Hon.Michael Danby,Fmr MP for Melb Ports .Fmr ParlSec Arts. International advisory comm-Henry Jackson Society(London)NGO Monitor(Jerusalem)
Melbourne, Australia
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Australia: China’s ambassador tells Australia what to do, again
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JD Vance is set to meet IRGC General Mohsen Rezaei in Qatar next week.
He is an Interpol-wanted terrorist who orchestrated the 1994 Buenos Aires bombing that killed 85 people and had his own son murdered for opposing the regime.
This is genuinely disgusting. Free Iran!
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В Брисбене, Австралия, должна была пройти масштабная демонстрация хамасовцев. Когда активисты из народа Маори узнали об этой демонстрации, они немедленно организовали на этом месте энергичную хаку в поддержку Израиля. Хамасовцы, как всегда в итоге зассали прийти на демонстрацию.
Спасибо, родные, с детства за маори! 🙏❤️🙏
#auspol Wow! @AmbVasyl @khodorkovsky_en @Erin_Molan @TomTugendhat @dpletka @AvigdorLiberman @KyivIndependent
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For more than 100 years Jewish ex servicemen and women in Hackney have joined the communal Remembrance events.
The memorial was actually unveiled in 1921 by a Jewish Victoria Cross medal holder so holds a special place in the story of British Jewry.
This year was different because Hackney is now led by the Greens who echo the same Jew obsession as the Nazis.
As a small but respectful protest, the Jewish ex servicemen stayed away from the community wreath laying until the Mayor of Hackney and her keffiyeh sporting activist councillors left.
A small but heartbreaking rebellion, as Hackney AJEX chair Martin Sugarman, who is speaking here, told me:
‘We did not want to be associated in any way, or be complicit with the scurrilous Jew hatred of the Greens, or in any way be seen to give them credibility in Hackney, we attended the usual ceremony, with our Local branch Standard bearer, outside the church at St Johns's - as we have done for the past 100 years or so with fellow veterans and families - but refused to lay our Star of David poppy wreath. Instead we gathered in our small multi-faith group after the Greens had marched away, and held our own private wreath laying with a short service in Hebrew and English, for all those who defended freedom and democracy.’
Excellent critique of the so-called 'independent' enquiry into #AUKUS by my @ASPI_org colleague @johncoyne14 in today's Strategist.
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Terror-infested UNRWA is the enemy of peace. We exposed how Hamas terror chiefs like Suhail al-Hindi in Gaza and Fathi Sharif in Lebanon ran the UNRWA teachers unions. Nations who continue to fund UNRWA—🇪🇺🇩🇪🇬🇧🇪🇸🇳🇴🇫🇷🇮🇪🇩🇰🇨🇭🇳🇱🇮🇹🇱🇺🇧🇪🇨🇦🇦🇺—are funding terror.
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#auspol @SenatorWong @Sandy23269960 @AustenTayshus1 @ProfDBernstein @DrewPavlou doesn’t it embarrass #Australia that #NewZealand is the latest country to withdraw funding from this Hamas infiltrated #UNWRA while we still funnel more tha $100mil? @emilykschrader @SharriMarkson
Saw Unravelling UNRWA last night at the Jewish International Film Festival at the Ritz Cinema in Sydney. Fantastic doco, highly recommend. I knnew a bit already from @Quillette’s reporting and general interest, but it unravelled a lot more.
I was especially moved by watching Ayelet Samerano talk about her late son, the beautiful Yonatan, who was murdered after he escaped Nova and tried to seek refuge in Kibbutz Be’eri. There is horrific footage of him being shot in his car by a foul terrorist.
Then there is more footage of his limp and bloody body being kidnapped by an UNRWA worker.
Compulsory viewing for anyone who cares about the conflict and how to solve it. UNRWA’s radicalism only prolongs it.
Great to see friends of Quillette like Benny Morris, @EinatWilf and @HillelNeuer in it. @HowidyHamza @Adi_Schwartz @marcusjsheff's contributions were also very helpful. Through the doco I learnt about Palestinian peace activist @mdajanidaoudi. Keen to see more of his work.
