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Drop Bear @drop-bear.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Love the details. Note the shoulder patch, showing "Greater Israel" stretching from the Nile to the Euphrates. Not sure where this is exactly, but the work is signed "Scottie Marsh". He's a Sydney-based artist. #AusPol #NSWpol #MossadMinns #SocialCohesion
"Mossad Minns"
Chris Minns, wearing a kippa and military jacket with Israeli flag and "Greater Israel" shoulder patches. In the background; multiple surveillance cameras on a pole and several drones in the sky.
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Drop Bear @drop-bear.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Zionism is an ethno-supremacist ideology predicated on a non-existent ethnos. Most European Jewish genetics traces to proselytes from well outside the original kingdoms and Palestine as a whole. Genetically, Palestinians could be said to be generally more "Jewish" than Israelis.
[book cover]
International Bestseller
Shlomo Sand
The
Invention
of the
Jewish
People
"Extravagantly denounced and praised"
New York Times
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Drop Bear @drop-bear.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Outside of human imagination, money does not exist. #economics #Capitalism
SecondUniverse (she/her/they)
@SecondUniverse@autistics.life
Just a reminder that moneythings are not real, even if you have billions of them.

Oct 02, 2026, 07:51 AM
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Drop Bear @drop-bear.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Economists say that a certain percentage of people must be unemployed. If so, then what is the Australian way with victims of that necessity? Unemployment Benefit could be viewed as society's compensation to people for whom we fail to provide. #AusPol David Pope 1 October 2026
Reserve Bank governor Michele Bullock approaches a statue, holding a wreath. Behind her, two besuited men in dark suits, with briefcases, salute. One of them says: "OH, BUT FOR THESE DAMN SHIN SPLINTS ...."

The front of the statue's plinth, reads:
"IN HONOUR 
OF THOSE WHOSE
-EMPLOYMENT -
MUST FALL
IN THE
GREAT WAR
ON
INFLATION"
On the side of the plinth, above a hammer and chisel left on the ground, the year "2026"

The statue disappears out top of frame. It carries a duffel-bag. A disembodied foot is booting it off the plinth.
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Drop Bear @drop-bear.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Sheeran's value as an attraction seems to have plummeted.
One married couple told the BBC they paid $450 (£335) per ticket. Two ladies told the BBC they got a "deal" for Saturday's concert after prices dropped as low as $32 a ticket.
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Drop Bear @drop-bear.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
#AusPol #Israel #genocide
Thank you for getting in touch regarding the Red Lines Package.

The Greens are a party of peace, and from day one, we have called for an immediate, permanent and unconditional ceasefire, an end to the genocide, apartheid and occupation, and the release of the hostages and political prisoners.

We have watched an unimaginable genocide unfold in Gaza - tens of thousands of people have lost their lives, people have been deprived of food, water, and medicine, and schools, hospitals, and mosques have been reduced to rubble.

We’re proud to join in introducing a package of bills that will write a red line into law: Australia should not benefit from, enable, or be complicit in, war crimes, genocide, and illegal settlements.

For too long this government has misled the Australian people, funnelling weapons to countries like Israel while saying we are living up to our obligations under international law. 

Enough is enough. It's time to make clear that taxpayer money should never be used to create harm and write a red line into law.

That is why the Greens co-sponsored the Red Lines Package in the Parliament in order to strengthen safeguards against involvement in genocide or crimes against humanity in Australia’s legislative framework.

But Labor squashed an inquiry outright. We will keep fighting on this.

 WATCH US IN PARLIAMENT HERE

You can take further action by signing our petitions here and here. 
Thanks again for your advocacy on this.. 

In solidarity,
Gigi
Constituent Advocate
 
Office of Senator David Shoebridge
Greens Senator for NSW
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Drop Bear @drop-bear.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
13/13
I didn't need 10 shows from Ed. I needed 2. Two chances to stand in front of 90,000 people and say the words that somehow became too dangerous to say.

Free Palestine.

