Randa Abdel-Fattah on X - "My statement in response to the racist decision to cancel me from Adelaide Writers' Week."
David Hollyoake on X - "Randa Abdel-Fattah:
- Chants 'globalise the intifada'
- Says "Zionists have no right to cultural safety"
- Brainwashes kids to hate Zionists
- Celebrates Hamas slaughter of Jews.
- Doxes Jewish creatives, ruining lives.
- Calls Zionists "demons".
But she is the victim 🙄"
David Hollyoake on X - "Randa Abdel-Fattah led a “kids excursion” for children aged 6–10, chanting “5, 6, 7, 8, Israel is a terrorist state” and calls to “globalise the intifada.” She was accused at the time of emotional child abuse. Today, she’s been told she’s not welcome at Adelaide Writers’ Week.
A Royal Commission must examine figures like Abdel-Fattah who have damaged social cohesion and indoctrinated children with hate."
SweetLondonOrange on X - "She also said “Zionists should not feel safe anywhere”."
Those who keep trying to censor and control other people on the grounds that they don't feel safe, boast about making those that they don't like unsafe. Safety is only for people who push the left wing agenda
Authors withdraw from Adelaide Writers' Week after Randa Abdel-Fattah axed for 'cultural sensitivity' - "Authors including Miles Franklin winners Michelle de Kretser and Melissa Lucashenko will boycott Adelaide Writers' Week (AWW) to protest the cancellation of an event featuring Palestinian Australian author, lawyer and activist Randa Abdel-Fattah. Other authors who have withdrawn from the festival include Peter Greste, Yanis Varoufakis, Evelyn Araluen, Amy McQuire, Clare Wright, Chelsea Watego, Bernadette Brennan and Amy Remeikis. Araluen described the decision of the board to cancel Abdel-Fattah's appearance at the festival as a "devastating betrayal of the democratic politics that have historically defined this festival". "I refuse to participate in this spectacle of censorship." Robbie Arnott has also said he will withdraw from the festival unless Abdel-Fattah is reinstated, and independent think tank The Australia Institute has pulled its support for the event... Abdel-Fattah described her axing as a "blatant and shameless act of anti-Palestinian racism and censorship and a despicable attempt to associate me with the Bondi massacre". "What makes this so egregiously racist is that the Adelaide Writers Festival Board [sic] has stripped me of my humanity and agency, reducing me to an object onto which others can project their racist fears and smears," she wrote. She wrote that she expected writers would withdraw from the festival in protest, as more than 50 participants did from the Bendigo Writers Festival in August amid censorship concerns... In 2023, law firm and major sponsor MinterEllison withdrew its support for Adelaide Festival because of concern about the potential for "racist or anti-Semitic commentary" from two writers scheduled to speak at AWW: Palestinian American novelist and scholar Susan Abulhawa and Palestinian poet Mohammed El-Kurd. That year, Adler and the festival's then-chief executive Kath Mainland defended the decision to program the authors. In a statement, Mainland said: "Adelaide Festival places a focus on providing an opportunity for civil dialogue and the contest of ideas."
