Rohan Talbot
@rohantalbot
Director of Advocacy & Campaigns @Medicalaidpal (🇵🇸, 🩺 & ⚖️). Tweeting in personal capacity, RT ≠ endorsement. 🏴🍉
Lammy "The grotesque spectacle of kids holding out their hand for food & being shot" Are you imposing sanctions on Israel? No Are you halting all arms sales? No Are you stopping all trade? No Are you ending all military assistance? No Are you expelling the Israeli ambassador? No
LBC's Nick Ferrari used the same sick logic this a.m.: If it's genocide, why isn't it quicker? As if (1) there aren't (minimal but real) international legitimacy/diplomatic constraints on action, and (2) Genocides are measured by their speed and completion, not action and intent.
NYT columnist Bret Stephens argues Israel has to kill more children before he'll call it genocide.
Your charity, your words of shock after the genocide, won’t make a difference. We will not accept your apology after the genocide. What has been done, has been done. I want you to look in the mirror, and ask: where was I when Gaza was going through a genocide?
Crazy stuff
Are Private Eye jokes now... criminal? PALESTINE Solidarity campaigner Jon Farley was arrested, bundled into a van and taken to the cells during a silent march in Leeds last weekend. What egregious act had prompted the police to act? He was, er, carrying a Private Eye joke piece…
🚨 This morning we turned the street outside Labour Party Headquarters in London into Jabaliya camp in Gaza. Listen to Ahmed Masoud talking about what the Israeli army did to his neighourhood and family.
The bodies of dead children we see from Gaza every day have "Made in the UK" burned into their wounds. Thank you @SarahChampionMP for refusing to let this go. Until F-35 parts stop flowing from the UK to Israel, Britain remains complicit.
Chair, @SarahChampionMP, has responded to the Government’s “unsatisfactory” response to the Chair's letter on F-35 sales. Find out more ⬇️
"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
First: No genocide looks like the Holocaust. Just like no genocide looks like the Rwandan genocide or the Herero genocide. There are common aspects and patterns. But genocide does not come with a franchising manual.
You need to be a special kind of psychopath to think these images somehow reflect well on you: a large group of emaciated and obviously desperate civilians in a landscape of total desolation that you caused, scrambling towards a rare aid truck while your soldiers have to be…
When you look past the headlines and Hamas’ lies, the truth is clear: Israel is not at war with the people of Gaza. Today, many civilians advance toward the soldiers, the only order given to our troops is: do not engage, do not shoot. Watch the encounter:
On Israel, the UK government is now to the right of the Daily Express
Kit Malthouse is, truly, one of the only British MPs who will escape this genocide with his conscience and soul unscathed. In public he is outraged and righteous, in private he is caring and deeply empathetic toward those working to end these horrors.
Remarkable that one of the strongest voices against the UK’s complicity is a Conservative. And he has the politics right: only the Labour back benches can change UK policy. We need a campaign to target *every* Labour MP to get a change, and soon.
“Each morning, the same question echoes across Gaza: will I eat today?” We have joined more than 100 organisations demanding action to end Israel's deliberate, mass starvation of Gaza's population: map.org.uk/news/archive/p…
Horrific scenes in #Gaza, with hundreds killed just for seeking aid; people are #starving and forcibly displaced; and senior Israeli officials use dehumanising language, proposing to concentrate Gazans into a mass detention camp. This has to stop and we must prevent #genocide.
Carla Denyer: David Lammy "repeatedly said the situation is intolerable, yet by failing to [act] is tolerating it. So when will he.. implement a full arms embargo, widespread sanctions?" Lammy says many of the arms exported to Israel go to NGOs. Do NGO's fly many F-35's, David?