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The Melbourne Symphony Orchestra (MSO) is a major  Australian cultural icon, Australia’s oldest professional orchestra and one of the world’s great orchestras. When the MSO management cancelled acclaimed pianist Jayson Gillham for dedicating a piece to journalists killed in Gaza, there was outcry from Melbourne to London, Cat Empire cancelled a joint performance, and MSO musicians demanded removal of the MSO management (which then admitted its error and  back tracked).

The importance of the MSO is summarized by Wigglepedia:

“The Melbourne Symphony Orchestra (MSO) is an orchestra based in Melbourne, Australia. It has 100 permanent musicians. Melbourne has the longest continuous history of orchestral music of any Australian city and the MSO is the oldest professional orchestra in Australia. The MSO performs to more than 250,000 people in Melbourne and regional Victoria in over 150 concerts a year. Following integration with the Melbourne Chorale in 2008, the Orchestra has responsibility for its own choir, the MSO Chorus” [1].

The national and global  implications of the MSO scandal are systematically considered below.

(1). Wikipedia has summarized the scandal:

“On 13 August 2024, the MSO cancelled Australian-British pianist Jayson Gillham’s performance, to which tickets had already been sold. MSO said the reason for the cancellation was the pianist’s remarks made prior to his performance of a musical piece, which he dedicated to the more than 100 Palestinian journalists killed by Israel in the Hamas–Israel war in Gaza.… MSO censorship of Jayson Gillham attracted wide condemnation from the Australian public and from the musicians of the MSO. The Australian Music Students’ Association launched an open letter and said it was “intensely disappointed” and strongly condemned the decision. Erin Madeley, the chief executive of the Media, Entertainment and Arts Alliance, expressed in his statement that Gillham had been treated “appallingly”, that the decision caused enormous hurt and distress to Jayson, and was disrespectful to his fellow musicians and to journalists in Gaza. Later, MSO rowed back on their own decision to cancel the performance, admitting that cancelling the concert was “an error”, and confirmed that the pianist performance was now cancelled due to “safety concerns”. The nature of the safety concerns was not revealed and hence it is not clear if there were (or there are) any safety concerns in the first place. The musicians of the MSO have passed a vote of no confidence in its board, citing that the scandal had brought the orchestra “into disrepute” and highlighted “years of unresolved concerns”. Despite the reversal of the decision, musicians at the MSO voted to remove the leaders of the orchestra” [2].

(2). The Australian Media, Entertainment and Arts Alliance (MEAA) responded to the scandalous decision of the MSO management to cancel Jayson Gillham with the following press release:  

“The Media, Entertainment & Arts Alliance is disturbed at the news that a musician has been sanctioned for simply voicing a personal view about the human tragedy that continues to unfold in Palestine. Pianist Jayson Gillham had his performance with the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra cancelled following comments he made about the killing of journalists in Gaza while introducing a piece of music dedicated to their memory. The musicians and administrative staff of the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra were not consulted on the decision to cancel Gillham’s performance. Musical and artistic expression have long been a vehicle for political commentary and a lens through which we examine the world, and MEAA is concerned that freedom of expression is being compromised across the creative workforce. MEAA advocates for professional security, well-being, and the freedom to express opinions without fear of silencing, censorship or retribution. Creative workers should not feel the need to restrict the expression of their opinions for fear of damaging their careers. MEAA takes allegations of censorship and harassment extremely seriously and will support its members in pursuing professional and personal safety and their freedom to express political opinions. MEAA members stand in solidarity with Jayson Gillham and with journalists working in Palestine” [3].

 (3). The Tasmanian Times, that has a good record of standing up for the rights of journalists, reported the MEAA response and published the following 16/8/2024 Letter from me:

“Coalition and Labor politicians supporting Apartheid. The ABC: “The Melbourne Symphony Orchestra has cancelled an upcoming performance of Australian-British classical pianist Jayson Gillham after he made comments about the killing of Palestinian journalists in Gaza during a recital.” Jayson Gillham is correct and the MSO shamefully wrong. The leading medical journal The Lancet estimated 186,000 Gaza deaths  from violence and imposed deprivation (5 July 2024), and data from Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor indicate that the 186,000 Gaza dead include about 45,000 killed violently (including 8,000 buried under rubble), 136,000 children, 17,000 women, 33,000 men, 500 health professionals, and 150 journalists. On a per capita normalised basis Apartheid Israel leads the world in the killing of children and journalists. While Coalition and Labor politicians make political capital over ‘security’ and ‘foreign interference’ they disgracefully ignore Apartheid Israeli and traitorous Zionist subversion of Australians and Australian institutions. The freedom of expression of pro-human rights university students, academics, journalists and now classical pianists is under foreign attack. At the next election decent and patriotic Australians will determine that Coalition and Labor politicians supporting Apartheid Israel and hence the vile crime of Apartheid are utterly unfit for public life and public office in a one-person-one-vote democracy. Dr Gideon Polya, Macleod, Victoria” [4].

 (4). As an anti-racist Jewish Australian scientist, scholar and classical music lover with a fervent commitment to free speech I sent the following impassioned Letter to the MSO management, staff and musicians (15 August 2024):

“Dear MSO management, staff and musicians, Many decent people, including anti-racist Jewish music lovers such as myself, will utterly deplore the MSO dismissal of concert pianist Jayson Gillham for saying that he wanted to devote a piece of music to the memory of over 100 journalists slaughtered in the ongoing Gaza Massacre (ABC News).

Until there is profound apology and reinstatement of concert pianist Jayson Gillham I can no longer be a patron of the MSO. The core ethos of Humanity is Kindness and Truth that reaches heights in charity, caring, science, medicine, truth-telling and in poetry, art and music in particular. As famously penned by John Keats: “Beauty is truth, truth beauty,—that is all Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.” The MSO dismissal of Jayson Gillham for defending Kindness and Truth violates this core ethos of Humanity.

The leading medical journal The Lancet estimated 186,000 Gaza deaths  from violence and imposed deprivation (5 July 2024), and data from Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor indicate that the 186,000 Gaza dead include about 45,000 killed violently (including 8,000 buried under rubble), 136,000 children, 17,000 women, 33,000 men, 500 health professionals, and 150 journalists. However the 186,000 deaths reported in The Lancet are not reported in Zionist-subverted and Zionist-perverted Mainstream Australia nor by the Western Mainstream media in general (see Gideon Polya, “186,000 Killed: Gaza Genocide Enabled by Massive Zionist & Western Lying By Omission & Lying By Commission”, Countercurrents,  12  August 2024).

