Choosing

Israel's high court rejected a petition to prevent 2,000 'observers' carrying guns in Palestinian-majority elections, raising fears of intimidation:

RFK is of course correct, it has been *checks notes* an entire year since an Arab has won a Nobel Prize

I am Jewish. My grandparents were Jews who escaped the Holocaust. Pogroms were a common practice, ethnic cleansing too, and they managed to escape before the Holocaust. Most of their family members are dead, we’re a broken family tree with missing spots. I support Palestine BECAUSE I am Jewish.

Funny how an American Muslim candidate is often questioned about extremism, linked to radicalism, and called names by Trump and his ilk. I wonder why they don't ask Jewish American candidates about Israel, the genocide in Gaza, the West Bank, or what lies children in Israel are taught about Muslims?

Kerry O’Brien:What’s left of the democracy we thought we had? In the eyes of many Australians, government is a hollowed-out husk of what it once was, with limited will and capacity to plan for, let alone exercise, a measure of sovereign control over technology.. www.themonthly.com.au/october-2026...

Why does the government insist on trying to recover blood from a stone? If they want to aggressively recover so-called debts from people who've relied on Centrelink payments, they should at least wait until they can actually afford to live. @kristin8x.antipovertycentre.org on the latest debt BS

The blistering @franceskalbs.bsky.social UN report you won't see much in the media. Captured media/journalists complicit in Gaza genocide Story by Aleta Moriarty #ABC #BBC #CNN #NYT #Murdoch #Israel michaelwest.com.au/un-puts-medi...

David Shoebridge calls out Jillian Segal after she admits she failed due diligence with CAM—hosts of the antisemitism summit she’s speaking at—as Shoebridge reveals CAM awarded a racist US Republican who called for Gaza to "overflow with blood” Who is she partnering with? 🚩

In the APS preparation for Senate Estimates is to be as ambiguous, obfuscating, indirect, evasive, & vague as possible. I’ve seen it first hand. There needs to be consequences for this behaviour.

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In a 1994 interview on the Charlie Rose Show, Benjamin Netanyahu defined terrorism as “the deliberate and systematic murder, maiming & menacing of the innocent to inspire fear for political ends." He said that “democracies must treat terrorists strictly as international criminals”. Indeed.

If you encounter ICE, here's what every New Yorker should know.

Candlelight Vigil for Helen Haines Mt Beauty tonight

Home Affairs gave a $4.3 BILLION air services contract to a company with no Australian air operators certificate or employees – or the required aircraft – and which was registered to a front company: a real estate agent.

The racism that Abdul El-Sayed is facing from Republicans, the press, and even some Democrats is so disgusting.

If Jewish pupils are feeling upset when they see a Palestinian badge, the correct response is not to erase Palestine from schools--it's to educate those kids that a genocide is taking place and the correct moral position is to oppose it. Anything less is a dereliction of duty.

Is Trump plotting to interfere with the midterm elections? A group of current and former national security officials think the threat is so great that they’re working with elected officials in battleground states to prepare. Here’s what you need to know about how Trump may interfere.

Here's @ronnisalt.bsky.social "The violence we still refuse to name"

This is hilarious 😂😂😂…..

Phil Haines thanks people sending flowers, but asks if people want to support Helen, to consider donations to Save The Children "Please keep sending Helen your love"

Thanks to Kon Samaras for writing this ... I can feel his searing hot anger in every word. johnmenadue.com/post/2026/10...

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I didn’t know much about about Abdul El-Sayed before watching this but I knew as soon as I’d seen it that he’d worked as a teacher — and sure enough he was an assistant professor in epidemiology. This is how you walk a student through a dumb take.

This was a choice. Remember this.

SCOOP: 'Tommy' from the now-viral exchange with Abdul El-Sayed is Thomas Teepell, a former staffer for Republican Senator Josh Hawley with close ties to Christian Nationalist Sean Feucht. He's the son of a former Bobby Jindal staffer whose consultant work was instrumental in getting Hawley elected.

Everything the author says applies to Australia. But in one way it is worse: the governing Labor party will not allow any dissent on Israel - even debate - within its own parliamentary ranks. #GazaGenocide #auspol

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UN commission said that any Israeli soldier who fought in Gaza after October 2023 should be considered a war crimes suspect. Why aren’t these British IDF soldiers being arrested and prosecuted?

Anne Aly absolutely bristling at the abhorrent comments Angie Bell made about her and Anthony Albanese getting stoned in the square. Anne Aly’s anger and disbelief is palpable. This wasn’t misspeak or a comment that can be apologised away. It was a dog whistle and hopefully the AFP looking at this

to anyone I’m connected with on the slop infested corporate comms site that i reluctantly now use for self promotion since the demise of the other bad site, I would truly appreciate your likes and/or shares for this very cool presentation I am dialling in to do this Saturday

🇬🇧🍉 More than 250,000 protesters took to the streets of London, marking three years for the genocide of Gaza Footage: Palestine Solidarity Campaign

Palestinian supporters across Australia mark Global Day for Gaza

Angus Taylor first claimed his migration policy was PBO-costed. Now he says he can’t cost it because Labor’s policy (released a month before his)—“keeps changing.”🤦‍♂️ This is complete rubbish. LNP lies only get harder to swallow under Angus.

This book is BRILLIANT. I love Peter Oborne.

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The Roberts Report. How the ABC was stooged by the Israel lobby Cathy Peters reports. Read it here: https://michaelwest.com.au/abcs-geraldine-doogue-gives-free-rein-to-israel-apologist-and-genocide-denier/

At least 1,481 Palestinians killed in Israeli attacks since last year's 'ceasefire', Gaza's Health Ministry says https://aje.news/0mzpol

Israel has demanded that Palestinians in Gaza evacuate from the last surviving Medical Centres. So they can blow them to bits. It's a Genocide, there is no Ceasefire.

In the horror of a Genocide this is a moment of hope. 15 of the children from the Gaza Nipper’s program got back in the surf this week. 30 of the other nippers can’t be found, many have been killed. How has the world made the decision to send so many bombs and so few lifesavers?

@mark-carney.bsky.social “Over 200,000 people took to the streets of London today, marking three years of genocide in Gaza. We stand on the right side of history - just as those who fought apartheid in South Africa did. We will not rest until Palestine is free.” Zara Sultana 🇵🇸 This is leadership!

The utter, utter stupidity … Cratering our higher education sector, with regional areas hit hardest, to pander to One Nation immigration politics. They pegged uni finances on intl students, and then started attacking the student visa intake.

Keep in mind: The 74,000+ murdered Palestinians ONLY includes people whose bodies were recovered and properly identified based on their official Gaza Health Ministry ID number. Most studies now estimate the number of people Israel and their backers have ethnically cleansed in Gaza at over 700,000.

The Royal Commission on Antisemitism and Social Cohesion is slowly publishing submissions - 285 of about 20,000 now published This one by a group called Anti-Zionism Australia worth a read asc.royalcommission.gov.au/system/files...