Remember how former Australian of the Year Grace Tame lead chants of “globalise the intifada” at a protest just over a month after the Bondi massacre?
She is now whining that speaking engagements have dried up, and is blaming it on you-know-who:
Former Australian of the Year Grace Tame says she has no further speaking engagements this year due to a “smear campaign” against her.
Ms Tame, speaking at the No to Violence national conference in Hobart this morning, told the audience: “This is my last presentation of the year and it’s only March.”
She started her speech by stressing she does not support violence or antisemitism.
She also said she did not support Islamophobia or hatred of any kind.
Ms Tame said she was “up against a well-oiled political machine”.
In a post on Instagram last week, Ms Tame said she had “lost three speaking engagements on the theme of child safety due to an ongoing media smear campaign”.
Last month, the Australian Jewish Association attempted to have her appearance at an International Women’s Day event in Bendigo cancelled.
The organiser, Be.Bendigo, did not cancel her appearance and stated it was “committed to hosting respectful, constructive conversations”.
Talk about not taking accountability. Grace Tame FA’d and now she is undergoing the FO part of the process. She needs to understand that what she chanted was vile, and her conduct since then – doubling down and no apology – has not helped her cause either.
Grace Tame hasn’t been silenced; she’s just finally being heard for exactly who she is.
Yet this ABC report actually goes out of its way to almost give her the benefit of the doubt:
The word “intifada” means “shaking off” in Arabic and has been used to refer to two periods of violent Palestinian protest against Israel.
The phrase has different associations and meanings for different groups.
Some members of the Jewish community have described it as a hateful call for violence that implies support for terrorism, but for many Palestinians, it means continuing the struggle for Palestinian self-determination.
Claiming “intifada” ever means peaceful “shaking off” is like claiming “jihad” means a spiritual struggle. Not that it matters. To chant this right after the Bondi massacre especially was inexcusable.
Yet despite the report almost sanitizing her behavior, Grace Tame is still unhappy with it:
Talk about not helping your cause.
Meanwhile, the report also mentions this:
During her appearance at the conference in Hobart this morning, Ms Tame — who was sexually abused by school teacher Nicolaas Bester when she was 15 — discussed the rapid increase in AI-generated child exploitation material.
I am assuming her presentation did not include these examples of AI-generated child exploitation material:
It is the height of irony for Grace Tame to position herself as a crusader against AI-generated child exploitation while the movement she champions uses AI to manufacture “child victims” for political leverage.
