Anna Sams

[Martin Shaw @martinshawx]

The moral vacuum at the heart of UK media: @Channel4News follows a heart-rending interview with Dr James Smith about conditions in Gaza with an interview with Israel propagandist Amit Segal who is allowed to repeat *without challenge* from @mattfrei the completely discredited story of Hamas beheading babies. @krishgm

[Sana Saeed @SanaSaeed]

One year ago today, on August 10th, 2025, Israel targeted a journalists’ tent in Gaza, killing six Palestinian journalists: Anas al-Sharif, Mohammed Qreiqeh, Ibrahim Zaher, Mohammed al-Khalidi, Moamen Aliwa & Mohammed Nofal.

They are among almost 300 Palestinian journalists targeted and killed by Israel over the past three years in order to erase the crimes being committed against Palestinians from our feeds.

Their loss has left a deafening - intended - silence.

[Abubaker Abed @AbubakerAbedW]

On this day a year ago, our beloved, our best, and our voice and eyes was assassinated in an Israeli airstrike on the press tent outside Al-Shifa Hospital that not only killed him but murdered four others, including his closest Mohammed Qreqia’

Gaza has since lost its voice.💔

[Anna Sams @AnnaS5936]

@lindseyhilsum @Channel4News A report on this war crime that felt it necessary to state ‘the guilty’ were buried alongside the innocent - have you ever described buried IDF soldiers as guilty? Even in their immense grief the Palestinians are judged by a media complicit in their genocide. Shameful.

[Wokerati Marty @WokeratiMarty]

Andy Burnham says he wants to release low-risk female prisoners early.

I suggest he starts with these three women from Palestine Action who were jailed as “terrorists” for trying to stop the mass murder of children in Gaza.

[Matt Kennard @kennardmatt]

War crimes fugitive Benjamin Netanyahu today returned to Israel from US

He's had a warrant out for his arrest from ICC since November 2024

Today, he was again granted access to airspace of three ICC member countries—France, Italy and Greece

He flew over same countries on first leg (plus Canada)

The UN Special Rapporteur on Palestine said this breached these government's obligation to cooperate with the ICC

She further called on "competent authorities to investigate possible complicity"

This is the "rules-based order" they've shoved down our throats for 80 years

[Jeremy Corbyn @jeremycorbyn]

Next week is the anniversary of Hiroshima.

Today, the Prime Minister has announced more investment in weapons of mass destruction.

The UK spends £12,000 every minute on nuclear weapons. Imagine if we spent that money on social care, schools and the NHS instead.

[Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt @FranceskAlbs]

Italy, France, Greece did it again.

Three Rome Statute parties opened their airspace to fugitive Netanyahu, in breach of their obligation to cooperate with the ICC.

I call on competent authorities to investigate possible complicity.

[Caitlin Johnstone @caitoz]

It's 2026. IT'S JULY MOTHERFUCKING 2026. You'd be a piece of shit for releasing this in 2023, but to release it in 2026 after looking at the moonscape of Gaza with all its bombed-out hospitals and systematically demolished civilian infrastructure, you've got to be a psychopath.

[Mosab Abu Toha @MosabAbuToha]

So this is the creature responsible for the killing of more than a hundred of my relatives, as well as tens of thousands of children and entire families. It is this creature and his fellow officials and criminal soldiers who reduced my city to rubble and left the bodies of my loved ones buried beneath the ruins. He is the subject of an arrest warrant, yet he has been able to travel more than 5,000 miles, move freely throughout the United States, and be welcomed as though everything is perfectly normal.

How is he allowed to walk free with blood on his hands? The Palestinian blood on his hands is dripping onto the streets, restaurants, and government buildings of Washington, D.C.

How on earth is this possible?

[Matt Kennard @kennardmatt]

War crimes fugitive Benjamin Netanyahu is on his way to US

An arrest warrant for him was issued by ICC in November 2024 for a litany of horrific crimes

Today, three ICC member countries—Greece, Italy and France—have permitted him to use their airspace

Rogue, lawless nations

[Double Down News @DoubleDownNews]

Today Keir Starmer resigns as Prime Minister

Never forgot how the BBC & Guardian manufactured the worst PM in history

And the sordid reality of dark money & Gaza complicity they’re still trying to cover up @pularjs

[Zarah Sultana MP @zarahsultana]

You leave Downing Street with the blood of tens of thousands of Palestinians on your hands.

History will remember you as a war criminal for your role in the genocide in Gaza.

Our movement will never forget.

Good riddance.

[Ben Jamal @BenJamal48]

A barrister is facing prison just for reminding a jury they have the right to vote with their conscience. This historic right has existed since 1670. We can't let it be silenced now. Please join me in asking the government to protect our juries: https://t.co/6mhYYwgm1i via @38degrees

[Paul Holden @pauleholden]

Grateful to Novara Media for giving me the word count for a proper political obituary of Starmer!

"Starmer might not have a political economy, but he certainly has a moral one. He inhabits a world where some people are deserving of attention, grace, kindness or deference. Usually this is determined by whether he thinks they are ‘proper’ people: the suit-wearers who hold zippy ‘bilats’ or who wield the sort of institutional power he alternatingly fears or valorises. These people Starmer treats with genuine warmth, care and respect – like the media class that repeatedly defends him as a ‘decent man’ because they fall within his internal Venn diagram of respectability, cultural cache and power, so Starmer treats them decently.

But woe betide those who fall into his out-group of the contemptible. These are usually people other powerful and socially adept people think are worthy of ridicule, and will give Starmer a thumbs-up if he punches down. For this group, Starmer has nothing but disdain, or cruelty or indifference.

We know who falls into this category: leftwingers, Jeremy Corbyn and Diane Abbott, peace activists and Palestinians; those who stand up at Labour conference and demand accountability for genocide; the irresponsible idealists who refuse to put aside childish things like protest marches and human rights and justice and saving the climate in return for incrementalism, stoicism, ‘grown up’ politics, handshakes with dictators, dinner parties in Davos and accommodation with the ‘reasonable demands’ of capital.

Or, more concretely, the hundreds of thousands of members he told to leave the party – and did."

https://t.co/KOrD8xFmoP

[Paul Holden @pauleholden]

This is what it looks like to be truly morally and politically bankrupt.

Cooper and her ilk treat Gaza like it's a comms issue, not one of the most profound moral and political outrages of a generation. Still defending their record in government, only admitting early failures of tone.

[sarah @sahouraxo]

Israel deliberately shot and killed Tala today in Gaza.

She was just 9 years old.

Nine years old.

[Roger Gall @Shambles151]

UK nationals returning today from serving in the IDF were NOT arrested under the Terrorism Act.

Please RT this until they are.

Thank you

[sarah @sahouraxo]

Israel killed little Fadi today in Gaza.

He was only 8 years old.

[Sony Thăng @nxt888]

Every generation of Palestinians has been offered the same choice presented as a new "peace process."

Accept less than the last offer.

Sign a document legitimizing what was taken.

Call it a "state" when it has no army, no contiguous territory, no control of its borders, no sovereignty over its airspace, no capital in the city that was promised.

Call it "peace" when the settlements continue to expand during the negotiation.

Call it a "partner" when that partner is chosen by the occupying power based on their willingness to police their own people on the occupier's behalf.

And when the answer is no, when the people being asked to sign away the remainder of what was taken from them say no, the world nods gravely and says:

They are "not ready for peace."

They have never been offered peace.

They have been offered the administrative language of peace wrapped around the continuing material reality of dispossession.

The difference between those two things is not subtle.

It is the difference between a door and a painting of a door.

You can talk about a painting of a door for decades.

You cannot walk through it.