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Dion Kagan @dionkagan.bsky.social · 15d

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Gazans ‘deserved what they got’: Shocking stories of anti-Palestinian racism in schools revealed

New report says education departments enable 'silencing of Palestinian perspectives in schools'

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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 15d

The whole outrageous story:

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Cornell Cut Classes by a Pro-Palestinian Professor After an Israeli Student’s Discrimination Complaint

Dr. Eric Cheyfitz, who has taught at Cornell for more than two decades, claims the university is attempting to silence him as part of a broader crackdown on pro-Palestinian activism.

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Dion Kagan @dionkagan.bsky.social · Sep 15

We call on UofM to embrace its responsibilities to students, staff and the public good by acting promptly & housing this important journal within its Community & Cultural Partnerships portfolio and committing to resourcing it appropriately in the long term
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University of Melbourne Creative Writing Program Statement on the proposed closure of MEANJIN

The creative writing program at the University of Melbourne is distressed by the recently announced closure of Meanjin, one of Australia’s oldest and most revered literary journals. Its international ...

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Mel Campbell @incrediblemelk.bsky.social · Aug 18

Powerful op-ed by Randa Abdel-Fattah about what it’s like when Australia’s entire pro-lsraeIi genocide lobby dedicates its efforts to professionally ruining you, specifically, to shut you up

It’s published at @deepcutnews.bsky.social because it was rejected by The Age, Guardian and The Conversation

Pro-Israel groups have attacked me for years. The Bendigo Writers Festival is a turning point.

Randa Abdel-Fattah writes of her experience as a target of the pro-Israel lobby

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Kenn Pike @thutigger.bsky.social · Aug 18

Garden art

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Owen Jones @owenjones.bsky.social · Jul 22

A tipping point has been reached.

Gaza is now starving to death in front of the whole world.

Those who facilitated and justified this abomination were given ample warning for 21 months.

You have no excuses, and nowhere to hide: you will be held to account for what you've done.

Gaza health ministry says 33 people dead from malnutrition in last 48 hours

New figures from the Hamas-run ministry include 12 children who have died, as the UN says Israel must allow aid into Gaza.

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Owen Jones @owenjones.bsky.social · Jul 16

Heroes ✊👏

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Dion Kagan @dionkagan.bsky.social · Jul 22

'To be a liberal Z'st today is to be both scapegoat & cover: reviled as a traitor when you speak out & trotted out as evidence of pluralism when the world is watching.'
@shaielb.bsky.social, Liberal Z*sm Is Dying: It’s Time to Put It Out of Its Misery. shaielbenephraim.substack.com/p/liberal-zi...

Liberal Zionism Is Dying—It’s Time to Put It Out of Its Misery

For years, liberal Zionism let me feel principled while providing cover for injustice. It’s time to call out the illusion—and stop shielding what can’t be defended.

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Mel Campbell @incrediblemelk.bsky.social · Jul 18

I’m also fascinated by how universities emerged as combos of abbeys & madrasas, but most of all as student unions – mainly of international students!

everyone in the early university worked FOR students – what a power shift we have witnessed where universities punish students for organising

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Mel Campbell @incrediblemelk.bsky.social · Jul 22

We KNOW lsraeI's whole plan is to empty Gaza of its people & erase all witnesses; the IOF even exhumes & abducts victims from mass graves so their bones can never shame the evil land-hunger of foreign necro-colonists

So statements like this just send the message "lsraeI's genocide is working"

Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · Jul 21

A horrifying statement published today by the Editorial Committee of the Agence France-Presse (AFP) news agency.

"Without immediate intervention, the last reporters in Gaza will die"

Translation from French to English by @cnorristrent.bsky.social:

Without immediate intervention, the last reporters in Gaza will die
July 21, 2025

AFP has been working with 1 writer, 3 photographers and 6 videographers, all freelance, in the Gaza Strip since its staff journalists left in 2024.

Along with a few others, they are now the only ones left to report what is happening in the Gaza Strip. The international press has been banned from entering the territory for nearly two years.

We refuse to watch them die.

One of them, Bashar, has been working with AFP since 2010, first as a fixer, then freelance photographer, and since 2024, as lead photographer. On July 19th he managed to post a message on Facebook: “I no longer have the strength to work for the media. My body is thin and I can’t work anymore.”

Bashar, 30, works & lives in the same conditions as all Gazans, moving from one refugee camp to another under Israeli bombings. For > a year he’s lived in utter destitution, working at extreme risk to his life. Hygiene is a major issue for him, with recurring bouts of severe intestinal illness.

Since Feb, Bashar’s been living in the ruins of his home in Gaza City with his mother, 4 brothers & sisters and the family of one of his brothers. Their house is devoid of any furnishings, except a few cushions. On Sunday morning, he reported that one of his brothers had “fallen, due to hunger.”

