Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt about to speak at #NPC Going live on abctv at 12:30 AEST. Don’t miss this exceptional oration. She won’t be interrupted today.

When I grow up, I want to be Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt !!! What a bright bulwark of truth, justice, and humanity. End the siege, end the occupation, end the apartheid. #FreePalestine

Sovereignty never ceded. Not in Palestine, not in West Papua, not on Aboriginal lands. Our solidarity with all oppressed peoples - from this colony to every colony. All Indigenous peoples will be free. Photo credit: Dr. Anna Carlson

We have seen it in Yarmouk. It was 2014. Depriving the civilian population of objects indispensable to their survival is a war crime, & so is starvation as a method of warfare (also a crime agst humanity when part of widespread/systematic attack agst civilians). Int'l Criminal Court

Just so we're all on the same page here: this is a concentration camp. A man-made famine created so that if people don't get bombed in their open-air prison, they'll die of hunger or disease. Gaza is a concentration camp & the world's politicians are actively participating in it.

THIS FRIDAY we welcome experts on #heritage protection to @Deakin_ADI Prof Lynn Meskell Penn Cultural Heritage Center Michael Rainsborough Ali Mozaffari🇺🇦 Eleanor Childs Maria Rost Rublee @melathi_saldin Don't forget to register and join us for this excellent event! eventbrite.com/e/heritage-and…

Virtual IWD Lecture - Samah Sabawi : Palestine is a Feminist Issue Tomorrow at 3-4pm (Canberra, AEDT) Palestine, and Palestinian women, remain mostly excluded from mainstream feminism. As the world watches the massacres in Gaza, it bears impacts on this. cais.cass.anu.edu.au/events/interna…

Decomposing premature babies. Bombed embryos, belonging to women waiting IVF. 300% increase in miscarriages. A woman losing her twins & husband, after years of trying to get pregnant. Burying babies. No pre or post-natal care. No diapers. No pads. No toilets. No privacy.

"For a colonized people the most essential value, because the most concrete, is first and foremost the land: the land which will bring them bread and, above all, dignity." — Frantz Fanon #LandDay

The scenes out of Al Shifa, after Israeli withdrawal, are beyond horrifying & gruesome. Bodies - parts of bodies - scattered under the dirt & rubble. Buildings burnt to a crisp. Nothing left. Our world allowed hospitals to become slaughterhouses in Gaza for crazed butchers.

THREAD: 1. Anatomy of a genocide sketched out. ohchr.org/en/press-relea…

They say that tomorrow is Eid, summer is gone, winter has arrived, then New Year, then summer again, Ramadan and Eid, and I stumble every day in a whole world designed from my nightmares. There are a thousand soldiers and a thousand shells between me and my home.

The pain intensifies, the loss escalates; we are voices screaming into the wind.

Students at @unimelb have renamed the Arts West building to 'Mahmoud’s Hall.' It's in honour of Palestinian student Mahmoud Alnaouq 🇵🇸 who won a scholarship to study at the uni, but was killed with his family in an Israeli airstrike in #Gaza last October U Melb for Palestine Ahmed Alnaouq

On Senator Fatima Payman quitting the Labor party. A short 🧵 1. The Labor government has invoked “social cohesion”, “social harmony”, “avoiding division”, “respect”, “diversity”, being part of a “team” to discipline, punish and silence Fatima Payman. It’s the same language

Repairing 'Colonial Amnesia' History shows settler-colonialism is inherently at war with indigenous peoples. The indigenous people's existence and land connection threaten the colonial power, sparking cycles of repression and resistance. Since violence is intrinsic to

Eleanor Childs presents on the need for reform in intl’/UN protection regimes for heritage & safeguarding heritage sites from violence,positioning Israel’s impunity as a litmus test for mechanisms in place at UNESCO,UNSC,&UNHRC. @Deakin_ADI POLIS Deakin Middle East Studies Forum #MESF

We are extremely alarmed by the latest information we have received regarding the whereabouts of Dr. Hussam Abu Safiyyah, director of Kamal Adwan Hospital. He should now be considered as victim of enforced disappeared, and as such at great risk of torture and ill-treatment.