Louise Adler
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Have we learned nothing from the horrors of the 20th century ? Do we need to be reminded of the Vel d’hiv roundup in occupied Paris in 1942 or the Santiago stadium in Pinochet’s Chile 1973 ?
#NotInMyName
🚨 MASS DETENTIONS
Alarming footage of Israeli forces turning a stadium in Gaza into a mass detention camp. The video shows the detention of hundreds of civilians, including women, elders, and babies.
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Another word salad from
@ScottMorrisonMP
“I couldn’t have been clearer in denunciating” the protests .
@abcnews
Conflating “denouncing” with “enunciating” . You don’t need Freud to understand the mixed message
#auspol
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Worth noting those now canceling their donations, withdrawing support of artists whose views they don’t share is that there was not a whisper of outrage when most arts org in the country declared
#WeStandWithUkraine
. So some wars against occupation are kosher and others aren’t?
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@adelwritersweek
My father, Jacques Adlersztejn ( code name Jtrois ), aged 15, in the Jewish section of the resistance.This is what fighting against the occupation looked like in Paris, in 1943. To resist occupation & oppression is to fight for universal emancipation .
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@latingle
spot on yet again:“it has taken the killing of foreign nationals, including Australian Zomi Frankcom,rather than the killing of countless Palestinians, to apparently tip governments over into straight outrage.”
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The formidable Miriam Margolyes OBE shows us moral clarity and courage when hypocrisy and geopolitical interests ensure too many western leaders turn a blind eye as 33,000+ innocent Gazans are killed .
The indomitable Miriam Margolyes OBE has a message in support of the Jewish Council! She calls for all of us Jews to “shout, beg, scream for a ceasefire”
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All due respect to hard working & rigorous journalists
@abcnews
@BreakfastNews
@RNBreakfast
@RNDrive
@abc730
but given the detailed reportage on Ukraine,surely we need some analysis from experts who actually understand Russia? Or is there only one narrative in this crisis?
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@adelwritersweek
there are at least two certainties about Israel’s war against the Palestinian people: carpet bombing will not “eradicate” Hamas and those children who have not been killed will be the militants of the future.
#NotInMyName
Israel is fostering the next generation of hatred against itself .
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Even if your moral compass is so skewed all you care about is Israel’s peace and security, how is this war in its long term interests?Over one hundred days into the war, Israel destroying Gaza’s food system and weaponizing food, say UN human rights experts
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@DanielAndrewsMP
says “politics have never mattered less to me”, this is real leadership while political opportunists and lickspittles in the commentariat exploit the moment while the community manages life during a health crisis
@mjrowland68
@abc730
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@NaomiAKlein
makes a powerful argument in favour of boycotting Israeli institutions. “If not now, when?” We have a tool to stop Israel’s war crimes: BDS
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@Milliganreports
another devastating report which should be mandatory viewing
@4corners
. In prosperous Australia where white people have access to excellent health care First Australians are given panadol, told to go home and die of conditions that are treatable.
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So Shabak , (aka the Shin Bet) which is the Israeli intelligence service is monitoring pro and anti-Israel social media with the help of “teams” here in Australia , attempting to defend the indefensible.
Another WhatsApp leak of Aus Zionists. This one has 600 “academics and creatives”. It’s full of the usual targeted reporting of “pro-Palestinian” people, then there’s this: Project Oct 7th, an initiative with the Israeli govt, and 8200 developers, trying to game the algorithm.
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Let’s join the dots peeps:
#IsraelLobby
didn’t appreciate the forensic reporting
@crikey_news
of allegations of chants (which would vile if accurate) of “gas the Jews” at a demo? And then
@abcnews
sacks
@antoinette_news
. Mere coincidence?
@cameronwilson
I am very disappointed by the ABC’s decision today.
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Asking for a friend : why do blokes assume they are entitled to two armrests?
#CrankyKaren
@Qantas
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@Milliganreports
this book explains
#CardinalPell
. Thinking of the victims of the Church for whom the justice has never been forthcoming. The abuse, the lack of moral leadership,relentless haggling over compensation is a shame that the Church leaders will wear forever .
