"Fools lament the decay of criticism. For its day is long past. Criticism is a matter of correct distancing. It was at home in a world where perspectives and prospects counted and where it was still possible to take a standpoint." —Walter Benjamin, One-Way Street

The NSW Govt has lost another expensive legal challenge for its poorly thought out knee-jerk anti-protest laws. It’s a good outcome, but the community shouldn’t have to keep footing the bill for Minns Labor government brain farts.

The racist and incompetent NSW Police even counted *Islamophobic* incidents as antisemitic, giving the government the excuse it needed to go after the Palestine solidarity movement. If facts mattered in politics, laws would change and heads would roll. https://t.co/3WVYeBtUcD

this is staggering. the NSW government used attacks falsely labelled antisemitic -- including Islamophobic attacks -- to demonise pro-Palestinian protests and rush through "hate speech" laws to stop them

These are incredible people.

Pleased to share a video of my address to the National Press Club of Australia - "Palestinian Statehood - Necessary but Insufficient" https://t.co/z7WwYjtyv2

Today we remember 11 September 1973, where Chile’s democratically elected Allende govt. was overthrown in a military coup backed by Washington and facilitated by Australia’s intelligence services. The result was Pinochet’s dictatorship that killed and tortured thousands. 🧵👇

Kirsten Gillibrand (who's in charge of electing more Senate Democrats) insists "9 out of 10 Democrats are pro-Israel." 8% of Democrats support Israel's war on Gaza. 75% oppose sending more military aid to Israel. 63% think the US supports Israel too much. https://t.co/0MzbWdfsjh

Minns essentially gave the police carte blanche to brutalise protesters with his draconian laws making it illegal to express dissent against the govt. Ms Thomas was then bashed by the police. I hope she gets $millions in her suit. https://t.co/GbEGJO5wSl

US Navy Seals murdered civilians. This is a war crime. THEN, it was covered up…by Democrats…let that sink in. But somehow, North Korea are the bad guys

The operation fell apart…? They murdered civilians! That’s a war crime! And somehow North Korea are the bad people

Great report by @972mag which shows that 75% of Palestinian hostages in Israel are just civilians, and suffering under deplorable conditions @yuval_abraham https://t.co/AV01hUu2er

Cartoonist @cathywilcox1 deserves a bouquet of flowers, a pack of Tim Tams, a nice cuppa (and anything else she wants) for this outstanding accurate painfully true commentary. #AlwaysWasAlwaysWillBe #auspol

Imagine winning re-election in a landslide victory, winning 94 seats (the LNP Opposition has 43) and the PM refuses to act on important issues that got him re-elected. #auspol

“Unless world powers, including the United States, make Israel stop, this next phase of fighting could usher in the end of collective Palestinian life in the strip.” Our latest Gaza statement ⁦@CrisisGroup⁩

Having said that, while I’m not opposed to the idea of government funding and driving critical areas of innovation, government should definitely not be in the business of ‘picking winners’

As a person in the innovation industry, I’ve often called into question the prevailing models in the West

Drug trafficking is a crime, not an act of war. Traffickers must be arrested, not summarily executed, which U.S. forces just illegally did.

Nazis on the streets. If only we had an antisemitism envoy.

NEW | The world's leading genocide scholars' association has overwhelmingly passed a resolution saying that the legal criteria have been met to establish that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza. Eighty-six per cent of those who voted among the 500-member International

Time the media stopped treating Katter as an amusing , knockabout larrikin. He’s a boor, an ignoramus and a hayseed pain-in-the-arse.