Gus Pollard

[Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt @FranceskAlbs]

BREAKING!

Armed Israelis are escalating DEADLY assaults against defenseless Palestinians in the West Bank!

They have reportedly just shot in cold blood five men in Tal village and Far'ata/Qalqilya.

Their leaders openly talk of #Gazification

THESE CRIMINALS MUST BE STOPPED!

[Max Blumenthal @MaxBlumenthal]

These trashy monarchists posted up at the entrance of my talk to protest and harass me. They are the same freaks who celebrated and danced in the streets of Georgetown literally the day after the US murdered 168 school kids and teachers in Minab. And you can hear them justify bombing that school - the crime of the century - as a legitimate target. I might have just ignored them under normal circumstances, but I had just spent the week in the rubble of homes of ordinary Iranians who they lobbied my government to bomb. In the ruins of one destroyed Tehran apartment where an entire family of 12 was slaughtered in a US strike, I found clothes belonging to young children about the same age as mine. So it was impossible to pass by these accessories to murder without venting my disgust at them. Actually, the whole experience was cathartic. God damn these deranged Persian gusanos and their Clown Prince too.

[Joel Jenkins @boganintel]

I agree for similar reasons.

Australia is an island continent nation at the bottom of the Earth, and in a chaotic multipolar shift, we need to find out how we can navigate this period better than what we are.

@AlboMP and the bipartisan political class had preserved a status quo which will see us weak and exposed in this period.

We deserve better.

[Gus Pollard @pollard_gus]

@HunterBiden @cheryl_kernot @LysaStrataStyle @KarolineGosling Your dad was a cunt - he tortured more Palestinian kids and parents than you will ever know

[Joel Jenkins @boganintel]

Good morning.

Fuck @charliepick, and the vapid and talentless Australian centrist comedian class which have culturally pacified this country with their dunning-Kruger syndrome views on the universe.

[MFWitches @MFWitches]

How the fuck do we live in a country where David Pocock and David Shoebridge are now almost single-handedly doing the crucial humanitarian and anti-corruption work Australia needs because @AlboMP and his merry band of genocidal toe-rags point-blank refuse to?

#NewsCorpse

[Global Sumud Flotilla @gbsumudflotilla]

At least 15 cases of sexual assaults, including rape.

Shot with rubber bullets at close range.

Tens of people’s bones broken.

While the world’s eye is trained on the suffering of our participants, we cannot emphasize enough that this is a mere glimpse of the brutality israel imposes daily on Palestinian hostages.

Don’t let up. Statements of condemnation are not enough. This moment must be seized by people worldwide to apply the necessary pressure to end this colonial violence. Pressure officials. Escalate boycott and divestment tactics. Organize direct action.

“Please, if this can be a lightning rod moment, let it be that … join us wherever you are and rise up so that we can end this occupation, end this colonialism, end this violence.”

Free Palestine NOW.

[David Milner @DaveMilbo]

There's not a single Australian @AlboMP would protect from Israel, is there? Nothing about Zomi. Nothing at all about the flotilla, or the doctors serving in Gaza. Just gravely concerned inc. and some mumbly centrist trite about a two state solution. This should terrify us all

[MFWitches @MFWitches]

How the fuck do we live in a place where people at the anti-Semitism RC are today claiming they’re “suffering” from being forced to look at a Palestinian flag or hear someone say “Free Palestine” while actual kids in Palestine are being buried alive or shot in the head by the IDF?

#NewsCorpse

[Richard Medhurst @richimedhurst]

Tried watching a BBC doc on Russia.

Already in the first mins: "Russia arrests journalists and threatens them with decades in prison!"

As opposed to what? Me being threatened w/ 14 years in the UK, or 10 years in Austria for my reporting?

Hypocrisy at its peak.

[Abby Martin @AbbyMartin]

Israel’s abduction of flotilla activists Thiago & Saif near Greece sets a chilling precedent: that it can seize anyone, anywhere, and hold them hostage indefinitely. What other norms will be obliterated to protect genocide?

[Caitlin Johnstone @caitoz]

The Guardian lists some hilarious illustrations of how fake and made up Australia's "antisemitism crisis" actually is. The royal commission heard examples of "antisemitism" like:

• Someone's friend imagined she might be murdered by antisemites at the hospital
• Some Jewish people left a Facebook group of psychologists after being told they were "taking the side of the oppressor" in demanding that people not discuss Israel's genocidal atrocities
• a nurse wasn't allowed to hang pro-Israel genocide propaganda in the workplace
• a trade unionist "felt" she had to step down because younger union members fought union leadership to oppose Israel's war crimes.

