Sarah Helm

Journalist: S Times.Independent. Books, A Life in Secrets, If this is a Woman, Ravensbrück. Now writing on Gaza

[Karl Turner MP @KarlTurnerMP]

Still very probably the best PM we never had followed by John Smith. My political hero by a big margin. Why? Becuase Neil did the heavy lifting to make @UKLabour electable. 🌹

[Sarah Helm @SarahHelm1]

Lewis - Gaza folk get angry with Israelies, some get brutal (always have) ‘cos they r refugees, stuck in a strip/cage since 1948 when Zionists attacked their 200 farming villages, drove/bombed them out and into this cage then stole Gaza folks’ lands.

[Alex Crawford @AlexCrawfordSky]

One of the oldest continuously inhabited cities in the world - the ancient city of Tyre - designated a UNESCO World Heritage Site for its incredible historical sites. This is what it looks like today following multiple Israeli airstrikes.

[State of Palestine @Palestine_UN]

"You were correctly outraged by how Ben-Gvir treated your nationals. Please think of how he treats
ours.

Ben Gvir gave barely a glimpse of the treatment reserved to Palestinian prisoners. Over 100 of them died in custody under torture or due to starvation and medical neglect in the last two years.

They are subjected to inhumane and degrading treatment, assault, sexual abuse and rape. There are hundreds, maybe thousands of Palestinians who were detained and disappeared and their families ache every day not knowing what is their fate. The evidence of these horrors is undeniable, the perpetrators known and shielded."

[Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan]

That Melanie Phillips, who has engaged in the most unhinged & vicious bigotry - the "forces of Islam" are a "death cult", "no such thing as a Palestinian people" - continues to be invited onto news shows tells you everything about our media's double standards on racism/extremism.

[Sarah Helm @SarahHelm1]

For PM "globalise the intifada" is anti-semitic call to attack Jews . No. The Palestinian "intifada" means "shaking off" or "uprising" against illegal Israeli occupation. "Globalise the intifada" is a call for people everywhere to help the Palestinians become free.

[Ynet Global @ynetnews]

Starmer says some pro-Palestinian marches should be banned after London attack

British PM calls for prosecutions over chants to 'globalize the intifada' after two Jewish men stabbed in Golders Green, saying some protests may need t...

https://t.co/Jj2mbdzYw5

[Sarah Helm @SarahHelm1]

Yes, BBC, let's just "park" that overwhelming important question in the Israel-Palestine car park of questions nobody dares address for fear of being called anti-semitic. Try mentioning, for example, 1948. That's parked away in a car park of its very own and locked up.

[Jonathan Cook @Jonathan_K_Cook]

Panellists on Question Time spent half an hour competing in their calls for even more severe curbs on the right to protest against Israel's genocide, claiming it was the only way to stop attacks on Jews like the one in Golders Green.

Finally, when the Green party's deputy leader made a limp attempt to suggest linking the two was wrong, Fiona Bruce immediately shut her down.

We are now far, far down the road to authoritarian Britain.

[Sarah Helm @SarahHelm1]

@implausibleblog Watch this clip daddy in it 🤨

[Sarah Helm @SarahHelm1]

Why are you, a journalist, even engaging with this all too familiar and bogus and insulting Israeli claim/attempt to justify murdering journalists? It’s simply something they do, always have. Just that now they are murdering far more.

[John Simpson @JohnSimpsonNews]

To those who believe the journalists killed in Gaza were all Hamas operatives, Israel’s Meir Amit Intelligence and Terrorism Information Center stated that roughly 60% of the media workers and journalists killed in Gaza since October 2023 were linked to "terrorist organisations”. That indicates that 40% (well over a hundred) who were killed were just journalists, plain and simple. This figure alone (and it may be an underestimate) is something to be deeply concerned about.

[Alex Crawford @AlexCrawfordSky]

‘International investigations are urgently required. Not later, now’ - @amnesty

[Sarah Helm @SarahHelm1]

Damning! But frankly let’s face it, Britain gave up on Palestine 75 years ago when they walked out of Palestine in May 1948 just after the Deir Yassin massacre by Zionist forces.

[Sarah Champion @SarahChampionMP]

Foreign Office unit tracking Israel’s potential breaches of international law closed. This is a dark day for justice, and I fear will have considerable repercussions @CommonsIDC https://t.co/6giuj2qdke

[John Simpson @JohnSimpsonNews]

The body of the Lebanese journalist Amal Khalil was found by rescuers after several hours of digging in the rubble after an Israeli strike. She is the fourth journalist to have been killed by Israeli forces in seven weeks. This is why the word ‘journacide’ is now being used.

[richard bacon @richardpbacon]

Why isn’t this an enormous story? Why isn’t it on the front of British newspapers? This report is from an Israeli newspaper.

[Sarah Helm @SarahHelm1]

Where are our fiery British women MPs eh?

[Max Blumenthal @MaxBlumenthal]

Palestine Action defendants are blocked from explaining their motives or mentioning Israel, genocide, or the target of their actions

The British state is destroying its own courts to protect Israel's apartheid system

We are reporting this because British media can not

[Max Blumenthal @MaxBlumenthal]

UK media is forbidden from reporting these shocking facts:

Palestine Action is being deceptively tried for “terrorism,” with jurors being told it’s a mere criminal trial

PA’s lawyer faces contempt of court for mounting an effective defense

The British state is so desperate to crush these antiwar activists and preserve Israeli death factories on its soil that it is resorting to crude anti-democratic tactics and corrupting the entire jury system

[Alex Crawford @AlexCrawfordSky]

This is the latest paramedic killed by Israeli bombs in Lebanon. His name is Hassan Hamdan from the Leb Red Cross. A colleague was wounded. They were on an humanitarian mission in the south, on a route coordinated with UNIFIL for safety with Red X emblems displayed. 85 health workers and medics have been killed in Israeli attacks since early March

[Patrick Wintour @patrickwintour]

Extraordinary.

[Mark Seddon @MarkSeddon1962]

I wonder if @BBCWorld will be reporting on this?

[Sarah Helm @SarahHelm1]

@JEyal_RUSI @AlexCrawfordSky I think you mean their murders ..