“As scholars and practitioners of international law, conflict studies and genocide studies, we are compelled to sound the alarm about the possibility of the crime of genocide being perpetrated by Israeli forces against Palestinians in the Gaza Strip. We do not do so lightly, recognising the weight of this crime, but the gravity of the current situation demands it.
By Mohsen Al Attar  18 October 2023   Opinio Juries

Israeli and Jewish Voices for Human Rights

Max Blumenthal discusses Israel’s assault on Gaza
25 Jul 2024
   Al Jazerra English

“You’re Whitewashing Mass MURDER”  Gaza Debate Feat Aaron Mate with Lt. Col. Jonathan Conricus, Hebron spokesman Rabbi Yishai Fleisher and Israeli journalist Gideon Levy.   9 Jul 2024   Piers Morgan Uncensored

Palestine Talks | In conversation with Aaron Mate
11 June 2024
   TRT World

Jewish Australian speaks out on war in Gaza
Antony Loewenstein   1 June 2024    Compass – ABC Australia

“Resist the Normalization of Evil”: Israeli Reporter Amira Hass on Palestine and Journalism
Amy Goodman   18 May 2024   Democracy Now!

Son of a decorated Israeli general, Miko Peled who’s grandfather was one of 37 Israelis who signed Israel’s declaration of independence, calls to end the “Apartheid” state .
Hosted by Ashfaaq Carim   2 May 2024   UNAPOLOGETIC

Ilan Pappe – how he became an Israeli dissident and on why Zionism will fail soon  
Hosted by Ashfaaq Carim   15 Mar 2024     UNAPOLOGETIC Middle East Eye

‘From the river to the sea’: where does the slogan come from and what does it mean?
By Daniel Boffey  1 November 2023   The Guardian

Israel-Hamas War: Gabor Mate vs Piers Morgan On Palestine and Gaza
29 November 2023
     Piers Morgan Uncensored

Netanyahu Shows Map of ‘New Middle East’—Without Palestine—to UN General Assembly
By Brett Wilkins   22 September 2023   Common Dreams

Professor Avi Shlaim answers question about whether Zionism is a racist ideology   20 June 2023

Q&A: Noam Chomsky on Palestine, Israel and the state of the world
By Eliyahu Freedman   9 April 2023   Al Jazeera

Israeli Academics and Artists Warn Against Equating anti-Zionism With anti-Semitism
By Ofer Aderet   20 November 2018   HAARETZ

Israel’s hugely controversial “nation-state” law, explained
By Miriam Berger   31 July 2018   Vox

David Sheen talks incitement for Genocide in Israel
24 September 2014
   Russell Tribunal 2014 – 24/09

 

Likud Party: Original Party Platform

(1977)   Jewish Virtual Library

The 8 Tiers of Israeli Apartheid, Explained
By Zachary Foster  July 19, 2024  Palestine Nexus

Israel’s Knesset votes to reject Palestinian statehood
European countries recognition of Palestine: too little too late?
18 Jul 2024   Al Jazerra

International Court of Justice

As a member of the South African legal team at the International Court of Justice (ICJ), Ms Blinne Ni Ghralaigh KC lists Israel’s multiple serious breaches of UN conventions. Exposing their total disregard of basic human rights with the mass slaughter of Palestinians, UN Medical Aid, Food Relief, Journalists and just about anyone trying to assist those in Gaza. A most compelling yet distressing video. 29 April 2025   Politics JOE

 

Legal Consequences arising from the Policies and Practices of Israel in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem     19 July 2024      International Court of Justice

International Court of Justice rules Israel’s presence in occupied Palestinian territories is illegal and should end.  
By Esther Linder with wires      20 July 2024     ABC News Australia

Tembeka Ngcukaitobi gives evidence at the Hague against Israel’s continued bombardment of Gaza in the case taken out by South Africa against Israel at the International Court of Justice.   11 Jan 2024   PoliticsJOE

Israel’s Continuing Defiance of International Law and Contempt for Palestinian Lives
By Daniel Warner    9 May 2025    Counter Punch

Human Rights Reports

Report of the Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, and Israel

For Human Rights Council Fifty-ninth session 16 June–11 July 2025

Agenda item 2
Promotion and protection of all human rights, civil, political, economic, social and cultural rights, including the right to development

By United Nations, Distributed 6 May 2025 to General Assembly

‘You Feel Like You Are SubHuman’
Israel’s Genocide against Palestinians in Gaza is an extensive report at 296 pages

By Amnesty International 2024  

Q&A: Israel’s Apartheid against Palestinians: Cruel System of Domination and Crimes against Humanity

“Apartheid is both an international wrong and a crime against humanity. When a crime against humanity is committed, the international community has an obligation to hold the perpetrators to account.”

