Remember when
@billshortenmp
promised to do something about aged care: more funding, boosting care workers pay, better regulatory oversight & increased TAFE courses. The Liberals waged a scare campaign - said Australia ‘couldn’t afford it’ 🤦🏻
Until now I’ve stayed silent on
@SenatorPayman
’s conduct and now betrayal of her caucus colleagues and party which put her into parliament. One line from her press conference cannot go unchallenged: “Unlike my colleagues, I know how it feels to be on the receiving end of
Apparently this ad is playing in the
#SuperBowl2024
It’s terrific. Any chance the Hamas supporters/apologists could not lose their minds over its content?
A member of
@ScottMorrisonMP
’s caucus, George Christenen, has just posted a shocking anti-Semitic meme about George Soros. How can Morrison,
@JoshFrydenberg
and
@TimWilsonMP
or any decent Liberal Party member stay silent?
Please don’t retweet or share material from the ‘Australian Jewish Association’. They are gross. They do not speak for the Jewish community. Indeed, the official communal bodies have repeatedly denounced them in the past.
The Liberals have governed for 18 of the last 24 years. In that time overall home ownership has fallen to its lowest rate since 1954. Outright home ownership down from 42.8 to around 30%. Robert Menzies would be turning in his grave.
Its true
@YahooFinanceAU
:
@AustralianLabor
will do anything to stop disempowering their fund manager mates. To Labor it should be super 1st, home 2nd. Liberals believe in empowering you through home ownership.
#HomeFirstSuperSecond
:
Alt-Right MPs
@TimSmithMP
&
@michaelobrienmp
are vigorous social media users. Between the two of them neither could be bothered acknowledging the 50th anniversary of the
#westgatebridgecollapse
An insight into these men’s character, priorities & unfitness to hold high office.
Millions of Christians once made up the majority of the Middle East. Even a few decades ago they were 20%, now down to 5%. What happened to them? What happened to 800,000 Arab, North African and Persian Jews forcibly expelled from their homes? Genocide?
Kos, as usual, is correct. The laughable “Australian Jewish Association” speaks for no one in our community. They don’t care about workers’ rights in Australia or Israel or Palestine. They are an extremist right-wing, anti-worker and anti-peace handful of nutters.
The AJA calling for a worker to be sacked because they pinned a badge of a flag on their uniform. Seriously?
This worker should not have been counselled by QANTAS management for this, let alone paraded around like she did anything wrong. It’s disgraceful.
There are enough
Melbourne’s Jewish community are plainly owed an apology from the owner, the irresponsible hate mob on here and elsewhere which included a handful of Jews and the thugs who visited terror upon the residents of Caulfield South.
There is something very wrong happening in our country right now. After leaving my synagogue today having seen a delightful girl become bat mitzvah in front of her adoring family and friends I looked at my sweet, innocent son - without any urging on my behalf he seems to have
Bonza idea to harass and intimidate a Coptic Christian MP. The Copts have long been persecuted and run out of Egypt and the Middle East. Disgraceful that this is happening in Australia.
Funny how Australian Jews - and allies - can gather peacefully and respectfully. By contrast the pro-Hamas Grün-Braunhemden types openly call for genocide, tear down photos of kidnapped Jewish babies, chant “gas the Jews”, menace innocent bystanders and spit at random Macdonald’s
It’s not a ‘pro-Palestinian’ protest. It’s a gathering of antisemitic thugs targeting a heavily Jewish suburb. I’m nearby and I have family extremely nearby.
Yeah going out on a limb but I reckon a decent amount of these 'tradies' aren't CFMEU members - last time I checked Avi Yemini wasn't in the construction game. His experience of wood work consists of being convicted for assault “flinging” a chopping board at his ex-wife's head.
Also living with COVID. My 2.5 year old daughter tested positive this week. Quite sick initially, but thankfully on the mend. It's not an old people's virus. Our kids won't necessarily be ok & we don't know the long-term effects yet. Anti-vaxxers can jog on now thanks very much.
