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[Conter @ConterScot]

On this morning’s show, @David_Jamieson7 contested the SNP’s stance on rearmament and military spending, drawing on the track record of British foreign policy.

🎧 Listen to The Briefing in full: https://t.co/5Hw7HVthTS

[Conter @ConterScot]

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Commentary, debate, analysis.

Commencing July 6th…

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[Conter @ConterScot]

The Trump Doctrine And US Imperialism Today

@David_Jamieson7 and @Jonathon_Shafi exchange perspectives with @leninology on a changing world order.

🎧 Listen here: https://t.co/Q4UhOPTPez

[Saul Staniforth @SaulStaniforth]

On Channel 4s Fourcast Edmund Fitton-Brown (ex British ambassador to Yemen) argued Britain was right to arm & militarily assist Israel & he denies its genocide

Here he laughs as @OborneTweets points out his & the govts record in Yemen supporting the mass slaughter of Arabs.

[Paul O’Connell @pmpoc]

British police have had sufficient power to regulate and even limit protest since 1936, and certainly since 1986 - the raft of new powers introduced by Tory and Labour governments are about crushing the right to protest https://t.co/n3mT6W50sX

[Skotia @TheSkotia]

Delivering the Jimmy Reid Memorial Lecture in Glasgow, Dr. Ghassan Abu-Sittah (@GhassanAbuSitt1) dismantles Keir Starmer’s “real Britain”.

[David Jamieson @David_Jamieson7]

Glasgow central filling with supporters for the #GazaFlotilla, calling for an end to the siege.

[Andrew Learmonth @andrewlearmonth]

Pro-Palestinian protesters in Edinburgh Waverley break through police barriers. Comes after Scots on the Global Sumud Flotilla were detained by Israel.

[Progressive International @ProgIntl]

BREAKING 🇵🇸 Navigated by Captain Muhammad Kuchuktigin, the Mikeno ship broke the blockade of Gaza earlier this morning, bypassing the occupation's naval forces and entering Palestinian territorial waters.

[Saul Staniforth @SaulStaniforth]

"Right now we are moving closer to what seems to be their military blockade... a huge concentration of vessels"

The latest from the Global Sumud Flotilla. Solidarity.

[Conter @ConterScot]

Moral Collapse: How the Scottish Commentariat Failed on Gaza

Following his article last week, we speak to @David_Jamieson7 about the state of Scottish commentary on the Middle East.

🎧 Listen here:
https://t.co/ByCSA4Xyqa

[Matt Kennard @kennardmatt]

It’s unreal that we just watched the entity hunt down and kill nearly every prominent journalist in Gaza - one by one

Fucking madness. All of it

[David Jamieson @David_Jamieson7]

Much of the Scottish commentariat, including those traditionally on the centre-left, have badly failed on Gaza. Writing void of intellectual or moral sense.

I take on the arguments of @iainmacwhirter, @kmckenna63 and @holyroodmandy. 1/
https://t.co/lzq65h6qOB

[Conter @ConterScot]

@David_Jamieson7 @iainmacwhirter @kmckenna63 @holyroodmandy Faced by the horrors of Gaza, Scotland’s leading opinion writers have denounced western solidarity movements. David Jamieson asks how, and why, our commentators have abandoned reason and moral sense.
https://t.co/V5S14DNXOe

[Conter @ConterScot]

Why did commentators once on the Scottish centre-left join the elite backlash against the Gaza solidarity movement?

@David_Jamieson7 surveys the writing of @iainmacwhirter, @kmckenna63 and @holyroodmandy.

'How (and why) the Commentariat Failed on Gaza' (link below)

[أنس الشريف Anas Al-Sharif @AnasAlSharif0]

This is my will and my final message. If these words reach you, know that Israel has succeeded in killing me and silencing my voice. First, peace be upon you and Allah’s mercy and blessings.

Allah knows I gave every effort and all my strength to be a support and a voice for my people, ever since I opened my eyes to life in the alleys and streets of the Jabalia refugee camp. My hope was that Allah would extend my life so I could return with my family and loved ones to our original town of occupied Asqalan (Al-Majdal). But Allah’s will came first, and His decree is final. I have lived through pain in all its details, tasted suffering and loss many times, yet I never once hesitated to convey the truth as it is, without distortion or falsification—so that Allah may bear witness against those who stayed silent, those who accepted our killing, those who choked our breath, and whose hearts were unmoved by the scattered remains of our children and women, doing nothing to stop the massacre that our people have faced for more than a year and a half.

