If there’s one thing you should watch on the anniversary of the Nakba to understand the history of the creation of Israel, let it be this 20-minute video by the brilliant Mohammed Shehada.
Drop everything and listen as he dismantles the foundational myths and allegations Israel has long used to justify some of the worst crimes in recent history.
🧵on 'NYT rift'
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A NYT article on sexual abuse against Palestinians -accurate but barely scratching the surface- is triggering hysteria in the Israeli govt not bcs of the facts, but bcs of the audience.
Apartheid Israel fears NYT readers will finally see and no longer ignore.
"The moment I realised Israeli society was fully fascist"
Journalist and filmmaker @AbbyMartin shares her experience speaking to everyday Israeli citizens in 2017, and explains how genocidal rhetoric has now gone mainstream in the country.
Massie: I’m walking to an airplane to rejoin the most expensive congressional race in U.S. history. It’s turned into a referendum on whether Israel gets to buy seats in Congress. And what they found out is that my seat is really expensive. By the time this is over, they will probably have spent $20 million and come up short.
I’ve never seen Great Britain, Australia, or even Germany play in our elections here in the United States. But Israel gets so much from the United States.
It’s a one-sided relationship. They get us to be their proxies in wars they want against their enemies. They get our military assistance. They get our technology. They get our bombs. They get our tax dollars.
And I think it’s a very one-sided relationship. At least with NATO, we pretend that they would come to our aid someday if we needed it—and even that’s a ruse.
WTAF???!!
As his final act, Wes Streeting just signed off ALL OUR PATIENT RECORDS to Palantir WITHOUT our knowledge or consent & then resigned
“Your medical notes, prescriptions & DNA will be used however a politician decides; you’ll have no say & no choice”
TO PALANTIR!!! 🚩
Today, I want to sincerely thank every single person who stood by me throughout this trial.
To my legal team, thank you for putting your heart and soul into my defence, standing firm under immense pressure, and fighting tirelessly for what you believed was right.
To everyone who sent messages, checked in, reposted, donated, attended court, prayed, or simply showed support from afar, thank you. The overwhelming amount of love and encouragement did not go unnoticed.
And to every person who has continued to speak up for the Palestinian plight despite threats of prosecution, censorship, media attacks, intimidation, and cancel culture, never forget that history remembers those who stood for humanity when it was unpopular to do so.
Submissions will be made to the Magistrate on June 2nd, and His Honour may or may not deliver a ruling on the day.
Win or lose, I walk away from this proud.
Proud that I stood by my convictions.
Proud that I refused to be silenced.
Proud that fear did not make me bow down.
No matter the outcome, my voice, my principles, and my support for humanity will remain unchanged.
As Health Secretary, Wes Streeting deepened the privatisation of our NHS and handed over our data to Palantir, a company involved in genocide.
I am sure his friend Peter Mandelson is very proud.
Time to reinstate our NHS as a fully public service — and kick Palantir out!
If you only do one thing today, tweet some kind of support for @RepThomasMassie he is the main guy pushing for the release of the Epstein files and Trump hates him for it.
Lowkey drops a bombshell. He confirms UK Home Secretary Suella Braverman conspired to oust the police chief over Palestine protests.
He reveals Braverman, who has family in the Zionist military, labeled the protests as hate marches while allying with Tommy Robinson.
Labour are not happy with me, and they would love these investigations to stop.
Read my full reports on Josh Simons and Andy Burnham, including sources, here: https://t.co/WmzzjvtKYb
If you value my work, please consider making a contribution: https://t.co/SgLnupRJib
So listen.
@thenerve_news has the receipts.
A comprehensive timeline of Nathan Gill & Nigel Farage’s pro-Kremlin influencing activities & 2 other MEPs, David Cobourn & Jonathan Arnott.
Please read & share.
We've been investigating the deal between Palantir and the NHS for years.
Now we're ready to tell the real story. Listen to The Shadow Contract now 🎧
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@misanharriman is an impassioned humanitarian who always does his research and stands by his principles. Reporting the facts as he’s done, is not anti-Semitic. Isn’t it time to call out and put a stop to these baseless smear attempts against high profile personalities like Misan who use their platforms to honestly inform ?
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URGENT ACTION REQUIRED- DEMAND THE RELEASE OF GSF CREW MEMBERS THIAGO ÁVILA AND SAIF ABU KESHEK
We, the undersigned, urge the UK Government to take immediate and decisive action to secure the release of the Global Sumud Flotilla (GSF) humanitarian volunteers who have been unlawfully seized and detained by Israeli armed forces. We further call on the Government to uphold its obligations under international law by protecting humanitarian civilians and condemning attacks on peaceful aid missions. Israel’s unlawful aggression against the GSF in international waters is a matter of grave concern for the entire international community, which is why government leaders, activists, lawyers, politicians, and advocacy organisations from in and outside the UK have come together to sign this letter.
One part of the travesty of the Filton 6 actionists’ trial and retrial that has received less attention but is very important: Rajiv Menon, King’s Council, barrister for a member of the Filton 6, is being persecuted on a wholly unprecedented charge of contempt of court, carrying a punishment of up to two years imprisonment, for mentioning legal history and principles of law that allow juries to make independent decisions on conscience that Judge Johnson ruled out.
In the first trial’s closing statement to the jury, Menon pointed out the case that established this principle from 1670 and quoted the public plaque outside the Old Bailey (the central court in London) commemorating the case. He also reminded the jurors six times that the judge could not direct them to convict. The jury exonerated all the defendants in that first trial. Now they have been retried and convicted on some charges.
It sounds like Rajiv Menon is being punished for being extremely good at his job and for explaining the actual law relevant to the rights of the jury that this establishment judge close to the UK police and security services unethically suppressed to secure a political conviction to protect Elbit Systems. It is hard to avoid the conclusion that the Judge Johnson set up the rules and judgments precisely to engineer a conviction to circumvent the propensity of juries to acquit actionists. Then he plans to sentence them under extremely harsh terrorism laws by manipulating unjustly what jurors could know. Rajiv Menon initially disrupted that plan in the first trial. So now the judge and state are going after him.
We must support Rajiv Menon, a fantastic and principled barrister, and the actionists against the UK state’s punitive crackdown on those using democratic rights to protest and stop the Israeli arms industry from facilitating war crimes, illegal occupation and genocide. The corrupt and complicit political establishment in the UK has shown themselves willing to evacuate rights to free speech and assembly, jury trials, press freedom and a host of democratic rights for all citizens simply to protect Israel’s impunity and their own complicity in the genocide.
Support Rajiv Menon for defending pro-Palestine actionists and condemn what the UK courts and injustice system have done to jury trials and democratic rights!
It’s been revealed that a British GP who called for Palestinian babies to be sniped and for Gaza and the West Bank to be “razed to the ground,” is still practising medicine under an active medical licence.
https://t.co/lbn4wCsiBG
"New testimonies from released Palestinian detainees from Israeli prisons confirm that Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya is being slowly executed and is subjected to harsher torture than other detainees.
According to the testimonies, he is repeatedly interrogated, beaten, and humiliated in the most degrading forms. In many cases, he has been stripped naked and dogs have been used to attack him. He is forced, under torture, to repeat insults and degrading words about himself. He is suffering from constant vomiting and is being denied basic treatment..."
https://t.co/z3fcCL3vWu