Antony Loewenstein
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Independent journalist + written for NYT, Guardian etc + author ‘The Palestine Laboratory’ ( @paleslaboratory ) and others + @declassifiedaus
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My new book, “The Palestine Laboratory: How Israel Exports The Technology Of Occupation Around The World,” is released in May (
@VersoBooks
in the UK and US and
@scribepub
in Australia and New Zealand). It’s a global investigation that may shock you.
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Happy that my recent
@abcnews
interview on
#Israel
and
#Hamas
, which has gone truly viral as I’m receiving literally 1000s and 1000s of messages about it globally, is now translated into
#Arabic
:
#شاهد رد الصحفي الأسترالي اليهودي، الذي غطى معظم الحروب التي شهدتها #غزة، عن حقيقة ما يمر به أهل فلسطين وسوء الأوضاع في #قطاع_غزة!
#العرب_في_بريطانيا AUK
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The great
#Israeli
journalist Gideon Levy in
@haaretzcom
:
"An unbridled and terribly cruel attack against Gaza creates hatred of Israel at levels we've never seen before, in Gaza, in the West Bank, in the Palestinian diaspora, in the Arab world and everywhere in the world where
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"In less than a century, we [Jews] have moved from lighting candles against a backdrop of the [Nazi] genocide of Jews to a world in which there are Jews lighting candles to affirm, legitimize, and celebrate a genocide that they themselves are involved in committing [in Gaza]."
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Love to share the powerful opening sequence of the new film, ‘Not In My Name’, airing on
@ABCTV
on 5 May at 6.30pm on the Compass program.
It’s directed by the fantastic Brietta Hague.
It’s about Palestine, Gaza, critcal Judaism, my work and life et al.
I’m rapt to announce
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Excited to win this award for my book, The Palestine Laboratory - Australia's leading journalism award - as an independent journalist who's spent years investigating in Palestine/Israel + globally the reality of the Israeli arms industry and how it proliferates globally.
Thanks
The winner of the Walkley Book Award, supported by Banki Haddock Fiora is:
@antloewenstein
, ‘The Palestine Laboratory’,
@scribepub
.
#walkleys
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Overwhelmed with responses from Australia and globally to last night's
@ABCTV
film, Not In My Name, on my work and life and speaking out for Palestine.
Thanks to the massive number of people who've messaged me on various platforms, I'll try and respond to you all ASAP, and to the
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The ratings are in for last night's
@ABCTV
Compass, Not In My Name, and they're huge!
In the top 20 TV programs in Australia with TV reach of 651k people (and 347k national average audience). 1000s more online (and 50k views and growing on YouTube, mostly an international
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This Israeli fetishisation of destruction, soldiers in
#Gaza
filming their war crimes because they know that accountability is absent, is the sign of a deeply sick society.
I’ve said it for years but it’s never been more relevant; Israeli society has become radicalised. After
Exactly what Israel did to 530 Palestinian villages in 1948 "so that they would have nothing to come back to." Everything the IDF do every day in Gaza is a reminder that Israel is a state built on the ethnic cleansing of its Palestinian inhabitants.
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‘Not In My Name’ is the new film by Brietta Hague broadcasting on Australia’s
@ABCTV
Compass program on 5 May at 6.30pm AEST (and then online). For overseas readers, ABC is the Australian equivalent of the BBC.
The film is about Jewish dissent, my life and work, my journalism,
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It’s been a devastating week.
I’ve given many interviews but this one, with ABC Australia, has gone viral, around 4 million views (in English and Arabic).
I’m overwhelmed so forgive me if I haven’t responded to the 1000s of messages.
End the siege on Gaza:
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Suddenly the Western elites realise that decades of indulging
#Israeli
extremism leads to a Jewish state that ignores any and all suggestions (while still arming them to the teeth)?
Please, spare us the faux outrage. This is on you, Western “powers”:
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War criminals walk free in Australia, credibly accused of killings in
#Afghanistan
and beyond, but a whistle-blower and my friend is jailed.
Utterly shameful but reflective of the increasingly authoritarian turn of many Western states, desperate to silence critics of their power
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Let me guess that the official response from the Australian government,
@AlboMP
@SenatorWong
, will be “extreme concern” over the killings, and then proceeding to do absolutely nothing about it. Israel impunity only exists because states like
#Australia
have allowed it for decades
An Israeli attack on a vehicle south of Deir al-Balah in central Gaza has killed five aid workers affiliated with World Central Kitchen.
