Michael Longlane 🇬🇧🇵🇸

Photographer.

[Alex Crawford @AlexCrawfordSky]

More than 30 UK charities are found to have funnelled millions to illegal Israeli settlements. ‘Labour’s Melanie Ward said that if gift aid were claimed against the donations in the usual way, it would mean taxpayers had subsidised illegal settlements to the tune of £5.6m, a situation she described as deplorable’ - @guardian @melanie_ward

[sarah @sahouraxo]

BREAKING:

Israeli settlers are burning Taybeh in occupied Palestine.

A village that has stood for thousands of years.

A place where Jesus once walked.

Home to the oldest living Christian community in the world.

And not a peep from Western mainstream media.

[Declassified UK @declassifiedUK]

Over 17,000 people have signed our petition demanding the UK government investigate the activities of British nationals who have served for Israel amid the Gaza genocide.

You can add your name here:
👉 https://t.co/2qio0qofyD

[Yanis Varoufakis @yanisvaroufakis]

Now that Gaza lies in ruins—shattered, like a beloved face after a long brutality—Israel moves with a terrible confidence to the next act: The act of leaving every soul there not merely wounded, but permanently disabled. Injured, sick, hungry, homeless, without work, without hope. This is not war’s collateral damage. This is design.

As my friend Gideon Levy writes—and he knows, he knows—this is the prelude to expulsion. Think of it: a society without teachers, without doctors, without social workers, without engineers, without clerks. That is not a society. That is a holding pen. A slow erasure. And when nothing functions—no school, no hospital, no office, no heart—then it becomes ‘easy,’ they tell themselves, to scatter the people to the four corners of the earth. Like seeds from a broken pod, except no soil will take them.

We must name this. Not with rage alone, though rage is honest. But with the cold, clear tears of recognition: they are making life impossible so that departure becomes the only ‘choice.’ And the world watches, adjusts its spectacles, and calls for restraint. Restraint! There is no restraint in a slow drowning.

[The National @ScotNational]

Tomorrow's front page 📰

Labour condemned over "attack on freedom to criticise Israel" after banning pro-Palestine commentators from entering UK

[Declassified UK @declassifiedUK]

"Why is the UK government not collecting any data on the movements of potential war criminals or properly investigating their activities?"

Our piece in @ScotNational demanding accountability for Brits serving in the IDF amid the Gaza genocide👇
https://t.co/llli4y2PR8

[Declassified UK @declassifiedUK]

Lisa Nandy has accepted funding from the Israel lobby, refused to condemn Israel's violations of international law, and proudly calls herself a Zionist.

What on earth was she doing as chair of Labour Friends of Palestine?
https://t.co/PS6WllYbwn

[Mosab Abu Toha @MosabAbuToha]

An israeli journalist called Yinon Magal has just posted this video on X with a caption in Hebrew that says

“hello children. Please help our brave soldiers find Beit Hanoun.”

This is Beit Hanoun, the city where I taught English for about three years. What you are seeing in this video is not only the ruins of a city, but the shattered remains of homes beneath which many victims of israel’s terror attacks are still buried.

There are literally hundreds of human beings still trapped under this rubble. Mothers, fathers, and children left buried for years.

World governments not only failed to punish israel for these war crimes and crimes against humanity, they did not even take any steps to intervene and prevent them.

Let us always remember that the Genocide Convention is not only about the Punishment of genocide, but also about the Prevention of the crime itself.

[F1 Academy @f1academy]

Abbi Pulling makes HISTORY! 🏆

Our 2024 Champion becomes the first-ever female winner of a GB3 race after converting her historic Pole position to a lights-to-flag victory at Spa-Francorchamps 🇧🇪

Proud to watch Abbi's speed and determination - here's to many more trips to the top step 👏

📸 Jakob Ebrey Photography

#F1ACADEMY

[Howard Beckett @BeckettUnite]

Netanyahu 🇮🇱 admits to instructing his ‘army’ to seize 70% of Gaza 🇵🇸 as a ‘step’ to taking it all:

There is no ‘ceasefire’

It’s never been ‘defence’

It’s always been ethnic cleansing
It’s always been land theft
It’s always been about a ‘Greater 🇮🇱’

Expel 🇮🇱 from the UN now.

