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Remember when Western journalists discussed whether Israel had destroyed a hospital in Gaza City?
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This is the statement issued by the Met Police about the Defend Our Juries demonstration today. Commander Adam Slonecki, from Scotland Yard, said: “All those intending on coming to this event know that supporting a proscribed organisation is unlawful – they are essentially meeting to purposefully commit a crime.” This is a remarkable contrual of the law and extent of police powers. Surely it cannot be right that someone protesting against the Government’s decision to proscribe an organisation is automatically interpreted by the Met Police as supporting that organisation and is therefore committing an arrest-able offence. This is especially the case when the proscription is being challenged in the courts. I believe the government and parliament made the wrong decision in proscribing Palestine Action as a terrorist organisation and I continue to call for its deproscription by the government. If the people turning up today to demonstrate against the proscription of Palestine Action are to be arrested for simply turning up, are we all to be criminalised for suggesting the government got this wrong?
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The conversion bill is a trojan horse to sneak contested identity concepts into law. These efforts have failed on multiple occasions in the civil division and this bill is an attempt to rerun those arguments on pain of criminal prosecution.
@VictoriaPrentis asks the panel – @Jebadoo2 (@MensNetwork1), @HJoyceGender (Sex Matters) and Dermot Kehoe (@AllianceLGB) – about how the bill defines conversion practices and how far the term reaches.
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The Conversion Practices bill “makes it a crime to say to your teenaged daughter:
I want you to love your body,
I want you to grow up to be a happy lesbian.
I DO NOT BELIEVE YOU ARE A MAN!”
💔 @Jebadoo2
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Secunder Kermani is inside the village of Umm Al-Khair in the occupied West Bank as Israeli bulldozers demolish Palestinian houses. Families can do nothing but watch as Israeli authorities destroy their property.
Meanwhile, children in the village have lost the freedom to walk to school as settlers block their routes with razor wire.
Violent attacks by Israeli settlers against Palestinians in the West Bank have risen dramatically over the past two years, while Israel's government has approved a record number of new settlements
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The rubble of Gaza is now a tomb.
Since the Hamas-led attacks in Israel on October 7, tens of thousands of Palestinians have been killed in the Gaza Strip, many of them women and children.
And more than 1,400 Gazans have been killed since the ceasefire last October.
The bodies of many of the victims have still not yet been recovered with the remains covered under thousands of tons of rubble.
Israel still doesn't allow journalists in, so working with a Gazan filmmaker Channel 4 News has followed efforts to retrieve the of bodies trapped there.
Warning: this report contains distressing images including human remains.
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Andreas Malm is one of the world's pre-eminent climate scholars.
Denying him entry is another example of how Britain's alliance with genocidal Israel is corroding our democracy.
I'll be interviewing Andreas Malm today.
Swedish academic Andreas Malm has been denied entry to the UK over his plans to appear on a panel alongside Palestine Action cofounder Huda Ammori because the gov't says his “presence in the UK is not considered to be conducive to the public good”.
🔗: aje.news/rvo1e1
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This is an absurd and outrageous decision.
What kind of society are we living in where world-renowned authors and campaigners are treated as enemies and threats? The real threat is this government’s assault on freedom of expression.
This is not an isolated incident — and the government should know that it is gaining a bad reputation for censorship and repression.
We know why the government has taken this decision: because it wants to silence criticism of Israel, as well as its own complicity in genocide. It will not succeed.
The leading advocate for climate justice and Palestinian rights has been blocked from coming to the UK by the Home Office. Politicians, academics and writers have condemned this outrageous act of censorship.
tribunemag.co.uk/2026/10/and…
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Social media users may be required to have photo ID to prove their age when Labour’s ban for under-16s comes into force next spring, Ofcom has said.
The regulator said that current facial age checks used widely by the social media platforms were not accurate enough to confirm whether a child was over 16⤵️
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🚨BREAKING: All Britons may need ID to use social media, the UK's online safety regulator today announces
“This plan for a government ‘social media ban’ is a national ID system by the back door.
Both the government and Ofcom have admitted that children will get around the ban, which means the real effect will be normalising adults and children alike to hand over their passports just to get online.
Hundreds of thousands of people without ID, who tend to be poorer people, and many more who don’t want to risk handing their passports over to foreign tech companies will be locked out of huge parts of the internet.
The plan will kill anonymity online, whilst the UK’s culture of speech policing is reaching a crisis point. The policy is painfully misguided, an Orwellian assault on free speech and privacy, and will make children no safer at all.
The false illusion that children aren’t on social media will cause the companies to abandon all their child safety measures. The Government could be promoting meaningful safety measures and supporting parental controls that genuinely protect children - instead, they’re demanding government ID from the whole population just for uncensored internet access. It is authoritarian madness.”
- Silkie Carlo | @silkiecarlo
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🚨 URGENT: @the_andrey_x is in very bad shape. He has a concussion and lost consciousness several times while being detained.
Settlers blocked the ambulance from evacuating him. He is now being held ALONE in the ambulance inside the settlement and is being denied transfer to a hospital.
HAPPENING NOW🚨🚨: @the_andrey_x @infinite_jaz and I were attacked by settler-terrorists in Umm al-Khair!!
They beat us, threatened to shoot us, stole Andrey's phone and my glasses and pepper-sprayed Jasper.
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Journalists are questioning the BBC's decision to broadcast 40 minutes of 'propaganda' from Reform UK without interruption or challenge ⬇️
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This is your friendly reminder that taking skin from a woman’s thigh to create a non-functional tube of skin that is supposed to resemble male genitalia is not healthcare.
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Fun fact: 400,000 native Palestinian residents of Jerusalem are defined by Israeli law as neither Palestinian citizens, nor Israeli. As a result, they don't have political representation anywhere and vote nowhere - not even in the fake occupation instrument called 'the Palestinian Authority'.
With the knowledge, blessing and approval of almost every country in the world, and every international institution, on top of every other atrocity and crime against humanity documented, Israel holds 400,000 people under full ,formal denial of every political right given to any other human being on this planet.
No vote. No parliament. No representation. Transparent subjects.
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“We know many of you find yourselves in a bit of a pickle. So we’re cutting tariffs on gherkins."
Healey vows cheaper marmalade and gherkins in pre-Budget package of 'everyday fixes' bbc.in/4zTnQ4K
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#Israel has committed war crimes & crimes against humanity in the Occupied #Palestinian Territory amid continuing #genocide in Gaza, the @UN Commission of Inquiry on Occupied Palestinian Territory & Israel said in a new report to #UNGA81 today.
More ➡️ bit.ly/4zR1h0S
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Why thousands are still missing under the rubble in Gaza
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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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The parliamentary committee on the draft Conversion Practices Bill has issued its call for evidence.
Read our briefing on who is at risk from criminalisation by this legislation and start thinking about responding.
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No country in the Middle East can achieve lasting security at the expense of another.
The region needs a new security architecture.
One in which the future is shaped by the peoples & countries of the region, rather than by war after war after war – many times fueled by external actors.