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….And its due to Israel’s ongoing crimes against humanity – specifically those of apartheid and persecution – that one of the largest Australian human rights and international law petitions – containing 21,991 signatures – was presented to the federal House of Representatives on Monday.
Organised by a number of civil society groups, including the Federation of Italian Migrant Workers and Families (FILEF) and BDS (Boycott, Divest and Sanctions) Australia, the document calls on the Morrison government to impose sanctions upon the Israeli settler colonial state.
“Despite the many UNHRC resolutions condemning Israel’s actions in occupied Palestinian lands, Israel continues to disregard them and continues its aggressive war of occupation against Palestine,” said FILEF secretary and principal petitioner Bruno di Biase.
“This means that direct, nonviolent actions such as sanctions are the only option left to people and governments in order to achieve any positive actions towards peace and recognition of Palestine’s sovereignty by Israel,” he told Sydney Criminal Lawyers…..read the full article here
A petition calling on the Australian government to apply targeted sanctions and an arms embargo against Israel will be presented to the federal parliament on Monday Aug 9.
This petition of 21,990 signatures is one of the largest petitions on human rights and international law to be presented to the Australian parliament. It shows that Australian citizens want to see the rule of law applied equally by Australia in its sanctions regime which targets governments and individuals which perpetrate grave human rights abuses.
Due to Israel’s actions over many decades against Palestinians in the Occupied Palestinian Territory and in Israel and the diaspora, the Australian Government has a responsibility as a signatory to numerous international treaties to take action against Israel due to these grave violations of international law, which are also criminal offences under Australian law.
Mr Bruno di Biase, Principal Petitioner – Federation of Italian Migrant Workers and Families
“Despite the many UNHRC resolutions condemning Israel’s actions in occupied Palestinian lands, Israel continues to disregard them and continues its aggressive war of occupation against Palestine. This means that direct, non-violent actions such as sanctions are the only option left to people and governments in order to achieve any positive actions towards peace and recognition of Palestine’s sovereignty by Israel.”
Susan Connelly, Josephine Mitchell, Jan Barnett – Sisters of St Joseph
“Regardless of religion or ethnicity, all human beings can be scapegoats––the weak victimised by the strong. The Jewish people, indigenous peoples, catholics, protestants, muslims, atheists and others have all been victimised. Humanity has now woken up and realises that scapegoats are innocent. As a result, humans often play the victim, thus grotesquely giving themselves a self-righteous permission to scapegoat others––and we can all do it. The Jewish state is victimising Palestinians. Applying sanctions and an arms embargo to Israel is a necessary and civilised action in a world that must continue to resist the victimisation of others.”
Greg Barnes, SC – Australian Council for Free and Fair Speech
“Some Australian politicians led the way globally in arguing for the imposition of sanctions on apartheid South Africa, and rightly so. To fail to do so now in circumstances which clearly demonstrate that apartheid is being practised and in fact is embedded in the Israeli legal system would be shameful. Apartheid is not confined to South Africa.”
Professor Peter Slezak – Deputy Convenor, BDS Australia
“Israel continues with impunity to perpetuate its long-standing violations of human rights and international law in their blockade of Gaza and brutal occupation of the West Bank. It’s a simple matter of conscience to support justice for Palestinians by targeted sanctions and an arms embargo.”
Emeritus Professor Stuart Rees OAM – Australian Council for Free and Fair Speech
“To speak without fear or favour on the human rights of Palestinians would display respect for the principles of free and fair speech, hence requests to MPs to speak to the ‘Israel Sanctions’ petition coming before parliament on Monday.”
Further information:
Sanction Israel petition, Australian government petition, May 2021
Sanctioning Israel: The Courage to Present Petition to Parliament, Aug 8, 2021
Palestine calls for arms embargo and sanctions at UN, May 16, 2021
A Threshold Crossed, Israeli authorities and the crimes of apartheid and persecution, Human Rights Watch Report, April 27, 2021
Successive Israeli governments have severely discriminated against and brutally dominated Palestinians since the Nakba of 1948. The latest attacks in Gaza(May 2021) and throughout East Jerusalem, the West Bank and inside Israel show that the Nakba has never ended. The systematic oppression of Palestinians amounts to grave breaches of international law and the crimes against humanity of apartheid and persecution. Palestinians have been subject to ongoing largescale military assaults and an illegal 14-year physical and economic blockade in Gaza; a brutal 54-year military occupation; decades-long restrictions on freedom of movement; widespread imposition of an illegal settlement enterprise; confiscation of land and mass denial of residency rights. These actions intentionally and severely deprive millions of Palestinians of key fundamental rights and protections including the right to self-determination, the right of return, the right to equality and non-discrimination, and the rights to life, liberty, health, water, and security. The Australian Government has a responsibility as a signatory to numerous international treaties to take action against Israel due to these grave violations of international law, which are also criminal offences under Australian law.
