I stand with Randa and everyone standing against hate, genocide, oppression and terror. In all its forms.

Looking at that guest list it seems most unlikely they’ll have a festival now. They must have known that but they did this anyway

What’s the point of writers’ festivals — or, for that matter, writers — if they can’t discuss issues that matter? Australian arts administrators would rather destroy the whole sector than allow Palestinians to speak about genocide. It’s beyond shameful.

The UN Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory explicitly names the Israeli President as responsible for inciting genocide — and yet Albanese is inviting him here. Shameful and scandalous!

Wrote something for @OverlandJournal about the scapegoating of the Palestine solidarity rallies overland.org.au/2025/12/on-t...

“If we’re to emerge from this awful spiral,” writes @jeffsparrow1.bsky.social, “we’ll only do so on the basis of a very different politics: one that takes for granted the ability of ordinary people — of any race, gender or creed — to unite against racism and violence.”

British Labour is significantly more authoritarian than Trump

Not long before he joins One Nation

When Scomo waved his lump of coal in parliament, he was supporting Malcolm Turnbull’s attack on renewables www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

I wrote a piece for @deepcutnews about how the media sees some genocides as more important than others www.deepcutnews.com/p/the-age-ca...

I’ve got a piece up at @OverlandJournal about Gaza and colonial Australia as part of Subscriberthon. Take out a sub and show your support! overland.org.au/2025/10/stra...

Wrote a piece responding to critics of recent protests www.abc.net.au/religion/jef...

Ah yes, the Eureka Stockade, famously opposed to disruptive protests

Ah yes, the Eureka Stockade, famously opposed to disruptive protests

Hard not to feel you’re going insane watching confirmation after confirmation of an ongoing genocide

Shameful!

Excited to share that a new book I was fortunate to edit is now online! 📚 shorturl.at/LaKw7 'The Far Right and the Media' examines cases of reporting on the FR across Spain, Portugal, the US, UK, Aotearoa NZ, Israel & Australia. A preprint of the introduction is available here: shorturl.at/Rui7S

This is why we march www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...

Unimelb to Latrobe: hold my beer! www.theage.com.au/national/vic...

Solidarity with @Dave_Brophy. All universities should oppose genocide!

Sydney Uni has a ‘thirteen page flag policy’, which they used to stop @Dave_Brophy from protesting against genocide. t.co/24ONohK0Ds

More concerned with ‘social cohesion’ than stopping a live-streamed genocide. The most extraordinary moral failure in a generation.

The anti-genocide movement has been driven by below: activists rather than bureaucrats, people rather than NGOs, students rather than professors, etc. Almost without exception, the top echelons of society have tried to stop the protests, not the genocide.

Here is the current list of places sanctioned by Australian universities using DFAT’s list of countries designated for human rights abuses etc. It is disgraceful that none of the unis have the moral fortitude to add Israel to that list in the context of an ongoing genocide.

Israeli human rights group B’Tselem publishes a new report ‘Our genocide’ www.btselem.org/publications...

It was just as possible then as it is now.

Why yes, Zotero — why not erase 900 footnotes just for the lols!

This is Amnesty International, the most reputable human rights group in the world. No one can say they didn’t know.

www.abc.net.au/news/2025-07... Now that a court has made this entirely obvious point perhaps even the universities can understand it.

The wretched failures of liberalism are allowing the worst grifters to come to the fore.

All the mayhem in the world makes books feel like indulgences. Nevertheless, I’m chuffed to be doing Somewhere Here the Future’s Hid: The Life of Lesbia Harford with @monashuniversity.bsky.social some time next year.

Have a full podcast of @jeffsparrow1.bsky.social in conversation with @leninology.bsky.social a few weeks ago, not sure if this is relevant to anything going on? www.3cr.org.au/yeahnahpasar...

I wrote something for @overlandjournal.bsky.social on climate and Gaza overland.org.au/2025/06/clim...

4.30pm on @3crmelbourne.bsky.social with me & @slackbastard.bsky.social! @jeffsparrow1.bsky.social - YNP's very first guest all the way back in January 2020 - returns for Episode 250. Has anything happened in the interim? Listen to find out! 855 AM / 3CR.org.au / CommunityRadio+ app / PODCAST soon

Australian cultural institutions continue to shame themselves www.theaustralian.com.au/nation/calls...

Deliberate genocide, openly stated. And the Very Serious People in politics, media and academia continue to say nothing.

2) > and, since January 2020, via our weekly program YNP!. This week, our guest is @jeffsparrow1.bsky.social, who appeared on our very first show. mAAAd props to 3CR, our guests & listeners for their support & participation over the course -- youse rock! 🤘 slackbastard.anarchobase.com?p=52832

People will write PhD theses on the moral bankruptcy of Western universities.

Human Rights Watch warns about a looming ‘extermination’ and calls for urgent sanctions on Israel.

Looking good for Greens in Wills

Curious as to whether this panel of Very Important political experts will consider genocide important enough to mention at any stage.

Libs already sounding very defensive

James Paterson looks like he’s just come from The Great Muppet Caper

We've booked a larger room for next week's event on Disaster Nationalism due to demand for tickets. Join @leninology.bsky.social @jeffsparrow1.bsky.social @cramcramcram.bsky.social and NIBS in Lecture Theatre 1 (Old Geology) on the 27th! Rego has reopened: events.humanitix.com/disaster-nat...

It’s very wrong to sanction Israel for genocide but it’s fine to sanction the Human Rights Council for objecting to genocide

Genocidal acts of gender-based violence. How can any institution that claims to value gender equality continue to collaborate with the Israeli state?