Published: 9 September 2024
Last updated: 1 October 2024
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Bonus content
Listen to the full Tensions Transplanted interviews with:
- Mark Spiro, who was arrested for carrying an Israeli flag outside the Sydney Opera House
- Lebanese Sydneysider Joe
- Renowned wordsmith Kel Richards
- Lebanese Australian Hala Abdelnour
- Sam Cairnduff, cultural management specialist
- Zionist Federation of Australia president Jeremy Leibler
- The Green Institute executive director Tim Hollo
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Deborah Stone30 September at 08:06 am
Sarah refused permission for her interview to be aired because she objected to our interviewing another person. Nothing in that interview concerned the issues mentioned in Sarah’s comment. We stand by our decision to listen to a diverse range of voices on this important podcast.
Sarah Schwartz29 September at 05:06 am
In this podcast, the host, Rob Kaldor, makes the misleading comment that I didn’t give permission for an interview to be aired, but doesn’t say why.
It’s not because I don’t want to engage, I do, and did an interview despite Rob’s line of attack (which he didn’t apply to other subjects). But I had to withdraw because the podcast uncritically platformed someone who has been engaging in an unhinged online campaign of racially motivated abuse, harassment and targeting of me as an individual. This includes dozens of posts referring to my family, childhood, and making violent memes of me being attacked and on a train to concentration camps. The podcast calls this person a “strong woman” and promotes her social media.
To me, platforming this behaviour is antithetical to respectful debate and amounts to promoting an account actively making me unsafe, which, as I said, is where I draw the line.
It’s pretty worrying to me that this type of online behaviour is being normalised even within so-called progressive parts of the Jewish community.
Tienne Simons11 September at 06:17 am
What a great idea Rob, I look forward to listening.