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By Sõzarn Barday  The most expensive thing you own is not your phone, your car or that last-minute flight you regret booking. It is your privacy. Every day, our thoughts, habits and emotions are converted into data. Late-night searches, scrolling patterns, how long we pause on an image — all are captured, analysed and sold. This happens quietly and constantly. And most of the time, we consent without fully understanding what we are giving up. Privacy is the right to keep parts of one’s life to oneself. Yet before you began reading this article, your phone likely logged your location, your…

By Iqbal Jassat In yet another shocking display of irrational abuse of his power, US President Donald Trump has issued a new decree doubling the size of his travel ban, expanding restrictions from 19 countries to 39. The updated version of his discredited policy, which takes effect January 1, blocks or limits visa access for millions of people and adds sweeping new restrictions on individuals traveling on Palestinian Authority–issued documents. To justify it, the White House said the countries on the expanded list show “serious failures in screening and information-sharing,” and that tighter entry rules are necessary to “protect the United States…

22 December 2025 We, the undersigned organisations, express our unwavering solidarity with pro-Palestine political prisoners on hunger strike in British jails. We call on people of conscience in South Africa and across the world to demand that they are granted immediate bail and that their fundamental right to fair, transparent and timely trials are upheld. Some of the hunger strikers have now passed the 50-day mark without food and may die if urgent action is not taken. Their continued imprisonment without trial, reports of reluctance to provide them with adequate healthcare, and the government’s refusal to meaningfully engage with their…

Displaced Palestinians continue their daily lives under difficult conditions inside displacement tents scattered amidst the destruction in the Zeitoun neighborhood, southeast of Gaza City, on December 9, 2025. (Photo: Omar Ashtawy/APA Images) ByJeff Wright “What is happening [in Palestine] today is the true face of Zionist ideology . . . turning Palestinian existence into an unbearable hell,” declares the recently released Kairos Palestine document, “A Moment of Truth: Faith in a Time of Genocide.” Last month, 300 people—led by the Patriarchs and Heads of Churches in Palestine— gathered in Bethlehem to launch the second Kairos Palestine document: A Moment of…

The Australian Federation of Islamic Councils (AFIC) notes the growing calls for a public inquiry or royal commission in the aftermath of the tragic Bondi Beach attack. At this stage, AFIC has not made a decision on whether it would support such a commission. Our position would ultimately depend on the terms of reference and whether they reflect a genuine commitment to transparency, justice, and balance. “The purpose of any inquiry must be to uncover truth, not reinforce a narrative,” said Dr Rateb Jneid, President of AFIC. “We are concerned that a narrow or politicised process would serve only to…

The perils of speaking up on Palestine in India. By Azad Essa In early December, two activists in India released three videos detailing the rise of India–Israel ties and the dangers they pose to ordinary Indians. The videos quickly went viral, amassing around 2.6 million views. They struck a nerve. The Hindu right responded with fury. This is the story of how the Hindu right attacked these two activists and tried to destroy their lives simply for raising questions about India–Israel ties and the warm embrace of Israeli soldiers in India. First, let’s talk about the videos. In video…

Zaher Nasser Shamia, 16, from Jabalia camp in the northern Gaza Strip. (Social Media) Palestinian Territory – An Israeli military bulldozer deliberately ran over a wounded Palestinian child, cutting his body in half while he was still alive, after shooting him and preventing medical aid from reaching him. This premeditated killing reflects extreme brutality and forms part of Israel’s ongoing pattern of targeting Palestinian civilians as a national group in the Gaza Strip within the broader two-year-long genocide.Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor’s field team documented the injury of 16-year-old Zaher Nasser Shamia from Jabalia camp in the northern Gaza Strip by Israeli…

By Nahid Poureisa The iconic Palestinian-American academic and activist Edward Said once wrote: “From the earliest phases of its modern evolution until it culminated in the creation of Israel, Zionism appealed to a European audience for whom the classification of overseas territories and natives into various uneven classes was canonical and ‘natural.’ That is why, for example, every single state or movement in the formerly colonized territories of Africa and Asia today identifies with, fully supports, and understands the Palestinian struggle. In many instances… There is an unmistakable coincidence between the experiences of Arab Palestinians at the hands of Zionism…

By Iqbal Jassat  On Sydney attack, Willem Els (ISS) hasn’t wasted time to raise spectre of “ISIS terrorism” without any credible evidence. The game of speculation by so-called “terror experts” without consideration for consequences that give rise to anti-Muslim hate crimes, is unfairly rewarded with “respectability” by media platforms. Feeding a public narrative on myths emanating from an Islamophobic mindset is not analysis. It is propaganda. Since facts don’t matter it is “acceptable” because fiction remains perfectly aligned with Israel’s Hasbara standards. If media platforms are able to stomach blatant prejudice framed as “analysis”, does it not reflect disrespect for…

By JONATHAN COOK It is years of dedicated work by the Israel lobby that has ensured the mass murder of Palestinians is viewed by governments, the media and parts of the Jewish community as entirely legitimate I, for one, am struggling to stomach the spew of hypocrisy from pro-Israel groups like the Community Security Trust and its policy director, Dave Rich, in the wake of Sunday’s Bondi Beach attack. Establishment media, on the other hand, appear to have a bottomless appetite for efforts by Israel apologists to exploit the genuine fear and grief of the Jewish community to advance a political…