We therefore ask the House to
1) publicly condemn Israel’s assaults on Palestinians.
2) support targeted sanctions and an arms embargo on Israel.
3) support the suspension of defence cooperation with Israel and end defence industry partnerships.
4) introduce legislation to ban all settlement goods and services from entering Australia.
5) prevent Australian companies from operating, trading, or investing in settlements or contributing to their maintenance and/or expansion.
Recorded presentations by:
• Carmelita Mel Baltazar, Chair of Migrante Australia. Prior to her migration in 1990 she was a teacher, leader and organiser of the Alliance of Concerned Teachers since 1982.
Currently she coordinates the welfare and work rights advocacy of Migrante Australia.
• Joanna Carino from the Ibaloi Tribe and one of the foremost leaders of the Cordillera Indigenous Peoples Alliance in the Luzon Island of the Philippines
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1. Why is there an armed revolution in the Philippines? (3 minutes)
A quick history of the invasion of the Philippines by the Spanish, the Americans and the dictatorial regimes that followed.
2. Pangandoy: The Manobo fight for land, education and their future. (19 minutes)
The Resistance by the Monobo Tribe of Mindanao to the encroaching of land capitalist enterprise backed up by the arm.
3. Tribal Bae Bibiyaon Bigkay facing parliamentarian Bancy Catamco over violent eviction by the military of displaced indigenous people in Davao. (5 minutes)
4. Tunog Bobongan – FREEDOM OF EDUCATION: Our school is a place for learning not a war zone. Go away! All we want is freedom of education. (4 minutes)
A song by Lumad children against the occupation of their communities and schools by the army and police.
This is a free event but donations can be made towards supporting Indigenous struggle in the Philippines at the following account:
A/Name:
Migrante Australia
BSB 633000
A/C 1441 74653
Supported by Australian military aid, the Philippine government, police force, and military are violently cracking down on Filipino activists and civil society.
Gli istinti umani primordiali di paura e di fuga sono meccanismi chiave di sopravvivenza che possono prevalere nella reazione al combattimento.
Questo è il motivo per cui la paura è lo strumento privilegiato dei regimi autoritari per imporre la conformità a idee e politiche altrimenti discutibili.
COVID-19 ha inaugurato una pandemia di paura a causa del potenziale mortale del virus, in particolare per gli anziani, soprattutto se la loro immunità è già compromessa.
Tuttavia, la preoccupazione e la cura per le persone maggiormente a rischio non dovrebbero precludere una risposta ragionata e ragionevole.
Limitare il movimento e il contatto è stato, all’inizio, prudente di fronte a un virus mortale, sconosciuto e altamente contagioso.
Tuttavia, dopo più di un anno di esperienza, la risposta alla paura e al congelamento è diventata inadeguata e crea le sue proprie ansie e traumi.
Sembra anche assolvere comodamente i governi dal controllo legittimo, se si pensa in particolare alle incombenti minacce globali derivanti dalla disuguaglianza e dal cambiamento climatico.
Ciò che si può e si deve fare, ora che i vaccini sono disponibili, è proteggere urgentemente i più vulnerabili con i migliori vaccini, e i diritti sui brevetti e le frontiere politiche non dovrebbero costituire un ostacolo.
Sono necessari centri sanitari specializzati designati per prendersi cura degli infetti. Test rapidi e convenienti potrebbero allertare anche le persone asintomatiche, così che non infettino i loro cari e altre persone a rischio.
Sebbene le vaccinazioni riducano la carica virale, sostanzialmente proteggono l’individuo. Proteggere le comunità chiudendo le frontiere è insostenibile e inutile. Il problema può essere affrontato meglio con i test alle partenze e agli arrivi, sostenuti da un isolamento strategico.
Test, autoisolamento, messa in quarantena e ricerca medica dovrebbero sostenere strategie messe a punto da medici esperti.
Le risposte devono trattare gli individui come adulti che hanno bisogno di considerare i politici responsabili dei loro doveri democratici.
The primordial human instincts of fear and flight are key survival mechanisms that can trump the fight response.
That is why fear is a favoured tool for authoritarian regimes to enforce compliance to otherwise objectionable ideas and policies.
