Senior Lecturer in Education. Researching children and young people's participation, citizenship, ‘diversity’, rights and wellbeing. Bluesky: catjhart
Melbourne, Victoria
Joined March 2009
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I resigned from Anthropic today. I spent the last three years doing pretraining research at both OpenAI and Anthropic. Neither company is acting responsibly. They are racing straight to self-improving superintelligence and gambling with our lives. More thoughts below.
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"The hardest decision we had to make in completing this report was.. not to name the Palestinian children, whose deaths, injuries & suffering we describe.. we didn't name them because we feared the consequences for their families"
He means Israel would go after them too.
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“Open the road.”
Palestinian children protest at barbed wire erected by Israeli settlers in occupied West Bank village of Um al-Khair—calling for their basic right to access their school, move freely, & live without occupation.
Imagine your child facing this on the way to class
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The boy who saw seventy bullets pierce through his family in Tammun said: "I asked the soldier, 'Do you love your father and mother?' He replied, 'Yes.' I said to him, 'Then why are you killing my father and mother?' So he slapped me across the face."
Noor Abu Salma
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The children were 5 and 7 years old. They shot them in their car.
I don’t know who still needs to hear this, but murdering families for sport is not normal.
Israeli forces kill Palestinian couple and two of their children in occupied West Bank bbc.in/4bc4WwL
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Lets be clear....
If a primary school in Tel Aviv was bombed and 160 little girls were killed, the BBC, CNN and all other news broadcasters would be covering it wall to wall, 24/7 and we would know every one of their names.
Some children matter more than others apparently...
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Academics from @Deakin and @victoriauninews from pro-Israel lobby group "5A", using their uni emails, wrote to Latrobe uni & Bendigo Writers Festival in July to pressure cancelling me . Demanded "'measures" be taken. And so we have the reason why the Code was sent.
Note the ease with which 5A defames and smears me- and that this was indulged by Latrobe uni & Bendigo festival. The anti-Palestinian rot runs so deep.
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Ms Rachel in a new video: “Grownups of the world are supposed to protect children and some grownups are not doing that.”
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"The Israeli American aid operation has turned Gaza into a human abattoir, where starving civilians are herded like animals into fenced off pens and in the process are slaughtered like cattle. This is akin to some of the darkest periods of human history, where industrial death factories have been used against innocent women and children who were led like lambs to the slaughter". (Chris Gunness) mediaview.aljazeera.com/vide…
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Sarajevo Gaza Tribunal
Public Assembly Day 1 – Highlights
The Gaza Tribunal, a civil society-led “people’s tribunal,” opened its first public session in Sarajevo on May 26, 2025. It seeks to document Israeli war crimes in Gaza and address the failures of international institutions to deliver justice.
The event began with remarks from Richard Falk, former UN Special Rapporteur and professor emeritus of international law at Princeton.
Falk said:
“It has become obvious that the UN lacks the capacity to override the genocidal support provided by the United States. The @gazatribunal draws on the legacy of the Russell Tribunal and the Iraq War Tribunal.”
NEW: Gaza Tribunal to Hold First Public Hearings in Sarajevo
The Gaza Tribunal, an independent effort to investigate Israeli war crimes in Gaza, will open its first public session in Sarajevo on Monday, May 26. The four-day event will feature legal scholars and civil society figures, including Dr. @SamiAlArian, Dr. Ilan Pappé, Drs. Saree and @UssamaMakdisi, Dr. Mimi Syed (@Memers1st), and Dr. Thaer Ahmed.
➤ Led by former UN special rapporteur on the occupied Palestinian territories Richard Falk, the tribunal aims to confront the international community’s failure to uphold the law, and center Palestinian voices.
➤ It will examine charges including genocide, apartheid, and forced population transfer. Topics include settler-colonial frameworks, displacement, and UN system failures, with a special session titled From Srebrenica to Gaza.
➤ The Sarajevo Declaration, a collective statement shaped by participants, will be issued on May 29 to summarize the tribunal’s conclusions and demands. Final proceedings will take place in Istanbul in October, where a Jury of Conscience will present its findings.
All sessions will be livestreamed on YouTube. Stay tuned to Drop Site’s feed as we follow and share more from the hearings throughout the week.
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Dr Tom Potokar in Gaza after a day operating on what he calls ‘small, emaciated bodies’ - child victims of Israeli bombings - urges politicians to ‘use their power and bring an end to this’ and ‘stop being complicit in this ongoing slaughter and starvation’
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One of the doctors once explained that the reason the most killed are between 6-12 year olds is because they run less fast than the older kids but they’re also too big for an adult to carry while running.
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Columbia students nearly booed President Claire Shipman off stage, chanting “Free Mahmoud Khalil” over her hollow speech about “shaping these interesting times.” Khalil has been held by ICE for 10 weeks without charges.
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Dear Teachers, Principals, and School Leaders,
I am offering a FREE 1-hour Zoom session to any school in Australia, providing an introductory lesson on Palestine. I cover its history (including pre 1948), and our ongoing struggle for liberation and justice. My class is designed as a primer to help students and educators gain a foundational understanding of Palestine. My class is relevant to humanities subjects or can be run as a general incursion across year levels.
Since 2005, I’ve spoken at schools across Australia and internationally. I bring to this session my experience as a Palestinian, a former lawyer, an author and academic, drawing on my professional expertise and lived experience.
Please DM me if your school is interested in participating.
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NYU withholds diploma of graduate who condemned Gaza war bbc.in/3Fca0E0
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Israel is raining hell on Gaza right now!Families are being bombed relentlessly while starving. Children are dying in the dark—no food, no water, no way out. Non-stop massacres unfolding in real time.
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New on ifp.nyu.edu | Child public health indicators for fragile, conflict-affected, and vulnerable settings: A scoping review | bit.ly/4ipkkGc
