David Grace🍉

The zionist albanese govt wouldn't arrest netanyahu if he visited here even though there's a warrant on him. It means netanyahu is safer in australia from arrest than an Australian walking the street with a slogan saying "from the river to the sea palestine will be free".

Israel bombed 97% of the schools in Gaza. Anyone talking about that at the Royal Commission?

@AlboMP The best way you could’ve helped Australia avoid these uncertainties would’ve been to condemn Israel in 2024 when it was clear they were doing genocide, stopped war related exports, and worked with the international community. Instead you were cowards and allowed this to occur.

Things are uncertain around the world, but we’re doing everything we can to keep costs down and fuel flowing.

@Jansant @MegJobson1 Anyone who supports the Zionist movement deserves contempt, I don’t care what religion or ethnicity they claim. This is not about Jewishness

Dor Foundation CEO Blicblau: The clearest distinction, the line that can't be crossed, is the point at which criticism against Israel becomes directed towards Jewish Australians. Australians support the #GazaGencide get my full and unrestrained criticism.

@Nasser14E @MsRonnyB @RhondaGarad @Ostrov_A @SkyNewsAust That might be the case for our compromised politicians, but all decent Australians are aware of the evil being done to Lebanon and occupied Palestine and we stand with you.

@Bluecat464 @RhondaGarad @Ostrov_A @SkyNewsAust As one of those Australians of Lebanese heritage I feel dislocated We should be seen but not heard My people’s suffering counts for naught We are not worthy of recognition We are to be silent

“I want to speak tonight not just as a representative of the Jewish community, but as an Australian. Because what’s been laid bare through this Royal Commission isn’t abstract. It’s not theoretical. It’s not political spin. It’s people.” Raw and powerful words by my @AIJAC_Update colleague and friend, Joel Burnie, who speaks for so many in the Australian Jewish community here.

The silence from @AlboMP and @SenatorWong regarding the kidnapping and torture of Australians on the Global Sumad Flotilla is so incredibly damning. Both elevate their own political survival over the lives of 🇦🇺 citizens. We are governed by a cruel and morally vacuous party.

Israel has kidnapped another six Australians in international waters before torturing them, but our PM has once again remained silent in fear of offending the genocidal state. #sydneycriminallawyers #israel #kidnap #torture sydneycriminallawyers.com.au/blog/albanese-…

Don’t like people wearing watermelon pins at your shitty medical conference? Don’t care. “From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free” makes you feel scared? Don’t care. Seeing Palestinian flags on university campuses upsets you? Don’t care. A student calling Israel an apartheid state hurts your little feelings? Don’t care. A doctor speaking publicly about Palestinian children being massacred feels “divisive” to you? Fuck you. People refusing to condemn Palestinian resistance makes you uneasy? Don’t care. Hearing the word “genocide” feels inflammatory to you? Don’t care. A keffiyeh in a workplace gives you a panic attack? Don’t care. “Globalise the intifada” sounds genocidal to you? Don’t care. People interrupting politicians feels disrespectful to you? Don’t care. You no longer being able to monopolise victimhood makes you angry? Truly could not care less. What I care about are the Palestinian children being burned alive. The doctors being tortured. The families erased under rubble. The starvation. The concentration camps. The destruction of Gaza’s hospitals and universities and refugee camps and entire civilian infrastructure. But for the nearly last 1,000 days and decades prior, Western institutions have demanded everyone stop and carefully tend to Jewish emotional discomfort instead. Not Palestinian lives. Not Palestinian suffering. Not Palestinian speech. Zionist discomfort. Zionist fragility. Zionist political sensitivity—elevated, enforced, and institutionalised across universities, hospitals, media outlets, professional associations, politicians, donors, and advocacy groups. All working in sync to transform Zionist discomfort into institutional emergency. While Palestinian suffering is rendered invisible. While Palestinian speech is disciplined. While Palestinian humanity is treated as negotiable. That is the function of the Jewish Feelings Industrial Complex. Not safety. Not care. Not protection. Institutionalised Zionist emotional management at scale. Fuck every single institution that constantly weaponizes “Jewish safety,” “Jewish discomfort,” and “Jewish feelings” to justify censorship, repression, career destruction, anti-Palestinian racism, and silence in the face of mass atrocity. If a watermelon pin destabilises you more than the annihilation of Gaza, the problem is not the watermelon pin. The problem is you. -- from "The Anti-Zionist" patreon.com/posts/awww-you…

@RobjoyAu @Bluecat464 @JohnOSullivan36 @Ostrov_A @SkyNewsAust The first thing that should come from this Royal Commission is either a voice to parliament, an envoy for Aboriginal culture and society or Treaty. That is the first step Australia could truly take in 'Social Cohesion' as they call it. Treaty. 'Anti-semitism' can wait a while.