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Saw Unravelling UNRWA last night at the Jewish International Film Festival at the Ritz Cinema in Sydney. Fantastic doco, highly recommend. I knnew a bit already from @Quillette’s reporting and general interest, but it unravelled a lot more.
I was especially moved by watching Ayelet Samerano talk about her late son, the beautiful Yonatan, who was murdered after he escaped Nova and tried to seek refuge in Kibbutz Be’eri. There is horrific footage of him being shot in his car by a foul terrorist.
Then there is more footage of his limp and bloody body being kidnapped by an UNRWA worker.
Compulsory viewing for anyone who cares about the conflict and how to solve it. UNRWA’s radicalism only prolongs it.
Great to see friends of Quillette like Benny Morris, @EinatWilf and @HillelNeuer in it. @HowidyHamza @Adi_Schwartz @marcusjsheff's contributions were also very helpful. Through the doco I learnt about Palestinian peace activist @mdajanidaoudi. Keen to see more of his work.
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Saudis are providing a more responsible analysis of Israel’s war against Hamas than many members of Congress.
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So many of these Democratic officials now maligning @HaleyforMI also quietly acknowledge their alarm re: @AbdulElSayed & his antisemitism. They just choose to lay low and virtue signal by attacking the courageous ones.
#auspol Both #Emirates (FlyDubai) & worse Israelis failed checking back-stories of all pilots.Surely a global concern for airlines & millions of passengers if jihadists flying planes.Weird unlike most national tv #ABC hasn’t interviewed pilots or passengers.Suppressing sympathy ?
The story is extraordinary. A group of people on a plane fought off a maniac co pilot who had stabbed his captain and nosedived the plane. All of the 180 onboard, inc the terrorist, owe their lives to those who intervened, including the stabbed captain who managed to unlock the cockpit door despite severe wounds.
The pilot that landed the plane Captain Steven is from Fiji. In the picture, he is in the middle.
The crew of flydubai Flight 1073 were honored for their “courage and professionalism in ensuring the safety of passengers and securing the aircraft.” At the heart of that story are 3 pilots.
The first is the captain, Smit Machchhar. On September 30, his Boeing 737 was flying from Dubai to Tel Aviv when his own co-pilot turned on him, left him badly injured and pushed the jet into a dive. It plunged 17,000 feet in less than a minute.
“I was in and out of consciousness frequently,” Machchhar said later. But he told himself: “Do something.” He managed to unlock the cockpit door from inside, and passengers rushed in and stopped the co-pilot.
The other 2 were flydubai pilots traveling in the cabin that day. They were only on board to fly the aircraft back to Dubai. Later reporting identified them as South African and New Zealand citizens.
They rushed into the cockpit and took over a crippled jet. The dive had torn away part of the rudder. Passenger Almog Itali said the 2 pilots “entered (the cockpit) and pulled the aircraft up, pulled the yoke, stabilised the plane and landed us in Saudi Arabia.”
They flew it for more than an hour and landed safely in Tabuk. Everyone on board survived. According to Saudi Arabia’s Interior Ministry, 174 passengers and 8 crew members were on board.
Machchhar was treated in Tabuk, then moved to Abu Dhabi. The 2 pilots who landed the plane have never been publicly named. Flydubai has described them only as crew members traveling on the plane.
A passenger later called the people who saved that flight “angels upon earth.”
Not to minimize the life-saving actions of these pilots, but is it really necessary to completely erase the heroic and quick-thinking actions of the Israeli civilians who rushed the cockpit, neutralized the perp and stabilized the plane? Everybody would have died if they hadn’t stood up like that. We can honor both the pilots and the civilians.
The whole episode is worthy of a Hollywood feature
The bravery of the untrained lsraeli civilians by fighting and subduing the terrorist and then stabilizing the plane is worthy of a new Nobel prize category......valour
One of the passengers, an Israeli (Jewish) plumber who first stabilized the aircraft by pulling up on the yoke in the cockpit and thereby pulling the plane out of it's dive before the two deadhead pilots took over.
