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[💧🌱 #BoycotttheUSA @DeepPolitics]

You don't have to die for Israel in an illegal war.

[Adam Houda @LawyerAdamHouda]

Israel murdered Australian Humanitarian aid worker Zomi Frankcom in cold blood - no action from our government.

Israeli soldiers sexually assaulted and abused Australian activists on board a flotilla - no action from our government.

israelis have been comitting genocide for the last 3 years, slaughtering 10's of 1000's of children in the process - no action from our government.

Someone please tell me: WTF is going on here??? https://t.co/jAUFZE5YCT #IsraelIsATerroristState #FreePalestine #auspol

[Jonathan Cook @Jonathan_K_Cook]

Pro-Israel organisations now insist that not only must the perceptions, or feelings, of Jews about racism be accepted without question, and without the need for actual evidence, but that these same organisations must alone decide what constitutes racism towards the community.

The result is a massively expanded definition of antisemitism that, unsurprisingly, makes a priority of ring-fencing Israel from meaningful criticism.

This has been formally codified by a preposterously wordy definition from the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance that reduces antisemitism to a “perception” that “may be expressed as hatred toward Jews” – but equally, it seems, may not. Jew hatred can also, according to the IHRA, be directed to “non-Jewish individuals”.

The reason for this unnecessary convolution is clarified by a set of 11 potential “examples” of antisemitism offered by the IHRA – the majority of which relate to Israel. Antisemitism, defined in this way, may as often as not be expressed, not as hatred towards Jews, but as opposition to the actions of Israel, such as its current genocidal rampages in Gaza and south Lebanon.

Because “non-Jewish individuals” support Israel and its Jewish supremacist ideology of Zionism, the IHRA makes sure to enfold these individuals prominently in its definition.

All UK police forces, like the main political parties, have adopted the IHRA definition. Which presumably explains why the Met are currently investigating as an antisemitic incident a man being rude to actress Helen Mirren, who is not Jewish, over her support for Israel.

What the Israel lobby has managed to do so triumphantly is, first, wrongly associate a political outlook with an ethnic community – the false, indeed antisemitic, assumption that all Jews identify with Israel and its crimes – and then classify any kind of meaningful criticism of Israel as an attack on the Jewish community. As racial hatred.

This is the Macpherson Principle on steroids. It treats perceived Jewish feelings – a perception entirely confected by the Israel lobby – as proof of a hate crime.

The campaign to corrupt the definition of “race hate”, and thereby criminalise certain kinds of political speech about Israel, was honed by the political and media class during Jeremy Corbyn’s years leading the Labour party. Corbyn and the majority of Labour members who supported him were quickly vilified as antisemitic over their critical stance towards Israel.

Any attempt to push back, rejecting the idea that criticising Israel equates with Jew hatred, was, of course, cited as proof of antisemitism.

The left’s long-standing criticisms of Israel, particularly over its apartheid nature and brutal colonisation of Palestinian lands, have sounded ever more credible in the wake of Israel’s sustained genocidal assault on Gaza since late 2023.

Israel has killed many tens of thousands – possibly hundreds of thousands – of Palestinian civilians there, destroyed almost the entirety of the enclave’s homes, schools and hospitals, and starved the population.

When hundreds of thousands of Britons began regularly turning out to march against British complicity in the genocide, and students organised encampments on university campuses across the country, the logic was already firmly in place to condemn these protests as “antisemitic”.

Soon even anti-genocide chants – calling for Israel’s apartheid rule to end and urging global support for Palestinians as they struggled to liberate themselves – were denounced as hate crimes.

The Met has been visibly taking a leading role, along with the Labour government and rightwing parties, in steadily criminalising expressions of solidarity with Palestinians as they are annihilated with western munitions, intelligence and diplomatic support.

The police force now arrests people over anti-genocide chants, and is using a heavier and heavier hand to disappear the protests, from limiting their regularity to strictly circumscribing permitted march routes.

The direction of travel can be seen in the government classifying as a terrorism offence any support for efforts to stop Israeli factories in the UK from arming Israel’s genocide. Thousands of Britons, many elderly, have been arrested by the Met and other forces simply for holding up a placard.

This is an extract from my latest article UK policing culture – from the Nowak murder to crushing protest – grows ever more rotten. Find a link to the rest in the reply post ⬇️

[Nick Volpe @nvolpewild]

I just want to SCREAM & CRY! 🥹
Years of battling mines & fracking and now we have to deal with something even worse for wildlife…
AI DATA CENTRES! 😤

[The Figen @TheFigen_]

In 2014, while filming a movie, Jackie Chan discovered that a group of Mongolian locals knew every word to 'Rolling in the Deep' by heart... even though they didn’t speak English.
The beautiful moment was never part of the script.