But if those words cost me the stage, while turning the conversation back to Palestine, then it was the most successful tour I've ever been on.
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Drop Bear @drop-bear.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
12/13
Who is winning the internet, who is getting canceled, who gets to play the stadium and who doesn't, all of it becomes so small when held against what we are actually witnessing in Gaza and the West Bank. An entire people being displaced, starved and killed while the world debates which words we are allowed to use to describe it, how those words make us feel, and whether our discomfort matters more than the people living through a genocide.
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Drop Bear @drop-bear.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
11/13
When my brother Omar was doing the subtitles for the video I posted from MetLife, I thanked him. He told me there's a phrase in Arabic:
لا شكر على واجب

'La shukra ala wajeb." There is no thanks for a duty.

That stayed with me. Because that's what this has become for me and millions of others around the world. A duty. Not something deserving of praise or gratitude. Not brave. Human.
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Drop Bear @drop-bear.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
I hope this isn't the end of my relationship with Ed. Thirteen years of friendship doesn't disappear because of one painful disagreement. I hope we both continue listening, studying what is happening in Palestine and wrestling with what neutrality means in a moment like this. My door will always be open to continuing that conversation.
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Drop Bear @drop-bear.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
9/13
And one of the most effective ways to enforce that silence has been to weaponize the accusation of antisemitism. Antisemitism is real. And that is exactly why the word matters too much to be used as a shield against criticism of the Israeli state. When criticizing Israel, opposing Zionism or saying "Free Palestine" gets conflated with hatred of Jewish people, it doesn't protect Jewish people. It protects Israel from accountability.
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Drop Bear @drop-bear.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
8/13
What I said at MetLife I have been saying on stages around the world for almost three years. So why is it an issue now? Because now I'm sharing a stage with one of the biggest artists in the world, in some of the biggest stadiums in America. At a certain level of exposure, "Free Palestine" becomes too much of a risk. If I kept doing the shows, saying Free Palestine, with Ed implicitly supporting it, the crowd getting loud and showing undeniable support for Palestinian liberation, what artist might speak out next? The stage becomes resistance. Maybe that's why this time it became so important to silence me.
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Drop Bear @drop-bear.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
7/13
And I get why people don't. Taking a side can cost you. Money, brand deals, sponsorships, festivals, private shows, relationships and access. I've lost all of those things. But there is no neutral position between the oppressor and the oppressed. When one side has the bombs and bottomless financial and military support from America, refusing to take a side doesn't leave you in the middle.
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Drop Bear @drop-bear.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
6/13
Ed was in a fucked up position. He knew it. His typical apolitical stance was being challenged in a way it never had been before. He told me that the words "Free Palestine" and the image of the Palestinian flag were hurtful to a lot of people he spoke with. I told him that if those words were more offensive than tens of thousands of Palestinian children being killed by Israel, then there was a fundamental disconnect between where those people stood and where I stood. But he couldn't get past his public facing, "I don't take sides."
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Drop Bear @drop-bear.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
5/13
Last Monday, in the middle of all the media attention surrounding Pink and what I said at MetLife, Ed told me that Robert Kraft called him. We were scheduled to play Gillette Stadium later this month, which is owned by the Kraft Group. Ed told me that Kraft said I would not be allowed to perform in his stadium. Ed also told me that Kraft had rallied some of the other stadium owners and collectively they gave him an ultimatum: if Macklemore stays on the tour, you will not be allowed to play in our venues.
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Drop Bear @drop-bear.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
4/13
Ed is my friend. I've known him for 13 years. We've shared late nights, studio sessions and stages. He has this infectious magic about him that I've grown to love. I consider him a brother. And because of that, we've had some difficult conversations this past week. The type of talks rooted in love and respect for one another that still end in a place of fundamental disagreement. Nothing I'm writing here is out of spite or because I want to tear down his character. But as I told Ed multiple times on the phone, our friendship can't change my responsibility to tell the truth about what happened.
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Drop Bear @drop-bear.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
3/13
The victims are the Palestinian people. The men, women and children who have been killed, starved, displaced and forced to live through unimaginable violence. More than 20,000 children have been killed in Gaza alone. People are being killed today, and people will be killed tomorrow. I want to make sure that as I tell this story, we don't lose sight of that.
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Drop Bear @drop-bear.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
2/13
I'm not sure how to start this. So I'm going to speak from the heart and share the truth. Ed Sheeran and his team have made the decision to remove me from The Loop tour.

