Catherine Hartung

Senior Lecturer in Education. Researching children and young people's participation, citizenship, ‘diversity’, rights and wellbeing. Bluesky: catjhart

[Catherine Hartung @Catharty]

The book is finally out! Utilising Foucault and Butler to think otherwise about children and young people's participation (part of @YRCunimelb's Johanna Wyn and Helen Cahill's series for @SpringerNature). Hard and e-copies available here: https://t.co/iYNPkNIXkT

[PM of Palestine @PalestinePMO]

“Open the road.”

Palestinian children protest at barbed wire erected by Israeli settlers in occupied West Bank village of Um al-Khair—calling for their basic right to access their school, move freely, & live without occupation.

Imagine your child facing this on the way to class

[Abdulruhman Ismail @a_abdulruhman]

The boy who saw seventy bullets pierce through his family in Tammun said: "I asked the soldier, 'Do you love your father and mother?' He replied, 'Yes.' I said to him, 'Then why are you killing my father and mother?' So he slapped me across the face."
Noor Abu Salma

[Assal Rad @AssalRad]

The children were 5 and 7 years old. They shot them in their car.

I don’t know who still needs to hear this, but murdering families for sport is not normal.

[inqilāb @tastefullysaucy]

In Israel, driving over a five-year-old Palestinian girl with the goal to kill her is not a crime. Reporting it to the authorities is.

[Niz @NizMhani]

Lets be clear....

If a primary school in Tel Aviv was bombed and 160 little girls were killed, the BBC, CNN and all other news broadcasters would be covering it wall to wall, 24/7 and we would know every one of their names.

Some children matter more than others apparently...

[Omar Hamad | عُـمَـرْ 𓂆 @OmarHamadD]

Happy International Women's Day.

[Assal Rad @AssalRad]

🇮🇱 Soldier: Teenager 🇵🇸 Civilian: Man

[Catherine Hartung @Catharty]

Huge turn out at Melbourne’s rally today to protest Herzog’s arrival. Not sure how the government couldn’t have anticipated this response

[Randa Abdel-Fattah @RandaAFattah]

Academics from @Deakin and @victoriauninews from pro-Israel lobby group "5A", using their uni emails, wrote to Latrobe uni & Bendigo Writers Festival in July to pressure cancelling me . Demanded "'measures" be taken. And so we have the reason why the Code was sent.
Note the ease with which 5A defames and smears me- and that this was indulged by Latrobe uni & Bendigo festival. The anti-Palestinian rot runs so deep.
https://t.co/VZRHmlyQsH

[Linda Mamoun @mamoun_linda]

Ms Rachel in a new video: “Grownups of the world are supposed to protect children and some grownups are not doing that.”

[Catherine Hartung @Catharty]

My local cinema, Classic Elsternwick, cancelled screenings of Oscar-winning doco ‘No Other Land’ fearing it divisive, but are now screening ‘October 8’ (pure Zionist propaganda) 2-3 times a day. Silver lining is this superbly written review from @jake_romm https://t.co/hfwfuaFT1s

[Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt @FranceskAlbs]

"The Israeli American aid operation has turned Gaza into a human abattoir, where starving civilians are herded like animals into fenced off pens and in the process are slaughtered like cattle. This is akin to some of the darkest periods of human history, where industrial death factories have been used against innocent women and children who were led like lambs to the slaughter". (Chris Gunness) https://t.co/HPkzS3znrg

[Catherine Hartung @Catharty]

Beautiful dedication to Refaat Alareer and four of the young writers who were killed by Israel before this collection could be published: Yousef Dawas, Mahmoud Alnaouq, Huda Alsoso, and Mohammed Hamo

[Catherine Hartung @Catharty]

Just received my copy of @WeAreNotNumbers: the voices of Gaza’s youth, hot off the press. Such an important anthology, ten years in the making. As Ta-Nehisi Coates describes “light streams out of this collection — it etches the angles and curves of Palestinian humanity”

[Drop Site @DropSiteNews]

Sarajevo Gaza Tribunal
Public Assembly Day 1 – Highlights

The Gaza Tribunal, a civil society-led “people’s tribunal,” opened its first public session in Sarajevo on May 26, 2025. It seeks to document Israeli war crimes in Gaza and address the failures of international institutions to deliver justice.

The event began with remarks from Richard Falk, former UN Special Rapporteur and professor emeritus of international law at Princeton.

Falk said:
“It has become obvious that the UN lacks the capacity to override the genocidal support provided by the United States. The @gazatribunal draws on the legacy of the Russell Tribunal and the Iraq War Tribunal.”

[Alex Crawford @AlexCrawfordSky]

Dr Tom Potokar in Gaza after a day operating on what he calls ‘small, emaciated bodies’ - child victims of Israeli bombings - urges politicians to ‘use their power and bring an end to this’ and ‘stop being complicit in this ongoing slaughter and starvation’

[Catherine Hartung @Catharty]

The way politicians celebrate young people when it suits their narrative and then dismiss them in the next breath

[Bedazzling Bearer of Bad News @PixieOfDeath]

One of the doctors once explained that the reason the most killed are between 6-12 year olds is because they run less fast than the older kids but they’re also too big for an adult to carry while running.

[BreakThrough News @BTnewsroom]

Columbia students nearly booed President Claire Shipman off stage, chanting “Free Mahmoud Khalil” over her hollow speech about “shaping these interesting times.” Khalil has been held by ICE for 10 weeks without charges.