Dr Mitri Raheb is a Palestinian pastor, theologian and author of many books including ‘Decolonising Palestine: The Land, The People, The Bible’. Founder and President of Dar Al-Kalima University in Bethlehem, Palestine. Former pastor of Christmas Lutheran Church. 

Mouin Rabbani is a Palestinian-Dutch analyst and commentator on Palestinian Israeli affairs. 

Diana Buttu is a Palestinian Canadian lawyer, former advisor to the Palestinian Liberation Organisation PLO, citizen of Israel and host of the podcast This Is Palestine.

Dr Ghada Karmi is a Palestinian doctor, activist, academic and writer. Author of many books including ‘One State’ and ‘In Search of Fatima’.

Dr Ghada reflected on the ongoing genocide in Palestine, provided commentary on the recent recognition of the state of Palestine by some Western countries and gave us a few cues on how to mobilise for an envisioned free and liberated Palestine. 

Conversation with Rami Khouri. A Palestinian-American academic and journalist. Founder of the Issam Fares Institute for Public Policy and International Affairs (IFI), at the American University of Beirut. A Harvard Nieman Journalism Fellow, a senior fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School, a Fellow of the Palestinian Academic Society for the Study of International Affairs in Arab East Jerusalem, and a senior fellow at the Arab Centre Washington, DC.

What does it mean for the Palestinians that some of the major Western countries, including France, UK and Australia, intend to recognise the state of Palestine this month?

How significant is the recent UN report as well as the voting of the International Association of Genocide Scholars voting that Israel is committing a genocide in Gaza?

What are the consequence of Israel bombing Hamas delegation in Doha?

Rev Dr Sizer is a retired Christ Church Vicar and a member of Jewish Network for Palestine. Author of “Christian Zionism: Roadmap to Armageddon” and “Zion’s Christian Soldiers: The Bible, Israel and the Church”.

The conversation explores the following important questions:

- What is the relationship between the secular nationalist ideology of Zionism and the theological concept of the restoration of the Jews to the Holy Land of Palestine?

- How did evangelical Christians and Jews manage to unite over support for Zionism and Israel despite the vast theological, political, and cultural differences? 

- How did Christian Zionism use the Western Judeo-Christian identity to entrench the geopolitical realities of the settler colonial project in Palestine? 

- Why have many Western religious institutions been silent over the genocide in Gaza or indeed have sided with Israel?

Professor Ilan Pappe is an Israeli historian and political scientist and professor at the University of Exeter.

A former senior lecturer in political science at the University of Haifa and author of many books including “The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine” and “Lobbying for Zionism on both sides of the Atlantic”.

This is the second part of the conversation with investigative journalists Wendy Bacon and Yaakov Aharon who both have written extensively on the inner workings of the Israel lobbying organisations in Australia. Their writings can be found on Michael West Media.

A discussion on how deeply intrenched the global military industrial complex is in the Australian politics and academic institutions, and on the direct and indirect complicity of the Australian government in arming the genocide in Gaza.

Margie Pestorius is a long time activist a co-founders of “Wage Peace”. She has been involved in anti-military work since the first gulf war. In 2016 she walked into Pine Gap to oppose the use of Pine Gap as a military operation base for war crimes.

Lil Barto has been organising for eight years across climate, anti-militarist, First Nations justice and abolitionist movements.

Exploring the intricacies and inner workings of the Israel lobbying organisations in Australia and their influence on politics and media.

Discussion with renowned Australian journalist Wendy Bacon and Yaakov Aharon. 

Wendy Bacon is an independent investigative journalist and lifelong radical activist. She has investigated miscarriages of justice, deaths in custody, News Corp’s coverage of climate change, urban developments, police corruption and most recently astroturfing in the 2025 Federal election.

Yaakov Aharon is new to journalism, having come from a background of activism. Yaakov brings unique perspectives to the Palestinian struggle, credited to his political journey away from the Ultra-Orthodox Jewish and pro-Israel education of his youth. His research concerns the Israel lobby, Jewish community, party politics, and the arms trade.