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🇬🇧 🇵🇸 Corbyn Marks Starmer’s Exit by Re-Filing Bill on Britain’s Complicity in Genocide

🔹 As Keir Starmer announced his resignation as UK prime minister on Monday, veteran left-wing MP Jeremy Corbyn used the moment to renew his push for an inquiry into Britain’s role in the war on Gaza.

🔹“Keir Starmer has gone, but we will never forget the role his government played in the greatest crime of our time,” Corbyn wrote, saying he had re-presented his bill for an independent inquiry into “Britain’s complicity in genocide.”

🔹Corbyn, who led Labour before Starmer and now sits as an independent after being expelled from the party, has been among the sharpest critics of British arms sales and support for Israel throughout its extermination campaign in Gaza.

🔹Starmer announced he would step down after months of pressure from his own party following dismal local election results and the rise of the hard right, clearing the way for Greater Manchester mayor Andy Burnham as his likely successor. He will stay on as caretaker until a new Labour leader is chosen.

[Acyn @Acyn]

Reporter: Some members of the Jewish community, including Democratic Congressman Josh Gottheimer, were alarmed by the language you used at the rally last week, calling AIPAC monsters who move dark money.

Mamdani: I want to be very clear. We’re talking about a status quo where children are being killed on a daily basis. More than 1,000 Palestinians have been killed by the Israeli military since the so-called ceasefire.

Even an Al Jazeera journalist, Ahmed Wishah, was killed this past Saturday by an Israeli strike. And when I am speaking about AIPAC, I’m speaking about an organization that has been supportive of the status quo, that has fought any attempt to actually deliver safety to people not just in Palestine but, frankly, throughout much of the region.

And it is a status quo of immorality. It is one that I will not accept. And when it comes to the way in which they defend the status quo, oftentimes they defend it through direct contributions, as we are seeing right now in New York 13.

Oftentimes they also support the status quo through dark money, by funneling money that would have previously come directly from AIPAC through other organizations whose contributors’ identities are only made clear after an election.

And I think it is important that when we ask ourselves how such death and destruction is happening overseas, we also name those who allow it to take place.

[Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex]

It is important to resist the commodification of basic human needs. Food, water and healthcare cannot be subordinated to market considerations or geopolitical interests. Access to adequate food is a fundamental human right grounded in the dignity of every person. Meeting this need not only alleviates suffering but also addresses underlying causes of geopolitical instability. Indeed, food security is an essential component of global and integral security. https://t.co/DgkM9RegJ7

[Ryan Grim @ryangrim]

In the past 24 hours, Israeli forces have continued to advance inside Lebanon.

Resistance to the invasion has been fierce:

[B.W. Carlin @BaileyCarlin]

Good lord this edit. Insane.

[Hala Jaber @HalaJaber]

Israel is carpet bombing southern Lebanon.

More than 35 people have been killed & over 60 injured so far as Israeli warplanes carry out wave after wave of strikes across the south.

More than 138 air strikes have been reported & the attacks remain ongoing.

Women. Children. Families.
Village after village is being pounded from the air, leaving behind a growing trail of blood, rubble & grief.

Another day.
Another massacre.
Another chapter in Lebanon’s long list of unpunished crimes.

[Seyed Abbas Araghchi @araghchi]

This is not a rant by a random genocidal lunatic. It's a public post by the national security minister of the Israeli regime.

The genocidal death cult headquartered in Tel Aviv is a threat to all of humanity. It threatens all humans. Its only interest is permanent war.

[Aaron Rupar @atrupar]

here is Mamdani's entire speech at the Knicks parade, which is easily the best speech I've ever heard at an event of this sort

[Mouin Rabbani @MouinRabbani]

Posted by former US Congressman @AdamKinzinger on Facebook. Beautifully written, in both form and substance:

Hey everyone, happy Sunday. Are you ready for some good news? I know I am.

We are told, over and over, that America has gone cold on the rest of the world. That we have decided the people on the other side of the ocean are a threat to be kept out. That the welcome mat got rolled up and put away for good.

Then a soccer team from the North African nation of Algeria showed up in Lawrence, Kansas, and within a week the whole town was wearing green.

For today's Good News Sunday, I want to tell you about one of the best things happening in this country right now. It is happening at a soccer tournament, and it has almost nothing to do with soccer.

The World Cup is here, 48 teams playing across the United States, Canada, and Mexico. Each team in the tournament picks a base camp, one town to live and train in between matches. Germany set up shop in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. Spain is training in Chattanooga, Tennessee. And Algeria, playing two of its games up the road at Arrowhead, picked Lawrence and made it home for the summer.

What the people of Lawrence did with that is the part I can't stop thinking about.

It started small, with a whole town of people who had never given Algeria much thought deciding, more or less overnight, that this was their team now. Flags went up in shop windows. Folks pulled on the green jerseys. People drove over just to catch a glimpse of the players. And then a local news crew stopped an older gentleman on a Lawrence sidewalk, standing in front of a storefront draped in a whole row of Algerian flags he had clearly just gone out of his way to find.

They asked him what he actually knew about the country whose colors he was flying. He grinned, paused for a beat, and said something along the lines of: not much yet — but we want to welcome you here. There is no agenda in that man. Nothing performative. Just a neighbor, thrilled to his bones that these strangers chose his town, and perfectly at ease with the fact that he has a lot left to learn about them.

The welcome only got bigger from there.

The University of Kansas, the state's flagship school that calls Lawrence home, sent its marching band out to the training ground. They had spent the previous days learning Algeria's national anthem, note for note, and they played it as the players walked out for practice. Think about what that means for a moment.

