I just quit Labour after 24 years.
We deserve better than the race to the bottom between Labour and the Tories.
Labour want you to think there's no alternative. But there is.
Join it:
Theresa May didn't publicly break down over Windrush, or Grenfell, or disabled people having their benefits cut, or children driven into poverty.
In the end, she only publicly shed a tear over her own career.
In Gaza, Israel has destroyed
- churches dating back to the 5th century, mosques to the early 7th century
- every university
- museums
- cemeteries
- an ancient harbour
- libraries
- archives
And people are crying over a painting of the arch-racist Arthur Balfour.
Imagine Hamas stormed a hospital disguised as doctors, nurses, patients and civilian women, and executed three Israelis.
It would be front page news.
It would be offered up as evidence of their outrageous evil.
I doubt many media outlets will even cover this.
A dozen Israeli soldiers just stormed a hospital, disguised as doctors, nurses, patients, & veiled women & executed 3 Palestinians in Jenin - the West Bank.
The IDF has entire units whose specialty is to fight in urban spaces dressed as civilians, like the “Duvdevan unit 217”.
The Director of the UN's New York office just resigned after thirty years at the organisation over the UN's handling of the ongoing genocide of Palestinians.
The entirety of his resignation letter is a necessary read but this first page blew me away.
“Found dead”.
When a Ukrainian baby was killed by a Russian strike, the BBC had no trouble attributing blame in its headline.
These aren’t even subtle double standards.
This mother kept trying to conceive a baby for eight years then after four months of the baby being born, Israel deprived her from her source of happiness, her baby boy Yasser.
One of million untold stories !!
#Gaza_Genocide
At the dawn of Shabbat, last Saturday, the whole world woke up in horror.
The terrorist attack by Hamas is an act of war. And we fully support Israel’s right to defend itself.
Europe stands with Israel in this tragedy.
My God.
You spend weeks researching Israeli crimes in detail, and yet still, South Africa's case at the ICJ shocks beyond words.
Those who cheered on this historic crime should be forced to watch it.
How they will ever scrub away the shame is beyond me.
Israel killed his wife, daughter, a son and grandson.
The next day Wael returned to work.
Israel killed his colleague and injured him.
The next day Wael returned to work.
Israel killed his other son.
The next day Wael returned to work.
One of the great men of our time.
Four major Western news outlets covering the story of Hind Rajab, *none* of them use the word “killed” or “Israel.”
This is not an accident, it’s a systematic effort to whitewash the crimes of Israel. And it’s complicity in those crimes.
This is wild.
Israel's official Twitter account has posted a picture of aid for Ukrainian refugees in Moldova in 2022, and pretended it's aid from Israel for Gaza.
The official state of Israel account has posted this video, saying it is facilitating aid into Gaza.
A short clip at the end of the video, claiming to show tents and shelter equipment for Gazans, was actually filmed in March 2022, showing tents in Moldova for Ukrainian refugees.
🚨Painful‼️
After 9 days of staying under the rubble of their house targeted by the israeli forces, civil defense crews are able to save a CHLID alive in Al-Zaytoun neighborhood
#Gaza
city!
9 days of hunger, thirst and fear, as the video shows, the child's body, is a skeleton ‼️
Dominic Cummings doing a televised press conference is completely ridiculous - advisors are never supposed to be the story, let alone address the nation - and confirms that he is essentially co-Prime Minister
Gaza is a 'textbook genocide'.
This is according to Raz Segal - an Israeli associate professor of Holocaust and genocide studies at Stockton University in the US.
Listen carefully to what he says.
It's based on facts, law and precedent - and it should terrify you.
Four Palestinians were shot dead by Israeli settlers on Wednesday.
At their funeral, Israeli settlers shot dead two mourners - a father and a son.
This should be called what it is - terrorism.
It won't be, because the perpetrators aren't Palestinian.
BREAKING: The Palestinian health ministry says that Israeli settlers have killed two Palestinians in the West Bank.
They were reportedly shot whilst attending the funeral of four Palestinians who were killed by armed settlers on Wednesday.
