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and training /Grantham and Bourne CLP.Former Chair of governors. Proud European. Love Manics,Suede and cricket.🌹

[Niall Harbison @NiallHarbison]

One of the craziest days in a long time.

We saved 9 lives directly against the odds. If you want to see what dog rescue is like up close and raw this is it.

Slightly longer watch but lots of wins to enjoy ❤️

[Led By Donkeys @ByDonkeys]

“My name is Amos Goldberg. I am an Israeli Professor of Holocaust Studies. For nearly 30 years I have researched and taught the Holocaust, genocide and state violence.

And I want to tell whoever is willing to listen that what’s happening now in Gaza is a genocide.

A year ago when October 7th happened, like all Israelis I was in shock. It was a war crime and a crime against humanity. 1200 people - more than 800 of them civilians - were killed in one day. Children and the elderly were among those taken hostage. Communities were destroyed. It was outrageous, traumatizing, personal. Like most Israelis, I know people who were killed, who lost loved ones or whose loved ones were taken hostage.

But immediately afterwards came Israel’s response and within weeks thousands of civilians were killed in Gaza. It took me some time to digest what was unfolding before my eyes. It was agonizing to confront that reality. I was reluctant to call it a genocide.

But if you read Raphael Lemkin – the Jewish-Polish legal scholar who coined the term ‘genocide’ and was the major driving force behind the 1948 United Nations Genocide Convention – what is happening in Gaza now is exactly what he had in mind when he spoke about genocide.

It does not need to look like the Holocaust to be a genocide. Each genocide looks different and not all involve killing of millions or the entire group. The United Nations Genocide Convention explicitly asserts that genocide is the act of deliberately destroying a group in whole or in part. Those are the words.

But there does need to be a clear intent.

And indeed, there are clear indications of intent to destroy Gaza: Israel’s leaders - including the prime minister and the minister of defence - and many high-ranking military officers, media personalities, rabbis, as well as ordinary soldiers were very open about what they wanted to achieve. There were countless documented incitements to turn the whole of Gaza into rubble and claims that there are no innocent people living there.

A radical atmosphere of dehumanization of the Palestinians prevails in Israeli society to an extent that I can’t remember in my 58 years of living here.

Now that vision has been enacted. Tens of thousands of innocent children, women and men have been killed. Over a hundred thousand were wounded. There is a near total destruction of infrastructure, intentional starvation and blocking of humanitarian aid. There are mass graves and reliable testimony of summary executions. Children that were shot by snipers. All the universities and almost all hospitals are gone. Almost all the population is displaced. There have been numerous bombings of civilians in so-called ‘safe zones’. Gaza does not exist anymore. It is completely destroyed. Thus, the outcome fits perfectly with the stated intentions of Israel’s leadership.

Lemkin - that scholar who coined the term ‘genocide’ - described two phases of a genocide. The first is the destruction of the annihilated group and the second is what he called ‘imposition of the national pattern’ of the perpetrator. We are now witnessing the second phase as Israel prepares ethnically cleansed areas for Israeli settlements.

And therefore, I have come to the conclusion that this is exactly what a genocide looks like. We don’t teach about genocides in order to realize it retrospectively. We teach about it in order to prevent it and to stop it.

But like in every other case of genocide in history right now we have mass denial. Both here in Israel and around the world.

But reality cannot be denied.

So yes, it is a genocide.

And once you come to this conclusion you cannot remain silent.”

- Statement to Led By Donkeys, December 2024
- Photo: Parliament Square, London, 8.40am, 4th December 2024

[Sangita Myska @SangitaMyska]

🆕My latest column for The Nerve has dropped:

“Over 2000 British Citizens have served in the IDF during the Gaza War. Our Government Doesn't Want To Know’”

It’s time the U.K. Government fulfilled legal obligations & investigated.

Please read and share.

LINK HERE https://t.co/gn7xVQoFCs
@thenerve_news

[Kevin Maguire @Kevin_Maguire]

This massacre of medics would be branded terrorism if in Israel by Hezbollah so what is it by Israel in Lebanon?

The mass killing of emergency workers in Lebanon and, before that, Gaza is surely another war crime.

https://t.co/OxkJwflmbk

[Barry Malone @malonebarry]

There's a video on the timeline today of a Palestinian man weeping over the body of his dead 6-year-old daughter. She was killed in an Israeli attack on a tent. There is no ceasefire. There was never a ceasefire. And they have never stopped slaughtering the children of Gaza.

