Gini

International artist + wordsmith. Blogging on DAO and + travel blogging on

[Paul Scholes @misterp55]

Worth repeating

[Nadeem Ahmed @Muqadaam]

“When is the British government going to impose sanctions on Israel for its endless violations of international law?”

Retweet if you agree with Corbyn

[Peter Stefanovic @PeterStefanovi2]

Next week’s disability cuts will make people destitute – and you might not understand how bad they are until it’s too late

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[Farrukh @implausibleblog]

Zack Polanski expertly criticises Labour's proscription of Palestine Action for non violent protest citing Labour's rise in authoritarianism

Trevor Philips, "This is not a country where people get thrown in jail for the things that they say"

Zack Polanski, "We're spiralling down that road. 2,700 arrested for opposing a genocide"

TP, "That's not the sign they're being arrested for. It's signs like from the River to the Sea, which imply the elimination of the state of Israel which are antisemitic"

ZP, "As a Jewish person I don't find those signs antisemitic. In fact, Netanyahu has used that phrase"

"Antisemitism needs to be taken seriously in the same was as Islamaphobia or any form of hate crime"

"But criticism of the Israeli government is a moral responsibility when we see what they're doing to innocent people, day in day out"

"And our Labour government are not just complicit in that, they are actively enabling it"

"So for people who are protesting against a genocide, I would say they are patriots of this country, who are saying let's have a world where we say we're standing for human rights"

"It's not just Palestine Action by the way. We've seen authoritarianism over the Prime Minister wanting mandatory ID cards. Over scrapping jury trials"

"Pattern over pattern shows that Keir Starmer is a deeply desperate caretaker prime minister who is clinging on to power by trying to crush decent"

TP, "So all the 2,700 are innocent of any potential crime?

ZP, "That's not true. Some have committed criminal damage"

"But as you said earlier on in the show criminal damage is already illegal. That's very different with it being a terrorist attack"

"It's the conflation that is dangerous and the authoritarianism which was behind the question you asked me"

[Damaan, AKA 'Philly's Finest!' @Damaan4u33]

RETWEET, RETWEET, RETWEET! 🔥 🔥 🔥

[Jewish Voice @jewishvoicelive]

Jews hold signs reading "Netanyahu is a war criminal" and "Anti-Israel is not anti-Semitism" during a protest opposing the visit of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who is now meeting with Trump at the White House.

[Shaun Pinner @ShaunPinnerUA]

At Munich, Volodymyr Zelensky tore away the illusions and said out loud what everyone dealing in reality already knows: this isn’t a normal ruler, and this isn’t a normal war.

‘Putin doesn’t live like ordinary people. He can’t imagine life without power, or after it. The everyday concerns of real societies don’t interest him. His reference points aren’t living advisers or the world as it is today, but dead emperors and faded maps. He consults Tsar Peter and Empress Catherine more than he consults anyone who understands modern life.

He may see himself as a tsar, but in truth he’s a slave to war, trapped by it, defined by it, unable to exist without it.’

And here’s the real danger: what if he’s still there in ten years? It’s entirely possible. Time is all he needs to regroup, rebuild, and try again.

So as I say, when America talks about “peace,” let’s be honest about what that means in practice: pressure on the victim, not the aggressor. Because Putin hasn’t changed. His worldview hasn’t changed, and his ambitions haven’t changed.

Only the cost paid by Ukraine, keeps going up. 🇺🇦

[Kate from Kharkiv @BohuslavskaKate]

Shinjiro Koizumi, the Japanese Minister of Defense in Munich:

More than 10,000 North Korean soldiers have been sent to Russia. And Russia has sent North Korean soldiers to Ukraine. Then they are learning a new way of fighting with drones, AI, and cyberspace, and in all domains with conventional weapons. Then getting back to North Korea, we need to think about what they are using it for and who they are using it against. So that's why I said Ukraine is not a distant problem.

[Farrukh @implausibleblog]

Left: Keir Starmer, "We are not the Britain of the Brexit years any more"

Right: Ursula von der Leyen, "Europe, in particular the UK, should come closer"

Anyone else fancy rejoining the EU?

