A few Zionist colleagues of mine at the University of Sydney are currently trying to take me and fellow staff member John Keane to the Human Rights Commission for racial vilification, because we have dared to oppose this genocide. It’s classic ‘lawfare’, and it’s based on the baseless and absurd argument that when we say ‘Zionists’, we actually – so they tell us – mean ‘Jews’. We are, they claim, toxic antisemites.

If that’s what they thought, they could have come to my office at the university to talk about it. I would have bought them coffee, and made it clear just how far from the truth this is. Instead, they went direct to the Human Rights Commission, making a complaint that miraculously turned up on the front page of The Australian before it had even been acknowledged by the AHRC itself.

  • ikt
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    12 hours ago

    oppose this genocide

    Not a genocide

    • Zagorath
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      12 hours ago

      The actual experts in this area disagree with you.

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        11 hours ago

        Just checking the experts

        The German government insists that there’s no genocide taking place in Gaza.

        👍

        Hamas is free to fight the IDF on the battlefield or give up hostages and surrender, it has chosen neither

        Last I saw they were being kicked out of Qatar after not seriously coming to the table for a cease fire

        It’s the only genocide in the world where the elected representatives of a people care less about them than the genociders apparently!

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          I am answering here assuming you are commenting on good faith. Please give me the same courtesy.

          The fact is that the Israeli government chose to respond to actions of a few dozen people by occupying a nation and routinely killing masses of civilians including the bombing of hospitals and schools.

          The initial attacks were abhorrent and arguably justified a strong response against the perpetrators, it is difficult for many of us to understand how you can justify punishing an entire nation for the actions of a few dozen people, it is this that draws claims of genocide

          The civilian death toll in Gaza is now estimated at more than 180,000. Any argument that this is a proportionate and appropriate response must be either ignorant or in bad faith.

          I am happy to respond if you disagree or want to challenge my response here.

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            The fact is that the Israeli government chose to respond to actions of a few dozen people

            You know the hamas charter explicitly outlines their desire to wipe israel off the map, from the river to the sea? remember? and they were elected by the Palestinian people who btw still poll numbers for Hamas that the greens dream of getting

            You quote “a few dozen people”, it’s clear where your thought process lies and i’m not sure we’re living in the same reality, especially after witnessing the actions of “a few dozen” taliban for the last 20 years

            i’m not discussing this further, i don’t have enough interest in this

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          It is impossible to interpret this in good faith. The German government has obvious conflicts and should not be considered representative of international law. It’s as arbitrary as saying “Iran says the IDF eats babies”.

          The UN: https://www.ohchr.org/en/press-releases/2024/11/un-special-committee-finds-israels-warfare-methods-gaza-consistent-genocide

          The ICJ: https://www.icj-cij.org/case/192

          This instance is a joke. It’s apparently worse to insult someone like the above poster than to cover for an occupied people being systematically exterminated. Civility politics is a brain disease, it is substance not style that matters.