Lee J Evans

Digital nomad, Partner Acrobatics teacher, AWS technology architect, systems analyst, crypto geek, developer

[Lee J Evans @CannyCookie]

The real question is will the real @AndyBurnhamGM stand up and do the right thing?
- Stop selling arms to Israel
- Impose immediate sanctions on Israel
- Start a public enquiry into the Friends of Israel groups
- Recognise our country is under attack from within.

[Lee J Evans @CannyCookie]

@opinion_black @Swell64 Israeli operation. Member of labour friends of Israel. Look at who he's already appointing, they've not even had the facade of a contest yet.

[ADAM @adamemedia1]

Bravo to Iran for reportedly including Gaza in the deal.

It’s clear to see which is the side of good and which is the side of evil.

[Hamza Yusuf @Hamza_a96]

I really don't understand the cynicism around Andy Burnham.

It's quite clear he represents a clean break and is going to meaningfully change things.

And that's why he's already hiring Blairite lobbyists who used to run Labour Friends of Israel.

Change is coming!

[Paolo Mossetti @paolomossetti]

💥Omer Bartov, one of the leading scholars of the Holocaust, raised in a Zionist family, appeared on Italian television to explain how Zionism has evolved into an increasingly expansionist ideology:

"October 7 was described as the largest killing of Jews since the Holocaust. Hamas was portrayed as Nazi-like, and society gave a blank check to the hundreds of thousands of reservists who were called up and sent to Gaza to level it.

Today, the Holocaust is no longer seen only as an event belonging to the past, something to be commemorated, but also as a present and imminent danger, an existential threat. Yet the last real war fought by Israel was in 1973. That was the war in which I also took part. All the wars that followed have been wars of choice, fought against people who fought back in response to Israeli policies.

So who, within this narrative, is supposed to represent an imminent danger to Israel? The Palestinians. Palestinians can carry out a suicide attack or launch a rocket, but they have never possessed the power to constitute an existential threat to the Israeli state.

Then there is the unquestioning support from the West. European politicians, much of the media, and large parts of the academic world in Europe are terrified of being labeled antisemitic. In the West, a deep sense of guilt has developed over the Holocaust, for having participated in it, been complicit in it, or remained indifferent to it. This has facilitated Israel’s attempt to secure a blank check for all of its actions by claiming that any criticism of Israeli policies, Israeli expansion, or what Israel has done in Gaza is antisemitic. In this way, a moral barrier has been created.

Zionism must be abandoned because it has become an ideology that justifies genocide, and an ideology of that kind cannot be repaired. We must return to the beginning and create a state that guarantees equal rights for all of its citizens.

This requires a fundamental paradigm shift. It cannot come from within. Strong pressure on Israel is needed in the form of political, economic, and military sanctions that force it to confront the limits of its power and redefine itself as a state."

[Jonathan Cook @Jonathan_K_Cook]

The media can obfuscate all they like, but this is Keir Starmer's epitaph:

[Lee J Evans @CannyCookie]

@MarcusMarkou Thank you, keep posting, it's going to be a long battle.

[Marcus Markou @MarcusMarkou]

I don't care what political party you represent, Tory, Labour, Green, Lib Dem, Reform. I was taught, quite rightly, that the Holocaust was humanity's greatest crime. I did Holocaust Studies as part of my History/ Politics degree at Uni of Bham with the late great Professor Grenville, himself a Jewish refugee who escaped the terror of Nazi Germany as a kid. If you are not calling out the current genocide we are painfully witnessing in Gaza and Lebanon, a live streamed and documented genocide then you are dead to me. Labour, Green, Reform... Dont care. Start with a clear moral position on that before you tell me about how you will tax me and what your policies on education are or the environment etc or what you plan to do with the 20 mile an hour speed limit. I dont give a shit. Start with something we were taught would never happen again because of silent complicity. Tell me how you feel about children being shot in the head for fun or the raping of prisoners or the 100s of 1000s of dead and missing. Tell me about how you filter the unimaginable horror, the insane bombing and murder, day after day, week after week, months and now years. Dont just have an opinion. Show me that you're actually human and everything else (after a live streamed and documented geneocide that slowly destroys my own sense of humanity on a daily basis) will follow that.

[Lee J Evans @CannyCookie]

@akiva_yaakov @Reuters Chilling that holocaust deniers are so prevalent but truth will prevail in the end. Sadly not before more innocent children are murdered.

[Lee J Evans @CannyCookie]

@akiva_yaakov @Reuters 5. The "West Point expert" framing oversells it: the Modern War Institute explicitly states its content isn't an official Army or DoD position. The author's Gaza claims have been rebutted by other military professionals, and he later walked back the "gold standard" line himself.

[Lee J Evans @CannyCookie]

@akiva_yaakov @Reuters 4. The 1.5:1 Gaza number is Israel's own unverified claim. Independent analyses run the opposite way: AOAV ≥74% civilian (up to 9:1), a peer-reviewed model ~7:1, the IDF's own intelligence data implying ~83% civilian. It's an outlier in the wrong direction.

[Lee J Evans @CannyCookie]

@akiva_yaakov @Reuters 3. The "90%" figure they lean on actually refers to a narrow case—explosive weapons in populated areas—not "average modern war." It was never the baseline they're claiming.

[Lee J Evans @CannyCookie]

@akiva_yaakov @Reuters 2. The "9 civilians per combatant in modern war" baseline is a myth. It traces to a 1991 report that counted displaced people, not deaths, and included famine. Real figures: ICRC 30–65%, Uppsala 30–60% civilian—and 49–66% in urban warfare specifically.

[Lee J Evans @CannyCookie]

@akiva_yaakov @Reuters 1. First the logic. Genocide is defined by intent to destroy a group—not by a casualty ratio. A "good" ratio can't disprove genocide any more than a high death toll alone can prove it. Even Israel-sympathetic legal commentators concede ratios don't settle the Convention question.

[Lee J Evans @CannyCookie]

How are there still people denying Israeli war crimes?
The evidence is overwhelming.

[Ramy Abdu| رامي عبده @RamAbdu]

Veteran journalist Mujahid Abu Mufleh, before and after his detention in the Israeli Auschwitz camps.

[Lee J Evans @CannyCookie]

@RichardBurgon Good work, thank you. Keep it up.
And BTW thanks for not being a member of Labour Friends of Israel. ♥️♥️

[Lee J Evans @CannyCookie]

@akiva_yaakov @Reuters Utter nonsense.
Low ratio = not genocide is a category error: genocide is defined by intent, not casualty ratios. The 9:1 'modern war' baseline is a debunked stat, and the 1.5:1 figure is Israel's own unverified claim—independent analyses put Gaza's civilian share at 74–83%.

[Lee J Evans @CannyCookie]

@AliAbunimah Good luck. Keep speaking truth to power.

[Patrick Henningsen @21WIRE]

The cold truth: all the US and Israeli lies & disinformation have now hit a wall of reality...

A Harsh Reckoning: ‘The Empire Cannot Drone-strike Its Way Out of Decline’
https://t.co/RnrCNT1fX3