Cat Gander

Hi, Hi, I'm Jewish. Many of my closest friends are Jewish. I love them all. My whole family is Jewish, I love them all too. My community is Jewish. Love them all. I love Judaism. I host shabbat dinners, celebrate Jewish holidays, sing Jewish prayers, study Torah & Talmud, and love Jewish culture, history and expression. But I'm not a Zionist. Zionism was an ideology that said, let's create a Jewish state in a country that's 97%+ non-Jewish. That's why, when Zionists bought land in Palestine from the 1900s-1948, they uprooted the people living on the land because they weren't jewish. That's why, when Zionists created cooperatives in Palestine in the 1910s, 1920s and 1930s, they insisted on "Hebrew Labor", i.e., "Jews only" -- no Arabs allowed. That's why, in the 1930s, Zionists expelled Palestinian Arabs from working at Jewish companies and business. Jews only! jstor.org/stable/10.1525… That's why, in 1948, Zionists militias ethnically cleansed 750,000 Palestinians from their homes. That's why, from 1949-1956, Israeli forces shot & killed b/w 2,700-5,000 overwhelmingly unarmed Palestinians trying to return to their homes after the war. Because they were the wrong religion/ethnicity (source: Benny Morris, Border Wars, p.416). That's why Israel expelled another ~30-40,000 Palestinians from Israel from 1949-1959. palestinenexus.com/articles/israe… That's why Israel expelled another ~250,000 Palestinians from Gaza & the West Bank when it occupied those territories in 1967. That's why Israel continued to expel Palestinians from the occupied territories from 1968-1993, many hundreds of thousands of them. They had the wrong DNA. palestinenexus.com/articles/israe… The Zionists wanted to create a Jewish State with a Jewish majority in a land of overwhelmingly Palestinians. That's why Israel has become such a pariah state over the years, because it's insistence on jewish rule in a country with so many Palestinians. That's why Zionism has led Israel to become an apartheid state, according to every relevant human rights organization (@ICAHD in 2010, @UNESCWA in 2017, @YeshDin in 2020, @AdalahCenter in 2020, @btselem in 2021, @hrw in 2021, @fidh_en in 2021, @alhaq_org in 2022, @Addameer in 2022, @AlMezanCenter in 2022, @cacalqudsuni in 2022, @AdvocacyJlac in 2022, @miftahpal in 2022, @ICJ_org in 2022, @DAWNmenaorg in 2022, @amnesty in 2022), since it cannot grant the ~5-6 million occupied Palestinians Israeli citizenship. Israel chose apartheid and Jewish supremacy over democracy. Zionism also explains why Israel is now committing genocide (according to @amnesty, @hrw, @btselem, @MSF, IAGS, @alhaq_org, @UNHumanRights, @UN_HRC, @pchrgaza, @AlMezanCenter, @WarOnWant, @PHRIsrael, @fidh_en, PHROC, @LemkinInstitute, @theCCR, @ECCHRBerlin , @unitedforrights @JURDIasso, @TheElders, @Oxfam ), because, what a Zionist dream it would have been had Palestine been a land without any people on it! the ideology incentivized genocide. So, please don't conflate Judaism -- that has existed for 3,300+ years -- with your 150-yr-old anti-Jewish ideology founded on the principles of forcible displacement & genocide Judaism will last as long as their are humans on the planet. Zionism is imploding in real time. Thank you for your attention to this matter.

What are these DV Blitzes really about? Perpetrators of DV should be being arrested in a timely way when they breach the AVO. Not saved up for a job lot. Seems like a media op. Victim-survivors shouldn’t have to wait for the next “blitz” it’s police work apple.news/AgM-E8aaESs23w…

@ShereleMoody Love to you Faraz Tahir and your family. So sorry.

This Australia, is another hero. Let's not forget his name or his face. Pakistani refugee Faraz Tahir was murdered by the Bondi Junction misogynist thug on Saturday. The 30-year-old security guard was on duty at Westfield. I understand his female colleague was also murdered but I still do not have any information about her. Faraz tried to stop the attacker, alongside his colleague, but the coward ended their lives. Faraz had only been in Australia for a year and he came seeking refuge from persecution.

Former News Corp journalist offered to write article defending Zachary Rolfe two days after he shot Kumanjayi Walker dead, court hears. The shame of this country never ends! theguardian.com/australia-news…

@fever_gl @fever_us Banksy I think would do a great ironic art piece on Fever, they are capitalist money grabbing bastards.

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@MarkAHoffman2 @AlinejadMasih Because the mothers are also oppressed by the regime. Why are the fathers tolerating this is the question? Why are they not fighting to uphold the human rights of their daughters and save the lives of their daughters?

@AlinejadMasih Why do the mothers of these women tolerate this?

Today the authorities in Iran announced today flogging this brave woman is according to the laws. This tragic story should be the headline of those media that care about women, freedom, humanity and dignity. In 21st-century this brave Iranian woman Roya Heshmati was flogged by the Islamic Republic for not covering her beautiful hair in public. She received 74 lashes for the crime of posting a photo of herself without hjiab on her social media. If you don't call such a regime, gender apartheid, then what do you call it? Roya wasn’t broken, instead she even started to sing for #WomanLifeFreedom while she was flogged. Yes, Iranian women are wounded but unbowed. Be our voice.

