Sara Cheikh

PhD, Muslim minority affairs, Islamic studies, Middle Eastern studies

[stranger @strangerous10]

David Pocock pauses, overcome with emotion, while detailing UN’s horrific findings against Israel
“IDF has now killed 20,000 Palestinian children”
“…deliberately shot at children’s limbs…as a twisted game of target practice”😔
Barbaric & sickening. This is our ally?

[Jonathan Cook @Jonathan_K_Cook]

BREAKING: Justice Jeremy Johnson has ruled that the Filton 4 will be sentenced as terrorists – even though two juries refused to convict them of violence charges over their efforts to disable an Israeli factory in the UK making killer drones for use in Gaza. They were found guilty of a minor charge of criminal damage.

Judge Johnson kept the jury in the dark of his plans to sentence the four as terrorists. This is the first time in British legal history that anyone has been sentenced as a terrorist for damaging property. It's a very dark moment in an increasingly authoritarian Britain.

Thousands of legal professionals complained about Johnson's clear abuses of legal procedures to help the government's case for proscribing Palestine Action as a terrorist group.

Johnson has now proved this was always a show trial.

I explain how he rigged the two trials here: https://t.co/fXTkUAmIvh

[Overland Journal @OverlandJournal]

“What is now being reassembled under the banner of fighting antisemitism is a shift in the figure of the ‘bad’ Muslim: from the radical Muslim to the antisemitic Muslim.”

Sara Cheikh Husain on the future laid out by the Royal Commission.
https://t.co/loS1p3p3T9

[Sara Cheikh @salcheikhh]

Read the full piece: https://t.co/f4Ga2WJpfx

[Sara Cheikh @salcheikhh]

Jewish safety is framed as possible solely by erasing Palestinian political expression & the Muslim solidarity with it that is inseparable from Muslim religious identity, creating a racial hierarchy within Multicultural policy.

[Sara Cheikh @salcheikhh]

The Commission is laying the groundwork to surveil, discipline, and potentially criminalise Muslim political life in Australia under the guise of “social cohesion.”

[Sara Cheikh @salcheikhh]

This imports settler-colonial zero-sum logic, founded on the principle of elimination, into Australian domestic policy: one community’s safety & institutional protection is constructed as achievable only through the suppression, disciplining, and criminalisation of another.

[Sara Cheikh @salcheikhh]

My latest article in Overland Literary journal: The zero-sum state: what the Royal Commission reveals on the future of Muslim life in AustraliaI, build on @Nick Riemer’searlier analysis of the Royal Commission on Antisemitism
https://t.co/w0OWRtTvmU

[Sara Cheikh @salcheikhh]

Through biased hearings: adopt IHRA definition, exclude anti-Zionist voices, & platform unchallenged pro-Israel testimonies; ordinary expressions of Muslim identity and politics, are being framed as threats to social cohesion.

[Sara Cheikh @salcheikhh]

I argue the RC is entrenching a dangerous zero-sum logic: Jewish safety can only be secured by suppressing Palestinian solidarity particularly the Australian Muslim- the domestic face of opposition to the Israel's settler-colonial project, Australia is so invested in supporting.

[David Shoebridge @DavidShoebridge]

At Estimates Defence confirmed it on the record that the Palantir software Defence is paying $14.4 million for is the same suite of products used in Gaza, Lebanon, and the US attack on Iran. I then asked if anyone ran an ethics check. See what happens next.

[Ramy Abdu| رامي عبده @RamAbdu]

A French aid worker: “We found a mass grave in Gaza containing 300 bodies. Small children were killed with their hands tied behind their backs"

[Shaun King @shaunking]

Stop telling me that the problem is Netanyahu.

Israelis gathered together to watch bombs destroy entire towns in Lebanon on a big screen together.

Israeli society is deeply sick and dangerous.

[Ken O'Keefe @RealKenOKeefe]

Not even the writers of Black Mirror could conjure up something this fucking sadistic.

[Gopic™ @Gopic]

@IsraelMFA So you zionist fucks are going to bomb more churches in Lebanon? Hezbollah is protecting Christians. You vile israeli scum stains. We should never expect much from you inbreds. You are not human beings or God fearing. You are excretion of demons. The vile waste of pigs and rats.

[Middle Eastern Affairs @OpsHQs]

The Israeli ambassador to Denmark is protesting the spread of this video. Let's make this go viral all around the world."

[Heidi Matthews @Heidi__Matthews]

Flotilla participants are arriving at Istanbul airport. This is what Israel military and prison personnel did to them.

[Thiago Ávila @thiagoavilabr]

🚨 Warning: distressful content!

Those genocidal maniacs RAPED humanitarian activist trying to take food and medicine to children in Gaza! And the worst is that even this they escalate to much worse forms with the 9000 Palestinians in israeli dungeons (almost 400 children)!

[Hussein of the south @EyesOnSouth1]

The moment Zionists massacred a team of rescue workers in a double tap.

First they killed a father and his daughter, then bombed a medical team that arrived on the scene with their ambulance