Tarz Marcoola🕯

[Cheryl Kernot @cheryl_kernot]

Sharing this because the writer (Sun) makes some excellent points for us to consider.

[Antonella Illuminati 🥖 🌹 @JoanneHorniman]

The best time to expel the ambassador was 2 years ago. The next best time is now. How many lies from Israel will Australians accept?

Flotilla victim blaming. Time to expel Israel’s ambassador https://t.co/iWSKQ4TfTy via @MichaelWestBiz

[Sandra K Eckersley @SandraEckersley]

Hard to see how Pauline Hanson can rationalize her call for a ‘monoculture’ with trips to Israel and wearing an Israeli flag into the Australian Senate chamber. #auspol

[Rick @colonelhogans]

Barnaby Joyce is the JD Vance of Australian politics.

How quick their opinions change for money and power.

[- Cass @Cassandrasl99]

Anne Ally makes a good point.

Pauline talks about everything she wants to take away, but she doesn't talk about anything she wants to GIVE.

Fair.

[Ronni🧂Salt-WhoWroteGunnawahYeahThatOne @RonniSalt]

@ChiefDisrupter @janecody13 @peacenicsta I tend to agree with you, but my fear is that nobody in power or the media seems to be acknowledging the social media invasion on One Nation and the very real dangers of it

Look at Farrer. That seat was won on social media

[Oliver Janich @OliverJanich]

🔥Jewish Actor Mandy Patinkin (brillant in Homeland) gets really passionate about Gaza and the child killer Benjamin Netanyahu.

[mustafa yazıcı @myzccc]

İtalya Başbakanı Meloni:

"İsrail'i kırmızı çizgiyi aşmakla suçluyorum, Filistinli sivillerin katliamını kınıyorum ve İtalya'nın İsrail'e karşı Avrupa yaptırımlarını destekleyeceğini açıklıyorum."

[Mike Carlton @MikeCarlton01]

Speaking of “media freedom” has the National Press Club issued even the tiniest squeak of concern at Israel’s wholesale slaughter of journalists in Gaza and now Lebanon ?

[Ray Gatt @Gatty54]

@PressClubAust as a former journalist of 47 years I am appalled by your handling of Hanson yesterday. You allowed her to speak for too long then limited the amount of questions. Your failure not to condemn her for her attack on the journalist from the Guardian was disgraceful.

[Cheryl Kernot @cheryl_kernot]

The Bush Summit, Gina in a Stetson presenting Hanson with a toy bulldozer & asking all present to make bulldozer noises. 🥴
Now clearer than ever- Gina owns One Nation & Hanson echoes what Gina wants as policy. Horrifying.

[Tarz Marcoola🕯 @TMarcoola]

@cheryl_kernot @RonniSalt @peacenicsta Stunts they pull or when others respond to them, ON get LOTS of FREE publicity. Sadly, GetUp's well-intended action at the NPC will give ON days of PR.

And, responding specifically to ON's antics sends a subliminal message elevating its importance as a possible alternative govt.

[Ronni🧂Salt-WhoWroteGunnawahYeahThatOne @RonniSalt]

@peacenicsta I hear you about people not taking it seriously, I really do

The people manipulating One Nation at the moment are not incompetent idiots that just have the wrong ideas

They're highly competent monsters - and they're winning

[💧Mary Kostakidis @MaryKostakidis]

Good advice from an Israeli genocide scholar: sanction Israel @SenatorWong and @AlboMP

[Geoff Kitney @4mambo]

There was a time when other journalists would back a colleague subject to this type of abuse, or even walked out. Why the gutlessness yesterday?

[Rupert's Conscience @RupertsConscie1]

@PressClubAust Your failure to call out the murder of your colleagues in Lebanon and Gaza will shame you forever.

You also let a guest abuse and threaten one of the journalists who asked a question today.

[Solo Monk @JJKALE2]

"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."

- Ronni.

[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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[Omer Bartov عومر بَرتوف עמר ברטוב @bartov_omer]

"Israel has completely exhausted all credibility to ever again invoke the Holocaust."
In his new book, Israeli-American historian Omer Bartov leaves no room for doubt: the country where he was born is committing genocide in Gaza. In an interview with Expresso, he says that "the main enemy" of the Jewish state "is its own government." And he advocates European and American sanctions – not to punish Israel, but "to save it from itself."
https://t.co/xrtRs5FQgC