Four of the five killed are British, Australian, Polish and Palestinian.
According to the reports, the organisation was coordinating with
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A timely interview on the importance of standing up for principles over
#Israel
/
#Palestine
, despite the inevitable backlash if condemning
#Israeli
occupation, and thanks to my former publisher
@louiseadler
for supporting my early work on the Middle East when it would have been
The decision of three actors in the Sydney Theatre Company's new production of The Seagull to wear the keffiyeh during curtain call sparked a frenzy of condemnation from members of the Jewish community.
@latingle
spoke to
@louiseadler
.
#abc730
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As Israel becomes more extreme, in Gaza, the West Bank and beyond, deepening its repression of Palestinians, the country’s most rabid supporters in the West will also become more extreme, defending and supporting the indefensible.
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The invaluable
#Israeli
journalist Gideon Levy in
@haaretzcom
:
"We've never before had a war like this, a war of complete consensus, a war of total silence, a war of blind support; a war without objection, without protest, without refusal to serve, without opposition, neither in
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For international audiences, excited to share the just broadcast film on
@ABCTV
, Not In My Name, about critical Judaism, Palestine, Gaza + my work/life.
The response has been overwhelmingly positive in Australia and globally.
Watch and spread the word:
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The only acceptable Jew, according to this Murdoch man, is somebody who blindly supports Israel when it commits mass slaughter in
#Gaza
.
A noted case of racial profiling from a media outlet that specialises in quality commentary 🤣
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The great Israeli journalist Gideon Levy 👊🏼
This is such an extraordinary speech. I only ask of my followers to watch this. Then I leave you alone
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Weaponising anti-Semitism in the service of uncritical support for
#Israel
in Gaza (and beyond), and damning those who legitimately challenge Israeli actions, both defames Judaism and weakens the necessary fight against real anti-Semitism aka hatred of Jews for being Jews.
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The unwillingness to not just “demand” answers from
#Israel
, when an
#Australian
citizen is killed in
#Gaza
, but do something tangible. Eg. Stop military ties. Stop selling parts for Israeli weapons.
It ain’t hard but Canberra doesn’t have an independent foreign policy so…
.
@FergusonNews
interviews Prime Minister
@AlboMP
about the death of Australian aid worker Zomi Frankcom in Gaza.
#ABC730
[part 1 of 2]
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This is my first book, My Israel Question, published in 2006. It caused a storm, became a bestseller, was condemned in the Australian parliament and the pro-Israel lobby tried to get it banned + pulped. In many ways, it set me on a path for much of my work ever since.
The book
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Moves afoot in Europe:
"Belgian Prime Minister Alexander De Croo is attempting to advance a joint action with several other European countries to impose economic sanctions on Israel, due to the ongoing war in Gaza and Israel's threat to launch a military operation in Rafah.
"De
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Jewish fury? At the mass violence in Gaza and the west bank?
No, Australia’s unelected Jewish establishment is upset that the country’s leading union is calling for legitimate sanctions and boycotts against the Israeli government.
Front page ‘news’ today in Murdoch’s Australian
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It's really hard to see why so many pro-Israel activists have utterly lost the war of ideas and legitimacy when this is their "thinking" 🤦♀️:
"Even if, heaven forbid, the IDF were to kill hundreds of thousands more Gazan civilians in a final bid to eliminate Hamas, the mass
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“The Biden administration has been providing Israel with the location of humanitarian groups in Gaza for weeks to prevent strikes against their facilities. But Israel has continued to hit such sites.”
U.S. has sent Israel data on aid group locations to try to prevent strikes
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I look forward to the
#Australian
Prime Minister expressing his support and concern for the
#Palestinians
in Gaza any moment now, a population that’s been under an illegal
#Israeli
and
#Egyptian
siege for nearly 20 years.
No concerns for them, apparently.
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Australia isn’t just dragging its feet on refugees from
#Gaza
but deliberately refusing to give them both certainty and true support:
Home Affairs confirmed this morning that ZERO humanitarian visas have been granted to ppl fleeing Gaza.
Only tourist visas are being offered.
Of the 2,191 ppl here on a tourist visa, only SIX have been granted a bridging visa with work & medicare rights.
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BREAKING STORY:
Our world exclusive story
@DeclassifiedAus
on the US intelligence base based in
#Australia
, Pine Gap, being used by
#Israel
in its war against
#Hamas
/
#Gaza
.
So many questions raised around legality, morality and accountability.
