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More context: > Pro-Palestinian advocates who shared the transcript from the WhatsApp group have defended the move as being in the public interest and rejected
by FooBarBizBazz 2y ago
More context:
> Pro-Palestinian advocates who shared the transcript from the WhatsApp group have defended the move as being in the public interest and rejected the suggestion it was doxxing. They argue personal details beyond names were largely redacted.
(From [1].)
The immediate question is: Ok, what information was in those transcripts? Presumably it was something that would have supported the Palestinian cause, or else the activists wouldn't have released it. So what was it?
Those "targeted" would not have reacted so strongly if the contents had not, in fact, made them look very bad.
So we can make a decent guess about what the transcripts contained. To be specific, we can infer that the chat probably contained a lot of dehumanizing rhetoric about Palestinians coming from powerful Australians.
In fact, after looking around a little more, this appears to be part of a larger back-and-forth. It looks like there was a campaign, by a group of lawyers, to get fired a number of prominent people who had expressed pro-Palestinian views (to make an example of them, we must assume), e.g., Antoinette Lattouf of the ABC (she was indeed fired). If I'm understanding correctly, this document release came from the pro-Palestinian side, to show the workings of this group.
Some other sources like Matt Chun appear to be firing broadsides from the pro-Palestinian direction [2]. His sub stack is a little too long on left-cant and a little short on content, but there is some information there.
I am left unsure as to what exactly is going on between these various factions in Australia, but this gives some idea.
[1] https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-02-13/federal-government-to-criminalise-doxxing/103458052 https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-02-13/federal-government-to...
[2] https://mattchun.substack.com/archive https://mattchun.substack.com/archive
- globalnode 2y agoI have not read your links, but I can only assume from watching events unfold elsewhere that what is happening in Australia is a subset of the global situation.