It matters not how strait the gate, how charged with punishments the scroll. I am the master of my fate: I am the captain of my soul.

Brisbane, Queensland
Joined March 2012
hoddo(peter hodgson) Politically Agnostic. retweeted
I’ll never understand why so many people stayed silent or even worse laughed it off like we are all crazy. If is absolutely a GENOCIDE and 1 day you are gonna have an extremely uncomfortable conversation with God. FREE PALESTINE 🇵🇸
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hoddo(peter hodgson) Politically Agnostic. retweeted
Watch, feel her rage, and understand why she proposed ‘Zionism is Racism’.
Watch this. Lubna Speitan, author of the Greens4Palestine motion “Zionism is racism”, spells out the central obscenity of our age – the grotesque inversion whereby the victims of ethnic cleansing, Apartheid and genocide must constantly fend off accusations from their tormentors that it is they who are the racists. “We as Palestinians are being silenced and gaslit and vilified [as we] witness the annihilation, the cold-blooded murder of our families, of our people… our children burnt with phosphorus, having to endure amputations with no anaesthetic, having their limbs torn and shredded, their bodies burnt by phosphorus, being starved to death … And to have to sit here … and try to bury my feelings so I can eloquently and diplomatically shield my anger, my rage, my anguish that every Palestinian is feeling, is an insult.” /1
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hoddo(peter hodgson) Politically Agnostic. retweeted
Replying to @MarkJSewards
No he did not be presented a flawed review because antisemitism is now being flung around like confetti. There is a rise in being Anti Israel which is not surprising but that does not equate to antisemitism. I will say it again all the while British political parties have a close connection to Israel there will never be a unbiased balanced thought .
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hoddo(peter hodgson) Politically Agnostic. retweeted
Replying to @MarkJSewards
Good evening, Mark. Did the £15,000 donation you’ve accepted from Gary Lubner and the £10,000 donation you’ve accepted from the Trevor Chinn-funded syndicate Labour Together possibly have a bearing on this contentious tweet?
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hoddo(peter hodgson) Politically Agnostic. retweeted
Replying to @Cuisines1974
J’ai hâte du jour où chaque personne coupable du meurtre de femmes et d’enfants innocents et chaque complice en Occident paieront le prix pour ce qu’ils ont fait subir aux Palestiniens
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hoddo(peter hodgson) Politically Agnostic. retweeted
J'ai vu, de mes propres yeux, un enfant tenant un morceau de pain sec, imbibé de sang, pleurant sur le corps de sa mère... tandis que les soldats riaient, comme s'ils regardaient une vidéo humoristique... Ils disent : « Ce ne sont pas des êtres humains, nos égaux, à nous, les Juifs. » Je prenais mon courage à deux mains pour dire à mes camarades : « Mais enfin, même s'il s'agissait d'un groupe de singes, pourrions-nous les tuer de cette manière ? » Et ils me répondaient : « Tu es un lâche... tu es faible ; tu n'es pas digne d'être juif. » J'ai vu des colons, en Cisjordanie, arracher des oliviers et s'en prendre aux agriculteurs dans leurs champs... Je les ai vus détruire des maisons, après avoir ordonné à leurs propriétaires de partir sur-le-champ, avant de raser les bâtiments sur leurs têtes... J'ai vu, de mes propres yeux, un soldat envoyer un SMS à un Palestinien lui disant : « Monte sur le toit de la maison, sinon nous détruirons la maison sur ta famille, à cause de toi. » Lorsque l'homme est monté sur le toit en agitant un chiffon blanc, le soldat l'a abattu sur-le-champ. Quelqu'un peut-il croire une chose pareille ? Je ne trouve aucune explication à toute cette cruauté israélienne, si ce n'est dans l'éducation qu'on nous a inculquée, à nous Juifs. On nous dit que les Arabes sont des êtres immondes, des sauvages, des musulmans extrémistes et des meurtriers. Si nous nous montrons bienveillants envers eux, ils nous jetteront à la mer. Imaginez un peu l'éducation qu'on nous a donnée ! On nous enseigne que la terre de Palestine appartient à nous, les Juifs. Le Golan et toute la région du Levant appartiendraient aux fils de Sion. On nous a appris que le « Grand Israël » s'étend de l'Euphrate au Nil. Comme nous sommes mauvais, nous autres Juifs, pour croire à tous ces mensonges ! Si nous n'étions pas méchants, stupides et dépourvus de toute morale, nous n'aurions jamais exécuté de tels ordres. Je ne supporte plus de voir toutes ces atrocités. La nuit, je pleurais, et mes camarades se moquaient de moi en me traitant de lâche. Pour eux, un Juif doit être obsédé par le meurtre des Arabes et par la nécessité de débarrasser la « Terre promise » de leur présence. J'espère qu'un jour les Arabes se réveilleront et comprendront qu'Israël n'est qu'une illusion, un mensonge, et qu'il finira par disparaître. Sans leurs dirigeants, complices du criminel Netanyahou et de sa bande, nous n'aurions jamais pu commettre tous ces crimes et ces atrocités. Pardonne-moi, Seigneur, pour tout ce que nous avons fait subir aux Palestiniens innocents. Pardonne-moi, mon Dieu, pour ces atrocités que nous avons commises... Comme disent les musulmans, Tu es « le Clément, le Miséricordieux » ; je suis donc convaincu que Tu me pardonneras, puisque j'étais égaré et que j'ai trouvé la voie de la vérité... Merci, mon Dieu, de m'avoir guidé vers le droit chemin. Le chemin de la vérité, de l'amour et de la paix, bien loin de la voie suivie par l'État criminel d'Israël.
