Jacqueline Nelson

Researcher. Interested in public policy, families, and anti-racism. Working at Anti-Slavery Australia, UTS.

[Randa Abdel-Fattah @RandaAFattah]

I'm an ARC Future Fellow in Sociology, multi-award winning author of 14 books, former lawyer, an Australian Muslim Palestinian Egyptian intimately connected with grassroots community- and yet in the past 7 months I have had a mere 1 invitation for an interview across all platforms of our national broadcaster. That was @abcnews in October 2023. Since then nothing.
ABC radio- zero invites
ABC Q&A- I have not been invited back onto the program since May 2021 and not for want of my name being pitched. There has only been 1 other Palestinian guest, @iamthenas, and he has only been invited once despite the fact Gaza has been a topic in multiple episodes.

This is deliberate, calculated censorship and erasure. There is no question about my qualifications to speak on what is happening, on my scholarly expertise and lived experience. I can run circles around the people on this episode of Insiders for example.
This is anti-Palestinian racism in its purest form. It is racial segregation by our national broadcaster which platforms Anglo guests to offer their ideologically loaded opinions whilst Palestinian experts are excluded and deliberately ignored.
That I am not surprised by the ABC's institutional racism (hello @antoinette_news ) is not the point of this tweet. My point is that we will keep on writing the record of the ABC's role as handmaiden to genocide. We will keep on recording this history of racial segregation and the names of the people who make the decisions and the bystanders who chose silence over principled journalism.
So ABC, are you brave enough to invite me?

[Nick Riemer @NickRiemer1]

My speech to today's big protest at the @Sydney_Uni Gaza camp. Against Zionists' individualised conception of safety as subjective feeling, we need to assert that real safety is about the actual conditions that let communities survive and prosper. Safety means opposing genocide.

[Antoinette Lattouf @antoinette_news]

BREAKING: Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has been referred to the International Criminal Court as an accessory to genocide in Gaza making him the 1st leader of a Western nation referred to the ICC under Article 15 of the Rome Statute.
100+ Australian lawyers back this move

[APAN @APAN4Palestine]

All eyes on Rafah.
All eyes on Palestine.

[Randa Abdel-Fattah @RandaAFattah]

The ICJ ruling will be delivered tonight, on Invasion Day in so-called Australia and I can't think of a more poetic reminder that the pursuit of justice is global and that our struggles are bound together.

[APAN @APAN4Palestine]

This morning we sent an open letter to every elected representative across the continent, urging them to set aside their party politics, embrace their humanity and publicly call for an immediate and permanent ceasefire in Gaza.

Read our letter here - https://t.co/bPWGEXxUXV

[APAN @APAN4Palestine]

APAN President @iamthenas has called on the international community to use the announcement of a four-day truce in Gaza as an opportunity to secure a permanent ceasefire, an end to Israel’s war crimes and its illegal siege on Gaza.

#FreePalestine #Gaza

[sara m. saleh | سارة صالح @SaraSalehTweets]

Outside of the Australian Parliament this morning.

[Steven Donziger @SDonziger]

A startling admission is buried in the @nytimes today: Israeli officials admit they are fine with "mass civilian casualties" in Gaza. The Israeli officials also cite the dropping of atomic bombs on Japan to justify the scale of expected civilian death in Gaza.

Unconscionable.⬇️

[• @Al__Quraan]

From Damascus to Beirut, Athens to Valencia, Geneva to Vienna, Jakarta to Rabat, Copenhagen to Berlin, Krakow to London, Melbourne to Sydney, Texas to NYC to LA, Toronto to Vancouver to Montreal, Sao Paolo to Islamabad, millions all around the world refuse to abandon Palestine 🇵🇸

[evelyn araluen @evelynaraluen]

If you witness Australian media outlets obfuscating, misrepresenting, denying, or even quibbling on the plainest realities: that Australia is providing weapons and consent for Israel’s genocide of Palestinians, document it. We need to record these evils.

https://t.co/aMWeLqpu8F

[CAIK @CaikUts]

This event takes up the question of both diverse communities and support for the Voice Referendum, as well as the longer-term efforts around treaty and reconciliation. @UTSFass @UTSEngage
Register here: https://t.co/PSaiSBMrSv

[Dallas Rogers @DallasRogers101]

@Sydney_Arch takes out two @pia_planning awards tonight

*Planning Research Award* goes to Understanding Urbanism awards @DrTooran @DrAdrienneKeane @J5_Nelson and all the authors

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How Many More? @4corners has established hundreds of cases of black women murdered, missing or killed in suspicious circumstances over just two decades https://t.co/2adylh4fAe

[Four Corners @4corners]

For the first time in #4Corners history, three First Nations women have come together to investigate a national crisis: Indigenous Affairs Editor @bridgeyb, a Dja Dja Wurrung and Yorta Yorta woman, producer @suzannedredge, a Wiradjuri woman, and Dharawal researcher @fryer_brooke.

[Jacqueline Nelson @J5_Nelson]

Excited that my copy of Family Events has arrived. Big congrats to @tefletcher1984 for pulling this together in tumultous COVID times!

[Dallas Rogers @DallasRogers101]

New work from @J5_Nelson just landed in our place. This one looks at the family as a site of racism and possibly anti-racism. From interracial marriage and those dreaded family gatherings to the problematic idea *family* itself, I enjoyed reading this one.

[Dallas Rogers @DallasRogers101]

What do you do for a 6th bday during covid? Hire a boat and take it into the wilderness

[Kat The Film Lady @katwatchesfilms]

Thanks to Djokovic, we now we know how quickly the courts can process people... when they want to.