Given the Farrer by election result, maybe it’s time for orgs like GetUp! to do more than just spend hundreds of thousands on billboards.

Australians are not anti Semitic. The majority have zero problems with Jews. I have absolutely zero problems with Jews. I, like the overwhelming majority of Australians have a problem with Butcher Netanyahu and his butchering, murderous, tyrannical, genocidal regime. That’s where Jews world wide need to look to for the reasons why they are receiving so much hate. Blame the government of Israel. Not anti Semitism.

@Bluecat464 @Ostrov_A @SkyNewsAust When do Australians in general get to express their distress at being labelled antisemitic just for opposing genocide? Like, what the fuck is going on in this country???

How the fuck do we live in a country where our entire bastard mainstream media cohort insist on framing Australians who are truly and only anti-Genocide as instead being anti-Jew? #NewsCorpse

@BenWill8254 @DianaRyall @Tony_Burke So just because they’re an “ally” any and all of their war crimes can be excused?

@DianaRyall @Tony_Burke If there was any justice he would give them medals - Israel is our ally.

What is @Tony_Burke doing about arrivals who have served in the IDF? #auspol

@jvgraz @noplaceforsheep There’s no war against Jews. Only Israelis who are taking part in the genocide. And the world also condemns anyone (Jewish or otherwise), who supports Israel in their unjust aggression

I'm often asked if I identify as a Zionist or an anti-Zionist. The truth is, I don’t identify as either. I don’t believe, as a matter of principle, that Israel should be dismantled. I don’t believe, as a matter of principle, that Israel needs to exist. I believe, as a matter of principle, that Israel does not have the right to oppress another people. And that between the river and the sea, the rights of all people must be protected. If Israel can transform itself to fit this equation, it should continue to exist. If it can’t, then it shouldn’t.

Read the room Albanese REMOVE SEGAL!! For the sake of your political career REMOVE SEGAL!! For the sake of the Labor Party REMOVE SEGAL!! For the sake of Labor Government REMOVE SEGAL!! For sake of truth understanding & honesty REMOVE SEGAL!! THE SEGAL MONSTROSITY MUST GO NOW!!!!

