Peter Andrews

Writer and journalist

[Peter Andrews @PeterAndrewss]

Can you imagine @bbclaurak or @Peston asking some of these questions to MPs?

I definitely can’t.

This is why Owen Jones was banned from the Labour conference: he’s well informed and not afraid to ask the tough questions.

[Wokerati Marty @WokeratiMarty]

Here’s Labour MP Luke Akehurst engaging in some bare-faced genocide denial. Owen Jones rips him to shreds in this interview.

[Wyatt Reed @wyattreed13]

Israel kidnapped a local council member & municipal employee from South Lebanon today while they did maintenance on a water pump this morning

Like all Israeli aggression, it’s been ignored by the Lebanese gov’t, which spent the week accusing Iran of “interfering” in the country.

[Zachary Foster @_ZachFoster]

Nothing to see here, just Israel using a Palestinian quite literally as a human shield.

[Peter Andrews @PeterAndrewss]

@BriannaWu Haha! Keep crying!

[The Fraud @StarmertheFraud]

The message is actually: don't be violent yourself. Use your "justified anger" to vote us in. Then we'll turn the police and other instruments of violence against immigrants on your behalf. Then it'll be legit, moral and the perfection of the rule of law.

The "I abhor violence but" schtick is Philps signalling to a radicalised base how to get what they want - retribution and violence against the other - through the system rather than outside of it.

The long-con is that Philps and Farage can then pretend they are actually protecting us by holding the leash on a far-right street movement that they are supporting and enabling by legitimising their diagnosis of society's ills (immigration) and the "medicine" needed to fix it (cruelty and exclusion).

[Peter Andrews @PeterAndrewss]

Your average English Christian patriot

[Mukhtar @I_amMukhtar]

44-year-old Daniel Frost from Southampton has been jailed for two years and four months for violent disorder and possession of an offensive weapon, a dog lead with a metal carabiner that he had turned into a makeshift knuckleduster.

He has 25 previous convictions for 55 offences, including a six-year prison sentence for GBH and robbing an 80-year-old woman, as well as public order and burglary offences.

[Peter Andrews @PeterAndrewss]

@HakunaMatata26C Your face is disgusting

[Peter Andrews @PeterAndrewss]

LOL. I guess Miriam Adelson reminded him who’s boss.

[Al Jazeera Breaking News @AJENews]

BREAKING: 'We're going to be attacking' Iran, Trump says

🔴 LIVE updates: https://t.co/8mP5Dbwy9n

[The Green Party @TheGreenParty]

Green MPs' response to the violent unrest in Belfast.

[Peter Andrews @PeterAndrewss]

Reform aren’t even in government yet. What’s going to happen if they do get elected?

[Malcolm iXa 🍉 @ideiazabaldub]

Las imágenes de los progromos racistas de Belfast son dantescas.

Centenares de unionistas encapuchados han incendiado viviendas y comercios.

Ha habido estallidos también en Escocia e Inglaterra.

En las imágenes una familía de migrantes es rescatada de las llamas en Belfast. 👇🏼

[parks @parkersity_9]

Isn’t it crazy that in every movie they’re portrayed as the good guys?

[Gaza Notifications @gazanotice]

🚨BREAKING: The first image from the ongoing trial of Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya before Israel’s Supreme Court in occupied Jerusalem reveals a visibly weakened and exhausted man, bearing apparent signs of torture, abuse, and prolonged mistreatment during his detention.

[Peter Andrews @PeterAndrewss]

@nicolelampert A Jewish soldier literally shot a baby in the head - there’s video evidence - and you’re calling it “blood libel”?

Fuck you.

Own up to the fact that your Jewish soldiers are murdering children and babies.

Cunt.

[Waqas🔶️ @m0w4q45]

Belfast is burning and the arsonists-in-chief aren’t even holding matches they’re holding microphones.

Farage and Lowe have spent years shouting “invasion” at anything with a suitcase, and now a mob has taken them literally. Funny how the men who scream loudest about defending Britain are never around when British families are fleeing their own burning homes.

These aren’t patriots. They’re pyromaniacs with press offices. They light the fuse from a safe distance, then pop up on GB News to tut about “legitimate concerns” while someone else’s house glows in the background.

[Peter Andrews @PeterAndrewss]

Lost for words

[B'Tselem בצלם بتسيلم @btselem]

New footage obtained by B’Tselem uncovers the moments when the Abu Haikal family was shot. Seven-month-old Sam Abu Haikal was killed in the shooting, and both his parents were injured. The footage clearly shows that the Israeli soldier fired at the car as it was slowing to a stop. The car was far from the soldiers and posed no danger to them whatsoever.

Moments later, in another video obtained by B’Tselem, seven-month-old Sam’s father, Fahed, is seen just after his son was shot. Fahed is holding baby Sam in his arms, trying to stop the bleeding from his head with his hands, while Sam’s mother, Daniyah, who was also injured by the gunfire while holding her son, is seen sitting on the ground, next to the car.

Last Friday, 5 June, an Israeli soldier fired at a Palestinian family driving home from a family visit, as they sat in their car in the Tel Rumeidah neighborhood in Hebron. The family was shot as the car was slowing to a stop at the soldier’s command. Sam, a seven‑month‑old baby who was in his mother’s arms in the back seat, was struck in the head and pronounced dead shortly afterward. Sam’s parents were also injured by the gunfire; his mother is still in the hospital. After the shooting, the soldier who fired and another soldier who was with him left the scene without checking the car or offering any assistance to the critically wounded baby or to his mother.

In the past two and a half years, Israel has killed tens of thousands of children in Gaza and the West Bank. The immunity it gets from the international community has led to a reality where, under Israeli rule, Palestinian lives are entirely disposable – even a seven‑month‑old baby.

[Mukhtar @I_amMukhtar]

21-year-old Reece Robinson, from Havant, has been jailed for two years for violent disorder after throwing stones at police during the riots in Southampton.

He was caught on a livestream by the auditors. Good job, lads.

[Juan Mac @no1guncle]

Starmer managed to name the impacted communities 6 weeks ago - but he can't call out racist attacks on our streets now, in case he upsets the people who carried them out

[Socialist Opera Singer @OperaSocialist]

If you are being told to "protest" in Belfast but you weren't in Bristol after Alina Burns tried to behead someone, ask yourself "why?"

[Saul Staniforth @SaulStaniforth]

"Crowds of masked thugs.. were knocking on doors.. and asking people which of the houses [were] occupied by foreigners and by ethnic minorities.."

[Aaron Rupar @atrupar]

MIKA: Given your sexting, can you call for the release of the Epstein files and not be conflicted in any way?

PLATNER: Yes, of course. I engaged in consensual romantic activities with adults at an earlier part of my life. That seems like a fairly normal thing most people do. Going to an island with billionaires to possibly assault children is a vastly, vastly different thing.

[Alonso Gurmendi @Alonso_GD]

“Israeli soldiers would never shoot a child in the head, this is blood libel”