An inquiry established to reduce antisemitism and strengthen social cohesion is threatening free speech, public broadcasting and legitimate criticism of Israel. How did we get here?
@MikeCarlton01@JaneCaro By propagating serious inaccuracies, and some outright untruths, in her sworn testimony to a Royal Commission, Jillian Segal has reinforced the false narratives that have fostered antisemitism in Australia.
The sooner Segal is removed from her position the better.
Jillian Segal has lied to the RC into antisemitism @AlboMP & been corrected by the UN.
This is so utterly shameful.
If anyone else lied to a RC there would be serious consequences.
We’re waiting…
Pyne concedes AUKUS will not be delivered on time or in budget! Claims that is not the most important issue.
Obviously public money is no object when your company is making a handsome profit from AUKUS.
Christopher Pyne’s evidence to the #AUKUS Public Inquiry was different to mine.
* He was a politician; I was a submariner.
* He ran the House of Reps; I ran submarine industry projects.
* He’s profiting from AUKUS; I’m paying for AUKUS.
#auspol https://t.co/yjVSJTOrhX
Greens Senator David Shoebridge has demanded Jillian Segal "correct the record" regarding her claim at the Royal Commission last week that the Gaza death toll was "grossly inflated".
https://t.co/K7Hu0fz4DV
This tweet is breathtaking in its weasel-wording, disingenuous bullshit @JasonClareMP
You belong to a government that's hunted and haunted your fellow Australians speaking out against Israel, censoring any and all ideological speech and smearing thousands of good people with your false 'antisemitism' labels.
Your government is responsible for the greatest witch-hunt upon the Australian people in living memory, allowing your own taxpayer funded envoy, Jillian Segal and her cohort of paranoid, mendacious Israel lobbyists, to eradicate free speech, and have artists, academics, journalists, and ordinary Australian people living in fear for their jobs and their physical safety.
Your government’s single-minded zeal to elevate the interests of the Israel lobby above any other Australian’s rights has ironically emboldened racism, created greater resentment against Jewish people and destroyed social cohesion. Yet instead of using the words your government has bludgeoned us with for 3 years now - Israel and antisemitism - now you're suddenly shrinking from the very the words you’ve been holding above Australian’s heads for so long by replacing them with the word ‘racism’ - and you think nobody will notice?
It's too late to change the words now. It's too late to try to slither into an entirely different agenda now and pretend nobody will see it.
You’ve supported a coordinated campaign of fear and censorship against your own people and yet here you are, twisting yourself into knots by pretending that somehow - all of this - all of these millions of dollars and resources and lives that have been spent hunting Australians on behalf of the Israeli government - somehow my fellow Australians, somehow this year’s long witch-hunt is now just about 'racism'.
If it was all about racism, where is our Anti-Racism Envoy? Where is our Royal Commission Into Racism? Where are our anti-racism laws? Where are the anti-racism check cards against the universities and the arts and everything else? "Yes, despite us incessantly and obviously elevating the Israel lobby above any other Australian, it’s really just been about ‘racism’ all along."
It’s not. None of it is. It’s about protecting the interests of a foreign nation, Israel, while you bow to the USA’s demands. You know it. The Australian people know it. At least have the decency to own up to that.
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Defence has bungled its disastrous $1.9B munitions contract with Thales. If it struggles to effectively execute a program to build bullets, what hope does it have executing a program to build bespoke nuclear powered submarines? #AUKUS#HardTruths#auspol https://t.co/0e0dqKZLCr
JUST IN: 🇧🇷🇺🇸 Brazil President Lula:
“The US lied about Iran's nuclear weapons just like it lied about Iraq. It provoked this war. Now Trump says oil owners must pay him 20% for each ship he claims to unblock.
That used to be called piracy."
🇫🇷 Macron’s France is dumping Trump without the noise 🔥
Macron has declared that 🇫🇷 France won’t rely on Trump or Xi Jinping for its future. France is going homegrown 🔥
Gotta respect the guts. 👏👌
Great piece. An entire society wiped out in Gaza but apparently we're supposed to see people like 'Liat', who reports they were 'shaking with fear' over a Zoom meeting of students pushing the ANU to divest from weapons companies, as the real victims. https://t.co/wBHyVrsDok
@YaThinkN We are also sickened by your failure to properly fund state schools while disproportionately shovelling our taxpayer funds to private schools. You’ve done nothing to reverse Morrison’s ideological attack on arts and humanities degrees.
As far as I can tell, people appearing at the RC claiming they’re victims of antisemitism can make any claims they want to make without substantiating any of them.
Imagine a victim appearing at a RC into violence against women - you’d have to produce police reports, medical evidence, photographs, x-rays & your feelings about the whole thing would be tacked on at the end if there’s time.
I wonder when Jewish people in Australia will start to realise that Jillian Segal in the past few years has, arguably, done more harm to their standing in the community than at any other time since Jewish people first came to live in Australia.
So is the case for antisemitism going to consist entirely of lived experience claims, or are we actually going to hear some evidence that can be tested?
Remember when Albanese said “We want to see the Strait of Hormuz opened and we want to see no privatisation and no tolls."
I wonder if he meant just no Iranian tolls but he’s super OK with Trump tolls?
Let’s wait and see.
BREAKING: 🇺🇸🇮🇱 Trump administration has launched effort to ‘dismantle’ the International Criminal Court to protect Netanyahu and other wanted war criminals from Israel wanted from the court, per WSJ