The Christian communities of Syria are under siege. Since the US-backed overthrow of President Bashar al-Assad in December 2024, the country’s fragile religious minorities—particularly Christians and Alawites—have faced a wave of persecution at the hands of Islamist forces. The fall of Assad was not a victory for freedom, as Western leaders and their media mouthpiecesContinue reading “The Christian communities of Syria are under siege.”
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Trump Signs Executive Order to Begin Construction of America’s ‘Iron Dome’
Frank Bergman Slay News January 28, 2025 President Donald Trump has signed an executive order to begin the construction of a new missile defense system that will protect the United States from attack akin to Israel’s “Iron Dome.” Trump asserted that growing threats from America’s adversaries increased the need to ramp up military defenses. HeContinue reading “Trump Signs Executive Order to Begin Construction of America’s ‘Iron Dome’”
Coloniser Blood Money Welcome
Timothy Cootes Quadrant Online January 13, 2025 Dr Randa Abdel-Fattah continues to prove you can get away with the most grotesque exhibitions of moral lunacy in this country, so long as you have an academic title. The Future Fellow in Sociology at Macquarie University began 2025 with a New Year’s message of sorts, and thereContinue reading “Coloniser Blood Money Welcome”
Labor must explain why it’s trashed a historic friendship
Anthony Bergin and Mike Kelly The Australian December 11, 2024 On Monday evening, Foreign Minister Penny Wong delivered a speech defending the government’s increasingly hardline stance on Israel. In it, she compared Israel, a thriving liberal democracy, to Russia and China, two authoritarian states, ruled by oppressive dictators and both guilty of massive human rightsContinue reading “Labor must explain why it’s trashed a historic friendship”
British Writers, Artists and Other Cultural Producers are Complicit in Israeli and Palestinian Deaths
Anonymous Academic The Daily Sceptic December 10, 2024 We live in an age in which the words “genocide”, “concentration camp”, “colonisation”, “apartheid” and “ethnic cleansing” are swiftly losing all meaning and, as the recently sacked adviser to the UN Alice Wairimu Nderitu has noted – after she failed to endorse repeated claims that Israel wasContinue reading “British Writers, Artists and Other Cultural Producers are Complicit in Israeli and Palestinian Deaths”
One year since October 7: Israel’s leadership defies the odds and puts the West to shame
One year since October 7: Israel’s leadership defies the odds and puts the West to shameRenee Heath The Spectator Australia October 7, 2024Today marks one year since the largest loss of Jewish life since the Holocaust. The horrors of October 7 will become one of modern history’s darkest moments; a grim realisation of what extremeContinue reading “One year since October 7: Israel’s leadership defies the odds and puts the West to shame”