Dr Andrew Delatolla

Associate Professor in MENA studies / the state is a killing machine /race & sexuality in colonial & post-colonial statehood /🏞️➡️🌊🇵🇸🆓 / views my own

[Dr Andrew Delatolla @a_delatolla]

“Empires fall and tyrannies perish. We will rise again” - James Connolly

[Tayab Ali @tayab_ali_]

🚨 So this makes a little more sense now doesn’t it - while we were preparing a legal case against the allegations at the ICC - which resulted in the Judicial Panel finding no misconduct or breach of duty by Mr Khan - Israel had a whole task force dedicated to making sure whatever the evidence was he would be removed anyway!

If the ICC had an ounce of credibility left they would launch an investigation into this clear indication of political interference and manipulation of due process.

Who did the task force get to?

[Dr Andrew Delatolla @a_delatolla]

Rather than go after trans people in sport to “protect” women, ban men in sports until women at home are safe.

[Politics UK @PolitlcsUK]

🚨 NEW: Domestic abuse in the UK hit a record high during the World Cup

384 incidents were reported, the majority after England’s loss to Argentina

[Michael Young @BeirutCalling]

Documents obtained by @haaretzcom indicate that on October 7, the Israeli military engaged in the widespread use of the so-called Hannibal Directive, which is aimed at ensuring that Israelis are not kidnapped by enemy forces, even at the cost of their lives. This lends credence to what some observers have argued, namely that many of the Israeli dead that day could conceivably have been killed by the IDF: https://t.co/yUSz5b588Z

[Dr Andrew Delatolla @a_delatolla]

lol @ England fans who thought they’d beat Argentina. Babes, it’s rigged.

[Dr Andrew Delatolla @a_delatolla]

Thank you @QueeriousRu for the beautiful review of Queer Conflict Research (ed. with @Jamiejhagen and @SamRitholtz). https://t.co/d9fee6Cwbr

[Harry Eccles @Heccles94]

Carole, 7 years ahead of the rest of them as always!

[Saul Staniforth @SaulStaniforth]

".. we have been seeing Israeli air strikes, drone strikes, artillery shelling, home demolitions.."

@ZeinakhodrAljaz reports this morning that Israel is continuing to bomb villages in southern Lebanon in order to stop people returning to their homes

[Huda Ammori @HudaAmmori]

The same Judge which issued contempt of court proceedings against the leading barrister of Palestine Action activists, reinstated a barrister who lied about his qualifications.

The stitch-up of the Filton trial is entirely political.

[Novara Media @novaramedia]

Israeli spies are luring queer Palestinians into relationships in order to blackmail them.

That's one of the findings in a new report exposing how the IDF traps Palestinians in a system of sexualised violence.

Read the full story from @harriepw: https://t.co/5pk12EmlIE

[Canary @TheCanaryUK]

🚨BREAKING: The Canary have been DEBANKED, removing us from vital funds - this is an attack on free speech.

Support us by donating here 👇

https://t.co/xBxn1vUEHB

[Rania Khalek @RaniaKhalek]

U.S. Congresswomen @RepRashida issued a stark warning to Lebanon’s government:

“Wake up!”

“Israel and the Trump administration are openly rooting for the new Lebanese civil war.”

“Learn the lessons of the countries before you.”

“A ceasefire with Israel means: You cease, they fire.”

She says the Trump administration’s Lebanon deal won’t protect the Lebanese people. It will deepen Israeli occupation and turn Lebanon into “another subcontractor for the Israeli occupation.”

Hope Lebanon’s elites hear this!

[The Cradle @TheCradleMedia]

Lebanese MP and international law professor Halima el Kaakour to Lebanese President Joseph Aoun and Lebanese Prime Minister Nawaf Salam:

"How can you approve the clause stating that the parties must ‘refrain from taking any hostile or adversarial measures in international political or legal forums?’ Does that mean giving up the right to pursue legal action over war crimes and crimes against humanity? You are denying justice to the thousands of victims of war crimes, while in the very same text speaking of ‘peace?’! Don't you realize that there can be no peace without justice?"