But before I get into it, I want to say something that should be obvious. In this moment I think it matters. I am not a victim. Ed Sheeran is not a victim. Pink is not a victim. We have careers, money, opportunities, safety and audiences around the world. Whatever consequences any of us face for what we say, we get to go home to our families.
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Drop Bear @drop-bear.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
1/13 #Macklemore 's response to his cancellation from #EdSheeran 's tour. www.instagram.com/p/DdRdsy0m2HK/ #Palestine #Gaza #Israel #Pink #RobertKraft #music
Macklemore
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Drop Bear @drop-bear.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
“Die Rather Than Serve This is the cry of these young men …” mikopeled1.substack.com/p/israeli-so... #Israel #genocide #CrimesAgainstHumanity #WarCrimes #Gaza #Palestine #Zionism
As early as the year 1900 major Rabbinical authorities published a booklet in which they warned Jewish communities of the dangers of Zionism. The book is titled, “Or Layesharim,” which is loosely translated as Light Unto the Honest. In this book, which I received from the head of the anti-Zionist community in Jerusalem, Rabbi Yisoel Hirsh, the Rabbis make three points about Zionism and the idea of a so-called “Jewish State” in Palestine:

1. It will bring violence to the Holy Land.

2. It will damage the good relations between Jews and Muslims around the world, and particularly the Jewish communities in Palestine and their Muslim neighbors.

3. It will cast doubt as to the loyalty of Jews who are citizens of countries around the world.

This was prophetic. Today, 126 years later we know that they were correct on all counts. From those early years until today, that community maintained their position rejecting Zionism and the State of Israel. When Zionism established itself in Palestine this community wanted nothing to do with it. Once the state was established and the army draft became mandatory, they were given an exemption from military service. The military did not want them, and they certainly did not want to be part of a Zionist army.
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Drop Bear @drop-bear.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
"When clean water becomes scarce, it will be privatized, … And those who can't pay won't survive." Mohamad Safa is Executive director and main representative at UN ECOSOC for human rights organisation Patriotic Vision - PVA. #AI #HumanRights
Mohamad Safa
@mhdksafa
We are officially entering “Global Water Bankruptcy”.

The UN has announced that we will start running out of clean water (drinking, cooking, showering, dishes, laundry, etc.) in the next few years.

Water won't always be free. When clean water becomes scarce, it will be privatized, priced, and controlled. You will pay for it. And those who can't pay won't survive.

Data centers don’t actually need water. Data centers need cooling system and they are using water because it’s the most cheapest way to do it. Water should be for people before profits. 

The world must remember that we live in a society, not an economy.
7:49 PM · Sep 11, 2026
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Drop Bear @drop-bear.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
🙄 #AusPol #Israel #genocide
Thank you for getting in touch about the Red Lines Package.

Australia takes its obligations under international law seriously. Genocide and other serious international crimes are already offences under Australian law.

We also have strict controls on defence exports under the Customs Act and Defence Trade Controls Act.

I understand you’re calling for these bills to be referred to a parliamentary inquiry. Like all proposed legislation, they’ll be considered through the established parliamentary process, including whether a committee inquiry is appropriate.

Thank you again for sharing your views.

Regards
Dan

Dan Repacholi MP
Federal Member for Hunter
Special Envoy for Men’s Health
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Drop Bear @drop-bear.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
#Israel #genocide #CrimesAgainstHumanity #WarCrimes #Gaza #Palestine #Zionism
Dr. Ezzideen
@ezzingaza
Perhaps the most terrifying thing about Gaza was not that the world allowed it to happen. It was discovering that Gaza was only the beginning.

All the speeches, protests, resolutions, international laws, red lines, condemnations, and promises of “never again” have apparently taught this monster nothing.

This morning, Israeli strikes completely destroyed Ghandour Hospital in southern Lebanon.

