Matt Chun
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Still not a word about
#SydneyFestival
from any Schwartz platform, or from any of the hot-take progressives they employ? It’s almost as if there’s some kind of.. idk.. insidious top-down directive?
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Issue 1 of The Sunday Paper also includes a beautiful, intimate and urgent new piece of writing by
@jeaninehourani
💛
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Schwartz Media has sought to occupy progressive spaces and absorb progressive voices. Its proactive silencing and deliberate erasure of Palestinians enables the violence of the Israeli state.
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The fact that Schwartz Media is popularly mistaken for a progressive alternative is an indictment on the state of Australian media.
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Keep watch for misdirections and attempts to reconstruct the narrative. They are intentional.
@smh
#JusticeForWalker
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Schwartz Media's systemic Zionism is no secret. It has always proactively silenced Palestinian voices.
This anti-Palestinian policy is enabled – whether tacitly, explicitly or unknowingly – by all those who work with the company.
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Don't publish your work with Black Inc. Don't give Black Inc your creative labour. Don't buy Black Inc books.
Don't give your labour, journalism or money to The Saturday Paper or The Monthly. Unsubscribe. Remove that garbage from your bio.
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Unsurprisingly, many speaking out against Schwartz Media are Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people. People who share the experience of settler-colonial violence, uphold a courageous tradition of radical resistance and a deep and eternal connection to their homelands.
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This is no accident. Australia’s two ‘national’ days are tandem figments, inflicting their respective pageantries – in diametric symmetry – upon the collective memory. My article on Anzac for
@OverlandJournal
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To produce content in Australia is to reckon with the violence, false narratives and relentless propaganda of a settler-colonial occupation.
It is to reckon with massacres, stolen children and a catastrophe of dispossession.
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The Australian state directly contributes to the theft and occupation of Palestine. This furthers our obligation to oppose zionism on this continent, especially when it masquerades as progressivism.
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Their actions sit within a long history of Black-Palestinian solidarity and the ongoing context of Indigenous sovereignty on this continent.
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The Australian state directly contributes to the ethnic cleansing of Palestine.
This furthers our obligation to oppose anti-Palestinian propaganda and censorship, especially when it masquerades as progressivism.
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These platforms include: The Saturday Paper, 7am Podcast, The Monthly, Black Inc Books, Quarterly Essay, The Culture Podcast, Australian Foreign Affairs and Anna Schwartz Gallery.
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During 2021, from the vantage of the Australian colony, we watched the state of Israel murder entire families in besieged Gaza. We watched zionist organisations threaten the homes of Palestinians in occupied East Jerusalem. We watched assaults on peaceful worshippers at Al-Aqsa.
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We watched the mass arrests and killings of those who assembled to oppose their own ethnic cleansing. These events, of course, are familiar and recurrent episodes in the violent colonisation of Palestine by zionists.
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Due in large part to the work of Palestinian activists, knowledge of Schwartz Media's racism has spread, and this year a number of writers and artists withdrew their creative labour from its various platforms. Others have chosen to dig their heels in.
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For years, the insidious top-down anti-Palestinian directive of Australian publisher Schwartz Media has been an open secret amongst journalists, acting to chill any reporting and commentary that is critical of the state of Israel.
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@oz_f
@7ampodcast
Hi Osman. I’m a big fan of you as a person and writer. Putting aside the weak language used in the grabs you’ve shared: the larger issue is that you work for a systemically Zionist organisation with a long history of proactively silencing Palestinian voices.
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This year, we also witnessed the Unity Intifada – the most recent iteration of a deep tradition of revolutionary politics, in which Palestinians have organised for land back and to resist colonisation, mass surveillance, arbitrary incarceration and apartheid.
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Each one of these horrors is being inflicted, at this very moment, on Palestinian land.
Schwartz Media has always been complicit.
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Issue 1 of The Sunday Paper also features a thoughtful piece by
@ForPalestine__
on the preconditions of solidarity, featuring the protest photography of
@CharandevSingh
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Their first statement was in response to this parody of a Black Inc book cover.
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It should go without saying that a boycott of schwartz media absolutely includes anna schwartz gallery.
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cc: the saturday paper, black inc books, the monthly, quarterly essay, 7am podcast, anna schwartz gallery
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I wrote about epidemics, eugenics and white 'australia' for
@liminalmag
Matt Chun's 'Epidemic Proportions', a response to the racist claims that multiculturalism has made COVID-19 worse.
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Within two decades of silence, that single 7am episode is Schwartz's 'gotcha'. I've spoken with several people who have recently withdrawn their labour from Schwartz in solidarity. Each person received the same retort from SM staff: 'but wait! we did that 7am bit! 🤪'
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Black Inc posted a statement, quickly deleted it, then replaced it with an even shittier one.
Once again, it’s not a rumour, no matter how poorly Black Inc tries to deny it. The “false rumours” = systemic racism against Palestinians and reporting Palestinian stories. Compare their current statement to one they posted last week then quickly deleted.
Current versus deleted
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The substance of SM's statement, of course, leans entirely upon a single *damage control* episode of 7am Podcast, aired as the state of Israel massacred entire families in besieged Gaza, and contrived during a growing awareness of Schwartz's proactive anti-Palestinian agenda.
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More recently, Schwartz provided this utterly hollow response to John Lyons' book 'Dateline Jerusalem'. (In the book, Schwartz's open secret – a systemic, top-down, pro-apartheid directive – is explicitly described in interviews with former contributors)
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For clarification, the phrase ‘slings and arrows’ was chosen by
@Engalvo
@smh
— although this is puff not journalism, and
@_OliviaAnsell
would have approved copy.
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Precisely 💛
What I love most about this is the way it demonstrates the potential in all of us to create what we want and need. I truly believe we’ve come to a point where we can go beyond begging institutions to be more equal and ethical, and create the better alternatives we deserve.
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BBC reporting, quote: “it’s really emotional for me because I see European people with blonde hair and blue eyes being killed”
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@sydney_festival
this is morally indefensible
Just when we thought we could catch our breath for just a moment at the end of a very challenging year,
@sydney_festival
partnered with a settler-colonial project - the Israeli govt.
As a Palestinian & artist I'm distressed by the lack of regard for our safety & for our life.
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@AllisonRainbow
@LidcombePS
So happy that you go that sense from the book, exactly my intention!
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‘If a young man had the world at his feet..’
@australian
this is white supremacy working precisely as designed.
#JusticeForWalker
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@OmicronV8
@tanyajv
@SaraSalehOz
Hi there. It should reach you any day now, but feel free to DM me if you're concerned and I can look you up.
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@AllisonRainbow
@LidcombePS
I’m working on illustrations for the 3rd book in this series as we speak. Due for release in November :)
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@tfswebb
It’s a headline nonetheless, last edited yesterday. Update: ABC just edited it again 25 mins ago to remove the reference to ‘heroism’.
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