Meet the Miracle Of Sound live band!
Conor, Eoghan, Pepa & Pete.
I've had so much fun jamming & hanging out with these wonderful musicians & pals for the last few months.
Looking forward to going on some adventures together🎵🎹🎸🥁🎤
Today four activists face terror-related sentences for taking direct action against an Elbit Systems weapons factory in Filton, Bristol - a factory that makes drones sent to the genocidal apartheid state of Israel to kill Palestinians in Gaza.
Back in April, I warned in Parliament that jurors would not be told terrorism sentences could follow a criminal damage conviction.
No terrorism charges were ever brought. The proscription against Palestine Action has since been ruled unlawful. The defendants were even prevented from telling the jury they acted to stop genocide.
This is a Labour government defending Israeli death factories and stripping away all of our fundamental rights.
Everyone who cares about our democracy should be outraged.
The headline talks about Antisemitism fears.
Yet both people were criticising a genocidal Israeli Government.
This constant conflation of criticism of Jewish people with criticism of Israel makes me as a Jewish person feel less safe.
Such a dangerous decision by Labour.
For any British viewer, watching these Irish commentators explain why it is important for Ireland to boycott a football match against Israel is like being thrust into an alternate universe. One where morality – not money – guides the agenda.
A different world is possible.
The Israelization of our societies is already happening: posturing democracies where human rights can be suspended for people that those in power consider a disturbance.
Wake up Brits. Italians. Germans. French. North Americans. Dutch.
Banning Cenk Uyghur and Hasan Piker from entering the UK is an absurd and cowardly decision from an increasingly authoritarian government.
Let us call this what it is: an attack on the freedom to criticise Israel, as well as the UK government’s own complicity in genocide.
One from the archives.
Lab MP @lukejcr last year defending welfare changes that would have meant people who can't use the toilet on their own & who can't dress themselves wouldn't qualify for PIP
Careful if you retweet it. When I posted it he blocked me.
The head of the Met police is lying about & smearing the organisers of the pro Palestine marches in London, & he's doing it to provide ammunition for those calling for the marches to be banned
As @michaeljswalker says, its defamatory & despicable & Rowley should resign.
The elite fear Green Party policies
• Abolish Tuition Fees
• £15 minimum ph
• Renationalise NHS
• 500,000 Council Homes
• Wealth Tax on Superrich
• Renationalise Water
• Universal Basic Income
• 4 Day Week
• Renationalise Energy
• Universal Care System
• Rent Controls
I urge everyone to watch this report by Channel 4 News about Israel’s killing of Lebanese journalist Amal Khalil.
“Under international humanitarian law, journalists are afforded the same protection as civilians… If that journalist has a particular sympathy with a particular cause, that doesn’t mean that protection is removed…
… the IDF said the incident is under review. Don’t hold your breath…”
Providing the necessary context and not taking Israel’s claims at face value.
This is how every journalist should be reporting.
Francesca Albanese, the UN special rapporteur, has delivered a devastating account of Israeli policy.
'Greater Israel is a project of regional expansion. When said in 2024 what starts in Palestine will not stay in Palestine, two years later it's happening. Torture is not incidental. It has become central to a broader system of violence. It is institutionalized, enabled by law, shielded by courts, normalized in public discourse. Everyone has been beaten. Many have been raped with metal objects, knives, dogs trained to rape.
1.9 million Palestinians are corralled in 50 square kilometers of land, exposed to the elements, without basic hygiene, without food, without medicine, with rats attacking them day and night."
"I've received rape threats against my daughter, my husband has been fired, and my apartment has been seized, because I said that Israel is committing genocide."
❁ Francesca Albanese.
Ana Kasparian just read the most damning report on Israel's prisons. Sexual torture is organized state policy, endorsed by the highest authorities. Women are raped for days. Men are raped by dogs. Fire extinguisher nozzles are inserted into bodies.
This is how western media's moral state defend itself and they refuse to report. Rape as state policy. Torture as organized practice. Women and men are violated in the most brutal ways