tim robertson

inderpendant jernalist and riter. send book deals to: [email protected]

[Ryan Grim @ryangrim]

Palestinians high schoolers in Gaza striving to be journalists so Israel is more likely to kill them and put them out of their misery. One of the most disturbing things I’ve ever heard.

[Latest in space @latestinspace]

15. Gaza (2023 - 2024) 🇵🇸

[Saul Staniforth @SaulStaniforth]

Israel has killed over 14,000 children. Murdered journalists. Attacked hospitals. Killed civilians holding up white flags. Bombed ambulances. Used starvation as a weapon of war.

"The US is preparing new sanctions on Iran"

[Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt @FranceskAlbs]

WHO says an increasing number of children in Gaza are on the brink of death due to acute hunger, with newborns “dying because of low birth weight”.

Meanwhile thousands of trucks with essential supplies have been blocked at Rafah for months.

[tim robertson @timrobertson12]

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[London Review of Books @LRB]

Shane Danielsen’s piece on the Berlin Film Festival was commissioned but rejected by the Australian magazine 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘔𝘰𝘯𝘵𝘩𝘭𝘺, for which he had served as film critic since 2017.

[tim robertson @timrobertson12]

the mental gymnastics it requires to be a liberal is quite something.

[Amro Ali @_amroali]

Alessandra Sanguinetti, "Portrait of Modern Palestinian Childhood," 2004.

[tim robertson @timrobertson12]

better not to state your anti-Palestinian editorial line publicly. that way editors can tweet about it without ever actually being accountable for what their publication does and doesn’t print.

[Rachel Withers @rachelrwithers]

People at the SMH/Age who can write about the war: Staff who have been on a paid junket to Israel

People at the SMH/Age who cannot write about the war: Staff who signed a letter calling for integrity, transparency & rigour, noting at least 53 journos have been killed

Seems fine

[Tom Gara @tomgara]

Doctors and nurses who could’ve fled but chose to stay with their patients and probably be killed as a result, it’s about as heroic a thing as humans are capable of

[Evan Hill @evanhill]

39 journalists have been killed in the first month of the Israel-Gaza War, the deadliest month since CPJ started keeping statistics in 1992.

34 were Palestinians; nearly all died from Israeli airstrikes, many in their homes with their families: https://t.co/UtbLDZjyBr

[Jessica Whyte @j_e_s_s_whyte]

Australia is sending humanitarian assistance to Gaza — to pay for body bags! This is what their ‘humanitarian’ concern amounts to.

[Norman Hermant @NormanHermant]

A week ago this story on @abcnews #abc730 featured powerful vision from #Gaza’s biggest hospital, & also a family struggling as the situation worsened.

I am very sad to report the Palestinian journalist who captured those images @RoshdiSarraj was killed over the weekend.

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[Democracy Now! @democracynow]

Veteran Haaretz journalist Amira Hass has reported from the Occupied Palestinian Territories for decades and says the Israeli public is "drunk with the will to take revenge" on Palestinians, spurred on by a far-right government dominated by "extreme fascist settlers."

[Mariam Barghouti مريم البرغوثي @MariamBarghouti]

BREAKING- for the first time in almost two decades, EREZ MILITARY CHECKPOINT is officially open in both directions into and outside the Gaza Strip.

[tim robertson @timrobertson12]

the funniest thing that no one is talking about is how small the porthole is.

[Samanth Subramanian @samanth_s]

Not one Indian writer, cricket or otherwise, has shown the appropriate level of anger / contempt for the sickening worship of Modi at the Ahmedabad Test.

Fortunately, there's Gideon Haigh.

[tim robertson @timrobertson12]

just heard someone say they have ‘pretty privilege’ and i’ve never felt more seen.

[tim robertson @timrobertson12]

@CharlieMcCormik haha that reminds me of this classic.

[tim robertson @timrobertson12]

why would anyone write - let alone publish - this?