Since the crime against humanity of apartheid is being committed in these territories, we are calling on the OTP to consider including this crime in the investigation.

Amnesty International calls for sanctions against what it has deemed to be a cruel and in humane state of Apartheid

1 February 2022  By Amnesty International

A Threshold Crossed:
Israeli Authorities and the Crimes of Apartheid and Persecution

“The 213-page report, examines Israel’s treatment of Palestinians. It presents the present-day reality of a single authority, the Israeli government, ruling primarily over the area between the Jordan River and Mediterranean Sea, populated by two groups of roughly equal size, and methodologically privileging Jewish Israelis while repressing Palestinians, most severely in the occupied territory.

Authors in Acknowledgements   27 April 2021   Human Rights Watch

Israeli Government Ministers

Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich calls for ‘utter destruction’ in Rafah
30 April 2024
Middle East Ey

Ex-Israeli Lawmaker Moshe Feiglin’s Shocking Remarks  13 May 2025  Channel 14
“The enemy is not Hamas, nor is it the military wing of Hamas,
“Every child in Gaza is the enemy.
“We need to conquer Gaza and colonize it and not leave a single Gazan child there. There is no other victory.
More detail  22 May 2025  New Delhi TV

Former IDF members

Former Israeli soldier shares how Army controls lives of Palestinians, excerpt from How Israeli Apartheid Destroyed My Hometown Hebron   28 Oct 2022   Al Jazerra

Former IDF member Yehuda Shaul, Co-founder, ‘Breaking the Silence’
11 Oct 2013   The Interview – FRANCE 24

Why Did Hannah Arendt Reject the Partition of Palestine
By Eric Jacobson 23 June 2013 Journal for Cultural Research

Colonizing Childhood and Zionist Pedagogy: Interview with Israeli education academic Prof. Nurit Peled-Elhanan
By Singhe Atygalle   1 April 2013   Groundviews long-form journalism

Peter Singer: ‘World’s most dangerous man’ or hero of morality?
By Dan Goldberg    28 June 2012   The Times of Israel

Christian Zionists, Israel and the ‘second coming’
By Donald Wagner   14 October 2003   MIFTAH

The International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) definition of Anti Semitism

Anti-Semitism: The IHRA definition and its Consequences for Freedom of Expression
By Geoffrey Robertson AO QC.  3 September 2018

UN urged to reject antisemitism definition over ‘misuse’ to shield Israel
By Chris McGreal.  25 April 2023   The Guardian

The Anti-Defamation League 

Explainer: The Anti-Defamation League.   26 February 2025
Institute for Middle East Understanding (IMEU)

The Anti-Defamation League: Israel’s Attack Dog in the US
“Posing as a civil rights group, the ADL has long operated as an intelligence organization targeting Israel’s critics.”
By James Bamford    31 January 2024      The Nation

Pushing Back on ADL’s Criticism of Amnesty’s Classification of Apartheid in Israel.
By Donna Nevel     11 Febuary 2022    Common Dreams

The Anti-Defamation League Is Not What It Seems
Under the guise of fighting hate speech, the ADL has a long history of attacking Arab, Black, and queer people.
By Emmaia Gelman    23 May 2019    Boston Review

Human Animals

“We are Fighting Animals”  Israel Announces Blockade of Gaza.  
10 Oct 2023
   Mojo Story

Israel Calls Palestinians “Animals”, Orders “Complete Siege” Of Gaza
11 Oct 2023    The Majority Report w/ Sam Seder

Israeli news presenter Oshrat Kotler criticised for comments on Israeli soldiers
“They send children to the [Israeli] army, to the [Palestinian] territories, and get them back as human animals. That’s the result of the occupation.”
20 Feb 2019   Middle East Eye

Netanyahu on Amalek

Netanyahu faces backlash for evoking biblical Amalek amid heavy civilian casualties in Gaza
30 Oct 2023  Middle East Eye