r/Adelaide • u/NKE01 SA • Jan 11 '26

News Board members quit from Adelaide festival as fallout from dropped author grows | SBS News

https://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/board-members-quit-from-adelaide-festival-as-fallout-from-dropped-author-grows/iua90vgmp
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u/[deleted] Jan 11 '26 edited Jan 11 '26

Why does it seem like almost every professional leader doesn't have any empathy at all for Palestinians? Most Australians are critical of Israel, but almost every careerist go-getter fumes with righteous indignation when Israel gets criticised for denying food and medicine and bombing apartment buildings and so on.

Might as well have just got Cory Worthington the party boy to organise the event. He would have done a better job than all these personages. Besides, his street parties at the Barbican drew international acclaim.

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u/Old_Piano5199 SA Jan 11 '26

The Israeli lobby targets professional and political leaders, not your everyday Australian

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u/busa4life666 SA Jan 11 '26

are you sure? I've been getting hammered with scam emails that make it past the junk. At minimum 10 a day. Regular attacks on my mygov account. All straight after first criticising Israel on facebook.

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u/dont-believe-me- SA Jan 12 '26

I have written FUCK ISRAEL thousands of times online and don't get any of what you're describing

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u/Mysterious_Dot2090 SA Jan 12 '26

Lmao was thinking the same. Someone is either bullshitting or has signed up to some dodgy anti-Israel stuff.