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Facts, alternative facts and Edward Said: Narrating a genocide

Facts, alternative facts and Edward Said: Narrating a genocide
13.01.2025 10

Pearls and Irritations

Angela Smith

Reporting on a genocide: Questions for the legacy media

We are now 14 months into Israel’s live-streamed genocide of Palestinians in Gaza. Why have you failed so dismally to report Israel’s blatant,...

19.12.2024 3

Pearls and Irritations

Angela Smith

The politics of ignoring genocide

Jews in Germany, Bosnians in former Yugoslavia, Tutsis in Rwanda, and now Palestinians in Gaza. In a recent interview, Francesca Albanese posed a...

26.11.2024 4

Pearls and Irritations

Angela Smith

Australia’s settler-colonial view of Israel’s genocide

“Australia’s colonial history is full of [such] genocidal punitive massacres. But somehow the Australian government couldn’t see the similarity...

12.11.2024 3

Pearls and Irritations

Angela Smith

The politics of appeal and the asymmetrical valuing of lives

On October 11, I attended a vigil for Palestinians in Federation Square, Melbourne. The event did not attract politicians’ censure as it was...

02.11.2024 2

Pearls and Irritations

Angela Smith

The big con on climate action

The Labor government was elected on a platform of integrity and “real” action on climate. We’ve been duped. The 2024 State of the Climate...

22.10.2024 3

Pearls and Irritations

Angela Smith

Terms of engagement: Refusing the Zionist narrative

“Our language shouldn’t be designed to appease the oppressor.” Steve Salaita Not “war in Gaza”. A war on Gaza. Not “lives lost”. Mass...

17.10.2024 1

Pearls and Irritations

Angela Smith

The hierarchy of death

When Israel Defence Forces shelled the home of Quama, an eight-year-old Palestinian girl, and her family, the little girl was seriously injured....

06.10.2024 3

Pearls and Irritations

Angela Smith

Israel and the culture of denial

There will be no peace and security for Israelis until Palestinians enjoy freedom, justice and equality from the river to the sea. Dedicated to...

29.09.2024 2

Pearls and Irritations

Angela Smith

The defence of self-defence

As Israel’s genocidal rampage in Gaza continues unabated after 11 months, the Labor Government recites ad infinitum its talking point, borrowed...

13.09.2024 1

Pearls and Irritations

Angela Smith

Sanctioning universities for failing to address antisemitism

Liberal MP Julian Leeser has accused Australian universities of “studied indifference to Jew hatred on our campuses”. His solution is a Private...

11.09.2024 1

Pearls and Irritations

Angela Smith