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Pro-Palestine 🍉🍉🍉, anti-Murdoch Australian greenie. A lifelong leftie who thinks billionaires should be fired into the sun and that Israel's committing genocide. 'Retired' by Covid-19 before my time. Back at uni doing science.
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Israel, hasbara, antisemitism and Iran johnmenadue.com/post/2025/09...
1) The Kingdom of Belgium will sanction the Finance Minister of Israel as well as the Minister of National Security, Bezalel Smotrich and Itamar Ben-Gvir respectively. Belgium will also sanction violent settlers and settler organizations involved in the expansion of the settlement enterprise.
THREAD: Based on the official statement issued by the Belgian Foreign Ministry earlier today, here is the full list of economic and legal action that Belgium will take against Israel in addition to the recognition of the State of Palestine later this month at the UNGA
Ever wondered who truly runs the MAGA machine? This series exposes the fascists, corporatists, and theocrats pulling the strings—and gives you a roadmap to resist. https://americanmanifesto.news/unmasking-maga
Easy to pick #Nazis & other #racists. They are poorly educated, lack basic intelligence, have closed minds and are thugs who are 99% white. Dark blot on humanity. Neo-Nazis and racist rallies: why it’s important Australian #media call them for what they are theconversation.com/neo-nazis-an...
Israel killed journalists so it could carry out its genocide in peace and not alienate US support. Their propaganda unit smeared journalists and doctors and aid workers so it could kill them as 'Hamas'. substack.com/@jonathancoo...
Reuters KNOWS Israel is deliberately targeting journalists - including its own - but still repeats Israeli lies. Captive complicit media. substack.com/@tritaparsi/...
Yee ha - israeli soldiers ambushed in Gaza City. Serves the murdering scumbags right. substack.com/@deaglanomul...
Despite claiming to dislike Netanyahu, her only real problem with him was that the 'war' was causing inconvenience & disruption such as running to bomb shelters. All her concern was for the trauma of Israelis on Oct 7 for which she wanted endless sympathy. Not a drop of pity for Palestinians. NONE.
Apart from relentless self-pity and victimhood, what struck me most about the Israeli I had to hike with for 5 days was her repetition of debunked lies about Oct 7 and her incomprehension of why people now despise Israel. She also took the hike's reality - climbing, heights - as a personal attack.
“When you see the treatment of the Palestinians and the way their life is curtailed, you cannot help but burn with a sense of anger and injustice. I’ve seen it. It’s not that I listened to other people telling me about it. I saw it. And it hurt me, it shocked me.” open.substack.com/pub/deepdive...
Media actively lying about Nasser hospital strike by Israel. Looking at you @reuters.com substack.com/@jonathancoo...
Okay @albomp.bsky.social and @senatorwong.bsky.social we are watching and waiting. You have a DUTY TO ACT. substack.com/@alonmizrahi...
Okay @albomp.bsky.social and @senatorwong.bsky.social we are watching and waiting. You have a DUTY TO ACT. substack.com/@alonmizrahi...
Heroes sailing to Gaza. substack.com/@ahmedeldin/...
Excellent takedown of British far right scaremongering and racist division. substack.com/@anotherangr...
Agree!!!! substack.com/@councilesta...
Israel's assassination campaign continues, but because they're killing Yemenis, the West just shrugs. These are CRIMES. Extrajudicial killing is a CRIME. Israel is an out of control terrorist. substack.com/@ahmedeldin/...
Hey Israel - no one believes your lies any more, you racist murdering scumbags. substack.com/@caitlinjohn...
Genoan dockworkers rule! substack.com/@deaglanomul...
Crimes against humanity.
Rejoin isn’t the issue of the era. Racism is. Britain is drowning in hate. We can’t let Farage remake us into a truly nasty nation www.thenewworld.co.uk/paul-mason-r...
Your ALP government. Shameful, irresponsible, dangerous. #AusPol
Great work by @rsf.org for organizing this. It's unfortunate that more U.S. outlets did not participate. If the outlets you support were not among the few, ask them why.
