On zionist media spectacle and genocide
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Never forget that, during a colonial genocide – and specifically during the massacre of Rafah, as Israel shredded the bodies of children and left them strewn in bloody pieces across a refugee camp – Australian news media ignored these and countless other momentous horrors1, devoting itself instead to publishing an avalanche of zionist advertorials about ‘doxxing’2.
‘Journalists’ such as Alexi Demetriadi, John Ferguson, Claire Lehmann, Gemma Tognini and Andrew Bolt chose to occupy their noxious minds with ‘analysis’ of my and my fellow organisers’ social media accounts.
They received paycheques from national mastheads for the task of leaving incessant, smarmy voicemails, emails and text messages, attempting to bait us for their absurd hit pieces.
On any day, these people would be cartoonishly transparent in their role as zionist lobby propagandists.
In the context of Israel’s ongoing genocidal bombardment, they are exponentially more so.
Remember the names of these writers. History will view them with disgust and bewilderment. Their actions must never be forgiven.
Australian news media is enacting the very same program of genocide apologism, disinformation, targeted harassment and career sabotage that we all saw being thoroughly workshopped, planned and coordinated within the zionist group chat itself.
They want you to imagine perpetrators as victims, victims as perpetrators, zionism as Judaism, anti-racism as antisemitism, and accountability as victimhood.
As Clementine Ford – another target of both the zionist group chat, the zionist lobby and complicit media – wrote in a recent post3:
Too many column inches have already been dedicated to defending the actions of this “secret” group, while conspicuously erasing any reference to what it is they actually did. It’s important to restate though that the members of that WhatsApp group are not victims of anything other than their own hubris. For weeks, they confidently worked together to damage the reputations and livelihoods of people whose stance on opposing genocide they considered offensive – and they operated in secret because they knew how unacceptable their behaviour was and how embarrassing it would be to have it exposed.
zionists operate with the impunity and comfort that full media complicity and state protection provides.
Right on cue, Australia’s prime minister, the obsequious and ever-obedient administrator of an imperialist outpost, carries the zionist narrative to parliament, complete with a choreographed clown routine about ‘doxxing’.
This, while enthusiastically participating in a glaringly observable genocide.
This spectacle is contrived to distract us from the zionist colonial project, to derail our moral clarity and to frighten us into inaction.
We must not be distracted or intimidated.
We must keep our eyes on Palestine and neighbouring homelands under zionist bombardment.
We must continue to oppose the illegitimate colony of Israel with every breath until it is defeated and completely dismantled.
This spectacle is also intended to distract us from the actual substance of the leaked zionist group chat: an insidious, powerful and utterly racist cohort of scheming individuals, committed to upholding and furthering the zionist colonial project.
Again — we must not be distracted or intimidated.
We must continue to expose and discuss the activity of zionists in Australia, and identify the institutions and organisations through which they weaponise their power and influence against Palestinian people and land, and against collective liberation.
Presumably these ‘journalists’ would have heard The Palestinian Red Crescent’s recording of one of the last phone calls with 6-year-old Hind Rajab. Surrounded by the bodies of her family members, as Israeli tanks approached her, Hind pleaded with Red Crescent members for rescue. In an attempt to calm her fear, workers can be heard reading the Qur'an to her. Israel killed Hind's family, killed Hind, killed the medics who went to rescue her.
Presumably these ‘journalists’ would have seen the video of a man in northern Gaza describing the mass starvation now being used by Israel as a further tool of genocide. He's describing the anguish of watching his infant daughter starve to death, and the difficulty of gathering enough wild herbs each day to feed his remaining children.
These are just two examples amongst tens of thousands, with which Australian media would be familiar.
It’s worth reiterating:
The zionist group chat was leaked by a whistleblower, one of the groups own members. The names of the zionist group chat members can be obtained from within the transcript itself. All other information shared came from the transcript or is publicly available online.
There were no addresses shared. There were no phone numbers shared. There were no emails shared. These were deliberately redacted.
There were no private photographs, and certainly no photographs of children shared.
Any media reports to the contrary are blatant lies, distortion, and clearly in service of orchestrating an alternative narrative.
Read the full Collective statement regarding recent disinformation from First Nations, Palestinians, Lebanese and anti-zionist Jewish people, activist collectives, community leaders, artists, including those targeted by the zionist group chat.
Clementine Ford, Dorothy Doxxer: on Zionists and the politics of distraction, 14 February 2024