Terrorism supporters are upset when you're not allowed to bully or harass other people
Of course, it's not censorship when terrorism supporters withdraw from or cancel events which involve "Zionists"
Ironically, terrorism supporters always strip "Zionists" of their humanity and agency and reduce them to objects onto which they can project their racist fears and smears. Every left wing accusation is a confession
‘Hypocrite’: Axed author’s push to cancel Jewish writer resurfaces (aka "Axed academic Randa Abdel-Fattah faces backlash after letter emerges to cancel Jewish author") - "An anti-Zionist author at the centre of the Adelaide Writers’ Week furore has been labelled a “hypocrite” after she called for the cancellation of a Jewish author from the same event two years ago. Premier Peter Malinauskas is among critics of Dr Randa Abdel-Fattah after she co-signed a letter to have Jewish author Thomas Friedman removed from the 2024 Writers’ Week Festival... “Randa Abdel-Fattah led the charge to cancel Thomas Friedman … from attending Adelaide Writers’ Week,” he wrote. “She is a hypocrite.” The academic has been heavily criticised for public comments in protest against attacks on, and occupation of, Palestine, including the 2024 statement, “if you are a Zionist you have no claim or right to cultural safety”. The March 2024 post to X continued “And it is my duty as somebody who fights all forms of oppression and violence to deny you a safe space to espouse your Zionist racist ideology.” In that same post, she said: “institutions and festivals that continue to defer to the fragile feelings and tears of Zionists are as abhorrent as those who would defer to the feelings of misogynists, white supremacists, neo-Nazis. You want to cancel pro-Palestinian voices and Palestinians because of cultural safety? Whose cultural safety are you privileging?” In an Instagram post in December that year she wrote: “May 2025 be the end of Israel … May we see the abolishment of the death cult of Zionism and the end of US empire and finally a world where the slaughter, annihilation and torture of Palestinians is no longer daily routine.” Responding on social media, Dr Abdel-Fattah labelled her removal from the Writers’ Week schedule as an “act of anti-Palestinian racism and censorship”. But it has been revealed that Dr Abdel-Fattah consigned a letter, dated February 6, 2024, expressing “grave and urgent concern at the inclusion of Thomas L. Friedman on the program”. Mr Friedman was booked by event organisers to appear via livestream at the festival, but following the letter, he did not appear. The authors of the letter expressed concern over an article Mr Friedman published in the New York Times days prior titled “Understanding the Middle East Through the Animal Kingdom”. “Personally, I sometimes prefer to think about the complex relations between these parties with analogies from the natural world,” he wrote. In the article, he likened the US to “an old lion”, Iran to a “parasitoid wasp” and countries such as Lebanon, Yemen and Syria to “caterpillars”. He likened Hamas to a “trapdoor spider” and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to “the sifaka lemur”. The 2024 letter was also signed by author Karen Wyld, who pulled out of the 2026 Writer’s Week event following Dr Abdel-Fattah’s cancellation. It accused Mr Friedman’s article of “hate speech” and “racism”... In a letter published on Sunday, member of the Combat Antisemitism Movement Alex Polson asked “how Abdel-Fattah was ever invited to further platform these views at Writers’ Week?” and described the decision to remove her from the program as a “belated correction”. “This was a decision about conduct and a reminder that organisations have a responsibility to draw a line when a speaker’s views strip a minority group of dignity and humanity,” he said. Mr Malinauskas on Friday referenced the 2024 letter signed by Dr Abdel-Fattah in a call for consistency on the issue of cancelling speakers. “I’ve made clear that I do not support the inclusion of writers who have actively advocated against the cultural safety of others and have doxxed other artists,” Mr Malinauskas said."
Quelle surprise !
Clearly, calling Hamas a trapdoor spider is racist, but calling Abdel-Fattah talking about "Israel Zionist Demons" is just the truth
Authors withdraw from Adelaide Writers' Week after Dr Randa Abdel-Fattah axed for 'cultural sensitivity' : r/aussie - "They somehow convince themselves that all Jews are responsible for the actions of the Israeli govt but all Palestinians are not responsible for any actions of Hamas."
Randa Abdel-Fattah launches defamation proceedings against SA Premier Peter Malinauskas after Adelaide Writers’ Week cancelled - "Former Adelaide Writers’ Week director Louise Adler has been accused of “hypocrisy in defending free speech” amid claims she led a demand that the Adelaide Festival board retract an invitation to New York Times journalist Thomas Friedman to attend the 2024 festival... Adler told the Financial Review that she considered discussion at the board table to be confidential. “I am rather surprised that a former CEO of Macquarie Bank has breached those confidences,” she said. “It is indicative of the way the former board operated, and I imagine it will be a rich case study for future management students.” She would not respond to questions about it undermining her free speech argument. “I will not be drawn into it,” she said. “He