John MacPherson
@JohnWMacPherson
Highlander (left side). Takes photos, does words. Makes things too. Some of them even work. Writes here: https://www.duckrabbit.info/blog/author/j-macpherson/
A moral failure of unspeakable proportions, the Gaza war is also the result of a tactical, strategic and military failure. Now, Israel is starving Palestinians in Gaza because it has proved unable to defeat Hamas by force of arms | Opinion | Joshua Leifer haaretz.com/opinion/2025-0…
My parents were murdered on October 7th, and if anyone is slapping us in the face, it's people like you, who for the past 20 years have failed to prevent violence and bloodshed in Israel-Palestine, whilst making inflammatory remarks. Your administration could stop the war…
The United States strongly rejects @EmmanuelMacron’s plan to recognize a Palestinian state at the @UN general assembly. This reckless decision only serves Hamas propaganda and sets back peace. It is a slap in the face to the victims of October 7th.
I’ve been volunteering and helping asylum seekers for over a decade. It remains staggering that people complain about people that they simply cannot take the time to understand or know. Bigotry and/or laziness.
This article makes two main claims “If it doesn’t look like The Holocaust it can’t be genocide” “If it were genocide, Israel would kill more people” Both make little sense 🧵
Opinion | No, Israel Is Not Committing Genocide in Gaza - The New York Times nytimes.com/2025/07/22/opi…
Try saying, 'In the last two years, two million Jews have been starved and bombed with the most up to date weaponry in the world apart from atomic/nuclear.' Imagine the horror and rage from the world, and the interventions made in order to try and stop it.
Batteries. We have fucking batteries. Are these people idiots?
Thiessen: Just so people understand wind and solar only work when there is wind and sun. We don't have technology to store the energy from wind and solar…
Male life expectancy in Glasgow is also 73, meaning if the pension age were to rise to 74 that the average Glaswegian man wouldn't even claim a state pension. There's massive class injustices in these proposals, including the forms of work we'd be asking folk to do in their 70s.
State pension age could rise to 74. Male life expectancy in areas such as Blackpool is 73 years. Something needs to change.
Gathering the fell sheep today, Matterdale #SheepOfTheDay
Happening now in Tel Aviv: we march with the pictures of the children in Gaza who were starved to death by our government and our army. We cannot accept it. We call people to refuse the starvation, to refuse the killing, to refuse the annihilation.
Spent the afternoon playing with incredibly cute kids in a council estate in Lucan - teaching relays and javelin, then rugby and footie together. Social worker cycled up, said ‘we have them till they’re 10-12, then the forces of darkness take over’. A masked older teen circled on…
I sent this to a friend, a prominent British university professor whose many years’ work in Gaza and wider Palestine has been destroyed, and colleagues murdered by the unholy forces that have possessed the State of Israel (helped by UK arms). She said: “That means it’s too late.”
In the Israeli Knesset Today: “Meeting of the Lobby for the Renewal of Jewish Settlement in the Gaza Strip Topic: "The Gaza Riviera – From Vision to Reality" “ This isn't just some right-wing fantasy. They mean it. They're planning what comes after ethnic cleansing in Gaza.
A British superhero origin story
This is peak performance.
BBC News, "Witnesses said they held their hands in the air when Israeli soldiers started firing at them but that fire continued" "The World Food Program said there were snipers and tank fire involved" Is this a war crime @Keir_Starmer or just 'intolerable'?
Just read what’s outlined in these two sentences - horror and shocking brutality detailed in a few words… and this is accompanied by the utter despair felt in Gaza at the continuing impunity towards the forces carrying out these attacks
The last 24-hours in Gaza: @WFP reports that Israeli forces fired on thousands of people desperately approaching an aid convoy. @WHO premises in Deir al Balah attacked 3 times and some staff and family members were handcuffed, stripped, interrogated and screened at gunpoint.
Extraordinary. AFP says its journalists are in imminent risk of being starved to death by Israel. This has never happened since the agency was founded. Never has any of its journalists been starved to death
Omer Bartov, Israeli Genocide scholar:
The King of Belgium has denounced “grave human rights abuses” in Gaza that “bring shame on all of humanity” Incredible that a monarch has made a stronger intervention than the leader of the UK Labour party lalibre.be/belgique/polit…
The abandoned village on the island of Handa in NW Scotland. Interestingly, the peasantry of Handa were dispossessed twice. First clearance by Lord Reay in 1820s, then landlords allowed resettlement & new tenancies. Yet, in 1840s these remaining tenants were again cleared (1/2)