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race critical lawyer, writer, organiser & reel bad arab | 📚 OUT NOW: Songs for the Dead & the Living @affirmpress + The Flirtation of Girls @UQPbooks
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Breaking the internet with this announcement was my plan all along.
A lifetime in the making. Alhamdullilah. Couldn't be prouder and more grateful.
We are delighted to announce that Sara Saleh, recipient of the inaugural Affirm Press Mentorship for Sweatshop Writers, has signed on for her debut novel, 'Songs for the Dead and the Living', to be published in 2023. Read more:
@SaraSalehOz
@sweatshopws
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I refuse to accept that the whole world will stop & unite to fundraise for Notre Dame - a beautiful, historic building, but a building nonetheless...& yet so easily ignore that literally 1/3rd of Pakistan is under water & thousands of its people have died.
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How are we supposed to feel safe at schools, at our workplaces, at our hospitals, on public transport or at public events, when there are pro-genocidal people walking amongst us?
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bell hooks, Toni Morrison, Audre Lorde were crystal clear in their support for Palestine. So don't you dare quote them ever again if you have the moral consistency and backbone of a sea anemone.
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Outside of the Australian Parliament this morning.
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If anyone knows the Qantas staff please thank them for us 🔻
Exclusive:
@qantas
has counselled a number of cabin crew who wore Palestinian flag badges on a flight, breaching the airline’s uniform policy. A passenger told us he felt intimidated and
@AustralianJA
is calling for staff involved to be sacked. Watch:
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Our Jewish siblings are putting their bodies on the line to oppose the genocidal apartheid regime, for Palestinian freedom.
Don't let anyone weaponise antisemitism, don't let anyone silence you for your solidarity with us, for fighting for a liberated, just future for all of us!
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The bullet that "found its way to a 3 or 4 year old young lady" according to one journalist.
The reality:
Israeli forces shot and killed 4-year-old Ruqaya Ahmad Odeh Jahalin yesterday around 5:30 p.m. at an Israeli military checkpoint northwest of Jerusalem. Ruqaya was in the backseat of a car with her mother when Israeli forces shot her in the back.
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Is anyone else having trouble reconciling the sheer amount of people you thought are allies are OK with genocide happening in real time?
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Mahmoud received a scholarship study anywhere in the world, and he chose the University of Melbourne. Devastatingly, he was killed by Israel's genocide last week.
Uni Melb's Gaza solidarity encampment renames Arts West to Mahmoud’s Hall.
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Let me get this straight: Criticising Israel is antisemitic but mass arresting Jews is not?
A very long line of Jews in cuffs going into a very long line of NYPD commandeered buses after taking over Grand Central Station for Gaza
#CeasefireNOW
@jvplive
@IfNotNowOrg
@JFREJNYC
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The very fact that this kind of misinformation is spread and believed so quickly and uncritically is rooted in long held and deep Orientalist tropes of Arabs & Muslims. This is how they already see us: hyper criminalised, hyper aggressive, hyper sexualised savage.
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Only in Australia can Sonia Kruger, an islamophobe who openly called for a ban on Muslim immigration, not only be nominated for a Gold Logie - but win it.
This country loves to celebrate and award mediocrity and racism.
#Logies2023
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Do I have news for you.
Welcome to Israel, where your landlord randomly can sell your apartment while you’re living in it.
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Resistance by an oppressed people and violence by a settler colonial state are not the same. There is no equivalence here.
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Block the boat solidarity action against Israeli shipping line ZIM in Port Botany!
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Bondi gets an 'oops, it's ok' and Bankstown gets police.
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We're living in a world that punishes people for opposing genocide more than those committing one. And that is terrifying to the core.
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I cannot get this image out of my head. No bags, no possessions. Fleeing an entire life in a single second.
About 640 Afghan refugees were on the aircraft. Instead of forcing them off, the crew felt compassion and made the decision to go.
Incredible and heart-wrenching.
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Demanding Palestinians stop resisting - our right under int'l law - is to expect us to collaborate in our own death. Just be honest and say you want us to roll over and die quietly.
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Disability justice cannot exist under settler colonialism. Solidarity with Palestine is a disability justice issue.
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Let me get this straight: state leaders have permitted neo Nazi and transphobic protests to go ahead, but anti colonial, pro Palestine rallies are where they draw the line?
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People who are Indigenous to the land do not bomb the land and degrade it completely.
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Not one single person who has taken an Israeli govt propaganda tour has been slapped on the wrist, let alone sacked—yet Antoinette Lattouf is let go for reposting a global human rights organisation?
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We need to move past solidarity statements. Demand the expulsion of ambassadors. Close embassies. Refuse complicity in Govt arms trade deals. Stop funding their businesses, big & small. Stage sit ins & walk outs in the hallways of parliaments, policy rooms, stations, campuses.
