I am sharing a paragraph I put together that might be of use for people working within institutions in Australia where attempts are being made to institutionalise anti-antisemitism. A search for ‘antisemitism’ on this site will also come up with a lot of resources I have written that can be…
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Understanding and knowing how to accurately assess one’s enemy, means possessing a necessary condition for victory. Antonio Gramsci. ‘War is war,’ wrote the Italian Marxist Antonio Gramsci in 1921 while Italian fascists were gathering forces against the Communists. They ‘continually summon those needed out of the blue, given the order that they…
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On the deliberate ambiguity of defining race in service of the racial state. The Lebanese-Australian journalist and founder of Media Diversity Australia, Antoinette Lattouf appeared in court on February 3 2025 on the first day of hearings in her unfair dismissal case against the Australian Broadcasting Corporation. In sum, to cite The Guardian, Lattouf lost her job…
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Marx refused to accept the terms… because he understood them to be distortions… very clearly related to distortions, to the oppression of a people Cedric Robinson Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people are respectfully warned that this post contains the name of a person who has died. The lead-up to Invasion…
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The Institute for the Critical Study of Zionism (ICSZ) of which I am a Founding Collective member, held its inaugural conference in october 2024. I was honoured to participate and to present work in progress, part of the book I am currenty completing titled The New Racial Regime. The talk…
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The lead-up to the referendum on the Indigenous Voice to parliament is replete with text-book case after text-book case of what I have called ‘Not Racism™’. Not Racism is something anyone who has faced racism knows about. In an article I published in 2017 on the subject, the title the editors…
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I’ll be chairing this webinar organised by Jews Against he Occupation and Tzedek Collective, Sydney with leading Palestinian activist and writer Omar Barghouti and best-selling Australian journalist, writer and film-maker Antony Loewenstein on Australian Complicity with Israeli Apartheid on Thursday September 28 7pm-8.30pm AEST. Please register here to join us.
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Since its adoption in 2016, the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance’s (IHRA) ‘working definition of antisemitism’, has been primarily used to censor pro-Palestinian activism and scholarship. The definition has been amply critiqued for its vague formulation of antisemitism: “a certain perception of Jews, which may be expressed as hatred toward Jews.” More…
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A new article by Debbie Bargallie, Nilmini Fernando and me has been published in Ethnic and Racial Studies based in research conducted with educators trying to work amid the silencing o trace in the Australian racial-colony and to enhance racial literacy. Abstract: Race structures the lives of Indigenous peoples and…
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I invited Black Peoples Union National President, Yuin man, Keiran Stewart-Assheton to present to The Racial State in Week 6 when we discuss the colonisation of the continent of Australia. In a short but encompassing talk, he addresses the history of Indigenous peoples, the impact of colonisation, Australia’s position as…
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I am posting this on the International Trans Day of Visibility 2023 in love and solidarity with all people resisting the violences of gender, often with their own lives. May we do all we can to fight to protect them. Political transphobia has been on stark display over the last…
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