PROUD BOY Ben Shand "Dusty Bogan" attended the @AustralianLabor "True Believers dinner" in Brisbane for an audience with @AlboMP last night. He's an antisemite and an Islamophobe. He's not even a voter. How'd he get an invite?
Here's Ben Shand replying to a neo-Nazi with an antisemitic conspiracy theory about Jews smelling like sulphur, after interviewing Christian Zionist Mark Leach, a friend of Israel. Shand recently attended a "Never Again Is Now" rally organised by Leach.
Ben Shand referred to the attendees of this rally, Jewish and Christian Zionists, in a video titled "Circumcised Boomer Brain" published on Gavin McIness' Censored TV platform.
He has recently referred to multiculturalism as "demonic" and interviewed Avi Yemini about banning Muslims. In his spare time, he's attending "highland games" events in the park with his local neo-Nazis.
Ben Shand frequently flirts with white supremacist and virulent antisemite Elijah Schaffer. Schaffer enjoys a close friendship with neo-Nazi Joel Davis and also has a show on Gavin McInnes' Censored TV, the same platform as Shand.
In the same week as horrifically Islamophobic and racist rhetoric from the Labor Party nationally, @StevenJMiles and @AlboMP need to explain how a fascist member of a violent extremist group got an invite to this "True Believers" dinner.
Shand has previously campaigned for One Nation (despite never voting) and once got MP Bob Katter to recite the Proud Boys pledge at an event. theguardian.com/australia-news…
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✍️THREAD: We worked with @jason_a_w to expose the man behind the Shirion Collective as Daniel Linden, variously of Florida and Colombia. theguardian.com/world/article/…
Shout out to @BriacLao, who archived several of Linden's opsec errors before he could delete them and brought the ID to us. It was a pleasure to collaborate with them and help get their work published.
@ShirionOrg's big claim to fame is that it had created an "AI" that would identify people and interfere in their lives. This AI is a complete fantasy. Linden often used technobabble when describing it to give it a veneer of realism.
This is an event to sell stolen land in Palestine. These events are held at synagogues deliberately to frame any protest as an antisemitic provocation. Violent Zionists at the event threatened to rape and behead our comrade, journalist @Katerqburns.
You can read Kate Burns' thread for Left Coast Right Watch on the event and counter-protest here:
Drew Pavlou never fact-checks; he posts whatever daily narrative he's given to fill his quota.
"Attorney-General Dreyfus signalled new anti-doxxing laws will be aimed at criminalising the disclosure of a broad range of personal information for malicious intent...activists and others could face jail for leaking private details without consent." theage.com.au/politics/feder…
The law "using a carriage service to menace, harass, or cause offence" is already incredibly broad, they just aren't used! Victims of doxxing who don't have money or power go to the police and nothing is done, even when the perpetrator is known.
Let's not forget about ACT Police "accidentally" providing Brittany Higgins's phone data to Bruce Lehrmann's lawyers. Her texts were then leaked to the media and published. smh.com.au/politics/feder…
In January we worked with Mike Hohnen, @BenHillier16 and antifascists around Australia to cancel the tour of fascist and Nazi Black Metal bands Taake and Akhlys. theguardian.com/music/2023/jan…
We contributed some research and writing to this excellent article by @BenHillier16 in Blunt Magazine on the Taake and Akhlys tour and the importance of denying the stage to bands like this in the metal scene. bluntmag.com.au/music/why-are-…
This is well worth watching — MyPlace are a sinister sovereign citizen group threatening local councils. Their leader, Darren Bergwerf is a Holocaust denier.
Tweets last night calling this “platforming” were wrong. Twitter doesn’t always need you to post a take in real time. Watch and reflect. ABC audience is exactly who needs to know about groups like this, and it was carefully done. Holocaust denial was confronted, not amplified.
Inevitably there will be an incident involving violence or weapons linked to MyPlace, as we’ve seen with other sovereign citizen groups over the last few years. Better to start educating and warning now as they grow in size.
Happy April Fool's Day to National Socialist Network, except we're not joking around. Today we bring you four more of their members, unmasked. news.com.au/national/victo…
Ethan Hendren was spotted at the Posie Parker rally with his swastika and Mjölnir necklaces on display. He was also photographed posing outside Legacy Boxing Gym a few weeks before, with his paper plate shield.
"His social media accounts are littered with far-right ideologies, including anti-Semitic conspiracy theories, and he recently posted about the possibility of going to Ukraine to fight alongside fellow NSN member Daniel Newman."