Here are some further horrific realities not reported by the Zionist-perverted Mainstream: (1) As assessed on a per capita basis, Apartheid Israel leads the world for the killing of children and of journalists; (2)  the rate of killing of  Occupied Palestinians in the Gaza Concentration Camp exceeds the rate of killing of Australian POWs by the Japanese in WW2; (3) the rate of killing of children in Gaza  is very similar to the rate of killing of Jewish children by Nazi Germany in WW2; (4) the Occupied/Occupier Reprisals Death Ratio for the Gaza Massacre is presently 186,000 /1,200 = 155, 15.5 times bigger than the Reprisals Death Ratio of 10 ordered by Nazi mass murderer Adolph Hitler and immediately effected in the 1944 Ardeatine Massacre in Rome in which 335 Italian men and boys were executed in reprisals for the deaths of 30 German soldiers in a Partisan ambush. Nazi is as Nazi does.

Dear MSO, the Zionist-perverted Mainstream are  endlessly lying to you as they are to all Australians, and indeed themselves. Just before last Christmas The Age newspaper published my view re the Gaza Genocide that “the World contains 2 kinds of people, those opposing the mass murder of children and the unforgivable others”. The core moral messages from the WW2 Jewish Holocaust, other WW2 holocausts (notably the “forgotten” WW2 Polish, European, Soviet, Chinese and Bengali Holocausts), and indeed all genocide and holocaust atrocities,  are “zero tolerance for lying’, “zero tolerance for racism”, “bear witness” and “never again to anyone”.

Inspired by Polish hero Jan Karski who tried to tell a disbelieving world about the WW2 Jewish Holocaust as it was happening, for 3 decades I have been researching horrific avoidable deaths from imposed deprivation due to war, occupation and hegemony, with my findings reported in hundreds of huge and exhaustively referenced articles and 9 huge books (this including  massive updating revised editions).  For my trouble in the last dozen years I have been effectively rendered “invisible” in Zionist-subverted Australia. Dear MSO,  please make haste to restore your now shattered reputation for Kindness, Beauty and Truth. Indeed please disseminate this Letter with attribution to everyone you can.  Yours sincerely, Dr Gideon Polya, Melbourne.PS.  [Bio details]. For my joyous interpretation of Tchaikovski’s Pathétique symphony see “One Day Pathétique” (see [5]).

(5). Gaza Genocide-ignoring, pro-Zionist censorship, intimidation and egregious Mainstream lying in the Zionist-subverted US, the US Alliance and craven US lackey Australia.

(a). America. While the First Amendment of the US Constitution  guarantees freedom of speech, in practice this is grossly violated by politically dominant Jewish and non-Jewish Zionist fanatics who falsely declare that criticism of neo-Nazi Apartheid Israel (notably by anti-racist Jewish and non-Jewish students, academics and humanitarian activists) is “anti-Semitic” and rely on this egregious falsehood to persecute decent folk objecting to the genocidal crimes of Apartheid Israel. Numerous examples can be given of such egregious Zionist falsehood and persecution but 2 will suffice here. Famed Jewish scholar and child of Jewish Holocaust survivors, Professor Norman Finkelstein (author of “The Holocaust Industry”), was forced out of De Paul University by the racist Zionist Lobby. I have defended Professor Norman Finkelstein and numerous other anti-racist Jews opposed to racist Zionism [6]. Culturally prestigious Oberlin College (an uncle of mine, Professor George Lanyi and husband of my dear Aunt Susie, taught political science there) was one of the first US colleges to admit women, African-Americans, Catholics and Jews) but times change and a now Zionist-subverted Oberlin College trashed academic free speech by suspending and thence sacking  Professor Joy Karega for opposing Zionist (notably Rothschild) corporate control of government, Israeli Gaza massacres and war, for expressing support for Palestinian human rights, and for scepticism over official US claims about  9-11 and terrorism. I was obliged and honoured to publish a defence of Joy Karega [7].

Zionism is genocidal racism and Nazism without gas chambers and daily mass slaughter of thousands but with Zionist-ruled Apartheid Israel engaged in  large-scale ethnic cleansing, and global subversion, and having 90 nuclear weapons and a world-leading high technology military and arms and surveillance industry [8-10]. The Zionist subversion of America was unsuccessfully opposed by John Fitzgerald Kennedy (JFK) and his brother Robert Kennedy but took off with Apartheid Israeli acquisition of nuclear weapons by the mid-1960s with French, UK and US help [11].

By 2019 with the new Joe Biden/Kamala Harris Administration 30% of the Biden Cabinet were Jewish Zionists (although Jews represent only 2% of the US population) and the remaining 70% “moderate” Christian Zionists (as opposed to the fervently Biblical literalist, anti-science, deranged  and racist Christian Zionists supporting pathological liar Donald Trump) [12, 13]. America came close to having a 3 out of 4 Jewish Zionist First Family/Second Family candidature if non-Jewish Zionist Kamala Harris (with a Jewish Zionist husband)  had proposed Josh Shapiro (fanatically Jewish Zionist with a Jewish Zionist wife) as a running mate (instead she chose Catholic turned Lutheran  and relatively progressive mid-Western, non-Jewish Zionist Tim Walz, this occasioning  false Trumpist accusations of “anti-Semitism”).

(b). The Zionist-perverted US-allied West. Not just America but the US-dominated West in general has adopted an egregiously false and  fervently pro-Zionist line, notably through joining the all-European, genocide-complicit and notoriously anti-Jewish anti-Semitic, anti-Arab anti-Semitic and holocaust denying International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA). Most of the country members of the IHRA are complicit in NATO nuclear terrorism, and many were variously involved in slavery and other genocidal European colonial atrocities, and in WW2 Nazi war crimes [14-18]. The IHRA is egregiously anti-Jewish anti-Semitic by falsely defaming anti-racist Jews critical of Apartheid Israel as “anti-Semitic”, it is anti-Arab anti-Semitic by similarly falsely defaming anti-racist Palestinians, Arabs and Muslims critical of the horrendous genocidal crimes of Apartheid Israel, and it is holocaust-denying by ignoring all WW2 holocausts other than the WW2 Jewish Holocaust (5-6 million Jews killed by the Nazis through violence and imposed deprivation) [19-21] and indeed some 70 other genocides and holocausts [22-35].  The WW2 holocausts ignored by the IHRA include (deaths from violence and deprivation in brackets) the WW2 Polish Holocaust (6 million), WW2 European Holocaust (30 million), WW2 Soviet Holocaust (23 million), WW2 Chinese Holocaust (35-40 million), and the WW2 Bengali Holocaust (WW2 Indian Holocaust, WW2 Bengal Famine;  6-7 million Indians deliberately starved to death in Bengal, Bihar, Assam and Odisha in 1942-1945 for strategic reasons by the British  under Winston Churchill with food-denying Australian complicity [27, 28]. Over 40 anti-racist Jewish organizations have condemned the IHRA over its egregiously false IHRA Definition  of anti-Semitism [18]. Of particular note,  an evidently unrepentant neo-Nazi German was complicit it the Afghan Genocide and Afghan Holocaust (7 million dead [27, 28]) and is deeply  complicit in the ongoing Palestinian Genocide and ongoing Gaza Massacre (it has supplied 30% of arms supplied to Israel, the US providing 69%) [36].

