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Senior Fellow @oandbinstitute, Berkeley. Co-founder @972mag, founding ed @theleaduk. Bylines @nytimes,@foreignaffairs, @haaretz etc. 🗣️ "raider" (not "rider")
🧵Some thoughts re where we're at: 1. Hamas committed war crimes on Saturday. 2. Hamas war crimes are not justified by Israel's war crimes. 3. Hamas war crimes don't justify Israeli war crimes, before or since. 4. Calling out Hamas war crimes doesn't invite Israeli war crimes.
If you are comparing AOC to *Ritchie Torres* on the issue of support for Palestine, you have completely lost the plot, are living in an alternate reality, and you should be ignored in perpetuity.
The Boogie Down Liberation Front sent me this statement: “The Bronx is sick and tired of people like AOC and Ritchie Torres using us as a stepping stone for their own political careers.”
Frankly should be the opposite. We need "noisy zones" where noise complaints aren't allowed and late night licenses are much more lenient.
Central London to get designated “quiet zones” amid ongoing nightlife battle The move, intended to appease local residents following noise complaints, has proved controversial already nme.com/news/music/cen…
Just wow. Both this and Lammy's response.
Extraordinary scenes in the Commons tonight as Tory MP @kitmalthouse correctly accuses UK foreign secretary David Lammy of complicity in Israel’s crimes and warns him that he could end up in The Hague
"We can't nationalise, it would make the companies less attractive to private investors" might be the dumbest thing I've heard this month
“Who on earth would put money into a company if they thought the government was going to take that company off them?” Water Minister Emma Hardy explains why Labour won’t nationalise the water system, responding to criticism from @Feargal_Sharkey.
The child nephew of one of my research team in Gaza fainted yesterday due to malnutrition. He later woke up and spent hours crying hysterically for bread. This morning his father and uncle risked their lives to successfully go south and get a day's worth of flour for him.…
Every gut-wrenching line by @ruwaidaamer8 captures the pervasive, physically excruciating horror of 2 million people left to the whims of Israeli malice and indifference. This shouldn’t be happening. Bread and water aren’t bargaining chips. Govts have no excuse for passivity.
My body is breaking down. My mother is collapsing from exhaustion. My cousin cheats death every day for a morsel of aid. Gaza's children are dying in front of our eyes, and we are powerless to help them. By @ruwaidaamer8 in southern Gaza. 972mag.com/hunger-gaza-fo…
ארגון הבריאות העולמי: צה"ל תקף מחסנים, משרדים ומגורים שלנו בדיר אלבלח, למרות שלצבא יש את הקורדינטות של המקום.
WHO operations compromised following attacks on warehouse and facility sheltering staff and families in Gaza WHO condemns in the strongest terms the attacks on a building housing WHO staff in Deir al Balah, in the middle area of Gaza, the mistreatment of those sheltering there,…
Just a little snapshot of either the blind stupidity or, much more plausibly, bad faith, of most of this manufactured shitstorm.
First of all, what do you mean by neo-nazis? Marjorie Taylor Greene? Are you also including Rashida Tlaib, Ilhan Omar who voted with her? Secondly, this never had to do with you voting no on the overall bill. You did this for political posturing since you have aspirations to run…
Lads, I don't live in America. You can't deport me, I have no citizenship that you can take away from me. Stop writing paragraphs and save your energy. I will never step foot in the US. I don't know if you lot realise that the rest of the world doesn't rate the US like that.
Shut the fuck up !! this is my land I’ll do what I want , who the actual fuck do yanks think they are
You can stay in Ireland as long as you respect their culture, religion, laws and habits. You will not forbid them anything and impose your rights on them. Remember, this is their land.
Once again Netanyahu gives a foreign interviewer the kind of sit-down he almost never offers Israeli journos. Also, is it just the weird armchair or has he suddenly lost a lot of weight?
🚨Netanyahu on Mamdani’s win: “A lot of people have been taken in by this nonsense..You want to defund the police..You want to crush all enterprise. You want to tax people to death. “Sometimes folly overtakes human affairs for a while but not for long because reality steps in”
Genuinely one of the most reality-bending weeks on this hellsite, ever.
Google is free. If you’re saying I voted for military funding, you are lying. Receipts attached. Drag me for my positions all you want, but lying about them doesn’t make you part of the “left.” If you believe neo-nazis are welcome and operating in good faith, you can have them!
28 trucks per day means 175 grams (6 ounces) of food per person per day This is LESS THAN 15% of what prisoners got in Stalin's GULAG CONCENTRATION CAMPS!
EU’s @kajakallas says there’s been “some good signs” in aid access to Gaza. But for NRC and many others, no relief has entered for 142 days. Not one truck. Not one delivery. For the few actors allowed to bring in limited supplies, the UN reports that from 19 May to 14 July, an…
I’m always surprised when people (from across the political spectrum) treat the very mention of Carl Schmitt as some great taboo while he’s on most political theory syllabi
Amnesty pulling no punches.
Empty words from the Foreign Secretary - the statement lacks any resolve, leadership or action to help end the genocide in Gaza. 1/4🧵
In the week that Lammy approved this statement, the RAF welcomed the head of the Israeli air force, primarily responsible for the genocide, to an air tattoo in England. The message that is clear is hypocrisy.
The suffering of civilians in Gaza has reached new depths. Alongside 25 other partners, the UK message is clear: the war in Gaza must end now. We need an immediate ceasefire, release of all hostages and a full resumption of aid. gov.uk/government/new…
Every single American politician should be demanding that aid be allowed into Gaza. This is the absolute easiest call to make: People should have food. There is no excuse.