Another hospital !!

Another building once meant for healing reduced to rubble.
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Drop Bear @drop-bear.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
#HindRajab #Pink #Macklemore #Israel #genocide #CrimesAgainstHumanity #WarCrimes #Gaza #Palestine #Zionism
Council Estate Media
@cem_uk

You don't understand. The bad guys are not the people who put 355 bullets into a five-year-old girl. The real villain is the rapper who made a song reminding you about it.

10:37 PM . Sep 8, 2026
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Drop Bear @drop-bear.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
archive.is/Cy48K #Palestine #Israel
HAARETZ

Art & Culture

IMDb Replaces the Name Israel With the Term 'The Occupied Palestinian Territories'
The change was made in the section blocked by a paywall and intended for film-industry professionals. Israeli distributors: 'We'll demand they change it'
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Drop Bear @drop-bear.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
#AusPol #antisemitism #RoyalCommission
There were five expectations from Israel advocates before the Royal Commission even convened.

1. Erase the distinction between criticism of the behaviour of the State of Israel and attacks on Australian Jews: to conflate anti-Zionism and antisemitism.

2. Identify and silence Palestinian advocates by branding them antisemites and their words as hate speech.

3. Qualify freedom of speech and assembly laws and conventions to prohibit and criminalise criticism of Israel.

4. Privilege antisemitism as a form of bigotry and racism above all other societal prejudices, especially Islamophobia.

5. Ensure that despite both active and tacit support for Israel and a close affinity with Zionism, no diaspora Jews should be asked whether they support Israel’s actions in Gaza, East Jerusalem and the West Bank.

It is not clear whether any of these expectations have been met, hence the decision by many local Israel boosters to turn on the Commission, an odd tactic given its findings will not be released until December. In truth the attacks began before any witnesses were heard, when former Treasurer Josh Frydenberg declared it “unthinkable” that Justice Bell be appointed to head up the Royal Commission.
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Drop Bear @drop-bear.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Karma. “The algae crisis also exposed the fragility of Israel's water economy…” archive.is/fhMjM #Israel #genocide #CrimesAgainstHumanity #WarCrimes #Gaza #Palestine
    Opinion•Haaretz Editorial

Water Crisis Triggered by Gaza's Ruin: Israel Is Paying the Price of Destruction
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Drop Bear @drop-bear.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Another festival board that has not learned the lessons of history. Randa Abdel-Fattah on Instagram 3 September 2026 www.instagram.com/p/Dc0oXITifbt/ #Zionism #censorship #CambridgeLiteraryFestival
randaafattah I was due to appear in a session at the Cambridge Literary Festival to discuss my new novel Discipline on 8 October 2026. The event was to be held at Newnham College. The Jewish Chronicle approached the festival. The venue became unavailable.
My session has now been cancelled.
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Drop Bear @drop-bear.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Evidently, a Zionist lied.😑 www.instagram.com/p/Dcy-VI8zkLC/ #protest #AusPol #Zionism #Israel #genocide #SydneyMarathon
The Sydney Morning Herald

Orly Lavee's mischaracterisation of Sunday's Sydney Marathon protest as displaying "messages of hate" leaves out one rather inconvenient fact: Jews helped organise it ("Messages of hate strike wrong note at Sydney Marathon", September 2). I am Jewish and a member of Jews Against the Occupation'48, one of the groups involved. Jews were at the protest, two Jews spoke, and it was Jewish researchers who helped uncover the backgrounds of IDF soldiers and others with military links running in the marathon - the story that prompted the protest. So, who exactly were we supposedly hating? The chants targeted the IDF, not Jews. Opposition to the Israeli military is not hatred of Jews. Lavee's description also bears little resemblance to the protest I experienced. It was incredibly uplifting. Runner after runner responded with raised fists, peace signs and high-fives. Some carried Palestinian flags. The support was overwhelming. Jewish Australians who oppose Israel's actions exist but are too often ignored or abused for speaking out. Perhaps it's time we stopped being erased from the definition of "the Jewish community" simply because what we say and experience doesn't fit the prevailing narrative. Judith (surname withheld), Sydney
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Drop Bear @drop-bear.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
The conditions of the #Genocide Convention have been met. That is not honestly deniable. Australia's obligations are clear. The fact that our leaders have chosen to dishonour those obligations disgraces them and shames Australia. It shames me. www.redlinespackage.com.au/support #AusPol #Israel
RED LINES PACKAGE

