To pull a dog away from a lamppost is akin to seizing a scholar in the British Museum by the scruff of his neck and dragging him away from his studies.
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The government that has supplied arms, that has flown spy flights over Gaza for Israel will not rest until they bring an end to the intolerable suffering in Gaza. How stupid do they think we are?
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The same Board of Deputies who sabotaged efforts to allow Jewish refugees from war-torn Europe to be given asylum in the UK and overseas terrorities
It is not known how many died because of this ...
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NEW: 260 British Jews – among them British Israeli historian Avi Shlaim, human rights barrister Margaret Owen OBE and journalist and politician @andrewfeinstein – have accused the @BoardofDeputies of genocide denial in an open letter.
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Massie: "There's no fog of war on the first day! You've had months to identify these targets, yet they picked a school building on a school day with kids in it"
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Nous agirons frontalement au secours des Palestiniens, à la fois contre le génocide à Gaza et contre l’annexion progressive de la Cisjordanie.
Les navires français, s’il le fallait, escorteront les flottilles de citoyens mobilisés pour faire valoir leurs droits.
Nous n’acceptons pas l’annexion progressive de la Cisjordanie, ni du Sud-Liban, ni du plateau du Golan.
Nous organiserons concrètement la mobilisation contre l’extension des cruautés aux communautés chrétiennes assiégées, persécutées en Palestine et au Liban.
#Melenchon2027 #JLMBourget
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POLICE DISCRIMINATION
In yet another absurd twist in the spectacle caused by the proscription of Palestine Action, the Met Police has discriminated against a disabled man by NOT prosecuting him under the Terrorism Act (Really.)
See the newly published footage and thread:
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🚨Breaking: A petition to launch a public inquiry into the UK's role in the Gaza genocide has now reached over 100,000 signatures, meaning it must be considered for a debate in parliament.
petition.parliament.uk/petit…
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The man below standing with indicted ICC fugitive Netanyahu and holding a Barak sniper rifle to be sent to IOF genocidaires is the man UNSG Antonio Guterres has just appointed as the new head of the UN World Food Programme. He is Luke Lindberg, a former Trump administration official and vocal Israel regime supporter who publicly praised Netanyahu in the middle of the genocide in Palestine (wishing him “godspeed”), and who is the son-in-law of Israel lobby darling US Sen. John Thune. In the meantime, WFP has announced it is cutting food aid to half a million genocide survivors in Gaza, as winter approaches and their situation grows ever more dire. This is the UN on its knees before the US empire. It will find the courage to stand up, or it will fade into permanent irrelevance. #Shame
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It’s hard to grasp the BBC’s systematic attempt to launder Israeli propaganda until you see the sheer scale of it. Here's a compilation of them doing it at 2x speed.
The latest was on Newsnight on 4 November. When Bernie Sanders called Israel’s government extremist, Victoria Derbyshire answered for it: “And the Israeli government would deny that they are extremists.”
As this video shows, BBC presenters repeatedly do this as guests describe Israel’s crimes: “Israel would say.” “Israel would deny.” “They would reject that.”
We counted 70 of these denials and justifications in 52 aired interviews. The BBC calls this impartiality. But in not one of those 52 did a presenter raise any of these words from Israel’s own leaders:
- “We are fighting human animals.” Yoav Gallant, 9 October 2023
- “It is an entire nation out there that is responsible.” Isaac Herzog, 12 October 2023
- “They will not receive a drop of water or a single battery until they leave the world.” Israel Katz, 13 October 2023
- “Remember what Amalek did to you.” Benjamin Netanyahu, 3 November 2023
- Starving two million people in Gaza until the hostages came back might be “justified and moral”. Bezalel Smotrich, 5 August 2024
On 10 October 2023, Tahani Mustafa told the BBC that Israeli forces were not distinguishing civilians from fighters. The presenter replied: “They would reject that.” Mustafa then had to bring up Gallant’s “human animals” herself. The BBC supplied the denial. The guest had to supply Israel’s own words.
That is cherry-picking. The Royal Charter requires the BBC to be impartial, and the public pays for it through the licence fee. In these interviews, it handed its audience Israel’s denials and left out its leaders’ own words, during a genocide streamed live to the world.
We have archived the BBC’s coverage for three years, and we are now counting all of it: 50,000 video clips and many more written excerpts.
We are calling this first part: "BBC: The Would Say Files".
Handing Israel its denials is only one of the ways the BBC launders Israeli propaganda, so we will count every other technique too. Over the next few weeks, we will announce each milestone as we complete the report.
These are the first results, with every clip, quote and source: newscord.org/editorials/bbc-…
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Even better would be if the German leadership would acknowledge Germany’s historical responsibility for the Holocaust by opposing genocide on principle.
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This is extraordinary from Laura Kuensberg. Polanski answered her questions but rejected her chosen framing. That's meat-and-potatoes stuff for combative interviewing.
It is very telling she reaches for this one interview to illustrate some broader anti-truth/populist politics - but says nothing about how we had a Labour Party leader/PM in Keir Starmer who lied, constantly, repeatedly, and flagrantly - who invented a political character from whole cloth to dupe the Labour membership. He lied on TV constantly - big lies, small lies, serious lies and frivolous lies. And he followed on from Boris Johnson, another fabulous liar, who made his career on changing the subject and dancing around questions, much to the delight of Kuensberg and the media class, who treated him with affection and kid gloves on his path to power.
