@John Not good, is there a specialist you might be able to see for a second opinion or some different advice that might be more helpful? Rest up

No surprise that 'The Advertiser' is owned by News Corp, the well-known pro-israeli *media* outlet.. I guess they didn't count on someone actually fact checking them, again..

@MelissaBearTrix "Have you seen this person? Police have released CCTV footage of a person of interest they wish to speak to regarding the theft of 4x cuckoo clocks, 1x pair of headphones and a streets magnum icecream.. if you have any information please call Crimestoppers.."

Apparently The Advertiser has published a pay-walled hit-piece calling the Palestinian author a 'Hypocrite' claiming she tried to have a Jewish pro-israeli author removed, here are the real facts:

A Pro-Israeli Jewish author talking about supporting genocide is VERY different from a Palestinian author talking about her real life factual experiences as a victim.

Very clearly in those instances the pro-israeli genocide-supporter _SHOULD_ be removed, NOT the victims.

If news outlets and government agencies can't understand that then they've lost the plot.

Some information on the pro-israeli jewish author she is claimed to have wanted removed:

"Friedman has been criticized by organizations such as Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting for defending Israeli airstrikes in Lebanon as a form of 'educating' Israel's opponents; according to FAIR, Friedman was explicitly endorsing terrorism by Israel against Lebanese and Palestinians. Journalist Glenn Greenwald and professor Noam Chomsky also accused Friedman of endorsing and encouraging terrorism by Israeli forces.

Political reporter Belen Fernandez heavily critiques Friedman's commentary regarding Israel. Among other criticisms, Fernandez singles out Friedman's suggestion that Israeli forces were unaware that their allied Lebanese militias carried out the Sabra and Shatila massacre while under their guard, contradicting the assessments of other journalists and observers; his encouragement of strong-armed force by the Israeli army against Palestinians; and his opposition to settlements only on the grounds that they are counter-productive, rather than because they violate international law or cause suffering for Palestinians. Fernandez suggests that Friedman is most worried about successfully maintaining Israel's Jewish ethnocracy and actively opposing a 'one-man, one-vote' system of democracy."

Direct Source of Quotes: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_L._Friedman

#Complicit #MediaBias #Racism #BoycottIsrael #News #AUSPol #HumanRights #AdelaideWritersFestival

@Heliograph

@Heliograph Looks like probably more M Au issues, I noticed your posts are doubled over here on mementomori social

This 19.5c breeze here in #Adelaide right now is glorious, after a week of 40ish heatwave.

#Weather

"On Friday, Jewish Community Council of South Australia public and government liaison Norman Schueler said the council sent a letter to the Adelaide Festival board 'a few days ago' requesting the removal of Abdel-Fattah from the Writers' Week line-up."

So yes, this is yet another case of the Israeli-Lobby's interference in Australian matters, trying to silence Palestinian voices.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-01-10/adelaide-writers-week-board-letter/106216140

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@corduroy She wasn't *endorsed* by the Israeli-Lobby, plain and simple. That's why the lobby is kicking up a stink again..

When you start to think of the fallout of all this, various U.S. sectors are going to be hit HARD, it's going to cost the U.S. _BIG_ in terms of money. For instance, 'Hollywood' and movie-making will not be the same after this for the sheer fact that NO ONE on the planet will want to sit through a pedantic 'superhero' movie anymore where the americans are always portrayed as *the good guys*, and that might sound small and insignificant, but, in that sector alone the U.S. will lose between $50-$640billion per year now, including commissions from pre-existing media falling too, and it's not something they can "steal" from other countries either..

Not to mention of course they're cutting their own neck by bailing out of NATO/UN groups which they previously had power in, leaving those groups free to actually fulfill their charter & purpose now without U.S. interference..

The U.S. had to fall sooner or later, and we're witnessing it live, right now.

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