[–] 7 points 2 weeks ago* (2 children)

Another witness, appearing as Liat, moved to Canberra in 2022 to study at the Australian National University (ANU) and described herself as proudly Zionist, with both her parents born in Israel.

After the 7 October 2023 terrorist attack, she said she lost the vast majority of her non-Jewish friends, including being told at a university event “we’re not friends any more, you’re a Zionist”.

“The majority of the people who were my friends at the time just stopped talking to me entirely,” she said.

She described an escalation of antisemitism on campus after 2023, including being called a “baby killer” and “genocide supporter” by students who were part of ANU’s pro-Palestine encampment.

What a farce this commission is. AntiZionism is not antisemitism.

“Pround Nazis friends stopped talking to her, this is discrimination!”

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  • [–] [S] 1 point 2 months ago

    It’s alright, it solves one problem.

    Doesn’t help that the voters are largely politically ignorant and manipulated by the mainstream media to support whatever. Also we ultimately still have 2 parties due to our preferential system funneling votes up, so that’s fun.

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  • [–] [S] 1 point 2 months ago* (2 children)

    Nah, Australia has compulsory voting, done on the weekend, and takes 20 minutes max.

    Millennials are the largest voting block and catering to boomers doesn’t win as everyone votes not just the old retired people with spare time.

    He doesn’t care, he just knows where the votes are.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 months ago

    The Narrandera grandfather’s resume is more typical of a Nationals candidate than One Nation. He was once the chief executive of the Australian Agriculture Company and before that held management and executive positions in agriculture and commodities companies, mostly in cotton.

    So he’s a scumbag responsible for fucking up our water ways to grow unsustainable cash craps for a handful of rich farmers.

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  • [–] 16 points 3 months ago

    Calling for the end of a state is not calling for genocide.

    Just as calls for the end of Rhodesia where not calls for genocide of white people but rather the creation of Zimbabwe and a home for the people who lived there before the colonial state.

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