COVID-19 has ushered a fear pandemic due to the virus’ deadly potential, particularly for the elderly and particularly if their immunity is already compromised.
However, concern and care for those at most risk should not preclude a reasoned and reasonable response.
Restricting movement and contact at the start was prudent in the face of a deadly, unknown, and highly contagious virus.
However, after more than a year’s experience the fear and freeze response is inadequate and creates its own anxieties and trauma.
It also seems to conveniently absolve governments from legitimate scrutiny particularly over looming global threats from inequality and climate change.
What can and must be done, now that vaccines are available, is urgently protect the most vulnerable with the best vaccines, and patent rights and political borders should be no barrier.
Designated specialist health centres are needed to care for the infected, and fast, convenient and affordable testing could alert even asymptomatic individuals so as not to infect their loved ones and others at risk.
Although vaccinations reduce the viral load they basically protect the individual. Protecting communities by closing borders is unsustainable and unnecessary and can be better dealt with testing at departures and arrivals backed by strategic isolation.
Testing, self-isolation, quarantining and medical research should underpin responses that are guided by, and in turn should guide, medical experts.
Responses must treat individuals as grown-ups who need to hold politicians accountable to their democratic duties.
Tells us of the way the people of Nonantola organised amongst themselves a resistance against the Nazis, including hiding Jewish children who were in danger of being rounded up and sent to the camps. ANPI Nonantola
The absurdity of those decisions is that while low-income earners have no choice but to spend their money, the well off, have more scope to save. It’s the flow up not the trickle down effect that sustains the economy.As the American author Studs Terkel famously said of the upper class ‘the only think that trickles down is meanness”.
L’assurdità di queste decisioni è che mentre i lavoratori a basso reddito non possono che spendere i loro soldi, i ricchi hanno maggiori possibilità di risparmiare.È il flusso verso l’alto, non l’effetto di ricaduta che sostiene l’economia.Come ha detto l’autore americano Studs Terkel a proposito della classe alta: “l’unico pensiero che scorre verso il basso è la meschinità”.
The 2021 prize, which is administered by Tel Aviv University, rewards contributions to the understanding of public health. Yet Israel is currently obstructing the delivery of Covid vaccines to Palestinians, and its illegal military occupation of the West Bank and blockade of the Gaza Strip, which Tel Aviv University facilitates, have systematically attacked Palestinians’ public health for decades.
State-based efforts to bring about justice for Palestinians have comprehensively failed. In response, Palestinians are calling on people of good will to boycott organisations that profit from, contribute to, or normalize Israel’s repression of them. Academics from all over the world have met the call with strong support. As one example only, Prof. Catherine Hall of University College London declined to accept the same Dan David Prize in 2018 after extensive discussion about the politics of Israel-Palestine.
In suggesting that Israel is committed to advances in public health, the Dan David prize obscures the severe rolling health crisis in the occupied territories, and ignores the fact that Israel robs countless Palestinians of their right to health, well-being and ordinary prospects of flourishing. In its structural ties to Israel’s military and political architecture, including fee- waivers and scholarships for Israeli soldiers, and its complicity with the stockpiling of the bodies of dead Palestinians, Tel Aviv University, the prize administrator, directly facilitates the violence of Israel’s apartheid policies.
Millions of Palestinians are subjected to Israel’s slow ethnic-cleansing regime, which dispossesses, arbitrarily imprisons, maims and kills them in large numbers. To them, a high-profile prize from the heart of the Israeli political and academic establishment can only appear a cruel joke.
Professor Bashford, accepting the prize contributes to misleading the public about Israel’s violence and racism towards Palestinians, and legitimizes institutions at the centre of Israel’s apartheid policies. We therefore ask you to put into practice your declared commitments to public health and antiracism, and respect Palestinians’ call for solidarity by boycotting the Dan David prize. You surely would not have been an apologist for South Africa’s apartheid; we ask you to refuse to be one for Israel’s apartheid and brutal military occupation and blockade of Palestinians.
A better normal is needed not the ‘new normal’, which has been pummelled into the public psyche to prop a profoundly unfair system whose survival depends on people with the least money to spend.
Debt and spending must be transformative otherwise the professed ‘care’ will be a cruel con.
Come è dimostrato dalla pubblicità e dalle sue conseguenze sulle relazioni pubbliche, la psicologia può essere un’arma potente.
È necessaria una normalità migliore, non la “nuova normalità ‘’, che è stata presa a pugni nella psiche pubblica per lanciare un sistema profondamente ingiusto la cui sopravvivenza dipende dalle persone che hanno meno soldi da spendere.