“A single unsealed coal borehole in country Queensland is releasing the greenhouse gas equivalent of 10,000 cars each driving 12,000 kilometres a year – and it’s just one of 130,000 across the state.” www.smh.com.au/national/que...
I’m sure this point has been made elsewhere but not only did they openly lie about how many recommendations were in the robodebt final report, the one they erased was to reform FOI and now they’re heading in the opposite direction. Surprise is not a feature of my reaction.
The victimhood of Israelis has worn out, frayed, tattered, no longer noticed in the bloodshed the 'victims' have wrought upon imprisoned, underfed(now starving) Palestinians.
www.counterfire.org/article/pale...
Katter is not “a colorful old bloke” he’s a senile racist cunt. #auspol
Sore point. My @smh @theage cartoon.
Thiel. Vance, sure, but Thiel will have total control… in fact there’ll be a further entrenchment of power for the capitalist oligarchs.
Whatever the Palestinians want that's what I want..The right of return and the right to self-determination is the right of peoples to freely determine their political status and pursue their economic, social, and cultural development, as outlined in the UN Charter and core human rights treaties
"As uncomfortable as it may be to many, Israel’s current apartheid policies took shape in the lead up to the Holocaust when Nazi Germany and a small group of influential Zionists formed an alliance to build their ethno-nationalist states."
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Deplorable SBS News piece on IAGS declaration that Israel is committing genocide. Piece ended wirh a sobbing Israeli mum & BS "no end to misery on both sides". Pretty sure well fed Israelis with a roof over their heads & access to healthcare are MORE COMFORTABLE than homeless starving Palestinians.
Labor happened
New Australia Institute research reveals that the failures in Australia’s freedom of information (FOI) scheme lie with the government, not with applicants. The government’s proposal to limit FOI requests by charging fees instead of fixing the broken system misdiagnoses the problem. Read ⤵️ #auspol
Jobs? The world is very tough for young people seeking secure employment now.
Labor are a bunch of venal, despicable sellouts. Albo is a soulless empty suit. He's forsaken everything he once claimed to stand for and has trashed Australia's reputation and standing in the world. A US lackey. Like John Howard, he just wants to be PM for the glory. I despise him utterly.
#AlboLies #Auspol
@rachelkillean.bsky.social: @genocidescholars.bsky.social has passed a resolution recognising tt Israel's policies & actions in Gaza constitute genocide as defined in the Genocide Convention, & war crimes & crimes against humanity as defined in ICC Rome Statute 👉 genocidescholars.org/wp-content/u...
substack.com/@caitlinjohn...
Definitely recommend reading, listening to, @osmanfaruqi.bsky.social for anyone interested in what’s going on in Australia (now and generally)
In an international effort "organised by Reporters Without Borders (RSF)..., more than 250 news outlets from over 70 countries will simultaneously black out their front pages..., and interrupt their broadcasting [today] to condemn the murder of journalists by the Israeli army in the Gaza Strip."
Let's hope this Sumud flotilla can break the siege. Israel's vile denial of aid to Palestinians must end. substack.com/@ryangrim/no...
Albo is Israel's puppet. He is utterly pathetic. open.substack.com/pub/newpolit...
Way to go, Genoa! substack.com/@deaglanomul...
#auspol ‘Windfarms kill whales” is an international #atlasnetwork propaganda campaign run by and for fossil fuel corp owners and investors to try and crush the free, clean, zero pollution energy revolution we need for the survival of our country, kids and democracy. Lead org here is Advance.
Links to my media etc on #AtlasNetwork's history of fossil fuel funding of anti-climate policy, anti-Indigenous campaigns, neoliberal & authoritarian policies in #Auspol, #NZpol and globally. My scholarly work also at Researchgate & my UTS page. Pls send wide! www.researchgate.net/publication/...
