A mentally disabled Australian woman is being prosecuted for antisemitic hate crimes after accidentally pocket-dialing a Jewish nutritionist, resulting in a blank voicemail the nutritionist found frightening. We're being told we need MORE of this. There's "hate speech" legislation presently in the works to make this WORSE.
This is how overextended Australia's freakout over "antisemitism" already is. You can literally just be sitting there not saying or doing anything and still find yourself getting arrested and prosecuted for an antisemitic hate crime. They have the authority to do this *presently*, under the laws that already exist. The argument for the so-called Combatting Antisemitism, Hate and Extremism Bill is that our present horrifyingly tyrannical and abusive system is *insufficiently* authoritarian and tyrannical, and that prosecutors need MORE power to police speech far MORE forcefully.
Australians are being asked to trust a system that would take a woman with an intellectual disability to prosecution in a court of law over an accidental butt dial to a person of Jewish faith with the authority to send people to prison for years over their political speech. And this is happening *after* we just spent years watching Australian authorities roll out authoritarian measures to stomp out criticism of Israel and quash protests against an active genocide.
This is madness, and it needs to be brought to a screeching halt. Immediately. This entire country has lost its fucking mind.
American surgeon Mark Perlmutter exposes the horror: Israeli snipers deliberately targeting Palestinian children - "no toddler is shot twice by accident"
This is what happens when a state is protected from consequences: the violence escalates, the victims get younger, and the lies get louder
The IHRA definition of 'antisemitism' being forced onto us by Jillian Segal, has little to do with protecting Jews from antisemitism & everything to do with silencing legitimate criticisms about her beloved terrorist state of israel. WATCH HERE 👇 https://t.co/VmyW0VEgPk #IsraelIsATerroristState #auspol #FreePalestine
Former PM Paul Keating launches a scathing & justifiable attack on Defence Minister Richard Marles.
Marles' reckless comments about China undermines Australia's national security. He is a fool. #auspol
Larissa Waters has called out the hypocrisy of Woodside’s “very well paid, wealthy fossil fuel Executive” Meg O'Neill for being the “head of a massive, dirty gas company” & having the nerve to accuse young ppl’s online purchases of causing the climate crisis🙄 #abc
This morning I noticed the interview Nasser Mashni gave to ABC yesterday was pulled from their website without explanation.
As the horror in Gaza escalates, it appears the ABC has chosen to supress a crucial Palestinian voice.
They should explain why.
https://t.co/I8pHQWwwjh
McBRIDE APPEALS REJECTED
After a less than one minute session, the three judges of the Supreme Court in Canberra announced that David McBride's appealS had been "dismissed." McBride appeared in the courtroom for the less than 60-second hearing to learn his fate: he is going right back to jail. McBride has nearly five more years in jail to serve for leaking documents to the media exposing Australian war crimes in Afghanistan. This means all of his appeals, including liberation from jail, a reduced sentence or community service were rejected out of hand. McBride waved to his lawyer Eddie Lloyd and just a few of his supporters who found out which courtroom it was in. Normally a huge board in the lobby of the courthouse posts the names and courtroom numbers on the docket that day. But McBride's name was nowhere to be found keeping supporters from entering the courtroom. The next step for McBride is to ask leave of the High Court, Australia's highest court, which could take many months for them to respond with no guarantee the High Court would take the case.
“This isn't about politics. This isn't about who you vote for. This isn't about what your religion is... It's about human beings. It's about children. Please don't forget that..Children are starving to d€ath.”
—Acclaimed Actor Mandy Patinkin with an emotional Message
Is this so @SBS ?!
What I don’t understand is Israeli spokespeople have been allowed space and time for decades to justify the occupation, but an artist’s mild symbolic call for the occupation to end is Verboten. How is this being impartial?
@nazeem_hussain
Jewish Council Advisory Member Louise Adler AM does not mince words about Israel’s crimes against Gazans—forced starvation among them.
Videography by Simon Aubor.
Seth Rogen: "As a Jewish person I was fed a huge amount of lies about Israel my entire life. They never tell you there were people there. They make it seem like it was just sitting there empty like oh the door's open! I would never live in Israel. It doesn't make any sense to me"