We are literally trapped.

As the Senior Judge presiding over all the panels of the NSW Premier’s lit awards I can attest that Dr Abdel-Fattah’s dedication and integrity throughout this process has been exemplary. So too her fellow judges. So much more to say Patricia Karvelas

Special citation to “media workers covering the war in Gaza” is a way to avoid naming the brave Palestinian journalists who did the reporting and filming and died in record numbers. Many of them were killed by US weapons as US media outlets promoted lethal Israeli propaganda.

The Israeli army raises the Israeli flag in the Rafah Crossing.

I don't ever want to hear/read 'why doesn't Hamas just release the hostages.' It is clear that it was never about the hostages.

It's obvious that the ISRli regime doesn't see Palestinians as humans. Unimaginable to understand how the families of hostages feel- knowing your own

I challenge the NYer to reach out to Palestinians involved in the US campus movements right now & poets who are actually putting their bodies/livelihoods on the line...

Or are Palestinians just objects to y'all? Objects of settler pity? Objects of imperial disarticulation?

Calculated weaponisation of antisemitism continues. Good article on the manufacturing of moral panics in Jewish Currents to understand the latest play by the lobby : uni students ( delicate petals who clearly skipped their “resilience” classes ) and their right to feel “safe”.

They didn’t even give Palestinians with disabilities the time to evacuate from Rafah. 😭

The The Australian has again today decided to attack my colleague Dr Randa Abdel Fattah. The Australian and associated media outlets have been repeating calls over the last couple of weeks to rescind Randa’s ARC Future Fellowship and for Macquarie to “review” her employment. 1/

Congratulations sara m. saleh | سارة صالح !

Congratulations to the 6 poets shortlisted for the 2024 Mary Gilmore Award:
Dan Hogan, Secret Third Thing
Paris Rosemont, Banana Girl
Sara Saleh, The Flirtation of Girls
Ella Skillbeck-Porter, These are Different Waters
Tais Rose Wae, Riverbed Sky Songs
Grace Yee, Chinese Fish

Looking forward to the debate at the University of Sydney NTEU meeting this week on calling on the university to cut institutional links with Israeli higher ed and the global armaments industry. Passing this motion would be a big step forward for Palestine solidarity in our union.

Wooooow. H*m*s released the text for the ceasefire deal that they accepted. It includes the release of ALL Israel hostages & war prisoners and all bodies of deceased Israeli hostages & war prisoners. ALL OF THEM.
Israel said no.

aljazeera.com/news/2024/5/6/…

When all we can do is bear witness whilst the people in Rafah are being slaughtered, we know that this is no war, this is war crime upon war crime, this is genocide.

No one will do anything.

All we have is our eyes on Rafah as we prepare to witness and mourn.

Instead of wasting time on an overwritten whataboutism on words, language, rhetoric by a once-admired novelist read this short and sharp essay by Arundhati Roy. Grateful for her moral clarity in these times. scroll.in/article/106486…

A neutral position in times of genocide is violent in itself - perhaps even more violent given the way neutrality frames the oppressed as on the same position of the oppressor- if you are neutral given everything we are witnessing you are one of the biggest problems

As Israel massacres Palestinians daily, what’s The Australian doing? Continuing its crusade against Dr Randa Abdel-Fattah alongside Senator Sharma who names three of the Arabs shortlisted and says we “hijacked” the awards. You know, like terrorists. Literary terrorists

'There was peace on the 6th of October'.

I am so impressed that Peter Dutton has shown he grasps the basic tents of settler colonial theory!

The peace of settler colonies structured on racial supremacy always depends on violence against the colonised. Thats a HD Peter!

I’m sharing this video of the 1968 student protests and strikes led by the Third World Liberation Front since it resonates with what’s happening now. “NO PIGS ON OUR CAMPUS”