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hoddo(peter hodgson) Politically Agnostic. retweeted
Le commandant de réserve israélien, Avdar Shailovski, a rédigé un article — publié sur sa page Facebook — dans lequel il relate sa désertion de l'armée israélienne et son émigration d'Israël vers la Pologne, la terre de ses ancêtres. L'article est intitulé : « Je ne peux plus supporter le silence ». Voici le texte intégral de l'article : Je suis Avdar Shailovski, le commandant qui a déserté l'armée israélienne. Je déclare, en pleine possession de mes facultés mentales, avoir quitté l'armée israélienne car je ne pouvais plus supporter de rester un témoin silencieux — trahissant ainsi ma propre humanité — face à tous les crimes dont j'ai été témoin durant les cinq années que j'ai passées au sein de cette armée. Les événements auxquels j'ai assisté m'étouffent ; il faut que je vous les raconte. Je pourrais mourir à tout instant, tant mon chagrin est immense. C'est pourquoi je me dois de contribuer à faire éclater la vérité, dans l'espoir d'alléger le poids de ma culpabilité. Peut-être Dieu atténuera-t-Il le tourment qui m'attend, compte tenu de l'horreur des actes que j'ai commis, simplement parce que je faisais partie des rangs de l'armée israélienne. Puis, j'ai reçu un signe : « Abandonne tout et va-t'en. » Merci, mon Dieu, de m'avoir guidé. Dès que l'avion de la compagnie israélienne El Al a atterri à l'aéroport de Varsovie, je me suis senti en sécurité, loin de cette terre d'Israël qui ne signifie plus rien pour moi. On nous a enseigné que c'était la terre promise par Dieu ; or, c'est le plus grand mensonge utilisé pour tromper le peuple juif. C'est un mensonge perpétuel, qui perdure sans relâche, et qui a conduit, il y a quatre-vingts ans, au déplacement du peuple palestinien — un peuple sans défense — hors de sa propre terre. Pire encore : ce peuple continue, jusqu'à ce jour, de subir des souffrances atroces. Qui a inventé ce mensonge ? Et quel peuple « idiot » a bien pu y croire ? Ce dont j'ai été témoin durant mes cinq années de service au sein de l'armée israélienne est difficile à décrire avec des mots... Quels mots pourraient décrire la cruauté, l'ignominie et l'horreur des actes commis par l'armée israélienne à l'encontre des Palestiniens ? Ne croyez pas un mot de ce que raconte ce « sale type » — ce fils de « sale type ». C'est un menteur abject, surtout lorsqu'il qualifie l'armée israélienne d'« armée la plus morale au monde ». Quelle absurdité ! En réalité, c'est l'armée la plus dépravée, la plus cruelle et la plus sauvage qui soit. Oui, messieurs, je ne supporte plus de voir la ruine et la dévastation à Gaza. J'ai été témoin de ce qui s'est passé dans la nuit du 7 octobre 2023. Les services de renseignement israéliens, ce « sale type » et sa bande étaient au courant ; ils ont attendu que cela se produise pour justifier la destruction de Gaza et tenter de déplacer sa population... J'ai servi à Gaza et j'ai vu, de mes propres yeux, un commandant de char s'amuser avec son canon, tirant des obus sur des Palestiniens entassés dans leurs tentes, ou sur des groupes faisant la queue devant des boulangeries, des véhicules de distribution alimentaire ou des convois d'aide humanitaire. J'ai vu, de mes propres yeux, des avions tirer des projectiles sur des immeubles résidentiels habités, les transformant en amas de décombres sur la tête de leurs occupants... J'ai vu, de mes propres yeux, des tireurs d'élite de l'armée d'occupation s'amuser à abattre des enfants, des adultes et des femmes qui faisaient la queue pour recevoir de l'aide humanitaire... C'est de la folie... De tels crimes, dont j'ai été témoin, ne pourraient se produire nulle part ailleurs dans le monde, si ce n'est sur la terre de Palestine...
