Tim Bates

Former reporter for the Canterbury Times, now sub/production editor for The Guardian. All views expressed here are my own. He/him

[jeremy scahill @jeremyscahill]

Hours before he was killed, Hossam Shabat filed his last report for @DropSiteNews, “Report from the Frontline of Israel’s War of Annihilation.”

We are publishing @HossamShabat’s story along with a deeply moving tribute to Hossam by @sharifkouddous
https://t.co/PuOWJHzsd4

[Peter Rainford 🔶💙🌍☮️ @peterjrainford]

@DianeTreeLover @chowell2000 @bobo222111 @helenstaniland @Ninnytofour @IndiaWilloughby @PompeySteph @LizMakinson @ErinInTheMorn Trans women have been using women's toilets and changing facilities in the UK for over 60 years without problems. Let's focus on combating the real world dangers to women not hypothetical ones hyped without evidence in a anti trans moral panic
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[Nesrine Malik @NesrineMalik]

'Liberals cannot grasp that the benefits of rationality and individual freedoms, and the pursuit of scientific endeavour and personal prosperity just do not accrue meaningfully to enough people any more.'

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[Drop Site @DropSiteNews]

Amsterdam Mayor Femke Halsema expresses regret for using the word “pogrom” at the internationally covered press conference the day after the clashes in the city, adding, “We were completely overtaken by Israel.”

Speaking to the current affairs show Nieuwsuur on Sunday night, Halsema said: “In hindsight, I should not have used the word ‘pogrom.’.. We were completely overtaken by Israel. At 3 a.m., Prime Minister Netanyahu suddenly gave a lecture about what had happened in Amsterdam, while we were still gathering the facts.”

“The Israeli government spoke of a ‘Palestinian pogrom on the streets of Amsterdam,’ and in The Hague, the words were used to discriminate against Moroccan Amsterdammers, Muslims. That is not what I meant or what I wanted.”

She also acknowledged that she should have highlighted the violence caused by Maccabi Tel Aviv supporters before and after the Europa League game in Amsterdam.

[Amnesty UK @AmnestyUK]

A legal expert responds to Keir Starmer’s genocide comment.

🔊 @VictorKattan

[Ash Sarkar @AyoCaesar]

Israel has breached the deadline set by the US for expanding access of humanitarian aid to Gaza. I'm afraid Joe Biden has no other choice but to make some sad faces while handing over billions of dollars more in military aid.

[Ryan Grim @ryangrim]

"The video has been removed."

So the Times realized a video they claimed was showing Israelis getting beaten up actually showed the opposite, so they removed the video. Why not leave the video in and just make it accurate?

[Marc Owen Jones @marcowenjones]

Wait why was the video removed, rather than just correcting the fact Israeli fans were doing the chasing 😪🤣

[Cllr Martin Abrams @Martin_Abrams]

Not one single mainstream news outlet has reported on this horrific and traumatising testimony from a UK Surgeon's experiences of working in Gaza.

[Zarah Sultana MP @zarahsultana]

Last October, the Prime Minister told LBC that "Israel does have that right [to cut food, water & power from Gaza]."

Today, in the Chamber, he claimed he’s "well aware of the definition of genocide" & that's why he’s "never referred to [Gaza] as a genocide."

We won’t forget.

[Ryan Grim @ryangrim]

Feels like a new low for this State Department

[George Monbiot @GeorgeMonbiot]

I once believed that the Israeli government's slaughter of civilians was indiscriminate. I was completely wrong. It is deliberate, massive and plainly genocidal.

[Rivkah Brown @rivkahbrown]

Rightwing Jews deny the Jewishness of leftwing Jews (never vice versa) because they believe there is some moral virtue inherent to being Jewish, that suffering ennobles. It does not, of course, and there is no better proof of that than them

[Malcolm Harris @BigMeanInternet]

How do people not get that calling this incident, in which a roving gang of Jewish football thugs obviously started and lost a fight, a "pogrom" is dangerous https://t.co/2fXrNdlnKR

[Assal Rad @AssalRad]

This is why I criticize the media for manufacturing consent for genocide.

The deleted Sky news story and narrative of events in Amsterdam is just a small example of the way Western media has framed not only Gaza, but also Israel’s decades-long occupation and system of apartheid.

[Whispering Media @_WMedia_]

Legitimate question:

What I explained to several media channels is that the Maccabi supporters deliberately started the riot in front of central station returning from the game. They came from two directions. Lit heavily fireworks at Damrak and gathered in front of the hotel. From there they attacked one or two Amsterdam citizens, hit them. The men escaped. And the Maccabi supporters gathered back into the group. From there they went into the city.

In this incident: misinformation by BILD . @BILD

[ettingermentum @ettingermentum]

Dead-on

[Zarah Sultana MP @zarahsultana]

5-9 year olds are the most killed age group in Israel’s genocide in Gaza.

Israel’s plan to stop people from returning to the north is ethnic cleansing.

Meanwhile, media & politicians defend fascist football thugs chanting “death to Arabs”.

Where’s the outrage against genocide?