Dion Kagan

Join me in signing the #JewsDemandAction petition calling on governments around the world to do everything possible to end the Israeli military’s assault on Gaza. jewsdemandaction.org jewsdemandaction.org

Gazans ‘deserved what they got’: Shocking stories of anti-Palestinian racism in schools revealed New report says education departments enable 'silencing of Palestinian perspectives in schools'

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Cornell Cut Classes by a Pro-Palestinian Professor After an Israeli Student’s Discrimination Complaint Dr. Eric Cheyfitz, who has taught at Cornell for more than two decades, claims the university is attempting to silence him as part of a broader crackdown on pro-Palestinian activism.

The whole outrageous story:

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University of Melbourne Creative Writing Program Statement on the proposed closure of MEANJIN The creative writing program at the University of Melbourne is distressed by the recently announced closure of Meanjin, one of Australia’s oldest and most revered literary journals. Its international ...

We call on UofM to embrace its responsibilities to students, staff and the public good by acting promptly & housing this important journal within its Community & Cultural Partnerships portfolio and committing to resourcing it appropriately in the long term
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Pro-Israel groups have attacked me for years. The Bendigo Writers Festival is a turning point. Randa Abdel-Fattah writes of her experience as a target of the pro-Israel lobby

Powerful op-ed by Randa Abdel-Fattah about what it’s like when Australia’s entire pro-lsraeIi genocide lobby dedicates its efforts to professionally ruining you, specifically, to shut you up

It’s published at @deepcutnews.bsky.social because it was rejected by The Age, Guardian and The Conversation

Garden art

Gaza health ministry says 33 people dead from malnutrition in last 48 hours New figures from the Hamas-run ministry include 12 children who have died, as the UN says Israel must allow aid into Gaza.

A tipping point has been reached.

Gaza is now starving to death in front of the whole world.

Those who facilitated and justified this abomination were given ample warning for 21 months.

You have no excuses, and nowhere to hide: you will be held to account for what you've done.

Heroes ✊👏

Liberal Zionism Is Dying—It’s Time to Put It Out of Its Misery For years, liberal Zionism let me feel principled while providing cover for injustice. It’s time to call out the illusion—and stop shielding what can’t be defended.

'To be a liberal Z'st today is to be both scapegoat & cover: reviled as a traitor when you speak out & trotted out as evidence of pluralism when the world is watching.'
@shaielb.bsky.social, Liberal Z*sm Is Dying: It’s Time to Put It Out of Its Misery. shaielbenephraim.substack.com/p/liberal-zi...

I’m also fascinated by how universities emerged as combos of abbeys & madrasas, but most of all as student unions – mainly of international students!

everyone in the early university worked FOR students – what a power shift we have witnessed where universities punish students for organising

We KNOW lsraeI's whole plan is to empty Gaza of its people & erase all witnesses; the IOF even exhumes & abducts victims from mass graves so their bones can never shame the evil land-hunger of foreign necro-colonists

So statements like this just send the message "lsraeI's genocide is working"

Bruce Shapiro on US politics, Bill Bowtell surveys 40 years of HIV, and the world's richest shipwreck Podcast Episode · Late Night Live — Full program podcast · 15/07/2025 · 55m

A must-listen chat with Bill Bowtell on LNL that ends w a prognosis & prediction for what happens globally w HIV now that US funding is withdrawn podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/l...

1000 Women in Horror From the silent era until today, the nightmares that have haunted our screen have been sculpted and embodied by women, but many of those artists have gone....

🚨 Big news 5 years in the making: some friends and I made a documentary! 1000 WOMEN IN HORROR hits Shudder soon, directed by Donna Davies and inspired by my 2020 book of the same name

If you are in Australia, I hope you can make it to the world premiere at the Melbourne International Film Festival

I have tonnes of maggie watch vids from lockdowns when I was cultivating a magpie drop-in centre in my front yard I shall send you some. I feel very supportive of this and hope you will share developments and results as you develop the warble

Unclear if this activism will lead to the systemic model change this industry needs, but huge kudos to these academics for stepping up, withdrawing their labour and the intellectual capital they gather.