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hoddo(peter hodgson) Politically Agnostic. retweeted
A new parliamentarian has been elected in Israel. His name is Moshe Feiglin. His views? "Every child, every baby in Gaza is an enemy. We need to conquer Gaza and colonise it. And not leave a single child there. There is no other victory." Read that again. Worse than a Nazi.
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hoddo(peter hodgson) Politically Agnostic. retweeted
I'm just glad I don't live in a dictatorship but a free democracy where every few years I can vote for a different banker or lawyer or landlord that represents the vast network of powerful corporate interests that controls every aspect of my life from cradle to grave
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hoddo(peter hodgson) Politically Agnostic. retweeted
You don’t seem to know what your job is Jillian Segal so allow us to tell you what your job is NOT. It is NOT to allow “concerns of the Jewish community” (your words, not ours) that are based on verifiably false information to drive unfounded fear among the Jewish community.
Shoebridge rips into Jillian Segal over her false claims at the antisemitism RC on the Gaza death toll & asks what she has to say now that the UN has called her out Segal says her role is to give views of the Jewish community Shoebridge “Your role is to give truthful evidence”💥
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hoddo(peter hodgson) Politically Agnostic. retweeted
Replying to @MarewaGlover
Repost this An excellent letter to explain how public health failed to properly explain to politicians the way to get public support for Covid restrictions and vaccination A clear example that authoritarian governments told people what to do without properly explaining the WHY Never forget the ICU units full of Covid stopping all routine major and emergency treatment The incredible sacrifice of front-line doctors and nurses The deaths of 1 in 8 over 70 Do they not matter? Just being old or a having serious coexisting disease or the children with decreased immunity. Did you just want them to die in the new eugenics of killing off the most vulnerable ? And some were so selfish that they would not even wear a mask test and stay home to stop the spread to work mates loved ones at home and the most vulnerable in society on the grounds its my freedom . No public health says we protect all citizens by clean water sewerage and in Covid clean air , isolation, lockdowns, closed borders until sufficient people could be vaccinated. No doctor vaccinated anyone who chose not to Noone was held down and forcibly vaccinated. You had the choice to say no but you also had to understand the consequences. As to side effects from the vaccine they were no more than any other widespread vaccination program 14 men aged 20 to 35 in 100,000 got myocarditis 95% fully recovered. Long Covid affects 27 to 41% of unvaccinate adults and 20% children causing massive physical and psychological morbidity. Covid is an inflammatory disease and increases the risk of developing Type1 diabetes heart disease strokes and some cancers. It is still your choice to refuse vaccination . @jacindaardern saved the health system in New Zealand along with 1000s of the lives of loved grandparents sick children and the most vulnerable. Please open your mind to those people while acknowledging that the severe authoritarian rules could have been modified but not abolished for the greater good @CHO_WAHealth
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hoddo(peter hodgson) Politically Agnostic. retweeted
Zionism is racism.
Watch this. Lubna Speitan, author of the Greens4Palestine motion “Zionism is racism”, spells out the central obscenity of our age – the grotesque inversion whereby the victims of ethnic cleansing, Apartheid and genocide must constantly fend off accusations from their tormentors that it is they who are the racists. “We as Palestinians are being silenced and gaslit and vilified [as we] witness the annihilation, the cold-blooded murder of our families, of our people… our children burnt with phosphorus, having to endure amputations with no anaesthetic, having their limbs torn and shredded, their bodies burnt by phosphorus, being starved to death … And to have to sit here … and try to bury my feelings so I can eloquently and diplomatically shield my anger, my rage, my anguish that every Palestinian is feeling, is an insult.” /1
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hoddo(peter hodgson) Politically Agnostic. retweeted
Two words: 25th Amendment. Three more words: This Is Madness.
Readers added context they thought people might want to know
Trump did not post this. No such post is on his accounts. The screenshot came from a Facebook page, Branson Area Breaking News, that calls itself "satire or parody." news.meaww.com/fact-check-did…
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hoddo(peter hodgson) Politically Agnostic. retweeted
Incredibly powerful speech....
🇵🇸 WATCH THIS. EVERY WORD. 🇵🇸 Lubna Speitan, the Palestinian woman who wrote the Greens4Palestine "Zionism is racism" motion, says what millions of us have been feeling for two years. "We as Palestinians are being silenced and gaslit and vilified [as we] witness the annihilation, the cold-blooded murder of our families, of our people... our children burnt with phosphorus, having to endure amputations with no anaesthetic... being starved to death." Think about that. Your family is being wiped out. Your children are being burnt and starved. And you're the one told to calm down, watch your tone and prove you're not the racist. That's the world we live in. The people suffering ethnic cleansing, apartheid and genocide are put on trial, while the people doing it play the victim. She's not asking for sympathy. She's asking for justice. Equal rights, freedom and dignity for every Palestinian, in every part of their land. From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free 🇵🇸 Share this. Make them hear it 🔁
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hoddo(peter hodgson) Politically Agnostic. retweeted
As Israel goes to the polls Peter Oborne - just returned from the Occupied Territories - offers a powerful denunciation of an entire system rooted in terror on Double Down Newswatch.
