The Zionist Federation of Australia has filed a formal complaint against journalist Mary Kostakidis in Australian federal court after accusing her of anti-semitism for her reporting on X, writes Joe Lauria.
In defiance of international rulings to boycott Israel for its ongoing violence and brutal occupation of Palestinian lands, Kellie Tranter says Australia has continued exports to Israel.
SPECIAL REPORT: David McBride appeared in a Canberra court earlier this month appealing his conviction in a case that could determine if a soldier’s duty is to serve only the King or also the public, reports Joe Lauria.
CN Editor Joe Lauria addressed a meeting held on the eve of an appeal hearing for Australian whistleblower David McBride, highlighting the growing repression in contrast to 50 years ago.
The government’s respect for speech is often at its lowest ebb in wartime, when it is also most important and timely, writes Andrew P. Napolitano,
John McEvoy reports on the government’s crackdown on the anti-genocide group Palestine Action, which carries out direct actions in the U.K. against Elbit Systems and other suppliers of weapons to Israel.
“An abusive exercise of power accompanied by humiliation” —Katherine Franke, former law professor at Columbia, on the university’s handling of Mahmoud Khalil, for whom she served as disciplinary adviser.
The U.S. government, in its zealous enforcement of the nation’s immigration laws, has become lawless, writes Andrew P. Napolitano.
“My arrest was a direct consequence of exercising my right to free speech,” Mahmoud Khalil writes in his letter from ICE detention.
Trump’s disrespect for the law and courts is not the “only question” raised by the disappearing of Mahmoud Khalil. There are several others, from long before Jan. 20.