APAN is asking all supporters of Palestine to tell their candidates : I support Palestine and I vote!
Our online platform www.ivotepalestine.org.au sends a targeted email to your candidates telling them you support Palestinian Human Rights and asks them to take a moderate pledge to also support these rights if they are elected.
APAN is also encouraging people to be more active. Email contact@apan.org.au to find out how.
One of the rites of passage for incoming members of the Australian Federal parliament is to make a maiden speech. As these speeches are largely personal, and they usually don’t rate much attention beyond the member’s family and friends. They are rarely the focus of any press attention. However Liberal Senator James Paterson’s maiden speech, delivered last week, was covered not only by the Australian media but even in the Times of Israel. Continue reading
On the 3 March 2016, Mr Michael Sukkar MP (Liberal Party, Victoria) delivered a speech in federal parliament regarding BDS. His slurs and inaccuracies are sloppy at best, deceitful at worst.
Following is the response from Bishop George Browning, APAN’s President, sent on 4 March. Continue reading
2 March 2016
This week the recently retired Commander in Chief of the Israeli army, Lt Col Benny Gantz is in Australia. He is the guest of the United Israel Appeal, an NGO which largely supports Jewish immigration to Israel.
Gantz was the head of the Israeli forces during the two most recent carnages on Gaza, as well as Operation Brother’s Keeper in the West Bank. Gantz has been reported to have said that Operation Protective Edge, which killed over 2,000 Palestinians in Gaza, was the “right act in the right hour”. Continue reading
Last month Dr Patrick Wolfe, a great friend of Palestine, suddenly passed away. Sonja Karkar, co-founder and co-chair of Australians for Palestine, honors his commitment to Palestine.
It takes a brave man to challenge history written by victors. Patrick Wolfe was such a man and he did it from the standpoint of rigorous intellectual scholarship on settler-colonialism. Palestine, in particular, was never far from his mind and Palestinians and advocates for Palestine remember him with the greatest affection, admiration and sadness. Continue reading