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Is this the first ever all Muslim women panel in Australian TV history?
Actually. Don't tell me. I'm petrified.
Please keep us in your duas.
What role has Australian media and politics played in fomenting the rise of white supremacy? Tonight in a special episode of
#TheDrum
a panel of all Muslim women will discuss the social, cultural and political influences leading up to the Christchurch terror attack
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What a good morning waking up to a country without Scott Morrison, Josh Frydenberg, Tim Wilson, Dave Sharma, Kevin Andrews, and Eric Abetz.
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A lot of your celebrated White Feminists real silent about the thousands of women murdered in Gaza.
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Happening in 'Australia' RIGHT NOW!
Unwavering, principled solidarity from anti-Zionist Jewish activists inside the office of Defence Minister Richard Marles. They have secured themselves by their necks using bicycle locks & are refusing to leave, singing/chanting for freedom!
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~Palestinian-Egyptian-Leb Muslim cutie who is the first to graduate in the whole family with a Juris Doctor (& made the Dean's list) alhamdullilah~ vibes only
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Please stop telling Palestinians how to resist a violent occupation and apartheid regime. When you demand we be polite, respectable, diplomatic, reasonable - you are essentially asking us to be complicit in our own deaths.
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I will no longer be answering journalist questions that include:
1) What about Hamas' rockets?
2) Doesn't Israel have a right to self-defence?
3) Do you condemn violence & accept Israel's existence?
We have told you over & over. At this stage, it's not ignorance it's violence.
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1. BREAKING: Amnesty International (
@amnesty
) has found that Israel maintains an institutionalised regime of oppression and domination of the Palestinian people which amounts to the crime of apartheid under international law.
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I keep typing and deleting tweets, typing and deleting letters. There is honestly nothing else left to say that has not been said before. No statistic or argument or video to change your minds, to put an end to this devastation and horror.
Your Palestinian friends are not OK.
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OK Eurovision but weren't you held in Israel like 5 minutes ago?
Statement from
@EBU_HQ
regarding Russia's participation in the Eurovision Song Contest 2022.
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My heart hurts for my Afghan fam tirelessly advocating for an increase in our humanitarian intake only to be stonewalled by the Govt, which has literally had a *direct hand* in the situation in Afghanistan, but can apparently only open our doors to the "right" kind of refugee.
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These last words and goodbyes from journalists and people in Gaza are shattering. They will continue to haunt us for the rest of our lives.
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"Jewish leader Robert Gregory told Sky News that political activism does not belong on flights as people head off to enjoy their holidays."
Genocide is so inconvenient when you're trying to holiday in peace🙄
via
@SkyNewsAust
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AM I IN THE UPSIDE DOWN?
Look at the way they romanticise and normalise. She's not freaking Juliet. She's "off to the frontline" to join the Occupying forces as they flatten a whole people and a whole city.
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Palestine making activists out of all of us. Please know fighting for justice for Palestine means fighting everyday for the rest of your life to make this world a better place for everyone.
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In memory of the Christchurch massacre, when an Australian white supremacist murdered 51 people in an attack on two mosques in Christchurch. Allah yerhamhom.
Thinking of the families & local communities, & Muslims all over the world who share in the pain & grief 💔
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Half of Gaza is under 18 - every 18 y.o. has survived (at least) four brutal Israeli invasions in their lifetime and the ongoing siege. What do you think happens to a brain subjected to constant trauma? If the body keeps score, what do you think the scoreboard says now?
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After doing some mathing we found out that: 21.1% of Sydney Festival's original program acts have withdrawn, and 26% of the program has been affected or disrupted in some way.
Communities + artists did not come to play. Til freedom for everyone✌🏽🇵🇸 ❤
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People have shown more outrage over fake beheaded babies than they have real NICU babies dying, slow, excruciating, one by one, because of Israel's brutal bombardment and cutting off electricity.
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To be Palestinian is to be in a constant state of grief & pain & not let it overwhelm or consume you.
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If you're upset/shocked by images of Zionist bodies bloody & attacked & never shown a fleck of concern for the thousands of Palestinians who are under attack daily & murdered in cold blood, some whose bodies are held hostage as bargaining chips by Israeli occupiers - SPARE ME
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People with HECS-HELP loans can expect to see their amount owed increase by 7% when loans are indexed to inflation on June 1.
Anyone earning $62,738 or less will see their debt increase faster than they can pay it off, on a HECS debt of $23,685 – the national average.
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"This is not Iraq or Syria, this is a civilized and European country...."
My utmost solidarities with the Ukrainian people who are paying the highest price.
But this deeply racist coverage and political double standards is cause for concern for us all.
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Mohammed El-Kurd at
@adelwritersweek
:
"It's not enough that I lost my home to Israeli settler violence. That I'm a refugee. I have to be polite in my suffering. I have to be respectable."
