Shaken staff and an author exodus: how a picture book plunged an acclaimed Australian publisher into a crisis over antisemitism

Fifteen people were killed in the terrorist attack on 14 December, including a 10-year-old child.

Yes, and how many innocent Palestinians were slaughtered in the meantime, either directly from Israeli weapons or the ensuing, deliberately-engineered famine and withholding of basic medical resources?

Like, tens of thousands? Hundreds of thousands?

Yes, Hamas is Evil. But in the aftermath of Oct 7, the Israeli government went all “hold my beer any watch this”. And they have exceeded Hamas in spades.

Israel has become the very same fascist and genocidal monster that Jewish people fled from nearly a century ago.

It’s heartening to see so much high stakes solidarity happening even amongst the cowardice of institutions and politicians. Let’s all stubbornly stand up for humanity like these people.