I think it's obvious that Kuensberg just doesn't like or support progressive politics. That's fine. But don't try launder that into a ham-fisted critique saying the left has a problem with journalistic inquiry - and don't imply bad faith and dishonesty, when it has been progressives who called out the honest truth of Israel's genocide in Gaza while the establishment laundered it as "self-defence" or repeated nonsense about human shields.
Hi @bbclaurak,
Zionism has resulted in the bombing of children & the killing of tens of thousands of innocent people in Gaza.
Again - the actual controversy is the Labour Government are arming that & the BBC 'debate' if it's racist.
How's that for answering the question?
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Hilarious from Tim- and deadly serious. All that needed to be said inside court he says before arrest: . « It’s democracy on the line. It’s freedom of speech on the line. » Thank you Tim.
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BREAKING - ARRESTS
Former government barrister Tim Crosland is among those arrested at the Supreme Court while holding signs mirroring the words of Sarah Helm, wife of the National Security Adviser to Andy Burnham.
The court is hearing an appeal over the Palestine Action ban.
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This is the same Labour Government letting B52 bombers take off from British soil to bomb Iran - while people here at home pay the price of Trump's illegal war in spiking energy prices.
Warm words about ending the war won't cut it - Burnham must end the UK's participation.
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This is absolutely right. Dem victory has created the space to head off a resumption of the Iran War. But Burnham needs to be doing more than giving an interview on TV - he must make it clear the UK will not support renewed aggression by allowing the US to use UK bases
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"You didn't join the police force to do this, did you?"
On the eve of the Supreme Court hearing on the Palestine Action ban, a 94-year-old barrister tells @ShehabKhan why she got arrested, and the words that made her arresting officer cry.
Watch the full interview 👇
Investigative journalist @pauleholden’s typically incisive assessment of Burnham’s government’s latest moves teapawt.net/pauleholden/status/211…
Today's unjust and unfair immigration reforms top two weeks where Labour under Burnham has come into sharper focus as his government has taken key decisions.
It does not look like much of a radical departure from Starmerism after all.
Quite a few of these choices would not have been made if Zack Polanski had won the Holborn & St Pancras by-election. But since then Labour has felt emboldened that it no longer meets to consider its left flank, and is tacking hard to the right on key issues.
The result has been a welter of decisions that will make average people poorer, the most vulnerable even more precarious, the climate worse, speech more constrained, Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank more benighted, and all of us less safe as Burnham re-embraces busted militarism and inaction on the climate crisis.
None of this will end 40 years of neo-liberalism. But it will usher in an age of increased insecurity, hardship and war.
For those who may have missed it, in the last two weeks Burnham's government has:
- approved new oil and gas drilling at Jackdaw and strongly briefed they will approve Rosebank, which will end any hope of the UK meeting it's emission targets;
- passed a cowardly budget that guarantees living standards will continue to fall while failing to properly tax the ultra-rich, fossil fuel companies and banks;
- briefed they will increase defence spending on the back of departmental cuts to nearly every department except health, including slashing subsidies on renewable energy and the warm homes plan;
- briefed that they will be undertaking new "welfare reforms" under the hand of arch-Blairite Alan Milburn;
- agreed to become an active participant in a hot war to protect Saudi Arabia's necrotic dictatorship in the wake of the spiralling conflict in Iran and the region, driven by the US and Israel;
- introduced new asylum and immigration reforms that guarantees huge numbers of the most vulnerable will be thrown into greater insecurity in conditions where they can be exploited by unscrupulous employers, which will apply retrospective settlement conditions on low-paid (and thus vulnerable) immigrants, and which applies extraordinarily cruel settlement conditions on asylum seekers;
- collapsed local governments in defence of Zionism even as the UK shamefully caved into Israeli pressure over shutting the East Jerusalem consulate;
- accepted the deeply problematic Bell report, with Lucy Powell promising to pressurise every school in England to adopt the deeply flawed and censorious IHRA Working Definition of Antisemitism, which is now being challenged by the Good Law Protect and which has been forcefully rejected by the National Education Union.
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Followed by his acknowledgement of how much cannier Burnham is than Starmer in presenting a very similar hard-right agenda teapawt.net/pauleholden/status/211…
Burnham really is a much more canny political operator than Starmer - and that poses a different set of challenges, maybe even threats, to progressive politics in the UK.
Starmer very publicly fronted Shabana Mahmood's hardline immigration reforms, which attracted huge criticism amongst his own MPs and Guardian types. His own unpopularity and the perception that he was embracing politics outside of the Labour tradition, drove a wave of anger in the centre-left media and amongst soft-left supporters.
Burnham, by comparison, has flown to a Commonwealth meeting and let Mahmood deliver her new proposals in Parliament, while it is subtly briefed that he got Mahmood to soften her lines.
He's not fronted the proposals, so doesn't get labelled as a hardliner - but can then present the new proposals to Reform-curious voters as a sign that Labour is listening to their 'legitimate concerns.' If he gets it right, he mollifies the soft-left in his Party, while having a policy he can use to outflank the Tories and Reform on his right.
It's very clever and well-handled, but it does mean, in effect, that Burnham has helped to stage manage immigration and asylum reforms that are far to the right of anything the Tories ever did.
This is going to be a consistent theme, one feels: Burnham much more skilfully using his own popularity and likeability to push through right-wing policies that, in normal circumstances, would be loudly opposed by Labour's progressive-leaning voters.
Imagine if the Tories had approved Jackdaw and these immigration reforms in the space of two weeks. The Guardian front-page would be on fire. Now? Pretty much crickets.
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