Per Lillie

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[Jvnior @Jvnior]

She died buried under rubble, terrified.

Don’t let israel murder her in silence. Please.

[Dr Rhonda Garad Difficult by Design @RhondaGarad]

An incredible speech. We live in a time when speaking the truth has become a radical act. He knows this may well be career-ending, yet he said it anyway. Respect.

[Wendy Collins 🕯 Free Palestine 🇵🇸🍉 @wendycollins62]

502 Australians serving in the IDF and the authorities are running cover 🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬

[Peter Cronau @PeterCronau]

Ed Husic has “had enough” of Israel:

▪️“Defence cooperation we do with Israel should end”

▪️”We should just say we are not going to supply those F-35 parts”

▪️’AFP to track dual nationals, returning from Israel’

▪️“It is time to establish a red line” https://t.co/oLmitKHqWS

[Peter Murphy @PeterWMurphy1]

Dear PM @AlboMP,
Silence is complicity.
Murder of children.
Murder of civilian men & women
Murder of doctors, nurses, medics
Murder of lecturers & teachers
Murder of journalists
Rape of prisoners
And your Govt refuses to sanction the rogue terrorist state of Israel. 😢 #auspol

[Eddy Jokovich @EddyJokovich]

It’s taken her this long to realise Ben-Gvir is sub-human? He’s been doing this for years. Time to expel the Israel ambassador, it’s long overdue.

[Andrew Wilkie MP @WilkieMP]

I stand in solidarity with Palestinians who are commemorating the Nakba today. The Israeli Government’s continuing genocide in Gaza is an extension of the Nakba, despite Palestinians having every right to self-determination and to live in peace. #auspol #politas

[🌱 Diana Difficult Ryall AM 🌏🌈🇳🇿🇷🇼💧 @DianaRyall]

What is @Tony_Burke doing about arrivals who have served in the IDF? #auspol

[🌱 Diana Difficult Ryall AM 🌏🌈🇳🇿🇷🇼💧 @DianaRyall]

Those who served in the IDF should be arrested on arrival! .#auspol

[David Huett 🇦🇺 🇵🇸🇺🇦 @aussievoice.bsky.social @DavidHuett]

So much anger around these returning IS brides.
WHY is there NOT the same level of anger and government treatment around Australian Jews who have traveled to Israel to partake in the murder of Thousands of Palestinians when THEY return?😡

[Levant News @LevantWire]

Retweet if you believe Netanyahu is a war criminal.

[Prof Ben Saul - UN SR Human Rights & Counterterror @profbensaul]

My opinion piece in today's Sydney Morning Herald: "Islamic State wives’ return is no threat, but our cruelty to their kids is shameful"
https://t.co/wIkPzlWkMH

[Dr. Yousef 🇵🇸 @yousef_ki1]

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[MFWitches @MFWitches]

How in the goddamned fruitcake do we live in a place where Australian women and kids associated with ISIS fighters will be questioned and possibly arrested on arrival home but multiple IDF fighters come back here regularly and are never questioned or bothered in any way?

#NewsCorpse

[Yanis Varoufakis @yanisvaroufakis]

IN PRAISE OF FRANCESCA ALBANESE

There is a question that visits me in the small hours, when sleep will not come and the mind turns over old stones. The question is this: “What would I have done in the 1930s, on the morning after Kristallnacht?"

Not what I say I would have done. Not what I hope I would have done. But what would I actually have done—when the trains began to run, when the neighbours grew quiet, when the cost of decency became the loss of everything?

Most of us, I think, would have done little. Not from malice. From fear. From the soft, creeping conviction that someone else will speak, that the situation is complex, that we must be 'reasonable'. Lest we forget, the ordinary is the extraordinary's alibi. And how we have clung to that alibi! How we still cling to it!

And then, every once in a terrible while, someone appears who does not cling. Someone who steps forward when others step back. Someone who speaks the name of the thing when everyone else is busy naming something else.

Francesca Albanese is that someone.

She stands before the world—alone, unarmed, armed only with law and language and a rare courage—and she says what the centrists will not say, what the foreign ministries will not say, what the editorial boards will not say. She says: "This is a genocide. And we are watching it happen."

Do not tell me that is hyperbole. Do not tell me the term is contested. She has not used it lightly. She has used it as a physician arrives scientifically at a diagnosis—not to wound, but to warn. Not to inflame, but to name.

And for that, they have come for her. Oh, how they have come for her. Smears. Investigations. Vicious editorials. Frozen bank accounts. Dispossession of the only apartment she had ever owned. The machinery of the respectable turned to crush her. Because the respectable cannot abide what she represents: a mirror held up to their complicity.

Let us, once again, travel back to the 1930s. Back to the few who stood up when the trains began to run laden with Jewish people.

There was Aristides de Sousa Mendes, a Portuguese consul in Bordeaux. He defied his own government. He signed thousands of visas, by hand, for hours, until his fingers bled. He saved more lives than Schindler. And he died penniless, disgraced, erased.

