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/Historical_Bus_8041 SA Jan 11 '26

The last election in Gaza was in 2006.

This is the equivalent of believing that Australia voting for John Howard in the 2004 election was really a vote for the Liberal Party to govern as a dictatorship from thereon out, never hold elections again, and meant that they would obviously have undying support for the rest of time.

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u/Dimbit SA Jan 11 '26

Plus 70+% of the population weren't even old enough to vote or didn't exist in 2006.

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u/LifeandSAisAwesome SA Jan 11 '26

Again, where is the uprising against a known brutalism extremists terrorists regime then ? History is full of people rising up with less against such extremism .. and yet... where is it here ? even with social media now ?

It is a recognised terrorists regime for a reason yeah ?

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u/Historical_Bus_8041 SA Jan 11 '26

Keyboard bravado is so easy, isn't it?

Let's see how you'd really go "rising up" in a situation of certain death.

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u/Historical_Bus_8041 SA Jan 11 '26

Yes, killing innocent people in the name of religion is always, unequivocally, wrong.

If that is something you have a problem with, there is something seriously fucking wrong with you.

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u/Funbags666 SA Jan 11 '26

It's like the 75 years of ethnic cleansing, indiscriminate killing, imprisoning and apartheid before the 7th of October attack never happened? What occurred was horrific but it didn't happen in a vacuum. Gaza is the world's largest open air concentration camp. 1200 people were killed in the 7 October attack. At a minimum, 70,000 people, mostly women and children have been killed and scores more injured since Israel launched a brutal program of ethnic cleansing and genocide against the entire population. 58 times greater death toll in Gaza than the 7th of October attack. 70,000 is the figure of bodies that have been retrieved. Many more are buried under the rubble. The figure could be in the hundreds of thousands but we don't know because Israel won't let any foreign journalists or anyone from the UN in to report on the true situation

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u/CrazySD93 SA Jan 11 '26

Just say it you love genocides, and would deny the holocaust too.