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Easily over 15k people in Melbourne and much more strollin on in who are supporting an end to the genocide.
You might be sick of the protests, but we're sick of children being starved to death.
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I wrote this letter to @MarkDreyfusKCMP, my MP here in Australia:
Dear Mr Dreyfus,
Today I saw the skeleton of a young man in Gaza picked clean by dogs, his arms and head intact but the rest of his body was bone and gristle. The colour of the bones was still a bright fresh red. He had been shot only days ago but the cats and dogs had got to him already and gnawed his bones clean. I have never seen anything like it.
Every single day brings fresh horrors to my screen. Each time I think I can no longer be shocked, I am proven wrong. The image of that man made me gasp. It literally took my breath away. I then had to sit with my hands over my eyes while I waited for my heart and breath to come back to normal.
When I close my eyes at night, all I can see is skeletal babies, their little mouths gaping open like baby birds waiting for a worm. I have started to dream about it. Each night I carry a child, a new child, a different baby, trying to find food for them. I wake up with a shadow of an ache in my arms because in my dreams their bones are as brittle as egg shells and I have to be so tender and careful.
This. Must. Stop. All the waffle of who-did-what-and-when burns to dust when babies are starving. No amount of words can make that right. No amount of words can extinguish the images from my eyes, the ache in my heart, and the alarm going off in my head for those babies.
Please do what you can! I beg of you. Please make it stop. Itโs all I can think about and I am not alone. Every day the numbers of people like me are growing. Every day more eyes snap awake.
I have just posted this update on the Zionist legal action against me in the Federal Court, to supporters, via my Chuffed page: ๐งต
On Tuesday 29 July our Strikeout application will be heard by Justice Stephen McDonald in the Federal Court in Adelaide. The hearing is expected to be live-streamed.
Since my last update there have been numerous developments. Justice Darryl Ranghia found Antoinette Lattouf was removed from her on air role because the ABC panicked due to a campaign of complaints โby the Israel Lobbyโ (one of the things I am accused of is being a โconspiracy theoristโ because I believe there is such a thing as the โIsrael Lobbyโ, and that it has influence).
Secondly, Justice Angus Stewart stated in his judgement (para107) in the matter of Wertheim V Haddad, that Zionism is an ideology or philosophy, and that criticism of Israel and Zionism, no matter how inflammatory or adversarial, is not antisemitic.
And in an encouraging sign for the Arts, Khaled Sabsabi was reinstated as Australiaโs representative at the Venice Biennale - for next year.
Meanwhile, Israel continues its campaign of genocide and ethnic cleansing of Palestinians it is starving, and proposes to herd them into a concentration camp until they โleave voluntarilyโ. U.N. Rapporteur Francesca Albanese has been sanctioned by Israelโs biggest supporter, the US, following her latest report setting out the economic sanctions that must be applied to Israel, warning of consequences for corporations and individuals who contribute to the genocide and ethnic cleansing in any way.
The Antisemitism Envoy Gillian Segal has presented the government with a shopping list of repressive measures ostensibly to contain growing antisemitism but for many critics including Louise Adler and Prof Ben Saul, aimed at suppressing speech and controlling the narrative, and fail to address the actual cause of any rise in antisemitism - the genocide and the failure of Zionist leaders to condemn it. It is extraordinary that we now have an antisemitism envoy with a voice to not only parliament, but any and every institution, yet an Indigenous voice to parliament had to be the subject of a failed referendum, despite continued shameful deaths in custody and high levels of incarceration of children.
Meanwhile the only person injured as a result of the Israel Palestine conflict here has been lawyer Hannah Thomas who was an observer at a peaceful rally. She may lose her site in one eye, apparently as a result of police brutality.
Very recently a new 18c case was filed against the University of Sydney and two academics there, John Keane, Professor of Politics, and Dr Nick Riemer, senior lecturer in the Dept of English. I expect the documents for that case to also become available on the Courtโs public interest portal. And pianist Jayson Gillhamโs case against the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra will be heard in early December.
So far, spooked by the Israel Lobby, both Federal and State parliaments have failed to protect our freedoms, and a great number of our institutions are falling over themselves to classify innocuous words and symbols as harmful, and thus oppress the Palestinian community, many of who have lost family under rubble, with growing resentment among Australian citizens more generally, on the receiving end of authoritarian measures. Cont
I have never felt so shaken.
Children are dying of hunger. Falling one after another, like petals of a dying flower. Under our watch.
How do you sleep, Presidents, Foreign Ministers, political leaders, diplomats, civil servants - doing nothing to stop Israelโs starvation campaign?
PS: Talking politics while dodging genocide perfectly meets the definition of doing nothing.