Paul Harrison 🇵🇸 ❤️🖤🤍💚

Proud Socialist. Kindness Is Free. True Love Is Unconditional. The World Is My Country, Bristol Is My Home.

[Steve Sweeney @SweeneySteve]

What David fails to mention here is where the I$raeli soldiers were killed. Just for clarity they were in Lebanese sovereign territory as an invading/occupying force

Lebanon has the right to defend itself, enshrined in international law.

But David seems to think that I$rael should have the right to carry out killings and massacres with impunity and complains when its soldiers face resistance.

You couldn’t make it up.

[Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt @FranceskAlbs]

This personal account by @fadiquran speaks of a reality that is far too common.

In this report I analysed how the widespread & systematic arbitrariness of arrest & detention of Palestinians has crushed rights, mind and spirit of generations:
https://t.co/8QGhV86VL2

[Fadi Quran @fadiquran]

Here’s a personal story about Palestinian child prisoners:

- In 2012, I was arrested in Hebron while participating in a march to open Shuhada street, which was a main market street for Palestinians until the Israeli military shut it down, and made it for Israeli settlers only. It’s part of the area @JamaalBowmanNY visited.

- Handcuffed and blinded by pepper spray, and thrown in the back of an Israeli humvee after my head was slammed against it, the soldiers drive off. They suddenly stop, run out, and all I hear is a child screaming and crying.

- This child is then thrown on top of me, and is handcuffed. I ask him his age, he said 13. I asked him what happened, he says he was walking to his sister’s house and they just stopped and picked him up. He’s in panic mode crying “my sister cooked lunch for me, she’ll be terrified if I’m lost”. I tell him not to worry, we’ll make it out and give him the basic tips: You have a right to remain silent, don’t say anything without a lawyer…etc.

- We get to the Israeli military outpost, we’re dragged out of the humvee. The kid’s terrified, telling them not to blind him (He thought I was blinded because of the pepper spray, I couldn’t open my eyes).

- The smack the kid around and tell him to shut up.

- We wait a bit, then kid is called in for interrogation.

- The Israeli military interrogator literally tells him: I’ll let you go home, you just need to confirm the guy with you led the protest and told you to throw the stones at us.

- Kid says I want to call my family/lawyer. Interrogator says ok: Picks up mobile and gives it to kid. Kid puts in his mother’s number. Soldier snatches mobile. The mother answers. Soldier says: Your son is going to go to jail and if he doesn’t talk I’ll come and arrest you too. Puts it on speaker, mother is panicking. Kid starts to panic. Soldier hangs up in her face.

- Soldier tells kid: I can make your family’s life hell. But if you say what I told you to say, everything will be ok.

- Kid starts sobbing and says: But I don’t know this guy I just met him in the humvee when you picked me up. Sitting outside the room, I yell: Kid, stay strong, say your truth and don’t fall into his lies.

- They come and take me away. Thirty minutes later kid comes out of interrogation shaken. He says the soldier told him he’d shoot his mother. The poor child told me not to worry though, he only said the truth 🥺.

- The case brought against this poor kid was stone throwing, with two soldiers “testifying” they saw him throw a stone.

- He spent 3 months in prison as court hearings kept getting delayed, eventually he was advised by his lawyer to “admit” to stone throwing because that way he’d spend less time in prison because the lawyer could be able to negotiate his release in 4 months, while waiting for a ruling from Israel’s military courts could take a year.

- In short, working on this issue in Palestine for 12 years, I can tell you the majority of child arrests in Palestine follow this exact pattern:

- Israel wants to teach a Palestinian community a lesson, deterring people from protesting its oppression.

- It targets the kids, arresting dozens - up to 700 a year.

- Majority of kids get abused and interrogated.

- Lawyers and kids know it’s better to “confess” even if they didn’t do the crime, as waiting for a ruling and being in uncertainty/limbo is hell. That’s why you have a 95% conviction rate.

- Then the Israeli government, when challenged for the systematic abuse, comes out and says: “These kids are terrorists - they attacked our soldiers and admitted to it.”

- And because the lives of Palestinian children don’t matter, the world turns a blind eye again and again and again and again.

[sarah @sahouraxo]

Israel killed Mona Khalil in South Lebanon.

On June 6, they dropped a bomb on her home in Mansouri — flattening it.

Mona, an environmental activist, dedicated her life to protecting endangered sea turtles along Lebanon’s coast.

