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Author of 'Fear: New Zealand's Hostile Underworld of Extremists, but I seem to mostly post about movies
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đ¨ New article in The Conversation from Callum Jones and myself.
We wanted to focus specifically on how the white nationalist rallies were supported and amplified online by far-right actors like Elon Musk and Tommy Robinson
theconversation.com/how-australi...
Prominent figures such as Elon Musk and Tommy Robinson are increasingly using social media to unite far-right groups and causes around the world.
Musk is interesting as a phenomenon, but absolutely not as a person. His psychology is so easy to understand: he saw Apartheid end and concluded that it wouldn't if white people were the majority. That's really all there is to him.
Concern over low birth rates was what the theocracy in Margaret Atwoodâs Handmaidâs Tale used to come to power.
One thing I've emphasised in my research is the historical links between the Australian far right and movements overseas, particularly in the UK and US, but also South Africa and Rhodesia. A 𧾠of some of my work on this topic.
www.academia.edu/44514478/Whi...
www.researchgate.net/publication/...
For those interested in the history of the far right in Australia, @drjpersian.bsky.social, Vashti Jane Fox and I provide an overview in the introduction to our book 'Histories of Fascism and Anti-Fascism in Australia'.
This is a possible reason Israel will not accept this reconstruction plan, with hardliners prefering ethnic cleansing and annexation
One thing I will give to this plan, despite initial fears it doesn't actually require the depopulation of Gaza (anticipating 25% will temporarily relocate and of that 25% 25% will choose not to return)
It even notes housing will be built to account for future population growth
www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
President Donald Trump and international partners are discussing plans to build a âRiviera of the Middle Eastâ on the rubble of Gaza. One would establish U.S. control and pay Palestinians to leave.
The Trump administration is open in it's imperial ambitions for Gaza: a US administered city state with a port on the Mediterranean where "low cost" labour makes electric cars for the European market
(Plus some coastal resorts for tourists)
"When I look at the faces I treat, I know every wound is a living testimony of the crimes being committed against us."
www.feijoadispatch.nz/p/a-nurse-wi...
"When I look at the faces I treat, I know every wound is a living testimony of the crimes being committed against us."
It's easily intelligible, but still mildly perturbing, that Australia's Special Envoy to Combat Antisemitism has said nothing about the National Socialist Network & the March for (White) Australia.
(I don't think this silence is a good way to Advance combating antisemitism, racism or xenophobia.)
If you are attacking an Indigenous site and people it's not only opposition to immigration that is driving you. It's also an act intended to advance a political, ideological cause that causes serious harm. There are specific laws for that. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
At least 50 men, mostly clad in black, approached Camp Sovereignty as sun was setting on Sunday. Four people were injured
