Hiba

Palestinian Australian, educator, lawyer and human rights advocate views are my own and do not represent any organization I am affiliated with

[APAN @APAN4Palestine]

Three years of Israel’s ongoing genocide. Three years of grief, resistance and demands for justice.
APAN Vice President Hiba Farra affirms our commitment: we will remember, keep mobilising and demand accountability.

The Albanese Government must sanction Israel, end the two-way military trade and cut the economic ties sustaining its crimes. Every further delay deepens Australia’s complicity.

Send APAN’s sanctions letter to your politicians — link in bio. Join the Global Day for Gaza on 11 October.

Free Palestine, from the river to the sea.

[APAN @APAN4Palestine]

Next week we are putting our Parliamentarians to the test at the launch of the Red Lines Package. Australia needs laws that draw a line against complicity.
Human rights expert Chris Sidoti explains why the Red Lines Package matters — and why Australia must ensure our public money, investments, trade and defence exports do not enable genocide, war crimes or illegal occupation.

The package proposes four bills designed to turn Australia’s obligations under international law into enforceable safeguards.

As Palestinians continue to face Israel’s genocide, war crimes and illegal occupation, will our government follow the lead of other likeminded countries and finally draw a redline on complicity.

It’s time to put Red Lines into Australian law.

[David Pocock @DavidPocock]

Really disappointing Australia hasn’t joined the UK, France, Canada and others in expanding sanctions on illegal Israeli settlements in the West Bank.

The UK PM was clear: this is about the unacceptable actions of the Israeli government, not the Israeli people and about refusing to just stand by and watch the horrors being perpetrated against Palestinians.

Australia should show the same courage and stand for international law, Palestinian rights and a secure future for both peoples.
https://t.co/gVWfjc01DP

[Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt @FranceskAlbs]

I welcome the stance taken by the UK government on Israel’s occupation and its illegality. A much-needed beginning, even if it does not yet reverse all policies undermining Palestinian self-determination.
May the UK government and people hold firm. The pressure will be fierce.

[APAN @APAN4Palestine]

Academics, staff and students across the country — including from Group of Eight institutions — are calling on universities to reject definitions of antisemitism they warn will threaten academic freedom and further silence advocacy for Palestine.

Palestinian students and staff are already reporting censorship, surveillance and widespread anti-Palestinian racism.

Protect academic freedom. Recognise anti-Palestinian racism.

Sign the Open Letter. Link in Bio.

[Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt @FranceskAlbs]

Palestina Libera.
Da genocidio, Apartheid e colonizzazione traverstita da occupazione militare.

Italia Libera
Dalle zone di sacrificio, le mafie, le basi militari straniere, i progetti di colonizzazione venduti per sviluppo.

Europa libera
Dai profitti a discapito dei diritti.

[💧Mary Kostakidis @MaryKostakidis]

The legitimacy of social justice movements this intelligent, humane and courageous young woman points out to the Antisemitism Royal Commission, cant rest on never offending anyone.
Many Afrikaners would have been very uncomfortable indeed at the west’s eventual response to apartheid. Even if every single one of them claimed offense, should that have delegitimised the movement to accord indigenous South Africans human rights?

[Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt @FranceskAlbs]

BREAKING! US court ha suspended the US sanctions against me!
As the judge says: "Protecting the Freedom of speech is always just the public interest".
Thanks to my daughter and my husband for stepping up to defend me, and everyone who has helped so far.

Together we are One.

[APAN @APAN4Palestine]

Nakba denial is a form of anti-Palestinian racism.

To deny the forced expulsion of over 750,000 Palestinians in 1948 is to deny Palestinian history, identity, and the ongoing reality of genocide, displacement, and occupation today.

For Palestinians, the Nakba never ended.

As Gaza is destroyed before the world’s eyes, attempts to erase, silence, and deny Palestinian experiences continue across politics, media, workplaces, and universities.

The Nakba is not history. The Nakba is now.

Learn more and report anti-Palestinian racism via the link in bio.

[💧Mary Kostakidis @MaryKostakidis]

Those accused of creating antisemitism denied right to appear at RC into Antisemitism
Why not allow @APAN4Palestine to appear & cross examine?
Whoever is advising Bell either does not want the public to hear what APAN have to say or lack confidence
https://t.co/sRkHakdOvF

[Yanis Varoufakis @yanisvaroufakis]

THE TECHNOFEUDAL WARS ARE UPON US

The US military used Claude to plan the attack on Iran, in the days after it went to war with the company.

Iran is retaliating against Claude, or rather Amazon’s cloud infrastructure more generally. Two Amazon data centers in UAE and one in Bahrain have already been disabled by missiles. Claude is currently offline for consumers including in Europe. Amazon is telling its customers to stop expecting its Middle Eastern IT intrastructure to work and to fail over to other regions.

This can easily have knock-on effects for lots of other websites. When an AWS data center in Virginia went down in October, the affected sites included Zoom, Discord, Twitch, Venmo, Duolingo, Delta Airlines and several major UK banks.

[APAN @APAN4Palestine]

As Australia prepares to welcome Israeli President Isaac Herzog, our message is now impossible to miss.

From Canberra to Sydney and Melbourne, billboards are live, calling out what our government refuses to confront: welcoming Herzog is not diplomacy, it is endorsement.

Herzog is not a neutral figure. He has justified collective punishment, denied mass starvation in Gaza, and publicly supported the military violence that has devastated Palestinian life. These facts are on the record. Australia cannot pretend otherwise.

Thanks to the determination and generosity of our supporters, this message is now in public space, where political decisions are felt and contested. This is what it looks like to refuse silence and push back against normalisation.

And we are not done. APAN will continue to challenge this visit, demand accountability, and stand for Palestinian rights, publicly, persistently, and without compromise.

Seen a billboard in Sydney or Melbourne? Take a photo, tag us, and share widely.
Keep speaking. Keep pushing. Keep the pressure on.

[David Shoebridge @DavidShoebridge]

Over 100,000 Australians marched across the symbolic heart of Sydney today, and together we showed more leadership on one rainy afternoon than our PM and Foreign Minister have shown in 2 years from the comfort of their offices. Free Palestine. Sanction Israel. 🇵🇸 🕊️

[Nasser Mashni @iamthenas]

The people have spoken!

300,000 demanding an end to genocide!

An end to complicity!

Time for sanctions! Past time for real action and military intervention to dro stop this horror!

[Democracy Now! @democracynow]

The most disturbing part of Netanyahu’s speech to Congress was to watch “U.S. Congress jubilantly cheer on — scramble over one another in order to cheer — for what is essentially a war on children," says @4noura.

[حسام شبات @HossamShabat]

No one taught us how to mourn an entire city, with all its memories , homes, streets, and people.

[💧Mary Kostakidis @MaryKostakidis]

‘Will Penny Wong now state these words?:
The Israeli government is a terrorist organisation.
A two-state solution – Israel and Palestine – is the opposite of what Israel wants.
Israel does not want peace.’

Israeli lawmakers vote against Palestinian statehood

https://t.co/hsAgeHxe2o

[David Shoebridge @DavidShoebridge]

THREAD🧵

The Albanese Labor Government has quietly extended the lease on Australia's Defence and Trade office with Israel in Jerusalem.

Instead of ending the two-way arms trade, the Albanese Government is choosing to deepen military ties with Israel.

[source Austender]