Di Walsham

[Dr Rahmeh Aladwan @doctor_rahmeh]

The British people deserve to know how many of their MPs are agents for 'israel'.

Half of Starmer's cabinet: funded by the pro-'israel' lobby.

LFI hides its members list.

80% of Conservative MPs are CFI members.

Who else?

We need the data. Every single official.

[Tristan 🇵🇸🔻🇮🇷🎒 @tristar_au]

My 8 year old told me today

"Did you know McDonalds supports Israel?"

I said "Yes. How did you find that out?"

She said one of her friends at school told her.

She said "I don't want to go to McDonalds anymore"

Proud of her

[Ramy Abdu| رامي عبده @RamAbdu]

French judge Nicolas Gouyou, who issued an arrest warrant for Netanyahu at the ICC, says Visa and Mastercard blocked all his cards, leaving him unable to make purchases.

He says judges, lawyers, & politicians are being intimidated & treated as criminals.

[JmRoyle #LFC #YNWA #BLM #RejoinEU @MyArrse]

WooHoo, got this at my newsagent and there was only two of them left, I checked around at nearby newsagents and they told me they were all sold out within hours.
This means there are lots of Socialists out there fed up with far right rags and looking for something different.

[Kegham Balian @kbalian90]

"Soldiers are spitting, too. The soldier, in uniform!"

[Save Our Citizenships 🔻 @LetsStopC9]

⁨This is Zach, he was 14 years old when speaking at a protest for Palestine in London last year.

He’s not corrupted by mainstream media and he speaks with a clarity many politicians have lost. This is a glimpse of a generation that refuses to look away as teenagers have stopped waiting for permission to understand the world.⁩

[Mohamad Safa @mhdksafa]

This is a war crime under international law: Wanton devastation not justified by military necessity.

Destroying dams serving civilian populations across surrounding villages is not military necessity. It is the deliberate destruction of civilian infrastructure.

War crimes beget war crimes—When the international community failed to bring Israel to justice for targeting civilians and civilian infrastructure in Gaza, Israel knew they could do it again with impunity.

Israel began targeting bridges and cutting off roads to isolate southern Lebanon from the rest of the country, with absolutely no consequences. Now Israel start targeting critical water infrastructure—yet again the international community and ICC remain silent.

[Al Jazeera English @AJEnglish]

Protesters in Naples, Italy have unfurled a giant shroud bearing the names of 18,457 Palestinian children killed by Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza.

[sarah @sahouraxo]

BREAKING:

Spain’s MEP Irene Montero:

“Because no one stopped the genocide in Gaza, the United States and Israel are now targeting Venezuela and Iran.”

“We must isolate the U.S. and Israel now, so they can no longer spread terror across the globe.”

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[Gabbar @Gabbar0099]

She nailed it 🔥

“Our soldiers are in Israel right now in order to defend the Israelis. Do the Israelis pay for our military? Are they the ones who are shelling out a trillion dollars a year for our military? NO!"

Ana Kasparian the only journalist in America with Spine 🔥❤️

[Not Your Average Liberal @NotAvgLiberal]

Don’t.

Get.

Distracted.

[BladeoftheSun @BladeoftheS]

If this was a Political Leader from any other country doing this the EU would have sanctioned them and their country into oblivion.

Then they would have tried to drop a bomb on their head as well.

Israel does it, nothing.

[Gaza Behind Scenes @gazabehindscens]

"I was sexually assaulted, I was beaten, and that was the beginning of four day of absolute hell"

Flotilla activist Juliet describes how she was sexually assaulted and tortured by the Israeli occupation forces after being abducted from the Global Sumud Flotilla vessels.

[Novara Media @novaramedia]

Parliament will debate the need for an inquiry into Israeli influence on UK politics next month, after more than 116,000 people signed a petition calling for a probe.

The 22 June debate, which will be broadcast on the UK Parliament YouTube channel, comes after the Labour government said it does not support a public inquiry.

The petition raises concerns “about reported Israeli state-linked and pro-Israel lobbying activity in UK politics. We believe it is important to determine the scope and impact of any such influence campaigns.”

It adds: “We feel that the horrific devastation in Gaza, the ongoing suppression of Palestinians in the West Bank, and the UK’s political response underline the urgent need to scrutinise how pro-Israel organisations, networks, and lobbying efforts may shape government decisions, party policy, and public debate.”

In a response on 17 April, the government said: “There is an existing framework for transparency around lobbying of the UK government and Parliament.”

Petition author Andy Kalil told the National that the government’s response was “a whole load of hot air and deflection”, adding that there is an “extreme conflict of interest between pro-Israel lobbying donations and the government’s positions on Gaza, the West Bank, Iran, and southern Lebanon”.

Current and former members of the Labour cabinet have received over £300k in donations from pro-Israel groups and individuals since 2013, figures compiled by Declassified UK show. Prime minister Keir Starmer received a £50k donation from pro-Israel tycoon Trevor Chinn for his 2020 Labour leadership campaign.

Israel’s genocide in Gaza has killed, at a conservative estimate, more than 73,000 people. The UK government has supported Israel’s military throughout, including by flying surveillance drones above Gaza.

In 2023 Starmer said that Israel had the right to deny water, food and electricity to the besieged enclave’s civilian population.

[The Resonance @Partisan_12]

Israelis gather at this observation deck daily, happy to see Gaza in total ruins.

Not all Israelis... Only 82% of them.

[sarah @sahouraxo]

BREAKING:

Israel just carried out a horrific massacre in Maarakeh, South Lebanon.

Dropping bombs on residential buildings.

Children are being pulled from under the rubble of their own homes.

Entire families wiped out.

The scenes are devastating.

[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

[Jeremy Corbyn @jeremycorbyn]

The British public deserves to know the full scale of its government’s complicity in genocide. That’s why I will continue to push for an independent, public inquiry.

We will not give up until there is justice for the people of Palestine.
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[Di Walsham @DiWalsham]

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