I Just Left the West Bank: What Israel is Planning is TERRIFYING @OborneTweets
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hoddo(peter hodgson) Politically Agnostic. retweeted
We’re being forced to WATCH IN HORROR the most SADISTIC, CRUEL AND BLATANT GENOCIDE in the History of Mankind, but we have to be careful to not hurt the feelings of its PERPETRATORS AND ACCOMPLICES. Zionism is RACISM. It is TERRORISM. It is GENOCIDE. ZERO TOLERANCE TO ZIONISM
Watch this. Lubna Speitan, author of the Greens4Palestine motion “Zionism is racism”, spells out the central obscenity of our age – the grotesque inversion whereby the victims of ethnic cleansing, Apartheid and genocide must constantly fend off accusations from their tormentors that it is they who are the racists. “We as Palestinians are being silenced and gaslit and vilified [as we] witness the annihilation, the cold-blooded murder of our families, of our people… our children burnt with phosphorus, having to endure amputations with no anaesthetic, having their limbs torn and shredded, their bodies burnt by phosphorus, being starved to death … And to have to sit here … and try to bury my feelings so I can eloquently and diplomatically shield my anger, my rage, my anguish that every Palestinian is feeling, is an insult.” /1
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hoddo(peter hodgson) Politically Agnostic. retweeted
I wonder if the Burnham government will issue an immediate set of responses in relation to this much more credible and properly researched report? Or will it, instead, end bin collection in Birmingham because the Green Party believes the ideology behind those crimes is racist.
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This should put all those Western leaders who are apologists for the zionist state to shame. @SenatorWong
Believe me that I don't exaggerate when I say this: I am thankful to be alive and hear these words said where Western audiences can hear them. This monologue is as revolutionary and meaningful as Rosa Park' refusal to move to the black people section of a bus, 71 years ago in Montgomery, Alabama. Lubna Speitan seals her place in the chronicles of the struggle of the Palestinian people for freedom and dignity - now followed and supported by billions of people around the world. I waited so long, so eagerly, to hear these transformative words; all of humanity did. EVery schoolboy and schoolgirl in the world need to know this
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hoddo(peter hodgson) Politically Agnostic. retweeted
Believe me that I don't exaggerate when I say this: I am thankful to be alive and hear these words said where Western audiences can hear them. This monologue is as revolutionary and meaningful as Rosa Park' refusal to move to the black people section of a bus, 71 years ago in Montgomery, Alabama. Lubna Speitan seals her place in the chronicles of the struggle of the Palestinian people for freedom and dignity - now followed and supported by billions of people around the world. I waited so long, so eagerly, to hear these transformative words; all of humanity did. EVery schoolboy and schoolgirl in the world need to know this
Watch this. Lubna Speitan, author of the Greens4Palestine motion “Zionism is racism”, spells out the central obscenity of our age – the grotesque inversion whereby the victims of ethnic cleansing, Apartheid and genocide must constantly fend off accusations from their tormentors that it is they who are the racists. “We as Palestinians are being silenced and gaslit and vilified [as we] witness the annihilation, the cold-blooded murder of our families, of our people… our children burnt with phosphorus, having to endure amputations with no anaesthetic, having their limbs torn and shredded, their bodies burnt by phosphorus, being starved to death … And to have to sit here … and try to bury my feelings so I can eloquently and diplomatically shield my anger, my rage, my anguish that every Palestinian is feeling, is an insult.” /1
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hoddo(peter hodgson) Politically Agnostic. retweeted
I felt every word of this. Lubna speaks for how we are all feeling.
Watch this. Lubna Speitan, author of the Greens4Palestine motion “Zionism is racism”, spells out the central obscenity of our age – the grotesque inversion whereby the victims of ethnic cleansing, Apartheid and genocide must constantly fend off accusations from their tormentors that it is they who are the racists. “We as Palestinians are being silenced and gaslit and vilified [as we] witness the annihilation, the cold-blooded murder of our families, of our people… our children burnt with phosphorus, having to endure amputations with no anaesthetic, having their limbs torn and shredded, their bodies burnt by phosphorus, being starved to death … And to have to sit here … and try to bury my feelings so I can eloquently and diplomatically shield my anger, my rage, my anguish that every Palestinian is feeling, is an insult.” /1
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