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@CIJ_ICJ
the Irish rep arguing Israel is guilty of serious breaches of international law including the obligation to respect the right of the Palestinian people to self-determination.Yet again the moral clarity of the Irish puts the rest of the western “leadership” to shame .
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“Animal feed”? And the international community is still unwilling to intervene? When will sanctions be applied to Israel (as per Russia) as it destroys Palestinian lives and livelihoods. Gaza residents surviving off animal feed and rice as food dwindles
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In these dark times it’s important to read beyond the mostly ill-informed media and turn to historians of the stature of
#ProfessorAviShlaim
All that remains
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“ we stand with humanity”
@edhusicMP
describing Gazan parents writing the names of their children on the soles of their feet in case they are killed . A rare moment of moral clarity from our politicians
@RNBreakfast
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@adelwritersweek
a few attendees have been aggrieved by the absence of a “pro-Israel” speaker. This is a book festival, we invite credible & authoritative writers who are recently published. It is noteworthy that there has been a glaring absence of such potential invitees.
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@Milliganreports
another devastating insight into the Catholic Church , Opus Dei and its pernicious and destructive influence over schoolchildren with evidence provided by courageous and articulate ex-students
@4corners
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@Tony_Burke
announcing atists are “essential workers” and are “required “, what a remarkable change in language, with the conviction and funding to back up the rhetoric
#NationalCulturalPolicy
@AlboMP
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@JoshBBornstein
says it all really
@marquelawyers
@juliahbanks
@TurnbullMalcolm
@Milliganreports
@ABCmediawatch
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#TonyKushner
on
#JonathanGlazer
"What he was saying is so simple: that Jewishness,Jewish identity,Jewish history,the history of the Holocaust,the history of Jewish suffering, must not be used in the campaign as an excuse for a project of dehumanizing or slaughtering other people”
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Sometimes we have to look at the work of our best best cartoonists like
@cathywilcox1
who dare to speak the truth when too many of us remain silent in the face of the horror of this war.
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I am in awe at the way
@cathywilcox1
goes to the heart of the matter . Nothing mere needs to be said
@cathywilcox1
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The grandiose fantasies of self promoting, self aggrandising, self-described “creatives”. Career self-doxxers suddenly publicity shy? Gotta laugh. My transparency is your doxxing: Hypocrisy and power on display from Labor and the media via
@crikey_news
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And art is not political ?
#Seagull
@SydneyTheatreCo
The IDF raided the renowned Jenin cultural institution
@freedom_theatre
while children looked on "screaming and crying." Staff were seized, detained and tortured, while the theater was trashed and robbed. Artistic director Ahmed Tobasi describes the ordeal.
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@murpharoo
thanks for this gem: “lockdowns used to be terrible: a lazy assertion of latent communism by premiers too incompetent to have efficient contact tracing. But lockdowns are OK now, necessary, even. Do keep up everyone“.
#auspol
@GuardianAus
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I proudly published the impeccably researched
#Cardinal
#Witness
@HachetteAus
by award winning, scrupulously honest,
@Milliganreports
one of the most hard working journalist in the business.
@4corners
Greatest enemy of truth is those who conspire to lie ”
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We have arrived at the point where
#Glazer
, the director of
@ZoneOfInterest
, is vilified for his
#Oscar
speech . Here’s what he said:“All our choices were made to reflect and confront us in the present, not to say look what they did then, but rather look what we do now.
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@ellenmfanning
all credit to you and
@bairdjulia
and the brilliant team of producers
#TheDrum
for the civil and generous discussion that brought new voices with expertise together night after night. You will be missed .
I’m about to record my final edition of
#TheDrum
It’s been a privilege to join people who look and sound like our wonderful vibrant diverse county. I hope you’ve felt seen and heard. Tonight you can see me without all the make up. Just as I am to thank you and say goodbye.
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@AmyRemeikis
PM blubbing at his press conference because he’s had a busy month and had to multitask? Really ?
@ThwaitesKate
@samanthamaiden
@murpharoo
@JaneCaro
@georgiedent
#auspoI
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@palaceletters
thank you for a brilliant gripping documentary, a beautiful and appropriate homage to your mother, exposing an inappropriately politicised Archive and all the while adorned with fab necklaces.
