Author: Jmedia Manager
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The politics and solidarity of food
This week is Palestinian Economic Week, a call from Palestinians on the ground in historic Palestine to defy Israeli capitalist settler colonialism and support Palestinian businesses and products. The brutal military occupation of Palestine that started in 1948 extends to an occupation of Palestinian economies and livelihoods. Israel has prevented Palestinian agricultural activity by expropriating our…
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No Resolution on Resolution
Finally, after Queensland Labor’s state conference backed a resolution condemning Israel’s ongoing “annexation by stealth of Palestinian land” and incitement of recent violence through forced evictions in Sheikh Jarrah and attacks on Al-Aqsa mosque worshippers, The Australian ($) reports that former foreign minister Bob Carr has slammed suggestions of growing anti-Semitism in Labor as “an attempt to close down criticism of…
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Akubra Stetson drop partnership with hat store over plans to sell not vaccinated Star of David patch
An Iconic Nashville hat store has found itself in hot water after its owner planned to sell what has been labelled an anti-semitic clothing item. According to the original social media post by HatWRKS, Star of David patches with the words ‘not vaccinated’ on them were initially going to be sold for $5 dollars a…
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Bob Carr rejects anti-Semitism inside ALP
Former foreign minister Bob Carr has criticised suggestions there is a growing strain of anti-Semitism within Labor, saying the claim was propagated by people who want to “close down criticism of Israel”. Mr Carr, an influential supporter of Palestine in the NSW Right, said there was nothing wrong with Labor being critical of Israel “for…
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Neo-Nazis leader Thomas Sewell refused bail over alleged attack on hikers
The self-proclaimed leader of Australia’s national socialist movement has been refused bail over an alleged attack on a group of bushwalkers who, police say, had filmed him and fellow neo-Nazis on a hike in the Victorian bush. Up to 15 neo-Nazis including Thomas Sewell, 28, terrorised hikers by using knives and force to smash the car they were…
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Dark legacy of the anti-Israel rallies
Aat the conclusion of a massive pro-Palestinian rally at London’s Trafalgar Square, a convoy of cars packed with young men headed for the north London suburb of Golders Green, home to a large propor-tion of the city’s Jewish community. The men were filmed bearing Palestinian flags and shouting ‘F— the Jews, rape their daughters,’ through…
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Black Australia to Palestine: solidarity in decolonial struggle
Tensions are high in Palestine as Palestinians coordinate to resist Israeli land theft and planned ethnic cleansing. If you have seen the viral conversation between settler Yakoub and native Mona El Kurd, you would have heard the 23 year old Palestinian woman asking the Israeli settler from New York why he has moved into her…
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The acceptance of terrorism
The West is weakening itself from within To take a village, insurgents apply a simple framework. By co-opting or killing the three nodes of leadership – security, political and religious – they begin controlling the minds of the population. After witnessing the BBC, ABC Q&A guests, The Project, and even Yarra City Council, excusing terrorism in the recent…
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Qld Labor’s anti-Israel motion is ‘sickening’: Rowan Dean
Sky News host Rowan Dean says the Queensland Labor Party’s anti-Israel motion which was recently passed is “sickening”. “To talk about ‘ethnic cleansing’ on the part of Israel, when you have Hamas, whose charter calls for every Jew to be murdered – I would call that ethnic cleansing,” Mr Dean told Sky News host Andrew…
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State ALP delusional over Israel
Opposition foreign affairs spokeswoman Penny Wong was right to round on Queensland Labor over the absurd anti-Israel resolution passed at last weekend’s state conference. The resolution’s claim of “ethnic cleansing” in the Jewish state was demonstrably ludicrous – it revealed alarming prejudice, or ignorance, or both, on the part of those who supported it. However, Labor’s…