Alister Murrell

learning & being educated by others expertise and passions. Disability surfing association Bass Coast co organiser, Farmer, Furniture maker, musician, equality

[Alister Murrell @AlMurrell]

Men killed 10 women in just 20 days. Time to shout about it! Any flog excuse for a man that spends their time calling others white knights or simps for calling out abusive behavior towards women, are a massive part of the abuse problem. #allmencallitout https://t.co/A6iqwyr8Z0

[Ronni🧂Salt-WhoWroteGunnawahYeahThatOne @RonniSalt]

The pride of @nswpolice - bashing children in the streets, shoving the boy's head into a railway line and kidney punching him when he's already powerless

Two grown men

This disgusting display of violent sadism brought to you by @ChrisMinnsMP and implicitly endorsed by @AlboMP

[Antoinette Lattouf @antoinette_news]

Evidence Labor takes its new broad yet draconian hate speech laws very seriously.
Israel’s president Isaac Herzog can sign bombs, feature in a UN genocide conclusion, not qualify as a hate preacher, and still traipse around Australia.
Relax though. We can still social cohesion

[Sarah Wilkinson @swilkinsonbc]

New data finds the israelis have killed over 680,000 Palestinians in Gaza including 479,000 children; 380,000 under 5 | via @MusafirNafar

[Drop Site @DropSiteNews]

🥅 BREAKING | FIFA president Gianni Infantino and UEFA chief Aleksandr Ceferin have reportedly intervened to halt Israel’s planned demolition of a football pitch in the Aida refugee camp in the occupied West Bank, used weekly by around 250 children, according to NYT.

The pitch had been slated for destruction by the Israel’s military this week, which claimed it was “illegally constructed” near Israel’s “security fence” — known more commonly as Israel’s apartheid wall.

The report states that after weeks of international pressure and talks involving Swiss officials, the demolition has been suspended, though a final decision now rests with the Israeli government. Ceferin confirmed contacts with the Israeli football federation, saying UEFA hopes the pitch can continue serving children and youth.

[Caitlin Johnstone @caitoz]

Everyone hates Israel now, and what's funny is this wouldn't have happened if our society had been the tiniest bit normal about Gaza.

If everyone wasn't constantly being forcefully told they're not seeing what they're seeing, it wouldn't have become so personal for them.

If western governments had just said "this is bad" when news came out about Israel bombing a hospital instead of "THIS ISN'T WHAT IT LOOKS LIKE THERE'S A HAMAS BASE IN EVERY HEALTHCARE FACILITY YOU ARE BEING ANTISEMITIC".

If the news media had just said "this is bad" when Israel systematically exterminated journalists in Gaza instead of reporting "three killed in what IDF describes as strike on terrorist vehicle" over and over again.

If we'd just been allowed to say "this is bad" when we saw raw video footage showing children ripped apart by military explosives without getting fired and de-platformed and told we're evil Nazis who need our free speech rights taken away.

That's all it would've taken to keep Israel from being a front-and-center issue for so many people. There would still have been critics of the Gaza holocaust, of course, but opposing Israel wouldn't have become this massive mainstream cultural phenomenon if our own western leaders and institutions hadn't exposed themselves as lying, propagandizing, murderous sociopaths.

It's not hard to get westerners to ignore the victims of mass military violence, even when it's mass military violence their government is directly orchestrating. Westerners, by and large, are indoctrinated human livestock who think what they've been programmed to think by the imperial propaganda machine. What opened so many eyes to Israel's criminality wasn't the slaughter itself, it was our own government, media and social institutions trying to gaslight us about what we knew we were looking at.

It's one thing to see a cruel government doing bad things on the other side of the world. It's quite another to be shown in vivid detail that your own society is ruled by monsters, and that those monsters have a vested interest in deceiving you and controlling your words and your actions in order to advance the most depraved agendas you could possibly imagine.

That's what made this so personal for so many people. It's not that Israel exposed itself, it's that the whole of western civilization did.

