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Former resident of Batticaloa, Matale, Lewes, Hove, Johannesburg, Crawley....some evidence at Instagram @stevelarge1954

[Middle East Eye @MiddleEastEye]

"Hatred against Muslims is going through the roof. In the US, public prejudice against Muslims is highest among all religious groups, according to a new Brookings Institution poll"

✍️ Opinion by David Hearst

https://t.co/CnJIKr0T5e

[Jonathan Cook @Jonathan_K_Cook]

Keir Starmer is expanding the scope of already draconian UK laws to arrest critics of his complicity in Israel’s genocide in Gaza, redefining them as 'supporters' of terrorism.

My latest article can be read here: https://t.co/iJzAyiPzbV

[Yanis Varoufakis @yanisvaroufakis]

BDS! A global boycott. It worked, eventually, against South Africa's white supremacist regime - once the US & the UK were embarrassed enough to join the boycott. The Israeli regime will, similarly, buckle if Americans and Europeans get our gvts to join the boycott.

[Amanda Gorman @TheAmandaGorman]

I was honored by the opportunity to perform my newest poem, “This Sacred Scene”, at the 2024 Democratic National Convention. A huge thank you to @KamalaHarris for having me—I am so grateful. And finally, thank you all for watching, and for your kind words and support 💙

You can share your voice by registering to vote and voting this November at https://t.co/NAaXDXOrA4 💙

#dnc2024

[Richard Medhurst @richimedhurst]

I was arrested at Heathrow Airport under the Terrorism Act, Sec 12 because of my reporting.

6 police officers were waiting for me at the entrance of the aircraft.

I was held for almost 24 hours and questioned.

I believe I'm the first journalist to be arrested under this provision of the Terrorism Act.

I feel that this is a political persecution and hampers my ability to work as a journalist.

[Ishmael @Anti_State_0]

@CraigMurrayOrg Nobody is a lifelong Zionist, Takes a little while for a human to go from natually caring & fair minded to accepting ideas & reality that supports this … Society teaches & people learn such behaviour.

[Matt Kennard @kennardmatt]

What happened to the Guardian?

A question I hear a lot.

Answer: the British authorities shut it down as a critical outlet after the WikiLeaks and Snowden revelations.

Me and @markcurtis30 investigated how it happened. A cautionary tale👇
https://t.co/uJcvNTVPj8

[Middle East Eye @MiddleEastEye]

"In the UK, Islamophobia is so bipartisan, so normalised, that BBC reporters refer to anti-Muslim pogromists as 'pro-British protesters'"

✍️ Big Story by Jonathan Cook
https://t.co/Tj5jJyKR7x

[Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan]

This is so good

[Jonathan Cook @Jonathan_K_Cook]

Israel is in a death spiral. Who will it take down with it?

My latest article can be read here:
https://t.co/QZ4WF7nV10

[Yanis Varoufakis @yanisvaroufakis]

Minister Smotrich confessed readily that starving 2 million Gazans "to death" may be the "right and moral" to do until Israeli hostages held in Gaza are released.s" He belongs in prison as THE definition of a self Confessed War Criminal https://t.co/OhRCLlwuIL

[Middle East Eye @MiddleEastEye]

"Napoleon and Hitler were at the height of their powers, and their respective armies had tamed Europe under their jackboots, when each dictator thought it would be a good idea to attack Russia. So, too, is Netanyahu endangering everything Israel has achieved in establishing a strong state by openly creating the conditions for a regional war"

✍️ Opinion by David Hearst
https://t.co/YGbhzgP2rQ

[Al Jazeera English @AJEnglish]

Middle East analyst Rami Khouri tells Al Jazeera that the assassination of Hamas chief Ismail Haniyeh shows that Israel is ‘a runaway killing machine’.

[Liam Nissan™ @theliamnissan]

Schrodinger's Immigrant: A person who is simultaneously too lazy to work, but is also stealing your job.

[Jonathan Cook @Jonathan_K_Cook]

BCC coverage of the attack on a football pitch in the Golan Heights has been intentionally misleading.

The BBC's evening news entirely ignored the fact that those killed by the blast are 12 Syrians, not Israeli citizens, and that for decades the Syrian population in the Golan has been forced to live unwillingly under an Israeli military occupation.

I suppose mention of this context might complicate the story Israel and the BBC wish to tell – and risk reminding viewers that Israel is a belligerent state occupying not just Palestinian territory but Syrian territory too (not to mention nearby Lebanese territory).

It might suggest to audiences that these various permanent Israeli occupations have been contributing not only to large-scale human rights abuses but to regional tensions as well. That Israel's acts of aggression against its neighbours might be the cause of "conflict", rather than, as Israel and the BBC would have us believe, some kind of normal, pre-emptive form of self-defence.

The BBC, of course, chose to uncritically air comments from a military spokesman for Israel, who blamed Hizbullah for the blast in the Golan.

Daniel Hagari tried to milk the incident for maximum propaganda value, arguing: "This attack shows the true face of Hizbullah, a terrorist organisation that targets and murders children playing soccer."

Except, as the BBC forgot to note, in 2014 Israel infamously targeted and murdered four young children from the Bakr family playing football on a beach in Gaza.

And much more recently, video footage showed Israel striking yet more children playing football at a school in Gaza that was serving as a shelter for families whose homes were destroyed by earlier Israeli bombs.

Doubtless other strikes in Gaza over the past 10 months, so many of them targeting school-shelters, have killed Palestinian children playing football – especially as it's one of the very few ways they can take their mind off the horror all around.

So, should we – and the BBC – not conclude that all these attacks on children playing football make the Israeli military even more of a terrorist organisation than Hizbullah?

The BBC next went to Jerusalem to hear from diplomatic editor Paul Adams. He intoned gravely:

"This is precisely what we have been worrying about for the past 10 months – that something of this magnitude would occur on the northern border, that would turn what has been a simmering conflict for all of these months into an all-out war."

So there you have it. Paul Adams and the BBC concede they haven't been worrying for the past 10 months about the genocide unfolding under their noses in Gaza, or its consequences. A genocide of Palestinians, apparently, is not something of significant "magnitude".

Only now, when Israel can exploit the deaths of Syrians forced to live under its military rule as a pretext to expand its "war", are we supposed to sit up and take notice. Or so the BBC tells us.

[Peter Oborne @OborneTweets]

We went to Nur Shams refugee camp to find out what Israel's illegal occupation is like. Air strikes, bulldozers and snipers. No end to the horror. Lubna Masarwa and I write for Middle East Eye:

https://t.co/ZnIkN8Jb3h

[Craig Murray @CraigMurrayOrg]

The Presence of Evil - I have frequently explained that when I sat in the International Court of Justice and heard Israel's lawyers tell lie after lie to justify or excuse the Gaza genocide, I could feel I was palpably in the presence of evil.

At least https://t.co/EXWXhxbnGI

[Jonathan Cook @Jonathan_K_Cook]

Don't be fooled. The legal ruling on Israel's occupation by the world's highest court obliges western states not just to end their persecution of the boycott movement but to take up that cause as their own.

Read my latest article here: https://t.co/VmEtB8mDiI

[Middle East Eye @MiddleEastEye]

"Israelis should abandon Netanyahu's sinking ship. He's lost"

✍️ Opinion by David Hearst
https://t.co/LcOIUS8kUf

[Middle East Eye @MiddleEastEye]

“Is their silence on al-Mawasi massacre, their apparent bowing to pressure from the US and Israel over the ICC - is this what Starmer and Lammy call realism?

I have another word for it: cowardice.”

✍️ David Hearst
https://t.co/dwlfsKXSbz