Amrit Wilson

Writer, activist, Marxist, anti-racist feminist...cutlery-anarchist, mother, grandmother

[Save Our Citizenships 🔻 @LetsStopC9]

⁨Grief Is Not Your Megaphone

Henry Nowak’s death demands justice and restraint, but Nigel Farage hears a grieving family beg for unity and responds by weaponising their son’s body to stoke hate, proving some people don’t mourn tragedies, they monetise them.⁩

[Matt Kennard @kennardmatt]

In July 2025, Labour govt gave ‘special mission’ immunity to head of Israeli Air Force force—and key architect of Gaza genocide—so he could visit UK

Same govt just banned journos Hasan Piker and Cenk Uygur from UK for criticising same genocide

Labour is a genocidal institution

[Rajiv Sinha @RajivSinhaG]

BAJRANGDAL IN MANCHESTER? (THREAD)

An email from Manchester’s Gita Bhavan Hindu Temple lists an event as “Sponsored by Bajrangdal”.

There might be an innocent explanation, but most familiar with Indian politics will think of India’s Hindu far-right organisation the Bajrang Dal.

[☀️👀 @zei_squirrel]

former senior CIA officer Frank Snepp details how the CIA launders their propaganda through outlets like the New York Times: "When we wanted to circulate disinformation, we would pick out the most respected journalists and they would print it as exclusives."

[SouthAsia Solidarity @SAsiaSolidarity]

Despite the undercurrent of contempt - “absolutely crazy love” in India - and the blatant racism of Israelis, Modi & his bhakts still fawn shamelessly on all things Israeli, while Adani arms the #GazaGenocide‌ & signs mega deals with Israeli companies

https://t.co/fOoz50x7T4

[Jonathan Cook @Jonathan_K_Cook]

Former UK ambassador Craig Murray assesses the manifold ways Judge Johnson hearing the case against the Palestine Action activists rigged the trial to secure a convictions of violence to justify the government's proscription of the group – and yet still the jury saw through his various ruses:

"Judge Johnson ruled that the defendants were not permitted to refer to their motives.

He ruled that the jury may not be informed of their absolute right to acquit.

He attempted to have the leading defence barrister, Rajiv Menon KC, prosecuted for contempt of court for informing the jury of their rights.

He ruled that terms including 'genocide' and 'ethnic cleansing' may not be used in court.

He ordered that the notebooks and other writings of the accused be redacted to withhold from the jury any information related to Elbit’s supply of weapons to Israel.

He enforced the concealment from the jury of the nature of the weapons and equipment that had been damaged.

He granted anonymity to senior Elbit staff and admitted their evidence without the defence being able to cross-examine.

He ruled that the trial had *not* been prejudiced by the Secretary of State [Yvette Cooper] and the Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police [Sir Mark Rowley] stating the offences as fact throughout national media.

He allowed the release to the media of highly edited and selective prosecution video footage during the trial which gave a false impression of events.

He permitted the admission of Metropolitan Police video evidence which they had given over to Elbit’s sole custody for an entire year.

He ruled that the jury must not be told of his stated intention to consider adding terrorist aggravation to any convictions – which adds 150% to time served in jail."

Murray rightly concludes: "That is an astonishing list of nefarious actions by Judge Johnson. Read it again. Many people will surely conclude, it is Judge Johnson who should be in jail."

The Achilles' heel in this establishment stitch-up – apart from the independence of juries – is the separate jurisdictions of Scotland and England. Murray has been allowed to bring a judicial review in the Scottish courts of the government's proscription of Palestine Action. The hearing begins tomorrow.

If he wins, he can make the government's efforts to crush our rights to speech and protest – to protect Elbit and Israel's genocide – untenable. You can find ways to support the legal challenge at the end of his post.

https://t.co/ptvG6MSyZh

[SouthAsia Solidarity @SAsiaSolidarity]

Gen sey of the Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) Liberation @Dipankar_cpiml on the urgent need for a new phase of mass politics in which the Left rebuilds itself through anti-fascist resistance and grassroots struggles https://t.co/VdXHXfv5cc

[Idrees Ahmad @im_PULSE]

I finished @weizman_eyal's Ungrounding last night and it has left me overwhelmed & speechless. I'll have a lot more to say about it but suffice it to say for now that, while some extraordinary books have been written about Gaza, this one for me is the most important. Here's why:

[P. Sainath @PSainath_org]

Even by the standards of a country ranking 157 of 180 nations in the World Press Freedom Index, the reaction of the authorities to the ‘Cockroach Janata Party’ is beyond extraordinary. The public response to that imaginative prank should have signalled to them a deep discontent, even distress, among young people. Instead, as The Indian Express reported, it was framed as jeopardising the country’s ‘national security’ and ‘posing a threat to the sovereignty of India.’ Decades ago, the Malaysian lawyer and poet Cecil Rajendra wrote this brilliant poem that captures the idiocy of it better than any pompous editorialising could (not that our ‘mainstream’ media would dare do even that much).

[SouthAsia Solidarity @SAsiaSolidarity]

@tishasaroyan
Exposes the deliberate misrepresentation of the Jaina Yakshini Ambika as the idol of Saraswati which is the only evidence produced to allege that a Saraswati temple made by king Bhoja existed here and was built in 1034 CE.
#Hindutva #Lies
https://t.co/nawa4gJkMo

[Declassified UK @declassifiedUK]

The UK again condemns Israeli settlements while it:

❌refuses to ban trade with them
❌keeps military accord w/Israel
❌keeps trade & partnership accord
❌continues arms exports
❌refuses to mention Israeli nukes
❌refuses to respond to ICJ ruling on OPTs https://t.co/2UkE0LIxOH

[Jody McIntyre @jodymcintyre_]

Three patrons of UK Lawyers for Israel have been named in a “legal intimidation” complaint.

I’ve discovered that the family of one of the accused gave thousands to ex-Health Minister Wes Streeting.

Another served at a Peter Mandelson think tank.

Here’s what the records show:🧵

[Sangita Myska @SangitaMyska]

At a live event for @zeteo_news with @mehdirhasan the actor Riz Ahmed says British Secret services tried to recruit him three times as an intelligence officer. The final time, the offer came from a senior BBC Executive (who he doesn’t name) …

[Stop the War Coalition @STWuk]

Another former senior officer calls on Met chief to resign over political policing.

Sign our petition demanding just that 🔽

https://t.co/JGo3t5BU0y

[Declassified UK @declassifiedUK]

Billionaire Trump donor Paul Singer is "in line to make millions from" a bid to buy Thames Water, the Guardian reports.

What the Guardian did not mention is that Singer is a major donor to Friends of the Israel Defence Forces (IDF), which raises funds for the Israeli armed forces.

He may also be a significant funder of lobby group Conservative Friends of Israel (CFI), emails obtained by Declassified reveal.

In June 2015, CFI director Stuart Polak wrote: “I have made some real progress in obtaining support for my work for Israel from Paul Singer in NYC”.

Polak added to an Israeli diplomat: "I would also like you to consider whether you can arrange for me to be introduced to other Paul Singers – together with you to further help our work".
👉https://t.co/4wwRfiy8x3

[SouthAsia Solidarity @SAsiaSolidarity]

The current 9th stage of genocide in India is euphemized as “communal riots or communal violence” .
Motivated by BJP's Hinduvta ideology it
includes lynching Muslim men& boys, gang-raping Muslim women& girls &
destroying religious places such as Mosques https://t.co/YrIPLXSOcY

[Adil Raja @soldierspeaks]

Would the Pakistani military establishment and the US Deep State still deny the devious regime change operation against Imran Khan?

[Matt Kennard @kennardmatt]

Right decision

Burnham is a Blairite opportunist and more of the same

Labour’s destruction is a prerequisite for Greens stopping Reform

[SouthAsia Solidarity @SAsiaSolidarity]

Our webinar exposed the brazenness of #SIR which disenfranchised millions – chiefly Muslims – in plain sight & use of #JCB bulldozers to rob minorities of homes & livelihoods, all geared to statelessness & ethnic cleansing @TheCanaryUK #WestBengalElections https://t.co/CHGSVzUvvy

[Minnie Marx @Marshioness71]

@davegard @ShareefaEnergy @shado_mag @SAsiaSolidarity @AmritWilson The culprits were the employers. They paid white people more.

Now, no employer should be paying less
to migrant workers, for the sake of both migrants and UK workers. Yes, it’s wrong to drive down our pay, but it’s employers who benefit if it happens.