Australia’s “antisemitism envoy” Jillian Segal has published a handbook which unequivocally clarifies that her office exists not to protect Australian Jews from discrimination, but to stomp out criticism of the state of Israel. However bad you’re imagining it is, it’s worse. The handbook, set to be formally launched later this week under the title “Understanding Antisemitism in Australia,” explicitly conflates antisemitism and antizionism with statements like “Antisemitism and antizionism are both expressions of hatred towards Jews” and asserting that it is antisemitic to accuse Israel of “apartheid, oppression, racism and genocide.” It is therefore unambiguously the official position of the Australian government’s appointed authority on antisemitism that it is hateful and abusive toward Jews and their religion to oppose the racist political ideology underpinning the modern state of Israel. So when Australians hear Jillian Segal and government officials talking about how there’s been an increase in “antisemitism” in our country and saying extreme measures must be taken to stop it, it’s important to be clear that this is the “antisemitism” they are talking about. They are talking about criticism of Israel. Let’s go through the handbook together and highlight some revealing excerpts, shall we? The forward in the handbook stresses the importance of the Australian government’s endorsement of the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) working definition of antisemitism, which has been opposed around the world for its conflation of criticism of Israel with hateful actions toward Jews. Under the IHRA definition it is considered antisemitic to claim that Israel is a racist endeavor, or to compare Israel’s abuses to those of Nazi Germany — both of which are entirely legitimate criticisms which should be put forward far more often than they are. Much of the handbook follows from the premises of the IHRA definition. Segal’s office states that the handbook “is intended as a practical resource for schools, universities, public servants, community organisations and anyone seeking to understand antisemitism today.” Segal’s office says that antisemitism “morphs” over the ages, from the blood libels and “Christ-killer” accusations of the Middle Ages to the racism of Nazi Germany, and has now morphed so that “antisemitic tropes are conveyed and justified in the language of human rights and international legal arguments.” “For example, sometimes Jews are labelled and libelled as ‘settler-colonialists’, ‘oppressors’, and a symbol of a global system of domination that ‘can seemingly accommodate even the murder of Jews as Jews’,” the envoy proclaims. Do you see how the subject was moved to lump medieval superstitions about Jews in with entirely legitimate criticisms of the modern state of Israel? According to Australia’s Special Envoy to Combat Antisemitism, criticising Israel using “language of human rights and international legal arguments” is not meaningfully different from saying that Jews drink the blood of Christian children. This, clearly, is stark raving insanity. “Legitimate criticism of Israel is not antisemitic,” the envoy concedes, then proceeds to completely negate this concession with everything that follows. “However, there are many examples of antisemitic imagery, tropes, conspiracy theories and propaganda (echoing medieval myths) that have found their way into anti-Israel discourse. It is also increasingly common for the word ‘Zionist’ (or iterations of it) to be us ed as cover or proxy for ‘Jew ’.” This is completely made up. The claim that critics of Israel’s abuses use the word “Zionist” when they really mean “Jew” is just something Israel apologists started asserting with no substantiation whatsoever a few years ago. They have no evidence for this assertion apart from the frequency and forcefulness which with they assert it. The envoy defines Zionism as “the belief that the Jewish people have the right to self-determination within their ancestral homeland,” which is misleading at best. That’s not what Zionism is. Zionism is what we see before us today. The genocide, apartheid, ethnic cleansing and nonstop war and abuse. That’s what Zionism is, as evidenced by material reality. The best definition of Zionism is its real-world manifestations. Zionism is what it looks like when you give the Zionists everything they want. “A new variant of antisemitic atrocity denial emerged in the wake of the 7 October 2023 Hamas terrorist attacks — the deadliest day for Jewish people since the Holocaust,” the envoy writes. “Disturbingly, these atrocities have been met by some with denial, minimisation, justification and distortion — echoing Holocaust denial, minimisation, and distortion.” Segal’s office is here telling us that it is antisemitic to talk about the glaring plot holes in the narratives about mass rapes, beheaded babies and babies cooked in ovens on October 7, or to talk about the large number of Israelis who were killed by IDF fire under the Hannibal Directive, or to “justify” the attack by pointing out the monstrous Israeli abuses which gave rise to it. The envoy writes of the importance of “Standing firm against antisemitism parading as ‘anti-racism’,” stressing the IHRA position that framing Israel as a racist endeavor is hateful toward Jews. A flyer saying “We don’t want your two states. We want all of 48” is labeled “antisemitic, because there is only one Jewish country.” Segal’s office warns of the dangers of “Holocaust inversion,” which is when “Israel and Jews are portrayed as Nazi-like perpetrators of mass atrocities and genocide,” which is bad because it “serves to demonise and delegitimise Israel, Israelis and Jews.” To be clear, every relevant humanitarian institution on earth has said that Israel is guilty of genocide in Gaza. These groups