Mark Jeanes

[Mark Jeanes @markwjeanes]

@Schwartzcards2 @eBay Yes website

[Omar Sakr @omarsakrpoet]

Someone is finally taking the Murdoch hate machine to court for their profound racism! There's a crowdfund to support their legal costs - proceedings have commenced in the Federal Court of Australia. https://t.co/TlCXURBc3V

[💧Michael West @MichaelWestBiz]

Emergency doctor endures Gaza tragedy, saves lives, but criticises Israel, get complaints, has specialist training frozen.
@Lochinvar001 interviews Dr Mo
#auspol #AHPRA #antisemitism
https://t.co/wLRBMwleAL

[Shaiel Ben-Ephraim @academic_la]

I have been reading the new UN report about how Israel has been targeting children in Gaza. There are no words to describe how awful it is. Here are some of the worst examples:

1) Hind Rajab and family, Tel al-Hawa, Gaza City, 29 Jan 2024. Named. A family of seven plus two paramedics killed. Hind Rajab, 5 to 6, stayed on the phone with rescuers for hours, trapped in a car among her dead relatives. Her cousin Layan Hamadeh, 15, was killed mid-call. The rescue ambulance, dispatched with COGAT clearance, was shelled.

2) The 15-year-old with the white flag, Khan Younis, 24 Jan 2024. Anonymous. Shot in the foot during an ordered evacuation while holding a white cloth, then shot twice more in the back and neck as he tried to rise. His 20-year-old brother killed running to him; their mother shot signaling for an ambulance. Assessed as DAN .338 sniper fire from about 200m.

3) The 10-day-old baby, Nuseirat camp, 12 Apr 2024. Anonymous. Shot in the head by a quadcopter-mounted rifle while being breastfed inside a tent. Survived with brain damage and seizures.

4) The 14-year-old killed with fragmenting pellets, Aug 2024. Anonymous. Cube-shaped pellets that fragmented internally like cluster munitions, destroying multiple organs. The report flags the munition itself as a possible war crime.

5) Jadallah "Jad" Jadallah, Al-Far'a camp, Tubas, 16 Nov 2025. Named. Jadallah Jihad Jouma Jadallah, 14, shot at close range and left bleeding for roughly 45 minutes while about 14 soldiers stood around him. One kicked his cap back when he threw it for attention, one filmed him, one placed a stone beside him to stage a stone-throwing pretext. Soldiers fired at his approaching mother and blocked two ambulances. Body withheld.

6) Layla al-Khatib, Muthallath al-Shuhada, 25 Jan 2025. Named. Layla (Laila) Muhammad Ayman al-Khatib, 2, shot in the back of the head during dinner at home, four bullets fired through the living room window. Youngest West Bank child killed in the reporting period. B'Tselem found the only man in the building was her grandfather, contradicting the "wanted terrorist" claim.

7) Saddam Rajab, Tulkarem, shot 28 Jan 2025, died 7 Feb 2025. Named. Saddam (Sadam) Rajab, 10, shot during an incursion. A soldier told the father, "I am the one who shot your son. God willing, he will die." Medical care obstructed; the boy died of his wounds days later.

8) Walid Ahmad, Megiddo Prison, died 22 Mar 2025. Named. Walid Khalid Abdullah Ahmad, 17, from Silwad. Healthy at arrest in Sept 2024; dead six months later of starvation, muscle wasting, untreated colitis and scabies. First Palestinian minor to die in Israeli custody since Oct 2023. Family learned of his death from a news article; body withheld.

9) The Sde Teiman 15-year-old, detention. Anonymous. Held among 70 adults, shackled until his hands bled, dogs released on prone detainees; described as "the worst days of my life." A separate 15-year-old reported being electrocuted via a needle in his shoulder over 54 days.

10) The four newborns at Al-Nasr Pediatric Hospital, Nov 2023. Anonymous. Found decomposing, still attached to defunct life-support machines, after staff were forced to evacuate without being able to move them. Independently verified by the Commission, Washington Post, and CNN.

11) Newborn hypothermia deaths, Dec 2024 to Feb 2025. Anonymous. At least 15 newborns, including a one-day-old girl, died of cold linked to lack of shelter, fuel, and incubators. UNICEF called the deaths preventable.

12) Sexual violence in detention. Anonymous. Forced public stripping and filming of boys during mass arrests; two cousins aged 7 and 13 stripped at gunpoint in Jenin; new reports of boys raped in custody, one on multiple occasions.

The Commission documents at least 20,179 Palestinian children killed and 44,143 wounded in two years, 30 percent of all the dead in Gaza, alongside 213 more killed in the West Bank. Thirteen times the Commission asked Israel to respond, and thirteen times it heard nothing back. Israel doesn't care enough to even respond. It kills children as a matter of policy.

[Ronni🧂Salt-WhoWroteGunnawahYeahThatOne @RonniSalt]

So, let's recap, shall we?

This week the @PressClubAust managed to:

* cancel at the last minute, the questions and subsequent presence of renowned journalist Margo Kingston, who’d travelled over 2 days to Canberra to ask her question of Pauline Hanson – and yes, they were questions initially requested and organised by the Press Club itself 9 days ago.