Please share far and wide.
This is my latest investigation for Declassified Australia. 👇👇
It reveals the secret role that Pine Gap spy base plays in the Israeli war against Gaza, intercepting communications and geolocating targets for destruction.
TARGETING PALESTINE
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For Australian audiences, here’s the just broadcast film, Not In My Name, on
@ABCTV
about Israel, Palestine, Gaza, my work and life and the growth in necessary Jewish dissent:
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Tonight on Australia’s ABCTV news, broadcast around the country and online, this story appeared which discussed the forthcoming
@ABCTV
documentary on Compass on 5 May at 6.30pm, ‘Not In My Name’.
It features my friend from Gaza, Mariam Dawwas, the grim situation in Palestine and
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Growing numbers of
#Jews
globally and in
#Australia
actively oppose
#Israeli
actions, in
#Gaza
, the
#WestBank
and beyond, and demand equal rights for
#Palestinians
+ end to the occupation. These voices should be elevated. Far too few
#Jews
think like this, but it’s growing
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The pro-Israel lobby claims that the Jewish community speaks in one voice. Untrue. Many Jews know that dehumanizing Palestinians makes us all unsafe.
My comments today to
@Samantha__Lock
at
@AAPNewswire
:
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Words fail. Mass targeting of civilians.
Don’t look away.
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Israeli newspaper
@haaretzcom
today:
"The security establishment and the State Attorney's Office are concerned that the International Court of Justice at the Hague will charge Israel with genocide in the Gaza Strip – this at the request of South Africa, which petitioned the court
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The kind of persistent questioning of officialdom which is almost unheard of in the mainstream media.
Bravo
@samhusseini
:
Journalist
@samhusseini
just put a Pentagon spokesman on notice that he and other Biden administration officials face prosecution of war crimes and genocide.
"You bomb hospital after hospital, bakery after bakery, and you keep pretending you're just after the military"
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Mass hysteria, ignorance, historical myopia and racism has enveloped
#Germany
since 7 October (though these issues existed long before then).
As a German citizen, I’m disgusted by this and refute it completely:
“Free Palestine is the new Heil Hitler” says Germany’s Welt, one of the biggest newspapers of the country
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The Australian government has long sent weapons and defence equipment to Israel. Foreign Minister
@SenatorWong
needs to detail what’s sold and how’s it’s used by Israel.
Simple, legitimate questions.
Enough with the faux political outrage:
Penny Wong just accused me of trying to make a political issue of Australian exports of weapons to Israel - as if this country making $$ from war crimes is somehow above politics?
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Todays Murdoch Australian front page.
It would be way easier and cheaper to just republish Israeli press releases instead of this ‘journalism’:
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The former treasurer of Australia just couldn’t find the time to mention Kissinger’s complicity in countless crimes against humanity from Chile to Indonesia and Vietnam to Cambodia.
Vale Dr Henry Kissinger. An intellectual powerhouse and diplomatic trailblazer.
Like his academic subject Bismarck, he was a keen exponent of Realpolitik and his recent warnings about the dangerous state of great power relations should be heeded.
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My story explains that the western obsession with Netanyahu is a convenient distraction from a darker reality; much of Israeli society shares his extreme views and policies on Palestinians:
"Israel finds itself in a situation that’s precarious and in unchartered territory... There’s no coming back from this moment, no wishing for a lost past of fanciful cohabitation with Palestinians"
✍️ Opinion by Antony Loewenstein
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“I think without Israel, there’s not a Jew in the world who’s secure."
President Joe Biden just now when talking to
#Netanyahu
in NYC.
This statement is simply untrue as Israel and its endless occupation of
#Palestine
has undeniably increased insecurity for Jews across the globe.
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"Israel has become a pariah state more than ever before. Reports from Gaza present a barbaric reality. The world sees it and feels loathing. How could it not? Polls of young people in the United States, including young Jews, should horrify Israel. Hamas is more popular among them
The legitimization of evil will remain with Israelis long after the war in Gaza ends .
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Eyewitness testimony, building on other evidence, that Israel is using/testing new weapons in Gaza, some of which will soon be marketed/sold globally as ‘battle-tested’:
Dr. Ghassan Abu Sitta talks to
@MonaOmary
about the Us-made “Ninja rocket” which he suspects was used in the Israeli bombing of Al-Ahli Hospital
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Excited to share a new trailer for the upcoming documentary, ‘Not In My Name’, broadcast on
@ABCTV
and iview at 6.30pm AEST on the Compass program on 5 May.
