Robiu Salisu

Consultant| Race and Social Justice Course Tutor| Panel member for Welsh Gov
|Previous - NCH Board Member and of UoB Court|#ReframingRace Member| #MyOwnView

[Robiu Salisu @Robiusalisu]

Fantastic coverage by @BBCNews of the @BristolUni £1 million scholarship fund for Black heritage students.

Full video here:
https://t.co/avNc4KuRmq

[Colter Louwerse @ColterL]

Has there ever been another country in modern history with an active protest movement *against* providing starving people with food and medical aid?

[BBC Wales News @BBCWalesNews]

International students in Wales have been sleeping rough on campuses after struggling to find housing
https://t.co/n9du6NMeAZ

[chronically right @BigZaddyPatty]

Put this picture in color and stop playing with me. 1986 was not that long ago

[David Elikwu FRSA ⚔️ @Delikwu]

@historyinmemes There's no reason for this to be in black and white lol

[Runnymede Trust @RunnymedeTrust]

Sending strength and solidarity to Jordan, who remains paralysed after being tasered by police.

Police are 4.2x more likely to use tasers against Black people, and for longer. It's time to end the use of such aggressive, dangerous policing techniques. https://t.co/8kcTlSDbeu

[Yemisi Adegoke @briticoyemo]

"In Nigeria, one product tested up to 6.8g ."

Meanwhile in major European markets there is no added sugar in formulas for kids.

Later, when people from these countries say they do not trust the West, it will be written off as ignorance and incidents like this will be ignored.

[Robiu Salisu @Robiusalisu]

Is this allyship?

[Financial Times @FT]

Netanyahu too ‘busy’ to talk to Sunak after RAF helped repel Iranian attack https://t.co/IYdyuJNmOg

[Christiane Amanpour @amanpour]

Starvation. The unacceptable face of Israel’s war on Gaza.

A doctor from an international aid agency took these pictures 10th April at Kamal Adwan Hospital in northern Gaza.

The desperate parents gave permission to publish these.

[Sky News @SkyNews]

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres: 'Children in Gaza are dying through a lack of food and water, this is incomprehensible and entirely avoidable. Nothing can justify the collective punishment of the Palestinian people'

Latest: https://t.co/CxUaFO4rws

📺 Sky 501, Virgin 602

[Channel 4 News @Channel4News]

"I met so many children who are malnourished."

Tess Ingram, a Unicef Communication Specialist working in the Gaza Strip, tells @krishgm that a seven-year-old boy she met had "been living on grass".

[Celia Richardson @CeliaRichards0n]

Ok, I’ll explain. They’re woke scones. They’re scones that secretly virtue-signal. They’re scones but they’re also a betrayal of our British heritage. They are unchanged, yet somehow everything about them has changed. Do you get it now?

[Robiu Salisu @Robiusalisu]

For all those who proclaim their allyship or anti-racism efforts in decolonisation and yet have remained silent with not even a tweet of condemnation of the genocidal behaviour of the Israeli state... You need to do some soul searching.

[Henry Riley @HenryRiley1]

NEW

This is the moment Sir Alan Duncan called for Tom Tugendhat to be sacked as Security Minister

He says it is time to “flush out those extremists in our own politics, some of whom are at the very top of government”

@LBC @NickFerrariLBC

[Robiu Salisu @Robiusalisu]

@LBC @NickFerrariLBC This is nauseating to watch. Firstly, isn't it anti-Semitic to link Jewish people to the action of Israeli state? "being friends of Jewish people"

Secondly, isn't it a clear example of racism that people like Nick only care after "White" British citizens have been killed by IDF?

[Robiu Salisu @Robiusalisu]

This is nauseating to watch. Firstly, isn't it anti-Semitic to link Jewish people to the action of Israeli state? "being friends of Jewish people"

Secondly, isn't it a clear example of racism that people like Nick only care after "White" British citizens have been killed by IDF?

[LBC @LBC]

'It could've been our missiles that killed them.'

@NickFerrariLBC calls for the suspension of arms sales to Israel after an Israeli airstrike on Gaza killed seven aid workers, including three Brits.

[Trita Parsi @tparsi]

An important aspect of Israel's conduct - and Biden's acquiescence to it - that has gone largely unreported:

Israel is engaged in a deliberate and systematic effort to destroy existing laws and norms around warfare.

Even during wartime, embassies are off-limits. Israel just bombed an Iranian diplomatic compound in Damascus.

Bombing hospitals is a war crime. Israel has bombed EVERY hospital in Gaza. It has even assassinated patients inside hospitals.

The ICJ just obligated Israel to allow the delivery of humanitarian aid to Gaza. Israel actively prevents aid from coming in.

Starvation of civilians as a method of warfare is prohibited under international humanitarian law. Israel has deliberately created a famine in Gaza.

Indiscriminate bombings are illegal under international humanitarian law. Biden himself admits that Israel is bombing Gaza indiscriminately.

And the list goes on.

Presuming that Israel simply is breaking international law as part of the war but with no larger intent no longer holds IMO.

Rather, Israel is seeking to either destroy these norms or create a new normal in which it - much like the US - will be untouchable above these laws and norms.

This is the exact type of conduct that usually prompts the US to label a country a pariah or rogue state. The US accuses such states of seeking to destroy the "Rules Based Order."

But so far, Biden has acquiesced to Israel's conduct in this area as well as all other aspects of Israel's slaughter in Gaza.

[Ione Belarra @ionebelarra]

Terrifying images from the Al Shifa hospital complex, the largest in Gaza. This is not a war; even in war, there are rules, such as not attacking healthcare infrastructure. This is a genocide committed by Israel and actively supported by the US and Europe. Shame.

[Robiu Salisu @Robiusalisu]

Struggling today reading all the latest news. Humanity is at a state of loss

[World Central Kitchen @WCKitchen]

World Central Kitchen is devastated to confirm seven members of our team have been killed in an IDF strike in Gaza. Read our full statement on the loss of our team members here: https://t.co/gsijamzfMU

[Welsh Government @WelshGovernment]

Today is a significant day for Wales.

@PrifWeinidog Vaughan Gething has appointed his new Cabinet, who will work together to deliver a stronger, fairer, greener Wales.

Full details of appointments here 👇
https://t.co/bo6Uu13ENo