Thread by @MaryKostakidis

In an effort to silence me the Zionist Federation have filed a complaint with the HRC for racial vilification, aided by a reporter who can’t do his own research.

Having first used the discredited Anti-Defamation League (they should be called the Anti-Free-Speech-for-anyone-we-do-not-agree-with-League), and the CEO of a company that trains IDF soldiers to become propagandists - to improve Israel’s image to the world (because the country is an apartheid state having stolen land, ‘mowed the lawn’ with gratuitous killing of Palestinians for decades, tortured detainees held often without charge, herded a couple of million people into a ghetto/open air prison, then launched a genocide), to attempt to frame me as a rape and Holocaust denier.
This because I have been sharing the reports of extremely highly regarded independent journalists who have written about the absence of credible evidence the claims of ‘systemic, widespread rape’ by Hamas on Oct 7. The Beheaded Babies, the 40 burnt babies, the genital mutilations, the systemic rape were all unsubstantiated or proven false. The Israelis claim the have footage and photos but the latest U.N. investigation made no finding of rape.
To be clear, I have never said there was No Rape. It is something I could never say - it would be a nonsense for anyone to make such a definitive statement.
Yet the double page story by Chip Le Grand makes no reference to a)my series of tweets about rape over a period of months that make clear I’m referring to systemic rape. The offending tweet is one where I put it would be counter to their mission to spend time on rape because they would jeopardise their mission which was to grab hostages and try to stay alive for long enough to escape. They would have to be pretty dumb to risk it. As it turns out, as I proffered, the latest U.N. investigation found no evidence that would allow them to conclude there had been rape. But Chip Le Grand reports none of this.
His story also took umbrage at my comment that we can’t know how many Israel deaths were caused by the IDF on Oct 7. Many independent commentators are now saying precisely that, including Gideon Levy. Even Piers Morgan can’t accept the Israelis know for a fact that a considerable number of Israelis were not killed on that day, because of the Hannibal Directive. And the. There is the indiscriminate nature of the shelling. There was more than ‘a kernel of truth’. ‘No car should make it back to Gaza’ means all the hostages being killed for a start.
At the risk of boring you, we now move on to The Sequel. 1/

Today I received another email from Chip, who is very well informed about what the Zionist lobby gets up to on a Sunday.

Good morning Mary.

Zionist Federation of Australia chief executive Alon Cassuto is today lodging a complaint against you with the Australian Human Rights Commission under Section 18C of the Racial Discrimination Act.

The complaint relates to your Twitter post from 4 January, when you reposted a link to a speech by Hezbollah secretary general Hassan Nasrallah, in which he told Jewish people living in Israel and the occupied territories:

"Here, it is going to be very difficult for you. If you want to be secure, if you want to feel secure, you have an American passport, go back to the United States. You have a British passport, go back to the UK. Here you don't have a future, from the river to the sea the land of Palestine is for the Palestinian people and the Palestinian people only.''

You prefaced the link to the speech with the comment: "The Israeli govt getting some of its own medicine. Israel has started something it can't finish with this genocide.''

Cassuto says that Nasrallah's speech calls for the ethnic cleansing of Jews from Israel and the occupied territories and alleges that, by sharing a link to it with your 30,000-odd Twitter followers, you disseminated hate speech against Israelis and Jewish people.

The ZFA says that through this and more than 100 other Twitter posts since October 7, you have misused your standing and profile as a highly respected former newsreader and face of our multicultural broadcaster, to share extreme propaganda and hateful material.

Could I please ask you:

Why did you share Nasrallah's speech?

Do you agree that material you have shared on Twitter since October 7 vilifies Israelis and Jewish people?

Is there any other comment you would like to make?

Thanks Mary. The ZFA announced earlier today they are holding a 2pm press conference to discuss this matter. I will publish a first take story at 2pm and would like to include your response.

Otherwise, I can update the story anytime before 5pm to include your comments.

I'll also give you a call.

Best regards,

Chip.
 
Chip Le Grand
Chief reporter 
 
2/ .. see my reply

As I was out with my grandchildren, I had not replied, so he called me and I responded but decided to put it in writing when I was free to do so:

‘As I said on the phone I believe it is important to know what both sides are saying in a conflict.

With regards to Israel inviting escalation by launching a genocide, I responded similarly when Israel retaliated against Hamas.

You might equally say if you were being briefed by Palestinians instead of Zionists Chip, was I intimating that Hamas or the Palestinian people deserved what they got in response.
The point is when one side acts in an extreme way, it invites retaliation. Sadly that is the case. (Cont.)

With respect to sharing the statement made by Nasrallah where I’m accused of spreading hate speech. I can’t believe a reporter would ask a journalist why I’m sharing the statement of the leader of one of the factions in a conflict that may escalate into a broader regional war and involve Iran. I have to say I find the question moronic, however, I put it far more politely:

‘I just found the tweet you refer to. 

The statements he is making are identical to statements made by the Israeli leadership and members of the Knesset: Israel for Jews only, Israel from the River to the Sea - the latter phrase is in a founding document of the state of Israel, and in the map used by Netanyahu.

Do you get all your information solely via the Zionist lobby Chip, or do you do any of your own research’.
Now, I’m told he has published a story already.
I’ll check it out and post some shots - save the clicks to their story.

Here are a few excerpts

That’s the gist of it though it goes on.
This attack on free speech is happening throughout western democracies. We are being marched into totalitarianism so that the narrative of one nation only is heard, not its victims, and not the leadership of other groups involved in escalating the conflict into a wider war.
What they hate is I post many stories in independent media, many written by Jewish people. I have NEVER incited hatred against the Jewish people. The State of Israel and its leaders are before the ICJ and the ICC. Where are the stories in the Age and SMH about the ICJ hearings? The ICJ interim orders?? I knew the first story was a warm up. Setting the scene. I could have mapped it out myself.
Let’s collude with the Zionist lobby to silence journalists instead. They are a disgrace.

So here is Chip Le Grand again, insisting I’m promoting hate speech. He is correct, it is newsworthy now. He helped roll out the carpet for the Zionist lobby with his setting of the scene in last week’s story.

And here is my response