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When you first heard me speak against this genocide, you heard my words as betrayal. But they were meant as love | Sarah Schwartz Not speaking would go against everything I was taught to honour: the righteous among the nations – those who refused to be bystanders to injustice To those I have lost – the teachers, mentors, loved ones – who once taught me what it was to be Jewish. Those who once shared my table, yet now sit on the other side of a deep chasm. I write with hesitation. My words have been twisted before. But silence has become its own wound. Continue reading...

When you first heard me speak against this genocide, you heard my words as betrayal. But they were meant as love | Sarah Schwartz

When you first heard me speak against this genocide, you heard my words as betrayal. But they were meant as love | Sarah Schwartz Not speaking would go against everything I was taught to honour: the righteous among the nations – those who refused to be bystanders to injustice

A letter to those who taught me my Jewishness, and who now sit on the other side of a deep chasm.

When you first heard me speak against this genocide, you heard my words as betrayal. But they were meant as love

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Victoria's draconian new anti-protest laws will have a chilling effect on free speech — and won't keep anyone safe Far-reaching anti-protest measures and giving police more repressive powers only serve to increase the risk of escalating violence.

My latest in @crikey.com.au

Victoria’s draconian new anti-protest laws will have a chilling effect on free speech — and won’t keep anyone safe

Giving police more repressive powers only serve to increase the risk of escalating violence

www.crikey.com.au/2025/07/09/v...

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I mourn for every single person slaughtered in this needless genocide, and I mourn for the souls of those in my own community who have been following Israel down into the moral abyss.

Full statement on this shameful saga brought to you by the Israel lobby and gutter journalists at Murdoch 1/2

THE SUNDAY SHOT - February 23 YouTube video by The Sunday Shot

Couldn’t catch #SundayShot live this week. But I caught up via the link below.

Slick as ✔️
@davemilbo.bsky.social & @instanterudite.bsky.social hosted
@joshbornstein.bsky.social & @janecaro.bsky.social
& with a great interview with @sarahschwartz.bsky.social from the @jewishcouncilau.bsky.social

The fact that so many were willing to sign their name, standing on the shoulders of our Jewish ancestors who stood up against injustice, shows that we can no longer be ignored!

#OzJewsSayNO #NO2EthnicCleansing #NO2TrumpsPlan

With high profile defenders of Israel like Mark Leibler calling Jews who reject ethnic cleansing “repulsive and revolting human beings”, and Steve Bannon calling us the “number one enemies”, I know that publicly signing on to something like this is not easy. 3/4

Palestinians have rights to self-determination, equality, freedom and justice. This includes the right to remain in their homeland. Our government must take material steps to support these rights, and reject calls for ethnic cleansing and genocide.
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Proud to be one of 500+ Jews to sign this full page newspaper ad in SMH / the Age calling on Australia to reject calls for the ethnic cleansing of Palestinians.
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THE SUNDAY SHOT - February 23 YouTube video by The Sunday Shot

For those who missed it live this morning

The Sunday Shot - @davemilbo.bsky.social & Jo Dyer

Featuring @janecaro.bsky.social & @sarahschwartz.bsky.social

Excellent discussions by all - worth your time

#Auspol

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‘Every life is a universe’: The ceasefire must hold

Whoever destroys a single life, the Torah considers it as if they destroyed an entire world. And whoever saves a single life, the Torah considers it as if they saved an entire world.
Talmud, Sanhedrin 37a
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‘Deliberate, orchestrated incident’: Daily Telegraph caught up in stunt gone wrong It’s the oldest adage in journalism: don’t become the story.

Pro-Israel hate groups and the Daily Telegraph teaming up to confect outrage in what looks like a clear attempt to promote Islamophobia and anti-Palestinian racism. Disgraceful.

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Jewish people say NO to ethnic cleansing

Proud to be one of the 350 rabbis signing this statement — an ad in the NYT today and a declaration of our values.

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

For more—and to sign— go to

saynotoethniccleansing.org

I’ve become aware that someone is impersonating me and sending bizarre legal threats to individuals by text message.

If you receive a text like this from someone claiming to be me, please let me know by emailing jewishcouncil@jewishcouncil.com.au

When Peter Dutton and the Coalition use the Jewish community as political footballs it makes all of us less safe | Sarah Schwartz They have created an imaginary caricature of Jewish people to push their political agenda

My article in @theguardian.com about how Peter Dutton uses the Jewish community as political footballs to spread bigotry, which makes us all less safe.

Murdoch, you can’t stop me from calling out Dutton and the LNP for fueling racism!

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

We’re not going to back down in the face of malicious bullying by the Murdoch press and pro-Israel lobby, and we’re not going to stop criticising Peter Dutton for fueling racism!

Some emails you can send which would make a big difference ⬇️

Letter from our Executive and Advisory Committee members to QUT Vice Chancellor urging her to defend Sarah Schwartz against malicious and defamatory attacks

"Dutton and LNP vilify any Jew who doesn't fit into their racist mould.
...Dutton's reduction of the Jewish community into a single stereotype, and silencing of Jews who don't fit that typology, only serves to make Jews less safe.
This is particularly grotesque amidst a real rise in antisemitism." 🎯

Best question I’ve been asked by a journalist in the last 48h: ‘have you degraded Peter Dutton’

No…he’s done that all to himself

Dutton's reduction of the Jewish community into a single stereotype reveals the very essence of his racism & demonstrates his shameless willingness- yet again- to foment & exploit social instability in ways which he hopes will be to his political advantage.

Statement on my speech at a comedy event pillorying Peter Dutton’s racist, ignorant and monolithic conception of Jewish people

Mornings - ABC listen Informed, entertaining, thought-provoking radio that asks the questions that Melbourne wants asked.

“These protests are about peace, freedom and liberation for Palestinians and that’s not something Jewish people should be scared of” - @sarahschwartz.bsky.social spoke to Raf Epstein on ABC yesterday.

Listen from 2.12.30 / 19.35

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Nazis: it’s a Sieg Heil

Musk: I love fascists

ECAJ: it’s just a bit of enthusiasm, it’s not like he wore watermelon earrings

Albanese minister to fly to Israel to mend fractured relationship Attorney-General Mark Dreyfus’ mission to resuscitate the Australian government’s relationship with Israel follows months of deterioration.

It is disgraceful that instead of promoting international law, Australia’s top law officer is trying to repair relations with a foreign government found by major human rights organisations to be committing genocide.

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Victorian protest laws 'a mess' say civil libertarians - ABC listen The Victorian government is on a collision course with legal groups and civil libertarians, over a planned crackdown on protestors.

With its proposed knee-jerk anti-protest measures "the Victorian govt is making a dangerous conflation between the synagogue arson attack and peaceful anti-war protesting" says @sarahschwartz.bsky.social.

The core issue fueling violence is racism, not protests.
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A message from one of the anonymous Jewish signatories to our Core Principles

You can still sign on here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

What is Zionism, and is it antisemitic to be anti-Israel? Reports of anti-Jewish incidents in Australia are on the rise. But there's disagreement on where to draw the line between antisemitism and anti-Zionism.

What is Zionism, and is it antisemitic to be anti-Israel? We spoke to @sbsnews.bsky.social (6 minutes in)

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What is Zionism, and is it antisemitic to be anti-Israel? Reports of anti-Jewish incidents in Australia are on the rise. But there's disagreement on where to draw the line between antisemitism and anti-Zionism.

"I think of Zionism as a political ideology, which regardless of how people might perceive it or think about it, has been used to justify the dispossession of Palestinian people from their land" @sarahschwartz.bsky.social from @jewishcouncilau.bsky.social 6 mins in.
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