AliceinChains

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[Merseyside Pensioners Association @MerseyPensioner]

Support Audrey White & others who were arrested for peacefully opposing genocide. Join us at 9:30 am outside Westminster Magistrates Court on 11/11/25. Our basic human rights are being stolen from us by a government that's complicit in genocide. #FreedomOfSpeech
#HumanRights

[Freedom Flotilla Coalition @GazaFFlotilla]

Don’t Lose the ‘Madleen’: Track Her Journey to Gaza

In partnership with @ForensicArchi , we’ve equipped the Madleen with a live tracker to ensure safety, accountability, and global solidarity.
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[AliceinChains @Alice_in_Flames]

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[AliceinChains @Alice_in_Flames]

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[Double Down News @DoubleDownNews]

This is the Gaza documentary the BBC pulled after pressure from genocide defenders

[Ali Abunimah @AliAbunimah]

I’m free! I wrote this on the plane and I’m posting it just after landing at Istanbul. On Monday evening I was brought to Zurich airport in handcuffs, in a small metal cage inside a windowless prison van and led all the way to the plane by police. This is after three days and two nights in a Swiss prison cut off from communication with the outside world, in a cell 24 hours a day with one cell mate, not even permitted to contact my family. On Saturday in a police interview in the presence of my lawyer they accused me of “offending against Swiss law” without ever telling me what crime I had committed in Switzerland or listing any charges. As far as I know I have not been charged with any crime whatsoever and I was held in “administrative detention.” On Sunday morning, they took me from my cell for questioning by Swiss defense ministry intelligence agents without the presence of my lawyer, and they again refused to allow me to contact her or my family. I refused to talk to them without my lawyer and told them take me back to my cell. During my imprisonment I refused every meal and every cup of coffee or tea they offered me except the last meal, after I knew I would be going home. I accepted only water, which is the right of every human being. All of this was after I was abducted off the street around 1:30pm on Saturday while on my way to the Palestine teach-in by undercover agents, handcuffed, forced into an unmarked car and sped straight to the prison. My “crime”? Being a journalist who speaks up for Palestine and against Israel’s genocide and settler-colonial savagery and those who aid and abet it. I came to Switzerland at the invitation of Swiss citizens to talk about justice for Palestine, to talk about accountability for a genocide in which Switzerland too is complicit. But while I was hauled off to prison like a dangerous criminal before I even had a chance to say a word, the Israeli president Isaac Herzog, who declared at the start of the genocide that there are no civilians in Gaza, no innocents, received a red carpet welcome in Davos, a carpet soaked in the blood of the more than 47,000 known victims of the genocide and the thousands more still under the rubble, or who died of deliberately inflicted starvation and denial of medical care. And on this very day Netanyahu freely travels to Poland to make a mockery of the Auschwitz commemoration despite an outstanding ICC arrest warrant. That is the perverse, unjust world we live in. This ordeal lasted three days but that taste of prison was more than enough to leave me in even greater awe of the Palestinian heroes who endure months and years in the prisons of the genocidal oppressor. More than ever I know that the debt we owe them is one we can never repay and all of them must be free and they must remain our focus. The police gave me my phone back only at the gate of the plane so I’m only seeing now the extent of the overwhelming support and solidarity from all over the world. I’m deeply grateful to each and every person who stood up for me. I’m especially grateful to my lawyer Dina Raewel and her team, to our friends in Zurich who I learned afterwards demonstrated outside the prison, to my family and my colleagues at EI and so many others. I honestly had no idea what was happening outside that concrete room! Thank you from the bottom of my heart. I want to tell the whole story of what happened, perhaps in an @intifada livestream in the next day or two, because I think it’s important for people to know the depths to which their Western so-called “democracies” have sunk in the abject service of genocidal Zionism. Right now I’m glad to be on my way home. I’m looking forward to hugging my mom and dad, taking a shower and sleeping in my own bed. Journalism is not a crime! Speaking out for Palestine is not a crime! Standing against racist genocidal Zionism is not a crime! Say it with me:

From the River to the Sea Palestine Will Be Free! ❤️🇵🇸✌️

[Stephen L. Miller @redsteeze]

They're starting to get it.

[Jonathan Cook @Jonathan_K_Cook]

In arresting an Israeli Jewish professor, Haim Bresheeth, for supposedly supporting a "proscribed organisation" (Hamas), the Met have exposed their hand. There is a video of the speech given by Prof Bresheeth at an anti-genocide rally last week. We can all hear for ourselves that nothing he said contravened the draconian Terrorism Act.

Instead, he noted – quite correctly – that Israel cannot defeat Hamas or any of the other resistance movements opposed to its genocide in Gaza.

As so many others have observed, and history serves as our guide here, you cannot defeat an organisation created to struggle against your violence by engaging in more violence. Israel's genocide is the best recruiting sergeant Hamas could wish for.

Israel's strategy – assuming that it is actually trying to defeat Hamas – is entirely self-sabotaging. Pointing this out is not support for a proscribed organisation. It is simple historical analysis – something we all ought to be free to do. But arresting academics for doing it has a very dark pedigree indeed.

That is where we have arrived in Sir Keir Starmer's Britain.

Israel has smashed into oblivion the constraints of international law through the endless repetition of war crimes. Targeting children, babies, shelters, hospitals, universities, bakeries has been entirely normalised.