[Dave Hibbert, BA(Hons), ACTUS, Cert.Ed. Rejoin EU. @Cpass12David]

The Guardian: “Net migration down by three-quarters, the biggest fall in NHS waiting lists for 17 years, knife crime cut by 10%, the economy growing the fastest in the G7, rising wages, energy bills and petrol prices held down, the biggest sustained rise in defence spending since the cold war, a massive expansion of free childcare …
If Keir Starmer did tub-thumping lists of Labour’s achievements in the style of Gordon Brown, he would not actually have a shortage of things to talk about.”
During the two years of Labour government, following fourteen years of Tory mismanagement, there have actually been significant improvements in Britain. Why does the Tory media not report them?

[State of Palestine @Palestine_UN]

Can you imagine the terror and horror Israel inflicts on Palestinian children, women, and men in detention centers when the cameras are away?

This is Israeli terrorism.

[Larry the Cat @Number10cat]

Just because someone rents, shouldn't deny them the joy of having a pet in their life. Well done housemate.

[Mukhtar @I_amMukhtar]

They got rattled by a van with a big screen saying, “Immigration Makes Britain Brilliant,” featuring the faces of people like Mo Farah and Dua Lipa.

[Victoria Derbyshire @vicderbyshire]

Nigel Farage tells The Sun the £5m he got from the crypto billionaire was a ‘reward for campaigning for Brexit for 27 years’

On May 5, Mr Farage said the money was ‘the only way I can protect myself for the rest of my life’ as he was the ‘most attacked, physically, politician of modern times’

[Adrian Edmondson ❎ @AdrianEdmondson]

So bored of news outlets trying to write the news rather than report it.

[courtneybonneauimages @cbonneauimages]

In case anyone is confused about what this is:

This illegal Israeli occupation map includes the sea, coincidentally where Lebanon’s gas and oil fields are.

This is and always has been a land and resources grab.

[Mohamad Safa @mhdksafa]

In less than 24 hours, Israel committed 4 war crimes. Not may constitute to war crimes. Clear war crimes.

Israel deliberately killed four paramedics in a successive strike on ambulances responding to an initial airstrike in Mayfadoun, Lebanon.

Israel deliberately bombed The only operational hospital in the frontline villages of the southern regions in Lebanon where the Israeli attacks are relentless. Also targeted first responders and their ambulances.

Israel destroyed the final bridge to Southern Lebanon, in Burj Rahal. Civilians can't flee. Ambulances cannot reach the wounded or the hospitals on the other side. Laying siege cruelly cut off all fuel from entering, with threats to bomb aid trucks and medical vehicles heading south. Entire communities are cut off from essential supplies.

Israel blew up a public school in Marwahin, South Lebanon, which had been officially reported as not being used for military purposes.

Israel deliberately targets civilians and civilian infrastructure in Lebanon.

These are clear war crimes, and war crimes beget war crimes with total impunity.

[Marina Purkiss @MarinaPurkiss]

If your wife and 4-year old was in an apartment block that the IDF suspected contained a member oh Hezbollah…

That DOES NOT make your wife and kid fair game FFS

WE ALL KNOW THIS

…and yet it’s absolutely wild that so many are normalising this savagery.

[Humza Yousaf @HumzaYousaf]

Israeli strike kills infant girl in Lebanon while she is at her father's funeral

Read it again

And ask yourself, when is it enough?

How much more depravity must we witness until there is accountability?

When does Israeli impunity end?

We must speak up against this insanity

[Arnaud Bertrand @RnaudBertrand]

Wow, that's extremely rare for a U.S. treaty ally.

South Korea's president, addressing Israel: "It’s disappointing that you don’t even once reflect on the criticisms from people around the world who are suffering and struggling due to your relentless anti-human rights and anti-international law actions."

He said this after posting this yesterday (https://t.co/ZgYit8lQJW), a video of IDF soldiers throwing a young Palestinian off a rooftop and commenting that "there is no difference between this and the Japanese wartime sexual slavery issue we raise, the massacre of Jews, or wartime killings."

Israel's Foreign Ministry responded that his post was "unacceptable" but President Lee obviously - and courageously - chose to double down 👇

Also probably says a lot about where U.S.-South Korea relations are at right now.

[Assal Rad @AssalRad]

This is how Palestinians are living in Gaza.

[Sir Norman of Nowhere. 🏴‍☠️ @Normanjam67]

Why aren't those who got palpitations over four empty ambulances not angry about these ones being bombed with the paramedics on board?

[Voice of Rabbis @voiceofrabbis]

Please share this message.

There are 100,000s of Jews who are against the Zionist State of Israel and Zionism.

Anti-Zionism is not antisemitism.

Criticizing Israel is not antisemitism.

Zionism is not Judaism, and Israel does not represent the Jewish people.