(c). Zionist-perverted and US lackey Australia. Zionist-subverted, Zionist-perverted and cravenly US lackey Australia is second only to the US as a fervent supporter of genocidally racist, women- and children-killing, and neo-Nazi Apartheid Israel. Unfortunately Australia (a) does not have  a Bill of Rights, (b) academic free speech is constrained by Codes of Conduct and other means [37, 38], (c ) 70% of the city daily newspaper  readership  has been secured by the mendacious,  anti-science, racist and fervently Zionist US Murdoch media empire, and (d) the public is largely mis-informed by racist and mendacious Mainstream Australian journalist, editor, politician, academic and commentariat presstitutes of the commercial media and the cowardly ABC (the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, the taxpayer-funded Australian equivalent of the racist and mendacious UK BBC). The Guardian and the multicultural Special Broadcasting Service (SBS) are major qualified exceptions to this Mainstream media desert. Australian Alternative media  such as the socialist  Green Left and the Marxist Red Flag provide humane and truthful reportage to a small but decent audience.

The Coalition Opposition and the Labor Government are united in fervent support for genocidal and mendacious Apartheid Israel and serial  war criminal and mendacious America. Thus Australia recognized the genocide-based State of Israel in 1948 but in 2024 still refuses to recognize the State of Palestine, the state of the Indigenous Palestinians who represent 52% of the inhabitants of Palestine (Jewish Israelis only 47%). Of 227 Australian Federal MPs only 19 support an immediate and permanent ceasefire in Gaza (the 15 Greens plus ex-Green Senator Lidia Thorpe, ex-Labor Senator Fatima Payman, and the decent Independents Dr Helen Haines and Andrew Wilkie), noting that this is demanded by humane organizations like Médecins Sans Frontières ( Doctors Without Borders). Australia participated in all post-1950 US Asian wars, genocidal atrocities associated with 40 million Asian deaths from violence and war-imposed deprivation (Labor supported all of these involvements except for the Vietnam War and the Iraq War) [28]. Zionist-subverted and US lackey Australia joined  the all-European, genocide-complicit and evilly  anti-Jewish anti-Semitic, anti-Arab anti-Semitic and holocaust denying International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA).

By way of example of Mainstream Australian mendacity, the extent of Zionist perversion of Australia can be gauged from the reality that the following Letters by me (and crucially their utterly shocking contents) were  rejected by mendacious, Zionist-perverted, US lackey Australian Mainstream media as unfit for Australians to see, read , know about or think about:

(i). Terrorism is as terrorism does (16/8/2024)). SBS reports: “Since the October 7 attack by Hamas, the [Labor] government has rejected 7,111 visa applications from Palestinians and granted 2,922, as of 12 August… There have been 8,746 visas granted to Israeli citizens while 235 visa applications were rejected over the same period”. The Coalition Opposition citing “terrorism” takes this repugnant discrimination further and seeks to ban visas for all Gazans. However re terrorism, just saying it doesn’t make it so. Thus from 7 October 2023 onwards: (a) Israelis have killed 4 Australians, but Hamas 0; (b) Israelis have killed or injured thousands of relatives of Australians, Hamas 0; (c) Israelis have killed 186,000 Gazans (The Lancet) but Hamas supposedly killed 1,200 Israelis, 97% past or present IDF soldiers (and probably many fewer according to prize-winning Western writers Max Blumenthal, Jonathan Cook, Chris Hedges and Professor John Meersheimer); (d)  30 Israeli children died on 7 October but 136,000 Gaza children thence died from Israeli-imposed violence and deprivation, and (e) 2 million dead in the century-long Palestinian Genocide versus 25,000 Zionist invaders killed. Terrorism is as terrorism does. Silence is complicity. Australia under Labor is complicit in the Gaza Genocide in 20 ways.* Gideon Polya, “20 Ways Anti-Semitic Australian Labor Government Complicit In Jewish Israeli Gaza Genocide”, Countercurrents, 5 March 2024

(ii). ABC won’t report the 186,000 Gaza deaths (10/8/2024). Ambassadors for the UK, US, Canada, Australia and for the EU have contemptibly boycotted attendance at the memorial for the 70,000 victims of the 9 August 1945 Nagasaki atomic bombing that occurred shortly after the US  atomic bombing of Hiroshima on 6 August 1945 that killed 140,000. The reason? The Mayor of Nagasaki declined to invite the Ambassador for the State of Israel that according to the top medical journal The Lancet (5/7/2024) has killed over 186,000 Occupied Indigenous Palestinians in Gaza in the last 10 months. It is estimated that these 186,000 deaths include 45,000 violent deaths (including 8,000 killed under rubble) and deaths of 149,000 from imposed deprivation, 136,000 children, 33,000 men, 17,000 women, 500 health care professionals and 150 journalists. The Gaza Genocide (186,000 killed so far) bears comparison with some other horrendous atrocities (deaths in brackets): the fire-bombing of Tokyo (100,000), genocide of Hungarian Jews (200,000), Hiroshima and Nagasaki  (210,000), and the Warsaw Ghetto (400,000). The US provided the bombs, and the US lackey Australian Labor Government is complicit in this atrocity in 20 ways. Anti-racist Australians will put Labor last.  Silence is complicity e.g. the taxpayer-funded ABC won’t report the 186,000 Gaza deaths.* Gideon Polya, “Proof: Orwellian Australian Mainstream Media & Politicians Lie For Genocidally Racist Apartheid Israel”, Countercurrents, 31 July 2024.

The Zionist-subverted and US lackey Australian Labor Government fervently supports genocidal and child-killing Apartheid Israel in 20 ways, notably by lying, diplomacy, key arms supply, massive military purchases, intelligence, missile targeting, and Nazi-style brain washing of Jewish children,  and is thus deeply complicit in the ongoing Jewish Israeli mass murder of Palestinians in Gaza in 20 ways. The Coalition Opposition is even worse. In Australia’s compulsory and preferential voting system decent Australians ask: put the Coalition or Labor last? Under either the extreme Right-wing  Liberal Party-National Party Coalition (presently in opposition) or the Rightist-dominated Labor (presently in government) Australia is second only to the US as a fervent supporter of Apartheid Israel, and for 76 years has fervently supported Jewish Israeli-imposed genocidal atrocities applied mercilessly to the Indigenous Palestinian inhabitants. At the outset it should be made clear that both the dreadful Labor Government and the even worse Coalition Opposition are anti-Arab anti-Semitic (variously actively supporting Jewish Israeli-ruled Apartheid Israel’s mass murder of Arab Occupied Palestinians)  and anti-Jewish anti-Semitic (by falsely conflating these awful genocidal crimes with all  Jews, this falsely  including decent, anti-racist Jews upholding a wonderful multi-millennial humanitarian Jewish tradition). Indeed decent, anti-racist Jews say that the conflict can be ended  right now by simply according  15 million Indigenous Palestinians equal rights and all human rights (unfortunately the Labor-backed genocidally racist Jewish Israelis won’t agree to this proposal that is obvious and unexceptional to all decent Humanity). 

