Palestinian goalkeeper Salim Al-Ashqar has been killed by Israeli forces in Gaza.
He leaves behind his wife of 5 months who is expecting their first child.
Israeli lawyer Ben Marmarelli says Palestinian prisoners he represents beg him not to visit because they're raped each time he is due to meet them.
This is a scene from Al Jazeera's shocking new documentary on Israel's systematic use of rape.
🆕My latest column for The Nerve has dropped:
“Over 2000 British Citizens have served in the IDF during the Gaza War. Our Government Doesn't Want To Know’”
It’s time the U.K. Government fulfilled legal obligations & investigated.
Please read and share.
LINK HERE https://t.co/gn7xVQoFCs
@thenerve_news
After much reflection, I have decided to resign from my position as Director of the National Counterterrorism Center, effective today.
I cannot in good conscience support the ongoing war in Iran. Iran posed no imminent threat to our nation, and it is clear that we started this war due to pressure from Israel and its powerful American lobby.
It has been an honor serving under @POTUS and @DNIGabbard and leading the professionals at NCTC.
May God bless America.
I want people to pay close attention to this. Several U.S. members of Congress have gone on social media to express their “disgust” at Randy Fine’s remarks about Muslims. But notice what’s missing: none of them are calling for the same formal consequences they were willing to impose on Rashida Tlaib.
Take Dan Goldman here specifically. On November 8, 2023, he released a statement defending his vote to censure Tlaib, ending it with this:
“For these reasons, I voted to censure Representative Tlaib, and will do so in the future for any member who uses discriminatory hate speech against any group – including the Muslim community – and inflames violence with false statements or misinformation.”
By Goldman’s own standard, Randy Fine’s rhetoric qualifies. Yet there is no censure effort, no resolution, no follow-through, only expressions of outrage that stop short of real accountability.
And this confirms what we’ve been saying for the past two years. There is a hierarchy in how speech is policed in Congress. A certain ethnic and religious group is protected institutionally, while Muslims and Palestinians are expected to absorb dehumanization with nothing more than symbolic condemnation in response.
Tucker Carlson and his team visited some of the 2000 refugees from Gaza that Qatar took in, during his visit to Doha, which included orphans and child amputees.
He claimed Qatar wanted to take in more Palestinians but Israel won’t allow it. Tucker said him and his team had to hold back tears as they witnessed the cruelty of the evil Israeli regime, through the children that have been disfigured in the name of Jewish supremacy and Israel's unrelenting colonial ambitions to steal more land.
My respect for Tucker Carlson just increased tenfold!
This morning at 7AM, 10 police officers stormed my house to search the property and arrest me for a speech and X posts - again. This is the second arrest in less than 2 months. The order was from the London Met Police - they travelled to a different city to arrest me - again.
I was questioned on X posts mentioning:
- jewish supremacy & jewish supremacists
- 'israel'
- 'israelis' and 'israeli' jews - and their feelings.
- Melanie Phillips, the Chief Rabbi: Eprahim Mirvis, Wes Streeting, the General Medical Council (GMC), Emily Schrader - and their feelings regarding my posts responding to them.
- Armed resistance (Palestinian) and Oct 7.
- The Thawabet (principles of Palestinian liberation)
- The Palestinian Naional Charter (1968)
- The repatriation of jewish settlers from Palestine
One of the posts was my response to Emily Schrader saying 'FAFO' with a picture of the martyred Palestinian journalist Saleh Al-Jafarawi. I began crying when I saw his picture and the interview had to be stopped for 10 minutes.
I was held for over 7 hours and released on bail conditions (pre-charge):
- Not to publish, post, or communicate material or statements that incite hatred, discrimination, or harassment against any individual or group based on race, religion or ethnicity.
I told the officer that I do not agree that I have done any of the above and therefore do not know what I am signing for. I was told:
' Posts on jewish supremacism'.
I do not believe any of the above has much to do with Britain but the majority of the interview was centred on 'israel' and 'israelis' including their feelings, their entity, and their future.
Just to reiterate:
I am a British citizen.
I am an NHS doctor with 0 patient complaints or clinical errors who has just been suspended for 15 months after a 2 year campaign by the pro-'israel' lobby.
I am part-Palestinian.
I have just witnessed the mass murder of my people by the 'jewish state'/'israel' and the IOF - using my tax pounds.
I have never incited violence or harm.
I have criticised a foreign entity, individuals who identify with and/or support this foreign entity and the genocide it is committing, and the system of oppression underpinning the 100+ years of dispossession, murder, violence, war crimes and crimes against humanity that the Palestinians are enduring.
Our freedom of speech and expression, our freedom of assembly and our civil liberties in Britain are under attack.
Free Palestine.
Free Britain.
@doctor_rahmeh They’re asking you to imagine how a Jewish supremacist ‘feels’ about your posts whilst holding up a tweet that includes a picture of a martyr killed by an israeli backed gang. You had every reason to question reality in that moment.
To the British jewish supremacists harassing, attacking, smearing, and threatening me for almost 2 years:
I DO NOT CARE.
Take my medical licence. Take my livelihood. Make me homeless. Imprison me. Hell, go ahead and KILL ME.
You are demonic, genocidal supporters of 'israel'. We do not fear you. If my British government wants to let you do this to their NHS doctor who has ZERO patient complaints or disciplinary actions and let you dictate who gets to practice medicine in Britain, depriving the British public of my care—then so be it.
You have murdered tens of my loved ones and hundreds of thousands more Palestinians that I never got the honour of knowing.
We will never abandon Gaza.
YOU have no right to operate in Britain. YOU are foreign agents for an evil, illegitimate, apartheid, jewish supremacist and extremist settler colony commiting a Holocaust. YOU are illegally occupying my great grandfather's land right now.
If Britain had any sense of democracy, free speech or sovereignty—YOU would be banned from this country.
FREE PALESTINE.
LONG LIVE THE PALESTINIAN RESISTANCE 🇵🇸
@LouisHemmings2@NizMhani@EmilyThornberry All you have to do is type the name Raffi Berg into X search and you will find all you seek - it shouldn’t be difficult to look for widely available information for a journalist
I'm effectively on a form of house arrest. My bail conditions for lawful speech (a July talk and 3 X posts):
1. Banned from any public demonstration or event in London relating to Palestine or 'israel'.
2. Curfewed to live and sleep at a specified address.
3. Must notify a detective if I leave home for more than 48 hours.
Yesterday, the chair of the tribunal cut me off from reading out one sentence. The GMC had also specifically requested that I am not to speak.
This is what the political persecution of a doctor looks like in Britain today.
Eight months later, a mainstream US paper has finally covered Israel’s abduction and detention of the American teenager, Mohammed Zaher Ibrahim. The writer is my friend @catebrown12, who I introduced to the family.
Israel can’t silence me.
They can try to primary me, smear me, or take me out. I’ll never back down.
I didn’t run for Congress to fight for Israel, I ran to fight for the American people.
I’ve introduced amendments to strip billions in funding to Israel and other foreign countries like Ukraine and Egypt.
The American people see through the lies. We’re putting America First again. 🇺🇸