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Anyone remember when @hilarybennmp got all passionate about bombing Libya because of our "responsibility to protect" civilians? @medialens @CraigMurrayOrg
Gaza: ‘We have 6,000 trucks of aid we can’t bring in’ says UNRWA channel4.com/news/gaza-we-h…
🚨We asked the UK's air force chief why he spies on Gaza for Israel. The RAF has sent more than 500 surveillance flights over Gaza since December 2023. This is how he responded👇
Every single day.
The killing in Gaza continues Yesterday, July 22, the Israeli military killed 133 people, 45 of whom were waiting for humanitarian aid. ישראל ממשיכה את ההרג בעזה. אתמול, 22.7, הצבא הישראלי הרג 133 בני אדם - מתוכם 45 בעת שחיכו לסיוע הומניטרי
Signatories incl former UK Ambssdrs to UN, Iran, Iraq, Afgh, Morocco, Syria, S Africa, Canada, Egypt, Kenya, Turkey, Lebanon, Brazil, Portugal, Italy, Greece Qatar, Jordan, Tunisia, Libya, Kuwait, Bahrain; and many senior UN officials, eg Mark Malloch-Brown and Martin Griffiths.
Proud to sign this letter, with over 50 other senior former UK diplomats and officials urging action on Gaza, as well as recognition of Palestinian state. Letter to the Prime Minister calls for the UK to recognise Palestinian statehood | UNA-UK una.org.uk/letter-prime-m…
'People are being starved on purpose.' Aid agencies say "mass starvation" is spreading across Gaza, with their own staff among those wasting away while tons of aid sit untouched, blocked from being distributed. We spoke to Caroline Willemen of humanitarian organisation Médecins…
That this isn't considered the greatest humanitarian emergency in the West -- but instead is still financed and armed by the West -- tells you all you need to know about what those governments' values are, and who they do and do not consider to possess inherent human worth:
Doctors and health officials report wave of hunger deaths in Gaza on.ft.com/46iUoK6
David Lammy will be remembered for one thing and one thing only Supporting genocide and the mass murder of children His legacy is already written
"We've got to the state where a man is arrested for carrying a joke." Private Eye editor Ian Hislop on the arrest of a man under the Terrorism Act for holding up a cartoon from the magazine during a protest against the ban of the group Palestine Action at the weekend. #BBCPM
Ian Hislop, "It is pretty ludicrous we have got to a state where a man is arrested for carrying a joke? I mean, freedom of expression, freedom of speech, all those things we claim to be interested in?" Shame on @YvetteCooperMP and @Keir_Starmer - this isn't the change any of us…
All across the British papers today: outrage over US-UK-EU-armed Israel’s genocidal barbarism in Gaza These papers provided de facto cover for Israel’s genocidal onslaught, now the scale of the atrocities is even too much for them to continue providing cover
Israel's loyalists in the US are trained to dismiss every source that disparages Israel: every media outlet, UN agency, humanitarian aid group: all lying anti-Semites. Here's a European doctor from the noble @MSF - if that's what you need - on what she's seen with her own eyes:
"the Israeli army shot at the desperate people looking for aid for their families. 79 people were killed.. these are incidents we see every day. I have no words to describe the shameful humanity we are witnessing every single day" Caroline Willemen from @MSF speaking from Gaza
The Israeli onslaught on Gaza since Oct. 2023 has injured over 100,000 people, mostly civilians, while systematically targeting the healthcare system in violation of international law that protects hospitals, medical teams, and the wounded and sick. Hospitals have been bombed,…
It's very simple: 'The basic principle, rarely violated, is that what conflicts with the requirements of power and privilege does not exist.' (Noam Chomsky)
Genuine questions 1. What are Western Values? 2. What are British Values? I mean, really and actually, given the support of and enabling of the crime of crimes, a GENOCIDE
Spain’s MEP Irene Montero: “Israel is starving to death those it hasn’t already killed with bombs in Gaza.” “90% of the population is in phase 5 famine, and soon 400 people a day will die of hunger.” “This is extermination.” “And Europe is on its knees before Israel.” 🇪🇸 🇵🇸
Nadia's cousin Sally, and her four children are being starved by Israel. Millions in Gaza are being deliberately starved while Israel withholds food mere kilometres away. Words are not enough. Governments must act and force Israel to open the borders and allow aid to flow in.
By contrast the Royal Opera House actually boasted about its overtly political response to Russia's invasion of Ukraine. rbo.org.uk/news/royal-ope…
✊ Dani In lunging for the flag before scuttling back to the shadows Mears is emblematic of a class of increasingly out of touch, generally older white people who run organizations in arts, politics and media. Change is coming. Dani is the future. Mears is the past. /1
“You will never work at the Opera House again.” This is the response the dancer Dani Perry got from Oliver Mears, the Royal Opera Director, for raising the Palestinian flag after a performance at the Royal Opera House in London. In addition, his act of solidarity which he said…
The Gulf dictators watch motionless as Gaza is starved to death because they were installed by the empire as local satraps And these mafia families - the Sauds, Khalifas, Thanis - still work for the empire Iran overthrew the empire’s dictator in 1979, which is why they can act