“Governments lie” (famed anti-racist Jewish American journalist I.F. Stone [37, 38]) but  Australian  Labor Government, Coalition Opposition and Mainstream media lying for Australia-violating Apartheid Israel is both treason and complicity in genocide [37-47]. A damning example of the “look-the-other-way” Mainstream Australian culture is given by Australia’s Federal National Anti-Corruption Commission (NACC) that was set up as a “softer” version of the Independent Commission Against Corruption (ICAC) of New South Wales (NSW; Australia’s biggest state). ICAC had teeth as dramatically exampled by (a) an exemplary and admirable NSW state premier resigning because he had inadvertently failed to reveal receiving the gift  a $3,000 bottle of wine, and (b) another exemplary and admirable NSW premier resigned after ICAC telephone tapping  revealed that she had told her political colleague and lover “I don’t want to know about that”. In 2023 I sent 5 Submissions to the Federal NACC that were concerned with (1) the Australian Labor Government’s lying for Apartheid Israel [44, 47], (2) Mainstream media lying [47, 48], (3) Corporations and Governments ignore  huge Carbon Debt [47, 49], (4)  huge Australian war crimes [47, 50], and (5) huge and fraudulent University fees exposed [47, 51].

All Submissions to the NACC except for (1) were promptly rejected outright by the NACC and it is likely that Submission #1 was also rejected (with any notification possibly missed in a huge e-mail stream or gone to Junk Mail). While the NSW ICAC scored a victory over a $3,000 bottle of wine, Submissions 1-5 sent to the Federal NACC  were associated with the following gigantic pertinent financial implications: (1) Labor’s traitorous lying for Apartheid Israel (the Australian annual Defence and Intelligence  budget is A$40 billion); (2) Mainstream media lying (the taxpayer-funded ABC annual budget alone is about A$1 billion); (3) Carbon Debt (as estimated in 2019 Global Carbon Debt is about  US$200-250 trillion (A$300-370 trillion) and  increasing by US$16 trillion (A$24 trillion)  annually, and Australia’s Carbon Debt is US$5.1 trillion (A$7.6 trillion) that is increasing at US$400 billion (A$600 billion) per year and at US$40,000 (A$60,000) per head per year for under-30 year old Australians) [49]; (4) re Australian war crimes in gross violation of Articles 55 and 56 of the   Fourth Geneva Convention and at a Value of a Statistical Life (VOSL) of say A$$1 million for Afghans (as compared to $A$5 million for Australians) the 7 million Afghans dying from violence and imposed deprivation under US Alliance occupation, is associated with a mortal Debt of $7 trillion; and (5) fraudulent university fees (the total Australian university fee debt (HECS-HELP Debt) for students now totals about A$74 billion).

(6). Why we must defend truth-telling journalists, writers, scholars  and artists from  censorship and intimidation. I have  been  researching, writing and publishing about humanitarian matters for 3 decades. In particular, over 3 decades as an anti-racist Jewish Australian scientist and writer, I have resolutely researched avoidable deaths from imposed deprivation through  war, occupation and hegemony. I have published my findings in hundreds of huge and exhaustively referenced articles  and in 9 huge books (this including massively updated further editions) [24, 31, 32]. However due to false Zionist defamation and Mainstream censorship, over the last  dozen years I have been rendered largely “invisible” to Mainstream Australia. Censorship is repugnant and subverts informed democracy.

However I am proud to have published detailed articles in defence of prominent and courageous fellow Australian writers also subject to Mainstream censorship and threat, namely  Julian Assange [52, 53], Mike Carlton [54], Scott McIntyre [55], Dr Sandra Nasr [56], Emma Alberici [57], Michelle Guthrie [57], Alan Seymour [58], John Pilger [59], Wilfred Burchett [60], Essam Al Ghalib [61], Stan Grant [62], Yassmin Abdel-Magied [63], Antoinette Lattouf [64], and Nour Haydar [64]. The censors keep coming and now one of Australia’s best known and most highly respected journalists, the marvellous, humane and progressive  Mary Kostakidis,  has been made the subject of a Zionist complaint to the Australian Human Rights Commission over her quoting Palestinian views  – Mary Kostakidis countered: “[an attempt] to silence people like myself… Of course, I wasn’t promoting it. I was informing people. That’s what I’m supposed to do” [65].

I also protested over outstanding human rights lawyer Melissa Parke (forced out of Labor candidature in the 2019 elections) [66], the outrageous, Australian Intelligence-linked  maltreatment of the Muslim parliamentarians  NSW Labor MP Shaoquett Moselmane [67] and Labor Senator Sam Dastyari [67, 68], the unsuccessfully attempted Zionist censorship of Palestinian writers Susan Abulhawa and  Mohammed El-Kurd at the Adelaide  Writer’s Festival [69, 70], and the maltreatment of former Labor Senator Fatima Payman  who was forced out of the ruling Labor Party because of her humane support for recognition of the State of Palestine (actually Labor Party policy) and for an immediate and permanent ceasefire in Gaza [71].  I have also fervently and endlessly supported academic free speech [72, 73] and the right of journalists to report the untrammelled truth [64, 74].

And of course I endlessly defend the decent Greens, several Independents and the near-totally sidelined Socialists who are variously smeared by the genocide-complicit Coalition, Labor and Mainstream for objecting to the mass murder of children, mothers  and women in the Gaza Concentration  Camp by unforgivably genocidal Jewish Israelis. The Zionist-subverted and genocide-complicit Australian Labor Government falsely accuses the Greens and others opposing this mass murder as “anti-semitism”, “hate speech”, “fear creating”, “politically motivated”, “bringing Middle East troubles into Australia”, and “damaging social cohesion”. It doesn’t occur to these Zionist-perverted lackeys of child-killing America  that decent people  of any Left to Right persuasion  would be totally opposed to the killing of children, mothers and women and indeed the mass murder of children, mothers and women. There are 2 kinds of people in this World, those opposing the mass murder of children and the utterly unforgivable others – the bombs-supplying Joe Biden (Genocide Joe, the geriatric child killer ), Kamala Harris (Kid-Killing Kamala, KKK), the US Democrats and Republicans, and the Australian Labor Government and Coalition Opposition.

