Ilan Pappé is a respected academic known for his scholarship arguing the expulsion of Palestinians during the Nakba was a deliberate act of ethnic cleansing: An act that was central to Israel’s “creation”.
On 13 March 2025, The Guardian Paper published an article titled: yunupingu-played-the-long-game-on-native-title-and-has-finally-won
Dr Yunupingu was just 15 years old when the Yirrkala Bark Petitions – or Ṉäku Dhäruk in the Yolŋu language – were sent to Canberra from his home in north-east Arnhem Land and presented to the House of Representatives in August 1963. The “petitions” sought parliamentary intervention after the Menzies government unilaterally excised a portion of the Arnhem Land Reserve and covertly issued licences to a French company to mine bauxite on Yolŋu land.
One must hope Donald Trump has payed attention to the Australian judicial outcome. For Ukraine, West Papua and Palestine’s futures will continue to hang in the balance; until he or his successors recognise this judicial imperative – in the context amply described by Ilan Pappé.