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jordy silverstein

@jordanas.bsky.social
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jewishness, diasporism, history, memory, solidarity, justice. she/her. Author of 'Cruel Care' (2023) and 'Anxious Histories' (2015).

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Andy Fleming @slackbastard.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
This week on 'Yeah Nah Pasaran!' on @3crmelbourne.bsky.social, @sexenheimer.bsky.social & I talk to @jordanas.bsky.social about the RC on antisemitism & social cohesion. 4.30pm, Thurs, MAY 21 /// 855AM, digital, streaming, Community Radio+ app, podcats 🐈 slackbastard.anarchobase.com?p=54297
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Yeah Nah Pasaran #287 w Jordy Silverstein on the Royal Commission on Antisemitism and Social Cohesion : May 21, 2026
On 9 January 2026, the Governor-General, Her Excellency the Honourable Sam Mostyn AC, issued Letters Patent, which established the Royal Commission on Antisemitism and Social Cohesion. The Hon Virg…
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Overland Journal @overlandjournal.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
“The Adelaide Festival’s decision to dump Palestinian academic Randa Abdel-Fattah gives us a grim foretaste of the Australian cultural landscape in 2026.” David Brophy on “ambient antisemitism” and the institutional mechanisms for curtailing protest and political expression.
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Universities and the arts after Bondi: from definitions to “ambient antisemitism” - Overland literary journal
The Adelaide Festival’s decision to dump Palestinian academic Randa Abdel-Fattah from its upcoming Writers’ Week gives us a grim foretaste of the Australian cultural landscape in 2026.
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Overland Journal @overlandjournal.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
“But it’s also that this land, this beautiful Aboriginal land, was not made to hold such grief. It can, and it does, but it shouldn’t have this burden thrust upon itself.” @jordanas.bsky.social on the logic of violence that permeates Australia.
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Yes, this is what Australia is - Overland literary journal
Imagine though the possibility of a response which was not horrid. Which did not demand more violence be piled up. Which led us to other ways of being together, other horizons of possible futures. Ima...
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Jeannine Baker @nenieb.bsky.social · 06/12/2025
More on the destruction of MqUni Arts. Every PoC in Sociology has been sacked or pushed into teaching only. Only 1 woman left in Politics & Intl Relations, & 1 in Sociology. At least 3/9 sacked academics are neurodiverse. Several successful researchers have been sacked or made teaching only. 2/2
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Jeannine Baker @nenieb.bsky.social · 06/12/2025
Shocking analysis of the gendered, racial & disability dimensions of the sackings in Arts at Macquarie University. 7 women and 2 men made redundant. 5 of the 7 women sacked are Women of Colour. 3 of the 4 people pushed onto teaching only roles are PoC. 1/2
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Zora Simic @zorasimic.bsky.social · 06/12/2025
The more that comes out about the fabricated crisis at Macquarie University, the worse it gets. Wanton destructive ideologically driven managerialism targetting scholars at the peak of their careers, robbing students of choice & expertise, destroying disciplines vital to the whole sector.
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Hannah Forsyth 🍉 @hannahforsyth.bsky.social · 06/12/2025
This is fucked 👇
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jordy silverstein @jordanas.bsky.social · 06/12/2025
the racism is devastating
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Alistair Kitchen @alistairkitchen.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
Hi everyone I was denied entry, detained, and deported from the USA over the last 48 hours because of my reporting on the Columbia student protests I arrived back in Melbourne hours ago and had my phone handed back to me upon landing
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Andy Fleming @slackbastard.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
Tomorrow's episode of 'Yeah Nah Pasaran!' is a very special @3crmelbourne.bsky.social radiothon edition, with some very special guests. Please donate to 3CR if you're able & willing to support community radio, our show, & lots more ace programing. Cheers! 🫡📻🐈‍⬛ slackbastard.anarchobase.com?p=52881
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Yeah Nah, Nah Yeah, It’s The 2025 3CR Radiothon!
Welcome to the RADIOTHON edition of Yeah Nah Pasaran! 4.30pm, June 12, 2025 /// 855AM, digital, streaming, Community Radio Plus This June 3CR really needs your support. Your donation ensures that t…
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Warwick Anderson @wombatscholar.bsky.social · 08/06/2025
Good to see this online and open access. @jordanas.bsky.social has been in the forefront of Oz historians concerned about Gaza; her brother Ben was a postdoc in my ARC laureate project. @austhistassoc.bsky.social @dirkmoses.bsky.social
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‘We open our eyes despite the pain it causes’: a role for historians in these genocidal times
Published in History Australia (Ahead of Print, 2025)
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Matthew Klugman (they/them) @raw-toast.bsky.social · 01/06/2025
I remember Johnston advocating for direct action protests - including sit-ins - when I was a student at this uni in the 1990s.