Now Israel's patrons such as the UK are tearing apart the rules of civil society – to normalise the arrest and persecution of anti-genocide protesters, journalists and academics.

Britain is a full partner with Israel, not only by arming and supporting a genocide of the Palestinian people, but by criminalising the right to protest against it, to speak out, to think for ourselves.

The Palestinians are in a fight for their very existence. We are in a parallel fight to stop the last vestiges of our freedoms being taken from us.

Watch Prof Bresheeth's speech here: https://t.co/qnQ0MrNjbM

[audrey White @RedRosa91940184]

A rather long thread - A number of weeks ago I was admonished by organisers of a rally in Liverpool for giving a speech I was told made other speakers (likely Labour affiliates in town for party conference) “uncomfortable,” causing several to withdraw. The issue: raising how false accusations of antisemitism have been weaponised to undermine support for Palestine. I was told my contribution was problematic on the grounds that it’s “important our demos reflect the wide range of views within the movement" and yet it is increasingly clear to me that some within our movement are committed to in-effect censoring activists from talking about the key issue that has undermined the Palestine movement in this country more than any other.

This is something thousands of activists across the country have experience of – being victimised, intimidated, libelled, suspended or expelled from the Labour Party as anti-semites, largely without evidence or due process   – including disproportionally Jews. It was used to oust the only pro-Palestine leader of a major political party this country has ever seen. Government is now virtually bereft of pro-Palestine voices because of it. It has indisputably cowed and weakened our movement – with right-wing Labour its chief instigator – and yet it is the advice of some organisers that this shouldn’t be spoken of in public. I can only assume as not to upset those still able to reconcile their support for Palestine with remaining a member of an organisation that embraced this very tactic to purge its own membership and is currently tacitly supporting genocide in Gaza, namely the Labour party.

I was told that by raising this issue on stage I wasn't being "helpful." What isn’t helpful is brushing such a vicious political instrument under the carpet and characterising it as merely “a row.” The weaponisation of anti-semitism is recognised the world over as a key tactic used by Israel and its allies to silence pro-Palestine voices. The need to combat it is openly discussed on the US anti-war Left and Right for example (see Bernie Sanders) and yet much political leadership in this country is seemingly too brow-beaten or preoccupied with preserving it’s own status to challenge it. Even as a strategic calculation this is completely wrongheaded and leaves us open to attack time and time again. If those in a position of leadership within the movement are unwilling to confront these smears head-on, then please don’t reprimand – and in effect attempt to gag – other activists with direct experience of such attacks, from doing so. I believe, as do many others, that it’s vital for Palestinian liberation we fight back (see the adjudication I won against the Jewish Chronicle for libelling me). 

As regards to other speakers feeling uncomfortable or “reputationally damaged” by speaking after me. It was rather uncomfortable for me to be sharing a platform with MPs from the incumbent Labour government currently imposing a new raft of Tory-style austerity on pensioners and materially enabling genocide. But, unlike others, I do believe in pluralism and freedom of speech within a mass movement and wouldn’t dream of trying to police what others say on a podium (especially when the issue is so pertinent). There were countless speakers at the rally who chose not to speak on this subject (which was their prerogative) and so I am left wondering why I, – as the only speaker who chose to do so – should be admonished (absurdly on the grounds of ensuring a “wide range” of voices). The fact that some organisers are showing their instincts are to defer to the concerns of those in power (yet, who do so little with it) i.e. the Labour Party, over the lived experience of embattled activists is disappointing and revealing.

Audrey

[Media Lens @medialens]

'The reason I’d enjoyed such smooth sailing for so long hadn’t been, as I’d assumed, because I was careful and diligent and good at my job... The truth was that, in all those years, I hadn’t written anything important enough to suppress.' (Gary Webb) https://t.co/IRFsOzQq0i

[Matt Aldarab @mattybach1]

Essential read from @Jonathan_K_Cook👇

"There is precisely no reason for police to raid Winstanley’s home or seize his electronic devices. The preposterous accusation of “encouraging terrorism” clearly relates to his online work, which is fully in the public domain."

[The Crispin Flintoff Show @CrispinShow]

A message from Asa Winstanley after the police raid yesterday morning.
Register here to watch the whole interview on Sunday morning's show👇
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[AliceinChains @Alice_in_Flames]

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[AliceinChains @Alice_in_Flames]

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[Mary Whitby 🇵🇸 @19MW98]

So we went to welcome RCGP & GP delegates to our city & we were pleased to see some handy railings to tie up our banners. Not so pleased by the unwelcoming manner of the rep from the RCGP Organising Committee 1/7

[Peter Oborne @OborneTweets]

I talk to Richard Sanders about his remarkable new Al Jazeera documentary. It tells the story of the last twelve months in Gaza through the voices and video of Israeli soldiers posted on social media platforms including You Tube, TicTok, Facebook etc:

https://t.co/KOH0ALrby7

[AliceinChains @Alice_in_Flames]

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[Dr Deepa Govindarajan Driver @deepa_driver]

Bonjour from PACE in Strasbourg to all those who campaigned against the politically motivated persecution of #Assange

The silencing & erasure ends here. Julian will address parliamentarians from 46 states & the international press. You can follow live via https://t.co/odJ1BAtkzc