How Randa Abdel-Fattah Destroyed the Adelaide Writers’ Week @DailyInsightAU
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Uploaded January 2026 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
Meet Dr. Randa Abdel-Fattah. She’s an Australian sociologist, lawyer, academic, and writer. With an Egyptian mother and a Palestinian father who migrated here for educational and economic opportunities, she is—naturally—an advocate for the Palestinian people and “human rights” in general.

As with many university academics these days, much of her work focuses on identity politics—which, of course, equates to “white settler colonial history: bad,” and “indigenous peoples, people of colour, and other minorities: eternal victims!”

Can you guess what the topic of her PhD was? “Islamophobia and Everyday Multiculturalism in Australia.” Of course it was. It essentially argues that Muslims in Australia are the perpetual victims of racist Anglo-Australians.

In it, she argues that Australia has a history of “racial exclusion,” that “whiteness socialises, habituates and teaches racialising behavior,” and that white Australia is littered with “social practices of Islamophobia.”

You’ve got to wonder why her family bothered to move to such an exclusive, racist hellhole in the first place. Oh, that’s right: because this hellhole is a lot better than most other hellholes—but let’s not let facts get in the way of a lucrative career in grievance studies.

This is her staff profile at Macquarie University, one of Australia’s most prestigious institutions. In case you haven’t already figured it out, her research interests include Islamophobia, Critical Race Theory, Palestine/Israel, and Race and Ethnic relations, specialising in racism and Islamophobia. Because, you know, identity is everything if you view the world through a prism of permanent victimhood. It’s a hard life being a highly-paid academic in ‘oppressive’ Australia.

She clearly doesn’t like Israel. On her social media, she regularly posts things like this from August 2025: “Historic day today on Gadigal land”—the traditional Aboriginal name for the Sydney area—“We march for Gaza, for freedom, justice and liberation for Palestine from the river to the sea!”

Most people understand that phrase as a genocidal call to eliminate the state of Israel. And if you think that’s not what she means, back in October 2024, she tweeted: “The goal is decolonisation and the end of this murderous Zionist colony.”

In the post, she argued that the Zionist state must be “dismantled,” that it “never had a right to exist,” that it is a “violent squatter,” and a “stain on humanity.”

Pleasant words coming from an Australian academic who is potentially teaching your children. But remember: “Racism is Bad, M’Kay?”—all while she calls for the destruction of an entire country. So much for ‘social cohesion’.

A day after the October 7 attacks in Israel in 2023, where more than 1,200 people were killed and hundreds kidnapped, she updated her cover photo to that of a Hamas paraglider. She tweeted: “All the Zionists staying up tonight hammering out op-eds at their keyboards. Brace yourselves for the coloniser cries victim op-eds.”

Nothing says “academic nuance” quite like mocking the victims of a massacre while the bodies are still being counted.

On the one-year anniversary of that massacre, she tweeted: “If you are a Zionist, you have no claim or right to cultural safety. And it is my duty as somebody who fights all forms of oppression and violence to deny you a safe space…” How inclusive.

But don’t let all those hate-filled words from a highly-paid academic fool you. She’s actually the victim. In February 2025, The Guardian reported: “Australian Research Council suspends $870,000 grant to pro-Palestine academic Randa Abdel-Fattah.”

Naturally, she reached for the victimhood card, citing—you guessed it—racism: “The virulent anti-Palestinian racism and Islamophobia I am being subjected to… is about the integrity of our higher education system, and the right of academics to work free from censorship, political interference and repression.”

However, ten months later, The Guardian reported: “Pro-Palestine academic Randa Abdel-Fattah cleared of wrongdoing after investigation into research grant.” So it turns out that ‘structural racism’ wasn’t quite strong enough to stop the direct deposit of her salary.

But now, in yet another example of her eternal victim status—and another “vicious attempt” at silencing her—the ABC reported: “Authors withdraw from Adelaide Writers’ Week after Randa Abdel-Fattah axed for ‘cultural sensitivity’.”

The writing was on the wall, and the ABC reported the final blow: “Adelaide Writers’ Week cancelled after week of escalating controversy.”

So, it turns out that a “victimised” academic who happily spews hate-filled diatribes online is actually so well-respected in the Australian writing community that the entire event had to be burned to the ground in her honour.

Clearly, in this country, hatred and exclusion are strictly forbidden… unless, of course, you’re a highly-paid victim. Then, you can say whatever the hell you want.

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