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benjamin @benjamino.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
The disconnect between mr dog's crystal clear cartoon and the cowardly passive voice header the guardian has inflicted upon it is quite the nutshell of 18 months of Israel getting a free pass on genocidal war crimes
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Micaela Pattison @micaelapattison.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
My sincere thanks to @jordanas.bsky.social @zorasimic.bsky.social and Ben Silverstein for this important piece. Full article: ‘We open our eyes despite the pain it causes’: a role for historians in these genocidal times www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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‘We open our eyes despite the pain it causes’: a role for historians in these genocidal times
Published in History Australia (Ahead of Print, 2025)
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Zora Simic @zorasimic.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
Good to see ABC has published this important piece from Jess Whyte, but it is much more than 'opinion'- she has gathered the facts and provides essential analysis of how aid has been weaponised & humanitarianism militarised www.abc.net.au/religion/as-...
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As Gaza faces starvation, a new plan weaponises humanitarian aid — what can be done? - ABC Religion & Ethics
After blocking all food from entering Gaza for 11 weeks, Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu has agreed to allow a limited amount into the besieged territory — though he insists that a new militarised deliv...
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Andy Fleming @slackbastard.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
'Find yourself someone who looks at you like tabloid television looks at neo-Nazis.' ~ Ancient proverb
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Matthew Klugman (they/them) @raw-toast.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
For more on Mike Pezzullo, see @jordanas.bsky.social's brilliant book, Cruel Care: A History of Children at Our Borders. publishing.monash.edu/product/crue...
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Cruel Care - Monash University Publishing
Joint winner of the 2024 Oral History Awards! Highly Commended for the Australian History Prize as part of the 2024 NSW Premier’s History Awards. Shortlisted for the 2024 VIC Premier’s...
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Jews Against Fascism ☂️ @jewsagainstfash.bsky.social · 12/04/2025
4/4 This year, we honour the story by refusing its misuse. By listening. Showing up. Rooting our rituals in solidarity, not supremacy. Placing our stories alongside, not above. From the narrow place, we don't move toward conquest, but toward collective freedom.
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Jews Against Fascism ☂️ @jewsagainstfash.bsky.social · 12/04/2025
3/4 We are taught to mourn even our oppressors. But today we’re told to stay silent as others are bombed, displaced, starved. We’re told to call it defence. We’re told to look away. We refuse. Liberation built on domination is not liberation. It’s apartheid. It cannot be done in our name.
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Jews Against Fascism ☂️ @jewsagainstfash.bsky.social · 12/04/2025
2/4 This isn’t about making our past sacred. It’s about refusing to ignore the present. Because oppression today doesn’t live in metaphor. It lives in Gaza, under siege. In the West Bank, under occupation. In refugee camps, in exile, in rubble.
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Jews Against Fascism ☂️ @jewsagainstfash.bsky.social · 12/04/2025
🧵 1/4 This Peysakh, we return to a story of liberation. But we don’t stop at our own. The rituals remind us that freedom is not a possession, it’s a commitment. A memory that insists we act in the face of oppression, not just remember it.
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Nour Haydar @nourhaydar.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
NEW: Artist Khaled Sabsabi has blamed Creative Australia for the “dismantling” of his career and said the board’s decision to revoke his appointment as Australia’s Venice Biennale representative has given the green light for others to smear his reputation. www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...
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Khaled Sabsabi says Creative Australia decision was ‘kneejerk’ reaction that is ‘dismantling’ his career
Exclusive: Lebanese-Australian artist says ‘nobody should have to go through this torture’ in first interview since being dumped from Venice Biennale exhibition
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Danielle Binks @daniellebinks.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
Israel killed 15 Palestinian paramedics and rescue workers one by one, says UN Workers on a mission to help colleagues were buried in mass grave in southern Gaza, says humanitarian office www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...
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Israel killed 15 Palestinian paramedics and rescue workers one by one, says UN
Workers on a mission to help colleagues were buried in mass grave in southern Gaza, says humanitarian office
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jordy silverstein @jordanas.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
a must read from @jumanabayeh.bsky.social in @overlandjournal.bsky.social, dismantling the UA antisemitism definition: "what is painfully evident is that, in the process of writing the definition, not one person in the room saw, imagined, considered Palestinians." overland.org.au/2025/03/sile...
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Silencing Palestine: Universities Australia and the new definition of antisemitism - Overland literary journal
I am a researcher of literature and I am invested in understanding the political nature of language, and the context in which that language is embedded — even chaotic and unfocused language. I want to...
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jordy silverstein @jordanas.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
make sure you give this fab conversation a listen
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jordy silverstein @jordanas.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
The murder of Palestinian journalist, based in north Gaza, Hossam Shabat by israel is devastating. Make sure you read this piece, his last filed story. Make sure you stand up and fight against this genocide.
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Drop Site @dropsitenews.com · 24/03/2025
“I ask you now: do not stop speaking about Gaza. Do not let the world look away. Keep fighting, keep telling our stories—until Palestine is free.” Hossam Shabat’s final message to the world, shared by his team after Israel assassinated him this morning in northern Gaza.