She died of her injuries today.

[Masu Zafi 🔥🔥 @masuzafi]

💔💔No parent should ever have to live this.
📢No human should ever have to describe it.

🔴 This is one of the most devastating moments at the UN in years.Palestine’s Permanent Representative Riyad Mansour breaks down in tears while speaking about Dr. Alaa al-Najjar, a Palestinian pediatrician who lost 9 of her 10 children in an Israeli airstrike on her home in Gaza.
Their burned bodies were brought to the hospital where she works as an emergency doctor.
Mansour, struggling to speak through tears:
“This is a horror and trauma that the mind cannot comprehend… the heart cannot bear.”

[sarah @sahouraxo]

Israel has dropped over 200 bombs on Lebanon in less than 24 hours — murdering more than 83 civilians.

This is an American-backed, American-funded genocide.

[Jeremy Corbyn @jeremycorbyn]

Getting rid of Keir Starmer is not enough. We need to get rid of the politics he represents: corporate greed, anti-migrant rhetoric and endless war.

[Lowkey @Lowkey0nline]

“Dedicated her life to saving endangered turtles…..and Israel targeted her house.”

[Tom London @TomLondon6]

THOUSANDS of British men & women have served in the Israeli army which is carrying out a GENOCIDE. They are not arrested on return to UK

THOUSANDS of British men & women have protested AGAINST the GENOCIDE and they have been arrested

British govt & “elites” SUPPORT the GENOCIDE

[Andrew Feinstein @andrewfeinstein]

This is why the Labour government wants to do away with juries - juries tend to avoid convicting citizens acting on conscience against those who arm genocide

[BladeoftheSun @BladeoftheS]

Switzerland did it.
France have done it.

It's time to get the US/Israeli Spy Agency Palantir out of Europe.

[Jonathan Cook @Jonathan_K_Cook]

The goal of the government, police, courts and media has been to keep the public fixated on the faux-illegality of Palestine Action's opposition to genocide, not the British security state’s all-too-real criminal collusion in that genocide.

My latest: https://t.co/xVCrhbdLxG

[Jeremy Corbyn @jeremycorbyn]

Last year, the government blocked my Bill demanding an independent inquiry into its complicity in genocide.

Today, I've tabled it again. My question to any potential Prime Minister is: will you support an urgent inquiry, or will you block our efforts to expose the truth?

[Roger Gall @Shambles151]

In 6 months - 2,800 arrests were made in the UK for supporting Palestinian Action.

None were made for over 2,000 British-Israeli dual nationals who have served in an IDF that's slaughtering thousands of innocent children in Palestine & Lebanon.

Please RT until this is reversed.

[Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt @FranceskAlbs]

A small step, the smallest step, but it's a beginning.

Norway still has to answer this: how can a country that champions human rights, allow its vast sovereign wealth fund, one of the largest in the world, to invest in entities linked to an occupation the ICJ has found illegal?

[Parwiz Hamidi _🇵🇸 @Palestine001_]

Saudi Foreign Minister to Israelis: You cut off aid, bomb Gaza, then claim its people want to leave voluntarily. There is no voluntary departure from Gaza—every exit is forced displacement, which must be rejected entirely.

[Double Down News @DoubleDownNews]

How Israel Controls YOUR MIND: Operation Algorithmic Coup EXPOSED @Lowkey0nline

https://t.co/xsZBRzjscI

[Irlandarra @martinez_j7902]

Francesca Albanese shuts down reporter question on whether Israel has right to exist.

“The state of Israel is there, it’s protected as a member of the UN. Does this justify the erasure of another people? Hell no. Not 75 years ago, not 57 years ago, surely not today.”

[Neena Jha @DrNeenaJha]

Why aren’t Palestine at the World Cup?

Because Israel MURDERED THEIR PLAYERS!

Israel tried to erase Palestine from this world…..

But it backfired, because now -

The WHOLE WORLD flies the flag of Palestine with strength and heart

#FreePalestine 🕊️ 🇵🇸

[Novara Media @novaramedia]

Sally Rooney has spoken out once more against Israel's genocide and the criminalisation of protest in the UK.

The author said that just as Israel has inherited its tactics from British and European colonialism, governments in the UK and Germany are copying Israel in how they increasingly outlaw dissent.

Rooney spoke at the event alongside Matt Kennard, Tadhg Hickey and Abubaker Abed.