“If anything is to be recovered from the abyss into which this country and the so-called West has sunk, there is only one question left: when do the trials start?” Owain Gerald on drawing consequences from the British state's choice of genocide. https://t.co/WEznKW8aIA
The UN Security Council just voted on a ceasefire resolution sponsored by virtually the whole world.
13 out of 15 voted in favour.
1 (one) voted against - the US.
The resolution was vetoed. Slaughter continues.
Oh, and the UK? We abstained. The only one to do so. Pathetic.
I've just invoked Art.99 of the UN Charter - for the 1st time in my tenure as Secretary-General.
Facing a severe risk of collapse of the humanitarian system in Gaza, I urge the Council to help avert a humanitarian catastrophe & appeal for a humanitarian ceasefire to be declared.
From one perspective the lack of professional solidarity is surprising. But if you see journalism as a field that is subordinate to power - & in war/violent conflict, state power in particular - it's not in the least.
Fresh from publishing a piece of holocaust revisionism that humanised the Nazis in order to dehumanise Palestinians, the editor of the Jewish Chronicle takes to Sky News to smear people marching to call for a ceasefire.
Here's the Israeli strategy writ large: accuse all of those you kill, from bakers to doctors to journalists, of being in league with Hamas. There's no way they can prove their innocence, of course, because they're already dead.
It is not getting enough attention that Israel keeps killing journalists IN THEIR HOMES. They are not dying in the field as war correspondents, they are dying because Israel bombed their house
On the 6th October 2023 I shared a link on X to a Mail Online article entitled ‘Militant union leader at the heart of doctors strikes is a Labour activist who boasted of charging the NHS for a strike cover shift. I accept that my words were misleading as the subject in question Dr Tom Dolphin was not on strike on the date of the shift in question but was simply covering a shift as a consultant for junior doctors who were on strike on 11th August 2023. I would like to offer my sincerest apologies to Dr Dolphin for any distress upset caused. I will also like to add that I understand that Dr Dolphin actually donated his pay for the covered shift which I believe was £1870 to the BMA strike fund and whilst I do not agree with the strikes I want to go on the record to say that I think it is a very unselfish act on the part of Dr Dolphin to put his money into something he strongly believes in. I will make the same contribution to compensate the upset I may have caused Dr Dolphin. Please Repost.
People say things like "so why aren't you protesting against this group of bloodthirsty psychopaths and propagandists?" but that is absolutely no way to talk about journalists.
between the river and a series of fragmented bantustans with limited self governance circumscribed by illegal borders and military checkpoints manned by heavily armed 19 year old conscripts palestine will be free
'Is Vladimir Putin a war criminal?'
'Yes. What I've seen already amounts to war crimes, particularly the awful attacks on civilians. This is something that we need to make clear now so that those who are involved now know what the consequences are.'
BREAKING: UN General Assembly ADOPTS resolution on “protection of civilians and upholding legal and humanitarian obligations” on the ongoing Gaza crisis
FOR: 120
AGAINST: 14
ABSTAIN: 45
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It’s not a “war” if one side has the power to cut off food, water, electricity, fuel, medicines, and now all communication to an entrapped population who they occupy and bomb from the skies in the darkness.
People in Gaza are dying in the darkness.
This unthinkable horror cannot be undone — and history will not forgive those who refused to treat Israeli and Palestinian lives with equal worth.
Please, we need a ceasefire, now.