Simon Murphy

[ℹ️ Not The Torygraph 💚 #SaveOurNHS #ScrapNHSBill @TweetForTheMany]

Diane Abbott was originally suspended from Labour for drafting an article saying that people of colour experience racism in a different way from white people, including Jews.

David Baddiel’s niece explained the same point - her Mother is black - her Dad is Jewish.

[simon maginn @simonmaginn]

Diane Abbott apologises for 'inadvertently' conflating Israel with Jewry, the same conflation which the party and the entirety of UK civic society have cynically and consistently deployed to politically annihilate Corbyn and the left.
Utterly ridiculous.
#ItWasAScam

[Zoe Gardner @ZoeJardiniere]

I assume Newsnight will be reading out a running commentary from anonymous Greens over text about this, tonight?

[GET A GRIP @docrussjackson]

Laurence Fox claims Hitler was an 'uber woke leftist', which must be why he sent to concentration camps and executed left-wing intellectuals/activists, homosexuals, disabled people, communists, socialists, and union leaders.

Fox is a politically and historically illiterate gimp.

[Canary @TheCanaryUK]

“We are having people being arrested before they've said anything—people who were just making the way for poems. If this was happening in Russia or China, people would be outraged.”

Speaking outside Westminster Magistrates Court, Tim Crosland of Defend Our Juries detailed the chaotic police intervention targeting peaceful solidarity actions for Gaza. Over 1,500 people—many of them pensioners—were listed to appear on charges under anti-terror legislation for holding signs, only to face court administrative delays.

When organizers set up a simple step stand to allow poets to share readings and songs for Gaza, police swept in, arresting two people and placing them in painful rear hand-restraints under anti-terror and serious crime provisions. Shortly after, a facilitator was arrested simply for speaking to the crowd without amplification.

📍 Westminster Magistrates Court, London

📅 30 July 2026

#DefendOurJuries #TimCrosland #WestminsterMagistratesCourt #StateRepression #FreeSpeech

@financialeyes @defendourjuries

[George Galloway @georgegalloway]

This England

[Jonathan Cook @Jonathan_K_Cook]

Karim Khan, dismissed from his post last week, is not the first chief prosecutor at the ICC war crimes court to suffer after trying to take on Israel.

Fatou Bensouda faced a “covert war” waged against her by Israel for the best part of a decade, according to an investigation by the Guardian in May 2024, just as Khan issued his arrest warrant for Netanyahu.

The Guardian’s report, published nearly three years after Bensouda had completed her nine-year term at the ICC, revealed that, during that time, she had faced threats to herself and her family, the monitoring of her communications, and an intimidating visit to her home.

More recently, Bensouda has confirmed these accounts in an interview with Al Jazeera. Bensouda notes that she repeatedly reported Israel’s campaign of intimidation to the Dutch authorities, but they did nothing to investigate the threats or protect her.

She also says certain “authorities” – she does not name them – warned her that she was going too far in investigating Israeli crimes and that “you could be harmed or you could be killed, or family members could be harmed in some way.”

The campaign of threats – instigated by Yossi Cohen, then the director of Israel’s spy agency, Mossad – intensified as Bensouda considered whether to open a formal investigation into Israeli war crimes and crimes against humanity in the illegally occupied Palestinian territories.

Israel’s crimes against the Palestinian people, we should remember, predate – by decades – Hamas’ attack on 7 October 2023. In fact, though no one is supposed to mention it, Israel’s sustained crimes of occupation are the self-evident cause of that Hamas attack.

An Israeli source told the Guardian that “the Mossad’s objective was to compromise the prosecutor or enlist her as someone who would cooperate with Israel’s demands” – that is, scrap the ICC’s investigation into Israeli crimes. Another source admitted that Cohen was acting on Netanyahu’s instructions.

During one contact, Cohen reportedly issued a Mafia-style threat to Bensouda: “You don’t want to be getting into things that could compromise your security or that of your family.”

The Guardian reported that the Mossad “took a keen interest in Bensouda’s family members and obtained transcripts of secret recordings of her husband, according to two sources with direct knowledge of the situation. Israeli officials then attempted to use the material to discredit the prosecutor”.