[Al Jazeera English @AJEnglish]

After winning an Emmy, Al Jazeera’s @joshrushing dedicated the award to colleagues and journalists killed by Israel in an emotional speech.

@AJFaultLines documentary on Kids Under Fire won ‘Outstanding War or Violence Conflict Coverage’ at the 2026 News Emmys.

[Yusuf / Cat Stevens @YusufCatStevens]

Arsenal won the Premiership, a dream come true... now dreaming about the world as one - and all war criminals arrested and tried

[Sulaiman Ahmed @ShaykhSulaiman]

NEWS: UNITED NATIONS PLACES ISRAEL ON THE SEXUAL VIOLENCE BLACKLIST DUE TO UNDENIABLE EVIDENCE

[Billy Carson II @4biddnKnowledge]

A 3,000-year-old piece of human history is gone. Israeli airstrikes have severely bombed and damaged the ancient, UNESCO World Heritage site in Tyre, Lebanon. 🚨 Irreplaceable Ancient History Destroyed in Tyre AirstrikesA catastrophic loss for global cultural heritage is unfolding in southern Lebanon. Intense Israeli bombardment targeting the coastal city of Tyre has directly struck and heavily damaged its world-renowned archaeological ruins, which date back over three millennia to the Phoenician and Roman empires.The ancient city of Tyre is a protected UNESCO World Heritage site, celebrated globally for its historic hippodrome, monumental triumphal arches, and ancient ruins. Historians, archaeologists, and cultural preservationists worldwide are expressing absolute horror and outrage, stating that the destruction of irreplaceable global heritage violates international treaties protecting cultural property during armed https://t.co/HfriGjHlBi smoke rises over the ancient ruins, international bodies are facing intense pressure to step in, condemn the strikes, and protect what remains of humanity's shared history before it is completely erased. 👇 Should destroying UNESCO World Heritage sites be classified as an international war crime? Share your thoughts below.

[Jacqui Deevoy @JacquiDeevoy1]

In 2003, a 28-year-old translator working for British intelligence received an email she wasn’t supposed to see. What she read convinced her that governments were trying to manipulate the world into war.
Her name was Katharine Gun.
She worked at GCHQ - Britain’s top-secret intelligence agency. On January 31, 2003, she received an email from senior NSA official Frank Koza. The US wanted British intelligence to help spy on members of the UN Security Council.
Specifically, diplomats from Angola, Chile, Pakistan, Cameroon, Guinea and Bulgaria - nations whose votes could decide whether the UN backed the invasion of Iraq. The operation was simple: bug phones, read private emails, uncover secrets, weaknesses, fears and anything that could pressure diplomats into supporting the war.
Katharine read the email in disbelief.
This was not ordinary intelligence gathering: it looked like an attempt to manipulate the UN into approving a war. She knew what leaking the document could cost her. Prison.
The destruction of her career. Under Britain’s Official Secrets Act, she could face years behind bars for exposing classified intelligence. But she leaked the email anyway. On March 2, 2003, The Observer newspaper published the secret NSA request on its front page.
Suddenly, the world could see evidence that intelligence agencies were allegedly targeting UN diplomats ahead of the Iraq War vote.
Inside GCHQ, panic exploded. Investigators began interrogating employees, searching for the source of the leak, monitoring staff and creating an atmosphere of fear throughout the building. Katharine watched innocent coworkers fall under suspicion. That’s when she made another decision that stunned people around her. She confessed. Rather than allow others to suffer for something she’d done, Katharine walked into her manager’s office and admitted she was responsible.
She was arrested.
Suspended from her job. Formally charged under the Official Secrets Act.
By late 2003, she faced trial at London’s Old Bailey with the possibility of being sent to prison. But her legal defence created a dangerous problem for the British government when her lawyers argued she acted to prevent an illegal war. To challenge that claim, the government would need to release confidential legal advice discussing whether the Iraq invasion itself was lawful under international law.
Then came February 25, 2004. The courtroom filled.
Katharine Gun sat waiting as prosecutors prepared to move forward against one of the most famous intelligence leaks in modern British history. Then, without warning, the government collapsed the case.
“The Crown offers no evidence.”
After months of preparation, the trial ended almost instantly. Katharine walked free. Many observers believed the government feared the public release of its own private legal doubts surrounding the Iraq War more than it feared letting the whistleblower go.
Years later, former Pentagon Papers whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg called Katharine Gun’s leak one of the bravest acts he had ever seen.
Edward Snowden would later cite her as one of the people who proved intelligence systems could be challenged from the inside. And perhaps the most remarkable part of the story was this:
Katharine Gun was not a politician.
Not a famous activist.
Not a powerful insider.
She was simply a young translator who read one email and decided her conscience mattered more than her career.
Two governments.
Major intelligence agencies.
The full force of secrecy laws.
And one woman still chose to stand up and speak out.
After the case was dismissed, reporters asked whether she regretted leaking the document.
Katharine Gun answered calmly:
“I have no regrets. I would do it again.”