@abcnews
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
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A predictable overreaction by the Jewish establishment to the
@jewishcouncilAU
Alternative views about the Occupation are to be rejected at every opportunity. Despite the vilification, the next generation of lawyers& academics are refusing to be silenced .
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@adelwritersweek
accuracy went out the window a long time ago in much
#MSM
. Our programme is apparently “positively stuffed “ with “frothingly anti-Israel”writers. Get a grip and get your abacus out:5 writers among 202 invitees on the history of the Israel-Palestine war
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A must watch
@4corners
from
@TheLyonsDen
. A devastating report on the death and destruction in Gaza and the long history of failures by Israel’s political leadership .
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@MUPublishing
overwhelmed by the generosity of the twitter have worked with brilliant writers, the hugely talented MUP team, a board that was as proud as us of our books and an industry where reading matters has been my privilege . Thank you .
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@sarah_schwartz
the next generation of Australia Jews, like their peers in the US, are speaking “ truth to power “.
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@QandA
a solitary voice proposing a counter-narrative on the Russian-Ukraine disaster is shut down,cancelled and asked to leave.
#StanGrant
Really? Is there only one view permitted now on our
@ABC
?
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@adelwritersweek
silly me. I thought universities were places for dialogue and were led by academics who hold to the value of the pedagogical relationship , who believe engaging with students is fundamental.
punked! a digital intifada feared by every ‘You can’t tell me what to do’ university Vice-Chancellor and President….
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The relentless campaign against
@RandaAFattah
by the
#IsraelLobby
and their cronies in the media is reminiscent of the McCarthy witch-hunts of the 50’s and 60’s, now repurposed as “McIsraelism”. Yet another example of the determination to silence any criticism of Israel .
On Zionist attempts to pressure the government to revoke my Future Fellowship and for Macquarie Univeristy to dismiss me. This is not just about me. A 🧵
1. Zionists are not just about trying to remove me from academia and destroy my academic career. The funding I received was
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@MichelMcQMartin
100 members of the family of
#DrTariqHaddad
have been killed in Israel’s war on Gaza . He refused to meet the US Sec of State Blinken . A lesson in morality .
#DontLookAway
Dr. Tariq Haddad declined an invitation to a meeting of fellow Palestinians with Secy. of State Antony Blinken at the White House. Haddad reads a portion of a letter explaining why he couldn’t bring himself "to look Mr. Blinken in the eye.”
@TariqHaddadMD
@MichelMcQMartin
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Another accurate assessment by
@BernardKeane
.My transparency is your doxxing: Hypocrisy and power on display from Labor and the media via
@crikey_news
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@PhillipAdams_1
to say you will be missed is the understatement of 2024. Over thirty years+ you and the brilliant team at LNL have brought the world to us with intelligent conversations. Where’s an elephant stamp when we need it ?
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Journos in the
#MSM
, you say you want to find alternative Australian Jewish voices to interview re Israel’s war on Gaza - here you go :
@Sarah__Schwartz
@jordana_s_
@JoshBBornstein
We have launched the Jewish Council of Australia, an expert voice on antisemitism and racism.
We founded the Council because our Jewish representative organisations fail to represent Jews who are critical of Israel and support a free Palestine.
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@adelwritersweek
there’s been some huffing and puffing from the usual quarters about “balance”. The appropriate response is the observation by
#JacquelineRose
“balance is a corrupt term in an unbalanced world”.
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There is also the issue of “ balance” a false notion in an “ unbalanced world” (thank you Jacqueline Rose). Our audience is informed & engaged and well equipped to form their own views . We are a festival of books, not a debating society . We celebrate writing and writers .
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@asoueif
those not moved to tears and outrage at such horror and suffering must have hearts of stone . This is on our collective conscience, do not look away .
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@antloewenstein
And tragically nothing has changed since you had the courage to write this book and our brilliant team at
@MUPublishing
stood with you despite the relentless vilification you suffered .