has breached board confidences, and I think it is extraordinary that someone who is apparently a corporate leader would do such a thing.” Adler resigned on Tuesday as the director of Adelaide Writers’ Week, citing the festival’s dumping of Abdel-Fattah from the literary event. That decision triggered the withdrawal of 180 other writers and the event – the oldest literary festival in the country – was cancelled hours after Adler’s resignation. “I cannot be party to silencing writers, so with a heavy heart I am resigning from my role as the director of the AWW,” Adler said when she announced her resignation in The Guardian. “Writers and writing matters, even when they are presenting ideas that discomfort and challenge us. We need writers now more than ever, as our media closes up, as our politicians grow daily more cowed by real power, as Australia grows more unjust and unequal.” Berg, an investment banker who once ran Boral, said he resigned from the festival board because of the direction Adler was taking the literary festival. He said that Adler and Abdel-Fattah “both exhibit hypocrisy in defending free speech for some, when I observed them both to stridently oppose free speech during my time on the board”. “In 2024, Louise Adler led a demand to the board to retract an invitation to Tom Friedman to participate in the 2024 Adelaide Writers’ Week,” Berg said. “After Tom Friedman was invited to speak, Randa Abdel-Fattah had led a group of academics demanding that Tom Friedman be deplatformed.” He added: “Then Louise Adler, Ruth MacKenzie and Kath Mainland put an ultimatum to the board that they would resign if it did not endorse their recommendation to disinvite Friedman. In the face of that threat, the board felt it had no alternative but to allow Louise Adler to withdraw the invitation to Friedman.”... Abdel-Fattah threatened defamation proceedings against South Australian Premier Peter Malinauskas, claiming he had wrongly suggested she was “an extremist terrorist sympathiser” and had “directly linked” her to the Bondi Beach massacre in which two Islamic State-inspired terrorists killed 15 people during an event marking the opening night of Hanukkah on December 14... the South Australian government announced a new board and chair to lead the festival... Malinauskas has staunchly defended the board’s initial decision to remove Abdel-Fattah, telling reporters: “Can you imagine that if a far-right Zionist walked into a Sydney mosque and murdered 15 people? Can you imagine that as premier of this state, I would actively support a far-right Zionist going to writers’ week and speaking hateful rhetoric towards Islamic people? Of course I wouldn’t. The reverse is happening in this instance, and I’m not going to support either.”"
Exposing hypocrisy is only good when it pushes the left wing agenda
How Adelaide Writers Week collapsed under the weight of its own hypocrisy : r/aussie - "When you lay the facts out like this, it's extraordinary that the pogrom lady acts as though she can hold others accountable for what's come of her antizionist war. More extraordinary still, that anyone indulges that. When you cheer for an antizionist war like this, when you glorify it with a language of "resistance" and national liberation, when you publish unconscionable quantities of antizionist war propaganda to cover up antizionist war crimes, that makes it your war and everything that's come of it reflects on you. All she can say in reply is to just brag about how many civilians died. She has the most complicit role in that of anyone in Australia."
How Adelaide Writers Week collapsed under the weight of its own hypocrisy : r/aussie - "Imagine if a writer posted an image of the Bondi shooter in celebration.. ...and people still have the audacity now to justify why there are very few rallies and support for Iran compared to Hamas."
How Adelaide Writers Week collapsed under the weight of its own hypocrisy : r/aussie - "Is it really that difficult for you to grasp the idea that a woman who thinks killing Jews is based and awesome would suddenly become less popular immediately after a bunch of Jews just got killed?"
How Adelaide Writers Week collapsed under the weight of its own hypocrisy : r/aussie - "No one is calling for Russia to be dissolved because of human rights violations. Or North Korea. Randa Abdel Fattah posted pictures of paragliders attacking Israel on October 7 and cheered the killings"
Pro-Palestinian activists smash up weapons factory in Scotland - "Pro-Palestinian activists attacked machinery and spray-painted slogans at a Scottish aerospace factory, footage shared online has shown. Protesters smashed their way into the Bruntons Aero Products site, on an industrial estate outside Edinburgh, shortly after midnight on New Year’s Day. The firm appeared to have been targeted because it supplies specialist parts for defence companies Leonardo and BAE Systems, both of which have been heavily criticised for their alleged links to Israel. The activists, masked and wearing the traditional Palestinian keffiyeh, used hammers to strike at computer servers in the factory before spray-painting “There is only one way this ends” and “Drop Leonardo” on the company’s equipment. Footage further showed fire extinguishers being emptied into machinery... Last July, activists from Shut Down Leonardo Edinburgh were arrested after a van was driven into a fence surrounding a factory belonging to the defence company."