* cancel the press gallery membership of long-term journalist, Greg Jericho, allegedly because he works for the @TheAusInstitute. Although Greg has been employed by the Aust Institute for 4 years, his membership cancellation only came yesterday after he publicly called out the Canberra press gallery - which is of course a highly fortuitous coincidence and not at all connected to his criticism.

* somehow allowed a person or persons unknown to enter the Press Club premises and put up a 3 metre wide electronic banner, without anybody in the Press Club noticing them doing it. How several people enter a private club carrying something that large, then proceed to wire it up on an open stage and nobody at the premises noticed in any way, is yet another display of the NPC’s staggering incompetence.

* release an unnecessarily detailed, high-school level statement about said banner incident, a statement that reeks of defensiveness and hysteria, while also prejudicially naming an alleged culprit and arguably sinking to the bottom of the barrel in terms of the journalistic standards it supposedly represents. Read it below and remind yourself that people who work with words for a living wrote that.

* allowed the speaker, Pauline Hanson, to defame one of their own - a journalist from the Guardian who dared to ask a hard-hitting question - by calling her "trash". This was only weeks after calling the same journalist a "nasty bitch". Mirroring, Trump’s “Quiet piggy” incident, the journalist's alleged colleagues all sat mute, as did the moderator, Tom Connell from Sky News during the abuse. No rebuke, no blow-back, no support for their fellow journalist, standing alone under Hanson's hissing vitriol. Just pusillanimous silence.

The National Press Club outdid their already dubious reputation this week, spraying themselves in a spectacular shower of self-inflicted shit – wall to wall, dripping effluent.

Australians currently suffer some of the most timid, captured political journalism in the western world, and if the actions of the #NPC this week are the metric, then we can all see why.

What a national and international embarrassment of an organisation meant to serve as a vital democratic institution and a cultural conscience – and one that has offered us neither.

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[Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan]

If you were to write this headline or article in a variety of US, UK, German or French media outlets, your career might be on the line and you’d probably be accused of antisemitism.

And yet the author of this piece is a former prime minister for Israel.
https://t.co/xUqPAHxsab

[Mark Jeanes @markwjeanes]

@AFL @FightMND “Sam”? It’s Your Excellency.

[Richard @ricwe123]

That moment when a British surgeon was giving testimony to the UK Parliament.

He describes how IDF drones arrive right after airstrikes in Gaza, targeting and shooting the injured, including children,right on the spot.....

[Nick McKim @NickMcKim]

A disgraceful move by the National Press Club to platform Israel’s ambassador to Australia today after Israel overnight introduced an apartheid death penalty regime for Palestinians.

[Mark Jeanes @markwjeanes]

@APAN4Palestine @pennywong You are all superstars. Onya. The majority of Aussies are behind you.

[APAN @APAN4Palestine]

We’re in Canberra today calling it out.
Torture is being used as a weapon of genocide — and Australia is silent.
Sanction Israel.
Share this. Tag @PennyWong. Demand action.

[Stephen Mayne @MayneReport]

Albo acknowledges that pokies are “overwhelmingly” the largest cause of gambling harm in Australia but is doing diddly squat about this. His Labor Party even runs four predatory pokies venues in Canberra and Sydney, something no other political party in the world does.

[Sahar A @Sahar_A_Writes]

"The current global energy crisis — caused by the Iran war."

As if facts are optional, Sarah Ferguson frames Iran as the aggressor in what is demonstrably the US and Israel's war. A flagrant misrepresentation.

And the ABC wonders why it alienates Australians.

#abc730 #auspol

[Mark Jeanes @markwjeanes]

Hey @RoryStewartUK, I just finished Politics on the Edge. Congrats, great stuff. I don’t share your politics, but the book is thoughtful and revealing, an inspiring read.

[Mark Jeanes @markwjeanes]

Hi @chrisbest, This is a genuine question. Please could you give a short explanation? Cheers, Mark

[Mark Jeanes @markwjeanes]

Hey @chrisbest, What on Earth is going on? You’ve implemented age verification in Australia where the laws do not require you to do so! Please could you explain?

[Stephen Reason @stephen_reason]

@substack I am an Australian Substack writer (Stephen Reason) now locked out of my profile due to your implementation of age-verification. I will not comply to submitting a video selfie and Government ID to prove I was over-16 when I authored my 450 articles. Idiotic! Censorship most foul!

[AJ+ @ajplus]

Israeli forces reportedly tortured a 1-year-old boy in Gaza to pressure his father into making confessions at a military checkpoint.

The child was released after nearly 10 hours, but the father remains in Israeli custody.

[Cheryl Kernot @cheryl_kernot]

Maybe THIS one for tonight’s 7pm bulletin @abcnews ?? Been newsworthy for over 4 days.

[Muhammad Mazen @mhmd_s09]

Never forget how Israel murdered Palestinian First Responders on a literal live stream.

Repost this. Please I beg you

[Tony Windsor @TonyHWindsor]

PM @AlboMP when do you draw a line under this idiot .
Surely we need distance ourselves from this clown.