Many mosques and Islamic schools have been subjected to similar attacks of arson, vandalism, and racism. We never saw such a rush to condemn and generosity to protect Australian Muslims, nor prime ministers and ministers visiting. #auspol#Synagogue
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The US vetoed a ceasefire resolution claiming that it didn't mention the release of the hostages.
The resolution asked for the immediate release of these hostages.
How can it be ok to lie like this ?
This is more than a street renaming, it’s a message that Joburg stands proudly as an apartheid-free city, committed to values of justice, equality, and solidarity. Just as we fought for freedom in South Africa,we continue to stand with those fighting for justice around the world.
It is with sorrow and great concern that I continue to follow the spread and escalation of the conflict in Lebanon. Let us pray for the victims, for their families, and for peace.
RIP
Previous Lebanese war, in 2006, Kahneman wrote to me:
"I am struggling to find the words to express my feelings. Affection for people who specialize in killing at a distance is not one of them. I will find it difficult to look you in the eye, but I hope we can meet soon."
@Pharenheit61@chrismurphys Don’t you own a map?
Australia is in the East. And the traditional owners of this land would not call it Western.
What right do you have to label it as such?
@LafuNews@chrismurphys Maybe when you go back to yours! If you are neither Aboriginal nor Torres Strait Islander, what right do you have to tell anyone to leave? Or is that just one of those things that colonisers do?
@delboy00789@chrismurphys If you are neither Aboriginal nor Torres Strait Islander, what right do you have to tell anyone to leave? Or is that just one of those things that colonisers do?
@authorVTaylor@chrismurphys If you are neither Aboriginal nor Torres Strait Islander, what right do you have to tell anyone to leave? Or is that just one of those things that colonisers do?
@Lisa9Sophia@chrismurphys If you are neither Aboriginal nor Torres Strait Islander, what right do you have to tell anyone to leave? Or is that just one of those things that colonisers do?
The stalking and pressure on the VC of USYD to resign has yielded some valuable insights in an email to Mark Scott from @ProfStuartRees. Here is a substantial excerpt:
‘Dear Mark,
I do not underestimate the pressure you would have been under regarding the claim that certain students felt unsafe on campus and I note that you were obliged to make an apology for the alleged existence of anti-Semitism at Sydney.
Having made many visits to the Gaza Strip, to the West Bank and having had several meetings with Israeli leaders of the peace movement and with leaders of Hamas, I have some understanding of anti-Semitism and of anti-Palestinianism.
Back in Sydney, I’ve been disturbed by assumptions that the key prejudice concerns anti-Semitism. The record shows otherwise. In 2015, for example, seminars to discuss death & destruction in Palestine were held by departments of public health, social work/social policy and by the Centre for Peace & Conflict Studies. On each occasion students representing ‘Hebrew Studies’ arrived in substantial numbers to close down those seminars one of which was to have included an address by a distinguished Palestinian doctor. Physical intimidation by these invading students and their staff was successful.
No-one made official complaints. It seemed to be taken for granted that any discussion of the plight of Palestinians must be anti-Semitic.
Years earlier, in 2003 I was subject to sustained charges of anti-Semitism over the Sydney Peace Foundations’ choice of the brilliant Palestinian educator and politician Dr. Hanan Ashrawi as the Peace Prize recipient for that year. During that controversy I received significant support not only from Premier Bob Carr but also from former Prime Minister Gough Whitlam and from the Sydney University Chancellor Dame Leonie Kramer.
I’m not suggesting that anti-Semitic expressions on the Sydney campus do not exist, but PLEASE, let’s not be overawed by the demands of a hugely powerful lobby at a time when thousands of people in Gaza and in the West Bank have been slaughtered..’ #auspol
It’s not only in the Middle East - I and many other people that I know, have ditched Coca-Cola and Pepsi for local alternatives.
https://t.co/xuFqR2MaCF