WE ALL NEED TO BE THIS BRAVE. WE ALL NEED TO DO THE RIGHT THING. WE ALL NEED TO BE MORE LIKE KATHARINE GUN.

Good morning, everyone!

[Michael Longlane 🇬🇧🇵🇸 @LonglanePhoto]

A must watch

[Tucker Carlson @TuckerCarlson]

At some point every Holocaust museum will be forced to include an exhibit on what’s happening in Gaza right now. It’s only a matter of time. Dr. Nick Maynard of Oxford University medical school has been a witness to the genocide.

[Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla]

Beaufort Castle is an astonishing impregnable crusader fortress that’s survived 800+ years of turbulent Middle East history.

Then along came Netanyahu

[The Cradle @TheCradleMedia]

Israeli settlement council admits to systemic ritual sexual abuse of children following bombshell media investigation
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The Gush Etzion Regional Council in the occupied West Bank has issued an unprecedented public admission acknowledging severe, multi-participant ritualistic sexual abuse within the settler community, which involved the gang-rape of children. The official statement marks a dramatic reversal for the settlement’s leadership, which had spent years systematically denying and dismissing allegations of sadistic abuse.

The official acknowledgment follows a damning investigative report by journalist Roni Singer on Israel's Kan 11 channel, which aired identical testimonies from five independent victims detailing organized, ritualistic assaults. Confronted with recorded evidence and professional corroboration, the council released a statement denouncing the perpetrators and describing the uncovered acts as "pure evil and a moral distortion."

In an effort to manage the immense public fallout, the settler council published crisis hotline numbers and urged further victims to come forward. The media exposure and subsequent admission are expected to force Israeli police to reopen previously shelved complaints and expand criminal investigations into what is emerging as one of the most organized abuse scandals inside the settlement enterprise.

[Yanis Varoufakis @yanisvaroufakis]

Tony Blair is the living embodiment of what happens when political office becomes a down payment on future plunder. Ejected in 2007 by his own MPs as a massive liability, he bequeathed Britain a wild casino economy primed for the 2008 crash. And when the British economy crashed and burned, Mr Blair kept quiet while honing his skills at securing power by other means.

His first job, after his ejection from 10 Downing Street, was as the West’s Middle East envoy, with a supposed emphasis on Gaza. It took six painful years for Mr Blair’s tenure to prove a failure so profound it amounted to active complicity in Israel’s ethnic cleansing, in Palestinian erasure, and in paving the ground for the ongoing genocide.

Soon after, the Chilcot Inquiry demolished Blair’s Iraq lies, exposing him as a liar, a chancer and a war criminal responsible for countless corpses of Iraqis, but also of British soldiers.

Then came Blair’s real innovation: the financialisation of the ex-premiership itself. The Tony Blair Institute, fuelled by £130 million from Oracle's Larry Ellison—coincidentally, the largest individual donor to the Friends of the IDF—became a shadow state, brokering governance contracts for autocrats and companies like Palantir that weaponise AI to produce mega-death abroad and full-on surveillance of Western populations.

Now, in May 2026, this corporate fixer issues a 5700 word tantrum demanding that Labour embrace Trump even more than Starmer already has, denounce what is left of Labour’s betrayed Green New Deal, and trash the remnants of workers' rights. This is not the wisdom of an aging statesman. It is the frantic squirming of a man fearing his grip on oligarchic power might soon wane and whose entire post-10 Downing Street existence depends on preventing the many from ever reclaiming what the few have plundered.

https://t.co/1Onlpx9Nkh

[Peter Oborne @OborneTweets]

Third episode of Double Down Newswatch now out and it’s superb.