Indeed not content with  the false brainwashing of the look-the-other-way Australian public by the overwhelmingly dominant, Zionist-perverted and egregiously mendacious Mainstream journalist, editor, politician, academic and commentariat presstitutes,  the Australian Labor Government and the Coalition Opposition are backing legislation to ban children from the Internet, to criminalize  what the genocidally racist and egregiously mendacious Zionists call “hate speech” and “anti-Semitism”,  and to fine and suspend elected MPs for “objectionable  conduct” that potentially could include strongly objecting to Jewish Israeli  Apartheid, genocide and the mass murder of women and children. 

A paraphrasing of Pastor Martin Niemöller’s famous poem “First they came”: “First they came for the Indigenous First Nations, Koreans, Vietnamese, Iraqis, Afghans, Libyans, Syrians, Lebanese, and Palestinians/ And I spoke up because I was an anti-racist humanitarian… And then they came for me,  but there was almost nobody prepared to speak up for me”.  However in Australia I was gratified that several decent and important Mainstream journalists have publicly supported me as have  several decent Australian writers who have variously publicly praised my efforts for Palestinian human rights and existentially threatened  Humanity and the Biosphere [75, 76].

Final Comments and Conclusions

The core human ethos is Kindness and Truth and that in 2 words is why we must defend humane truth-telling journalists, writers, scholars  and artists (including musicians) from  censorship and intimidation. To do otherwise is to betray the core moral imperatives  of decent Humanity. However the Orwellian and Zionist-perverted US, West and Australia have opted for the reverse by fervently defending genocidally racist and egregiously mendacious Apartheid  Israel in its merciless Gaza Massacre and Gaza Genocide in which 45,000 have died violently and (as reported by The Lancet  [77] but ignored by Mainstream media [34]) an estimated 186,000 Gazans (mostly the estimated 136,000 children killed) will have died from violence and imposed deprivation.

My progressive  friends and I, and one supposes all decent human beings, are rendered speechless by the utter awfulness of this horrific, ongoing and utterly unforgivable Gaza Massacre and Gaza Genocide by genocidal Jewish Israelis that continues remorselessly while the World looks on. A horrible aspect of this US, Western and Australian Mainstream ignoring and normalizing of the  mass murder of children and women in the Gaza Concentration Camp  is that ordinary folk are being steadily accustomed (like the steadily warming “boiling frog” analogy) to further such carnage in  man-made atrocities. Thus Humanity and the Biosphere are existentially threatened  by nuclear weapons and climate change. A nuclear winter from a major nuclear exchange would decimate Humanity and the Biosphere. The direst expert scientific  predictions are that failure to requisitely tackle climate change will mean a Climate Genocide  in which 10 billion people will die en route to a sustainable human population of only about 1 billion by 2100. Atmospheric greenhouse gas (GHG) levels are at record highs and are increasing at record rates [78]. Indeed presently about 100,000 Australians die preventably each year due to ”life-style choice” and “political choice” reasons (the figure for the US is 1.7 million) but callous, greedy, corrupt and rotten Western governments look the other way [79] . 

Peace is the only way but silence kills and silence is complicity. Racism is utterly repugnant because we are not responsible for our origin and upbringing. War is the penultimate in racism and genocide the ultimate in racism. Decent people around the World must (a) inform everyone they can (racist and lying Western Mainstream media certainly won’t)  and  (b) rigorously apply Boycotts, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) against genocidal Apartheid Israel and all people, politicians, parties, collectives, companies and countries obscenely supporting this child-killing, women-killing, mother-killing and neo-Nazi pariah state [80].

With elections looming, in the US in the absence of a decent Third Party American voters have to choose between a Zionist-perverted and Gaza Genocide-complicit Kid-Killing Kamala (KKK; Vice President under Genocide Joe, the child-killing geriatric who supplied all the bombs that reduced the huge and ancient city of Gaza to uninhabitable rubble and killed nearly 200,000 people) and Zionist-perverted, anti-science, puerile, racist, sexist, deranged blabber-mouth and pathologically mendacious  populist Trump (he told an extraordinary 30,000 lies during his administration  [81]). Such massive Trump lying is akin to insane detachment from reality, and sensible Americans have little choice but to vote for Kamala Harris notwithstanding her unforgivable complicity in the ongoing Gaza Genocide. 

In Australia  the appalling Labor Government and even worse Coalition Opposition both fervently support  genocidal Apartheid Israel but Labor is worried about losing the Arab and Muslim vote and is finally obscenely making noises that “enough” Palestinians have been killed over the last 10.5 months (just as similarly  conscious of voter annoyance it obscenely and belatedly made noises that 12 years of abusive imprisonment of world-famous Australian truth-teller Julian Assange were “enough”). Decent human beings say not one child killed and not one day of imprisonment for truth-telling journalists.

War is the penultimate in racism and genocide the ultimate in racism – anti-racist Australians will put Gaza Genocide-complicit Labor and the even worse Coalition last  in Australia’s excellent compulsory and preferential voting system. Because Labor is in government and is complicit in the Gaza Genocide in 20 ways [46] it should be punished for the UN Genocide Convention-specified  crime of “complicity in genocide” in Article IIIe [82] i.e. voters should put Labor last and the Coalition second last. Many others argue that the anti-science, racist and mendacious Coalition is far worse than repugnant Labor and on that account the Coalition should be put last. Those like the Coalition and Labor fervently supporting genocidally racist Apartheid Israel and hence the vile crime of Apartheid are utterly unfit for public life and public office in a one-person-one-vote-democracy like Australia and should be consigned to the sewer of history by decent Australian voters. 

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Notes

[1]. “Melbourne Symphony Orchestra”, Wigglepedia: https://wiggles.fandom.com/wiki/Melbourne_Symphony_Orchestra 

[2]. “Melbourne Symphony Orchestra”, Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melbourne_Symphony_Orchestra 

[3]. Media, Entertainment and Arts Alliance (MEAA), “Statement on the sanctioning of a musician by the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra”, 14 August 2014: https://www.meaa.org/mediaroom/meaa-statement-on-the-sanctioning-of-a-musician-by-the-melbourne-symphony-orchestra/ 

[4]. Gideon Polya, “Coalition and Labor politicians supporting Apartheid” in Tasmanian Times, “MSO compromising freedom of expression”, 14-16 August 2024: https://tasmaniantimes.com/2024/08/mso-compromising-freedom-of-expression/ 

[5]. Gideon Polya, “Art for Peace, Planet Mother and Child”: https://sites.google.com/site/artforpeaceplanetmotherchild/home 

[6]. “Jews against racist Zionism”: https://sites.google.com/site/jewsagainstracistzionism/home 

[7]. Gideon Polya, “Zionist-Subverted Oberlin College Trashes Academic Free Speech And Suspends Professor Joy Karega”, Countercurrents, 10 August 2016 : https://countercurrents.org/2016/08/zionist-subverted-oberlin-college-trashes-academic-free-speech-and-suspends-professor-joy-karega/ 

[8]. Antony Loewenstein, “The Palestine Laboratory. How Israel exports the technology of occupation to the world”, Scribe 2023