[Daniel Mayakovski @DaniMayakovski]

Así es la esclavitud en las minas en el este del Congo, de donde sale más del 70% del cobalto del mundo, miles de esclavos diariamente extraen el mineral por apenas 2$ al dia para llenar los bolsillos a las multinacionales capitalistas.

El capitalismo que no te enseñan, así es como se sostiene el nivel de vida y de consumo en Occidente, en estas minas al menos hay 40.000 niños esclavizados que pican piedra para que Apple saque 4 modelos de Iphone cada año.

[Jeremy Corbyn @jeremycorbyn]

For the past two and a half years, the UK government has armed a genocide as it was livestreamed around the world.

Now, some politicians are pretending they have always been against the crimes they enabled.

Too little, too late. Your complicity will never, ever be forgotten.

[Sana Saeed @SanaSaeed]

Remember how everyone rushed to use his photo, of his walking toward an IDF tank to advocate for the lives of his patients? Rushed to plaster it everywhere, rushed to make AI edits, art, whatever. That was in December 2024.

How often is he mentioned today? He is alive, he is being tortured and slowly killed - he, alongside every Palestinian hostage, must be freed.

[Abubaker Abed @AbubakerAbedW]

Israel yesterday kidnapped four women. Two are footballers in the Palestinian National Team.

Their names are: Natali Abu Dia and Rand Halwani.

Is it normal to kidnap footballers, @FIFAcom? Where are sports media organisations? This story should be the headline everywhere.

[YourFavoriteGuy @guychristensen_]

The US police state is arresting citizens who are standing up to AI Warfare Datacenters being built on top of their communities

[Warwick Powell | 鲍韶山 @baoshaoshan]

There are approximately 500k forced child labourers in American agriculture starting work at as little as 8 years of age, working up to 72 hours a week. American human rights abuse is real. https://t.co/YssilUzIRg

[🌏Linda Gill now @earth1stlinda.bsky.social 🦋🐨🐋 @Earth1stlinda2]

Fuck @MurrayWatt @AlboMP & his cabinet, & @AustralianLabor
They've proven (like #LNP) they put the profits of their mates, & donors above the well being of our community, disappearing environment & life support systems.
The perpetrate #ecocide with impunity.
#EcocideWillBeACrime

[Good Shepherd Collective @Shepherds4Good]

These beautiful faces, these beautiful hands are doing unpleasant work on a daily basis to keep Palestinians in Gaza safe from bacteria and disease. Please donate to support them.

[Warwick Powell | 鲍韶山 @baoshaoshan]

I thought this was a new episode of Utopia at first.

It’s not. It’s real life.

The greatest risk to national security is actually coming from those ostensibly responsible for it.

🤔 🤷‍♂️

[MO @Abu_Salah9]

الطفلة ريم "روح الروح" وأخيها الشهيد في مقطع جديد قبل أن تقتلهم اسرائيل.

أطفالنا ليسوا مجرد أرقام.

[zinah𓂆 @zhal80]

8 billion people in the world, yet no one hears their screams.

No one even speaks of our genocide in Gaza.

[Mick Wallace @wallacemick]

The US deliberately destroyed the world renowned Shahid Beheshti University in Tehran, including the Student accommodation. The US + Israel hit 31 Universities in Iran in just 39 days of bombing. These were War Crimes and acts of Barbarism...

[Lulu☁️ @muixyui]

never forget how the US used agent orange during the Vietnam War: sprayed on civillians, contaminating land, damaging ecosystems, and generations later kids are still born with disabilities linked to dioxin exposure. The US never issued a formal apology and paid compensation

[Ramy Abdu| رامي عبده @RamAbdu]

German Foreign Minister Johann Wadephul: Our support for Israel and Ukraine was one of the main reasons behind Germany’s failure to secure a seat on the UN Security Council.

[☀️👀 @zei_squirrel]

Taiwan is a hostile American neo-colony established for that specific purpose. If China were to surround it, impose a blockade and cite that fact to justify it, the entire Western media and political class would go insane with rage and say China is the most evil monstrous regime in history.

But the US has actually been doing this to Cuba for not just the past months, when it has intensified its genocidal starvation embargo, but for decades, and the media and political class could not care less. Not only do they not care, they actively support it. They demand it. They want it. They crave it.

The depraved scum who comprise the genocidal Zionist Western media and political class deserve everything bad that can and hopefully will happen to them.

[Saul Staniforth @SaulStaniforth]

UN Special Rapporteur @profbensaul in 2024: "Germany & the United States supply 99% of the weapons exported to Israel. They could stop this conflict overnight if they stopped the weapons that kill the Palestinians"