An incredible few days with the Australian Olympic Committee’s Athletes Unleashed Program 🌟

This trip was spent with swimming 🏊‍♀️ sensation Mack Horton, Olympic 🥇 and World 🌍 Champion. Together we travelled to the very remote community of Doomadgee in far northwest Queensland. A huge thank you to the RAAF, their ongoing partnership with the AOC continues to open doors to communities that are so often forgotten ✈️🤝

This was part of EXERCISE Christmas 🤶🏽🎅🏽🎄 Hop, a Royal Australian Air Force 🛩️ initiative delivered alongside the AOC, supported by the RAAF C-27J Spartan and C-130J Hercules aircraft.

It was also wonderful spending time with the Athletes Unleashed Indigenous coaches who are part of this powerful program. This initiative not only brings together former Olympians, but also current Olympians and aspiring coaches building a strong pipeline of leadership, excellence, and opportunity 🖤💛❤️

One of the most meaningful moments for me on this trip was reconnecting with my former students and their families. These young women I taught and mentored 12–13 years ago in my academy met me in Doomadgee. I hadn’t seen them in over a decade, and they have grown into exceptional leaders in their community and, just as importantly, beautiful, loving 🥰 mothers 🌺

There is no greater honour than witnessing the next generation you once guided go on to shine in their own right. It was emotional and certainly humbled me deeply.

On my final day in Townsville, Mack, Myself and Olympian Hurdler Kyle Vander-Kuyp spoke to students 👨🏽‍🎓👩🏾‍🎓🧑‍🎓at a local high school, it was another opportunity to inspire the next generation of Australians with perhaps instilling their Olympic dreams, or those with coaching aspirations, and we shared our stories with those who have the determination to make their own mark. 🇦🇺✨

Thank you to the Australian Olympic Committee for yet another unforgettable journey. ✈️🥇🎄👣🦘🎅🏽🤶🏽

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Wow. Wow, when Guy Pearce says, “I’ve never been so disgusted by a group of people in my life as I am by Israelis,” that IS collective hatred, not political commentary. 🛑✡️

There is nothing normal about hating a whole country. Antizionism is a racist hate movement.

No other group on earth could be spoken about like this without immediate outrage. 🚨

If someone said:
• “I’m disgusted by all Italians,” 🇮🇹
• “I’m disgusted by all Chinese,” 🇨🇳
• “I’m disgusted by all Māori,” 🇳🇿
• “I’m disgusted by all Aboriginal people,” 🖤💛❤️

…it would be universally condemned.

But when it comes to the Jewish State, too many people stay silent or perform mental gymnastics to rationalise this sort of indiscriminate hatred as “legitimate criticism” of government policy. It is a complete double standard. It is racism masquerading as social justice activism.

The reality is;

✔️ Some Westerners are intimidated by Jewish resilience 🌳✡️
✔️ Some resent Jewish success 🎓💼
✔️ Some romanticise victimhood and despise Israelis for refusing to stay victims 🚫😭➡️💪

As Alex Ryvchin said ➡️
“Responding to individual actions with disgust for an entire nation” is the same poisonous logic used against Jews for over 2,000 years. 🕯️📜

And that is why this rhetoric is dangerous, familiar, and frightening. ⚡️😔

Maybe Guy Pearce is still wrestling with the inner battles he has publicly spoken about 🤷🏾‍♀️ reality is when people haven’t found peace within, they react strongly to those who have survived, rebuilt and endured, and, those who can forgive 🤔✌🏾

There is truth in the saying: hurt people hurt people. 💔➡️💔 But when that hurt turns into hostility toward the Jewish people history’s most persecuted minority it becomes something much darker. 🌑🕯️

This is not compassion. Not justice. It is projection, hypocrisy, and bigotry dressed up as concern. 🎭⚠️

And I will continue to call it out. ✊🏾🔥✡️

Am Yisrael Chai 🇮🇱

Long live the Israeli people in their homeland 💙🤍🕎

#novaperis #dreamwalker #amyisraelchai #endjewhatred #truthprevails ...