🧵We welcome the news that Defence is reviewing all current arms export permits to Israel. This comes after we wrote the Defence Minister on behalf our clients @alhaq_org@AlMezanCenter + @pchrgaza in April. 1/3 https://t.co/JhYB7BFSN3
#Netanyahu said to #USCongress the war is a “clash between barbarism and civilisation”. He is absolutely right, it takes guts to self confess leading a barbaric racist country built on land theft, ethnic cleansing and war crimes. At least he is honest about it!
What have we, in Australia, learnt in the past few days? (And by learnt what I really mean is what have we not learnt despite over two decades of activists, scholars, lawyers and community writing and speaking about this?) A 🧵
Former Defence Chief Mark Binskin has been appointed by our government as a special adviser to engage with Israel over its investigation into the killings of Australian Zomi Frankcom.
@rawanarraf, Executive Director of @theACIJ joins us on the desk.
MEDIA RELEASE: @theacij & @pchrgaza have called for the cancellation of an Australian visa to visiting former Israeli Major General Doron Almog, accused of serious war crimes between 2001-03 in Gaza, & once an evader of justice from a UK arrest warrant. 1/ https://t.co/qSRZykCdcv
Unbelievable! 4 mths into genocide and so called progressives, lovers of the arts, theatre board members and philanthropists shamelessly conspire both privately and publicly to help Israel erase #Gaza from every programming possible. As we follow the story about @MalthouseMelb being the target of a campaign to cancel @clementinesford this story breaks. @MelbWritersFest is under fire for programming a panel that brings together Aboriginal and Palestinian writers who 'resist colonialism and speak out against atrocities.”Apparently, lsrael is not a settler colony and to prove it @theage referenced the ADL website, a right wing powerful Zionist lobby and one of the most discredited when it comes to intellectual academic honesty. Shame on the @theage for allowing itself to be used as an instrument of erasure and ethnic cleansing. #Ceasefire #Palestine #Gaza
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It’s the solidarity from health workers worldwide that always moves me. I cannot fathom how horrible you’d have to be to harass & target those in the profession trying to advocate for an end to the genocidal devastation of health care in Gaza. https://t.co/wxQnUlLFEa
Israel has killed over 11,500 Palestinian children in Gaza and the West Bank since October 7th, when 36 Israeli children were killed.
It’s impossible to imagine that number. This is what it looks like. A line 5km long.
(Location: Bournemouth Beach)
Dear @SenatorWong the ICJ, a Court Australia adheres & respects, ruled that South Africa's claim that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza is indeed plausible. Your govt needs to act to prevent genocide. Also this means you can't say "I don't accept premise" of application. 1/2
Firm words & stern finger pointing are not enough. The international community needs to attach consequences for settlers and Israeli authorities of continued illegal settlement activity. Visa bans and other measures.
Australia should also investigate if tax deductible vehicles can funnel money to support West Bank settler activity, and consider making it illegal for Australians to fund settlement activity. #auspol
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Thank you #SouthAfrica for acting to protect Palestinians against Israel's #genocide.This is how States should act to prevent & punish genocide. Australia should intervene & support the application & end any act that could make it complicit in Israel's crimes.@SenatorWong@AlboMP
It’s past time for a register of anti-Palestinian racism.
This is entirely unacceptable.
Australian Palestinian belong on this continent and have every right to have political agency.
We’re not going anywhere!
@AlboMP@auspoldaily#CeasefireForGazaNOW
We shouldn’t be intimidated calling for #CeasefireForNOW, application of international law, respect of HR & war crimes investigations. It is those complicit in condoning the crimes & defending them who should be scared, not those seeking an end to them. https://t.co/XsRHV7jsB0
This week, instead of focusing on the 10K Palestinians slaughtered in a genocide by the Israeli state and Aus complicity, reporter @paulsakkal posted a hit piece on @iamthenas. It comes as no surprise that he went on an Israel junket to occupied Palestine