Mark Raphael Baker

Author THIRTY DAYS and THE FIFTIETH GATE ( Adjunct A/Prof @MonashUni

[Mark Raphael Baker @MarkRaphBaker]

07/10/1959 - 04/05/2023

No words can capture our grief and love. Marky Baker: an incredible husband, father, son, uncle and friend.

We love you and we’ll miss you, always.

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My personal reflections in @plus61j on attending a Melbourne protest with my wife @michelle_lesh & my baby daughter Melila in support of the mass Israel demonstrations, while witnessing events unfold through the prism of #PancreaticCancer @PancareAus
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Compare and contrast: @rabbiralph Genende with his successor, Rabbi Daniel Rabin at Caulfield Hebrew Congregation. Shame!!! https://t.co/5FBUnh4BOZ

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#Putin and #Milosevic share many common elements, though the history of these wars and personalities are distinct. @AustralianOpen #AustralianOpen

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Nothing surprising: @DjokerNole has publicly expressed his Serbian nationalism after his tennis triumphs, notwithstanding the new makeup of the former #Yugoslavia and #Serbia's #warcrimes in #Srebrenica.1/https://t.co/kMAIDrC6T5

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@KathrynHeyman My pancreatic tumour ++😶 Wishing you a HNY @KathrynHeyman

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#Israel is now one of the few countries in the world that does not allow freedom of #Jewish expression. What greater betrayal of #Zionism could one imagine! #LetMyPeopleGo
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Creation of separate paramilitary units under the control of radical racists is not without historical precedent. Outcomes are only known with hindsight. Anyone in this government should be deemed a collaborator. #Israel #Palestine
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Reactivated my account just so I can vote for @elonmusk to resign as CEO, even though I know it's a ruse to escape the pressure of the virtual collapse of his market value.

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Farewell @Twitter. I have #PancreaticCancer and life is too constricted to spend time on a platform owned by a narcissistic, hateful, conspiracy theorist. Thanks @elonmusk. I'm not enamoured with #Facebook either but you can find me there: https://t.co/3HMqwftecC

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@SaraHirschhorn1 I don't buy it. I understand the trauma but it's based on a view that Palestinians are barbarians. It blinds Israelis to the reality of the occupation and their own institutionalised barbarism. It's not about you posting alternative acts but the systemic worldview.

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My reflections in @Plus61J on living with #cancer on #RoshHashanah & #YomKippur. #pancreaticcancer
https://t.co/s68KdbbQRe

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May we all find the will to inscribe ourselves in the Book of Life and together defeat the array of forces that threaten to destroy our planet and all its inhabitants. Shana Tova. שנה טובה #cancer @PancareAus

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#RoshHashanah famously contains the mythical image of a world created anew and its inhabitants – humans of all beliefs and animals alike – being judged by the Almighty. As each creature passes under the divine rod, God taps them and predetermines ‘Who shall live & who shall die?’

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and oppression, and a radical approach to climate change and racism in our country. My name is very clearly affixed to the Book of Life not because I believe that by doing so I can defeat the outcome of my illness, but because my desire to renew the world courses through me...