Bondi library returns book How to Sell a Genocide to shelves after State Library ‘outlines the law’

28 August 2026 at 07:25

Book was removed for review earlier this month following complaint but reinstated after petition and State Library letter to Waverley council

A Sydney library has returned to its borrowing shelves a book critical of Israel called How to Sell a Genocide following a public campaign and an intervention from the State Library of New South Wales.

Waverley library removed the book “for review” earlier this month after the Jewish news outlet JWire reported it had approached the council.

Gaza's traumatized youth search for glimmers of hope in devastated homeland

PBS News Hour - The Latest

By: Nick Schifrin · Zeba Warsi

28 August 2026 at 01:30

This week in Gaza, the ceasefire between Israel and Hamas is again under strain. Continued Israeli strikes drew criticism from the head of the U.S.-backed Board of Peace. Even the simple joy of flying a kite sparked fear on both sides of the border. Nick Schifrin has a look at ordinary life in Gaza under still extraordinary circumstances.

On scraps of land and under constant threat, Gaza farmers struggle to survive

World news | The Guardian

By: Seham Tantesh in Gaza · and Julian Borger

26 August 2026 at 14:00

Efforts to rebuild domestic food production face severe challenges and have come at deadly cost

As Gaza’s population of 2.1 million has been hemmed into an ever smaller slice of the territory, farmers are using every last remaining patch of unspoiled earth, no matter how tiny, in their struggle to survive.

With severe shortages of water, fertiliser and pesticide, and with more than 80% of greenhouses ruined, it has taken inventiveness and determination to clear land of debris and coax new seedlings into life. Moreover, venturing out into the open to tend to plants can be deadly.

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