Circumstances create events. Almost 80 years of brutal, illegal occupation by an Apartheid regime that slaughters, tortures and imprisons with impunity whilst the world's turned a blind eye are the circumstances. Something had to give.
Viva Palestina! ✊🇵🇸 #IStandWithPalestine
Just in: IPSO has refused to investigate the Telegraph cartoon of Mothin Ali, the Green Party's Muslim deputy leader, grinning over a knife and fork at the severed head of Zack Polanski, its Jewish leader, who is drawn with a hooked nose. Nearly 1,200 of you complained.
IPSO's reason: the cartoon is about two individuals, so only Mothin and Zack can complain. How racist the drawing is doesn't come into it.
IPSO did not have to do this, and it has done the opposite before.
IPSO's rules let it take up a complaint from people other than the person written about, when the breach is significant, and there is a substantial public interest in looking at it.
In July 2023 it used that power. It ruled that Jeremy Clarkson's Sun column about the Duchess of Sussex was sexist, after complaints from two women's charities, the Fawcett Society and the WILDE Foundation. The Duchess did not complain.
The Telegraph's editor, Chris Evans, chairs the committee that writes the Editors' Code, which is the rulebook IPSO enforces.
The Telegraph is still selling prints of the cartoon today.
IPSO's rule says it may take up a complaint like this, not that it must. So this was a choice.
Picture a school. One boy draws two classmates, a Muslim boy and a Jewish boy. He gives the Jewish boy a hooked nose and puts his head on a plate, and draws the Muslim boy about to eat it. He pins the picture to the noticeboard and sells copies at the gate.
A thousand pupils go to the head teacher. She tells them she can only act if the two boys in the picture come to her themselves.
So the picture stays on the board, and every Muslim and Jewish child in the school walks past it each morning. The boy who drew it learns he can do it again.
And the rulebook the head teacher is reading from was written by a committee his dad chairs.
Nobody would say that head teacher is protecting the children. She is protecting the boy who drew it.
That is what IPSO has done. It says it regulates the Telegraph, and it has just told nearly 1,200 people that a racist cartoon in a paper it regulates is not its business unless the two men drawn in it come and ask.
Israeli forces have killed at least 18 Palestinian children in the Gaza Strip during October alone, an average of at least one child every 36 hours.
Despite the ceasefire agreement, Palestinian children continue to be killed, underscoring Israel’s ongoing violations of their fundamental rights to life, safety, and protection.
A ceasefire cannot be meaningful without the protection of civilians, accountability for unlawful killings, and an end to impunity.
The streets around Crown Alley have been repaved with cobblestones and new lamps have been installed.
WATCH: RTÉ News reports #OnThisDay in 1989
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The Netherlands have banned consumer fireworks to the public citing pets as one of the major reasons why . From now on only licensed shows are permitted. 🇳🇱
Trooper had not been himself since his bestie Shimar went over the rainbow bridge. Pleased to say he's slowly recovering and has made friends with Tina and Kelsey. Trooper is one of my favourites and to see him so sad just broke my heart 💔. I love you endless amounts, Trooper. Keep smiling sweet boy 💖✨
🚨🇬🇧 Lidor Dafna filmed himself destroying one of the last remaining food production facilities serving a starving population, then posted the footage on social media as a trophy. The United Kingdom now faces a simple test: will it arrest and prosecute a man, who remains an active soldier of an army carrying out such crimes, or once again permit a perpetrator of genocide to walk freely on its soil and return to Gaza and Lebanon to continue committing his crimes? We have filed our complaint. Now it is up to the British authorities to act.
Caralho, esse é sem dúvidas um dos vídeos mais espetaculares da história do Brasil!
Milhões e milhões de pessoas na Avenida Paulista comemorando a reeleição do Lula.
A ESQUERDA BRASILEIRA É UM FENÔMENO!
Brazil President Lula da Silva:
“I want to say loud and clear: The Prime Minister of Israel is carrying out a GENOCIDE against women & children. This is a historical FACT.”
BRAZIL PRESIDENT LULA EXPOSING THE TRUTH:
“The invasion of Iraq was a LIE. Where are the weapons of mass destruction that Saddam Hussein supposedly had? They were never found.
The invasion by France and England in Libya was another LIE that caused enormous damage at that moment in our history. The invasion and the genocide carried out by Israel in Gaza is another very big LIE
And now the bombing of Israel against Lebanon on what pretext? And now the invasion by the United States against Iran on what pretext?”
Richard A. Jones was picked out of a lineup of potential robbers 20 years ago.
He was 25 at the time and had two daughters.
The problem? He didn’t commit the crime.
Incredibly, he met a man in prison who was nearly identical in appearance to him and also had the same first name. Inmates kept confusing the two for each other.
Richard Jones on the left and Richard Amos on the right.
It turned out Amos was the one who actually committed the robberies. Richard spent 19 years behind bars for a crime he didn’t commit.
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Darcy is 9yrs old and she came to us from a hoarding situation with 15 dogs! Darcy is more confident than the other #dogs but she will still need a patient home and may be able to live with another dog
#germanshepherd#Cornwall
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Flávio Bolsonaro’s cybersecurity payments lead to a network selling election-influence tools and brokering a Banco Master deal Flávio Bolsonaro’s presidential campaign paid R$600,000 to Elytron, according to electoral accounts examined by Intercept Brasil. The invoices described
Google plans to bulldoze a wildlife haven in Essex – home to rare species – for a data centre. Sign the petition now to help save it before it’s gone forever 🐝🦋 https://t.co/I6cYAcMJsu via @38degrees