Jim Orr

Campaigning 1) for better governance in the SNP and 2) for readmission following being booted out on trumped up charges.

[Ahmet Gemici @ahmetgemici2990]

Filistin bayrağı açan Lamine Yamal tüm İsrail’de protesto ediliyor, formaları yırtılıyor.

O halde biz de Yamal’a çok büyük destek verelim!

Yamal’ı sevenler bu tweeti beğensin ve paylaşsın 🇵🇸

[Richard Sanders @PulaRJS]

- @AlexCrawfordSky is doing something fascinating and it is drawing a lot of heat.

She is reporting on Arabs as if they were white people.

[Tom Minogue @MinogueTom]

Piper Alpha: Occidental “never ever apologised.” https://t.co/eActgFdmD0 via @MinogueTom

[Censored Humans @CensoredHumans]

🇵🇸Jackie Chan raises his voice against the suffering of Palestinian children in Gaza.

[Arnaud Bertrand @RnaudBertrand]

In a normal world, this should be an immense scandal in Europe.

Le Monde has a long article (https://t.co/HsWFThQ5wF) describing the hellish life of Nicolas Guillou, a French judge at the ICC in The Hague, due to U.S. sanctions punishing him for authorizing arrest warrants against Netanyahu and Gallant for war crimes in Gaza.

Guillou's daily existence has been transformed into a Kafkaesque nightmare. He cannot: open or maintain accounts with Google, Amazon, Apple, or any US company; make hotel reservations (Expedia canceled his booking in France hours after he made it); conduct online commerce, since he can't know if the packaging is American; use any major credit card (Visa, Mastercard, Amex are all American); access normal banking services, even with non-American banks, as banks worldwide close sanctioned accounts; conduct virtually any financial transaction.

He describes it as being "economically banned across most of the planet," including in his own country, France, and where he works, the Netherlands.

That's the real shocking aspect of this: the Americans are:
- punishing a European citizen
- for doing his job in Europe
- applying laws Europe officially supports
- at an institution based in Europe
- that Europe helped create and fund

and Europe is not only doing essentially nothing to protect him, they're actively enforcing America's sanctions against their own citizen - European banks closing his accounts, European companies refusing him service, European institutions standing by while Washington destroys a European judge's life on European soil.

Again, in a normal world, European leaders and citizens should be absolutely outraged about this. But we've so normalized the hollowing out of European sovereignty that the sight of a European citizen being economically executed on European soil for upholding European law is treated, at best, as an unfortunate technical complication in transatlantic relations.

[はじかみ(あねき) @hajikamianeki]

Heartfelt congratulations on winning the Asian Art Awards at Edinburgh Fringe 2025!!
また朝から感涙‥
#劇団鹿殺し(@shika564)
#Shoulderpads
#edfringe

[Irish Unity 🇮🇪🇵🇸 @IrishUnity]

Italian MPs wear the colours of Palestine’s flag in Parliament today 👏

“Today, we don’t hold up the flag because you’d try to take it from us. Instead, we wear it on our skin."

[Abier @abierkhatib]

USS Liberty survivor Phil Tourney on Zionism and Gaza

Just wow

[Hüseyin Dogru @hussedogru]

Berlin police arrest a 13-YEAR-OLD CHILD at a Palestine demonstration.

The police hold the child's wrist in a "pain grip" and cover their face.

This is now accepted and normal in Germany, no-one says a word.

[Nassim Nicholas Taleb @nntaleb]

Told the BBC to fuck off.

[Suppressed News. @SuppressedNws]

Irish fighter Paddy McCorry defeated Israeli Shuki Farage, raised the Palestinian flag, and repeatedly shouted “Free Palestine” inside the cage while beating Shuki who is a soldier in the ‘IDF’.

[Jim Orr @MrJimOrr]

Plus £15 from me. Good luck Alah. 👍

[Eyup Lovely @eyuplovely]

I am absurdly poorer than you and I just donated the last £50 to my name to my friend @alahibntahar and his family to help them evacuate from the hell your taxes summoned in Gaza. It would mean the world to me if you could donate anything at all to the link in the replies. ♥️

[Jim Orr @MrJimOrr]

"Assad Was a Tyrant, Not An Anti-Imperialist" discussion with @Moazzam_Begg . A lot to learn here..
https://t.co/Og4ibMVa9Q

[Alan MacLeod @AlanRMacLeod]

In years to come, students in university departments around the world will be studying the propaganda embedded in this headline.

As someone who regularly lectures in sociology, journalism and media studies, I could teach an entire lesson on the title alone.

For example:

1. Treating the 4 Israeli soldiers as more important than the 23 Palestinian children (by leading the story with their deaths and just chucking in the others at the end) implies their lives are of higher value.

2. Infantilizing active duty soldiers as "teenagers" while not emphasizing the age of the schoolkids, despite many of them being demonstrably younger.

3. The classic use of the passive voice: Israelis are "killed" while Palestinians merely "die".

4. Putting scare quotes around "23 die" subtly undermines the credibility of that claim. Maybe no one died, and the Palestinians are just lying?

5. Using the word "attack" for Hezbollah actions, but choosing a more neutral, clinical word like "strike" for Israeli aggression.

6. Allowing Israeli sources to dictate the framing of the story ("Israel names teenage soldiers") etc.

7. Actually naming the Israeli soldiers, but not doing the same for the far greater number of Palestinians, again sends the message to the reader that Palestinian lives don't matter nearly as much, if at all.

It's truly incredible how much propaganda has been packed into 16 words. We are swimming in an ocean of propaganda. That's why it is crucial to deconstruct it and critically assess everything you read, see and hear.

[Jim Orr @MrJimOrr]

@ScotNational In 2014 former Chief Inspector Gavin Buist also announced his “unequivocal support” for solidarity with Palestine.

https://t.co/phPUeuQQf3

[Jim Orr @MrJimOrr]

I was asked why I criticised Starmer. Saw a tiny boy with his femur bone sticking out of his leg today. Anyone, especially a Labour leader, who hasn’t worked to end the siege of Gaza should be held in contempt. Read: @vijayprashad @yanisvaroufakis @normfinkelstein @JefferySachs

[Jim Orr @MrJimOrr]

A short thread on Jim Henderson, the veteran who was reportedly assaulted by anti-war/Pro-Palestine protesters at Waverley station on Saturday 4th November. In the photo below, Jim (purple beret) can be seen standing next to me (black baseball cap with a bright red brim). 1/8

[Jim Orr @MrJimOrr]

@Jeff_Halper PPS don’t just like or RT this thread, forward it to all the outlets and journalists who reported this “incident”. Tell them to clarify that the evidence demonstrates that there was no interest in, or interaction with, the poppy sellers as they packed up and left.