Tuesday 1 October 2024

On current, ongoing events in Lebanon (and related events elsewhere) [Note: Content Warning - links to reports on oppression/bigotry/hate, violence/abuse/war. Reader discretion is advised]

Note: CONTENT WARNING - some of this content is about upsetting, disturbing or triggering events & attitudes. Seek competent help - including professional - if you need it. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander readers are advised that linked articles may contains names and/or images of deceased people. READER CAUTION IS RECOMMENDED! For anyone distressed by anything in this post, or for any other reason considering seeking support, resources are available in Australia here, here, and here. In other nations, you will have to do an Internet search using terms such as “mental health support - <your nation>” (which, for instance, may lead to this, this, and this, in the USA, or this, this, and this, in France [biased towards English-language - my apologies]), or perhaps try https://www.befrienders.org/. 

Note: in my “from the news” posts, quotes are shown italicised and blue, my comments are in a different shade of blue, and “good” items are (when I remember) shown in green.

 

Well, it looks like Netanyahu has let the worse aspects of his character win, with some form of ground invasion of Lebanon starting. It now remains to be seen how major that will be, and what others will choose to do. 

News reports include: 

and, in a disturbing report from my home state: 

“Victoria police identify six possible criminal incidents after H_______h flags seen at weekend protests”   https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2024/sep/30/labor-israel-attack-lebanon-protests-h_______h-flag-cancel-visas-threat-ntwnfb   “Federal government warns against importing ‘radical ideologies of conflict’ and threatens to cancel visa of anyone inciting ‘discord’”     

also of concern to some in my nation: 

“Criticism as British Australian public servant Aftab Malik appointed new Islamophobia envoy”   https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2024/sep/30/aftab-malik-labor-islamophobia-envoy-ntwnfb   “Labor delayed announcing the Islamophobia envoy amid reports that people had turned down the role   ...   But Dr Yassir Morsi, an author and academic whose work has focused on Islamophobia and CVE programs, said the appointment raised some important questions. CVE programs have been criticised by academics and community leaders for being divisive, criminalising the community and for silencing community discussion.   “There seems to be a lot of uncertainty about what his role was with CVE, which for some in the community raises significant concern, since much of the Islamophobia we had to navigate was done in the pretext of treating Muslims as a security risk.””   There are also concerns over   “why a British-born Muslim who wasn’t here for 9/11, the Cronulla riots, the 2012 protests, key events in shaping the localisation of Islamophobia has been given this role, especially when there has been longstanding Muslim organisations leading this fight.”     

 

 

Assumptions / basis 

In writing this, I have assumed / started from the following: 

  • this blog states quite clearly that it is about political and human rights matters, including lived experience of problems, and thus I will assume readers are reasonable people who have noted the content warning in the post header;

Possible flaws 

Where I can, I will try to highlight possible flaws / issues you should consider:

  • there may be flawed logical arguments in the above: to find out more about such flaws and thinking generally, I recommend Brendan  Myers’ free online course “Clear and Present Thinking”; 
  • I could be wrong - so keep your thinking caps on, and make up your own minds for yourself.

 

 

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