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NSW Labor MP says he was ‘gagged’ and faced ‘bullying’ after trying to criticise Minns on Gaza
Backbencher Anthony D’Adam says the NSW Labor Party is becoming ‘increasingly centralised and authoritarian in its disposition’.
https://www.crikey.com.au/2025/08/08/anthony-dadam-nsw-labor-chris-minns-palestine-gaza/
A NSW Labor MP has complained in state parliament of being “gagged” and facing “bullying behaviour” from his party colleagues after he tried to raise criticisms of Premier Chris Minns’ handling of last weekend’s Sydney Harbour Bridge protest against Israel’s war in Gaza.
Upper house MP Anthony D’Adam said in a speech shortly before parliament finished on Thursday evening that he had tried to voice the critique in a party caucus meeting earlier in the week.
“I sought to make pointed criticisms of the premier in respect to the issues of Palestine and protest,” D’Adam said. “In the meeting, I was howled down, abused, told I should resign from the Labor Party, and a motion was moved to gag me from speaking.
“In my entire time in the parliament, I have never witnessed such an event. No apology has been received for the bullying behaviour I was forced to endure. It is deeply disturbing that the caucus appears incapable of entertaining dissenting views and took the step that it did.”
The backbencher, who entered parliament in 2019, has previously been known as a dissenting voice on Gaza inside the state Labor Party. In May last year, he told Crikey he had been sacked as ac parliamentary secretary by Minns after he used a speech on the parliament floor to criticise NSW Police’s Public Order and Riot Squad.
In his speech on Thursday, he said he felt the party was becoming “increasingly centralised and authoritarian in its disposition”.
“Last year, at the party state conference, I sought to speak in the debate on the question of Palestine,” D’Adam said.
“I was told by a senior party official that I would not be allowed to speak because he could not be sure that what I said would not, in his words, harm the Labor Party. It is often argued that we should keep our debates inside party forums, but what option are we given if, even in the forums where debates are supposed to occur, dissenting voices are not allowed to be heard?”
D’Adam told Crikey afterwards: “I spoke out because I wanted to send a message to the leadership that I will not be cowed and that these tactics will not work.”
Crikey reached out to the premier’s office for comment but did not hear back.
https://archive.md/e1mL4#selection-1169.0-1179.159
Netanyahu is having meltdown
PM falsely says Israel never halted all aid entry to Gaza, after he led 78-day freeze
Netanyahu falsely says Israel never halted all entry of humanitarian aid to Gaza
In his press conference with Israeli media, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu claimed Israel never halted all humanitarian aid to Gaza, despite his office having announced such a measure earlier this year and despite his government having prevented the entry of all aid into the Strip for almost three months.
Netanyahu was asked whether his March 2 decision to halt humanitarian aid — a move he reversed 11 weeks later only after heavy pressure from international allies — was a failed strategy to defeat Hamas.
“First of all, we need to understand what actually happened,” he answered. “We never said we were stopping all entry of humanitarian aid. What we said was that, alongside halting the trucks that Hamas was seizing — taking the vast majority of their contents for itself, then selling the scraps at extortionate prices to the Palestinian population — we would act to prevent this theft… Therefore, we wanted to stop this and said that, in parallel, we would establish distribution points using the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) humanitarian mechanism set up by the Americans, so the food could be handed out separately. Our goal was not to block aid — on the contrary, it was to bypass Hamas’s looting and theft.”
“It just didn’t work as intended, because there weren’t enough distribution points, and so on,” he added. “We learned the lesson, stopped that approach, and are now operating differently. Aid is coming in, and we’re doing everything we can to ensure most of it does not reach Hamas, while at the same time significantly increasing the number of distribution points and secure routes.”
However, Netanyahu’s office indeed said on March 2 that all aid was being halted. The Prime Minister’s Office said at the time: “Prime Minister Netanyahu has decided that, as of this morning, all entry of goods and supplies into the Gaza Strip will cease.”
Moreover, the GHF operations didn’t begin in parallel with the March 2 aid halt, but rather on May 26 — almost three months later. A week before GHF started handing out supplies, on May 19, Israel started allowing a trickle of aid, which represented the first aid entering Gaza in 78 days.