[Alister Murrell @AlMurrell]

The only positive to this hate speech law BS that @AustralianLabor have rammed through parliament, is that as Zionists pressure Gov to proscribe anti-genocide speech as hate groups and people are arrested, the majority of young will remember & demolish major parties next election

[Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt @FranceskAlbs]

Empire never stops at one place.
Gaza was the test.
Greenland, Venezuela, Iran now loom as the victory's bounty.
[Is this the beginning - of a new world (dis)order?]

What goes around comes around, and fools are those who didn’t see it coming.

[Assal Rad @AssalRad]

This is still happening by the way, the media just refuses to cover it.

[Alister Murrell @AlMurrell]

How long until an Aus government is forced to float the idea of conscription to fuel the personal numbers demanded to follow the USA into multiple fronts of invasion….. AGAIN!

[Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt @FranceskAlbs]

Governments caving to pro-genocide lobbies do nothing to protect Jewish people and risk deepening social division and polarisation.
A return to international legality is the only credible path to protecting all peoples without discrimination.

[Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt @FranceskAlbs]

Thank you Secretary General.

We also need to end the pretense that the Gaza Inferno is 'just' a humanitarian crisis, the result of a natural catastrophe.

Without facing the institutionalised violence and impunity, in Israel and beyond, nothing will stay as is.
Not even the UN.

[Caitlin Johnstone @caitoz]

Australians everywhere should be made acutely aware that the Australian Israel lobby is now explicitly advocating a ban on criticism of the state of Israel.

Not just hate speech against Jews. Criticism of a foreign state. They’re coming right out and saying it.

During a recent public video conference with the American Jewish Committee on the topic of the Bondi Beach shooting, the Executive Manager of the Australia/Israel & Jewish Affairs Council (AIJAC) explicitly says he wants pro-Palestine protests to be banned by the Australian government, and that addressing the problem of antisemitic hate speech in Australia necessarily means stopping opposition to Israel’s actions.

About 40 minutes into the American Jewish Committee’s YouTube video of the conference, AIJAC Executive Manager Joel Burnie demands that the Australian government take much stronger action to regulate freedom of expression regarding Israel and Zionism in Australia, saying the following:

“They need to act swiftly. They need to go to their own arms and their own institutions: no longer can you refuse service to a Zionist. We are going to prosecute people that spew hate speech against your people, and we’re not going to tip toe around the fact that the central problem here is Israel. I for one as Jewish leader will no long talk about antisemitism in isolation from Israel, because it’s the rhetoric and language on Israel that motivates the people to come and kill us. Those two terrorists were motivated by what was going on in Israel, and that’s what motivated them to come and kill us. So if they had Israel on their minds why are we acting as though it has nothing to do with the vitriolic binary nature of the pro-Palestinian advocacy movement?”

Burnie goes on to say that he wants a complete government ban on protests against Israel’s abuses throughout the nation:

“So overnight what we want immediately if you ask any Jew, what do you want, what do you want? No more protests! No more protests! No more no-go zones for Jews. I can’t, for two years, cannot take my kids to downtown Melbourne for two years on a Sunday, because of the pro-Palestinian marches, because of the violent nature of them. No more! Because that is an acceptance of the connection between the two. And until the prime minister is willing to do that, this is gonna happen again.”

Burnie is lying here, for the record. Anyone who has gone to the pro-Palestine demonstrations in Melbourne as I have will tell you that the protests are not even slightly violent in nature, and that there are Jews among the demonstrators who actively make their presence known. Those demonstrations have never been “no-go zones for Jews”; Joel Burnie doesn’t want to take his kids to downtown Melbourne on a Sunday because he doesn’t want to expose them to ideas and information which reveal the depravity of his Israel-supporting worldview.

Australians would probably benefit from watching the entire hour-long video of the conference (link below), whose contents I first saw spotlighted on Twitter by Information Liberation’s Chris Menahan.

Some other highlights:

At 4:20 Burnie says that part of his role at AIJAC is “to take non-Jewish politicians and journalists and diplomats and other Australian officials to Israel.”