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Yung En Chee @yungenchee.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
Worth re-reading this piece from @lyndalrowlands.bsky.social on this 6th anniversary of the horrific Christchurch mosque massacre carried out by an Australian terrorist www.aljazeera.com/features/202...
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Australian efforts on Islamophobia flag despite Christchurch wake-up call
Five years on, there has been little reflection on the Islamophobia behind the Christchurch mosque attacks.
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Falastin Flip @tameeolivefern.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
BREAKING: Israel says as of this morning, it has laid siege to Gaza and two million Palestinians, preventing entry of all food supplies and other goods. This is GENOCIDE
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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 02/03/2025
🔴 BREAKING: Israel blocks entry of all goods and supplies into Gaza after first phase of truce ends. LIVE updates: aje.io/2y192mc
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benjamin @benjamino.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
Incredibly lazy for people to suggest Dutton is simply parroting Trump talking points when it's Trump who is clearly cribbing from Dutton
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Michael McDonnell @historymatterssyd.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
Another great piece by my colleague Niro Kandasamy. You can also read a shorter blogpost intro to it here: www.historyworkshop.org.uk/migration/as...
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Asylum Denial Beyond Borders
Niro Kandasamy explores the international dimensions of asylum denial and its impact on Tamil asylum seekers in the 1980s and beyond.
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Danielle Binks @daniellebinks.bsky.social · 15/12/2024
Sara Haddad on why Australia’s MPs should do the reading on Palestine – Full Story podcast #AusPol www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
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Sara Haddad on why MPs should do the reading on Palestine - podcast
Nour Haydar speaks with author of The Sunbird about writing as activism and why 227 politicians are receiving a carefully curated package of books this summer on the Middle East
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Jehad Abusalim @jehadabusalim.bsky.social · 15/12/2024
In less than a week, Israel killed in Gaza: a mayor, municipal officials, the north’s last orthopedic doctor, a judge in Gaza city’s court of appeals, journalists, and first responders on their way to rescue civilians who were killed and injured as a result of an Israeli airstrike.
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Melbourne Social Equity Institute @msei-unimelb.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
Recommended listing – in the final episode of the Being Stateless Podcast @jordanas.bsky.social considers what it means to make home as a migrant – whether stateless or not - on stolen sovereign Aboriginal land. open.spotify.com/episode/0fkY...
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All We Have Is Each Other
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Jehad Abusalim @jehadabusalim.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
1/ 🧵 Now more than ever, our team at Institute for Palestine Studies (@palestinestudies.bsky.social) needs your support. Since the genocide unfolded, IPS has launched key documentation projects and ensure facts and stories are not erased. Here’s what we’ve been working on: 👇
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elia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
Amidst talks of an imminent ceasefire, Israel just bombed Beirut. They have now issued multiple threats again, this time in Haret Hreik and Burj Barajneh. #Lebanon
Smoke seen rising after Israel bombed Beirut
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Jessica Whyte @jessicawhyte.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
The latest report on Gaza by the UN Office for Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs is devastating. For more than 40 days, all UN attempts to support people besieged in North Gaza have been prevented and people are now “facing diminishing conditions for survival.” www.ochaopt.org/content/huma...
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Humanitarian Situation Update #239 | Gaza Strip | United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs - occupied Palestinian territory
For over 40 days, people besieged in North Gaza governorate have been facing diminishing conditions for survival.
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Overland Journal @overlandjournal.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
A culture of repression | Andrew Brooks and @lanatatour.bsky.social on how Australian universities and institutions are responding to Palestine solidarity.
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A culture of repression: how Australian universities and institutions are responding to Palestine solidarity - Overland literary journal
In the face of genocide and apartheid, the Federal Government’s response has not been to impose sanctions on Israel, but rather to open a parliamentary inquiry into antisemitism on campuses that acqui...
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derridalicious @derridalicious.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
An excellent investigation from @alexmckinnon.bsky.social about the toxic influence ECAJ has, even on a so-called independent body such as the human rights commission. everythingisfine.beehiiv.com/p/how-the-hu...
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'The Minister's office has been approached'
How the Human Rights Commission buckled to Zionist bullying
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Overland Journal @overlandjournal.bsky.social · 03/04/2024
"Some feelings have the weight of hegemony behind them. Some other feelings are dissident." @jordanas.bsky.social on the evidence of emotions.
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The evidence of emotions - Overland literary journal
Some feelings have the weight of hegemony behind them. Some other feelings are dissident. For those of us who are colonisers, then, the question becomes: how to ensure humility, and cultivate the prac...
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jordy silverstein @jordanas.bsky.social · 06/11/2023
been on here a while, but not posted yet, but it’s past time for me to call on here for ceasefire. Free Palestine, from the river to the sea ❤️🖤🤍💚
Photo of me wearing a keffiyeh and holding a sign saying never again for anyone, Jews in solidarity with Palestine
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