Jeremy Moses

This has been going for a couple of months now and the choice of images has always been suspect to say the least. From your typical orientalist tropes to efforts as bad as this 👇

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Screenshot from DFP crosstabs: The candidate pledges to support the Block the Bombs Act, a new bill in Congress which would withhold U.S. weapons to Israel and address concerns about Israel's violations of U.S. and international law. More likely (total): 72% Less likely (total): 11% More likely (net): +61%

Screenshot from DFP crosstabs: The candidate declines to take an international trip to Israel, saying they want to focus on addressing New Yorkers' issues and needs. More likely (total): 60% Less likely (total): 15% More likely (net): +45%

It seems the pro-Israel consensus among Democrats is well and truly dead at this point. Dem primary voters prefer candidates who refuse to travel to Israel (by net +45%) and back a bill to end military aid to Israel (by net +61%). www.filesforprogress.org/datasets/202...

Happy to share the story with you if you're interested.

A 'human rights law' academic, believe it or not.

The organizers know. The guy's employer's know too. More to follow.

We shouldn't have to think about who is monitoring and reporting on us to state actors when we are doing academic work, but this is the unacceptable reality. This behaviour needs to be called out whenever and wherever it's observed. 7/7

In the next session I presented a paper with 'Israel's weapons of genocide' in the title, so I had to then think about what might happen if this guy came to it and decided he needed to report me or yell at me or whatever. 6/7

I have no idea what the person was planning to do if ChatGPT told him that any of the speakers were 'anti-Israel' but this also points to the dangers of self-reinforcing AI tools when used as a means to label and harass people. 5/7

As someone who has been subject to harassment by Israeli propagandists, I find this behaviour to be offensive, inappropriate, and dangerous. It's also extremely clumsy to do this 'investigation' of colleagues in such a visible way. 4/7

Worst of all, the person seemed most obsessed with colleagues with Muslim names, going through the programme and entering them one by one. 3/7

The request was always 'who is x and are they anti-Israel?'. This was a panel on international criminal law in which there were some mentions of Gaza but it certainly wasn't central to the discussion. 2/7

A laptop screen showing ChatGPT with the title 'Anti-Israel Academics' at the top.

I'm at an international law conference in Canberra at the moment and during one of the sessions I was sitting behind someone who spent most of the time putting names of presenters into an 'Anti-Israel Academics' folder (?) on ChatGPT. 1/7

The brain sickness of the Australian commentariat is beyond words.

Two years into the US-Israeli genocide of Palestine, which includes invasions into Lebanon and Syria, the bombing of Yemen, and most recently Iran, it's difficult to summon any kind of language to describe the age of barbarity and horror we've entered. I just watched another video of a screaming Palestinian man holding a headless baby. Earlier, before putting my toddler to sleep for his day nap, I kept seeing the blood-drenched face of a martyred little girl flash over his. Whenever I prepare food, I see again the images of American and Israeli soldiers firing into crowds of starving Palestinians, which are not only images, but recurring daily violences. The killing fields of genocide are brought to us live hourly, and each new atrocity appears worse than the last. What could be worse than firing indiscriminately into a crowd of people you have starved near to death? I ask myself, only to read about tanks firing into the crowds. And then jets. What could be worse than starving babies into the earliest grave? I ask myself, then read about the orphaned toddlers eating sand. Then watching another flaming torso in the rubble, another person made into an inferno, this endless holocaust. With answers like these, I now fear asking the question.

New essay from me: The End of Reality, published by @theshot.net.au thanks to @davemilbo.bsky.social 🙏🏽💜 theshot.net.au/uncategorize...

If you've been horrified by the failure of NZ media to effectively, or even *objectively*, cover Israel's attacks on Iran then hopefully we've put together an episode that can alleviate that disgust at least a little

Really thankful to @jeremymosesnz.bsky.social for joining us at such short notice

The other key thing that seems to have gone missing in much of the commentary is that Iran's attempt to get a nuclear weapon was not so that it could fire it at Israel or the US, but to deter attacks by those states. Israel claiming 'pre-emption' makes zero rational sense here.

The fact that Iran is striking back without hesitation at an Israel that is governed by bloodthirsty psychopaths AND HAS NUCLEAR WEAPONS suggests that nuclear deterrence may not be all that it's cracked up to be.

Taiwanese drama/comedy on Netflix:

Born for the Spotlight
Wave Makers
I Am Married But...

They are making some cracking stuff over there at the moment.

The ways in which 'Western' politicians and diplomats have been willing to systematically dismantle their own credibility to protect a fascist, genocidal regime in Israel has just been mind-bending to observe. Totally incomprehensible.

The vilest and yet most honest articulation of US Empire possible. We are governed by insane people.

Full masks off for US Empire, huh? There it all is, laid out in plain text for all the dummies out there. Unbelievable.

Let's be clear: Israel's attack on Iran is not simply a violation of the UN Charter. It is a manifest violation of it. Few acts are more unequivocally illegal than preventive (non-imminent) self-defence. So Israel's attack is both unlawful and criminal -- the crime of aggression.

Israeli military says strikes hit dozens of targets in Iran, including nuclear sites – live Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu has addressed the nation, saying Iran’s main enrichment facility has been targeted

Western leaders must rein in these warmongering, genocial zealots.

Sanction them individually.

Expel Israeli ambassadors.

Cut off supplies of any material that could be used by the IDF.

Place trade and financial sanctions on Israel.

Make them truly feel what it is like to be a pariah state.

And there we have it. bsky.app/profile/dave...

Hard to believe that any sentient being could believe that the best way to secure their future is to continuously bomb all of their much larger neighbours.

It should go without saying that attacking Iran is simply the latest in a long line of moral atrocities by a fascist, genocidal Israeli government that absolutely refuses to treat human lives with anything resembling the respect and dignity they are due.

Sure, happy to.