Campaign officially launching September 15th

Legislation

BILL 1 OF 4

DEFENCE TRADE CONTROLS AMENDMENT (WAR CRIMES, CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY AND GENOCIDE) BILL 2026

BILL 2 OF 4

GENOCIDE REPORTING, PREVENTION, AND RESTITUTION BILL 2026

BILL 3 OF 4

TREASURY LAWS AMENDMENT (DIVESTING FROM ILLEGAL INVESTMENTS) BILL 2026

BILL 4 OF 4

OCCUPIED TERRITORIES GOODS AND SERVICES (IMPORT PROHIBITION) BILL 2026
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Drop Bear @drop-bear.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
We're paying $6 million to peddle Zionist propaganda to our children. 🤬 www.instagram.com/p/Dcsr-VJj0v2/ #AusPol #antisemitism #propaganda #SocialCohesion
Classrooms should not be used to silence the truth about genocide in Gaza.
There is no excuse for genocide denial.

Quote
[Logo:
ECHOES & REFLECTIONS
TEACHING THE HOLOCAUST. INSPIRING THE CLASSROOM.]

[Logo:
Social Cohesion Education Hub

"False accusations of apartheid, genocide, and settler-colonialism against the State of Israel and actions of the Israeli government have alarmingly become more socially acceptable regardless of their accuracy. Israel is more and more commonly perceived as a powerful oppressor against people of color and other victims of oppression. This dangerous rhetoric is antisemitic, has caused violence against individual Jews and Jewish institutions, and is a threat to a safe and stable democratic society."
End quote

Teachers: sign our boycott pledge to scrap The Hub - link below
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Drop Bear @drop-bear.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
The little reporting that I've seen presents the protests as opposition to the marathon. 😑 The Zionist contingent isn't mentioned at all. #censorship #protest #AusPol #Zionism #Israel #genocide #SydneyMarathon
The Cockatoo
@DarcyAmaroo
Nobody is saying the entry of the IDF Soldiers in the Marathon was a success.
Did they even appear or was it a flop.
Who paid for this failed exercise if they did run?
Was the Albanese and Minns Govts involved?
One thing was proven.
The people still stand with the Palestinians.
4:47 PM · Aug 31, 2026
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Drop Bear @drop-bear.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
1/2 Oriyan Avni is among the 40 IDF soldiers running in the Sydney Marathon. She is running and raising funds in memory of her dead brother, … www.instagram.com/p/Dcn-kBnow1V/ #AusPol #Zionism #Israel #genocide #CrimesAgainstHumanity
A shaven-headed, bearded man in black, with dark glasses and body armour, holds the leash of a large black dog.
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Drop Bear @drop-bear.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
"The Israeli delegation is part of a propaganda tour backed by Israeli organisations." www.instagram.com/p/DclW-NylJK9/ #protest #AusPol #Zionism #Israel #genocide
SNAP PROTEST
ARREST
CUT TIES WITH APARTHEID ISRAEL
THE IDF
WAR CRIMINALS OUT OF THE MARATHON
RUNNERS
10AM SUNDAY 30 AUGUST
HYDE PARK FOUNTAIN
Logos of:
Jews Against the Occupation 1948
Stop the War on Palestine
and
Coalition of Women for Justice and Peace
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Drop Bear @drop-bear.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Deny
Attack
Reverse
Victim and
Offender
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Drop Bear @drop-bear.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
"How to Sell a Genocide" has been restored to the shelves of Waverley Library. At the time, 21 people had registered reservations to read the book. www.instagram.com/p/DciIvvKzY0_/ A battle is won. The struggle against totalitarian Zionism continues. #AusPol #Zionism #censorship
Background: Woman in hijab
Text (partial transcript): "figuring out how to keep challenging these horrid systems. Well done."
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Drop Bear @drop-bear.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
"The price that we all pay for this complicity by the media is the legitimization of genocide, the absence of accountability and the lack of reliable news sources." chrishedges.substack.com/p/documentin... #media #hasbara #censorship #Israel #genocide
The
ChrisHedges
Report