It's all I felt, I feel, it made me feel. My feelings, my feelings, my feelings. Jewish feelings are treated as so supremely important that upsetting Jews by opposing an active genocide is treated as a hate crime. The victims of genocide are regarded as infinitely less important than a Jewish Australian feeling offended by anti-genocide sentiment in a Facebook group.

This is crazy, hysterical bullshit, and it should be treated as such.

[Seyed Mohammad Marandi @s_m_marandi]

The UN must condemn the Trump regime for waging an illegal war, massacring 168 elementary school girls, assassinating Iranian leaders, scientists, and academics. It must call upon Trump to end the blockade on Iranian ports and stop the genocide and slaughter in Gaza and Lebanon.

[Glenn Diesen @Glenn_Diesen]

Marco Rubio argues that "Operation Epic Fury is concluded" as the objectives were acheved. In reality, Iran won this war. There was no regime chenge, no nuclear deal, no limits of ballistic missiles and drones, no decoupling of ties between Iran and its regional allies, and the Strait of Hormuz is now under Iran's control. US bases in the region have been destroyed, the US alliance system has been weakened, and the petro-dollar will not recover. This epic failure was not just another failed regime change war, this will severely weaken the position of the US in the Middle East. All that was achieved was the murder of many Iranians and keeping the Epstein files out of the media.

[Joel Jenkins @boganintel]

Why do they beat children to death with hammers?

[Caitlin Johnstone @caitoz]

Basically every Israel-Palestine debate goes like this:

"Israel did X."

"Yeah, because the Palestinians did Y."

"Yeah, because Israel did Z."

"Yeah but only because the Arabs did A."

But if you bring the debate back far enough in time, eventually you get to the part where the western world forcibly dropped a brand new ethnostate on top of a pre-existing civilization without the permission of — and to the extreme detriment of — the people who were already living there.

Sure you can go further back and say "Oh yeah well the Jews lived there thousands of years ago," but that's just silly. There's no valid reason to believe some Jewish guy in New York City even has any meaningful lineage connecting him to that land more strongly than any random Muslim in Turkey or wherever, and even if there was, it would still be absurd to cite ancient history as the basis for a territorial claim. I'm only a few generations removed from my ancestry in Ireland and Scotland, but it would be ridiculous for me to show up demanding the home of someone who lives there.

So the original source for the grievance is clearly the artificial creation of an ethnonationalist state in the mid-20th century, and the push by Zionists and western imperialists to make it happen.

And how has that decision worked out? You see the results before you. Generations of nonstop violence and abuse, culminating in the slaughter and chaos throughout the middle east today.

This means that creating Israel was a mistake. A mistake that needs to be corrected.

Zionists will collapse into a shrieking pile of vitriol and hyperbole when you say this, claiming you're calling for the extermination of Jews, but this is false. Certainly ending a national order premised on putting the interests of Jews before Palestinians and righting the wrongs of the past would inconvenience a lot of the Jewish people who've been living there, but there's no basis for the claim that it would entail their deaths. Apartheid South Africa was dismantled without the extermination of millions of white people, and there's no reason to believe the dismantling of apartheid Israel would entail the extermination of Jews.

The Israel experiment has been tried, and it has failed. It is time to try something else.

[Joel Jenkins @boganintel]

Such an unfunny and racist country who rapes prisoners with dogs and commits genocide.

In Australia we have had a gutful of being persecuted by our own governments just for telling this mob to get stuffed.

Shame on all who equate antisemitism with criticism of this shithole called Israel. Shame on all in the @AlboMP gov who support this state and expect the whole country to bend around its awful and horrible ethno-supremacist crap.

[Power to the People ☭🕊 @ProudSocialist]

You are one of the greatest charlatans of all time. You peddled “hope and change” to a nation that was desperate for it then proceeded to bail out the Big Banks and drop 26,171 bombs in one year alone. You sold us out to Wall Street and the war machine & paved the way for Trump.

[Lowkey @Lowkey0nline]

Obama dropped 26,171 bombs in 2016 alone.

He ordered ten times more drone strikes than Bush and even joked "I'm really good at killing people."

[Joel Jenkins @boganintel]

Stop telling us what Australia is. Who Australians are. Stop talking bulldust.

The whole country has watched you spruik our nations superannuation wealth to Republican senators like a heifer. In your period as ambassador we have lost more strategic freedom and sovereign agency than any period before. You have hyper-accelerated us into the US imperial umbrella as it acts out as the villain of the world and demands we join it.

Future sovereign leaders will spend decades unravelling the mess you have wrapped around us. We will all remember you for it.