Sale of the Amsterdam University Press (AUP) film, media and communication list to Taylor & Francis – Resignation of series editors and editorial board members It is with great dismay that we, the undersigned, learned that the film, media and communication list of Amsterdam University Press (AUP) has been taken over by Taylor & Francis, a subsidiary of Infor...

The time has come to reinvent academic publishing. Over the last years conglomerates have bought up once respectable publishers and turned them into rent extraction machines, generating obscene profits from tax-payer funded research and unremunerated academic labor./
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Sign the Petition Jews say no to anti-protest laws: Jacinta Allan stop exploiting antisemitism

Jews say no to anti-protest laws: Jacinta Allan stop exploiting antisemitism chng.it/dgdMnVCN via @ChangeAUS

It disgusts me the way that the captive media try to justify their genocide stenography as ‘neutrality’ – and punish truth-telling journalists as ‘activists’ –and yet here they are bringing opinion into a news lede in a way that would fail a first-year J-school news writing assignment

'Economy of Genocide': UN Expert Accuses Major Corporations of Profiting Off of Israel's Assault on Gaza Francesca Albanese, the UN special rapporteur on Palestine, releases report accusing more than 45 entities of making money from Israel's Gaza genocide and illegal occupation of the West Bank.

"'Economy of Genocide': UN Expert Accuses Major Corporations of Profiting Off of Israel's Assault on Gaza"

Francesca Albanese, the UN special rapporteur on Palestine, releases report accusing more than 45 entities of making money from Israel's Gaza genocide and illegal occupation of the West Bank:

TV tonight: Channel 4 airs the Gaza documentary the BBC wouldn’t broadcast Ramita Navai investigates Israel’s attacks on Gaza’s hospitals in a controversial film. Plus: celebrating football hero Mary Earps. Here’s what to watch this evening

TV tonight: Channel 4 airs the Gaza documentary the BBC wouldn’t broadcast

Doctors Recall Torture They Endured From Israeli Military in New Documentary the BBC ‘Refused to Air’: ‘They Hung Me Up’ Palestinian healthcare workers recalled the torture they endured at the hands of Israeli military personnel in a new documentary the BBC "refused to air."

“Doctors Recall Torture They Endured in Gaza Documentary the BBC 'Refused to Air'”

Thank you to ⁦‪Charlie Nash‬⁩ and ⁦‪Mediaite‬⁩ for reporting on our important new documentary ‘Gaza: Doctors Under Attack’

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Workplaces for Women - Equality Survey Take our 10-minute survey to tell us what your workplace really looks like.

Are you a woman working in a male-dominated industry or know someone that is?

We are Union is running a survey as part of the Through the Workplaces for Women project
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Ahhhhh, Sandy Cull. A legend of OzLit covers who always delivers.

From Graeme Turner's new book:
“The policy settings that were put there piece by piece since Dawkins have produced a kind of monster [...] I don’t think there’s a lot of care about those consequences now.”
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What a gorgeous cover

What would a wider campaign beyond NTEU to perk folks up to the slow-burn crisis in universities even look like? It just seems quite hard to even envisage, and meanwhile 50% of Australian academics thinking of leaving the sector really is some stat.

Love is ephemeral in Celine Song’s Materialists Celine Song’s follow-up to Past Lives explores the capitalist trappings of modern romance, without subverting them.

This is such a gorgeously written review of The Materialists by Luke Goodsell in The Saturday Paper. www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/culture/film...

I'm so into the backflip's acknowledgement of being wrong, saying sorry, and doing what it can to fix the wrong. More backflips!

Why We Turn Grief Into Art Podcast Episode · Critics at Large | The New Yorker · 19/06/2025 · 45m

I love this pod.
Every time I listen to it I feel altered. podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/c...