Raffaella

Sardinian in London. Views are personal, but not private. Retweets mean I support you.

[Raffaella @Raffaraps]

One of a kind… spending all his energies for solidarity and justice@
Thank you once again Mr Loach!
@KenLoachSixteen

[Nicola James @NAJ562]

Yesterday in #Bath, legendary filmmaker Ken Loach spoke powerfully at the rally for Palestine, extending heartfelt thanks to Bath Campaigns Network for their “magnificent work in keeping the truth alive.”

Ken reminded us: “The biggest weapon we have is solidarity.” He praised the bravery of young activists picketing arms factories supplying weapons to Israel, condemning the UK government for enabling apartheid. “If you are supplying weapons to people committing crimes, you are an accomplice to that crime.”

Ken also called out pro-Israeli groups that smeared Jeremy Corbyn, labeling them apologists for war crimes. He described the devastation in Gaza: children maimed, families orphaned, and lives torn apart. “There will be a day of reckoning,” he declared, outlining essential demands:

1️⃣ Immediate and permanent ceasefire
2️⃣ Recognition of Palestine
3️⃣ War criminals and their accomplices standing trial in The Hague
4️⃣ Palestinians deciding their own future democratically
5️⃣ Justice and reparations for destruction and suffering

“Without justice, there can be no peace.”

#Gaza_Genocide‌ #StopArmingIsrael

[Raffaella @Raffaraps]

@eeeeh_boh @voragini Non è’
Che ti attacchiamo, ma
E’ un osservazione abbastanza superficiale

[Craig Murray @CraigMurrayOrg]

The Happiest of Days - I cannot tell you how happy I am at Julian's release. It is 4.00am and I haven't been to bed yet. I have spoken to John Shipton but everyone else is on a plane en route to Australia.

The guilty plea is of course coerced in the https://t.co/U9MlWMJRDP

[Raffaella @Raffaraps]

@rubio_chef Massima solidarietà mi dispiace molto

[Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt @FranceskAlbs]

I am extremely alarmed by information that Dr. Adnan Albursh, a well-known surgeon at #alshifa_hospital, has died while detained by Israeli forces in the Ofer military prison. While I acquire more information, I URGE the diplomatic community to intervene with CONCRETE MEASURES to protect Palestinians.

No Palestinian is safe under Israel's occupation today.

How many more lives will have to be taken before UN Member States, especially those demonstrating genuine concern for human rights globally, act to PROTECT the Palestinians?

[Lowkey @Lowkey0nline]

Palestinians are aching to be free, and billions of people across the world feel that pain.

[Raffaella @Raffaraps]

@MosabAbuToha I am so deeply sorry

[Raffaella @Raffaraps]

@RishiSunak It wasn’t a Foreign Court, was it?

[Raffaella @Raffaraps]

@ECudd @michaelsheen I agree!

[Raffaella @Raffaraps]

@Jonathan_K_Cook Oh really?

[Raffaella @Raffaraps]

I love this ma so much! ❤️🙏🏼👏🏼

[Letterboxd @letterboxd]

Legendary British filmmaker Ken Loach on the importance of keeping the collective experience of cinemagoing alive ❤️ #EEBAFTAs

Loach’s latest—and last—film The Old Oak was nominated for Outstanding British Film.

[Lowkey @Lowkey0nline]

I hate the world and myself for watching this. It is beyond despicable what Israel is doing to these people. I don't know how any of us live with this. We are more bitter and twisted for it.

[Richard Medhurst @richimedhurst]

The idea that a Jew from Manchester, or a Jew from Brooklyn, or Berlin, has a "birthright" to Palestine, thousands of kilometers away-- a place they've never been to-- but a Palestinian doesn't, is the psychotic horse manure that you have to believe in in order to commit genocide

[Yanis Varoufakis @yanisvaroufakis]

Netanyahu just announced his plan forcibly to transfer - and possibly deport - 1.3 million #Palestinians from Rafah. The West's continued silence during this never-ending atrocity will be remembered by future generations as a singular moral failure.

[Raffaella @Raffaraps]

@RishiSunak I have been to all protests and never experience anything that is mentioned on this video.

[MoTaz @motazazaiza9]

Another big loss for me

Like a father, Mohammed Omari
He got killed by Israeli snipers while doing his humanitarian work to evacuate injured people from Gaza city to the south as the PRCS coordinated with ICRC and they got permission to do their job.
They shot him in the chest.

[David Miller @Tracking_Power]

VICTORY AT THE EMPLOYMENT TRIBUNAL

The Employment Tribunal has released its judgment in my landmark legal case against @BristolUni, concluding that I was wrongfully dismissed in October 2021 and discriminated against because of my anti-Zionist beliefs. This is not just a victory for me, but also a victory for pro-Palestine campaigners across Britain.

Over many years, anti-Zionists have faced harassment and censorship in Britain due to the efforts of the Israel lobby. Many people have faced disciplinary procedures and lost their jobs for manifesting their anti-Zionist beliefs.

Before I took my case, it was unclear whether a belief in the idea that Zionism is a racist, imperialist, and colonial ideology could be protected under the Equality Act 2010 as a philosophical belief. I’m proud to say that, with this case, we have proven that anti-Zionist beliefs, of the sort that I articulated, should be protected.

I hope this case will become a touchstone precedent in all the future battles that we face with the racist and genocidal ideology of Zionism and the movement to which it is attached.

The determination that I was sacked for my anti-Zionist beliefs is a vindication of the case I made all the way through this process. The University of Bristol maintained that I was sacked because Zionist students were offended by my various remarks. However, it was plain from the evidence provided by the university’s own witnesses, that I was sacked because of the anti-Zionist nature of my comments.

This verdict is also a vindication of the approach I have taken throughout this period, which is to say that a genocidal and maximalist Zionism can only be effectively confronted by a maximalist anti-Zionism. The self-justifying and defensive approach of the sort illustrated by many on the left and even in the Palestine Solidarity movement will not work. The Zionist movement cannot be negotiated with. It must be defeated.

I thank the Tribunal, Judge Pirani, and the two panellists Ms Kaye and Mr Launder for the professional way that proceedings were conducted and for giving me a fair hearing in spite of many external pressures. I also thank my legal team @ZillRah7 of @RahmanLowe and Zac Sammour of @11KBW for their strong commitment, from the outset, to defending the right to be anti-Zionist.

I am also truly grateful to every single person who has donated to this case through the @Fighting_Fund. Without your support, there is no way I could have seen this through to the end.

This is just as much your victory as it is mine.

Now we need to spread the campaign to #DismantleZionism all around the world - wherever the Zionist movement raises its ugly head.

[Raffaella @Raffaraps]

https://t.co/FCU3Mlo2V1

everyone should watch this! @azaizamotaz9

[MoTaz @motazazaiza9]

100 days
Hundred days of losing, suffering, pain, fighting to survive and showing the RAW realities to the whole world.
With no lie, with no filters.
I showed the whole world the meaning of being Palestinian living in Gaza Strip.
I showed you how we love the life and how we love our beloved Gaza.
I showed the reality of the most brutal occupation ever.
No one will bring me back the people I lost and my mental health which actually was destroyed years before this war.
Free Palestine🇵🇸

[Jeremy Corbyn @jeremycorbyn]

Today's ICJ hearing was devastating. Horror after horror, laid out in plain sight for all to see.

South Africa spoke for millions around the world desperate for this massacre to end — and put the UK & US government to shame for their deplorable silence, cowardice and complicity.