Josh Cosgrove

Research Physiotherapist. Cyclist. All views my own

[Jeremy Corbyn @jeremycorbyn]

The President of the United States welcomed a leader wanted by the ICC and officially endorsed ethnic cleansing.

Now would be a good time for our government to defend international law.

If they won’t say it, we will: Palestinians aren’t going anywhere.

[Professor Ahmed Hankir @ahmedhankir]

No, it is not just you Colin. The double standards are disgusting & disgraceful. If the Lebanese military killed 24 people in Israel there would rightly be global outrage & every media outlet in the West would be talking & writing about it.

[Michael Rosen 💙💙🎓🎓 NICE 爷爷 @MichaelRosenYes]

https://t.co/hKCmPUorqt

[KNEECAP @KNEECAPCEOL]

Yesterday Israeli soldiers shot and killed a 2 year old Palestinian girl in the West Bank.

If she was Israeli you’d see her picture and hear her name on every news station.

Her name was Laila al-Khatib and this is her…..

Israel has murdered over 3000 toddlers in the past 12 months, just like Laila their crime is just being Palestinian.

[Narinder Kaur @narindertweets]

Wow. Nigel Farage's nephew caught upskirting.....
Avoided jail.
Is this two tier justice @Nigel_Farage @LeeAndersonMP_ @TiceRichard ?

[Alison Phipps አሊሰን 🧡🕊️ @alison_phipps]

Congratulations to the PhD candidate in Gaza whose PhD I examined today, online.

A fine piece of work.

A PhD is hard in normal circumstances. When your teachers, supervisor & Vice Chancellor are all murdered during scholasticide, the process is unimaginably difficult. أهنئك

[Patrick Henningsen @21WIRE]

Actual mass graves. Any reaction from US, British, EU governments?

[Led By Donkeys @ByDonkeys]

“My name is Amos Goldberg. I am an Israeli Professor of Holocaust Studies. For nearly 30 years I have researched and taught the Holocaust, genocide and state violence.

And I want to tell whoever is willing to listen that what’s happening now in Gaza is a genocide.

A year ago when October 7th happened, like all Israelis I was in shock. It was a war crime and a crime against humanity. 1200 people - more than 800 of them civilians - were killed in one day. Children and the elderly were among those taken hostage. Communities were destroyed. It was outrageous, traumatizing, personal. Like most Israelis, I know people who were killed, who lost loved ones or whose loved ones were taken hostage.

But immediately afterwards came Israel’s response and within weeks thousands of civilians were killed in Gaza. It took me some time to digest what was unfolding before my eyes. It was agonizing to confront that reality. I was reluctant to call it a genocide.

But if you read Raphael Lemkin – the Jewish-Polish legal scholar who coined the term ‘genocide’ and was the major driving force behind the 1948 United Nations Genocide Convention – what is happening in Gaza now is exactly what he had in mind when he spoke about genocide.

It does not need to look like the Holocaust to be a genocide. Each genocide looks different and not all involve killing of millions or the entire group. The United Nations Genocide Convention explicitly asserts that genocide is the act of deliberately destroying a group in whole or in part. Those are the words.

But there does need to be a clear intent.

And indeed, there are clear indications of intent to destroy Gaza: Israel’s leaders - including the prime minister and the minister of defence - and many high-ranking military officers, media personalities, rabbis, as well as ordinary soldiers were very open about what they wanted to achieve. There were countless documented incitements to turn the whole of Gaza into rubble and claims that there are no innocent people living there.

A radical atmosphere of dehumanization of the Palestinians prevails in Israeli society to an extent that I can’t remember in my 58 years of living here.

Now that vision has been enacted. Tens of thousands of innocent children, women and men have been killed. Over a hundred thousand were wounded. There is a near total destruction of infrastructure, intentional starvation and blocking of humanitarian aid. There are mass graves and reliable testimony of summary executions. Children that were shot by snipers. All the universities and almost all hospitals are gone. Almost all the population is displaced. There have been numerous bombings of civilians in so-called ‘safe zones’. Gaza does not exist anymore. It is completely destroyed. Thus, the outcome fits perfectly with the stated intentions of Israel’s leadership.

