Jonathan Lis

OK, everyone. I think it’s time I told my Boris Johnson story. It’s a story about the time as foreign secretary where Johnson committed a straightforward resigning offence, got caught out, then got away with it. Thread.

The NYT finally has a front-page article on the mass famine sweeping Gaza, but barely mentions the role Israel has played in blockading food from entering. Here's how the Lead Editorial of @haaretzcom today begins: "Gaza is starving, and Israel is responsible."

All right-wing British obsessions are just whatever the MAGA lot were obsessed with two months ago. To the point of explicitly name dropping El Salvador.

If a defender of Palestinian lives/rights or intl law said Israel was racing to "wipe out Gaza" & "make it Jewish" they'd be accused of antisemitic blood libel. But when an actual minister in the Israeli govt says it? Meh.

This conversation illuminates the only real debate within Zionism right now: should we hide our war crimes or commit them in the open? Or, in other words, the argument between "liberal Zionists" and Kahanists. I know, because I used to participate in it.

If this isn’t genocidal, nothing is.

Israel says it has bigger jobs to do than look after foreign journalists in Gaza. I'm not asking them to look after me. I'm just asking them to let me in. I'll look after myself as I do in every war zone I visit. We have freer access to Sudan, Congo & Yemen than we have to Gaza.

If any other country in the world was doing this, the UK would have introduced punitive sanctions. Words no longer cut it and strong statements will not bring food or justice. What are we actually going to do about this?

Israel’s cheerleaders spend their time denying crimes that Israel’s own leaders are proudly broadcasting to the whole world. It is the most insane atrocity denial in history, where you can see the atrocities with your own eyes, and hear the confessions from the perpetrators

And who turned up the thermostat?

Two weeks ago, you turned civil society activists trying to prevent genocide into terrorists.

Well, I for one feel a lot safer knowing that this is how the police are spending their time and resources.

It's bad that the White House is banning WSJ from the trip -- but I think the bigger scandal is that the president of the United States and his entourage are flying to Scotland on the public's dime so he can "open a new 18-hole golf course at his resort." theguardian.com/us-news/2025/j…

Day after day after day, starving Palestinians trying to get food are slaughtered by Israeli troops. Then Israel announces some fake investigation that never leads to accountability or changes, and the dumbest people on this website blame anyone but the people in charge.

America has the most corrupt political system in the Western world.

They say 'Judeo-Christian' because if they said 'Abrahamic' that would include Muslims

The scary thing about Vance is he just adopts this extreme moral righteousness when taking a position, and will be just as morally righteous in the other direction when it’s politically convenient.

The Israeli government is doing everything it can to ensure that Palestinians will never be able to live in Gaza again, and the global community sits back, shrugs and lets it do whatever it likes

The Epstein files debacle is NOT a distraction. It strikes at the heart of Trump's appeal, which is that he operates outside of a system that MAGA wants to burn down. He's their hero with gasoline and a torch. If Trump looks like he's covering up for the elites, he's screwed.

The Purpose Of A System Is What It Does

This is the end result of anti-trans bigotry: more harassment of girls and women, more policing of gender roles, more gender McCarthyism.