Judith Johnson 💙

Socialist. Solidarity with Palestine. Dysgu Cymraeg. #nhsblue heart. Bookworm. Rewilding garden. Still European. I admire Jeremy Corbyn. Make art not war!

[Andy Worthington @GuantanamoAndy]

Thank you, Channel 4 News, for taking seriously the shameful case of Israel's abduction of Dr Hussam Abu Safiya, and sharing exclusive footage from the day of his abduction, December 27, 2024.

[Helen the Zen (reboot) 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🍉 @glaisian]

Privileged old men* demanding more deaths and more bombs and more devastation war remind me of the Great War generals who thought the trade of a few thousand men for a couple of yards was worth it.

*and Yvette Cooper

#C4News

[Tom London @TomLondon6]

Yesterday I went to a meeting opposite 10 Downing St demanding the release of Dr Hussam Abu Safiya

He is the BEST of humanity, a doctor working to help people in Gaza particularly children

Israel lay siege to the hospital and then destroyed it. He has been held without charge and tortured and is now in grave danger of death

Dr Abu Safiyah is effectively a HOSTAGE. His detention is a war crime

BELOW is a decent report by @Channel4News

Our national broadcaster @BBCNews has been disgraceful in its coverage and our Govt has been shameful. They are COMPLICIT

https://t.co/K7z5k0kRkE

[Harry Eccles @Heccles94]

Good luck trying to convince people that the man with a bin on his head is the establishment and not the banker who owns five homes

[Andrew Feinstein @andrewfeinstein]

Starmer expelled more Jewish members of the Labour Party ‘to combat antisemitism’ than all previous leaders combined. That’s like expelling people of colour to fight racism. He destroyed the left on a lie, he won power on lies & he resigned with more lies about his time in office!

[Matt Kennard @kennardmatt]

Not one MSM account of his premiership—left, centre, right—will mention his participation in genocide

Propaganda by omission is how they brainwash

Those who write the history books do same thing

The struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting

[Richard Sanders @PulaRJS]

The contrast between the coverage of the Edinburgh attack and the Golders Green stabbings is extraordinary. It’s impossible to see any explanation other than very crude, simple racism.

[Tiberius @tiberiusfiles]

Starmer didn’t cry at the charcoaled bodies of the children he helped burn to death in Gaza, or the pregnant women shot in the head with his support — but he weeps with self-pity for having to resign from his privileged position

Detestable to the end

[Jeremy Corbyn @jeremycorbyn]

Poverty, homelessness and the many other problems in our society won’t be fixed by a change in personality.

They will only be fixed by a radical change in policy — away from austerity and privatisation, and toward a redistribution of wealth and power.

[Owen Williams 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @OwsWills]

🗣️ A *magnificent* bit of oratory on the Wales in Africa programme at the Senedd by Dr Gwyn Williams - a consultant ophthalmologist in Swansea, and a Plaid Cymru backbencher.

We could *all* learn something here…

[Sir Norman of Nowhere. 🏴‍☠️ @Normanjam67]

A collection of clips of Labour MP's condoning genocide.
Never forget, never forget.

[Helen the Zen (reboot) 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🍉 @glaisian]

Starmer starting his speech by proclaiming his victory in defeating socialism in the Labour Party and supporting apartheid and genocide on the world stage.

What a legacy. What a cunt.

[Yanis Varoufakis @yanisvaroufakis]

Keir Starmer was not merely a disappointment. He is a mendacious figure of ethical decrepitude, a man who won the Labour Party leadership based on promises that he jettisoned five seconds after winning - a Labour leader who dared banish from the Labour Party not only his predecessor but also remarkable human beings like director Ken Loach - the gentleman who has taken the historic Labour Party and transformed it into a vessel for the very oligarchy it was elected to restrain.

Consider the litany of Starmer’s moral and logical failures. He promised a 'different Britain', yet his actions were a masterclass in Tory-lite politics—using the same maxed-out credit card analogies that once served the austerity brigades to justify his own failure of vision. He promised a human rights lawyer’s approach but he embraced a racist-lite version of Farage.

On Europe, Starmer promised Brexiteers that Brexit is Brexit yet stood before those who yearn to rejoin the European Union, winked at them to make them feel that Britain would gradually reconnect, even rejoin, with the EU while offering nothing of substance. This is not leadership; it is a fraud.

And then there's the manner in which Starmer and his government rushed to offer Israel unequivocal support in pursuing its genocide in Gaza, sacrificing precious political and civil liberties in the UK by imprisoning grandmothers, priests and peaceful activists who dared support Palestine Action, an organisation that Starmer and his minions proscribed as terrorists for practising the usual activist tactics of trespassing to spray paint military planes that had demonstrably aided in the genocide. To add insult to injury, Starmer performed the diplomatic pantomime of recognising a Palestinian state, in a manner that ensured it would never happen.

But above all else, this is a government that has learned nothing from the post-2008 era. Starmer and his Chancellor are playing the same tired austerity game while enabling and empowering the Finance Curse perpetrated by the City of London, throwing in forgood measure cuts in international aid to fund a military spending trickle under the guise of a "Strategic Defence Review" . It is the same old doctrine: austerity for the masses, socialism for the financiers and the arms dealers.

History will remember Mr Starmer as a man without conviction, a Prime Minister who offers not a shred of honesty, but merely the cruel illusion of change. He is ethically decrepit because he had chosen, consciously, to abandon principle for power. And for that, history will indict him. Good riddance, I say.

https://t.co/sGfebPkDXR

[Tom London @TomLondon6]

This morning @bbclaurak show had Paul Ovenden as a guest

He LIED by saying that Starmer took over a Labour Party "infected with antisemitism". This was not true. It WAS true that many Labour members were expelled for speaking up for Palestinian rights, including many Jewish members

Kuenssberg did not make any objection to Ovenden's lies

Ovenden had to resign in 2025 for vile, racist text messages about Diane Abbott

Unsurprisingly this was not mentioned

[Sangita Myska @SangitaMyska]

Counter terror police are investigating a suspected anti-Muslim knife attack in Edinburgh during which five people have been injured. The alleged perpetrator, a white man, has been arrested.

I’m sure the wall to wall media coverage, national address and COBRA meeting are on their way any second now.. any second.. just hang on…

[Faiza Shaheen @faizashaheen]

Yes, expect a rewrite of history over the next few weeks…
Starmer’s regime stripped the soul out of the Labour Party. From authoritarianism and enabling genocide to pro-rich anti-working class policies, his downfall was entirely self-inflicted and deserved.
The thing is, some of his enablers and supporters will still hold senior positions under Burnham. And they assume we will forget.

[Peace & Justice Project @corbyn_project]

Keir Starmer may be resigning the office of Prime Minister but his legacy of total complicity in Israel’s genocide in Gaza will follow him forever.

[Peter Reynolds @TweeterReynolds]

Why is anyone surprised that @BBCNews is systematically biased in favour of Israel? Its outrageous disinformation and unfairness towards Palestine is reaching new levels as it covers up Israel's crimes and fails to present the Palestinian perspective.

[Richard Sanders @PulaRJS]

Martin Forde KC speaks to Double Down Newswatch about the racist riots and the backlash following the Henry Nowak verdict.

A rare voice of santiy amidst the hysteria.
https://t.co/LV0i90qUko

[Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan]

"Gwyneth Paltrow Deserves Every Bit of the Hate She's Getting Over Her Israel Ad"

Even in the celebrity-filled universe of cowardice, Paltrow selling apartments in an apartheid state is beyond the pale.
https://t.co/PtikvBmgB6