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"Don’t look at what they say they’re doing, look at what they are actually doing. What they are actually doing is systematically strangling free expression to death wherever it is critical of the (theblower.au)
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"Don’t look at what they say they’re doing, look at what they are actually doing. What they are actually doing is systematically strangling free expression to death wherever it is critical of the state of Israel."
https://www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/they-feign-concern-about-pro-palestine
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[–] DropBear@theblower.au 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Many will be disappointed @jillL Plans will be disrupted. Authors will suffer financially. During Writers Week, many books are sold.
#Meanjin
#Adelaide
#Bendigo
#AusPol
#Zionism
#censorship
#Palestine
#Israel

[–] jillL@theblower.au 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

@DropBear It's going to be difficult for them to entice busy, in-demand, high-profile authors back next year.

[–] DropBear@theblower.au 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Writers Week is dead @jillL
Resurrection will be difficult.
#Meanjin
#Adelaide
#Bendigo
#AusPol
#Zionism
#censorship
#Palestine
#Israel

[–] jillL@theblower.au 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

@DropBear Absolute shit show.

[–] DropBear@theblower.au 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

@jillL I have a horrible feeling that the Zionists got the outcome they wanted.
#Meanjin
#Adelaide
#Bendigo
#AusPol
#Zionism
#censorship
#Palestine
#Israel

[–] DropBear@theblower.au 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] DropBear@theblower.au 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

#MossadMinns is at it again:
"… the ABC understands Dr Abdel-Fattah is due to speak at the festival, and that the Minns government has been in discussions with board members about that appearance."
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-02-05/nsw-government-newcastle-writers-festival-randa-abdel-fattah/106310270

#Meanjin #Adelaide #Bendigo #AusPol #Zionism #censorship #Palestine #Israel #SydneyBiennale #NewcastleWritersFestival

[–] DropBear@theblower.au 0 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Censoring discussion of censorship. Would that be irony?
#Meanjin #Adelaide #Bendigo #AusPol #Zionism #censorship #SydneyBiennale #NewcastleWritersFestival

Antoinette Lattouf @antoinettelattouf.bsky.social Let's see if our panel on censorship gets censored by the government/lobbyist alliance. NSW government has already made contact with Newcastle Writers Festival board about including Palestinian-Australian author Dr Randa Abdel-Fattah, ABC reports When will the bullying & intimidation stop ? [image: Two grey-haired men in spectacles and a dark-haired woman CENSORSHIP & ITS CONSEQUENCES WITH JOSH BORNSTEIN AC GRAYLING & ANTOINETTE LATOUFF NWF NEWCASTLE WRITERS FESTIVAL 27 - 29 MARCH] 9:18 AM - Feb 6, 2026 © Everybody can reply

[–] DropBear@theblower.au 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] DropBear@theblower.au 1 points 1 month ago

"You are free to criticise any country’s actions – as long as that country is not Israel.
You are free to denounce any ideology – as long as that ideology is not Zionism."
https://theaimn.net/the-silencing-how-fighting-antisemitism-became-a-license-to-censor-genocide-critics/
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