The talented director is Brietta Hague.
Mariam Dawwas is an old friend from Gaza who recently arrived in Australia with
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Encouraging that the concept of the “Palestine laboratory” is spreading around the world, explaining so much about
#Israel
’s so-called defence sector and export of repression globally:
No surprise at all most spyware comes from Israel, the global nerve centre of repressive technology, tested in the "Palestine laboratory."
The Parliament's position on it should be: No sale of it. No use of it. Full stop. The end. It's not abuse that's the problem. It's use.
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Israel has no strategy in Gaza beyond mass destruction and yet it’s most vocal supporters in the West still just offer blind support for a flailing government who have clearly not learned anything from US/Israeli counter-insurgency failures in Vietnam, Iraq, Afghanistan, Lebanon
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My ABC Australia (
@abcnews
) interview today on
#Hamas
and
#Israel
and how the Western media routinely (and falsely) equates occupied and occupier:
Excellent context from writer and journo
@antloewenstein
on repercussions of the longest ever occupation. “Eventually people will snap”
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This is how the
#Israeli
defence sector has worked for years, using
#Palestine
as a laboratory for new weapons and surveillance tech. Many nations, democracies and dictatorships, have long admired
#Israel
’s occupation because it allows them to buy “battle-tested” weapons.
US
🚨Israel has turned Gaza into an experimentation lab for its weapons' "startups"; top venture capital funds in the Silicon Valley are pouring money into these companies that are "field-testing" their dystopian weapons on the Gazan population; profits & sales are soaring!
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A remarkable film and a powerful speech in the name of humane Judaism:
Jonathan Glazer’s acceptance speech for Best International Film for ‘THE ZONE OF INTEREST’ at the
#Oscars
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Todays Murdoch Australian newspaper with a toxic dose of dehumanization, inaccuracy and hysteria:
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In the history of the century+ old conflict between Jews and Palestinians in the Middle East, this current moment is inarguably one of the most consequential and bloody.
The brutal deaths caused by Hamas on the Israeli side inside Israel, on 7 October, were unprecedented in the
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Some of my words during my speech at today’s rally in Sydney for
#Palestine
and an end to the war on
#Gaza
:
@LyndaJune1
@AlboMP
@efanlyons
@pagsydney
“The Jewish establishment wants you to believe we are united on this issue.
“I say to my fellow journalists, it should not be hard to humanise Palestinians.
“Ceasefire is only the first step. The siege on Gaza must end.”
–
@antloewenstein
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Today’s Murdoch Australian newspaper.
We know how the US responded post 9/11, indiscriminately and futilely.
Israel is being encouraged to act similarly.
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Vital to hear the
#Palestinian
POV, not for “balance” but to understand what decades of
#Israeli
occupation does to a community both in
#Palestine
and globally.
@RandaAFattah
@iamthenas
and so many more are available and ready to go
@ABCthedrum
@abcnews
@theprojecttv
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Saw
@IsraelismFilm
this week and it’s powerful doc about young Jews waking up to the lies that’ve been told about
#Israel
,
#Palestine
and the occupation. For too long, Jewish identity has been defined as militant nationalism in the service of occupation. No more.
Watch it now!
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In my book, The Palestine Laboratory, I investigate the huge amount of pressure placed on social media companies by Israel to censor pro-Palestine content (with many companies more than happy to oblige).
Unsurprisingly, the situation hasn't changed at all since 7 October. If
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Assange is the most significant Western journalist of the 21st century, releasing more information about the US empire and its tentacles than anyone else.
That’s why he’s been targeted by the US and its obedient client state,
#Australia
:
Julian Assange is a political prisoner, and the sole reason he remains a political prisoner is because the White House remains afraid of his voice.
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Mainstream Australian politicians are some of the most spineless when discussing Israel 🤬
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"We refuse the false choice between Jewish safety and Palestinian freedom; between Jewish identity and ending the oppression of Palestinians.”
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My
@scribepub
@VersoBooks
title, The Palestine Laboratory, is exploding globally because people are hungry for reliable information about
#Palestine
and
#Israel
's surveillance architecture (in Palestine and worldwide).
