Like so many others I’ve moved over to bluesky and currently code switching. Eventually I guess this account will wither. So come over to the bright side and follow me there at @historymatterssyd.bsky.social - as usual, I had to make it complicated.

When it comes to Israel, the BBC is too frightened to accurately report the news – even when we can all see what happened with our own eyes. Israeli soldiers were caught on CCTV executing two Palestinian men in the West Bank, shooting them in the back after they had surrendered

When the 2004 tsunami struck, racism in Sri Lanka prevented aid from reaching Tamil regions. More than 20 years later, another disaster, and once again Tamils are being neglected by the state.

Australia must stand with the courageous Palestinian people as they suffer under Israel’s brutal illegal occupation. Israel must withdraw from all Palestinian territories, and pay reparations. 🇦🇺 🇵🇸 #IsraeliTerrorism #EndTheOccupation #FreePalestine

.@rachshabi: "UNICEF have issued this report, 280 Palestinian deaths & 672 injuries since the pause began. That is not a ceasefire, if that many people are being killed there is no way you can describe that as a ceasefire. Israel is continuing unimpeded to violate the ceasefire"

I join UN experts in condemning ongoing ceasefire violations in Lebanon by Israel, including possible war crimes against civilians

Shocking but true. With its security-first, capital-driven model of foreign control, Res 2803 puts Gaza in the hands of a puppet administration, with the US as the new manager of an open-air prison, further crushing Palestine's right to self-determination and any path to peace.

Breaking: Coalition of 9 Jewish groups urge the Aus Govt to reject the plan proposed by Australia’s Special Envoy to Combat Antisemitism (ASECA plan). ‘It warns that the plan risks undermining Australia’s democratic freedoms like freedom of expression and will not combat

One year postdoc in Australian history at Sydney Uni - details below. It’s a very short window - please spread among networks Might suit someone already in the GLAM sector who wants to work on their research/practice - all applications welcome of course https://t.co/zjp5mE39qj

two years ago today, my open letter on ‘Israel, Palestine, Genocide and Toleration’ was published; it was read widely and translated into many languages, including Chinese, Arabic and Farsi, but it remains unanswered…

Hard to overstate how important this is: we've been told that USyd is an antisemitism hub, and Palestine supporters are the reason. That's been widely contested, incl. by Jewish people. Now, it turns out that the uni itself has *no evidence* of it, despite Zionist complaints.

🚨 Remembering the Jaffna exodus – 500,000 displaced On this day 30 years ago, over half a million Tamil men, women and children fled their homes in Jaffna as the Sri Lankan military launched a military offensive to capture the peninsula, under the leadership of then president

🎬 Tickets are still available for the next History Now presentation to hear Dr James Findlay speak about the research from his new book ‘Caught on Screen’ with historian Dr Sophie Loy Wilson This event will also be live-streamed so register your spot via https://t.co/dKtB2dtTZM

Israeli soldiers were caught on video raping a Palestinian captive last year, causing severe internal injuries. No one disputes the rape happened. Since then: - The Israeli military has launched a criminal probe into the *leaking* of the video. - Defence minister Israel Katz

Among the exhibitors at this festival of war next week is @Sydney_Uni. The uni markets itself as promoting 'leadership for good'. Apparently, in the midst of a genocide, that means hobnobbing with the war-mongers and arms-dealers profiting from it. https://t.co/VDOzODdKBr

So @abcnews are you still going to be insisting there’s no genocide, and we just need a balanced view? Or would you like a really good first hand look at the thousands of bodies of innocent civilians buried under the rubble. What will it take?

The Israeli military killed 46 Palestinian children overnight. That's 10 more than the total number of Israeli children killed on 7th October. Yet there was more outrage over the fictional beheadings of Israeli babies than these 46 kids. That's easy: because there's no outrage

You bombed civilian homes, including tents. You did so without any warning, in the middle of the night. You killed nearly 100 people, many of them little children sleeping in their beds. These are the facts. We have all had enough of your brazen lies.

devastating speech by the UN Under Secretary General for Humanitarian Affairs. "...death on this scale has a sound and a smell that does not leave you" "[in the West Bank] recently [Jewish] settlers abducted a 13 year old girl and her three-year-old brother. They were found

Let. Food. In. ICJ rules. By blocking aid and refusing access to media, Israel is trying to hide, and continue, its genocide in Gaza.

Poll: Australians overwhelmingly back sanctions on Israel 'Sizeable majority' of voters across political lines want Israel to end genocide in Gaza https://t.co/g1vMr9oxdq