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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@AustralianStory
for those who are interested, some rather more personal reflections,from the most reluctant memoirist I’ve met. The Other Side of Max Gillies
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An appropriately large slice of humble pie for an outrageous slur against the eminent scholar
#RashidKhalidi
.Conflating criticism of Israel with antisemitism is a familiar part of the playbook, but it’s proving unpersuasive given the massive death toll & destruction in Gaza.
In my Tweet on Monday I made the mistake of linking Professor Rashid Khalidi with antisemitism. While I disagree with Prof. Khalidi and have deep frustrations with Harvard’s actions since October 7th, my comments were inappropriate. I have reached out directly to Prof. Khalidi to
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@TamePunk
moved to tears by the courage of this young woman, showing the way to a crowd of thousands
@adelwritersweek
the day after
#IWD2022
its
@jessradio
and
@instanterudite
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@Hass_Haaretz
always worth reading “the illusion that one can forever live in happiness and prosperity and safety & at the same time rule cruelly over an entire people and deprive it of life, freedom, space, land and hope in its own homeland” .
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@levy_haaretz
the world “must pose a clear choice for Israel:sanctions,or an end to the occupation; territories or weapons; settlements or international support;a democratic state or a Jewish one;apartheid, or an end to Zionism” Peace by force .
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Hard agree
@jewishcouncilAU
.Some years ago the full front page of
@aus_jewishnews
was given over to the declaration : “One People,One Voice”. It wasn’t true then and it’s not true now.
Our EO Dr Max Kaiser in the Guardian, “The Israel lobby continues to conflate Jews and Israel, including by engaging in lobbying for Israel on behalf of the whole Jewish community. These groups do not represent the opinions of all Jews”
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@ABCArts
the good old days when Sunday afternoons
@ABCTV
were dedicated to intelligent interviews and features about arts and culture hosted by the always urbane and informed Peter Ross (vale).
Terry Jones wasn't just a Python, he was also a bestselling children's book author.
In 1991, he went on
@ABCTV
's Sunday Afternoon and told a particularly hilarious story.
#RewindABC
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A sad day for Australian letters: one of our finest writers
#FrankMoorhouse
has just died: a superb oeuvre culminating in the truly great Edith trilogy,passionate anti-censorship advocate, staunch champion of our literary culture,& a splendid lunch companion.
@PenguinBooksAus
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@brucerguthrie
I’ve been trying to find the word that defines
@DanielAndrewsMP
and of course it’s the Yiddish term for a decent person: he’s a “mensch”. We need more of them in public life .
@louiseadler
@DanielAndrewsMP
@mjrowland68
@abc730
Yes, thought he was impressive. Won’t stop the carping of opponents or the opportunism of Morrison and others though. Makes Andrews’ determination all the more admirable.
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“The failure to see the fate of the Other”
@mashagessen
warns us about the uses and abuses of the holocaust and the memory wars
#Gaza
We speak to
@mashagessen
after their reception of the prestigious Hannah Arendt Prize in Germany was postponed when award sponsors withdrew support over the acclaimed
@NewYorker
writer’s comparison of besieged Gaza to the Warsaw Ghetto.
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@PhillipAdams_1
I will always remember the image of William Deane’s genuine warmth and authenticity as he comforted the families of those young people who died in a tragic canyoning accident in Switzerland , he was the embodiment of moral leadership.
The best GG in my lengthy lifetime was/is Bill Dean who infuriated John Howard by bravely opposing him on all fronts. JWH replaced him with the mediocre and pliant Peter Hollingworth-later to resign over his scandalous response to child abuse as Anglican bishop
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@adelwritersweek
among the 202 writers joining us will be
@NathanThrall
, the author of the superb book
#ADayInTheLifeOfAbedSalama
. It’s a forensic and devastating account of life under occupation. Couldn’t be more timely.
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@FergusonNews
eloquent and fact based report from
@1james_elder
@UNICEF
spokesman on the entirely preventable devastation in Gaza and the death of 13000+ children .
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So we continue to watch as antisemitism is weaponised , dissent is vilified, and outlets attempting to independently report on the war on Gaza are subjected to a barrage of complaints & ad hominem attacks from the community smear shops.