Here's just one example of what this means practically. This
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Honoured to win this award, a people’s vote on my work and
@scribepub
@VersoBooks
book that investigates the realities of
#Israel
’s ugly occupation of Palestine:
To kick us off,
@antloewenstein
's The Palestine Laboratory: How Israel Exports the Technology of Occupation Around the World has won the People's Choice Award. (
@paleslaboratory
@scribepub
)
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Bravo
@jewishcouncilAU
for articulating the importance of critical Jewish voices at a time when virtually every mainstream establishment Jewish group backs endless Israeli violence, endangering us all:
A fresh Jewish voice: the new Australian group opposing antisemitism – and Israel’s conduct
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"A population transfer, as silent as it is violent, is proceeding here unimpeded. The ethnic cleansing of the Jordan Valley is at its height. Since the start of the war, inhabitants of at least 18 pastoral communities have abandoned their homes in the West Bank, driven out by
18 West Bank shepherding communities have been recently erased. This one might be next .
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So great to see this vital film get the attention it deserves. More and more Jews are turning away from a Jewish identity that believes that backing occupation of
#Palestinians
is the only way to be truly Jewish. Utter nonsense and dangerous.
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A major and growing issue at Facebook/Meta is the huge amount of content being censored/shadow-banned when supporting
#Palestine
.
As I investigate in my book, none of this is accidental but a deliberate strategy to follow the US State Department line on many issues around the
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Palestinian historian Rashid Khalidi on
@democracynow
:
"Over 2 million people have been forced to leave their homes. This is the largest displacement in Palestinian history. The killing of 20,000 people, almost half of whom are children, is unprecedented in Palestinian history.
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The US is the world’s only superpower and yet it’s apparently unable to exert serious influence on
#Israeli
actions in
#Gaza
.
Don’t believe it for a second. This is a conscious choice by the Biden Administration:
Biden administration officials say Israel’s counterattack against Hamas has been too severe and too costly in civilian casualties, but they are unable to exert significant influence on America’s closest ally in the Middle East to change its course.
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My article explaining how
#Israel
is using the “war on terror” playbook, originally crafted by them in the 1980s in
#Lebanon
, to fight an endless war that’ll enrich defence contractors and the arms industry:
When it comes to the Israeli-led ‘war on terror’, follow the money —
#AJOpinion
by
@antloewenstein
.
🔗:
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Just signed this important petition:
Australian Jews Call for Ceasefire in Gaza
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Big fan of this by the always sublime
@thejuicemedia
.
Thanks for asking my advice on the content 💪🏼
The Government™ has made an ad about what's happening in Israel & Gaza and it's surprisingly honest and informative 🇮🇱 🇵🇸
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Many
#Australian
media outlets have failed spectacularly in humanising Palestinians. For many journalists/editors, Palestinian lives don’t matter:
“The big Australian newspapers we looked at have failed to cover the Gaza conflict fairly, in terms of giving equal weight to the victims on each side, with the Nine papers not too bad, but The Australian failing in spectacular fashion.”
#MediaWatch
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Australia’s willful complicity in Israeli war crimes is clear for all to see.
That international rules based order works well, if you’re a favored nation.
For the rest, Western hypocrisy is clear:
Concerned our Defence Minister
@RichardMarlesMP
has not had any training in
#IHL
. What seems to be the disgraceful response from many Western politicians is “we can’t judge” also repeated by
@SenatorWong
. As Third States we have obligations under the
#GenevaConventions
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The sheer terrier unleashed by Israel.
This has nothing to do with making Israel safer. It’s pure vengeance.
“Pure panic everywhere you look.”
Inside the Gaza siege - a resident’s eyewitness report by Yousef Hammash.
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"“The rigor, scale and speed of the destruction of the structures necessary for survival [in Gaza], and enforcement of the siege, surpasses any other case of man-made famine in the last 75 years,” said Alex de Waal, an expert on humanitarian crises and international law at Tufts
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"Citing estimates of damage to urban areas, military analysts say the destruction of northern Gaza in less than seven weeks has approached that caused by the years-long carpet-bombing of German cities during the second world war. “Dresden, Hamburg, Cologne — some of the world’s
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A remarkable piece of FOI sleuthing, completely missing from the mainstream media, by the great
@KellieTranter
.
In this piece she uncovers the vast array of information that
#Australia
knew about
#Israeli
conduct in
#Gaza
since 7 October.
Canberra’s complicity seems clear:
EXCLUSIVE:
We're publishing an explosive story by
@KellieTranter
that details, via her extensive FOI work, that
#Australia
knew soon after 7 October that
#Israel
was likely committing genocide in
#Gaza
.
