JW
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Writer / filmmaker / human rights / Wikipedia / Turkish stuff / he/him
The FT’s data guy says that the housing crisis in Anglophone countries could be largely to blame for rising rates of unhappiness among young people. on.ft.com/4o7zeVK Why are young adults in the English-speaking world so unhappy?
In the aftermath of the Syrian Government attack against the Druze in Suweida - horrifying CCTV footage emerges Syrian Government Forces chasing a fleeing vehicle with Druze civilians, stopping the vehicle, abducting their children and then coming back to execute the wounded…
Starmer will be remembered as a weak leader who stood by largely in silence as a genocide unfolded because his own position of power rests in part on hysterical and conflated accusations of Antisemitism against his predecessor.
The fact that Trump is in the UK to open a new golf course says a lot about land ownership in the UK and shows why 1% of the population owning 50% of the land is a major cause of the housing crisis that blights the lives of most ordinary people.
Saeed Naji Zomlot, the cousin closest to my heart, was killed by Israel. We last spoke four days ago. Saeed told me his children were starving and he had no choice but to go north of #Gaza in search of food. I asked him to be careful. He went—and never came back. Today, the…
Unbelievable and deeply disturbing: An elderly man has died of starvation in Gaza. Starvation in this context is not merely a lack of food — it reflects a broader collapse of access to essential medicine, nutrition, and life-saving aid.
I'm not sure that people realize how abnormal it is for journalists to be killed in wars. More have been killed in Gaza (232) than in the Civil War, World Wars I and II, the Korean War, the Vietnam War (+Cambodia and Laos), the Yugoslav wars, and the Afghanistan war, combined.
Breaking: An Israeli airstrike just killed Adam Yahya Abu Harbid, a cameraman for Al-Quds Al-Youm channel, along with all members of his family, after targeting their tent in Al-Yarmouk market in Gaza City.
The UK Online Safety Act means subreddits like /r/cider, the support forum /r/sexualassault, and /r/stopsmoking are now blocked for people under 18. Thank you @Jess4Lowestoft for protecting our CHILDREN from these sick freaks
Starmer doesn't have to choose between the US and France, so much as he needs to choose between doing what his own party and country want, versus what Trump/US and Israel want. You're the UK PM @Keir_Starmer - listen to your own people
Bombshell reporting from Israeli Channel 11. The IDF has destroyed 1,000 trucks worth of aid and buried it rather than provide it to Palestinians. This occurred two months ago, resulting in the current hunger crisis in Gaza. The same source says that the IDF is about to destroy…
🚨 Breaking: IDF whistleblower says aid from 1,000 trucks was buried in pits or burned. This is internationally funded aid - IDF dug pits, everything from cooking oils to water and buried or burned it. This is how @cogatonline was lying about trucks going into Gaza.
Former US Green Beret who was one of the armed American security guards in Gaza, who left after he saw American and Israeli colleagues killing Palestinian civilians, "Without question I witnessed war crimes by the Israeli Defence Forces, without a doubt, using artillery rounds,…
🇩🇪 Fully aware this is beyond my UN remit. BUT. As a conscientious European I ask: will anyone confront Germany for its POLICE’s shameful, sustained, and widespread violence that, after a year, reveals an institutionalized descent into repression? While too many Germans remain,…
This was Germany today: police brutally beating up peaceful protesters against genocide in Gaza. Imagine destroying your own democracy so that another country can continue to commit genocide.
When these people say they believe in freedom of speech, it’s clear that some groups of people are excluded from those they think deserve full rights.
Just landed in Heathrow Airport T3. Went into M&S. Three @marksandspencer staff speaking in another language. I asked them “What language are you speaking?” They responded “Hindi” I have a voice recording & their names to report to M&S. We must confront them every time.
This is big. UN Human Rights Chief urges the UK government to lift the ban on Palestine Action and review its counter-terror legislation.
#UK Government’s decision to label ‘Palestine Action’ a terrorist group raises serious concerns that counter-terrorism legislation is being applied to a group that is not terrorist in nature & risks hindering the legitimate exercise of fundamental freedoms. The decision could…
The comforting myth that racist riots are being fuelled by "disinformation" when really they are fuelled by what is said by mainstream politicians in government and the mainstream media who is unable to hold them to account As you were...
Yes: for the last-minute disavowal now underway it's necessary to shift everyone who's been right about it into a category marked "premature anti-genocidaires".
Gaby’s entire purpose here is to convince readers that it was right and just to treat people who said something much like this was coming sooner or later like they were dangerous Hitlerian extremists, despite them being proven entirely correct… theguardian.com/commentisfree/…
Today I spoke with @NPRKelly about how the conspiracist right is reacting to Trump's ongoing Epstein-related issues on NPR's All Things Considered @npratc. npr.org/2025/07/24/nx-…
I can’t even begin to explain how big this is. For years, Channel 12 and mainstream Israeli news would cover Palestinian suffering occasionally. Then after October 7, they just stopped. No one wanted to see it. That played a massive role in the dehumanization of Palestinians and…
Keep up the pressure. It’s working. Today, for the first time, mainstream Israeli TV covered the hunger in Gaza. (You can call Israeli TV antisemitic, if you like. It won’t change the facts.)
It has taken an enforced famine on two million people, including one million children, for the British media and voices across the political spectrum to finally raise serious protest against Israel’s crimes. Palestine is not a question of left or right. It is a question of right…