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Over all this time, NSW police have heard speakers at the rallies deliver consistent #antiracist messages, including repeated condemnations of #antisemitism, coming from a wide cross-section of society given a platform at the rallies (including lots of Jewish people, such as the outstanding #AnthonyLoewenstein last night). We have embodied anti-racism and #SocialCohesion, united in altruistic pursuit of the safety of the extremely vulnerable, even at sometimes significant personal cost to protesters (more than a few of whom have lost jobs or faced violence and abuse, and all of whom have been consistently defamed and demonised by the Premier and much of the press for 28 months, never once citing the actual words of any of the speakers at the rallies).

bs2 Nov 15, 2023

> a #TechFailure, a tech lack of imagination, a #TechArrogance.. Israel.. believed.. for years that it was possible to cage 2.3 million people indefinitely.. they would never break out and resist.. to the point where in the year before the attack.. that Israel and the #NSA ,.. stopped listening in to #Hamas walkie-talkies, for example, just didn't listen to it, in the belief they didn’t need to.
https://www.democracynow.org/2023/11/14/israel_weapons
#AnthonyLoewenstein #DN! #PalestineLaboratory

Antony Loewenstein: Israel Is Testing New Weapons on Gaza as Arms Dealers Profit from Gaza War

Worldwide protests calling for a ceasefire are drawing attention to the role of weapons manufacturers and distributors supplying machinery to Israel’s assault on Gaza, with demonstrators blocking shipping tankers and entrances to weapons factories, and unionized workers refusing to handle military materiel over the war in Gaza. There is “a growing public awareness and anger” about the global connection between Western powers and the Israeli military industry, says Antony Loewenstein, who has investigated how Israeli weaponry and surveillance technology are used on Palestinians and exported around the world. “Israel is already, as we speak … live-testing new weapons in Gaza,” says Loewenstein. He also discusses what he characterizes as the “intelligence” and “political” failures of the October 7 Hamas incursion.

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