[Emoluments Clause @Emolclause]

#BREAKING: Lawrence: “Donald Trump has found more ways to kill more people during peace time than any president in history. He appoints a mad man to be HHS Secretary, and then with Elon Musk’s guidance, Donald Trump takes food away from people in the middle of famine in Africa. He took HIV medicine away from people who need it to survive, medicine that was being delivered in Africa thanks to the initiative of Republican President George W. Bush. Donald Trump said no, we don’t want to save those lives. The food was already in transit to those starving people, and Donald Trump became the first president in history to deny food to starving people.”🤦‍♀️

[Middle East Eye @MiddleEastEye]

Hundreds of people gathered today in Piccadilly circus calling for the release of Palestinian hostages and protesting the UK government’s handling of pro‑Palestinian activism.
Many of the demonstrators tied red ribbons to railings in a symbol of solidarity with the hostages

[Yanis Varoufakis @yanisvaroufakis]

In praise, support and, yes, celebration of Francesca Albanese.

As Francesca prepares to present her 8th report to the UN on the treatment of Palestinians in the Occupied Territories, her demonisation follows a familiar pattern:

Some fake NGO spreads falsehoods about Francesca, outrage is then engineered and, finally, calls for her resignation as the UN’s Special Rapporteur are issued by the governments of Germany, France, Czechia etc. - by politicians who for years now have done their utmost to arm and provide diplomatic cover to Israel’s genocidal government.

Why? For a simple reason: So that you and I, we, do not talk about the hideous facts that Francesca is exposing with such brilliant clarity and legal precision: the Palestinians’ genocide, the economic motives of a corporate world that profits from the Occupation, the torture of Israel’s Palestinian captives, Israel’s never-ending violations of International Law etc.

Today, Francesca Albanese’s detractors, those who seek to shield Israel from her well-documented, factual, legitimate criticism by getting her fired or by forcing her resignation from her position of UN Special Rapporteur – these people do not understand one thing:

Francesca will NEVER stop! She will continue to expose Israel’s crimes whether she is the UN’s Special Rapporteur or not. My message to them is simple: Francesca Albanese may be even more successful in shining light on Israel’s genocide if you strip her of her UN role. Beware what you wish for!

[Brian Allen @allenanalysis]

🚨 New billboard in Manchester, UK 🇬🇧

Clear. Bold. Unapologetic.

When people have to rent billboards to say what leaders won’t, that tells you everything.

Well done, Manchester.

[Shockat Adam MP @ShockatAdam]

We don’t want ICE in the UK.

Leicester’s policing data is not Palantir’s to harvest.

These are our communities. Our families. Our lives.
Not commodities.

The public has a right to know who is watching. And why.

[UNRWA @UNRWA]

This is UNRWA's compound in occupied East Jerusalem. It is a United Nations premises.

Seized and demolished by the Israeli authorities, in an unprecedented violation of international law.

Water and electricity to UNRWA's East Jerusalem facilities have also been cut, including schools and health centres.

Meanwhile, new measures will further tighten Israeli control over the occupied #WestBank. They must be withdrawn.

UNRWA services must be allowed to continue. UN Member States must act.

[Claudia Webbe @ClaudiaWebbe]

300 million workers just shut down India.

The largest strike in human history, and most of the Western media barely whispered it. That silence is complicity in Modi’s war on workers’ rights.

India’s general strike is the future that the billionaires and ruling class fears most

[Drop Site @DropSiteNews]

The U.N. human rights office publicly defended Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese after at least four European governments attacked her and called for her resignation over comments she never made.

Marta Hurtado, spokesperson for the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, said Albanese “did not characterize any state as an enemy of humanity. I invite you all to go see her remarks.”

Hurtado added the office is “very worried” about escalating “personal attacks, threats and misinformation” targeting U.N. officials and independent experts, warning such campaigns distract from “serious human rights issues.”

She then pointed to ongoing Israeli ceasefire violations in Gaza, the daily killing of Palestinians, and Israel’s failure to meet its obligations as an occupying power in the West Bank while undermining a two-state solution: “This is what we should be talking about.”

@FranceskAlbs | @UNHumanRights

[Ed Davey @EdwardJDavey]

This ruling shows that proscribing Palestine Action was a grave misuse of terrorism laws.

Labour must accept its mistake, drop its appeal and stop wasting taxpayers' money on suppressing civil liberties.

[The Rejoin EU Party @RejoinP]

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