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Disaster prompts president to lift moratorium on death penalty, a move human rights groups say is ‘a retreat into barbarism’
THE Organisation of Islamic Co-operation (OIC) will become “irrelevant” if it can’t win freedom for Palestine, Indonesian President Joko Widodo warned yesterday.
“Jokowi” quoted the late president Sukarno, who vowed that Indonesia would fight the Israeli occupation until Palestine was free, at the opening of the OIC’s United for a Just Solution conference in Jakarta.
“We, the Indonesian nation, are consistent with our promises,” he told the assembled representatives of 57 nations and five permanent members of the UN security council.
Police crackdowns on Israeli peace demonstrators combined with court rulings and settler organisations are designed to strip Palestinian families of their homes and land. The Israeli state has tried to silence both Israelis and Palestinians who resist, according to Zo HaDerekh (This Is The Way) the Communist Party of Israel’s Hebrew-language weekly
As antisemitism grows, the labour movement must recommit to defence of minorities while navigating the complexities of Gaza and global politics, argues NICK WRIGHT
Bezalel Smotrich’s measures to extend Israeli property law into the West Bank are a continuation of a decades-long project to dispossess Palestinians and preclude statehood, argues HUGH LANNING
ANN CZERNIK looks back over the last two years of carnage that began with the unprecedented October 7 operation and considers the rhetoric from both sides in light of the massacre carried out by Israel that has united the world in horror