And has done nothing about it:
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As I detail in my book, The Palestine Laboratory, Israel is a model for the global anti-Semitic far-right, an embrace welcomed by successive Israeli governments (and wilfully ignored by most in the Western Jewish establishment):
"Siding with Israel and the European Jews is also
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Some of my words during my speech at a massive rally today in Sydney 👊🏼
@LyndaJune1
@AlboMP
@efanlyons
@pagsydney
“The Jewish establishment wants you to believe we are united on this issue.
“I say to my fellow journalists, it should not be hard to humanise Palestinians.
“Ceasefire is only the first step. The siege on Gaza must end.”
–
@antloewenstein
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How the vast majority of the Israeli media are willing propagandists in service of the state, military and the country's arms trade:
"In almost every case I investigated, the IDF Spokesperson spread false information which was then parroted — without attribution and in an
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The ongoing torture of Julian Assange, beautifully captured and explained by journalist Chris Hedges (who was invited and then denied access to the wedding between Julian and
@StellaMoris1
).
Cruelty is the point but the
#Wikileaks
record speaks volumes
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Jonathan Pollak in the Israeli newspaper
@haaretzcom
:
"The data shows that administrative detention, this so-called extreme of extremes, is now the norm. According to Israeli Prison Service numbers, Israel now holds 7016 people who have not yet been convicted in its jails –
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Deeply disappointing and myopic response from somebody who should know way better.
And yet here we are 🤬
Israel has a right to defend itself against Hamas. But innocent Palestinians also have a right to life and security. I’m calling for a humanitarian pause by all parties so that critical aid can be delivered to the suffering people of Gaza and for the immediate release of all
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We’re honoured to publish this searing essay on media complicity in war by the late, great John Pilger. Its relevance couldn’t be more timely:
Declassified Australia proudly publishes John Pilger's final essay.
He investigates why there is in the media ‘a silence filled by a consensus of propaganda’, as the world's two greatest powers draw closer to conflict.
‘THERE IS A WAR COMING, SHROUDED IN PROPAGANDA’
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One of the world's experts on terrorism, Robert Pape:
"Israel is hardly the first country to err by placing excessive faith in the coercive magic of airpower. History shows that the large-scale bombing of civilian areas almost never achieves its objectives. Israel would have been
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An extraordinary session, I’ve rarely spoken to a bigger audience with people packed in every free space, to talk openly about the global dangers posed by Israel’s endless occupation of Palestine.
The response to my comments here in India have been overwhelming with many
Completely rammed Durbar Hall
@JaipurLitFest
for a panel to discuss
@antloewenstein
's Palestine Laboratory with
@NavtejSarna
@CharlesMGlass
@Kaibird123
, chaired by
@suhasinih
Anthony Lowenstein opens by declaring simply "More Palestinians have been killed and displaced in the
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A moving clip from Pilger’s classic 2002 film on
#Palestine
reminds me of what we’re seeing today in
#Gaza
, rampant destruction and cultural desecration committed by
#Israeli
troops:
very sad to hear of John Pilger's passing, the greatest documentarian of his generation, despised by the media and political class for exposing their craven cowardice and propaganda with his brilliant work and by his own example. From his 2002 "Palestine is Still the Issue":
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Glad to engage with 100s of teachers from across the state to talk Israel, Palestine, anti-semitism and Islamophobia and not being afraid to speak truths on the Middle East:
So amazing to have
@antloewenstein
in the
@TeachersFed
house this morning to talk to us on
#gaza
and his book The Palestine Laboratory which just won
@walkleys
award!
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"More than two million US workers are employed by the weapons industry, which produces over 80% of all of Israel’s arms imports, including “precision guided munitions, small diameter bombs, artillery, ammunition, Iron Dome interceptors and other critical equipment,” according to
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This is how the Palestine laboratory works.
#Israel
has sold weapons to the majority of nations on the planet in the last 50+ years, including some of the very worst human rights abusers on the planet.
Just the latest example here:
Israel just sold $1.2 billion in missile defense systems to Azerbaijan, weeks after the US approved an additional $14 billion in aid to Israel because Israel said it needed to expand its missile defense capabilities
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Important legal action that aims to expose the
#Australian
government’s complicity with
#Israel
since 7 October:
BREAKING: We're supporting
@alhaq_org
@AlMezanCenter
&
@pchrgaza
in this landmark legal action in the Federal Court to gain access to permits allowing the export of arms material to Israel granted by the Australian Minister of Defence since 7 October.
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