How Rome church fundraiser made ‘a bundle of cash for Hamas terrorists’ - "Nestled in a piazza off Via del Corso, the San Lorenzo in Lucina church has stood for centuries as one of the oldest and most beautiful churches in Rome. Now, the historic basilica is implicated in a criminal plot to fund terrorists more than a thousand miles away. In 2024, the church – the resting place of the French artist Nicolas Poussin – hosted a fundraising event in support of Gaza. Innocent donors believed the money raised at the “Peace Convoy for Gaza” would help those suffering in the enclave during its war with Israel. In reality, their donations ended up in the hands of killers, terrorists and the families of suicide bombers as part of an elaborate operation to use “fictitious charities” to fund Hamas from Italy, police say... An associate of Mr Hannoun is alleged to have told him he had 10 vehicles ready to transport cash into Gaza, and was recorded saying: “No one wants flour any more because there is plenty of it.”... Police said they had uncovered a complex fundraising system carried out through Palestinian support organisations and charities largely based in Genoa with branches in Milan. Donations were transferred from three Italian charities through Turkish associations to 19 Palestinian organisations in Gaza, Hebron, Ramallah and Bethlehem “belonging to, controlled by, or otherwise linked to Hamas”.... “The suspects collected donations intended for the civilian population of Gaza, but it emerged that over 71 per cent of these funds were diverted to Hamas to finance its military wing and support the families of suicide bombers or prisoners detained for terrorism,” police said."
Italy arrests nine over alleged Hamas funding through charities - "Italian prosecutors said on Saturday they had arrested nine people on suspicion of financing Hamas through charities based in Italy, in an operation coordinated by anti-mafia and anti-terrorism units... Italian pro-Palestinian activists protested against the arrests in a march on Saturday in Milan and denounced the police action as part of a campaign of "repression and criminalisation". The Young Palestinians of Italy and the Arab-Palestinian Democratic Union said Palestinians, like all peoples seeking self‑determination, had a legitimate right to resist and the labelling of such resistance as “terrorism” was unjust."
Why is Italy stopping aid from getting to Palestinians? This is literally genocide
Sydney-based pro-Palestine protest organiser filmed chanting for slain Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar at rally in Jordan - "Prominent Sydney-based activist Assala Sayara has filmed herself chanting praise for slain Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar at a rally in Jordan. Ms Sayara helped organise a now infamous rally on the steps of the Sydney Opera House in the aftermath of Hamas' October 7 attack on Israel. Members of the crowd burned Israeli flags and chanted antisemitic slurs, drawing condemnation from Jewish leaders as well as state and federal authorities. The outspoken activist has also previously shared images of Sinwar and his predecessor Ismail Haniyeh on her social media, alongside the caption: "The martyr is alive. True leadership is when the leader isn’t separate to the people, in their fight and struggle. May their legacy live on". According to The Australian, footage from a social media account belonging to Ms Sayara has now surfaced of her attending a rally in Jordan believed to have been organised by pan-Islamist organisation the Muslim Brotherhood... Footage from the rally reportedly shows Ms Sayara echoing chants of "no division and no Judaisation" in Arabic. She also appeared to respond "Allahu Akbar" to a man who called for "takbir" - a plea to proclaim the greatness of Allah - from the crowd in the name of Sinwar. Others at the rally help up posters of Jordanians Amer Qawas and Hussam Abu Ghazaleh, who were killed in an October 2024 cross-border shooting attack which wounded two Israeli soldiers."
The Zionist media are defaming "pro-Palestine" voices!