include: 1. The United Nations Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory 2. The International Association of Genocide Scholars 3. B’Tselem (an Israeli organization) 4. Physicians for Human Rights-Israel (another Israeli organization) 5. Amnesty International 6. Doctors Without Borders 7. The European Center for Constitutional and Human Rights 8. Human Rights Watch 9. The International Federation for Human Rights 10. The Lemkin Institute for Genocide Prevention The list of humanitarian institutions who say Israel is NOT committing genocide in Gaza includes: 1. Nobody 2. No one 3. Zero 4. Nothing 5. Nada 6. Zilch 7. Sweet damn all 8. A complete absence 9. Diddly squat 10. Bupkis This is not some fringe conspiracy theory. It is a thoroughly established and entirely indisputable fact. Australia’s Special Envoy to Combat Antisemitism is saying that facts are antisemitic. Some examples cited in the handbook of glaring instances of the antisemitic crime of “Holocaust inversion”: — Placards of ‘ Well done Hitler would be proud’ and ‘Same shit Different asshole’, the latter with images of Hitler and Netanyahu, both placards making Nazi analogies to Israel — Three banners of Hitler removing his mask , revealing the face of Netanyahu, making an analogy between Nazism and Israel, on major roads. — Graffiti of a Star of David, equal sign, and Nazi swastika , and another graffiti of ‘End the Genocide’ on a main road. We’re meant to believe it should be a hate crime to say the state that’s waging multiple wars of aggression while mass murdering people because of their ethnicity bears some resemblance to another state which did these things. I don’t know about you, but I find that silly. Australia’s “antisemitism envoy” claims it is antisemitic to say the IHRA definition of antisemitism silences criticism of Israel, arguing that “claims that the leading global definition of antisemitism — which reflects the lived experience of Jewish people worldwide — is designed to intentionally silence criticism echoes antisemitic tropes of Jewish power and control.” That’s right kids: you can’t criticise Israel because that’s antisemitic, and if you complain that your speech is being suppressed, that’s antisemitic too. The handbook includes a hypothetical office group chat which includes a coworker making the statement “But what about the genocidal, racist Zionist project that has oppressed the Palestinians? Zionism is a supremacist ideology invented by Theodore Herzl. They’ve done this through apartheid and ethnic cleansing.” “This is antisemitic,” the handbook argues, dismissing the entirely accurate statement as “Soviet-era antizionist propaganda” and saying it “was antisemitic because it included statements that accused Israel of apartheid, oppression, racism and genocide.” Saying it’s antisemitic to accuse Israel of apartheid, oppression, racism and genocide is as clear an admission that Segal’s goal is to stomp out all criticism of Israel as you could possibly ask for. If that wasn’t clear enough for you, the handbook concludes with the assertion that it is impossible to separate antizionism from antisemitism: “Trying to separate ‘antisemitism’ from ‘antizionism’ ignores the history of misinformation, disinformation and antisemitic propaganda that has shaped narratives about Israel and Zionism,” the envoy asserts. “It also ignores the lived and practical reality that wherever these antizionist narratives have been propagated, it has resulted in discrimination, harassment , vilification, hate and harm towards Jews. For example, Poland’s 1968 antizionist campaign resulted in expulsions and forced emigration of thousands of Jewish Poles.” “Antisemitism and antizionism are both expressions of hatred towards Jews,” the handbook concludes. So there you have it. That settles that. Throughout the handbook, the feelings of Australian Jews are cited over and over again as supremely important and of far more urgent a concern than genocide, apartheid, ethnic cleansing, and wars of immense geopolitical consequence. “Feel more isolated… I feel like I am living the life of a Jew from history, rather than the Jew I was 2 years ago,” reads a quote from an unnamed Jewish person. “I just feel so sad that I need to educate my children in how to respond if they are screamed at in the street,” reads another. “The silence from friends I have known almost all my life, the constant posting of antisemitic slurs and the public broadcasts of factually incorrect reports has been devastating and makes me fearful of what might happen next. Since October 7, when I speak to someone who hasn’t offered any support, I often ask myself ‘would they hide me’ which is a terribly sad situation in our beautiful country where I have always felt safe,” reads another. “A tutor in my university class made antisemitic comments very casually which made me feel extremely uncomfortable and unsafe. I am now nervous when entering a uni class,” reads another. “Being confronted again and again with blind hate towards my people and the place I come from was very painful. It impacted my mood, the way I perceived my community and my place in it, and my daily function,” reads another. Virtually nothing is said about the real victims. The murdered, displaced and terrorized targets of Israeli atrocities in Gaza, the West Bank, Lebanon and Iran. The war orphans. The child amputees and burn victims who were operated on without anesthesia. The people who will carry the physical and psychological wounds from their holocaust with them for the rest of their lives. They are not regarded as important by Jillian Segal. The real crisis, in her mind, is people talking about these things and making Jewish Australians feel upset. Absolutely psychotic. We cannot allow our country to continue to be dragged in this direction.

Must Watch. Every word.