[9]. Gideon Polya, “Review: “The Palestine Laboratory” By Antony Loewenstein – Apartheid Israel Exports Surveillance Nightmare”, 29 August 2023: https://countercurrents.org/2023/08/review-the-palestine-laboratory-by-antony-loewenstein-apartheid-israel-exports-surveillance-nightmare/ 

[10]. Gideon Polya, “Apartheid Israel Among World’s Leading Countries For Militarization, Violence, Abuse And Genocide”, Countercurrents, 16 May 2023: https://countercurrents.org/2023/05/apartheid-israel-among-worlds-leading-countries-for-militarization-violence-abuse-and-genocide/ 

[11]. Gideon Polya, “Apartheid Israel buries serial war criminal, genocidal racist and nuclear terrorist Shimon Peres”, Countercurrents, 1 October 2016: https://countercurrents.org/2016/10/01/apartheid-israel-buries-serial-war-criminal-genocidal-racist-and-nuclear-terrorist-shimon-peres/ 

[12]. Gideon Polya, “One third of Biden’s Cabinet are Jewish Zionists”, Dissident Voice, /27  January 2022: https://dissidentvoice.org/2022/01/one-third-of-bidens-cabinet-are-jewish-zionists/ 

[13]. Gideon Polya, “Zionist-subverted America: Jewish Zionists Are One Third Of The Biden Cabinet”,  Countercurrents, 27 January 2022: https://countercurrents.org/2022/01/zionist-subverted-america-jewish-zionists-are-one-third-of-the-biden-cabinet/ 

[14]. Gideon Polya, “Melbourne University Adopts Anti-Semitic & Holocaust-Ignoring IHRA Definition Of Anti-Semitism”, Countercurrents, 5 February 2023: https://countercurrents.org/2023/02/melbourne-university-adopts-anti-semitic-holocaust-ignoring-ihra-definition-of-anti-semitism/ 

[15]. Gideon Polya, “Zionists & Pro-Zionist, US Lackey Australian Government Threaten Australian Academic Free Speech”, Countercurrents, 7 March 2023: https://countercurrents.org/2023/03/zionists-pro-zionist-us-lackey-australian-government-threaten-australian-academic-free-speech/ 

[16]. Gideon Polya, “Melbourne University Backs Racist and Anti-Semitic IHRA”, Dissident Voice, 7 February 2023: https://dissidentvoice.org/2023/02/melbourne-university-backs-racist-and-anti-semitic-ihra/ 

[17]. Gideon Polya, “US-backed IHRA Definition Of Antisemitism Is Anti-Arab Anti-Semitic & Anti-Jewish Anti-Semitic”, Boycott Apartheid Israel, 9 March 2021: https://sites.google.com/site/boycottapartheidisrael/2021-03-09 

[18]. Jewish Voices for Peace, “First ever: 40+ Jewish groups worldwide oppose equating antisemitism with criticism of Israel”, 17 July 2018: https://jewishvoiceforpeace.org/first-ever-40-jewish-groups-worldwide-oppose-equating-antisemitism-with-criticism-of-israel/#english 

[19]. Gideon Polya,  “UK Zionist Historian Sir Martin Gilbert (1936-2015) Variously Ignored Or Minimized WW2 Bengali Holocaust”, Countercurrents, 19 February 2015: https://countercurrents.org/polya190215.htm 

[20].  Martin Gilbert, “Jewish History Atlas”, Weidenfeld and Nicolson, London, 1969

[21]. Martin Gilbert “Atlas of the Holocaust”, Michael Joseph, London, 1982

[22]. “Palestinian Genocide”: https://sites.google.com/site/palestiniangenocide/ 

[23]. “Palestinian Genocide Essays”: https://sites.google.com/site/palestinegenocideessays/ 

[24]. “Gideon Polya Countercurrents articles”, “Palestinian Genocide Essays”: https://sites.google.com/site/palestinegenocideessays/gideon-polya-countercurrents-articles 

[25]. “1948 Nakba (Catastrophe) & Palestinian Genocide’”: https://sites.google.com/site/palestiniangenocide/1948-nakba-catastrophe-palestinian-genocide 

[26]. Gideon Polya, “Free Palestine. End Apartheid Israel, Human Rights Denial, Gaza Massacre, Child Killing, Occupation and Palestinian Genocide”(767 pages; final editing stage)

[27]. Gideon Polya, “Jane Austen and the Black Hole of British History. Colonial rapacity, holocaust denial and the crisis in biological sustainability”, 3rd edition, Korsgaard Publishing, 2022

[28] .Gideon Polya, “Body Count. Global avoidable mortality since 1950”, 2nd  edition, Korsgaard Publishing, 2021

[29]. Gideon Polya, “US-imposed Post-9/11 Muslim Holocaust & Muslim Genocide”, Korsgaard Publishing, 2020

[30]. Gideon Polya in Soren Korsgaard (editor), “The Most Dangerous Book Ever Published: Deadly Deception Exposed!”, Korsgaard Publishing, 2020.

[31]. “Gideon Polya”: https://sites.google.com/site/drgideonpolya/home 

[32]. “Countercurrents articles by Gideon Polya”: https://sites.google.com/site/drgideonpolya/countercurrents-articles 

[33]. “Report genocide”: https://sites.google.com/site/reportgenocide/ 

[34]. Gideon Polya, “Racist & Lying Australian & Western Mainstream Disappear 186,000 Gaza Genocide Deaths”, Countercurrents, 18 July 2024: https://countercurrents.org/2024/07/racist-lying-australian-western-mainstream-disappear-186000-gaza-genocide-deaths/

[35]. Gideon Polya, “Racist Mainstream Ignores “US-Imposed Post-9/11 Muslim Holocaust & Muslim Genocide”, Countercurrents, 17 July 2020: https://countercurrents.org/2020/07/racist-mainstream-ignores-us-imposed-post-9-11-muslim-holocaust-muslim-genocide/ 

[36]. Gideon Polya, “Unrepentant Neo-Nazi Germany Complicit In Palestinian Genocide & Ongoing Gaza Massacre”, Countercurrents, 11 April 2024: https://countercurrents.org/2024/04/unrepentant-neo-nazi-germany-complicit-in-palestinian-genocide-ongoing-gaza-massacre/ 

[37]. “Mainstream media lying”: https://sites.google.com/site/mainstreammedialying/ 

[38]. “Mainstream media censorship”:https://sites.google.com/site/mainstreammediacensorship/home 

[39]. Gideon Polya, “Exposing 10 Major West-backed Zionist Lies Re Jewish Israeli-imposed Gaza Genocide”, Countercurrents, 15 March 2024: https://countercurrents.org/2024/03/exposing-10-major-west-backed-zionist-lies-re-jewish-israeli-imposed-gaza-genocide/ 