I entrust you with Palestine—the jewel in the crown of the Muslim world, the heartbeat of every free person in this world. I entrust you with its people, with its wronged and innocent children who never had the time to dream or live in safety and peace. Their pure bodies were crushed under thousands of tons of Israeli bombs and missiles, torn apart and scattered across the walls.

I urge you not to let chains silence you, nor borders restrain you. Be bridges toward the liberation of the land and its people, until the sun of dignity and freedom rises over our stolen homeland. I entrust you to take care of my family. I entrust you with my beloved daughter Sham, the light of my eyes, whom I never got the chance to watch grow up as I had dreamed.

I entrust you with my dear son Salah, whom I had wished to support and accompany through life until he grew strong enough to carry my burden and continue the mission.

I entrust you with my beloved mother, whose blessed prayers brought me to where I am, whose supplications were my fortress and whose light guided my path. I pray that Allah grants her strength and rewards her on my behalf with the best of rewards.

I also entrust you with my lifelong companion, my beloved wife, Umm Salah (Bayan), from whom the war separated me for many long days and months. Yet she remained faithful to our bond, steadfast as the trunk of an olive tree that does not bend—patient, trusting in Allah, and carrying the responsibility in my absence with all her strength and faith.

I urge you to stand by them, to be their support after Allah Almighty. If I die, I die steadfast upon my principles. I testify before Allah that I am content with His decree, certain of meeting Him, and assured that what is with Allah is better and everlasting.

O Allah, accept me among the martyrs, forgive my past and future sins, and make my blood a light that illuminates the path of freedom for my people and my family. Forgive me if I have fallen short, and pray for me with mercy, for I kept my promise and never changed or betrayed it.

Do not forget Gaza… And do not forget me in your sincere prayers for forgiveness and acceptance.

Anas Jamal Al-Sharif
06.04.2025

This is what our beloved Anas requested to be published upon his martyrdom.

[Matt Kennard @kennardmatt]

.@SOAS has now expelled Haya Adam, one of its brightest students and a tireless activist against the genocide in Gaza

Absolutely disgraceful decision

The university’s reputation will never recover

This cannot stand. Mobilise to get Haya reinstated

[Matt Kennard @kennardmatt]

In a new and important article The Times has confirmed our scoop about the new US-leased plane flying spy missions over Gaza for Israel from RAF Akrotiri, the UK airbase on Cyprus.

UK Ministry of Defence (MoD) sources told the paper that the government is paying a US company to undertake the spy flights. The flights are now flown by contractors, not UK military pilots, but the MoD would not disclose the length or cost of the contract.

We discovered the new contractor pilot had forgotten to turn off his plane's transponder over Gaza on July 28, giving us the first glimpse of the spy flights' path over Gaza in 20 months of such missions.

A UK military source told The Times it was a "schoolboy error" that would not have happened if the plane had been operated by RAF pilots.

It is a very important article because it's first time distress from within the UK Ministry of Defence about its direct participation in the Gaza genocide has been voiced.

The paper writes: "Patience with Israel inside the MoD appears to be running out...Military sources are baffled by the decision to privatise RAF intelligence-gathering tasks to help Israel, questioning why the government hasn’t pulled support after photographs emerged of starving Palestinians."

A senior British military source, speaking on the condition of anonymity, told the newspaper: “Instead of sending a message to Israel that we aren’t going to do surveillance for you, we are happy to hire an American company and pay for it.”

The source added that the aircraft being used by the US company is "essentially the same aircraft [as Shadow R1], being [run] by a civilian company who are for hire. They have US security clearances and therefore allied nations who trust the US can hire them. This is about support for Israel."

The Times added: "Britain’s military support for Israel is at odds with the Foreign Office position, which has been to call out the Israeli government for 'grotesque' treatment of Palestinians and threaten sanctions."

A government source told the paper there would be "several hard drives" of intelligence gathered by British spy planes over Gaza.

The Times article is here: https://t.co/7YImdqk9BU

[Matt Kennard @kennardmatt]

The spy flights that Britain has been flying over Gaza for Israel since December 2023 constitute direct participation in genocide

The whole programme, long shrouded in secrecy, is unravelling

ICC must investigate and prosecute the UK ministers who ordered and oversaw it