Netanyahu made similar claims hours earlier in his press conference with international media, though he didn’t assert on that occasion that aid was never halted.
https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_entry/netanyahu-if-we-had-wanted-to-commit-genocide-it-would-have-taken-exactly-one-afternoon/
Netanyahu: ‘If we had wanted to commit genocide, it would have taken exactly one afternoon’
Netanyahu: ‘If we had wanted to commit genocide, it would have taken exactly one afternoon’
At his press conference with Israeli media, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu makes use of an argument used by many pro-Israel activists to counter accusations that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza.
“If we had wanted starvation, if that had been our policy… of two million Gazans, there would be no one left alive today, after 20 months,” he says. “If we had wanted to commit genocide, it would have taken exactly one afternoon.”
He adds: “There is no starvation, there is no policy of starvation — there was a shortage, and it needed to be stopped, and that’s exactly what is being done.”
https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_entry/netanyahu-if-we-had-wanted-to-commit-genocide-it-would-have-taken-exactly-one-afternoon/
Comedians Say “Lose Weight By Starvation On The Gaza Diet!”
https://youtu.be/zlFEU2_VcNA
Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum has come to the defense of Venezuelan dictator Nicolás Maduro against U.S. charges of terrorism and drug trafficking.
Earlier this week, the U.S. issued a $50 million bounty onf Maduro over his role in the narco-terrorist group Cartel de los Soles.
Speaking at her morning press conference, Sheinbaum said Mexico has no active investigations linking Maduro to cartel activity within the country.
“As we always have said, if they have any proof, then they must show it,” she said.
“We have no proof related to that.”
https://twitter.com/i/status/1954597345049432110
Sheinbaum, meanwhile, is notorious for her willingness to defend criminal organizations.
On Friday, she accused the U.S. of planning an “invasion” of her countyr over reports that Trump may be willing to authorize military force against Mexican drug cartels.
“We cooperate, collaborate, but there will be no invasion,” she said of the reports.
“That is off the table, absolutely off the table.”
Mossad run gayway pundit pushes for more war as Netanyahu is on the hook for genocide and starving kids and needs a distraction
ADL CEO: Trump is Implementing Biden and ADL's 'National Strategy to Counter Antisemitism'
Anti-Defamation League CEO Jonathan Greenblatt confirmed in an interview with the New York Times that the US National Strategy to Counter Antisemitism, which the ADL developed together with the Biden administration, is now being implemented by the Trump administration.
"I have worked with the prior education secretary [Miguel Cardona] and I've worked with this education secretary [Linda McMahon], and I credit the Biden administration for their National Strategy to Counter Antisemitism," Greenblatt said in an interview with Lulu Garcia-Navarro released on Saturday. "No one had done what the Biden administration had done before in elevating anti-Semitism to a federal priority, and ADL, in full disclosure, worked with them on that, and they get a lot of credit for adopting the plan."
"And then, I give credit to the Trump administration for actually implementing aspects of the plan and taking a strong view again in the face of real not imagined real acts of hate, real acts of discrimination," Greenblatt added.
He reiterated, "Again, we helped to write the National Strategy to Counter Antisemitism released by the Biden administration. We were deeply involved in that. We are working as well with the Trump administration. This is what we do."
https://twitter.com/i/status/1954391601586868667
This is total confirmation that the ADL is working with the Trump administration.
I saw indicators three months ago that this was happening and was the first to report on it.
It's almost unthinkable that the ADL would have a place in the Trump administration considering Greenblatt successfully lobbied to get Trump banned off all social media in the wake of January 6th, but here we are.
The Trump administration is clearly exercising Greenblatt and the Israel Lobby's will through their wide-reaching anti-Semitism crackdown, which just last week manifested with an order to deny disaster aid to states and cities that boycott Israel (the order was slightly walked back after mass outrage).
As I reported when it happened, Greenblatt even praised the Trump administration's "bold" arrest of pro-Palestine activist Mahmoud Khalil, only to later slightly walk it back after receiving widespread backlash.
There were other remarkable revelations from this interview which I highlighted on X.
