I’m deeply heartbroken. One of the victims of Israel’s latest terrorist strike in al-Nuseirat Camp was my close school friend Nedal Ahmad.
He just wrote me a message last month to ask for support for the camp he lives in.
I’m sorry my friend. The world fail you.
The world did everything to kill you and family and friends.
I shall never forgive israel and those complicit in its crimes.
New Substack post. All about the BSB’s investigation into the fiercely intelligent Beth Grossman of Doughty Street Chambers. We are 16 months in, but the BSB’s investigation has not yet started. @barstandards@BKGrossman@DoughtyStreet
https://t.co/W63JHFluyq
Meet Michelle Haslem, the most senior British spy you have probably never heard of. She is Director General of the Homeland Security Group in the Home Office.
The photo below - from March this year - is the first published image of her in a quarter of a century. How so?
She grew up in Birkenhead - which at one point was the town in Britain with the largest proportion of Irish born residents - to parents of Irish origin. A Catholic Grammar-school girl, she went to University in Nottingham and then did a Phd in English Literature at Liverpool.
She joined MI6 in 1998 even before she submitted her thesis in August 1999.
And then - for more than 20 years - she was gone. Not a trace on the public record in the UK.
She was deep undercover engaged in all sorts of derring-do for MI6 including in Counter-Terrorism and in South East Asia and the 'Middle East'.
Then her name started to be mentioned in official British government notices. She was according to these, just a diplomat. But if you track the exact roles she was said to have been in, her covert role becomes obvious. The tentative steps into the light were a mechanism so that in due time she could be appointed to one of the top ten spy jobs in Britain.
Today she is personally in charge of persecuting Muslims by bine in charge of the Prevent strategy. She is also one of the key stat operatives responsible for advancing the state threats agenda which has most recently resulted in the proposed designation of the IRGC.
Normally the spooks in the background remain there. But today I publish the first part of a two part investigation revealing where she came from, what she did and where she is now.
Link in replies.
Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya to his lawyers: "Do everything possible to get me out of this place."
During another visit at the underground Rakefet detention facility, he reported that he had once again been beaten by prison guards following his previous visit and has since been held alone in solitary confinement. He said his finger was injured and that he was also suffering from a problem with his right eye, yet he was not receiving adequate medical care.
The visit took place under conditions that did not allow for confidential communication: behind an opaque partition, via telephone, while masked prison guards remained within earshot.
Dr. Abu Safiya, Director of Kamal Adwan Hospital, has been detained since December 2024 without charge or trial, along with 13 other doctors and dozens of healthcare workers. Despite repeated reports of violence and the denial of adequate medical care, the Israel Prison Service has yet to provide his medical records or allow an independent physician from PHRI to examine him.
We call for Dr. Abu Safiya's immediate release, for his removal from solitary confinement and from the underground detention facility pending his release, to be granted an independent and impartial medical and legal examination, and to receive adequate medical care while his safety and well-being are ensured.
#releasethe14doctors
"Nobody in Scotland was consulted by the Home Office before the proscription of Palestine Action.
The Israeli Embassy were consulted, but the Scottish government were not.
The arms industry was consulted, but Police Scotland were not."
https://t.co/7tSEEuLZhr
BREAKING: Israeli settlers are burning Palestinian homes and farmland in the village of Susya, occupied West Bank — in the middle of the night.
Families are watching their homes burn.
This is organized terror. Pure and simple.
As a student was on the way OUT of graduation she was physically assaulted and had the Palestinian flag ripped out of her hands with such violence it ripped her acrylic nails off.
She was simply carrying the flag in her hands on her way out of the building. She was then assaulted AGAIN when trying to get photos of the staff after they refused to give their names as seen on this video.
Shame on you @cardiffuni
https://t.co/87rJ8brINp
Let’s have a little chat about what Israel’s
occupation of Palestine and Britain’s occupation of Zimbabwe have in common. Hint: it’s their invention of an ancient past to justify colonial occupation. 🤓🏺
Sami Abu Qassem is the latest Palestinian WCNSF.
Sami is three years old.
His mother, father, and six-year-old sister were slaughtered in their sleep this early morning at 3:30 AM in Gaza.
(WCNSF=Wounded Child, No Surviving Family)
Headlines will never be the same again.
Dale Vince’s landmark victory over the @DailyMail.
A landmark victory has been handed down by the the Court of Appeal with three of the country’s more senior judges (Wednesday 15 July) following a three-year legal battle between Green Entrepreneur Dale Vince and the Daily Mail. This new ruling will protect people from misleading media articles by establishing a new duty of fairness.
Dale Vince has won his legal battle, against Associated Newspapers Limited (ANL), publisher of the Daily Mail and Mail+, over a June 2023 article headlined "Labour repays £100,000 to 'sex harassment' donor". The article reported on the Labour Party returning donations from Davide Serra, who was the subject of an employment tribunal finding for sexual harassment.
However, the article prominently featured not one but two pictures of Vince, one highlighted - holding a Just Stop Oil banner. Vince argued that this clearly led readers to believe he was the subject of the misconduct allegations.
Lawyers acting for Mr Vince used GDPR legislation to argue that the Daily Mail had mistreated the Labour donor and green industrialist by unfairly processing his personal information.
The Daily Mail now faces substantial costs and damages.
Dale Vince OBE said: “It sounds grand, because it is - headlines won’t be the same again after this ruling. Not just headlines but articles too.
Three years ago the Mail ran a highly misleading headline, using pictures of me in a headline not about me. It was a damaging reputational attack. The Daily Mail thought they could get away with it because they were protected by a libel law that was so old, it almost predated the internet.
They were wrong.
The fallacy at the heart of libel law is the assumption that people read both headlines and articles in full. We all know this is not true; we all scan headlines and think we know what the story is. But that element of libel law has stood for over three decades, while the internet grew, social media came into the world, and our attention spans famously shrank. Libel Law in our country is not fit for purpose. It needs updating for the modern era.
That’s not a fight I intend to pursue.
I think I’ve done enough for now…:).
This landmark ruling, based on legislation and assumptions of behaviour from this century will change media behaviour in Britain - starting now. And it is likely to have the same effect in Europe, as GDPR legislation is European wide. Huge credit goes to my lawyers, Brett Wilson - for this.
Not everybody has the will and the resources to fight powerful media groups like the Daily Mail. Many people facing similar injustices simply have to live with it, grin and bear it. Not anymore, the biggest outcome of this three year battle, for me, is that nobody now will face that same treatment and have no affordable recourse.
From today newspaper headlines will never be the same again - because media outlets have a new duty of fairness and we the people have a new means to enforce it. Something so many of our media outlets fail to do voluntarily to their great shame - is now not a choice. The Daily Mail faces substantial costs and damages, but worse than that for them is this new duty of fairness - that appears to throw their current business model out of the window."
Mic drop....:)
🌡️VERY IMPORTANT.
The webhost of the Gnasherjew platform (BigScoots) has informed them they must leave their hosting platform or their website will be deleted within 30 days.
GnasherJew will no doubt take their doxxing to another host and continue to use anonymous IP hosts but we must keep track and keep reporting.
The next legal step will be a Norwich Pharmacal Order to reveal the identity of those behind the guise so we can take legal action against those responsible - they can no longer hide in the shadows.
For those who want to report GnasherJew the email is [email protected].
We have also let the @gmcuk and @TheBMA know. The harassment must stop and will stop.