There was more to this story than these 3 pilots. 1st on pilot who did everything in his power to stop a terror attack. Than a group of Israeli passengers who raced in, pulled the nose up and obtained the terrorist and one doctor who made sure the pilot kept awake until the 2 deadhead pilots landed. All of these heroes avoided a catastrophic event.
Rowan Tooth, a South African pilot originally from Kimberley, who was later awarded the UAE's First Class Order of Zayed II for his bravery.” was one of the pilots.
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#auspol Makes FM Wong funnelling $100million our taxes to Hamas infiltrated UNWRA look even more profligate.Abbas cancels PA elections,continues “pay for slay”& now she admits bodgy stats-“50,000 displaced”All show doctrinaire SocialistLeft dominates @HillelNeuer @SharrenHaskel
New Zealand end cash to UNRWA, joins 🇺🇸🇸🇪🇫🇮. All states must stop funding terrorists to run schools for Gaza children. FM @winstonpeters: “We want to know our money is going for a legitimate purpose. And you don’t have to be a rocket scientist to work out it certainly was not.”
#auspol Don’t tell me our national broadcaster mentioned that Michael Kroger & @SharriMarkson were according to #ASIO subject to espionage by #IRGC operating in #Australia @mirandadevine @dpletka @carolinemarcus @aclennell @AndrewBGreene @jacobgreber @HausdorffMedia @PLMattis
I appeared on @abcnews 7:30 last night talking about IRGC influence here in Australia and why the government should fully close the Iranian embassy in Canberra.
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@SenatorWong was among those I called out for falsehoods at the United Nations, for her lie about the displacement of Palestinian children.
@SenPaterson recently challenged her on this point, as covered by @SharriMarkson. youtube.com/watch?v=DRWqTb_8…
Wong’s now-altered account remains false. Arguing about the time frame fails to grapple with the fundamental blood libel she promoted: that children have been displaced by the canard of “settler violence”.
The false statistic in fact alleged “displacement” from refugee camps in the northern West Bank (Jenin, Tulkarem, and Nur al-Shams) in early 2025, which arose from operations against Hamas in these locations. Counter-terror operations, not “settler violence”. Operations necessitated by Hamas violence. Hamas, the internationally proscribed organisation that these contemptible positions ultimately support.
In a truly twisted fashion, these world leaders' false statements feed into one another. Macron’s laughable proposition that Hamas does not operate in Gaza facilitates Wong’s lie by removing Hamas from the picture. That is the ongoing assault on truth, and it is a tragedy.
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The Kuomintang is full of traitors. #Taiwan
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In 2004, I was asked by Tony Blair to help investigate the rise of antisemitism in Britain. We made recommendations then, yet more than 20 years later, we are still confronting the same hatred. Every generation seems to rediscover the problem, make recommendations and then watch as antisemitism erupts again.
The Green Party’s disgraceful conference motion is part of that problem. Isolate them, blame them, attack them, ban them. We have seen where this leads before. Every school should teach Pastor Niemöller’s warning: “Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out, because I was not a Jew. Then they came for me.”
History has warned us of the consequences of silence. It is not enough to condemn antisemitism after it erupts. We must challenge it wherever it takes root, whoever is responsible, and ensure the next generation understands why.
Silence is not an option.
Mehdi Hasan's Zeteo has a new documentary out on AIPAC, asking whether the "Israel lobby" is really an agent of a foreign power.
A shadowy, fabulously rich network pulling Washington's strings: it's one of the most enduring antisemitic tropes of our age. So I did Mehdi a favour and checked the numbers.
Over the past decade, Israel ranked tenth for registered foreign lobbying spending, behind China, Japan, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, the UAE and even the Marshall Islands. AIPAC came 191st among Washington's lobbies. The entire pro-Israel lobbying category spent less than gun-rights groups, and a fraction of what the drug companies spend.
Elections? AIPAC's super PAC spends serious money. But it competes in a system where outside groups have poured in nearly $2 billion this cycle, and six organisations have each spent over $60 million.
Strangely, Zeteo seems far less curious about Riyadh, Beijing or Doha.
The truth about the Israel lobby. Link to my new column here 👇
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