Heidi Mehl

[Assal Rad @AssalRad]

Now this is how you do a front page story.

[💧Michael West @MichaelWestBiz]

Bravo Australian chess champion Heather Richards

[Caitlin Johnstone @caitoz]

I strongly disagree that it's unhelpful to bully celebrities about their position on Palestine. On the contrary, I think we should bully them more.

We tend to underestimate the consequences of the fact that all the most amplified voices in our society are millionaires. Under capitalism the people with the largest platforms and the biggest audiences are all wealthy enough to have a vested interest in preserving the status quo, so they're reluctant to rock the boat politically in any major way.

When all the most influential voices in our society are creating the illusion that the system is more or less fine the way it is by what they say and what they don't say, it cannot help but significantly influence public political opinion. In this way celebrities function as a kind of goalkeeper preventing dissident thought from reaching the minds of the masses.

When you see Ed Sheeran bawling his eyes out onstage and playing victim because people are criticizing his muteness on the moral issue of our time, he genuinely does feel as though something is being taken away from him. He was enjoying being able to relax in the lap of luxury without having to go against the grain of establishment power in any way, never saying anything which upsets the Zionist billionaires or the media-owning class whose infrastructure he built his lucrative career on. Now that comfortable setup has been taken away from him a bit, and he feels victimized by the inconvenience this has caused him.

This dynamic is what holds the entire construct of celebrity in place in our society. If you make the billionaires happy you get to be a millionaire, and if you make the billionaires unhappy you get discomfort and loss. If you please the plutocrats you get the carrot, and if you displease them you get the stick. This is true whether you're talking about pundits, news anchors, musicians or movie stars.

This system of carrots and sticks is the main adhesive holding the propaganda apparatus of the western empire together. As westerners we are taught that we live in a free society which is far superior to the "tyrannical regimes" of the global south, because under the tyrannical regimes the news is state propaganda and the entertainment is heavily censored. In reality westerners are consuming tightly controlled propaganda every day of their lives, because all their most influential voices are being aggressively regulated by the carrots and sticks of wealthy capitalists.

The only weakness in this system, apparently, is that it only works if the public plays along with it. If enough people decide to denounce and defund the empire's celebrity goalkeepers for their complicity in imperial abuses, it turns out that we've got a stick of our own. Make it too uncomfortable to toe the imperial line and you'll start seeing celebrities reluctantly follow the moral leadership of the public, thereby further weakening the vice-like grip of the imperial narrative control apparatus on our collective consciousness.

So we should do so happily and without hesitation. It is perfectly moral to ruin a millionaire's day for both-sidesing a genocide. It is perfectly ethical to bully people with large platforms until they take a public stand against the abuses of the empire which has made them obscenely wealthy. It won't solve all our problems, but it will weaken the power of the mass-brainwashing machine of the capitalist empire which has been manipulating the public into believing we don't urgently need revolutionary change.

[Peter Cronau @PeterCronau]

Israel has broken Australia — caused us to break from the near global consensus to sanction ‘illegal’ Israel.

We must find out how this was done, who, how and why. And we must expose the dark truth to the light.

“European diplomats say they were surprised and disappointed that Australia baulked at joining a UK-led move to impose trade sanctions on West Bank Israeli businesses… declaring ethnic cleansing was taking place in the West Bank and declaring Israel's occupation of the territory unlawful.”

https://t.co/LEjcc4XXf5

[Peter Cronau @PeterCronau]

The genocidists don’t realise what they have unleashed.

[Macklemore @macklemore]

HIND’S HALL 2 VIDEO… All Proceeds from the song are going to @unrwausa
Video edited by Omar Alali

[OrangeMaxxing FreddyG @OrangeFreddyG]

Ed Sheeran is getting cooked by literally everyone

[Tiberius @tiberiusfiles]

When you listen to the speech that caused all of this, you see just how pathetic Ed Sheeran is in accepting this as offensive

[Ana Escobar @AnaEscobarShow]

Is there a mother on earth who is not radicalized by this?
I’m American. I am not Palestinian. These are not my children. But these are my children.

[Tiberius @tiberiusfiles]

Macklemore is setting the bar for celebrity standards. Consistently on point, centring actual victims, framing his sacrifices with humility, and never backing down no matter what it costs. A role model for the ages.

[sarah @sahouraxo]

BREAKING: Israel is wiping entire villages off the map in South Lebanon in broad daylight — then broadcasting their war crimes for the world to see.

Not a peep from the “international community.”

Not a word from the International Criminal Court.

[Hasan alrabay @HasanEssam29636]

One of the most heinous crimes in human history: Israel bombed a bus carrying kindergarten children this morning, killing everyone inside. This defies human comprehension.

[Shaun King @shaunking]

Do you understand who and what we are dealing with here?

Matt is an esteemed reporter for NBC. I have respected him for years.

His team was all badly beaten by Jewish supremacists - and they beat their Palestinian guide, a 51 year old woman, UNTIL SHE WAS UNCONSCIOUS.

[Joel Jenkins @boganintel]

How many Lebanese-Australians with displaced and terrified family that have suffered at the hands of the IDF?

How many Palestinian-Australians whose family are dead and dying in Gaza?

How many Australians, the majority of whom abhor Israel and its terrorist army, the IDF?

Minns is kicking all of us in the guts for his Zionist mates and his Zionist career after politics.

[𝙎👼🏻 @SZade15]

Still can’t believe people lost their minds over the “40 beheaded babies” and “babies in the ovens” fake stories, then went silent while Palestinian and Lebanese children were being blown apart in real time.

[Peter Wicks @madwixxy]

An award winning Australian/Palestinian author speaking sees a writers festival shut down.
But 40 israeli genocidal war criminals are ok for the @sydmarathon?
Boycott it.
We don’t run with ambo killers.
#auspol

[Sarah Joseph @profsarahj]

It is pure trolling to bring 40 IDF members to Australia for the Sydney marathon under a banner of “peace”. Does anyone worry about the psychosocial impact on Palestinians?

The inviters know the reaction will be outrage from many and will then label it “anti-Semitic”

[Jennifer Gai Lambie @JenLambie @JenGLambie]

You little beauty.... 👏👏👏 ✨️ @NickMcKim

[Solo Monk @JJKALE2]

"Grass roots" was her final SMH cartoon.

It depicted the gutless media & political figures marching to a drum beaten by Netanyahu regarding calls for a Royal Commission into antisemitism.

This was the truth they couldn't handle. We should make this Aust's best all time cartoon