Cultural Apartheid in Australian Arts

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/44190676

1. Triple J ‘disciplined’ Miss Kannina for calling Israel’s actions a ‘genocide’, deleted her episode and axed all future guest-hosted programs on the Hip Hop Show.
2. The Sydney Theatre Company cancelled a performance of The Seagull after three cast members wore kheffiyehs during curtain call.
3. Luke Currie-Richardson was hosting the 2023 DanceRites Festival at Sydney Opera House and was asked to take his kheffiyeh and watermelon peace jacket off. He refused. 45 minutes before the livestream broadcast, he was removed.
4. Artist Mike Parr was dropped by Anna Schwartz gallery for having the word ‘Gaza’ in his new work. Schwartz is a prominent Zionist, and so is her husband, who owns Schwartz Media and its associated publications.
5. Antoinette Lattouf was unlawfully fired by the ABC for sharing a link to a HRW report on Israel’s deliberate policy of starving Palestinians, a report the ABC had already covered. They did this at the specific behest of a Zionist lobbying group called “Lawyers for Israel”.
6. State Library Victoria cancelled the Teen Writing Workshops targeting myself, Jinghua Qian, Alison Evans, Ariel Slamet Ries after investigating our social media posts on Palestine at the behest of a Zionist.
7. Academic and author Dr Randa Abdel-Fattah has her multi-year ARC grant suspended after the direct intervention of Minister for Education Jason Clare, responding to a Zionist-led campaign against her.
8. 2024 Esoteric Festival cancelled Palestinian artist Juman; unrelated, but this year the festival itself was canned on its opening day and is now bankrupt.
9. 2024 WOMAD cancelled Palestinian band 47Soul, but subsequently invited them again this year, presumably due to the backlash.
10. Melbourne Symphony Orchestra cancelled pianist Jayson Gillham’s concert for daring to dedicate one of his previous performances to murdered Palestinian journalists
11. National Gallery Australia censored an art collective’s installation to erase the Palestinian flag from the exhibition.
12. SEN Radio sacked cricket commentator Peter Lalor for retweeting posts about Gaza after Zionist’s complained they felt “unsafe” hearing his voice
13. Creative Australia Board revoked the appointment of Khaled Sabsabi for Venice Biennale in a fit of racist and Islamophobic hysteria provoked by a Zionist campaign laundered through LNP politicians.
14. Subsequent to this, Monash university indefinitely postponed an exhibition of Sabsabi’s work.
15. Queensland Music Awards defunded after musician Kellee Green’s “River to Sea” song wins Jazz Award.
16. Classic Cinema Elsternwick cancelled Jewish Council of Australia’s Palestine fundraiser screening of No Other Land
17. Grace Tame was dropped by global sportswear company Nike as its ambassador after she shared a number of pro-Palestinian posts on social media.
18. State Library Queensland revoked the $15,000 black&write fellowship awarded to K. A. Ren Wyld, following an intervention from the state arts minister and premier, based on her tweets about Palestine.
19. The 2025 Bendigo Writers Festival, days prior to the festival issued all authors with a Code of Conduct they had to agree with in order to proceed. This included complying with La Trobe University’s anti-racism plan, which incorporates University Australia’s definition of antisemitism, a definition developed by Zionists which apes the IHRA conflation of anti-Zionism with antisemitism and aims to strangle dissent against the genocide conducted by apartheid Israel. More than 30 authors withdrew in protest, over a third of the program was cancelled, and the festival collapsed.
20. Nova cancelled Clementine Ford’s popular podcast allegedly based on her anti-genocide stance, which has led to a sustained and deranged campaign against her from Zionists.
21. Jayden Kitchener-Waters, a Gomeroi Ngiyampaa musician, was told by the NSW Premier's Department that he could not perform at the awards night dinner as scheduled due to the label "no pride in genocide" on his guitar. He has subsequently been fired from his job.