Even though these journalists receive a monthly salary from AFP, it’s no longer enough to buy food, or they have to pay completely exorbitant prices. The banking system has collapsed, and those who exchange money via online bank accounts charge a commission of up to 40%.

AFP no longer has the ability to provide them with a vehicle and there is not enough fuel to allow these journalists to travel for their reporting. Driving a car means becoming a target for Israeli airstrikes. AFP reporters therefore travel on foot or by donkey cart. (alt txt continued in next post)

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Dion Kagan @dionkagan.bsky.social · Jul 22

A must-listen chat with Bill Bowtell on LNL that ends w a prognosis & prediction for what happens globally w HIV now that US funding is withdrawn podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/l...

Bruce Shapiro on US politics, Bill Bowtell surveys 40 years of HIV, and the world's richest shipwreck

Podcast Episode · Late Night Live — Full program podcast · 15/07/2025 · 55m

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Alexandra Heller-Nicholas @horrornonna.com · Jul 15

🚨 Big news 5 years in the making: some friends and I made a documentary! 1000 WOMEN IN HORROR hits Shudder soon, directed by Donna Davies and inspired by my 2020 book of the same name

If you are in Australia, I hope you can make it to the world premiere at the Melbourne International Film Festival

1000 Women in Horror

From the silent era until today, the nightmares that have haunted our screen have been sculpted and embodied by women, but many of those artists have gone....

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Dion Kagan @dionkagan.bsky.social · Jul 13

I have tonnes of maggie watch vids from lockdowns when I was cultivating a magpie drop-in centre in my front yard I shall send you some. I feel very supportive of this and hope you will share developments and results as you develop the warble

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Dion Kagan @dionkagan.bsky.social · Jul 11

Unclear if this activism will lead to the systemic model change this industry needs, but huge kudos to these academics for stepping up, withdrawing their labour and the intellectual capital they gather.

Folia @foliacivitatis.bsky.social · Jul 9

28 international editors have announced their resignation from commercial publisher Taylor & Francis, which recently acquired their book series from Amsterdam University Press (AUP). The editors made this known today in a signed letter to the publisher. www.folia.nl/en/actueel/1...

28 editors resign after takeover at AUP publishing house

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Vinzenz Hediger @vinzenzhediger.bsky.social · Jul 9

The time has come to reinvent academic publishing. Over the last years conglomerates have bought up once respectable publishers and turned them into rent extraction machines, generating obscene profits from tax-payer funded research and unremunerated academic labor./
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Sale of the Amsterdam University Press (AUP) film, media and communication list to Taylor & Francis – Resignation of series editors and editorial board members

It is with great dismay that we, the undersigned, learned that the film, media and communication list of Amsterdam University Press (AUP) has been taken over by Taylor & Francis, a subsidiary of Infor...

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Dion Kagan @dionkagan.bsky.social · Jul 9

Jews say no to anti-protest laws: Jacinta Allan stop exploiting antisemitism chng.it/dgdMnVCN via @ChangeAUS

Sign the Petition

Jews say no to anti-protest laws: Jacinta Allan stop exploiting antisemitism

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Mel Campbell @incrediblemelk.bsky.social · Jul 6

It disgusts me the way that the captive media try to justify their genocide stenography as ‘neutrality’ – and punish truth-telling journalists as ‘activists’ –and yet here they are bringing opinion into a news lede in a way that would fail a first-year J-school news writing assignment

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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · Jul 2

"'Economy of Genocide': UN Expert Accuses Major Corporations of Profiting Off of Israel's Assault on Gaza"

Francesca Albanese, the UN special rapporteur on Palestine, releases report accusing more than 45 entities of making money from Israel's Gaza genocide and illegal occupation of the West Bank:

'Economy of Genocide': UN Expert Accuses Major Corporations of Profiting Off of Israel's Assault on Gaza

Francesca Albanese, the UN special rapporteur on Palestine, releases report accusing more than 45 entities of making money from Israel's Gaza genocide and illegal occupation of the West Bank.

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The Guardian @theguardian.com · Jul 2

TV tonight: Channel 4 airs the Gaza documentary the BBC wouldn’t broadcast

Ramita Navai investigates Israel’s attacks on Gaza’s hospitals in a controversial film. Plus: celebrating football hero Mary Earps. Here’s what to watch this evening

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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · Jul 3

“Doctors Recall Torture They Endured in Gaza Documentary the BBC 'Refused to Air'”

Thank you to ⁦‪Charlie Nash‬⁩ and ⁦‪Mediaite‬⁩ for reporting on our important new documentary ‘Gaza: Doctors Under Attack’

Doctors Recall Torture They Endured From Israeli Military in New Documentary the BBC ‘Refused to Air’: ‘They Hung Me Up’

Palestinian healthcare workers recalled the torture they endured at the hands of Israeli military personnel in a new documentary the BBC "refused to air."

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