Living with COVID. My mum. Lives in a small public housing home with my sister and her wonderful little daughter Mia. Mum suffers from a non lethal form of blood cancer. She will die with it, not from it. Maybe. Massively immune compromised though.
She is fully vaxed. 1.
This is despicable. A ‘Jew list’. In 2024. In Australia. Compiled and published online by the so-called “progressive left”. At some point well-meaning high-profile left pro-Palestinian supporters need to say “enough is enough”. Where is the
@jewishcouncilAU
on this?
You are literally insane. Stop embarrassing our community. Stop purporting to speak for us. You’re beclowning yourselves and damaging our reputation at a critical juncture.
Me in today’s
@theage
‘The Morrison government’s ‘take the credit/deflect blame’ shtick is wearing thin. The federal government must honour its bargain to protect us, both in terms of ongoing health risks and economic wellbeing. The bucks stop with the PM’
There are some utterly vile people commenting on this post and elsewhere dismissing the Jewish nose caricature. I want you to know this. My grandmother, who managed to flee Nazi Germany at the last minute in 1939, was so traumatised by what she had lived through in Berlin that
This is now a national disgrace and costly embarrassment. The girls are Australian and, as far as I am concerned, so are their parents. Perhaps Scotty should again lean on Jenny for some humane advice.
#bringthemhome
@pwafork
@annacaldwell
@dailytelegraph
He hasn’t omitted anything. He has written, touchingly, about her becoming lawyer later in life & spoken of it many times. Such a very disappointing effort.
It’s astounding that
@JoshFrydenberg
is silent on George Christensen’s anti-Semitic memes but appears on a show with white supremacists on International Holocaust Remembrance Day.
Hopelessly out of her depth. Israel, she asserts, should respond to a terrorist pogrom via “law enforcement” as it’s “occupying Gaza”! Hamas aren’t some kids the cops throw in the divvy van after a rowdy night out. Not even they thought there wouldn’t be a military response. It’s
Israel has been widely condemned for its heavy retaliation on Hamas after the attack on October 7.
@FranceskAlbs
what an appropriate response would have looked like.
This 👇🏻 ‘the shrillest voices of criticism are not representative ... The public stoically accepts the restrictions and also has a sense of proportion about what has happened in Victoria when compared to the severity of the crisis in many other countries.’
This is despicable stuff from a serving parliamentarian. Totalitarianism saw my family almost wiped out by Nazi Germany and ruined the lives of survivors. Get a grip or find another occupation.
Like
@billshortenmp
#mymum
is a working class woman from Ballarat, 1st in her family to go to
@unimelb
on a teacher’s scholarship in 1961, a great state school teacher & public servant. Like Ann Shorten she went back to uni to pursue her passion & got a MA Fine Arts.
#ausvotes
FFS, quit calling it a ‘pro-Palestine’ protest. They are antisemitic thugs who deliberately targeted my community and who engaged in physical violence.
Whoever was on the mic at this pro-Palestine protest in the heart of Melbourne's Jewish community in Caulfield reckons: "I think we should declare this a success."
@theage
Naturally Mr Chun is published by
@OverlandJournal
Now two can play the lists game. Hi
@gemoase
you are Overland’s Chair. What say you about publishing and promoting an open antisemite? Do you approve of the open letters the journal published? Have you disclosed any of this to
Matt Chun is the guy creating lists of Jews to be purged from Australian cultural and political life. He calls himself a progressive but he would have worn an SS armband in the 1940s. Check out his skinhead look. This guy hates Jews and his anti-Semitic hatred is obsessive
Wherever you sit on the Middle East conflict or current war, I would urge people to read this horrific NY times account of how Hamas weaponised sexual violence on October 7 republished in
@FinancialReview
Warning: it’s extremely graphic
This is a reference to
@SatPaper
owner Morry Schwartz, who is Jewish and the son of Holocaust survivors. Let the unmistakable meaning of “owned by Zionists” sink in.
We know that the Saturday Paper is owned by Zionists but I think it’s important to keep on the public record who was silent in the face of genocide. History will remember. This is there top stories for the week.