There was a German officer in Warsaw named Wilm Hosenfeld. He hid a Jewish pianist in the rubble. He did not save thousands. He saved one. But that one—Władysław Szpilman—carried the memory. And memory is "the only haven from which we cannot be expelled."

There was Raoul Wallenberg. There were the villagers of Le Chambon. There were the anonymous, the quiet, the furious few who said: “Not on my watch.”

Francesca Albanese is their heir. Not because she carries a gun. Not because she hides refugees in her basement. But because she does something equally dangerous in a world that has perfected the art of not seeing. She sees. And she speaks.

She does not speak as a diplomat. Thank Goodness she doesn't! Diplomats have given us the language of "there are arguments on both sides" and "restraint" and "proportionality." Diplomatic language is the perfumed grave of moral clarity. No, she speaks as a jurist. As a human being. As a woman who has looked into the abyss and refused to call it a "complex geopolitical landscape".

Edna O'Brien once described a character who "had the recklessness of those who have already lost everything worth losing." Francesca Albanese has not lost everything. She has her dignity, her office, her voice, her family. But she has calculated the cost of speaking truth to power. And she has decided that that cost is infinitely less than the cost of silence.

What is that cost? Let us name it. She has been called antisemitic—she, who stands on the ground of international law forged in the ashes of Auschwitz and the fires of Nuremberg. She has been called a conspiracy theorist—she, who cites every source, every footnote, every UN resolution. She has been called naive—she, who understands better than most the machinery of realpolitik.

These accusations are not arguments. They are the spittle of the threatened. Because Francesca Albanese threatens something very precious to the powerful: the right to commit atrocity without being named.

Friends, the 1930s did not arrive with jackboots and pogroms on day one. They arrived in small increments. With "reasonable" restrictions. With "proportional" measures. With the silence of the respectable.

We tell ourselves that we would have been different. That we would have been Sousa Mendes. That we would have been Wallenberg. But most of us, I fear, would have been the neighbours who later said, "I didn't know."

Francesca Albanese knows. And she refuses to pretend otherwise.

So let us praise her. Not with statues or awards she does not seek. But with something harder: with our own refusal to look away. With our own voices, raised in places that are safe for us but dangerous for her. With our own bodies, if it comes to that.

A brave woman, who was injured while demonstrating outside a US nuclear military base in 1982, the infamous Greenham Common, had told me that "the heart is a hunter for what it cannot have." But I say the heart is a hunter for what it will not lose. And what we will not lose is the memory of those who stood up when standing up cost everything.

Francesca Albanese is standing up now. In our time. In our name. Under our indifferent sky.

Let us stand with her.

Not tomorrow. Not when it is safe. Now.

[Extract from a speech in Athens on Sunday 3rd May 2026]

[🌱 Diana Difficult Ryall AM 🌏🌈🇳🇿🇷🇼💧 @DianaRyall]

Well @Tony_Burke ?

[mariewalsh18. @mariewalsh18]

@AlboMP
@ChrisMinnsMP
@DavidCrisafulli
@Greens @AustralianLabor

[🌱 Diana Difficult Ryall AM 🌏🌈🇳🇿🇷🇼💧 @DianaRyall]

Why aren’t returning Australians who have served in the IDF investigated for crimes #auspol

[Kate Emerson 🇵🇸 🔻🍉 @KateEmersonBri]

Watching this Royal Commission into Antisemitism is at once making my blood boil and also depressing me. Mostly the former.
We have all watched the Israeli genocide of Palestine for over 2 1/2 years. Seen the murdered babies, their bodies shredded. Heard the phone call that Hind made, a tiny girl in a car full of dead relatives, desperate for help and a Palestinian ambulance rushing towards her, and those people too would be murdered.
We've seen the t-shirts sold by Zionist orgs with a photo of a pregnant Muslim woman on one side and a gun on the other and the words TwoForOne on it.
We've seen old people who survived the Nakba of 1948 driven crying from their homes - again.
We've seen the young man with Down syndrome patting the dog that killed him and calling it Habibi.
All of this and so, so much more.
Now we have to listen to a pack of entitled people, mostly Jews and mostly Zionists, crying over someone shouting at them for wearing a kippah or a Star of David. Desolate because they passed a shop window with the words Stop The Genocide on it.
Bleating about Jews in this country requiring, nay, demanding more money to be spent on THEIR security.
These are NOT my people. They are not God's Chosen People. These are Zionists. These people are the faces of Zionism and we must all stand against this.
The Jewish Zionist lobbies may own the government, the opposition, and the MSM, but they DO NOT own us.
Call your elected representatives and tell them: there are First Nations and Muslims and homeless people and people who can't afford to get their teeth fixed, and when will they get their Royal Commission, eh?
DO NOT put up with this. And #FREEPALESTİNE