The paper also noted that there were fears among senior ICC officials that “Israel had cultivated sources within the court’s prosecution division” – the division Khan would inherit from Bensouda.

Cohen was described as “stalking” Bensouda, and personally “ambushed” her in a hotel room in New York in 2018.

Afterwards he repeatedly phoned her, in a threatening manner that was said to have escalated over time. When Bensouda asked Cohen how he had obtained her phone number, he reportedly replied: “Did you forget what I do for a living?”

This is an extract from my latest article With Karim Khan's dismissal, the elimination of the war crimes court is near-complete. Find a link to the full article in the reply post below ⬇️

[Mark Seddon @MarkSeddon1962]

Can Andy Burnham not see the crass stupidity of this noxious piece of legislation? 'Sir Jonathon Porritt is a prominent British environmentalist, writer, and sustainability advocate who served as a key environmental adviser to the then Prince Charles'.

[Mr AntifaBot - AKA The Intolerant Left @_Wrevolution_]

At least @ZackPolanski has the bravery to actually go on TV and discuss the issues that are thrown at him

Farage has hidden himself behind GB News, his own personal mouthpiece rather than face the music

This is actual integrity

This is what a real leader does

[Sir Norman of Nowhere. 🏴‍☠️ @Normanjam67]

A reminder,
GBNews is neither British, or news.
It's a foreign owned propaganda channel.

[Ryan Nichols Sr. @RealRyanNichols]

🚨SENATOR LINDSEY GRAHAM TO NO LONGER ACCEPT AIPAC DONATIONS! 👀

[. @LouiseRawAuthor]

You literally just said the 16 dead babies of #Dunblane were an annoyance because Daddy lost his guns, have a fucking seat

[BladeoftheSun @BladeoftheS]

Harmful Bacteria cannot survive in water below 20C.

These 'data centers' are pumping out water at 45C.

It's the perfect temperature for growing huge amounts of deadly bacteria.

[Lance Lachlan ✌🏻 @lancelachlan]

Here's Nigel Farage's daughter. If you type her name into Google, she comes up everywhere. He even used her to promote his appearance on I'm a Celebrity... Get Me Out of Here!.

He's not angry because a reporter turned up at his last known address before he moved into his £1.4 million house in Surrey. He's angry because he's losing control of the narrative.

He's angry because the £5 million gift keeps raising new questions and fresh evidence is emerging.

And now we've discovered that an alleged money launderer referred to him as "Daddy Farage".

That's what he's really upset about.

[Craig Murray @CraigMurrayOrg]

It is not illegal to campaign for the de-proscription of an organisation.
But as the UK slips further into fascism, that really doesn't matter.
In October they are going to get the mass jailings underway.

[Jody McIntyre @jodymcintyre_]

Reform Friends of Israel was set up last year. It is funded by deputy leader Richard Tice.

Labour Friends of Israel was set up in 1957. Current members include Deputy PM David Lammy, but it refuses to disclose its funders.

Are Labour operating a double standard re: donations?

[Michael Rosen 💙💙🎓🎓 NICE 爷爷 @MichaelRosenYes]

It's time to create the Hand-wringing Award.
Who can 'bemoan' the most, do the least and yet go on providing weapons and support for the horror they claim they're bemoaning?
First up, Germany? Or what about Yvette Cooper? She does terrific hand-wringing.
Any others?

[Furkan Gözükara @FurkanGozukara]

🚨 BOMBSHELL! Expert Gary Stevenson confirms the UK government intentionally handed £1 TRILLION to the richest elites during COVID, deliberately triggering the massive cost of living crisis!

The establishment actively engineered poverty to enrich billionaires.

[Saul Staniforth @SaulStaniforth]

Sodha: "Burnham has to stick to that manifesto, if he tries to do really big controversial things outside that manifesto.."

Like scrapping the winter fuel allowance, slashing welfare, restricting jury trials, attacking trans rights, banning Palestine Action, stuff like that?