Peter C McInnes

Carer. Born optimist challenged each day by global heating. People and place 🌏b4 profit. Living on First Nations land. ❤️places Gutty Gutty Yang & Dyuralga 🍉

[Peter C McInnes @PeterCMcInnes1]

Ten ways to confront the climate crisis without losing hope https://t.co/L1d6FpmOh3

[Peter C McInnes @PeterCMcInnes1]

@HossamShabat 🍉

[حسام شبات @HossamShabat]

Anas and I are both journalists in the north, and our accounts have been suspended in the last couple of weeks. Our content has not changed; this is a deliberate and systematic attempt to silence us.

[Craig Mokhiber @CraigMokhiber]

No, you do not, Antony. You should have the humility to remain silent on Human Rights Day. You will be forever branded as a genocidaire, soaked in the blood of innocents. If there is a glimmer of justice in this world, if human rights have any meaning at all, you will be tried, convicted & punished for your crimes.

[Doctors Without Borders / Médecins Sans Frontières @MSF_canada]

This event is not an isolated one but rather the norm in this war.

Nowhere is safe in #Gaza and no one is spared.

Doctors Without Borders is reiterating its urgent calls for the protection of civilians and for an immediate and sustained #ceasefire.

[Antony Loewenstein @antloewenstein]

What's wrong with modern journalism? How long do you have?
Star journalist @NourHaydar delivers a powerhouse speech on race, Palestine, racism, bias, class and speaking truths when it makes the powerful very uncomfortable.
Listen and share:
https://t.co/rzDCLhBCz6

[Antony Loewenstein @antloewenstein]

.@DalrympleWill is one of the greatest living historians.

I’m honoured that he’s picked my @VersoBooks @scribepub title, 'The Palestine Laboratory', as one of his Best Books of 2024 in The UK Observer/Guardian newspaper:

[💧Mary Kostakidis @MaryKostakidis]

https://t.co/iM5LYlGhwT

[💧Mary Kostakidis @MaryKostakidis]

Response of a Jewish PhD student, Eva Shteinman, to claims USYD is a toxic, unsafe place for Jewish students:
‘Throughout all of my roles at the university, staff and students have been nothing but welcoming and accepting, and in my decade here I can firmly say I have never experienced anything even remotely antisemitic.
…That claims of antisemitism emerged simultaneously with debate around Israel is no coincidence, and must be understood within the context of Zionist activism. For many Zionists, criticism of Israel is interpreted as malicious and an existential threat to the future of the Jewish people, warranting a multitiered response that seeks to curtail free speech regarding Israel via laws, government policy, media standards and social media regulations.
This is always framed in terms of a response to “antisemitism”, but the borders between valid criticism of Israel and anti-Jewish bigotry are purposefully obscured to provide political protection for Israel and its supporters. This can be seen most clearly in the push to enshrine the highly controversial International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance definition of antisemitism throughout major institutions in Western countries, including Australian universities. We cannot allow this to undermine hard-won Australian freedoms of speech, assembly and protest.
It is simply not accurate to frame the discourse that has been taking place on campus as one in which Jewish Zionists are exclusively at the receiving end of aggressive verbiage. In several cases that I have personally witnessed, it has been quite the opposite, involving overt and shocking anti-Palestinian racism and bigotry against members of staff in public settings. Human resources staff at the university have dealt with these cases, but to my knowledge they have never reached media reporting, and Mark Scott has certainly not been pressured to resign due to the occurrence of Islamophobia under his watch.
Doubtless, there have been genuine antisemitic incidents at the university, much as there have been racist, sexist, Islamophobic and other bigoted behaviours that unfortunately spring up anywhere and any time. But it is absolutely inaccurate to characterise this as something pervasive, systemic and representative of university life.
The media has a responsibility to engage seriously with claims of institutional antisemitism, but not just unquestioningly reproduce them. There are clear ideological and political motivations at play. The media must also not misrepresent the attitudes and perspectives of the increasingly diverse Australian Jewish community…
Creating a false panic around university antisemitism is building genuine fear within my community that is damaging and misplaced, and threatens our sense of safety and belonging within the social fabric of Australia.’
Link below

[Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt @FranceskAlbs]

The monstrosity of our time.
We know and pretend not to know.
We give it other names, we make up excuses.
Israel is erasing Palestinians from Palestine - starving, torturing to death, pulverising homes, schools, churches, trees, human bodies, burning them in tents - and we call is "self-defense".
Israel's self-defense is the defense of ideological hatred turned political doctrine. And genocide.