At 14:00 Nick Aronson, who is Chief of Staff to Australia’s so-called “antisemitism envoy” Jillian Segal, regurgitates the bogus propaganda line we’ve been hearing nonstop from Israel apologists throughout the western political/media class, “the words globalise the intifada actually mean globalise the intifada; it means kill Jews wherever they are”. Pro-Israel spinmeisters have been spouting this line with creepy uniformity ever since the Bondi shooting in order to justify government crackdowns on freedom of speech and assembly to protect Israeli information interests.

At 15:00 Burnie says “the gloves are off now” with regard to stomping out free speech in Australia, saying Jews need stop saying “not all pro-Palestinian supporters are antisemitic”, saying “The pro-Palestinian movement, or the things within the pro-Palestinian movement that we all are exposed to in the public, is too binary: you’re pro-Palestinian so you need to be viciously anti-Israel.”

At 16:20 Burnie claims the Bondi shooting “happened because of the protest movements on the streets”, citing no evidence.

At 17:30 Burnie again makes his “no more protests” demand, saying “If I could ask for one thing of the government today: no more protests. If they cannot utilise language that is not inciting violence, that does not marginalise and dehumanise Jews, they have no right to be on the streets.”

At 21:10 Burnie complains that there haven’t been any prosecutions and arrests for antisemitic speech.

At 33:30 Burnie singles out Australian Muslims, saying “there needs to be more monitoring and surveillance of Islamic hate preachers” and an auditing of their education syllabus because of an “antisemitism problem amongst the Australian Muslim community.”

At 36:25 Burnie says Jillian Segal’s notorious speech-suppressing plan for fighting antisemitism in Australia “wasn’t about quashing debate on Israel, it just happens to be that language on Israel invading all of our social spaces in Australia have made this country a very unsafe space and place for Jews.”

At 46:00 Aronson says “there’s absolutely no doubt that people need to go to jail” for antisemitic hate speech in Australia, but says that won’t be enough to fix the problem because “we can always arrest more people, make no mistake, but you can never arrest enough, to be honest.”

At 54:00 Aronson speaks of the need for regulating online speech, complaining that “a number of the online platforms pride themselves on what they call free speech — obviously we would disagree; we would call it hate speech.” At 56:00 he says “we need to continue to put pressure on these platforms to understand the role they have to play in social cohesion, and how far short they are falling of community standards.”

This comes as the Australian government announces plans to ramp up its war on free speech in the wake of the Bondi Beach attack. We can be sure to see more authoritarian measures rolled out in the weeks to come as Israel’s supporters seize on this opportunity to advance the information interests of a genocidal apartheid state.

[KNEECAP @KNEECAPCEOL]

Today Israel bombed a school turned shelter in Gaza as a wedding was being held.

An IOF tank fired on the building with 6 people murdered and dozens injured.

Israeli forces then prevented ambulance and civil defence crews from reaching the injured, children amongst them.

There is no ceasefire.

There is no peace.

Just brutal colonial oppression.

FREE PALESTINE
TAKE ACTION

[Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt @FranceskAlbs]

The genocide is still ongoing. I could have never imagined writing hundreds of pages and giving hundreds of interviews on such a crime and still seeing it ravaging over two years on.

[💧Mary Kostakidis @MaryKostakidis]

@PhillipCoorey ‘Just like that’ ???
Goodness Phillip, where have you been? Many of us have been warning about a rise in very real antisemitism because of a genocide being conducted by a country insisting it represents all Jews and therefore placing Jewish people around the world at risk.

[Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt @FranceskAlbs]

Good for them these two get along.
They will keep each other company when time comes and we will see them in the Hague.
Because justice will knock at their door, and it will be a day of peace.

[Amy Remeikis @AmyRemeikis]

Sound familiar?

[David Shoebridge @DavidShoebridge]

Kath and Jenny lost their sons following illegal robodebts, the ongoing secrecy of the NACC is compounding their trauma. They deserve answers and accountability.

[Alister Murrell @AlMurrell]

These two trouble makers after my heart

[💧Mary Kostakidis @MaryKostakidis]

Speechless after listening to this interview by David Marr of ⁦@ChrisLynnHedges⁩
Embarrassing. Marr clearly out of his depth.
Journalist Chris Hedges on being cancelled by the National Press Club - ABC listen https://t.co/OmVBd3VuUZ