rules-based international order

It’s true, reporting on a government that has killed almost 20,000 people since October 7 is the same as *checks notes* reporting on the tenth movie in the Fast series.

ACTION: Join me in urging the Australian Government to support South's Africa's ICJ case against Israeli genocide apan.org.au/support-south-…

1. every week there are more & more (highly visible, always welcomed) jews present at these protests. 2. there's a genocide happening. starvation. amputations without anaesthetic. on and on. we all need to think about we are called to do in this moment. theage.com.au/world/middle-e…

The Labor MP Josh Wilson has broken ranks with the government, condemning Israel’s bombardment of Gaza as “unconscionable” and declaring that the besieged territory is “being bombed into rubble”. #Gaza_Genocide #Palestine_Genocide apple.news/AkkA3ZKIEQTKik…

An astonishing essay by Madoc Cairns situating the life and work of JGA Pocock against the violent upheavals of American history. The latest instalment of a genre-defying series on key thinkers and intellectuals: newstatesman.com/the-weekend-es…

Malnourished, homeless, orphaned: The horrors for Gaza’s children. A nurse does ops on 6 dead pregnant women to save their babies. Rarely, if ever, has any country killed, injured & orphaned as many children as quickly as Israel is right now. My new column abc.net.au/news/2024-02-1…

National Apology Day rings especially hollow on a day in which not only are Aboriginal children being removed from their families at higher rates than ever, but our government is also complicit in the genocide of Palestinian children and their families.

The Council is alarmed that some Jewish organisations have been lobbying for the Australian government to refuse entry to people seeking safety from Gaza and have  mobilized anti-Palestinian racism and sentiment to do so.

What I find “interesting” about all this is that the President & Chancellor concluded that I’m antisemitic before initiating an investigation. I also find it interesting that they shared this with the media immediately after informing me I was suspended. Character assassination?

Don't want to share that picture of the First Nations kids tied up for a minor infraction. But you can't tell me that would happen to kids of any other group. It is a product of the entitlement and possessiveness of settler colonialism.

Today the Victorian Ombudsman released a scathing report on the state of prison healthcare. It comes over one year after the findings in Veronica Nelson's Inquest. How many more Aboriginal people need to die in prison for the Victorian Government to act? @thevalsmob

What have we, in Australia, learnt in the past few days? (And by learnt what I really mean is what have we not learnt despite over two decades of activists, scholars, lawyers and community writing and speaking about this?) A 🧵

FOR IMMEDIATE CIRCULATION Statement on the Arrest of Hebrew University Professor Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian Around 5 pm on Thursday, April 18, 2024, Hebrew University professor and internationally renowned feminist scholar Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian was arrested by Israeli police

I'm an ARC Future Fellow in Sociology, multi-award winning author of 14 books, former lawyer, an Australian Muslim Palestinian Egyptian intimately connected with grassroots community- and yet in the past 7 months I have had a mere 1 invitation for an interview across all

And I am FROM Gaza was in Gaza just before October 7 yet I only got a couple of short news interviews and certainly no panel invites and no room to offer analysis. Just the same old show us your dead and dying human stories… also I was dropped after being invited on 7:30…

#BREAKING: More than 350 academics and professional staff have signed an open letter in support of students at the pro-Palestine encampments "We reject the characterisation of these peaceful and urgent student-led protests and encampments as antisemitic" docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAI…

#JusticeforConstanceWatcho ~ End the Enforced Dissapearances and Murders of Aboriginal Women

‘A Statement From Central Australian Men’ Earlier this month, over 50 Aboriginal men from across Central Australia gathered at Tilmouth Well (Ilewerr) in the Northern Territory to discuss the return of unprovenanced men’s sacred objects from international museums.