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sistas can I suggest you see
#PromisingYoungWoman
,an immensely satisfying revenge film for women of all generations who know
#EnoughIsEnough
. It will cheer you up in these dark times
@JaneCaro
@Milliganreports
@AmyRemeikis
@murpharoo
@bairdjulia
@FiMcLeodSC
@sarahinthesen8
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@latingle
after your forensic report
@abc730
into the parlous state of the arts and the financial plight of artists the federal government needs to change the job keeper criteria , they make no sense for arts workers
@PaulFletcherMP
@Tony_Burke
#coronavirusaustralia
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@adelaidefest
watching
#MikeParr
in silence reenacting the erasure of the people of Gaza
@ruthmackenzie
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@adelwritersweek
no chairs left , people sitting on the hills , no standing room left as
@yanisvaroufakis
explains the tyranny of the algorithm to
@BarbaraPocock
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“All our choices were made to reflect & confront us in the present – not to say, ‘Look what they did then’ rather,‘Look what we do now.”
@NaomiAKlein
The Zone of Interest is about the danger of ignoring atrocities – including in Gaza | Naomi Klein
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@ABCReligion
just listened to yet another intelligent and nuanced programme from Andrew West reminding me that
@RadioNational
is a National Treasure from mornings with
@frankelly08
to bedtime with
@PhillipAdams_1
.Thank you from a grateful listener .
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As always
@RandaAFattah
asks a pertinent question: “do Palestinian feelings — let alone lives — count?”On Zionist feelings
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.
@JamilaRizvi
@juliahbanks
& other great speakers at the Melbourne
#March4Justice
rally.We thought we’d changed the world in the 1970s,we didn’t. Today showed us hope,rage & the power of collective action.
@Milliganreports
@BrittHiggins_
@georgiedent
#EnoughIsEnough
@ausoftheyear
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@adelwritersweek
there’s a name for those who wield the yellow star to identify Jews - we call them antisemites. Shameful if unsurprising to see this (ignorant and obscene) promotion of racist imagery
@australian
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It is indeed, all credit
@ToryShepherd
. I can’t stop laughing at this quote ““In the Holy Spirit we have a housemate who indwells us. God has paid the mortgage and moved in.” Who uses a word like “ indwells”? His editor was obviously MIA.
This review of Scummo’s book is a hoot. The book itself sounds, well…excruciating.
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Yes. As Edward Said noted, tragically the Palestinians are “the victims’ victims”.
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@Milliganreports
I do wonder what moral universe Pell inhabits when he says “ the matter was of little interest to me” when asked about his knowledge of child sexual abuse in the Church .
READ: Analysis piece by me. “George
#Pell
is alive. The black marks are gone, the secrets are out. George Pell knew.” “This long-awaited report finally lays bare how Pell acquiesced, during what would become a glittering career, in institutional inaction against terrible crimes.”
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@adelwritersweek
such an honour to be passed the director’s baton by the brilliant
@instanterudite
. It’s a wonderful opportunity to continue building on a legacy of 60+ years of conversations between stellar writers & devoted readers.
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Accused of lacking love for Israel,Arendt responded that her love was always for people, not nations
#SusanNeiman
@mashagessen
@Samantharhill
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it’s around this time of year that I realise what a Good Thing it is that we have
@RadioNational
from
@RNBreakfast
to the riches of
@ArtsonRN
to
@RNDrive
, and every programme in between climaxing (ahem, I mean culminating ) with
@LNLonRN
. How lucky are we listeners ?
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Wilful misunderstandings of
#JonathanGlazer
#Oscar
speech about his superb film. Too few films about the Holocaust understand the problem of representation .
#SonOfSaul
,
#Fateless
, and now
#ZoneOfInterest
powerfully resist faux realism. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
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For those of us who value
@abcnews
, its independence, its ability to resist the formidable pressure exerted by special interest groups and the relentless sledging by competitors this excellent article by
@arusbridger
is instructive .
