Just a lil idea, but next time one of our allies commits a livestreamed holocaust, instead of selling them weapons, hollowing out our universities, curtailing our rights to protest and having the cops beat up peaceful people, maybe we could try stop these crimes against humanity?
This is what happens when govts abandon their obligation to build a good society, capitulate to “the market” and ignore the principle of housing as a human right.
This is an easy fix. Legislate to outlaw developer apartheid against social tenants and build more public housing.
Apart from anything else, the @SMH publishing comments purported to be from someone inside an Israeli jail who has no contact with the world is stunningly, breathtakingly bad “journalism”
At worst, it’s a deliberate attempt to deceive the Australian public.
If you’re an Aussie journalist and you’re not standing with Mary Kostakidis, Antoinette Lattouf, Peter Lalor & Michael West as Zionists try to silence them, well, you’re not a journalist. You’re a shill. You’re greasing the path to fascism and you can absolutely go fuck yourself.
This is Ibrahim al-Shawish, a Palestinian teacher, before and after he was abducted by Israeli forces from Gaza.
For 45 days, he was blindfolded, shackled, and forced to kneel. In Naqab prison, they electrocuted him. Set dogs on him. Denied him food. He returned home unrecognisable, skeletal, traumatised, barely alive.
Yet no one talks about how Israel is treating Palestinian hostages.
Jacinta Price has had to repay expenses she improperly claimed from the taxpayer 13 TIMES!!! She's under investigation for a 14th breach! Dutton has appointed her in charge of reducing govt waste! The corrupt Coalition is just trolling Australian voters now. #auspol#AusVotes25
Israel is killing civilians in Gaza on purpose, and it’s not even debatable - @caitoz
‘Just so we’re all clear, it is a fully established fact that the IDF is directly, deliberately killing civilians in Gaza. There was a time in the early days of the genocide when this could be disputed, but that is no longer true. The facts are in and the case is closed. It’s happening. Israeli soldiers are telling the press that they’ve been knowingly killing civilians and then falsely categorising them as terrorists afterward. Countless doctors have testified to routinely encountering dead and wounded children who’ve been shot in the head by Israeli snipers. Israeli media reports have revealed that the IDF is intentionally targeting civilian infrastructure and using AI systems to specifically target suspected Hamas members when they are at home with their families instead of out on the battlefield.
The debate is over. The “human shields” argument has been completely, thoroughly debunked. If you still deny that this is happening, its because your worldview is so false that it requires you to deny facts and reality. We were fed lies about what happened on 7 October. We were fed lies about the Israeli abuses which led to 7 October. We’ve been fed lies about what’s been done for the last 15 months under the justification of 7 October. And yet Israel’s defenders still expect to be taken seriously when they babble about 7 October in response to criticisms of Israel’s actions’
https://t.co/sP2SkmDtkx
I wonder if the people making apologies for Leunig’s incest and sexual abuse (because he drew cute ducks!) are also okay with his wife bashing.
Would make a marvellous Leunig cartoon. Don’t you think?
Love you, Mary. And all the best for the New Year.