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Not a word, not a cent from y'all on the climate change consequences your white govts are responsible for.
Make no mistake the double standards and hypocrisy are loud and clear.
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May genocide supporters never enjoy a moment's peace.
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We have never seen such scale of global solidarity for Palestine & Zionists are getting desperate. They will do anything to undermine our movement - violence, dirty tactics, baiting us & preying on us - please support & look out for each other. Keep your focus steady.
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Amidst all the despair, a moment of good news from the Palestine movement in Australia:
After 2 weeks of attempted state suppression via political and legal channels – we have secured the right to march this Saturday 21 March for Palestine!
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Your "humanitarian pause" is an ongoing audit of the dead.
Palestinians in Gaza aren’t resting. They’re walking the streets finding decomposed babies and scattered limbs while bracing themselves for what is to come. All the while, they have no idea what part of Gaza is going to be safe because the IDF has lied to them countless times.
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If you're tired of us posting about the global racism, I need you to understand we are totally shattered dealing with it. Our people are literally being ethnically cleansed.
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Please don't tone police or expect any forgiveness/harmony/sanitised narratives from the Christchurch Muslim community. They have a right to anger, to grieve how they see fit, and to expose the existing systemic islamophobia that enabled this horror.
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Though a ceasefire in Gaza has been announced, Palestinians do not want to return to the status quo & "stability" that has them living with an Israeli boot pressed to their necks. An endless cycle of violence. The siege on Gaza must be lifted.
Palestinians want freedom.
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At 2am my heart stopped. Frantically calling mama & my brother in Beirut and making sure my family is OK. Will our entire lives be this way? Trauma after trauma.
Shattered thinking of everyone who lose their lives in this senseless act.
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⚠️ Crikey outing every journalist and politician who has taken lobby-sponsored trips to the apartheid regime of Israel
The list of politicians and journalists who have been on trips to the Middle East — many of them sponsored by Israeli lobby groups and interest organisations — keeps getting longer.
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The best way to fight the shadow bans and the silencing is to keep amplifying Palestinian voices, interacting with Palestinian content, and sharing from Palestinian news sources and activist accounts.
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Everyone surprised that Amy Schumer & Noah Schnapp keep their jobs despite their raging racism, but Susan Sarandon is dropped has not been paying attention. The system is working exactly as it's meant to... Rewarding white supremacists & punishing those speaking out for justice.
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When all this is over and Palestine is inevitably free, I do not know how a lot of you will look us in the eye - or even yourselves in the mirror.
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Patricia Karvelas out-of-line questioning, badgering, sneering in disdain at her sole Palestinian guest is completely unethical, and a stain on journalism. She is nothing but a stenographer for a racist, pro-genocidal lobby.
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"Australian-Israeli military reservists arrive in Israel as Gaza ground invasion looms"
Will these footsoldiers of genocide have their Australian citizenship questioned? Revoked? Will they also be threatened with deportation?
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Politicians used these lies to race-bait, some to restrict our rights to protest and others called for deportations.
Who will be held accountable for this damage?
BREAKING: it took 100+ days, but NSW police can now confirm there’s no evidence “gas the Jews” was chanted outside the Opera House.
@cameronwilson
& I investigated the authenticity of the AJA edited & distributed video
Then I was savagely targeted for doing accurate journalism
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BREAKING: Palestinian human rights groups
@AlHaq
@pchrgaza
@AlMezanCenter
have launched a landmark legal action to force Australia to reveal if arms exports are supporting Israel's attacks on Gaza
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Woe is me colonisers are being displaced from the homes they literally stole
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How dare officials say "the motivation for the attack on Cassius was unclear."
A 15yr old Black boy has been brutally murdered...We all need to be out on the streets dismantling & destroying every last vestige of colonial white supremacist violence that remains.
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900+ Oz academics & artists signed a letter opposing Israeli annexation. No mainstream news outlet here offered or agreed to cover it. But we refused to let our voices be silenced or go unheard. So we paid for what others get for free.
To all who signed - thank you✊🏾❤
#Palestine
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The End of the World was a Mosque.
Today we remember the 51 Muslims who were brutally killed by an 'Australian' white supremacist in the Christchurch terror attack on 15 March 2019.
To this day, there has been no accountability, no reckoning for this country's role in the rise
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The fact that there are Zionist spokes on Sky News calling for the criminalisation of boycotts despite that it is a time-honoured, legitimate form of non violent resistance from South Africa to recently China to Palestine, just affirms:
It 👏🏽 is 👏🏽 working 👏🏽
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The Israeli army is attacking Shireen Abu Akleh's funeral procession. We are not afforded dignity or peace even in death.
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It's not "tensions rising" or "conflict flaring", it's the reality of a brutal settler colonial project intensifying its violent, suffocating, and deadly hold on the indigenous people of the land.