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@Tony_Burke
#NationalCulturalPolicy
@AlboMP
announcing this morning that we are finally to have a national Poet Laureate
@the_shb
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@sareemakdisi
who appeared
@adelwritersweek
this year delivers a meticulous analysis of the strategy to conflate criticism of Israel with antisemitism via
@nplusonemag
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@annabelcrabb
always worth reading, relishing a fine wordsmith at work:”The air on Saturday night was thick and feathery with chickens coming home to roost”.
Australian women took a good look at the prime ministerial bulldozer... and sent him a John Deere letter. Here's my column on why
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I had the honour of publishing
#TheHawkeMemoirs
in 1994
#BobHawke
and then
#HawkeThePrimeMinister
by his brilliant biographer Blanche D’Alpuget 15 years later. In every phone he would ask “how’s that fucker Gillies?”
So sad a giant,
#BobHawke
has died. I sat w him at a
@MUPublishing
dinner just after my book came out. He was brilliant, funny, intellectually curious, committed to social justice, child protection, esp for kids let down by institutions. What a PM. My
@abc730
tribute now: @ 8.15
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Ignorance or deliberate misinformation has seen
“ blood libel” bandied about,most recently by Israeli politicians. “Blood libel” refers to accusations going all the way back to the Middle Ages that Jews murdered non-Jews (e.g Christian children) to use their blood in rituals.
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@TheLyonsDen
on the challenges confronting the Australian media reporting on the Palestine-Israel tragedy,the deafening silences and the reasons why
@theage
@SMH
@MonashPub
#occupation
@SatPaper
@jennineak
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@FergusonNews
thanks for the brilliant iv just now with the inimitable
#FranLebowitz
, the queen of the aphorism . Gotta love a woman who says “holding a grudge is just another word for having standards”. It will be interesting to test that idea with
@bairdjulia
@adelwritersweek
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@adelwritersweek
a moment for the history books : three Grande Dames en route to the Adelaide Town Hall
@wmarybeard
#AnneEnright
and
#JaneSmiley
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@adelwritersweek
curious opposition by Marcia Langton to solidarity between First Nations and Palestinians
@Melbchief
Gaza conflict engulfs Melbourne Writers Festival as leaders quit over program row
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@Milliganreports
a ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ review from the best crime fiction reviewer in the country
#SueTurnbull
. Bring on novel number two please .
@AllenAndUnwin
When an investigative journalist turns to crime, it’s a ‘sheer delight’
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@adelwritersweek
it’s a wrap for us for 2024 . We lit fest curators depend on each other for support & collaboration so my best to the excellent festivals to come. As we celebrate
#IWD24
the brilliant
#AllAboutWomen
fest gets underway, all credit to
@ChipRolley
@SydOperaHouse
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As always
@dirkmoses
is worth reading : “The grotesque nature of the law of genocide is that victim numbers are irrelevant. All that counts is intent”. Why the International Community Made It So Difficult to Prosecute the Crime of Genocide
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To understand the context to the current war on Gaza and the formation of
#Hamas
listen to
@PeterBeinart
in conversation with informed commentators (with different perspectives,yes civil discussion is possible )
@muhammadshehad2
@KhalilJeries
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@adelwritersweek
listening to
@NathanThrall
on daily life under Occupation, the ways in which transparent injustices constrain , restrict and oppress Palestinians . A most timely conversation with
@DebWhitmont
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I’m delighted to see this memoir by one of the bravest young women I’ve met is finally out
@dassi_erlich
.Credit also to
@ellenwhinnett
@Vanrad19
&the excellent team
@HachetteAus
. Join us at
@adelwritersweek
for a conversation with another heroine of our time
@Milliganreports
In Bad Faith is the true story of
@dassi_erlich
- a woman who grew up in a closed ultra-Orthodox sect and endured a harsh home life that made her the perfect target for a predatory teacher.
OUT NOW.
Learn more:
#InBadFaith
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@NikkiGemmell
every Saturday reflects with a full heart and a razor sharp mind on the issues of our time. Today’s column explores why women don’t report rape
#systemfailure
@marquelawyers
@MonashPub
@australian
@ChristineMiddap
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@adelaidewritersweek
why is the international media not reporting that Israel has banned foreign reporters from entering Gaza?
#Hasbara101
. “Now Palestinian journalists risk their lives to bear witness”.
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