Initial thoughts on the Palestine exception at work 2023-2026
The upcoming Sydney Staff for Palestine forum on repression of speech on campus (you should attend! more information here ) has got me thinking about such issues. While it's not something that I have written about before, repression of speech at work has long interested me. For my PhD I studied performance management meetings at university in the 2010s, a period where there was much debate over the nature of free speech on campus. I've also suffered repression firsthand; I can't talk about it directly due to a confidentiality clause, but suffice it to say that I would characterise this action as repression of forms of speech in the context of an industrial campaign. When I started to become more involved in pro-Palestine activism after Al-Aqsa Flood, the level of repression of speech on campus seemed to hit a new high for me. We had Zionist staff videoing us at rallies, and Zionist students ripping down posters and telling me to 'kill myself' while flyering for pro...