We all know she meant "No Zionisation" not "No Judaisation"
Italy arrests seven for diverting $8 million in donations for Palestinians to fund Hamas : r/anime_titties - "Low-key it's hard to distribute aid if Israel isn't letting any of the aid orgs in and has murdered hundreds of aid workers and non-military organisations (such as Gazan police units). Not to mention the only people being able to provide Aid security against Israeli backed gangs being Hamas. Should we sentence and imprison the Israeli delegation for brokering a ceasefire with Hamas as well? They are negotiating with terrorists /hj"
"So, it's Israel's fault when they let aid in cia Qatar that goes to Hamas but it's also Israel's fault when they stop aid from getting to Hamas? Interesting take"
SolGen urges TPS chief, board chair to take action on anti-Israel mobs | Toronto Sun - "With Toronto’s Jewish community enduring years of harassment and hate from anti-Israel protesters, Ontario’s solicitor general is demanding Toronto Police take action. In a letter sent Tuesday to Toronto Police Chief Myron Demkiw and Police Services Board Chair Shelley Carroll, Michael Kerzner — who is also MPP for York Centre — wants both to start taking the problem seriously. “I am writing to you both once again with urgency to underscore the need for firm, consistent and visible enforcement of hate, intimidation and harassment-motivated offences by the Toronto Police Service,” read the letter, a copy of which was obtained by the Toronto Sun. “Recent incidents, including mob intimidation and harassment at the Eaton Centre just last week, as well as ongoing and intimidating marches through residential neighbourhoods, near Bathurst and Sheppard, are completely unacceptable.” Kerzner references a previous Dec. 11 letter — sent to both Demkiw and Carroll — highlighting his office’s efforts to combat hate-motivated crime, and expressed concern that the problem is only getting worse. The harassment has left residents living in “a state of heightened fear and anxiety,” Tuesday’s letter said — and expressed concern over the consequences of TPS’s inaction. “When such incidents occur repeatedly and without visible consequences, it substantially undermines public confidence in the rule of law and in the institutions responsible for upholding it,” the letter said... Far-left and Islamist activists embarked on a campaign of harassment and intimidation immediately after the Oct. 7, 2023 terror attacks, which saw hundreds of Palestinian terrorists conduct a campaign of murder, kidnapping and sexual assault against Gaza-adjacent towns in Israel. Groups of masked and keffiyeh-wearing activists conduct regular rallies on Toronto’s streets, and have targeted Jewish-owned businesses, synagogues, community centres and schools. Masked groups have even led intimidation marches through Toronto’s Jewish neighbourhoods, often under the supervision of Toronto Police officers — who have so far rebuffed demands they start cracking down on disruptive protests. And thanks to police inaction, anti-Israel activists are becoming more bold. Dozens of activists stormed the Eaton Centre on Boxing Day, unfurling banners, shouting into megaphones and intimidating families and shoppers — all while calling for the destruction of Israel and its citizens. According to Toronto Police, the city has endured nearly 800 protests, rallies and demonstrations since Hamas’ Oct. 7, 2023 attack. Former diplomats, terrorism experts and even Israel’s deputy foreign minister have warned that Canada’s tolerance of anti-Jewish hatred is leading this country straight into an antisemitic terror attack, similar to this month’s Bondi Beach massacre. Tuesday’s letter comes two weeks after Conservative MP Roman Baber wrote to Mayor Olivia Chow and Demkiw, demanding TPS stop tolerating the hate and enforce the law. “The weekly Sunday protests at the northeast corner of Bathurst and Sheppard are meant to intimidate and antagonize local residents,” Baber wrote in his letter. “They are not peaceful protests, since they include threats and disturb the peace in a residential neighbourhood.” Toronto Police have faced intense scrutiny for their handling of the issue. In a notorious case in January 2024, a uniformed Toronto Police officer was caught delivering coffee to anti-Israel activists illegally occupying the Avenue Rd. overpass of Hwy. 401. In March, an official TPS podcast hosted by two uniformed Muslim liaison officers bragged the Oct. 7 attacks prompted a surge in converts to Islam, and implied that criticism of anti-Israel protests amounts to Islamophobia."
Solicitor general urges TPS chief, board chair to take action on anti-Israel mobs : r/Toronto_Ontario - "I live in this neighbourhood that has been targeted by these mobs. They aren’t “protesting” anything, they mask their faces, wave their giant flags, and shout obscene things into a mic/speaker. On one occasion, one guy brought an armchair to the “protest” and dressed up as Sinwar, the then-leader of the terrorist organization, Hamas, to glorify terror. It was so fucking disturbing! This is a very Jewish neighbourhood and they’re here only to harass and intimidate us. The police are present but don’t take action — it’s incredibly frustrating."
Toronto officers not getting clear direction on policing pro-Palestinian protests, union says - The Globe and Mail - "The Toronto Police Association, which represents around 8,000 uniformed and civilian members of the Toronto Police Service, was responding after Ontario’s Solicitor-General publicly criticized the force for what he called a lack of action on anti-Israel protests. This week, Solicitor-General Michael Kerzner took the unusual step of issuing a public letter to the TPS and its oversight board, urging them to “act promptly and decisively” against what he called “hate-motivated” and “disruptive” demonstrations."