For one, Greenblatt revealed he didn't know what the actual legal definition of "genocide" is – though he still insisted he's sure that Israel isn't committing genocide in Gaza.
https://twitter.com/i/status/1954385478620533219
https://www.informationliberation.com/?id=65008
ADL CEO Jonathan Greenblatt is grilled by the NYT over his effort to frame pro-Palestine protests by Students for Justice in Palestine as "material support" for a terrorist group, potentially warranting 20-year prison sentences.
He crumbles under the pressure and is completely unable to prove their actions (handing out literature) crossed the line into supporting terrorism.
Never seen him actually grilled like this.
https://x.com/i/status/1954379286254670140
ADL CEO Jonathan Greenblatt flies into a rage after the NYT's Lulu Garcia-Navarro asks him if the ADL is alienating young Jews who identify as anti-Zionist.
"What polls are you seeing?!"
"You're giving the audience a very narrow, biased view as if that's where all Jewish young people are! It's not!"
(If the Times fires her any time soon you can be damn sure it's because of this interview.)
https://x.com/i/status/1954399584920240141
Benjamin Netanyahu unloads on Australia and brands country with single brutal word - as Anthony Albanese prepares to make huge move on Gaza war 'within days'
Netanyahu labelled Australia 'shameful'
Albanese condemned Israel's military plan
Poised to recognise Palestinian state in days
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has slammed Australia as 'shameful', as it is revealed that Anthony Albanese's government will recognise a Palestinian state within days.
Netanyahu's comments came after Israel was criticised at a United Nations Security Council meeting on Sunday after announcing a plan to widen its military offensive by seizing 'full military control' of Gaza City.
Albanese at the weekend used a trip to New Zealand to speak out against Israeli troops entering Gaza and extending the conflict in the Middle East.
'The idea that it can just be continued is completely unacceptable,' Albanese said.
In a joint statement with the New Zealand Prime Minister Christopher Luxon, Albanese added: 'Any attempt by Israel to escalate hostilities, including by taking control of Gaza City, would be wrong, risk violating international law, and exacerbate the human catastrophe already unfolding inside the Gaza Strip.'
The Albanese government, like many of Australia's allies, seem destined to announce formal recognition of Palestine, with Nine newspapers reporting that Cabinet is expected to sign off on a final decision on Monday.
During a rare press conference for the international media overnight, Netanyahu vehemently denied the idea Israel has embarked on a 'starvation policy' and said it was an 'absurdity' to recognise Palestinian statehood.
'It defies imagination or understanding how intelligent people around the world, including seasoned diplomats, government leaders, and respected journalists, fall for this absurdity,' he said.
In his comments, Netanyahu singled out Australia in particular - even though the country has not formally expressed a position on recognition as France, the UK and Canada have done.
He also claimed a Palestinian statehood would bring war rather than peace.
'To have European countries and Australia march into that rabbit hole, just like that is disappointing, and I think it's actually shameful,' he said.
Australia's recognition of Palestine is dependent on Hamas removing its presence from Gaza.
Home Affairs Minister Tony Burke labelled Israel's expanding military operation and show of force in Gaza 'ridiculous'.
'This concept that you're weak against Hamas unless you're cruel against the Palestinian people is a ridiculous proposition,' Burke said.
Opposition Home Affairs spokesperson Andrew Hastie said that military occupation in Gaza had never been successful.
'I look at the weight of history Gaza has never been successfully occupied or pacified by Israel so I'm not sure why we think it would be different now,' Hastie said.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14987971/Benjamin-Netanyahu-Antony-Albanese-shameful.html
>>23451855 best meme of the bread
Puppet Rubio lying for his masters
Rubio accuses Macron of ruining Hamas-Israel talks
“Talks with Hamas fell apart on the day Macron made the unilateral decision that he’s going to recognize the Palestinian state,” Rubio asserted.
He added that Hamas could be “emboldened” by plans to recognize Palestinian sovereignty. “If I’m Hamas, I’d basically conclude: ‘Let’s not do a ceasefire, we can be rewarded, we can claim it as a victory’,” Rubio said.
https://www.rt.com/news/622737-rubio-accuses-macron-gaza-talks-collapse/