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I have no political agendas.
Just a concerned citizen, resident, tax and ratepayer

[Rumpole 👀 🙄 @AIC100]

@JDVance @Nigel_Farage Sikh soldiers were an integral part of the British armed forces that helped defeat the Nazis. They were part of the same people as your wife who were colonized by the "civilized" West.
@narindertweets

[Rumpole 👀 🙄 @AIC100]

@Nigel_Farage Sikh soldiers were an integral part of the British armed forces who helped defeat the Nazis. Lest we forget.

[Jon Sopel @jonsopel]

It was terrible Mr Vice President what happened. And lessons will be learned. But here’s a thought - maybe concentrate instead on why 44000 Americans died last year from gun related deaths, and what can be done about your dreadful disease before you start lecturing others

[Defend Our Juries @DefendOurJuries]

Legal experts accuse Palestine Action judge of bias, lawyers demand recusal

A complaint signed by over 3,000 people accuses Justice Johnson of 'personal animosity towards the defendants and the Palestinian cause, incompatible with the role of a judge'

https://t.co/eud6IbpYZs

[Dr. Sabreena Ghaffar-Siddiqui @sabreenaGS]

Blonde-haired, blue-eyed white people from Ukraine were celebrated for making home-made Molotov cocktails to defend their land, but the brown Arab Muslim, the Iranian, the Afghan, is far too “uncivilised” to have the right to resist. Their resistance is “barbaric” because it comes from an inherently “violent” culture.

The selective application of international law and one’s right to defend themselves from illegal occupation and colonial violence has been revealed to be a complete contradiction in the west, and is no doubt infuriating.

But we need to also understand how these “resistance” narratives are processed in communities.

These narratives do not stay on our screens. They shape how entire communities see themselves.
When Indigenous, Black, and other racialised peoples repeatedly see their histories, struggles, cultures, and resistance framed as dangerous, irrational, or inherently violent, many begin to internalise those messages.

Some distance themselves from their own identities in search of safety, acceptance, or legitimacy.

Others carry a deep, unspoken rage born from exclusion, dispossession, and the constant demand to prove their humanity.

When people are disconnected from their roots, denied dignity, and taught to be ashamed of where they come from, they will still search for belonging. It’s a basic human need to feel a sense of community.

The question is whether we create spaces that nurture healing, identity, and justice, or leave them vulnerable to finding belonging in places that exploit their pain.

[𝐌𝐚𝐥𝐜𝐨𝐥𝐦 @Malcolm_Pal9]

Greta Thunberg explains how speaking up for Palestine is different from speaking up for climate issues.

At a conference in Brussels, she said that supporting Palestine is the minimum that people should do for human rights.

She also said that, unlike climate activism and many other social causes, speaking out for Palestine can often lead to criticism, backlash, or being cancelled.

[Caitlin Johnstone @caitoz]

Can you imagine how explosively the right would shit themselves if a group of Muslims were driving around London impersonating police officers and intimidating non-Muslims under the justification of countering Islamophobia? The shrieking about "Sharia law" would shatter glass.

[Furkan Gözükara @FurkanGozukara]

🚨 DISGUSTING: US Senator Chris Van Hollen exposes a terrifying 3 AM raid by Israeli forces. He confirms they kidnapped a sick American student without any explanation and completely ignored her US citizenship!

He brutally calls out Secretary Marco Rubio's blatant hypocrisy!

[The Touchline | 𝐓 @TouchlineX]

🚨 𝗕𝗥𝗘𝗔𝗞𝗜𝗡𝗚: The United States has denied entry to Iraq's official photographer for the World Cup.

He was detained for at least 12 hours and in the end was sent back to his country.

— @Romain_Molina

[BladeoftheSun @BladeoftheS]

The USA finally gave Visa's to Iran's football team yesterday, but it hasn't given any to their training staff.

If FIFA wasn't corrupt it would tell Donald Trump that the USA will be disqualified if he doesn't stop unfairly rigging the competition.

[Redi Tlhabi @RediTlhabi]

"Perceived a vehicle to be accelerating toward them." Always the same nonsense. And the BBC does to critique it but affords the IDF's outrageous claims, so much legitimacy.

[Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan]

Never forget that the biggest victims of cancel culture have always been Palestinians and supporters of Palestinians and in this case someone who just mentioned the word Palestinian.
https://t.co/ABOIu3GmRF

[Megan Choritz @meganshead]

I am a South African, I am a Jew, I am an anti-Zionist. In South Africa Jewish (Zionist) supremacy is white supremacy on steroids. It is double white privilege with added historical victimhood. It refuses to acknowledge apartheid or systemic racism and demands exclusive rights.

[IRAQ FRA @IraqFootFR]

Félicitations à la FIFA pour avoir attribué la Coupe du Monde à un pays capable de retenir pendant 7 heures un joueur qui n’a jamais fait parler de lui autrement que par ses performances sur le terrain.

Quand le meilleur buteur de l’Irak, qualifié pour le plus grand événement sportif de la planète, peut être traité comme un suspect à son arrivée, difficile de ne pas s’interroger sur l’accueil qui sera réservé à certaines sélections (Iran) et à leurs supporters.

Pendant des années, chaque aspect de l’organisation au Qatar a été scruté, commenté et critiqué. J’espère que les États-Unis feront l’objet du même niveau d’exigence et de la même couverture médiatique.

Bravo, Monsieur Infantino.

[LBC @LBC]

'Elon Musk is not conducive to the public good.'

@campbellclaret suggests that Rupert Lowe's Restore Britain Party is only getting noticed because of the influence of Elon Musk-owned X.

[T L @PamBondiGOTTAgo]

@tedcruz Israel has always been the problem.

[History Speaks @History__Speaks]

@tedcruz While Ted tweeted this, Israeli settlers were carrying out a pogrom against Christians in the West Bank. Ted's favorite country will neither prosecute nor punish nor stigmatize the pogromists. Nor will Ted - despite LARPing as a Christian - criticize it.
https://t.co/uln8ukHy5H

[The News Agents @TheNewsAgents]

"You're saying that you drew attention to war crimes... and Keir Starmer chose to ignore it because he thought you were using it for political purposes?"

"That is just a statement of fact."

@wesstreeting tells @lewis_goodall the PM dismissed evidence of war crimes in Gaza.

[Nazier Paulsen @nazier_paulsen]

This afternoon I joined the Cape Town Palestine activists in their weekly Kromboom Bridge protest.

Among the activists is one of my favourite community radio presenters, Gadija Ahjum and her daughter, Hajar Kagiso Al-Tha'irah Ahjum-Mathee.

Hajar recently returned from the Global Sumud Flotilla after being held in Israeli detention for attempting to break the illegal seige imposed on the people of Gaza.

Capetonians do not want their city to become another Tel Aviv.