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Where were your condemnations of violence & calls for restraint when we were ethnically cleansed, when our grandparents were displaced from their homes, our lands stolen, our protestors shot, our schools bulldozed, our children imprisoned & tortured, our corpses held hostage?
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Has life just totally stopped for everyone too? How can there be anything else right now?
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Do you condemn genocide?
If that's not your starting point, there will be no conversation, no debate, no discussion.
It's time we demand people explain why they're pro-genocide. Not why we deserve to live, with freedom.
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That
@antoinette_news
just produced some of the most critical pieces of journalism then got punished reveals everything about the hostility of this media landscape. It doesn't want ethical reporting & truth telling, it's concerned with preserving the interests of those in power.
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Winners: Rich people, the gas lobby, & chaplains
Losers: Women, workers, unemployed people, pensioners, universities, public servants, clean energy, refugees & asylum seekers, international students & other temporary migrants
#Budget2020
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Zelensky got to speak at the Golden Globes last year...I wonder if they'll ask Wael this year.
Oh wait — not a word or moment to spare for Israel's genocide in Palestine.
And he is back, live!
You cannot silence such journalists.
They do not work for money or a career.
They do not want to win a pulitzer prize.
They do not seek the spotlights for ego or glory.
They do not look for a scoop.
They resist by telling the truth!
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I'm really tired of the media gatekeeping that only wants our suffering as entertainment but not our analysis, our expertise, our knowledge.
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Big difference between saying this & what she actually said - inshaAllah.. an everyday term for 'God willing'/ leaving it up to God.
That's hardly the point, though, is it. You fall over yourselves to demonise Muslims. The islamophobia is shameless.
New from me: Payman expected to quit the ALP after caucus colleagues reveal she told them she was being guided by god on her Palestine floor crossing decision, shocking her colleagues
#auspol
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It's truly staggering how every single barrier to boycotts and divestments and sanctions and welcoming refugees and resolutions and ICC prosecutions has suddenly disappeared because the powers that be willed it so.
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I cannot stop thinking about the 39 Afghans who were slaughtered by Australian forces...And how they're the ones we actually know about.
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I'm not looking to convince you. If 75+ years of educating, organising, marching, boycotting, lobbying hasn't...
What can I possibly say tht we haven't already said? How will the brutalisation of our bodies today be any different to last wk, the wk before, last yr, last decades?
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The liberal urge to paint settler colonialism and oppression as "complicated"
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As a matter of fact, Palestinian resistance has, by and large, shown considerable restraint in the face of a merciless, relentless settler colonial project that is maintained through brutal occupation and apartheid with nuclear capabilities.
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Exactly like Palestinians said.
Believe us.
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Seeing anti-Zionist, pro-Palestine Jews get attacked across the world: by police, by politicians, by members of the Zionist lobby... should tell you that this was never a "religious conflict".
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Uncompromising!
Miriam also signed our statement urging Sydney Festival to drop its partnership with the Israeli Embassy and not to be complicit in artwashing apartheid.
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Please stop describing racism as unconscious bias. I've had enough of this nonsense.
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Palestinians don't even have time to grieve or bury our dead. We are expected to keep pleading our case to the world, begging to be treated as human so that the rest of our people can live.
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Wow Senator
@MehreenFaruqi
sure looks different these days...
The utter disregard and disrespect.
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Will the monuments of the world light up in solidarity with the 500+ victims of the Baptist Hospital that Israel just bombed?
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By anti-Israel bias they mean they find anti-genocide, pro-justice "distressing".
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Thanks for soft launching my next big project on Palestine. Can't wait to share it with you all.
Jeremy, I think you're gonna love it.
2GB - EXCLUSIVE: Australian Human Rights Commission announce Sara Saleh’s resignation
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The horror upon horror upon horror on my feed. I don't know how we are ever supposed to function. How can anyone adjust to such nauseating injustice??
As we brace for another massacre, I stroll the headlines... more articles about Oct 7th. Wow. Four months later, 100,000 dead missing injured and the western calendar hasn't moved a day. But, really who am I kidding? We've been stuck on Oct 7 for decades, trapped in their
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I'm out of analysis. I'm out of hottakes and stats and clever comebacks. All I can utter is GENOCIDE GENOCIDE GENOCIDE and we are completely depleted for our people.
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FM Penny Wong
July: "Australia's sanctions regime against Russia reflects our support for the people of Ukraine and for its sovereignty and territorial integrity.”
Today: "Australia unequivocally condemns attacks on Israel by Hamas.. recognises Israel’s right to defend itself."
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Thanks to
@amnestyOz
for speaking out in defence of our right to protest – particularly in the context of Israeli atrocities against Gaza and Palestinians in the West Bank.
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