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Jack Meister with a photo taken of him at Auschwitz by the American soldier who liberated him. “Some people try to say I wasn’t there, but I know I was. I have the photo to prove it.”

Holocaust survivor who found his voice and became a messenger

Jack Meister had spoken to thousands of people - from students to adults - about his experiences of the Holocaust as a 30-year volunteer at the Sydney Jewish Museum.

  • Rebecca Kummerfeld

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The “Glory to our Martyrs” pro Palestinian protest in Bankstown on Tuesday night.

‘Significant public importance’: Fight over Opera House protest heads to state’s top court

Jewish leaders are backing a legal fight by NSW Police for a prohibition order over the planned pro-Palestine rally on Sunday.

  • Michaela Whitbourn, Sally Rawsthorne, Daniel Lo Surdo and Patrick Begley
Displaced Palestinians flee Gaza City along the coastal road towards southern Gaza on Wednesday.

Israel must end its genocide in Gaza. But Australia must act too

Our UN investigations are extensive. Now, all states are obliged not only to punish genocide, but to prevent it from happening.

  • Chris Sidoti
Israeli airstrike on a high-rise building in Gaza City on September 5, 2025.

Israel calls on residents to flee, targets more high-rises in Gaza City

The Israeli army is urging Palestinians to move south ahead of an escalating offensive to seize the city of nearly 1 million.

  • Wafaa Shurafa and Bassem Mroue
Palestinians struggle to get donated food at a community kitchen in Khan Younis on Monday.

‘Definitive’: Israel is committing genocide in Gaza, leading experts declare

The world’s biggest academic association of genocide scholars has passed a resolution saying Israel’s “policies and actions in Gaza” meet the legal criteria.

  • Stephanie van den Berg
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

A narrow legal definition with significant consequences: What exactly is genocide, and what is not?

An Australian politician was crucial to establishing the strict criterion that confirms genocide. Israel is using it to strenuously deny it’s committing the “particularly hideous crime” in Gaza.

  • Samantha Selinger-Morris
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President Donald Trump shows documents as he meets South Africa’s President Cyril Ramaphosa in the Oval Office of the White House, Wednesday, May 21, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

‘Look at Australia’: Trump ambushes South African president over ‘white genocide’

In another extraordinary Oval Office confrontation, the US president showed his South African counterpart a video alleging the state-sanctioned murder of white Afrikaner farmers, and said they were fleeing to countries including the US and Australia.

  • Michael Koziol
Rory Marples in Gome in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

‘On the streets I once walked dead bodies lay prostrate and forgotten’

I’m heartbroken by the violence that erupted in the vibrant city where I treated patients only last year.

  • Dr Rory Marples
A weekly market in Nyamata. The south-eastern town is the site of a memorial to the 1994 genocide.

Three decades after the genocide, Rwanda is a nation transformed

Years after reporting on a broken country, a journalist revisits Rwanda to see its famous gorillas – and discovers a land in the midst of renewal.

  • Jennifer Byrne
Children in a refugee camp in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (formerly Zaire) 1994, at the time of the Rwandan genocide.

Suffer the little children. It is ever the way, from Rwanda to Gaza

They are the innocents, and it is never their fight. But it is the children of conflict who always suffer the most.

  • Tony Wright

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