That's right, I'm a lefty, get used to it!
Macclesfield, England
Joined February 2009
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Peter Stickland retweeted
“Clive Lewis, a Labour MP who voted against the ban last year, said: “It’s a total shitshow and most Labour MPs I know that voted or abstained on it have buyer’s remorse. Of all the toxic legacies Starmer left us, this is one of the most radioactive.”
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Peter Stickland retweeted
Israeli 🇮🇱 occupiers in the West Bank 🇵🇸
Steal a tractor to dump waste at the entrance of al-Mughayyir school
While the ‘army’ stand, watch & support them
It’s racism
It’s ethnic cleansing
It’s pure evil
Sanctions against 🇮🇱 now.
Peter Stickland retweeted
My interview in today's Observer explaining why we will never back down.
Direct action against Elbit is about saving lives, and the 4,000 people arrested for holding signs are not just showing their support for Palestine but are also defying the complete erosion of free speech.
Peter Stickland retweeted
Israel has brainwashed you into believing that Palestine with zero fighter jets, zero helicopters, zero tanks, and zero soldiers are oppressing a nuclear superpower with 75-400 nuclear warheads, over 340 fighter jets, 130 helicopters, 1,500 tanks, and 650,000 soldiers.
Stop calling it a war. Israel is not fighting an army; it is fighting defenseless civilians—women, children, and elderly. Call it what it is: GENOCIDE
Peter Stickland retweeted
Inflatable lobsters, crocodiles and fish….
Versus batons, riot shields tear gas and the full force of the French police.
Disgusting scenes of police brutality against young people demanding better schools, affordable living costs and a future worth looking forward to.
Peter Stickland retweeted
Perhaps the most heartless BBC interruption in this compilation is this one:
Bushra Khalidi, Oxfam Policy Lead for Palestine, explains how his family in Gaza have never been allowed to leave Gaza, and how Israel is besieging the Strip and causing mass displacement.
The BBC: "I'm sorry this is obviously very personal, difficult situation for you and your family, and as you would understand as well, Israel would say well, they can't live next door to Hamas."
There is nothing journalistic about this. There is no world where that is a rational, humane response.
The presenters and journalists at the BBC are reading off a strict script where they have to staunchly defend the apartheid entity at all costs.
They have weaponised the term "impartiality", which is what they cite when they launder propaganda. But as we've proven, this "impartiality" has only worked one way.
They interject much less when they platform genocide deniers, and have never volunteered the other things that "Israel says", such as the genocidal statements from Netanyahu, Gallant, Katz, Smotrich and Herzog.
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-…
Peter Stickland retweeted
Israel demolishes Bedouin homes in West Bank's E1 ahead of settlement expansion haaretz.com/west-bank/2026-1…
Peter Stickland retweeted
I don’t think Remembrance Day was about deciding to carry on
with more and more wars. The best way to honour those that fought is to do all we can to avoid more wars!
Peter Stickland retweeted
غزة من الجو.. غزة كلها غرقت
حرفيا لم تسلم خيمة، ولا عائلة تسكن الخيمة من الغرق.
ليس أقلّ منكم ألا ينقضي يومكم إلا وقد وفرت مبلغا مخصصا لهذه العوائل لتحاول تعويض ما أصابها
Peter Stickland retweeted
Gaza is drowning: freezing cold, wind, storms & floodwaters soaking everything, & no leader anywhere is doing anything @Persianserene1
Peter Stickland retweeted
Labour MPs regret voting for Palestine Action ban that led to 4,000 arrests in a year
Backbenchers say the right to protest has been harmed since they were ‘pressured’ into proscribing the organisation as a terror group
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Peter Stickland retweeted
Reminder that Israel is banning mobile shelters, prefabricated homes, or even shipping containers from entering Gaza & is heavily restricting the entry of tents; all for no reason other than inflicting conditions of life calculated to bring about Gazans' physical destruction; i.e. genocide
Peter Stickland retweeted
This is heartbreaking...
Gaza is literally drowning and the mainstream media are ignoring this
Peter Stickland retweeted
This morning I searched "genocide" on the BBC News app.
Not a single article on Gaza in the results shown below.
And if you think we're just talking about perceived @BBC bias towards Israel, consider this:
@KarishmaPatel99 – resigned over Gaza coverage, exposing serious editorial failures.
@bbounenni – BBC North Africa correspondent who resigned, citing his professional conscience.
111 BBC journalists – anonymously backed an open letter condemning the corporation's Gaza coverage and editorial decisions.
400+ media figures, including Miriam Margolyes, Alexei Sayle and Mike Leigh, demanded the removal of BBC board member Robbie Gibb over impartiality concerns.
Ramita Navai and @bendepear – publicly condemned the BBC for shelving Gaza: Doctors Under Attack, subsequently broadcast by Channel 4.
Akinola Davies Jr – had his words "Free Palestine" edited out of the BBC's BAFTA broadcast.
And in recent weeks, we've seen even more extraordinary examples.
@bbclaurak's hostile interrogation of @ZackPolanski over the Green Party's Zionism motion, repeatedly challenging his position while he attempted to bring the discussion back to the suffering of Palestinians.
@vicderbyshire interrupting @BernieSanders as he condemned Israel's extremist government, stepping in to remind him that Israel would deny being extremist.
It's fucking endless.
The BBC continues to suppress language that accurately describes Israel's actions, stifles critical commentary, and amplifies Israeli officials and pro-Israel commentators, while Palestinian voices are marginalised or silenced altogether.
Those defending Israel are given a microphone. Those challenging its actions face hostile interrogation.
At what point do we stop calling this perceived bias and start demanding serious institutional complicty in war crimes?
Who holds the BBC accountable when the institution tasked with scrutinising power is itself protecting it?
#GazaGenocide #FreePalestine
Peter Stickland retweeted
- "What will you do with (Palestinians who refuse to leave Gaza)?"
- "I'll kill them. I'll kill them. There isn't any other option. The child who will be born in Gaza tomorrow... will do an October 7 against your child"
Old-new MK Moshe Feiglin, Smotrich's No. 2, spews his usual exterminationist bile in an interview with former POW Rom Braslavski, who recently asked Ben Gvir to allow him to personally execute a Palestinian hostage.
Posted by Braslavski on October 17.
🧵Hitlerist ex-MK Moshe Feiglin - soon in the Knesset again.
Yesterday, prominent genocidal politician Moshe Feiglin, leader of the Zehut party, announced together with Bezalel Smotrich, of Religious Zionism, that the two parties will run on a joint list in the upcoming Israeli elections, with Feiglin as Smotrich's number two.
Two years ago, Feiglin said: "As Hitler, may his name be erased, once said: 'I cannot live in this world if there is one Jew left in it', we could not live in this land if even one such Islamo-Nazi remains in Gaza, and not before we return to Gaza and turn it into Hebrew Gaza"
This is a thread of tweets I posted about Moshe Feiglin in the past, with just a few of his endless exterminationist rants.
Peter Stickland retweeted
90,864 signatures
We need a full, independent inquiry into Britain’s involvement in Israel’s genocide in Gaza.
We are so close to hitting 100,000….
Let’s keep up the pressure
petition.parliament.uk/petit…
Peter Stickland retweeted
Urge the British Library not to close its reading rooms to turn them into private offices - Sign the Petition! c.org/6TSVkcLYqs via @UKChange
Peter Stickland retweeted
This is not an ‘error.’ This is a blatant lie, underpinning a repulsive racist narrative. This isn’t journalism. This is mendacious, racist propaganda.
