obituary 6 Mar 2013 By Stuart Rees The man who was to be awarded this year’s Sydney Peace Prize died last week. Stephane Hessel inspired the Occupy movement and lived an exceptional life. Stuart Rees on what Hessel might have told Australians On the day that Shadow Minister Scott Morrison was falsely portraying asylum seekers [...]
28
Feb
Cruelty as policy: the Israeli army’s culture of revenge
Much attention has been given to Prisoner X, but far less has been granted to the many Palestinian prisoners who are still suffering in Israeli detention, writes Stuart Rees. Publicity surrounding the mystery of Australian Ben Zygier – Prisoner X – and the death on Sunday of the allegedly tortured prisoner Arafat Jaradat has provoked [...]
20
Jan
BDS campaign questions academics’ courage
By Stuart Rees At the end of last year, The Australian newspaper spent days deriding Dr. Jake Lynch, Director of Sydney University’s Centre for Peace & Conflict Studies whose governing Council supports the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) campaign against the government of Israel. Consistent with his colleagues’ stance, Lynch refused to host an Israeli Professor, [...]
16
Jan
Boycotting Sri Lanka is not cricket
By Prof Stuart Rees In answer to the comment ‘Stand up for Human Rights in Sri Lanka’, a young man wearing a sombrero and an Australian flag draped around his shoulders, responded, ‘Fuck human rights.’ It was 10:05 am on Thursday January 3rd, a hot blue sky day, perfect for the start of the Australia [...]
13
Dec
Why I Boycott Israel
By Jake Lynch Sydney University academic Jake Lynch has come under fire this week for his stance on Israel. Today he argues his case: Palestinians and dissenting Israelis need international support to achieve justice The University of Oslo announced this week it is ending its contract with the security company G4S, which runs prisons in [...]
13
Dec
What ‘Impartial’ Means At The Oz
By Jake Lynch Chris Mitchell claims The Oz is committed to running ‘impartial information’. That wasn’t apparent when Christian Kerr reported on Jake Lynch’s boycott of a visiting Israeli academic Journalist Christian Kerr recently filed a series of critical articles in The Australian about me over my support for an academic boycott of Israel, and [...]
10
Dec
Syria : refugees and a way to peace
Joint statement from Senator Sekai Holland, 2012 Sydney Peace Prize recipient and Co Minister for Reconciliation, Healing & Integration in the Government of Zimbabwe, and Professor Stuart Rees AM Chair of the Sydney Peace Foundation. We make this statement in terms of our commitment to the needs of a common humanity, in particular regarding the [...]
07
Dec
Stuart Rees and The Australian
Christian Kerr’s article – Sydney University peace centre rebuffs Israeli civics teacher – makes no reference to the major civic issue, Israel’s continued flouting of the rules of international law. Neither is there any comment about the occupation of Palestine, about settlers stealing Palestinian lands, about the continued siege of Gaza affecting 800,000 children. And [...]
07
Dec
Jake Lynch and The Australian
By Associate Professor Jake Lynch, Director of the Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies, University of Sydney A reporter for the Australian newspaper, Christian Kerr, asked me for comment about my support, and that of the Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies, for the campaign of Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions, and specifically a boycott of [...]
04
Nov
Peace Day Breakfast Forum: Stronger Futures for Australia’s Indigenous People
UN International Day of Peace 2012: A Sydney Peace Foundation Breakfast Forum to discuss “Stronger Futures for Australia’s Indigenous People”. The UN theme, “Sustainable Peace for a Sustainable Future”, emphasizes that everyone is responsible for achieving environmental sustainability and social justice. At 8am on Friday 21st September, 2012 the Sydney Peace Foundation, with the United Nations [...]
