What have we, in Australia, learnt in the past few days? (And by learnt what I really mean is what have we not learnt despite over two decades of activists, scholars, lawyers and community writing and speaking about this?) A 🧵

We are on tomorrow Sydney!

Spread the word. Legal info, directions, site map & more at linktr.ee/stopzimshipping

Palestine Justice Movement

Grateful to my colleagues at Macquarie University for making the time and effort to think and write this statement of solidarity.

so australia gives carte blanche to israel to go brakeless genocidal then uses the resultant danger to all palestinians as grounds for refusing them safe passage - evil upon evil

Hasbara Tracker is now live! You can now explore the first few Israeli claims and fabrications (and give it a shot on your desktop).

See how Israeli disinformation evolves and get context, debunks + more in a central database. hasbaratracker.com Hasbara Tracker

The NSW govt says their new bail laws will lock up more First Nations children. Locking up children is never the answer and does not make communities safer.
More here: abc.net.au/news/2024-03-1…

You’d be surprised how comfortable it is working from a camping chair at the Families for Palestine picket - sign up to join one of the shifts 🇵🇸

More thoughts: I don’t know why anyone would buy one of these homes if they can only be sold back to the govt for purchase price plus inflation and if the rental options are secure? Confusing aspect of an otherwise good idea

Haven't seen the detail but IMO public developer good, selling 30% of the homes bad.

Governments should be supporting models like community land trusts and cooperatives as well as providing public rental housing - there's too much support for homeownership already

BREAKING: Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has been referred to the International Criminal Court as an accessory to genocide in Gaza making him the 1st leader of a Western nation referred to the ICC under Article 15 of the Rome Statute.
100+ Australian lawyers back this move

Since Monday, the Albanese govt has voted to support Israel’s invasion of Gaza, voted against resuming UNRWA funding, awarded an Israeli weapons company a $917m contract & sent more ADF to the Red Sea to fight the Houthis.

Every one of these acts shows full support for genocide

The Palestine Project: We now have an introductory reading list available for university students who want to learn more about the history, politics and legal context of Palestine. Please share widely! Western Sydney University aem.westernsydney.edu.au/schools/sol/pa…

A devastating intervw w/ UN Spec Rapp on Right to Food Michael Fakhri abt Israel's starvation of Palestinians.

“We have never seen a civilian population made to go so hungry so quickly and so completely... Israel is not just targeting civilians, it is trying to damn the future…

Our press release on the 24/7 picket at Anthony Albanese's office is now in 6 languages! Week 3. Can you help us spread the word?

Seeking journos interested in this issue. Know someone? Share their details or connect us! Let's amplify the message.

Read it here: rb.gy/wrlpdd

Peter’s employer on climate policy: “Ignore the evidence. Follow the tiny fringe”

Imagine as a parent having to fight to get food for your child who is dying of hunger: total collapse of civil order. That’s the situation that Israel has created in Gaza. Shame on all of us for allowing this betrayal of humanity.

bbc.com/news/world-mid…

The changing shape of the Aus private rental sector - a key chart in Aus housing studies.

Updated to 2021 in the latest in AHURI's long-running series on affordable and available private rental. ahuri.edu.au/research/final…