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According to new shipping records leaked to Declassified Australia, the first F-35 fighter jet part flown out of Sydney on the new airline and the new route was described obscurely as a ‘Clamp’.

It was however clearly labelled as being for the ‘JSF’, the Joint Strike Fighter, and was marked as having been sent to Israel from ‘2314 Williamtown’, which is the unique postcode address of RAAF Base Williamtown, home of Australia’s fleet of F-35A Joint Strike Fighters. Williamtown is also home to BAE Systems’ Regional Sustainment Depot, which provides repairs and maintenance for the F-35s...

Ask the Prime Minister the only question that matters. What does Anthony Albanese know that he is not telling us? If a threat justifies all this, table the assessment. If none exists, this is the most expensive act of political cowardice in the country’s history.

The former Adelaide Writers' Week director sits down in a wide-ranging interview that covers the Holocaust, Zionism, the Royal Commission and her time as Edward Said's teaching assistant

Louise Adler has been a vocal critic of the Royal Commission on Antisemitism and Social Cohesion. And anyone who has followed Louise over the years knows she has been consistent in her condemnation of Israel, Zionism and the apartheid imposed upon the Palestinians.

The question I wanted to explore was why?

How did this powerhouse of the arts become such a staunch and courageous voice for Palestine and social justice?

I wanted to uncover the story of Louise Adler – her past, the tragedy that befell her family during the Holocaust and how it shaped who Louise is today.

What I learned in the almost hour-long interview (which at one point brought tears) is Louise’s story offers a Jewish narrative we rarely hear. A narrative of resistance during Nazi occupation, of defiance against tyranny and of enduring solidarity with the oppressed.

It’s the Jewish narrative that exists outside of Zionism, and one that is emerging from New York to London. And so, I posed Louise a question – are we seeing the revival of a Jewish left?

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The word “terrorism” is applied selectively to enemies of the US and its allies, turning a legal and moral category into propaganda that obscures state violence and normalises genocide.

Allies of the US are never designated as “terrorist”.

‘Terrorism’ has become a descriptor for organisations that annoy or antagonise the US and its allies. Or won’t do what they are told.

The word is used as propaganda rather than diagnosis. It has lost precise meaning with the description usually coming before the facts are established. Without much thought journalists use “terrorism” as an immediate descriptor for all sorts of public violence. Crime and terrorism are not the same thing.

But labels stick and are used as an insult to cast an aspersion or moral judgement on an opponent. What should be serious discussion on an important issue becomes a political bun fight.

Hamas is designated as a terrorist organisation . But the IDF has not been designated as a terrorist organisation despite having killed over 73,000 Palestinians. Hamas is defending Palestinian land seized and illegally occupied by Israel.

Palestinians have a right to oppose occupation, just as Australians would have had if there had been Japanese occupation in the last World War.

“Australians are not being investigated for hating Jews. They are being investigated for objecting to a genocide.”

Albanese promised the inquiry would deliver, in his own words, the right outcome. A Prime Minister announcing the right outcome in advance is commissioning an alibi.