Alison A

Bruxelloise feminist, tweeting mainly about cycling and human rights. Co-founder of @casualcycling. Previously @amnesty now head of comms @europeangreens

[Les Hijabeuses @leshijabeuses]

🚨 AGGRESSION POLICE🚨

Ce dimanche 11 août, alors que des milliers de français s’apprêtaient à commencer le Marathon des JO, des membres de notre association sportive ont décidé de soutenir celles qui avaient la chance de participer pour certaines à leur premier marathon.

[Alison A @AlisonBrux]

It's hardly 'grabbing control' when the left *won more votes*.

[Alison A @AlisonBrux]

@jewdas It makes me cringe to my core how they claim to be 'the national representative organisation of the UK's Jewish Community'. #NotInMyName

[James Kanter @jameskanter]

EC refuses to condemn Finland's law refusing territorial asylum but instead expresses "understanding" for Finnish concerns about Russia pushing migrants and asylum-seekers across its borders. Finnish law "goes beyond all powers granted under EU law" says @AmnestyEU.

[Alison A @AlisonBrux]

@LouHaigh Highly recommend this one by @peterwalker99 too 👍

https://t.co/iXssmxy3fg

[Alison A @AlisonBrux]

@MatinaStevis Didn't he also do a nazi salute as he walked away?

[Nick Beake @Beaking_News]

Colleagues at BBC Verify have analysed footage of the aftermath of the Israeli strike this morning - and have confirmed it took place within an area designated as a humanitarian zone, according to the IDF website.

[Tineke Strik @Tineke_Strik]

The Finnish Parliament adopted a law curtailing the right to apply for asylum at the borders. Foreign attacks must be answered through foreign policy, not through the punishment of asylum seekers. The @EU_Commission must respond to this breach of EU law.
https://t.co/6xjTyaixbI

[Alison A @AlisonBrux]

There are so many examples, but this one made me so angry 3/3:

https://t.co/TcDhQ1sXhb

[Alison A @AlisonBrux]

I couldn't stop thinking about this as I lit my menorah last night. It is beyond belief.

It also made me nervous. The IDF using iconic symbols of Judaism & intentionally conflating Jewish people with their actions as they terrorize Gaza, risks inciting antisemitism #NotInOurName

[Alison A @AlisonBrux]

Devastating. 96% of Jewish people said they'd encountered #antisemitism in their daily life 😔

And it has no doubt increased, as the survey took place in 1st half of 2023. 1/3

https://t.co/YqhpesZsMj

[Alison A @AlisonBrux]

I blame part of that rise on the Israeli govt, as they insist on using Judaism to justify their crimes in #Gaza, and to shield themselves from accountability. 2/3

[Stefan Simanowitz @StefSimanowitz]

As France prepares to open its doors for #Olympics, French athletes are banned from wearing hijabs at the games

@amnesty report (out 16 July) details the devastating impact hijab bans are having on Muslim women & girls at all levels of French sport

For a copy: [email protected]

[European Greens @europeangreens]

Famine has spread across the entire Gaza strip.

Children are dying from hunger, malnutrition, dehydration and lack of access to adequate healthcare.

We call on the EU to double their efforts for a #CeasefireNOW & to pressure for the delivery of humanitarian aid.

[Jason Hickel @jasonhickel]

BREAKING: UN rapporteurs have now declared that famine has taken hold throughout Gaza, the consequence of Israel's policy of forcibly starving the civilian population. https://t.co/MmDFyToZyf

[Agnes Callamard @AgnesCallamard]

New @amnesty report on the state of the right to protest in 21 countries paints a deeply disturbing picture of a #Europe-wide onslaught against the right to protest. Across the continent, authorities are vilifying, impeding, deterring and unlawfully punishing people who peacefully protest.

Our research reveals a continent-wide pattern of repressive laws, use of unnecessary or excessive force, arbitrary arrests and prosecutions, unwarranted or discriminatory restrictions as well as the increasing use of invasive surveillance technology, resulting in a systematic roll back of the right to protest.

Throughout history, peaceful protest has played a pivotal role in the achievement of many of the rights and freedoms that we now take for granted. And yet across Europe, repressive laws and policies combined with unjustified practices and abusive surveillance technologies are creating a toxic environment which poses a serious threat to peaceful protesters and protests.

One of these developments, on their own, in a single country, would be disturbing. But dozens of such repressive tactics on a continental scale is plainly terrifying.

https://t.co/SYl3FupHwy

[Alison A @AlisonBrux]

'The total death toll is expected to be large given the intensity of this conflict; destroyed health-care infrastructure; severe shortages of food, water, and shelter; the population's inability to flee to safe places; and the loss of funding to UNRWA...'

[Jason Hickel @jasonhickel]

BREAKING: The Lancet has just published this article "conservatively" estimating that the death toll in the Gaza genocide could be 186,000 people or more. That's 8% of the population, obliterated. These are apocalyptic figures.

https://t.co/HaRTAvTvVI

[European Greens @europeangreens]

We warmly congratulate the Nouveau Front Populaire & especially Les Ecologistes @EELV for their triumphant victory in 🇫🇷 elections👏

Millions voted for a progressive & pro-European future. Thanks to them & the responsibility of democratic forces, the far-right has been beaten 💪

[Nassira El Moaddem @NassiraELM]

Ecoutez bien Marine Tondelier face à Jean-Philippe Tanguy, député Front national !
C'était il y a quelques minutes lors de la soirée électorale sur France 2
#legislatives2024

[Mélanie Vogel @Melanie_Vogel_]

Le NFP est la première force démocratique du pays.

Notre responsabilité a sauvé la République. Elle a aussi permis d’indiquer un cap clair.

Il est temps de donner à un gouvernement de la justice sociale, de l’écologie, du pouvoir d’achat, des libertés, les moyens d’agir.