These men are thousands of miles from their families, living out of a hotel in the American Midwest, preparing for the biggest sporting event of their professional lives. And the first thing they hear when they step onto the grass is the sound of their own country's song, played by a hundred American college kids in red and blue who learned it just for them. Several of the players stopped walking. A few of them looked like they weren't sure what to do with themselves.

Algeria did its part, too. The team opened a training session to the public and spent the afternoon out on the grass with neighborhood kids, walking them through drills, signing autographs, posing for pictures. There are children from small-town America who are going to be telling the story of the day they trained with a World Cup team for the rest of their lives. And the Algerians have spent the last week calling themselves honorary Kansans, falling hard for a corner of a state most of them could not have found on a map two months ago.

But it's not just Lawrence.

This is happening all over the country, in towns you would never expect.

The city of Alexandria, Virginia threw a street festival with an evening of Croatian food and music, and wrapped a city bus in the team's red and white. After crowds in Spokane, Washington flocked to watch Egyptian superstar Mohamed Salah, a brand-new Egyptian restaurant in town suddenly had locals lining up for food most of them had never tasted. All told, 19 American communities that are not hosting a single match still raised their hand to take in a national team and call them neighbors for a month.

There is a story we get told constantly about who we have become. That Americans have soured on outsiders. That we have decided the rest of the world is a threat. That we look at people who do not talk like us or pray like us or come from where we come from and see a problem instead of a person.

And then a college town in Kansas goes and learns every note of a North African country's national anthem, just so a group of strangers feel at home for a few weeks. An old local stands in front of a row of its flags and tells them, in so many words: we don't know much about you yet, but we are awfully glad you came.

That is who we actually are when nobody is telling us to be afraid. The band on the field, playing somebody else's song as if it were their own. The neighbor who knows next to nothing about you and waves you in anyway. We forget it sometimes. The good news is that it takes about one afternoon to remember.

That, my friends, is good news for your Sunday.
— Adam

[Diana Moreno @DianaforQueens]

New York stands with Mahmoud Khalil against the Trump administration’s attempt to deport him for supporting Palestinians and exercising his First Amendment rights. Proud to have led on this letter with @JabariBrisport.

[Jason Hickel @jasonhickel]

On this day in 1954, the US backed a coup against Jacobo Árbenz, the progressive, democratically elected leader of Guatemala, because he sought to restore land to small farmers and Indigenous communities that had been dispossessed by US fruit companies.

[GenXGirl @GenXGirl1994]

I found a fantastic new website to track Congressional lawmakers’ Israel bills and voting record created by @wallyrashid

Between this website and @TrackAIPAC’s website on the money, we can quickly identify the worst of the worst.

See 2nd post for links.

[Atlas 1910 @Atlas_1910]

Simplesmente o prefeito de Nova York citando CORINTHIANS, SÓCRATES e DEMOCRACIA CORINTHIANA no discurso de hoje sobre a Copa do Mundo

[gato fumante @KweenInYellow]

This is insane:
• UofM cracks down on and arrests anti-genocide student protesters
• Ann Arbor prosecutor Eli Savit declines to prosecute
• UofM recruits MI AG and Zionist lunatic Dana Nessel to personally prosecute the case—HIGHLY unusual for such low-level charges
• Nessel forced to drop all charges to preempt court finding her unable to fairly prosecute the case due to her bias against Arabs and Muslims as well as her ties to Zionist extremist groups caught attempting to influence the court
• Nessel (a Democrat!) turns to Trump DoJ and Kash Patel to bring felony conspiracy charges against the students

[Drop Site @DropSiteNews]

⚡️NEW from Drop Site News: Israel is Trying to End Democracy in Michigan

Story by @PomTerkins and @RyanGrim

https://t.co/wfcYA0dSAL

[Rania Khalek @RaniaKhalek]

The Israelis are destroying ancient Roman ruins in the beautiful Lebanese coastal city of Tyre.

I know if they did this to the Colosseum, the world would express outrage and elites would do fundraisers and Israel might even be sanctioned bc that’s in what they consider Europe.

But in Lebanon, the Europeans shrug and keep supporting Israel because they’ve created a division of humanity where even the ancient Roman ruins aren’t equal.

[Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @NYCMayor]

Big banks denied entire communities the opportunity to buy homes, start small businesses, and build financial security right here in our City for generations. In response, Ponce Bank was founded in the 1960's to give Puerto Rican New Yorkers the opportunity to build wealth.

Today, alongside @NYCComptroller and @nycfinance, we announced that we are depositing $20 million into Ponce Bank branches in Inwood and the Bronx to directly increase access to capital for working people.

Government should invest directly into people and neighborhoods. So that’s exactly what we’re doing.

[Daniel Mayakovski @DaniMayakovski]

No se habla lo suficiente de que "Israel" está borrando la ciudad de Tiro, uno de los asentamientos humanos más antiguos del mundo, con orígenes que datan de 2750 AC, literalmente están destruyendo patrimonio de toda la humanidad.

En 3 meses "Israel" ha asesinado a más de 3.700 libaneses pero al mundo no parece importarle.

[OrangeMaxxing FreddyG @OrangeFreddyG]

Zionists will support the side doing this and then compare a nonviolent protest to Kristallnacht

[Earth Hippy 🌎🕊️💚 @hippyygoat]

This was Palestinian athlete Moazaz Obayat before and after 9 months of captivity in the prisons of the Zionist regime.