Chris Hedges, who has extensive experience as a former New York Times Middle East Bureau Chief, describes the information published by the Israeli State as lies: "If there is one indisputable fact, it is that Israel lies like it breathes." The task of professional journalists and media outlets is to review evidence and verify the information they are reporting, but when it comes to Israel, Western establishment media function as stenographers, echoing their lies globally.
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Drop Bear @drop-bear.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Bassem has previously toured Australia in 2023 and 2015, and says he was not required to provide such background documents on those occasions. www.instagram.com/p/DchbwdVyDhX/ #AusPol #censorship #Zionism #Israel #genocide
Background: a bearded man with microphone in hand.
cheekmedia.co 

Comedian Bassem Youssef has postponed his Australian tour after Home Affairs requested FBI clearance and a criminal record from Egypt as part of his visa application. Youssef, who is an open critic of Israel, fled Egypt 12 years ago, and with his identity documents now lapsed, could not get the checks processed in time. It comes two months after the Executive Council of Australian Jewry told the SMH it had "made representations" to convince Home Affairs to deny Youssef's visa.

Cheek.
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Drop Bear @drop-bear.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
New York Magazine is owned by Lupa Systems, James Murdoch’s media and technology holding company. #Israel #CrimesAgainstHumanity #WarCrimes #genocide #Gaza #Palestine
NEW YORK
MAGAZINE

Comments: Week of August 24, 2026

Some objected to the magazine's use of the term genocide to describe Israel's actions in Gaza. Close readers will recognize that this was not a decision specific to this series. This past fall, after an extensive review of genocide scholarship and interviews with multiple experts in the field of genocide studies, the New York Magazine's editors decided the term was an accurate description of the atrocities in Gaza, that accusations of antisemitic intent were in fact obfuscating an overwhelming scholarly consensus, and that its use would be allowed in our pages.
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Drop Bear @drop-bear.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
The Deauville Sport Images Festival in Normandy has removed a photograph from its 2026 exhibition after complaints over its depiction of Gaza. www.instagram.com/p/Dcb9c2rEqpx/ #Zionism #censorship #Israel #genocide #CrimesAgainstHumanity #WarCrimes #Gaza #Palestine
Quentin Quarantino
@quentquarantino

This powerful photo of a soccer match in Gaza was
set to be displayed a sports photograph festival in
France.

It was quietly removed from the festival due to
concerns of antisemitism.

[image: green sports field surrounded by ruined buildings]

X.com
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Drop Bear @drop-bear.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Senator responds. #AusPol #Israel #Zionism
nick.mckim

Mr Jeremy Leibler
President, Zionist Federation of Australia

Nick McKim
Australian Greens Senator for Tasmania
149b Macquarie St, Hobart TAS 7000
Tel: (03) 6224 8899

Dear Mr Leibler,

Thank you for your letter of 23 August. As you chose to make
your letter public, I will also be publishing this response.

Criticism of Israel is not anti-semitic. It is, as the NSW Supreme
Court recently found, legitimate political comment.

Your conflation of 'Zionist' with 'Jew' is fundamentally dishonest.
Not all Jews are Zionists, and not all Zionists are Jews. That you
would descend to such sophistry exposes the lack of foundation
in your argument.

Your implication that the tragedy of Bondi and the ensuing Royal
Commission should suppress legitimate political debate is chilling.
I do not accept that proposition.

I have, as you asked, reflected on my statement that the
Australian government is captured by Zionist interests. I offer,
as my response, the truth.

Israel is perpetrating a genocide in Gaza, and the Australian
government is complicit.

Thank you again for your letter.