Canada can no longer ignore its violent jihadist extremism problem - "Recent arrests in the Greater Toronto Area of Waleed Khan, Osman Azizov, and Fahad Sadaat lay bare a disturbing truth that Canadians can no longer ignore: violent jihadist extremism is being cultivated and operationalized here. What began as two armed attempts to abduct women from public streets in Toronto and Mississauga escalated into one of the most serious terrorism and hate-crime cases in recent memory. The three men now face dozens of charges involving firearms offences, hostage-taking conspiracies and sexual assault with weapons. Police said that the alleged criminals targeted women and members of the Jewish community and that the alleged crimes were motivated by antisemitism. In a parallel national-security investigation, the RCMP laid terrorism charges against Waleed Khan, explicitly naming ISIS — also known as the Islamic State or ISIL — as the terrorist entity involved... This case is part of a troubling pattern — Canada has disrupted numerous ISIS-linked plots in recent years, many involving radicalized youths or family groupings. These interdictions deserve recognition. Project Neapolitan intercepted what police describe as a dangerous escalation — firearms were seized and tragedy was likely prevented. But disruption is only half the battle, and arguably the easier half. What Canada has not done, at least not consistently or seriously, is confront the ideological ecosystem that produces radicalization in the first place. Here, Canada has been dangerously complacent. ISIS is almost universally condemned. Governments, Muslim organizations, scholars, and civil society leaders rightly denounce it as barbaric and murderous. Yet these same voices rarely acknowledge that ISIS targets are disproportionately Jewish. Nor will they name the Islamist ideology that animates the violence — a supremacist, antisemitic and eliminationist worldview for which Hamas serves as the preferred ideological avatar among western political and cultural elites. While ISIS itself is reviled, the ideological pathways leading to it are routinely tolerated, rationalized, or defended by western apologists who reframe extremism as political expression, and by those who police language while harbouring, enabling, and often even encouraging antisemitic and exterminationist incitement. Since October 7, Canadians have been immersed in rhetoric that dehumanizes Jews, reframes terrorism as “resistance,” and accuses the world’s only Jewish state of genocide — often stripped of evidence or moral proportion. Calls to target Jews “globally,” blood-libel tropes recycled as political critique, and the portrayal of Jewish self-determination as uniquely illegitimate, have been allowed to metastasize across public life in Canada, largely unchallenged by institutions that should know better. This environment, with its chants, rallies, encampments, “sit-ins,” protests, flag desecrations, social-media messaging, and biased mainstream coverage of world events — normalizes extreme views, erodes moral boundaries and pushes vulnerable individuals toward full-blown ISIS activation. The post-October 7 surge in antisemitic incidents — arson at synagogues, shootings at Jewish schools, rampant vandalism — flows directly from this amplification. ISIS exploits precisely this atmosphere to recruit, inspire and mobilize lone actors and small cells. Radicalization does not happen overnight. It unfolds in stages. It begins with moral inversion where evil is recast as justice; then, it moves to normalization, where eliminationist rhetoric enters mainstream discourse; and finally — activation — where ideology tips into violence. The Toronto arrests demonstrate the inevitable endpoint when this pathway goes unchallenged. Disrupting plots addresses symptoms. Dismantling the ideological infrastructure that creates them addresses the disease. Canada needs urgent reforms to immigration and security screening, stringent oversight of online extremist ecosystems, and effective deradicalization capacity. Above all, Canada needs intellectual honesty from our political leaders, civil society and cultural gatekeepers. Antisemitic and genocidal ideologies are not magically rendered benign when repackaged as activism or shielded from scrutiny by the language of grievance. It must be made clear that they will not be tolerated — least of all when they masquerade as political discourse. Not on our streets, not in our classrooms, not in our humanitarian organizations, not in our law enforcement agencies and not in our halls of government. ISIS may have lost its territorial caliphate, and Hamas may be weakened militarily, but their virtual, informational and tactical global empires endure — sustained by permissiveness, moral confusion, and a reluctance to draw clear lines."
