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Israel approves registration of West Bank land as 'state property' Palestinians condemn the move as constituting 'de facto annexation of the occupied Palestinian territory'

Israel approves registration of West Bank land as 'state property' - https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/israel-approves-registration-west-bank-land-state-property

Francesca Albanese is obviously a highly effective advocate for international law and human rights.

That's why she is being targeted so viciously for daring to name corporations and governments complicit in the #GazaGenocide.

Entities that, like Israel itself, have operated with impunity.

The Australian police punched and pepper sprayed protesters in Sydney who were demonstrating against Israeli President Isaac Herzog’s visit on February 9.

The police’s use of force to prevent protests is a further erosion of basic rights in Australia.

Learn more: https://bit.ly/45Zn0ah

Israel ‘Evaporated’ Over 2,800 Palestinians With US-Made Bombs: Report The Trump and Biden administrations armed Israel with thousands of 2,000-pound bombs that have vaporized flesh and decimated Gaza.

Israel ‘Evaporated’ Over 2,800 Palestinians With US-Made Bombs: Report

The Trump and Biden administrations armed Israel with thousands of 2,000-pound bombs that have vaporized flesh and decimated Gaza, writes @minnahfarshad.bsky.social.

Read now: zeteo.com/p/israel-eva...

The headline - which is what people would read more than the detail - completely underplays what happened. It is stenography bc it aligns with Minns' and Albanese's accounts. Why so defensive?

what an awful take - you have a responsibility to report what happened, what is evident from video accurately. Or is the Guardian also just a govt stenographer?

ALP-sanctioned violence

#WATCH | An Israeli band shows images of the genocide in Gaza in front of a happy crowd

Tomorrow, the last remaining arms control agreement between the US and Russia expires. The end of New START Treaty removes the final restraints on an accelerating nuclear arms race.

What does this mean? Read more in
@melissaparke01.bsky.social 's Op-ed: passblue.com/2026/02/01/t...

#NuclearBan

🔴 GAZA | Israeli forces killed Hussien Hassan Al-Smairi, a 48-year-old paramedic with the Palestinian Red Crescent Society (PRCS), in a double-tap strike while he was on a rescue mission responding to an Israeli attack on displacement tents in Al-Mawasi, east of Khan Younis, Healthcare Workers Watch said. Al-Smairi is the fourth healthcare worker killed in Gaza since the October 2025 ceasefire, and the second in less than 24 hours.

🔴 GAZA | Israeli forces killed Hussien Hassan Al-Smairi, a 48-year-old paramedic with the Palestinian Red Crescent Society (PRCS), in a double-tap strike while he was on a rescue mission responding to an Israeli attack on displacement tents in Al-Mawasi, east of Khan Younis, Healthcare Workers...

presumably a lot cheaper than film production

See new posts Conversation Drop Site @DropSiteNews 📌 Released Palestinian prisoner Khaled Al-Sayfi has died a week after his release from Israeli prisons in critical condition, from the Dheisheh Refugee Camp, Shehab News reports. Israeli human rights group B’Tselem says Israeli prisons have been turned into a coordinated network of torture camps for Palestinian detainees, documenting widespread, systematic abuse including deliberate starvation, denial of medical care, extreme overcrowding, prolonged shackling, physical and psychological violence, and in many cases sexual violence including rape, based on testimonies and monitoring by the group. The report lists 84 Palestinians who died in custody since October 2023, including one minor, with prisoners from Gaza, the West Bank, and Israeli citizenship, and notes that Israeli authorities are still withholding most of their bodies.

📌 Released Palestinian prisoner Khaled Al-Sayfi has died a week after his release from Israeli prisons in critical condition, from the Dheisheh Refugee Camp, Shehab News reports.

Israeli human rights group B’Tselem says Israeli prisons have been turned into a coordinated network of torture camps...

Australia spends more on tax breaks for landlords than social housing, homelessness and rent assistance combined Exclusive: Acoss report shows property investors received $12.3bn in tax concessions in 2025, while the share of social housing dropped to a record low * Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast Australia spends billions of dollars more on tax breaks for property investors than on social housing, homelessness and rent assistance combined, according to research by the Australian Council of Social Service (Acoss). The analysis comes as new data from the Productivity Commission reveals the share of homes dedicated to social housing has dropped to a record low 3.6%, from 5.7% in the 1990s. Continue reading...