In a demonstration of political engagement completely unprecedented in British history, more than a million people have now signed up with www.yourparty.uk From the 'news' media... not a word... Why do you think that is?
well this has got clusterfuck written all over it... www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
Independent Senator Lidia Thorpe, whose uncle Robbie Thorpe established the camp, wants the attack investigated as a hate crime. “The aim of this attack was to cause fear and terror in the hearts and minds of our people.” www.thenewdaily.com.au/news/nationa...
Yup she’s worried about graffiti, social media posts, the school curriculum, what’s allegedly happening on uni campuses, the Dural caravan saga, damage to synagogues etc but when actual neo-Nazis are marching in most of our capital cities she’s nowhere to be seen 🤷♀️
"yes, the state of Israel has a right to exist—but Israel’s regime of Jewish-Zionist privilege may not." foreignpolicy.com/2025/09/01/i...
Don't you dare touch a hair on her head, you monsters! #FreePalestine
“This cover-up is a national scandal. It confirms that Australia’s key regulators are either incompetent or captured by the gas industry, or both,” said @markogge.bsky.social. “That there are no consequences for gas companies failing to act on a major leak of methane for 20 years is a disgrace."
"the International Association of Genocide Scholars: Declares that Israel’s policies and actions in Gaza meet the legal definition of genocide in Article II of the United Nations Convention for the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide (1948)"
The IAGS has declared that Israel’s policies and actions in Gaza meet the legal definition of genocide: genocidescholars.org/wp-content/u...
How 'ordinary mums and dads', who are racists, endorsed Nazis by matching shoulder to shoulder with them. If there's Nazis at your rally, you're at a Nazi rally..
"Israel is committing both genocide and crimes against humanity in Gaza. Israel has long maintained its actions in Gaza are self-defence and that genocide allegations are politically motivated." Imagining ABC's both-sides reporting of The Holocaust; plenty of space for the German response?
There is no excuse now (not that there ever was) for any govt to continue normal relations with Israel.
How indeed - via @firstdogonthemoon.bsky.social - www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
The Holocaust and the Genocide in Gaza are exactly the same. Fascist Governments with all the power, murdering innocent civilians to steal all their land and possessions. The identity of the victims and the people doing it is irrelevant.
ABCNEWS24 Australia stop calling them far right protesters. They are neo nazi fascist racists. Who don't know the difference between. Immigrant and first nations people. You and your colleagues are perpetuating the ongoing racism and violence by naming it as such and given it credibility.
Faruqi is of course 💯 correct. This is exactly who we are as a society. And the people & institutions who should stand against racism instead fuel it for personal gain & perhaps more malevolent reasons. We can’t fix it until we accept it. #auspol www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
Absolutely and totally condemned all of you who have donated to KAP & One Nation. We know who you are. Australians, Jewish & European people laid down their lives in WWII to defeat Nazism & here you are funding it in Australia. FY. #auspol disclosures.ecq.qld.gov.au/Map
A German woman on the hike tried to push the whole 'It's complicated' line. I refused to argue. Just no point. The Israeli was pathetic really. Full of fears & neuroses. Totally unaware of why Israelis are despised. She never volunteered where she was from when we chatted with other hikers though.
Upset about hostages but no insight into the plight of Palestinians. All about her trauma about Oct 7 and having to run to bomb shelters - just an endless victim pity party with zero insight into why things are as they are. Wants war to stop because 'inconvenience'. Total 'poor us' mindset.
Recently hiked for 5 days in a small group that included an Israeli woman. (Not my choice - it was a guided hike and I had no idea who'd be on it till I got there). Gave me a good insight into Israeli mindset. Total victim mentality about everything. Anti-Netanyahu because of inconvenience to life.
Prof W. Schabas, a leading authority on genocide whose family survived the Holocaust, believes the case against Israel is “arguably the strongest case of genocide ever brought before the Court" and that the US & Germany risk legal liability as “accomplices to genocide.” substack.com/@tritaparsi/...
Israel has all the weapons and all the support any country has ever received in the history of this planet. Still, it is failing. It murders and bombs, and loses every day. They haven't finished one mission they set out to accomplish on October 7. substack.com/@alonmizrahi...