Just watched
@tomrjoyner
on
@abcnews
quoting the Houthi slogan: "God Is the Greatest, Death to America, Death to Israel”. Why did he leave out the rest: “A Curse Upon the Jews, Victory to Islam”? ABC viewers don’t need to be infantilized or have the truth of these misogynist,
Let’s recap
1. Hamas invaded Southern Israel
2. Murdered 1200 Jews and foreigners
3. Raped and mutilated countless Jewish women
4. Kidnapped Israeli women, from toddlers to teens and elderly, with reports of more sexual war crimes
5. Some NSW Young Labor Left twat thinks all
Man ends up in a fight after riding a bicycle with an Israeli flag in Melbourne, Australia.
What’s up with all the hatred toward the Israeli flag?
🇬🇧🇮🇱
More “anti-Zionism” at work. A Jewish owned Israeli street food restaurant - highly recommend - in Balaclava, Melbourne with a Nazi style boycott plastered out front. Didn’t the
@BDSmovement
tell us they were only boycotting the Israeli state and business and not Jews? They lied.
Jewish babies and children beheaded and burnt to death. But sure let’s all feel sorry for Nick and his pals right to protest to defend these atrocities.
Disgraceful attempt by the NSW Police to obstruct basic democratic rights. Defending Palestine amidst the horrific brutalization of Gaza is morally necessary. Fortunately, protest does not need anyone's legal permission in NSW. The demo must happen regardless of police support.
Coverage of my call for a young
@AustralianLabor
revolution. We must recruit beyond G8 universities bringing in TAFE & vocational education students and young workers not studying. Read the full argument here ($):
Apparently Deborah Conway’s crime of being Jewish in 2024 and not campaigning for the end of the world’s only Jewish state is a thought crime that has produced a call to deplatform her from
@perthfest
Her presence - YCMIU- threatens the “safety” of patrons. I look forward to
Note that the letter below 1. Explicitly rages against a zero tolerance approach to supporting Hamas’ terrorism, 2. Can’t bring itself to mention who these ‘attacks’ were carried out against, and 3. Doesn’t dare mention the word Israel or Jew(s). I’m ashamed to have ever had
‘Toleration is a form of colonisation’; my open letter to the Vice-Chancellor of the University of Sydney on Israel, Palestine, genocide and toleration
It turns out the Australian Palestinian Advocacy Network’s Nasser Mashni is an unreconstructed antisemite and a peddler of conspiracy theories channeling the infamous Protocols of the Elders of Zion. No Australian politician should meet with him again.
Nailed it
@fbongiornoanu
"Pyne has had no career outside politics ... law degree from sandstone university, student politics, a bit of time as a staffer ... a political career before leaving for the richer material rewards of the private sector."
There need not be a choice between home ownership and a dignified retirement. False dichotomy. You guys have been in power for 19 of the last 25 years - why not do something about the real drivers at play - speculative property investment, insecure work and low wages growth?
@dyrenfurth
Yep, and people should be free to choose what fund they want to invest in. Super is important for retirement. But home ownership is important for your working life and retirement. That’s why it should be
24.5% of Australians are either unemployed or under-employed in the midst of a global pandemic and recession. Please don't spend the next week talking about Tony Abbott's
#queensbirthday
gong. Just don't.
Quite the piece by
@clairlemon
"A classic example of the misguided radical was Wilfred Bose, a German leftist who participated in the 1976 Entebbe hijacking with the Popular Front for Palestinian Liberation. Upon helping his comrades hijack Air France
My
@FinancialReview
opinion piece on the libertarian gaslighting harming our fight against
#COVID19
: “the response by free-market zealots responsible for subcontracting national sovereignty is to blame government when events inexorably go pear shaped.”
Australian Jews peacefully holding a vigil for kidnapped Israelis surrounded by an aggressive mob of Hamas supporters and requiring police protection. Is this really Australia?
