Bren Carlill

Palestinians storm across the Gaza border, 7 October 2023 (Image: Shutterstock)

When Israel woke up on October 7

October 7, 2025 | Bren Carlill

Mahmoud Abbas at the United Nations (Image: Shutterstock)

Roadmap to a viable Palestine requires holding Abbas to account

September 29, 2025 | Bren Carlill

PA President Mahmoud Abbas (Image: X)

Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas will be impotent to deliver on promises

September 29, 2025 | Bren Carlill

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas (Image: UN Photo)

Roadmap to viable statehood: Holding the PA to account

September 18, 2025 | Bren Carlill

The theft of aid has gravely affected humanitarian efforts (Image: X)

Gaza ‘famine’ claims obscure the truth, and the lies are increasing hatred

August 26, 2025 | Bren Carlill

Security forces evacuating a pregnant settler in Neveh Dekalim, Gaza Strip, August 2005 (Image: Isranet)

Twenty years after Disengagement

August 14, 2025 | Bren Carlill

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and Foreign Minister Penny Wong (Screenshot)

Why Labor risks making the wrong call on Palestine recognition

July 31, 2025 | Bren Carlill

President Bill Clinton walks Prime Minister Ehud Barak of Israel and Yasser Arafat of the Palestinian Authority at Camp David, Maryland, July 2000 (Image: Wikipedia)

The silver anniversary of the silver bullet

July 29, 2025 | Bren Carlill

Damage to the door of the East Melbourne Hebrew Congregation (image: X/@w3bsag3)

Politicians’ reactions ring hollow in echo chambers of outrage

July 8, 2025 | Bren Carlill

Image: Shutterstock

Peace first, then statehood

June 3, 2025 | Bren Carlill

“Palestine” may have a flag, but it does not currently meet the criteria for statehood. Prematurely recognising it will not bring the day it does closer (Image: Shutterstock)

Nine reasons premature recognition would be bad for Palestine

May 28, 2025 | Bren Carlill

Moreton candidate Remah Naji (centre) with Queensland-based Federal Greens MPs (left to right) Max Chandler-Mather, Senator Larissa Waters, Stephen Bates and Elizabeth Watson-Brown (Image: Instagram)

Green extremes

April 24, 2025 | Bren Carlill, Galit Jones