[MintPress News @MintPressNews]

🚨The Lebanese Government Has Handed Over The Following Villages To Israel Under Its Normalisation Agreement

Lebanese citizens can no longer return to their homes & are experiencing a Nakba like event if they are from:

•Al-Bayyada
•Shemaa
•Majdal Zoun
•Al-Mansouri
•Naqoura
•Alma Al-Shaab
•Teir Harfa
•Al-Jibbeen
•Shehin
•Al-Zahira
•Yarin
•Marwahin
•Al-Bustan
•Umm Al-Tout
•Al-Zalloutiya
•Al-Sulhani
•Aita Al-Shaab
•Ramya
•Al-Qawzah
•Debel (inhabited)
•Ain Ebel (inhabited)
•Rmeish (inhabited)
•Sarbin
•Al-Tayri
•Hanin
•Rshaf
•Yaron
•Maroun Al-Ras
•Bint Jbeil
•Ainata
•Aitaroun
•Kounin
•Beit Yahoun
•Hadatha
•Al-Ghandourieh
•Zoter Al-Sharqiya
•Zoter Al-Gharbiya
•Kfartabnit
•Yohmor Al-Shaqif
•Meifadoun (outskirts)
•Arnoun
•Doha Kfarreman
•Blida
•Mohaybib
•Meiss Al-Jabal
•Houla
•Markaba
•Adaisseh
•Kfarkila
•Al-Khiam
•Al-Taybeh
•Deir Siryan
•Talousa
•Al-Qantara
•Rab Thalathin
•Al-Qusayr
•Aadchit Al-Qusayr
•Debbin
•Al-Abbasiya Al-Hududiya
•Al-Majidiya
•Ain Arab
•Kfar Shouba
•Shebaa

[Dr Andrew Delatolla @a_delatolla]

Applying financial pressure and emotional pressure on your children is abuse. Not normal parenting.

[Simon Calvert @SimonCalvert14]

Conversion therapy bill published. Awful. Just awful.

"Abusive conversion therapy" includes 'financial pressure' or 'emotional pressure'. Sounds like ordinary parenting.

This plus evidence that a trans person feels 'seriously harmed/alarmed/distressed' by this will be enough to make out the offence.

Penalty is unlimited fine and up to five years in prison.

[Saul Staniforth @SaulStaniforth]

"Is it difficult coming back?"

Surgeon professor Nizam Mamode, who was working in Gaza a few weeks ago: "Yes"

"How do you feel when you return?"

"I feel quite angry that this country.. is letting this genocide go by and doing nothing about it"

[Jeremy Corbyn @jeremycorbyn]

A UN commission has found that Israel is committing genocide through a "deliberate strategy to destroy the future of the Palestinians in Gaza by targeting their children".

The truth always comes out in the end — and we must never, ever let it be forgotten.

[Dr Andrew Delatolla @a_delatolla]

Sarah doesn’t want the reminder that the UK has been complicit in creating the environment that has produced sick Gaza children that need to be evacuated for treatment.

[Sarah Champion @SarahChampionMP]

I disagree with bringing sick Gazan children to UK. There’s excellent healthcare in Jordan & Middle East. It’s shorter travel & same language. Of course if there are gaps in specialist skills we should step up, but costs, trauma & unintended consequences present huge risks

[Roshan M Salih @RmSalih]

There was a debate in Parliament yesterday about Israeli influence on UK politics. The debate followed a public petition signed by 117,000 people.

Well, I watched the whole debate and it was a disgrace from start to finish.

Firstly, 80 percent of the speakers were from the pro Israel side. Predictably, they called the whole debate antisemitic and kept trying to deflect attention onto other countries like Iran, Russia and China (typical Israeli hasbara tactics).

But the Israeli side did turn up and did their best to bat for their favourite genocidal state.

On the other hand, the pro Palestine side largely failed to turn up apart from the Muslim independents and Tahir Ali of Labour.

Where was Jeremy Corbyn? Where was Zarah Sultana? And many others of course. This was their chance to slam Israel on the back of a massive public petition, but they weren't even there.

With around 20% max of the speaking time, the Muslim speakers did their best but were largely buried amid an avalanche of love for a state that is mass slaughtering Palestinians.

And the result was that the petition motion was rejected.

Everyone knows that Israel exerts an overweening influence on UK politics. Everyone knows that the mainstream media, government and a huge number of MPs dance to the Israeli tune.

But according to the MPs at yesterday's debate there is absolutely nothing to see. We are all just antisemites and we should be focusing on Iran, China and Russia and not Israel.

To conclude, the 117,000 people who signed that petition have been treated with contempt, especially by the pro Palestinians who couldn't be bothered to even turn up to defend a people suffering genocide.