UN Commissioner Chris Sidoti chats to Deepcut's Antoun Issa about Zomi Frankcom, why he thinks the Israeli ambassador to Australia should be sent home and whether human civilisation has progressed as the world enters the abyss.

Timestamps:

00:00 Introduction

(00:50) War impact on Israel

(09:32) Penny Wong and Zomi Frankcom

(15:39) Expel Israeli ambassador

(23:38) Australia's devotion to the US

(29:35) UN report on Palestinian children

(38:25) World is in the abyss

(41:19) Has human civilisation progressed?

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Louise Adler sits with Antoun Issa in a wide-ranging interview that covers the Holocaust, Zionism, the Royal Commission and her time as Edward Said's teaching assistant.

Timestamps:

00:00 Introduction

(01:12) Family heritage

(07:10) Holocaust legacy

(15:17) Jews and Communism

(22:10) Zionism and trauma

(32:20) Edward Said

(42:46) Royal Commission

(52:21) Jewish left revival?

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Tareq Baconi is a Palestinian-British scholar and author of a new memoir, Fire in Every Direction. He spoke with Antoun Issa at the Melbourne Writers Festival about the intersection between his queer and Palestinian identities, and why they're two sides of the same struggle.

Timestamps:

00:00 Introduction

(05:30) Queer v cultural identities

(12:23) Queerness: constraint or liberator?

(20:22) Women, queers at forefront of change

(25:48) Trauma of ethnic cleansing

(30:36) Indigenous connection to land

(37:58) Gaza

(41:23) Is Israel winning?

(46:46) Faith and endurance

(50:11) Audience questions

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