Yours sincerely

Nick McKim
Australian Greens Senator for Tasmania

THE
GREENS
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Drop Bear @drop-bear.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Judaism is exploited in support of a pseudo-Jewish ethno-state. It's time to dismantle Israel and bring to justice all who have committed crimes under its cover. #Israel #CrimesAgainstHumanity #WarCrimes #genocide #Gaza #Palestine
Shaiel Ben-Ephraim
@academic_la
The Chief Rabbi of the State of Israel, Rabbi David Yosef said today that the Palestinian people do not exist, do not have rights, that it is good that Gaza was destroyed and that with the help of God, all of Gaza and the West Bank will be Jewish soon. The Jewish religion is being used as a tool of genocide. This is not a fringe rabbi. This is the most important rabbi in Israel.
[video still: white-bearded man in west Asian clerical garb "Rabbi David Yosef, Sephardi Chief Rabbi of Israel
Gush Katif Museum, Jerusalem - 20 August 2026"]
4:58 PM · Aug 22, 2026
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Drop Bear @drop-bear.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Remember Hind Rajab. Justice for all victims of Israel. #Israel #genocide #CrimesAgainstHumanity #WarCrimes #Gaza #Palestine www.instagram.com/p/DcSq7UyuBjs/
Statement by Kaouther Ben Hania

Following the Israeli military's announcement that it is opening a criminal investigation into the killing of Hind Rajab, many journalists have reached out to me.
I do not wish to give interviews, but I want to say this.
This announcement is a smokescreen.
For more than two years, the evidence has been there:
independent investigations, satellite imagery, ballistic analysis.
And there was the most devastating evidence of all:
Hind's own voice, describing the Israeli tanks circling around her.
What more did we need?

Did we really have to wait for the accused to decide to investigate itself (yes, itself!) before these facts could finally be taken seriously?
Look at the cases the Israeli military is choosing to speak about today: they are precisely the ones that international public opinion has made impossible to ignore.
And what about all the others? Those whose names we will never know because their deaths never broke through the wall of international indifference?
Meanwhile, the Israeli military continues to kill Palestinians in Gaza, while the occupation intensifies in the West Bank.
What is needed now is not a public relations operation.
What is needed is justice (delivered by an independent authority) for Hind and for all the victims of the genocide in Gaza.

THE VOICE OF
HIND RAJAB
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Drop Bear @drop-bear.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Once, the UN was honest about it too. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_... #Zionism #racism
Tom London
@TomLondon6
I am a Jewish member of the Green Party. I support the motion that Zionism is a form of racism. 

I had been hesitant as Zionism is a word with many meanings

But its essential meaning in 2026 is the right of Jews to eliminate Palestinians - by ethnic cleansing or by murder
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Drop Bear @drop-bear.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Condemnation without consequences is not accountability. Sanction Israel. End military ties. Expel the Ambassador. Words are not enough. www.instagram.com/p/DcQSryemXpB/ #AusPol #Israel #CrimesAgainstHumanity #genocide #WarCrimes #terrorism
IF AUSTRALIA IS 'OUTRAGED', PROVE IT.

. Formally reject Israel's decision
. Refer the matter to the AFP
· Pursue avenues for independent investigation and accountability
. Coordinate with the governments of the other World Central Kitchen workers killed
. Demand the release of all evidence relating to the attack
. Publish the Government's assessment of Israel's final decision
. Implement targeted sanctions
. Apply the same standard of accountability to the killing of Palestinian humanitarian workers, health workers, journalists and civilians in Gaza

APAN
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Drop Bear @drop-bear.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
David Pope 21 August 2026 After Mearns #AusPol #Israel #CrimesAgainstHumanity #genocide #WarCrimes #terrorism
YESTERDAY UPON DFAT'S STAIR
I SAW AN AID WORKER WHO WASN'T THERE

SHE WASN'T THERE AGAIN TODAY!
OH HOW I WISH SHE'D GO AWAY

Foreground:
A partially-obscured sign on a roundabout reads
"Department of
Foreign Affairs an"

Behind the sign, a smiling,  ghostly Zomi Frankcom stirs a steaming pot labelled "WAR". Two other pots behind the sign are labelled "CRIMES and "JUSTICE"