[40]. Gideon Polya, “Cowardly US Lackey Australian Labor Government Betrays Promises, Australia, Palestine, and Humanity”, Countercurrents, 20 November 2022: https://countercurrents.org/2022/11/cowardly-us-lackey-australian-labor-government-betrays-promises-australia-palestine-and-humanity/ 

[41]. Gideon Polya, “Gaza Massacre: 35 Ways Zionist-perverted US, Australia & West Lie For Child-killing, Neo-Nazi Apartheid Israel”, Countercurrents, 23 November 2023: https://countercurrents.org/2023/11/gaza-massacre-35-ways-zionist-perverted-us-australia-west-lie-for-child-killing-neo-nazi-apartheid-israel/ 

[42]. Gideon Polya, “186,000 Killed: Gaza Genocide Enabled by Massive Zionist & Western Lying By Omission & Lying By Commission”, Countercurrents,  12  August 2024: https://countercurrents.org/2024/08/186000-killed-gaza-genocide-enabled-by-massive-zionist-western-lying-by-omission-lying-by-commission/ 

[43]. Gideon Polya, “Proof: Orwellian Australian Mainstream Media & Politicians Lie For Genocidally Racist Apartheid Israel”, Countercurrents, 31 July 2024:  https://countercurrents.org/2024/07/proof-orwellian-australian-mainstream-media-politicians-lie-for-genocidally-racist-apartheid-israel/ 

[44]. Gideon Polya, “Submission To National Anti-Corruption Commission: Australian Labor Government’s Lying For Apartheid Israel”, Countercurrents, 22 July 2023:https://countercurrents.org/2023/07/submission-to-national-anti-corruption-commission-australian-labor-governments-lying-for-apartheid-israel/ 

[45]. Gideon Polya, “85 Ways Zionist Australian Labor Government Betrays Palestinian Human Rights & Humanity”, Countercurrents, 16 March 2023: https://countercurrents.org/2023/03/85-ways-zionist-australian-labor-government-betrays-palestinian-human-rights-humanity/ 

[46]. Gideon Polya, “20 Ways Anti-Semitic Australian Labor Government Complicit In Jewish Israeli Gaza Genocide”, Countercurrents, 5 March 2024: https://countercurrents.org/2024/03/20-ways-anti-semitic-australian-labor-government-complicit-in-jewish-israeli-gaza-genocide/ 

[47]. Gideon Polya, “Australian National Anti-Corruption Commission Rejects Submissions Re Huge Australian War Crimes and Carbon Debt”, Countercurrents, 2 October 2023: https://countercurrents.org/2023/10/australian-national-anti-corruption-commission-rejects-submissions-re-huge-australian-war-crimes-and-carbon-debt/ 

[48]. Gideon Polya, “Submission To Australian National Anti-Corruption Commission, NACC: Mainstream Media Lying”, Countercurrents, 21 September 2023: https://countercurrents.org/2023/09/submission-to-australian-national-anti-corruption-commission-nacc-mainstream-media-lying/ 

[49]. Gideon Polya, “Submission To Australian National  Anti-Corruption Commission: Corporations & Governments Ignore  Huge Carbon Debt”, Countercurrents, 19 August 2023: https://countercurrents.org/2023/08/submission-to-australian-national-anti-corruption-commission-corporations-governments-ignore-huge-carbon-debt/ 

[50]. Gideon Polya, “Submission To Australian National Anti-Corruption Commission Over Huge But Ignored Australian War Crimes”, Countercurrents, 2 August 2023: https://countercurrents.org/2023/08/submission-to-australian-national-anti-corruption-commission-over-huge-but-ignored-australian-war-crimes/

[51]. Gideon Polya, “Submission To Australian National Anti-Corruption Commission: Huge & Fraudulent University Fees Exposed”, Countercurrents, 2 September 2023: https://countercurrents.org/2023/09/submission-to-australian-national-anti-corruption-commission-huge-fraudulent-university-fees-exposed/ 

[52]. Gideon Polya, “US Lackey Australian Labor Government Threatens WikiLeaks And Julian Assange”,  Countercurrents, 11 December, 2010: https://countercurrents.org/polya111210.htm 

[53]. Gideon Polya, “Craven US lackey Australia betrays Australian & world hero Julian Assange & free journalism”, Countercurrents, 13 April 2019: https://countercurrents.org/2019/04/craven-us-lackey-australia-betrays-australian-world-hero-julian-assange-free-journalism 

[54]. Gideon Polya, “Mike Carlton, Top Australian Columnist, Forced From Job For Criticizing Apartheid Israeli Gaza Massacre”,  Countercurrents, 8 August 2014: https://countercurrents.org/polya080814.htm 

[55]. Gideon Polya, “Australia trashes free speech – SBS sacks journalist Scott McIntyre over anti-war tweets”, Countercurrents, 4 April 2015: https://countercurrents.org/polya040515.htm 

[56]. Gideon Polya “Academic Free Speech Under Zionist Attack At Notre Dame Australia And LSE, UK”, Countercurrents, 16 December 2015: https://countercurrents.org/polya161215.htm 

[57]. Gideon Polya, “Australian ABC Journalistic Independence Threatened By Coalition Government & Largely Coalition-appointed ABC Board”, Countercurrents, 29 September 2018: https://countercurrents.org/2018/09/australian-abc-journalistic-independence-threatened-by-coalition-government-largely-coalition-appointed-abc-board/ 

[58]. Gideon Polya, “ Review: “The One Day Of The Year” – Australian Anzac Day Jingoism Hides Genocidal War Crimes”, Countercurrents, 30 June 2017: https://countercurrents.org/2017/06/review-the-one-day-of-the-year-australian-anzac-day-jingoism-hides-genocidal-war-crimes/ 

[59]. Gideon Polya, “John Pilger (1939-2023): Outstanding, Truth-telling Journalist & Documentary Maker Dies”, Countercurrents, 2 January 2024: https://countercurrents.org/2024/01/john-pilger-1939-2023-outstanding-truth-telling-journalist-documentary-maker-dies/ 

[60]. Gideon Polya, “BBC censors Wilfred Burchett, famous Australian writer and journalist who was the first foreign correspondent to enter Hiroshima after it was atomic bombed”, Censorship by the BBC: https://sites.google.com/site/censorshipbythebbc/bbc-censors-wilfred 

[61]. Gideon Polya, “Zionist Australia’s SBS Suspends Renowned Pro-Palestinian Journalist Essam Al Ghalib”, Countercurrents, 19 February 2023: https://countercurrents.org/2023/02/zionist-australias-sbs-suspends-renowned-pro-palestinian-journalist-essam-al-ghalib/ 

[62]. Gideon Polya, “Censorship Of Stan Grant, Indigenous Australians & Palestinians, Julian Assange & Truth Tellers”, Countercurrents, 25 May 2023: https://countercurrents.org/2023/05/censorship-of-stan-grant-indigenous-australians-palestinians-julian-assange-truth-tellers/ 

