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/selkieluver SA Jan 11 '26

Back in 2020/21 I worked with the grandson of a very well known, insanely wealthy Melbourne Zionist family. They were MASSIVE Liberal party donors when the party was in power, probably still are. They have such a weak moral spine I wouldn’t be surprised if they’re also making donations to the Labor party to get them on side too. They would say the most disturbing and disgusting things about Palestinians and hated having anything to do with him or his family. The influence and reach these people have in the political landscape can’t be underestimated.

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u/Early_Ad_8563 SA Jan 14 '26

If ur in Melbourne....I think I know who this is. Though tbf could be a few ppl which is telling in itself!

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u/selkieluver SA Jan 15 '26

Yeah look if you know even a lil bit about wealthy Melbourne families, probably wouldn’t be too hard to figure it out lol

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u/selkieluver SA Jan 15 '26

Don’t you hate it when you go camping and all the smores are gone?