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If Australian Universities.....

Writer: Lara FlanaganLara Flanagan
Poems for Palestine


If Australian Universities


Oh my. When it comes to racism in Australia, some perceived forms of racism simply matter more than others. God forbid if the media or our government addressed racism as a whole or made racism towards Indigenous Australians a priority. Yeah, nah. That’s not where the money is.

 

Yesterday at least 30 Australian Universities adopted new Anti-Semitism policies and sanctions. Basically, from here on in any academics and students who criticise Zionism can be sanctioned for antisemitism. The statement also includes the line, “All peoples, including Jews, have the right to self-determination.” That is all people except the people of Palestine of course because if you fight for their self-determination, you will be slapped with sanctions because to fight for their self-determination is inherently antisemitic.

 

One more attack on Free Speech and Democracy. What is happening in Palestine has been labelled a genocide by United Nations, Amnesty International and Humans Rights Watch, and the list goes on and on and on. But on the campuses of Australian Universities……..to say it’s a genocide would be antisemitic.

 

Those who muzzle the students and academics have never been on the right side of history.

It has never been more apparent whose souls are for sale.

 

If Australian Universities

do not know the difference

between Zionism and Judaism

what the hell sort of hope have we got?

One an ideology, the other a religion,

to criticise one is not to criticise the other.

No longer places of free speech and learning

just more places that have been bought.

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©2023 My Notes From by Lara Flanagan
Tenterfield, NSW, Australia

 

I ​would like to acknowledge the traditional custodians of Tenterfield, the place where I call home, the Kamilaroi, Jukembal, and Ngarabal people.

I acknowledge the Traditional Owners of Country throughout Australia and recognise the continuing connection to lands, waters, and communities.

I pay my respects to Elders past and present. 

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