📺 Sky 501
Why should we 'respect' Donald Trump, a man who wants to grab women by their genitals and ban Muslims from the United States, separates kids from their parents, and wages war on the earth's endangered climate?
I’m so, so sorry guys. Just utterly devastating. Brexit just smashed us. Keeping together an electoral coalition of Remainers and Leavers as the country bitterly divided just became impossible.
Dressing up as medical staff to kill injured and unarmed suspects in a hospital - with no judicial process - isn’t just a war crime.
It’s several war crimes.
Declaring “well Hamas would have done even worse war crimes!!” doesn’t save you from the charge of moral depravity.
If Hamas stormed hospitals they would kill everyone indiscriminately. When the IDF stormed a hospital they went to a specific room to kill three particularly bad guys. Thank you for the opportunity to draw a comparison.
I've read South Africa's case alleging genocide against Israel.
It is one of the most shocking things I've ever read.
It feels like you're reading a gruesome historical document about how a genocide was allowed to happen, then you realise this is now.
🚨Twitter deleted the post, so reposting to expose Israeli army crimes!
Last video of kids martyrs of Husouna family massacre
They fled from Gaza to Rafah in search of safety, escaping shelling
Israeli army killed them inside their tent along with all family members last night !
When nearly a thousand people were dying a day in Italy, our media rightly portrayed it as a horror show, a national catastrophe. 938 people are reported dead in Britain in a 24 hour period, and most of media are telling us the good news that the government's strategy is working.
Julia Hartley-Brewer deleted her tweet in which she spat out “autistic” as an insult, but the internet never forgets.
Just like Tate, it must really rile Hartley-Brewer that this 19 year old autistic woman has achieved so much, and isn’t just some vile right wing shock jock.
Don’t look away: this is happening in your name.
If this was the consequence of a Russian bomb in Ukraine, there would rightly be fury and fiery denunciations.
But these are Palestinians, victims of a Western ally, so there will barely be a murmur.
Boris Johnson described gay people as "bumboys", compared equal marriage to three men marrying a dog, discussed beating up a journalist with a criminal, called black people "piccaninnies" with "watermelon smiles", and was sacked twice for dishonesty.
Where is the scrutiny?
Oh. My. God. Jeremy Corbyn is holding a press conference revealing 400 pages of unredacted documents exposing the NHS is on the table in US trade talks
The Sun is a disgusting rag and they have to pay for what they’ve done to Huw Edwards.
They tried to destroy someone’s life with false claims of illegality involving a minor.
We know now there was no criminality, and The Sun have driven a vulnerable man into medical care.
In every single interview I do with the international media they ask me about the picture I can’t forget
This is the picture I will never forget how my heart beats went from zero to hundred in less than a second
I couldn’t even put my eye through the viewfinder of my camera, I…
You are witnessing one of the great crimes of our age, like the ones you've read in history books.
Those responsible for this crime are not even trying to hide it.
If you are silent, you cannot later claim ignorance.
You knew what was happening, and you chose to ignore it.
PS. The zip-tie means he was first detained by the IDF (& likely tortured) before they crushed him
He was driven over from his legs up, meaning he may have been alive & feeling his body being crushed inch by inch
1000s of Israelis are celebrating & rejoicing this pure savagery!
The Israeli state deliberately incited a war with Iran because
- its onslaught against Gaza is failing on its own terms
- global public opinion has swung decisively against Israel
- the Biden administration is under pressure
- Netanyahu faces jail when war ends
Gleefully posing on the bicycles of little kids who are likely to have had their homes bombed, who will certainly be traumatised, who may be maimed, who may be slaughtered.
It’s depraved behaviour, and it screams “We can get away with anything”
953 deaths have been reported in the last 24 hours, the highest, grimmest total yet: the highest single day toll in Spain was 950, in Italy, 919. This is absolutely horrific, a national catastrophe, and yet most of the media still isn't asking the government tough questions. Why?
There is "no evidence" in Israel's dossier for UNRWA staff being involved in 7th October attacks.
That's according to Channel 4 News, who have seen the dossier.
So Western governments ended their funding during a humanitarian catastrophe without even any evidence.