[63]. Gideon Polya, “Yassmin Abdel-Magied Censored On Anzac Day – Jingoists Trash Australian Free Speech”, Countercurrents, 28 April 2017: https://countercurrents.org/2017/04/yassmin-abdel-magied-censored-on-anzac-day-jingoists-trash-australian-free-speech/ 

[64]. Gideon Polya, “Lying Australian Media & Labor Government Complicit In US-Israeli Massacre Of Palestinian Children”, Countercurrents, 7 February 2024: https://countercurrents.org/2024/02/lying-australian-media-labor-government-complicit-in-us-israeli-massacre-of-palestinian-children/ 

[65]. Ben Smee, “Mary Kostakidis says racial discrimination complaint by Zionist Federation an attempt ‘to silence’ her”, Guardian, 15 July 2024: https://www.theguardian.com/media/article/2024/jul/15/mary-kostakidis-racial-discrimination-complaint-zionist-federation-of-australia-ntwnfb 

[66]. Gideon Polya, “Pro-Apartheid Israel Australian Labor Party Scraps Outstanding Anti-Apartheid Candidate, Melissa Parke”, Countercurrents, 17 April 2019: https://countercurrents.org/2019/04/pro-apartheid-israel-australian-labor-party-scraps-outstanding-anti-apartheid-candidate-melissa-parke/ 

[67]. Gideon Polya, “Nuclear Terrorist Australia, UK & US AUKUS Alliance Threatens Humanity”, Countercurrents, 4 October 2021: https://countercurrents.org/2021/10/nuclear-terrorist-australia-uk-us-aukus-alliance-threatens-humanity/ 

[68]. Gideon Polya, “US Lackey Australia Attacks Free Speech Of Senator Dastyari, Muslims, Chinese, Journalists & Truth-Tellers”, Countercurrents, 10 December 2017: https://countercurrents.org/2017/12/us-lackey-australia-attacks-free-speech-of-senator-dastyari-muslims-chinese-journalists-truth-tellers/ 

[69]. Gideon Polya, “Abulhawa, El-Kurd, Palestine & Ukraine: Zionists Attack Australian Free Speech”, Countercurrents, 28 February 2023: https://countercurrents.org/2023/02/abulhawa-el-kurd-palestine-ukraine-zionists-attack-australian-free-speech/ 

[70]. Gideon Polya, “Writers smeared”, The Age, Letters, 22 February 2023:https://www.theage.com.au/national/victoria/dahl-would-understand-the-need-for-change-20230222-p5cmk0.html 

[71]. Gideon Polya, “Fatima Payman” Breakthrough: Australian Labor Senator Fatima Payman Condemns Jewish Israeli Gaza Genocide, Human Rights Denial & Occupation”, Countercurrents, 17 May 2024: https://countercurrents.org/2024/05/breakthrough-australian-labor-senator-fatima-payman-condemns-jewish-israeli-gaza-genocide-human-rights-denial-occupation/ 

[72]. Gideon Polya, “Current academic censorship and self-censorship in Australian universities”, 2001, Mainstream media lying: https://sites.google.com/site/mainstreammedialying/academic-censorship 

[73]. Gideon Polya, “”Crisis in our universities”,  ABC Radio national, Ockham’s Razor, 19 August 2001: https://www.abc.net.au/listen/programs/ockhamsrazor/crisis-in-our-universities/3490214 

[74]. Gideon Polya, “Feature Letter – How Mainstream Media Lies for Apartheid Israel”, Tasmanian Times, 26 November 2023:  https://tasmaniantimes.com/2023/11/feature-letter-how-mainstream-media-lies-for-apartheid-israel/ 

[75]. Richard Hil, “We Need Climate Warriors Like Gideon Polya ”, New Matilda, 1 November 2019: https://newmatilda.com/2019/11/01/we-need-climate-warriors-like-gideon-polya/ 

[76]. Mark Bradbeer, “Free Palestine”  Book Review- Free Palestine: End Apartheid Israel, Human Rights Denial, Gaza Massacre, Child Killing, Occupation and Palestinian Genocide”, Countercurrents, 7 June 2024: https://countercurrents.org/2024/06/book-review-free-palestine-end-apartheid-israel-human-rights-denial-gaza-massacre-child-killing-occupation-and-palestinian-genocide-by-gideon-polya/ 

[77]. Rasha Khatib, Martin McKee, and Salim Yusuf, “ Counting the dead in Gaza: difficult but essential”, The Lancet, 5 July 2024: https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(24)01169-3/fulltext

[78]. Gideon Polya, “Climate Crisis, Climate Genocide & Solutions”, Korsgaard Publishing, 2020

[79]. Gideon Polya, “Rich Australia Ignores 100,000 Preventable Deaths Annually: The Cost Of Neoliberalism & Lying”, Countercurrents, 29 September 2022: https://countercurrents.org/2022/09/rich-australia-ignores-100000-preventable-deaths-annually-the-cost-of-neoliberalism-lying/ 

[80]. Gideon Polya, “Australia must stop Zionist subversion and join the World in comprehensive Boycotts, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) against Apartheid Israel and all its supporters”, Subversion of Australia, 15 April 2021: https://sites.google.com/site/subversionofaustralia/2021-04-15 

[81]. Gideon Polya “Review: “Lies And Falsehoods” By Bernard Keane: Australian Coalition Government Lies”, Countercurrents, 10 March 2022: https://countercurrents.org/2022/03/review-lies-and-falsehoods-by-bernard-keane-australian-coalition-government-lies/ 

[82]. “Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide”: https://www.un.org/en/genocideprevention/documents/atrocity-crimes/Doc.1_Convention%20on%20the%20Prevention%20and%20Punishment%20of%20the%20Crime%20of%20Genocide.pdf 

Dr Gideon Polya taught science students at La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia over 4 decades. He published some 130 works in a 5 decade scientific career, notably a huge pharmacological reference text “Biochemical Targets of Plant Bioactive Compounds” (2003). He has also published “Body Count. Global avoidable mortality since 1950” (2007, 2021), “Jane Austen and the Black Hole of British History” (1998, 2008, 2022), “US-imposed Post-9-11 Muslim Holocaust & Muslim Genocide” (2020), “Climate Crisis, Climate Genocide & Solutions” (2020), “Free Palestine. End Apartheid Israel, Human Rights Denial, Gaza Massacre, Child Killing, Occupation and Palestinian Genocide” (2024), and contributed to Soren Korsgaard (editor) “The Most Dangerous Book Ever Published – Dangerous Deception Exposed!” (2020). For images of Gideon Polya’s huge paintings for the Planet, Peace, Mother and Child see: http://sites.google.com/site/artforpeaceplanetmotherchild/

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