Last Thursday, as a former @UNRWA employee myself, I received an email from UNRWA's Commissioner-General ad interim, Christian Saunders @CFSaundersUN, informing staff that he had decided to terminate the employment of 70 UNRWA employees in Gaza with immediate effect. He stressed that the decision was neither a disciplinary measure nor a validation of the allegations made by Israel, noting that UNRWA had repeatedly requested evidence from the Israeli authorities and had received none. Instead, he said the dismissals were intended to mitigate what the Agency considered growing security risks to its staff, beneficiaries, premises, and operations.
There is something deeply unjust about dismissing 70 people while admitting that no evidence was ever provided against them. Allegations are not proof. When accusations alone are enough to end careers and devastate families, due process ceases to be a principle and becomes a privilege.
PS: @UNRWA terminated my contract, along with those of 621 of my colleagues, simply because we escaped the genocide in Gaza and didn't want our children to be killed in front of our eyes. Many of my colleagues were injured and left on medical evacuations. Others accompanied family members who were seriously wounded. We were all terminated in January 2026 after spending an entire year on forced exceptional leave, despite the fact that many of us continued working online throughout that period.
The funny thing is that "Western" UNRWA employees were not terminated, even though many of them are also outside Gaza. They continue to receive salaries that are at least 15 times higher than ours, not to mention the benefits that come with them. An agency established to care for Palestinian refugees ended up firing Palestinian refugees like myself while retaining and generously paying international staff.
It's a joke. Except it's not funny, because it's real. @UNWatch
@GregMarSci@ClancyTucker#PwC were on that same ATO board , they stole information and sold it too their customers . Nothing happened to PwC , just a name change to Scyne , kept the same contracts and the same people .
#KPMG are doing the same and Labor is ok with that ..
@MichaelWestBiz A rape survivor gets strip-searched at our border while IDF veterans stroll through. The system isn't broken—it's designed to protect an ally and silence victims.
Every MP: Do you believe Juliet Lamont? Silence is complicity. Share it. Make it stop. #auspol
Canberra is running a genoside protection racket.
“Juliet Lamont came home from being raped and tortured by a foreign military..
“And her own country ransacked her luggage, seized her phone and laptop, and told her she was under arrest unless she surrendered her passcodes.
“Her government did not protect her. Her government investigated her.”
‘Israeli soldiers raped her. Australian customs threatened her’
https://t.co/Ha8BKZ4Sk8 via @MichaelWestBiz
I’m deeply concerned about the precedent this sets for everyone else who makes a privacy complaint against a large multinational. This regulator’s processes have favoured the powerful institution, exhausted the individual seeking justice, then gagged him from telling the truth.
Court proceedings update relating to Herzog protest arrests :
Cases pushed into mid next years!
1 week hearing in March ‘27 to hear preliminary evidence and then 6 weeks starting on 19/7
DROP THE CHARGES
My latest article in The Shot
After spending obscene amounts of taxpayer's money on luxury travel, office refurbishments and airfares from their homes to their Canberra office, I examine the high price Australians have paid so far for an impotent #NACC
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https://t.co/BKPplkv0fZ
The NACC clearly lists the Commissioner's office as based in Canberra
The Remuneration Tribunal (Official Travel) Determination 2024, does not allow for travel expenses to be paid for public servants/staffers from their home to their principal office
Paul Brereton lives in Sydney and yet via the NACC, Australians have funded his commute from his Sydney home to his primary office in Canberra, in breach of the Official Travel determination
Why?
Is this a judicious use of taxpayer's money?
Systems of oppression endure bcs ordinary people sustain them.
No one is powerless. People have the power to defeat Apartheid.
Check your groceries.
Check your insurance company.
Check your medications.
Check your bank.
Make informed choices.
Stop financing apartheid and war.
When data from court cases, war crimes prosecutions and national security proceedings are exposed that is beyond a routine data breach. The privatisation of transcription created this issue and the AG needs to impose a full audit rather than leaving agencies to review themselves
You cannot commit genocide in Gaza, invade Lebanon, bomb Iran, Syria, Yemen, and Iraq, violate Geneva and Vienna Conventions, international law, human rights, and state sovereignty, then hide behind anti-Semitism.
There is no rise in anti-Semitism. There is a rise in the number of people who are very angry at what Israel is doing. Your inability to separate the two is equally problematic.