🚨Israeli soldiers using UN classrooms & civilian homes to hide & shoot at Palestinians in Gaza (precisely what they always accuse Hamas of doing).
This clip was documented & posted by the IDF itself b/c they know there'd be ZERO consequences no matter what they do!
If you are a middle-class professional who has a cleaner, you should be paying them their wages as normal and letting them stay at home. If you ask them to come and clean your home, you are a monumentally selfish person and that's really all there is to it.
There you have it.
Israel's president Isaac Herzog makes the Israeli state's official position abundantly clear: that the Palestinian civilian population have collective guilt.
This is the mentality which, throughout history, leads to genocide.
There is now overwhelming evidence of rape and sexual assault of Palestinians by Israeli forces in Gaza, and of sexual abuse of Palestinian kids in the West Bank.
Notice the deafening silence on this.
Why?
Because they don’t see Palestinian women and kids as humans.
The bile thrown at Greta Thunberg is motivated by one thing alone: this incredibly intelligent, eloquent and compassionate 16 year old has terrified some of the most hateful and reactionary so-called "grown ups" on earth. She's achieved more aged 16 than they ever will.
When haters go after your looks and differences, it means they have nowhere left to go. And then you know you’re winning!
I have Aspergers and that means I’m sometimes a bit different from the norm. And - given the right circumstances- being different is a superpower.
#aspiepower
Thought experiment: imagine Labour was in government, Jeremy Corbyn was Prime Minister, and Britain had just suffered the worst 24 hour death toll of any European nation. Do we think the British media would be responding the same as now? And answer truthfully to yourself.
Here’s a little statement from me.
I’m taking legal advice about potential legal action against a number of people.
I won’t be responding to individual statements for legal reasons.
There was a time when I would never have imagined taking such a step.
It’s my view that…
The fact the BBC 10 O'Clock News reports Angela Rayner saying a rude word about a Tory MP, but not Conservative MPs voting to drive hundreds of thousands of children into hunger, says everything you need to know about our broken media.
I was asked why I cared about the slaughter of Gaza when I'm neither Palestinian nor Jewish.
I answered "because I'm a human being".
Eve Barlow claims that is "Jew hatred".
What do you even say at this point?
Owen Jones smirking at Hen Mazzig and saying "because I'm a human being" is a real marker of what Jew hatred looks like, in its classic form. Jones is questioning Hen's fundamental humanity while Hen talks soberly about a war that affects him in a way that far exceeds Jones.
If you can't scrutinise and criticise a government for thousands needlessly dying because of its catastrophic errors, we might as well shut this whole democracy thing down and call it a day.
Israel has killed over 11,500 Palestinian children in Gaza and the West Bank since October 7th, when 36 Israeli children were killed.
It’s impossible to imagine that number. This is what it looks like. A line 5km long.
(Location: Bournemouth Beach)
History did not start with Hamas' massacre on 7th October.
Between 2008 and 6th October alone, 96% of all deaths - that's 6,542 - were Palestinian.
That's without stripping decades of illegal occupation, colonisation, state violence, ethnic cleansing and apartheid.
The correct genocidal comparison that you struggle to understand is Russia and Hamas. Ukraine and Israel are both defending their countries from barbaric monsters who invaded and attacked them.
@OwenJones84
He is still male a dress and a bit of lipstick does not make you a woman end of. His birth certificate should say male. You are a numpty
@OwenJones84
The ugly Massacre in Khan Younis |
19 Palestinians slaughtered. ALL CIVILIANS, 18 OF THEM ARE WOMEN (3) AND (15) CHILDREN.
2 of the murdered are pregnant in their 9th month, and among the 15 small children, 3 of them are infants the youngest being 1 month old (1/2)
The Israeli Ambassador has gone on national British radio and incited genocide.
This is an illegal act under the 1948 Genocide Convention.
As such, the UK must expel
@TzipiHotovely
immediately 👇
"They've all been killed, oh God, oh God, all my siblings have been killed, I can't handle it"
A boy is grieving over the loss of his siblings who were all killed in an Israeli airstrike on their displaced family's tent in Khan-Younis