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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I was invited by the Revue Movements to contribute a reflection on the so-called war in critical race theory and how it plays out in Australia [in French] « La race imprègne de façon immuable la politique d’accaparement inhérente à la souveraineté blanche patriarcale, qui est souvent invisible et passée sous…
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This week we were joined by Kristin O’Connell of the Antipoverty Centre. Kristin gave us an extremely informative and searing lecture about the corruption of the government’s work for the dole – which especially affects Aboriginal communities – and mutual obligations schemes. She also paid attention to the role played…
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You are welcome to join is for an event as part of Social Sciences Week on September 10 at 10 am organised by the Institute for Culture and Society Borders and Diversity Research Group Registration link A 2021 Social Sciences Week event from the Borders and Diversity Research Program of…
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Thanks to the 500+ people who signed the Open Letter coordinated and written By Andrew Brooks (with some inout form me). The letter calls out the Australian Senate’s rejection of critical race theory. It was published in Overland Magazine. The signatories of this letter oppose the attacks on ‘critical race…
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