Australia spends more on tax breaks for landlords than social housing, homelessness and rent assistance combined

The UK government didn't want you to see this report on ecosystem collapse. I'm not surprised | George Monbiot It took an FOI request to bring this national security assessment to light. For ‘doomsayers’ like us, it is the ultimate vindication, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

Please spread this far and wide, as stories don't get much bigger than this. When the government blocks even the intelligence services from telling us we're heading for environmental catastrophe, you know we have a problem. A very big problem.
Thank you.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

So we have a Special Envoy to Combat Antisemitism who won't comment on literal Nazis marching through the streets.

And we have a Special Envoy to Combat Islamophobia who won't comment on the abhorrent islamophobia being pushed by Morrison.

What are these Special Envoy's doing exactly?

discussing record breaking heat and no reference to fossil fuels or climate change? 🤔

Australian, Palestinian lawyers seek police probe of Israeli president Legal groups says Australia obliged to investigate Israel's President Herzog for his role in genocidal war on Gaza.

Legal groups says Australia obliged to investigate Israel's President Herzog for his role in genocidal war on Gaza.

when will he be here?

Revealed: Australian taxpayers subsidising the IDF, illegal settlements in Israel - Michael West Australian taxpayers are subsidising the Israel Defense Forces and illegal settlements in the West Bank via the ACNC charities regulator

Australian charities funnelling money to the IDF and illegal settlements in Occupied Palestine. Taxpayers are subsidising. Investigation p1 @sstephanietrann.bsky.social
#auspol #ACNC
michaelwest.com.au/revealed-aus...

the gun bill is being dumped?

Mubashir and his family came to the United States as refugees from Ethiopia when he was a child, and they all became naturalized citizens in 2019.

Despite being a U.S. citizen, Mubashir was targeted by ICE, assaulted, and detained. Listen to his story:

So much for a ‘final battle’ – once again the Iranian people’s peaceful and democratic demands have been silenced | Behrouz Boochani and Mehdi Jalali Tehrani The protests were hijacked by Reza Pahlavi and notions of Persian supremacy, then brutally repressed by a violent regime

So much for a ‘final battle’ – once again the Iranian people’s peaceful and democratic demands have been silenced | Behrouz Boochani and Mehdi Jalali Tehrani

At the root of all our problems stands one travesty: politicians’ surrender to the super-rich | George Monbiot There are many excuses for failing to tax the ultra-wealthy. The truth is that governments don’t tackle the problem because they don’t want to, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

It is the source of so many of our evils: the astonishing concentration of wealth in the hands of a very few, and the immense political power that gives them. We cannot solve our problems until we tackle it.
This week's column.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

#BREAKING | Israeli settler terrorists carried out attacks on the village of Al-Mughayyir in the West Bank, using motorized paragliders to infiltrate the village.

(Ihab Hassan)

If only they were as good at governing as they are with snappy one-liners

Palestinian bus drivers are on the front lines of Israeli racial violence In Jerusalem and Haifa, bus workers are facing an unprecedented surge in attacks, forcing many to choose between their livelihood and their safety.

From Jerusalem to Haifa, Palestinian bus drivers and ticket inspectors are facing an unprecedented surge in racist attacks — be it from ultra-Orthodox youth or soccer hooligans — forcing many to choose between livelihood and safety.

Charlotte Ritz-Jack reports.

www.972mag.com/palestinian-...

US appeals court opens door to re-arrest Palestinian activist Mahmoud Khalil In a 2-1 ruling, the court dismissed a federal court ruling that released him from an immigration detention centre

US appeals court opens door to re-arrest Palestinian activist Mahmoud Khalil - https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/us-appeals-court-opens-door-re-arrest-palestinian-activist-mahmoud-khalil

10-year wait for a home in Alice Springs as public housing sits vacant Public housing in Alice Springs is sitting vacant and in disrepair while residents wait up to a decade to be allocated a home.

There are 2,279 priority applications across the territory, with 426 in central Australia.

Yet between June 2024 and June 2025, only 107 priority homes were allocated, including 16 in Alice Springs.

10% of homes are vacant.

www.abc.net.au/news/2026-01...

How a billionaire with interests in Greenland encouraged Trump to acquire the territory US president’s friend Ronald Lauder – who first proposed Arctic expansion – is now making deals in the island

Estée Lauder announces an exciting addition to its parfum range, with 'Essence of NATO Disintegration'.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

In Albo's new antisemitism bill, the definition of "hate crime", which underpins the new regime to proscribe "hate groups" like the Nazis, specifically excludes "advocating genocide". That is, advocating genocide is treated as not being a racist hate crime. Now, why would that be?