[Nick McKim @NickMcKim]

He hasn’t even left Parliament yet and he’s already landed a plum corporate gig for a major bank that has given his party nearly $800,000 in donations in the past decade. It’s a big club and you’re not in it.

[Hind Khoudary @Hind_Gaza]

There has been no bottled water for the past two weeks.. My stomach has been so sensitive and I can’t risk it with drinking unsafe water 😭

[Tiberius @tiberiusfiles]

To absolutely nobody’s fucking surprise

[Arnaud Bertrand @RnaudBertrand]

Quite a sign when Stephen Walt, one of the most renowned scholars of international relations in the world (and Harvard professor), writes an article in Foreign Policy arguing that "Noam Chomsky has been proved right": https://t.co/SAmSGsXDJJ

Walt agrees with Chomsky that "the claim that U.S. foreign policy is guided by the lofty ideals of democracy, freedom, the rule of law, human rights" is "nonsense".

As he explains, all of US history proves the contrary, from the "genocidal campaign against the indigenous population" the country was founded upon, to the fact it intervened militarily "to thwart democratic processes in many countries, and waged or backed wars that killed millions of people in Indochina, Latin America, and the Middle East."

Walt also agrees with Chomsky that this is enabled by a massive brainwashing campaign on the US population: "government institutions work overtime to 'manufacture consent' by classifying information, prosecuting leakers, lying to the public, and refusing to be held accountable even when things go wrong or malfeasance is exposed. Their efforts are aided by a generally compliant media, which repeats government talking points uncritically and only rarely questions the official narrative."

Walt concludes: "If I were asked whether a student would learn more about U.S. foreign policy by reading [Chomsky's] book or by reading a collection of the essays that current and former U.S. officials occasionally write in journals such as Foreign Affairs or the Atlantic, Chomsky and Robinson would win hands down. I wouldn’t have written that last sentence when I began my career 40 years ago. I’ve been paying attention, however, and my thinking has evolved as the evidence has piled up."

[Dr. Yousef 🇵🇸 @yousef_ki1]

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[Munther Isaac منذر اسحق @MuntherIsaac]

Another gate installed by the Israeli military at the entrance of our town (and on the way to my kids school). Bethlehem - like the rest of the West Bank - has become a parcel of isolated fragmented areas. “Oh little town of Bethlehem” is “Oh little besieged Bethlehem”

[Motasem A Dalloul @AbujomaaGaza]

Send them a message!
Repost their ordeal!

[Melissa Sweet @MelissaSweetDr]

This article has been updated to include comment from @SharonFrielOz : Global climate health leaders condemn COP29 outcomes – Croakey Health Media https://t.co/ssTx3K5BY3

[RisingTideAustralia @RisingTideAus]

🚨 BREAKING🚨 : We’re claiming the channel

Large numbers of kayakers paddle out to the shipping channel aiming to block coal export ships in a massive act of civil disobedience to call for an end to new coal and gas mines.

[Hind Khoudary @Hind_Gaza]

Sitting here, in-front of this group of displaced children at Al Aqsa Hospital, laughing and playing on the bars where people usually line up for treatment tickets.

It hit me hard, and suddenly I was back in my childhood, at school in Beit Lahiya—a town that’s being wiped out right now.

I remember how much I loved playing on the monkey bars, just like those kids. But now, I can't help but feel an overwhelming guilt. I had a childhood, these children didn’t have.

Bro, this war is worse than anything anyone could ever imagine.

[Breaking the Silence @BtSIsrael]

When a Palestinian attacks a soldier, consequences are usually quick and overwhelming. They could be shot, or arrested. The IDF could demolish their home, blockade their village, arrest their family members.

So what happens when a settler does the same? 🧵