Really proud to announce my new book on Labor’s future edited with my great mate
@mishazelinsky
is out now. There’s a yarn in
@TheAge
and
@smh
about our edited collection here:
Buy our book here:
Nasser Mashni claimed Jews carried out a “pogrom” in Caulfield on
#QandA
! Good to see
@PatsKarvelas
pulled him up quickly. We still don’t know who torched the burger shop, no one died and the only violence in Caulfield was so-called pro-Palestinians who caused the evacuation of
And if we want to enquire as to the potential motivations of the artist, Mic Porter. He posted this video at the October 29 Melbourne protest set to Nino Simone’s ‘Backlash blues’.
Unlike
@louiseadler
and
@antloewenstein
I’ve actually given up my time to mentor refugees living in Western Sydney. And always speak out against Islamophobia and antisemitism. I invite them to join me in unequivocally condemning this racist diatribe.
Australian Imam Ahmad Zoud in Sydney Friday Sermon: The Jews Are Bloodthirsty and Treacherous Criminals, Terrorists, and Monsters - Not All the Jews Are Like This, Just Most of Them
#antisemitism
#australia
Peaceful Shabbat in Caulfield, Melbourne I see. Anyone who encouraged these scenes should be barred from polite society. I have in mind particularly
@jordana_s_
who knew damn well there was a synagogue within metres of Princes Park and this is the heart of our community. Shame on
Melbourne renews its call-out for love, equality, justice. Each week speakers repudiate anti-Semitism and all forms of racism. Protesters support the Palestinian Resistance and oppose the
#Zionist
entity’s unrelenting massacre of the
#Palestinians
in
#Gaza
.
💯 There are people demanding Australian Jews and our allies “apologise” for widely reported mainstream news coverage, as if this and other events and the chants uttered were any less rhetorically violent and menacing.
A mob chanting “where’s the Jews” and “f*** the Jews” on the steps of the Sydney Opera House is still frightening and abhorrent antisemitism. I sincerely hope no one glosses over this fact today.
What are odds any of these chaps in
#Melbourne
protesting
#IsraelHamasWar
could place Auschwitz on a map, let alone its Polish name Oświęcim or have any detailed knowledge of what transpired there?
🧵 Thread
“I reached the point at which I decided to eradicate any injustice…and I would do it again if I could”
Majid Kavousifar smiled as he was slowly executed in public for taking revenge on a judge of the Islamic Republic of Iran.
I hope there is an immediate and unequivocal rejection of this zany idea. There is no place whatsoever for the Greens - they boast one lower house MP in the commonwealth parliament! - in any future federal Labor government.
My grandfather, Shmuel, aged approx 60, during the Holocaust. He was a socialist Zionist journalist and activist. His first wife and three sisters were murdered by the Nazis. This was the reason Jews like Sam fought for Jewish emancipation and self-determination at a time when
.
@adelwritersweek
My father, Jacques Adlersztejn ( code name Jtrois ), aged 15, in the Jewish section of the resistance.This is what fighting against the occupation looked like in Paris, in 1943. To resist occupation & oppression is to fight for universal emancipation .
I knew the Zionists were behind the
#Khelif
affair. That said I’m confused - Zionists control the media yet the international press is supporting Imane 🙃
A question to those piling on
@fitzhunter
- is there any place in the ALP for cultural conservatives or small c conservatives, or people who don't identify as 'progressive' (perhaps 15% of voters)? If the answer is no, you ain't serious about Labor getting half the 2-party vote.
Right-wing culture warriors: “no one studies the classic texts of Western thought anymore or knows anything about Australian history”
Government: “We agree, let’s double the cost of humanities degrees”
Australia is such an irredeemably racist, colonial hellhole that
@iamthenas
became a multimillionaire property developer and is free to call the convicted terrorist Leila Khaled a “hero”
#YCMIU
My column for the
@FinancialReview
on how Labor’s collectivist democracy including its caucus discipline is not outdated in modern, multicultural Australia. If anything, the pledge is more vital in the diverse, electorally volatile Australia of the 2020s and a bulwark against the
Fled Israel after a “terrifying week”, presumably to dodge an IDF call up, and then complains that Australian Jews weren’t marching for a ceasefire. YCMIU. I can’t believe this was published.
A few awful folks saying ‘nothing to see here’ or ‘it’s been there for ages’. It was being ‘worked’ on by the artist and announced this week
@cityportphillip
‘initiated’ too, whatever that means.