@markhumphries I can see why!! I have been waiting on line now for 1:40 minutes being told they ‘thank me for my patience”. I am trying to call because 8 of my Morgage payments have left my Comm account but have not made it to my Morgage account. They are out celebrating

Reassuring message for Commonwealth Bank customers after $10 billion profit announcement.

@grumpyoldfool62 Voting YES! Along with everyone I know. It is the right direction, the beginning of a new exciting chapter for Australia. It’s not a treaty, but it takes us closer. Spend time talking to family and friends. We can do it.

The latest survey on the Indigenous Voice to Parliament, shows the gap between those of us intending to vote YES! (46%) & those voting no (43%) is narrowing. Personally, I don’t know the demographics of those surveyed but, I believe the percentage of those of us intending to vote YES, is much higher than stated above. Still, there are at least 5 months to go until voting day & we cannot take a YES win as a GIMME! The convincing of those of us who are unsure of where they a placing the ✅ starts FROM NOW! We all have family members or friends who are at this time, sitting on the fence, either being scared off a commitment by the scaremongering of those opposing the voice or, ignorant of what a future Voice will mean to them. The impetus has to be FACTS!! Not BS or outrages claims, as Dutton, Price, Mundine et al. are pedalling as of now. FACTS, NOT FEAR WILL SEE US ENSHRINE THIS IMPORTANT DOCUMENT INTO OUR CONSTITUTION!! VOTE-YES!!

@dexterwizard666 @strangerous10 Yes exactly!! Probably lose your kids

Barbara Pocock crucifies TPB’s Peter de Cure for not having even considered the possibility that PwC are breaching the Act in acting “honestly & with integrity”, & for refusing to impose a fine. Pocock: “Why no fine? The average tax payer faces a fine!”🔥🔥🔥 #SenateEstimates

@MEAssociation As we can all see, PEM needs to be scrapped as a term to describe the symptom. It is too soft to describe the common ‘I am dying, have been poisoned’ severity of the experience. Malaise … seriously! Give me some of that in exchange.

ME/CFS Symptoms - Post-exertional malaise (PEM): How would you describe this symptom? Please note: We will be using some of the comments in a graphic tomorrow. #pwME #MECFS #MyalgicE #MyalgicEncephalomyelitis #MEAwareness #MEAwarenessWeek #MEAW2023

@MEAssociation Feeling like a heavy metal cloak with weights has been placed on you and you have to be dying because how could you live when you are feeling so sick at every level.

@LynAnge11 @FullStopAus Wow finally ! 17 years of lobbying with victim-survivors gagged, children being forced to endured and suffer in unsafe living arrangements. Congratulations everyone who contributed to this final outcome! At last!

Historic day! With the tabling of family law amendments to remove the presumption of equal shared parental responsibility that has had devastating impacts on dv victims and children for 17 years! Time for change and prioritising safety!

@JaneMar30218438 I now have my appt reinstated 🤔

@JaneMar30218438 1/2 hadappt today #SpectrumMedicalImaging #Randwick was just phoned. The receptionist said her superior a partner had cancelled my appt because I made a complaint in 2021. I did. A common blanket was being used by every patient during the 2nd COVID wave. I asked for a clean one.

@JaneMar30218438 2/2 staff said it was a fair call, they hadn’t thought about it. But I am being refused access to medical services. Receiving and responding to a clients feedback or a complaint is the sign of a transparent service. Being refused a service because u did, is wrong & reportable.

Today DV West acknowledges Invasion Day. ⁣ ⁣ 𝗪𝐞 𝐝𝐨𝐧'𝐭 𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐠𝐞𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐠𝐞𝐧𝐨𝐜𝐢𝐝𝐞 𝐞𝐧𝐚𝐜𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐮𝐩𝐨𝐧 𝐅𝐢𝐫𝐬𝐭 𝐍𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬 P𝐞𝐨𝐩𝐥𝐞 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐡𝐨𝐧𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐢𝐫 𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐠𝐭𝐡 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐞.⁣🖤❤️💛 ⁣

@SamTrevor380 @Moesby66 The roles are raaarely turned, he was not in fear, it was not a pattern. It was a reaction to be cheated on and lied to. Not comparable!! Get educated

How will Michael Clarke reinvent himself after this? And when are we going to hear the trope that he has a problem with booze, women, mental health…or ? Remember the way media treated Lara Bingle during their relationship. #MichaelClarke

@charles_haig01 @emma_husar He was not in fear. Just trying to cover up by swearing on his daughters life.

@emma_husar Reinvent himself after being assaulted? Sure, his infidelity is gross, but it doesn’t justify assault.

@AusGovSlave @emma_husar He was not fearing for his life!

🧵My kids were exposed to their father Peters abuse of me for many years. His threats, his undermining his disrespect of me. He pled guilty to an AVO in 2015, is a frmr Police officer & a private investigator, he hid tracking devices in my car, slashed my car tyres, threatened