Lemkin - that scholar who coined the term ‘genocide’ - described two phases of a genocide. The first is the destruction of the annihilated group and the second is what he called ‘imposition of the national pattern’ of the perpetrator. We are now witnessing the second phase as Israel prepares ethnically cleansed areas for Israeli settlements.

And therefore, I have come to the conclusion that this is exactly what a genocide looks like. We don’t teach about genocides in order to realize it retrospectively. We teach about it in order to prevent it and to stop it.

But like in every other case of genocide in history right now we have mass denial. Both here in Israel and around the world.

But reality cannot be denied.

So yes, it is a genocide.

And once you come to this conclusion you cannot remain silent.”

- Statement to Led By Donkeys, December 2024
- Photo: Parliament Square, London, 8.40am, 4th December 2024

[Lisa Newington @Lisa_Newington]

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[Dr Sarmy™️🩺🏏 @Dr__Sarmy]

Dr Lloyds from Glamorgan highlights just how shit Wes & Labour have been for general practice thus far:

[Dr Philip Lee @drphiliplee1]

This opens up the possibility of transfer windows for talented staff, rumours, and doctors being "benched" after falling out of favour with the manager.

[Professor Ahmed Hankir @ahmedhankir]

Relentless bombardment in Southern Lebanon has resulted in widespread destruction of fertile land including millennia old olive trees. Lebanon’s history & heritage are being erased by the Israeli military.

[Professor Ahmed Hankir @ahmedhankir]

An average of 67 Palestinian children are killed every day by the Israeli military.

Let that sink in.

[London Cycling Campaign @London_Cycling]

A man has been charged with murder after running over Paul Varry in Paris. Paul told the driver to get out of a bike lane. They drove over him. Paul was 27, a @ParisEnSelle campaigner and our friend.

No words. See the protests #JeSuisPaulVarry 🇫🇷🇬🇧💔

https://t.co/HlnOWt5fig

[Suppressed News. @SuppressedNws]

⚡️BREAKING: Israeli Minister of Finance Bezalel Smoteich:

I want a Jewish state that includes Jordan, Lebanon, and parts of Egypt, Syria, Iraq, and Saudi Arabia. According to our greatest sages, Jerusalem is destined to extend all the way to Damascus.

[Farrukh @implausibleblog]

Left: David Frost, "I found the lockdowns actually, a profoundly inhumane and disturbing period to live through"

Right: Prof Kevin Fong to the Covid Inquiry

"The scale of death experienced by the Intensive Care teams during was unlike anything they had seen before"

"It was routine to see 3-5 deaths a day.. I was on a shift where we had 6 deaths on a single shift"

"Another hospital told us they had 10 deaths in a shift, two of whom were their own staff"

"One of the nurses said they just got tired of putting people in body bags"

"Sometimes they were so overwhelmed they were putting patients in body bags and lifting them from the bed, putting them on the floor, putting another patient in the bed because there wasn't time"

"Things got so bad, they ran out of body bags, they were instead issued with 9 foot clear plastic sacks and cable ties. And those nurses talk about being really traumatised because they had recurring nightmares. Feeling that they were just throwing bodies away"

"These people are used to seeing death, but not on that scale and not like that"

"It was like nothing else I had ever seen. Like nothing else any of those teams had ever seen"

[Dr Rachel Clarke @doctor_oxford]

Please read this testimony from ICU Prof ⁦@Kevin_Fong⁩ at the @covidinquiryuk⁩ & know that this - this - is what it was truly like.

All those despicable Covid deniers, anti-vaxxers & scamdemic artists have blood on their hands & should hang their sorry heads in shame.

[ActivePregnancyFoundation @PregnancyActive]

We are launching a new research project today to establish the perspectives of GPs on discussing physical activity at the 6-8 week postnatal check.

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