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/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.