In the background, Israeli ambassador Hillel Newman struts, carrying a briefcase with the Israeli flag covering the entire lid.
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Drop Bear @drop-bear.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
It's time our politicians grew a backbone. Break all ties with Israel. Recall our ambassador. Expel theirs. #AusPol #Israel #CrimesAgainstHumanity #genocide #WarCrimes #Gaza #Palestine Attributed to smh.com.au
Israeli ambassador breaks silence as IDF review clears soldiers over Zomi Frankcom death

By Matthew Knott, Sarah McPhee and David Crowe
Updated August 20, 2026 - 11:49am, first published August 20, 2026 - 12:43am

Israel's ambassador to Australia has defended the Israeli investigation that cleared its military of any criminal wrongdoing over an attack in Gaza that killed seven aid workers, including Australian Zomi Frankcom, after Foreign Minister Penny Wong summoned him to Parliament House for a rebuke. Greens Senator Mehreen Faruqi said she was "apalled" by the ambassador's comments, arguing he should have been expelled from the country.

"There is no doubt that this is a war crime," she said as she called for the International Criminal Court to investigate Frankcom's killing.
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Drop Bear @drop-bear.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
#MossadMinns is at is again. Purportedly from today's "The Australian". The <alt> text is all that would fit. #AusPol
Police defied on Jewish guard guns
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…ents has been broadly supported by Jewish community leaders in the wake of the Bondi mass shooting.

While the NSW government this year established the Armed Response Command-consisting of a quick-reaction force of 250 police with long-arm firearms capabilities - concerns remain in the community over whether it will proactively guard events. Mr Morton said he was confident the command would be able to provide appropriate security.

"I credit the Premier for his foresight in setting up the ARC, that will be highly trained and equipped to handle any situation that may arise," he said. "They, along with our dedicated first responders, should have the confidence of the community to do the job in all circumstances."

NSW Police deputy commissioner David Hudson has told the antisemitism royal commission that allowing armed CSG guards to patrol public events would create a "disconnect" between community groups. "I think isolating a particular group for additional powers within our community is problematic," he said. "It can cause friction between groups if one particular element of society is afforded privileges that others aren't."

Armed CSG members already provide security at Jewish schools, synagogues and privately owned properties, but aren't permitted to be armed at community events.


Mr Minns on Wednesday said he had made no decision on a trial but said he was supportive of the move. "I'm really concerned that, as it relates to the Jewish community, they won't participate in Hanukkah events because of the real fear that this may happen again, "he told ABC Sydney.

"Given Jewish community groups and security groups are already armed ... for certain select events where there is a high risk of a potential mass shooting event, I think it needs to be trialled."

Asked if he would be open to concerned Muslim groups asking for similar armed guards in the community, Mr Minns said he was "not making a carte blanche decision about this".
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Drop Bear @drop-bear.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Trying to terrorise people out of using the word "genocide" serves mainly to focus attention on the fact that Israel is committing genocide. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne... #AusPol #Zionism #censorship #genocide
“They seem to be objecting largely based on the title using the word ‘genocide’.” – Adam Johnson, author of How to Sell a Genocide

A Sydney library in the same council area as Bondi beach has removed a book critical of Israel called How to Sell a Genocide, following a complaint reportedly from a survivor of the Bondi beach terror attack.

How to Sell a Genocide critiques what it claims is the US media’s “complicity in the destruction of Gaza”. The decision to remove the book was criticised by its author, Adam Johnson, who said calling Israel’s actions in Gaza a genocide was not “a fringe or radical position”.
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Drop Bear @drop-bear.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
A reasonable précis. Sara Haddad _thesunbird_ on Instagram: www.instagram.com/p/DcFWx87ycNr/ #Zionism
Some days, not every day for sure - but some days - it is enough, it is enough, to wake up knowing that you don't think you are one of God's chosen people, that you are not a racist or an ethnosupremicist, that you are not a deranged sociopath who is completely deluded about the world and your place within it.

@_thesunbird_
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