Back in Australia after 3 weeks in UK. Visited Palestine House and donated money. Pro-Palestinian protests everywhere. The government still backing the Israeli genociders despite the public's clear wishes. Labour (deservedly) as popular now as rats in the ceiling.
There it was ... buried under AFL news next to Boxing news. When it SHOULD have been your LEAD news item for AT LEAST 12 hours. Piss. Poor. Effort.
Had to dig deep to find this report today, @australia.theguardian.com—life comes at you fast—and I just wonder why you felt the need to cast doubt with "top scholars on the crime say"? "The International Association of Genocide Scholars has concluded Israel is committing genocide" is your headline.
"This civilisation is genocidal. Ecocidal. Omnicidal. Imperialist. Racist. Dehumanising. Degrading. Dystopian. Emotionally stunted. Culturally vapid. Spiritually impoverished. Intellectually enslaved. Why would any sane person want this to continue?" johnmenadue.com/post/2025/09...
Israel is committing Genocide in Gaza and still the world watches on #auspol www.aljazeera.com/amp/news/202...
It’s not about immigration, it’s about white nationalism. When white people come to Australia, it’s called “moving abroad.” When others do, it’s vilified. #Auspol
A success story from a country with a left-wing government, a wealth tax, a humane policy on immigration, and sensible management of the energy transition, and within the EU. Lessons for #Starmer.
“A new poll found that half of U.S. voters — including 77% of Democrats — believe that Israel’s actions in Gaza constitute a genocide, in a finding that adds to mounting signals of deep public disapproval of Israel’s operations there”
Won't riot about Water Companies, cost £16bn a year Won't riot about Banks, steal £82bn a year. Won't riot about Supermarkets, take £20bn a year, 4x in 3 years. Won't riot about Energy Companies, stealing £130bn a year. Will riot about Asylum Seekers, cost less than £3bn a year.
Genocide scholars are Hamas. #GazaGenocide #GazaHolocaust
No price too great for our punitive treatment of asylum seekers. Only the finest covert cruelty from us. #insiders
The Albanese government is going for the gong as the most secretive and unaccountable in Australia's history. #auspol
1 could be an accident. 250 journalists executed by the z1o terr0r1st reg1me is a record in the history of world conflicts #IzrahellIsATerr0r1stState They fight to bury the truth & the White West argue for their right to do so 🤡 The enemy has many faces. #MurderedJournalists #Z1onismIsACancer
Learn to decipher the codespeak.
Grisly that some racist UK politicians are using Australia's dismal and repressive stance on asylum seekers as an example and a way to perpetrate the same cruelty here. The term used here by the media is ALWAYS 'illegal immigrants'. No analysis EVER of what drives refugees from their homes.
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Earning his lobbying dollars. So many of these 'for sale' politicians do dirty deal after dirty deal. No ethics. No morals. No principles. No humanity. They only care about money. Ransacked souls.
The new Lord of Zionist Genocide. The stench of corruption and moral bankruptcy is unbearable.
“With our new virtual servant program, you can have the blackness and the subservience that you need without the uncomfortableness of having to talk to an actual black person”
Republicans like to pray over problems they caused instead of fixing them.
Pro-Palestinian protests at the French Embassy today in London. Heartening to see. Visited Palestine House and donated cash. Then saw the news that the loony Israeli who killed Awdah in the West Bank is free. If you're Israeli & you kill a Palestinian, there are no consequences. Israel is VILE.
Britain helped create the genocidal abomination that is Israel today. It gave away Palestine, a land it did not own, to Jews because antisemitic politicians in Britain wanted to get rid of its Jews. substack.com/@ayubahmad/n...
Journalists from 60 countries demand access to Gaza. substack.com/@suevpate/no...
This 👇👇👇 Western media never join the dots or draw conclusions from the overwhelming evidence of Israel's genocide. They just report serial crimes without context. substack.com/@jonathancoo...
Showing more courage than pathetic @albomp.bsky.social and @senatorwong.bsky.social. open.substack.com/pub/georgeha...
About time! substack.com/@yourfavorit...