I’m beginning to despair at some of my comrades in the labour movement whom I’ve known for many years. You ain’t the ones who fret about going ahead with events unrelated to Israel/Palestine. You don’t have to confront guards when taking kids to synagogue or have to discuss
In which an arrogant, incompetent columnist claims the Coalition is Medicare’s best friend against a ‘Socialist’ Labor government, bashes multicultural working-class communities & has the gall to accuse others of politicising the pandemic & erring on the ‘side of intemperance’.
I’m personally counting roughly 250,000 out of 6 million reasons why we ain’t going back (70% of Israelis were shock horror actually born in Israel). Mary is mentally ill and her friends should stage an intervention.
Have to say I have been astonished to hear many who are not generally critics of Israel say exactly this: why not give them half of Germany? It seems the genocide and long term intractable situation has focused the mind on how this came about - the gifting of a colony that lead
I had to explain the Holocaust for the first time to my kids tonight and it’s impact on our family - Mr 9 raised it. Nothing prepares you for this moment. ‘Always be proud to be Jews no matter what.’ 💪
The ‘anti-Zionists’ on here are very hot under the collar at the moment what with Israel refusing to be annihilated again. So here’s a pic of some Chraime (super spicy fish stew with tomatoes) treasured by North African Jews that I made for Shabbat.
It’s clear
@DougCameron51
is running to replace
@SwannyQLD
as ALP president on a woke, Greens agenda. If Doug puts his hand up I will 💯 run vs him. I want my party to win national elections so people who come from our families have a Labor government to back them to the hilt.
This can only be read as a threat directed at the overwhelming majority Australian Jews, including those working in universities and cultural-arts sector. There should be no place in academia for such anti-intellectual, bigoted and hateful speech
@Macquarie_Uni
please take note.
Compare the pair. Mirko Bagaric advocating Big Brother style tactics to prevent the spread of
#Covid19
in August. Today he bemoans what he calls Big Brother tactics to prevent the spread of
#Covid19
These critics of Dan Andrews are shameless.
No, it was avoidable if Mr Djokovic had simply got vaccinated. As for Mr Rudd, there are hundreds of refugees stuck in limbo in our country and locked up because of his actions, including children and teenagers robbed of their early years. Kevin isn’t so voluble on their plight.
The end of a week-long, political circus - all avoidable had Morrison not issued
#Djokovic
a visa in the first place. He then tries to look like a hairy chested Howard: ‘we decide who comes here, nobody else’. Meanwhile hospital crisis off the front page.
Melbourne’s Jewish community are plainly owed an apology from the owner, the irresponsible hate mob on here and elsewhere which included a handful of Jews and the thugs who visited terror upon the residents of Caulfield South.
Hey
@adambandt
When you criticise Turnbull's tax cuts for millionaires don't use Der Stürmer-style imagery of a Jewish banker. Deleting it today isn't good enough. You should apologise.
All Jews desire is a tiny sliver of land for our own state, recognized by the UN way back when, where we have lived continuously for thousands of years. Racists: “go back to Germany or Poland”.
A critical point about Victoria (yeah it’s been mismanaged while the feds have passed the buck): ‘after one of the most stringent and prolonged lockdowns anywhere, Victoria appears to have done what no other place has: tamed a second wave of the virus.’
Thanks to all who reached out re my daughter including privately. Ms 2.5 bravely bounced back today, but already misses her mates at childcare and extended family. Special shout out to my mate and local member
@joshburnsmp
for checking in. Deeply appreciated. Get vaxxed people.
Also living with COVID. My 2.5 year old daughter tested positive this week. Quite sick initially, but thankfully on the mend. It's not an old people's virus. Our kids won't necessarily be ok & we don't know the long-term effects yet. Anti-vaxxers can jog on now thanks very much.
Spoke at a demonstration yesterday outside
@AlboMP
's electoral office. We always hear about Albo the underdog, Albo the child of a single mum, now Albo the PM.
What we’ll remember is Albo the genocide supporter. 🧵