Australia has recognised the state of Palestine. Now we must act to protect what settler terrorism is tearing to shreds | Ed Husic

Many Australians will question why our government won’t act when it has a chance to do so in concert with many like-minded nations Get our new political email , free app or daily news podcast Roughly 5,900 Palestinians have been completely or partially displaced by settler violence since January 2023, along with 32,000 Palestinians forcibly removed from their homes in West Bank refugee camps last year.

The scale of this prompted Major General Eyal Ben-Reuven, someone who spent his life fighting for Israel, and who recently visited the occupied West Bank, to remark: “This, what the settlers are doing here, is the real threat to Israel.

This is more concerning to me than Iran, Gaza or Lebanon.” Continue reading...