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All signs point to Burnham being a huge disappointment.
He's selling out and backsliding all over the place!
We must build the Green Revolt and continue to replace Labour 🥀
ISRAELI FORCES SHOT AND KILLED A BABY IN THE OCCUPIED WEST BANK.
A baby.
Is there going to be wall-to-wall coverage and condemnations or will it be largely overlooked because the baby is Palestinian?
American citizens who criticize Jews or Israel will now be monitored by the FBI.
"We will monitor social media and check your bank accounts. I have 40 analysts working 24/7, 7 days a week"
Leaked documents show Israeli drones made by Elbit – which has factories in the UK – took a leading a role in the mass slaughter in Gaza, with onboard AI systems selecting targets autonomously, based on algorithms. The drones are integrated into a "Server in the Sky".
Palestine Action was declared a terrorist organisation by the UK government for trying to destroy this drone production.
Israel announced last week its annual defence exports had surged by 30% on the back of showcasing what Israeli tech can do in Gaza, to $20 billion.
https://t.co/njgIZgWMLZ
Andy Burnham says he "can't judge" if the Israeli military's crimes in Gaza are a genocide.
The experts already have.
A UN commission, the International Association of Genocide Scholars, and leading rights orgs all agree: it's genocide.
Andy, why won't you call it what it is?
@AndyBurnhamGM presents himself as a break with the failures of Labour under Starmer, but himself fails a key litmus test. I dont mean that Labour,s failure to end complicity with genocide is the fundamental reason people have turned away. I mean that the response to genocide is a key issue in addressing the question" What is a progressive party for?" If you are unwilling to confront mass crimes on this scale then why should you be trusted to confront unjust power when it manifests at home or abroad? Burnham's plea that such huge questions are beyond his compass as a humble Mayor begs at least 3 questions. 1. Why then do you think yourself fit to be P.M? 2. You may not be an expert on IHL and genocide. Why don't you trust the consensus of those who are? 3. Do you think Russia is committing war crimes in Ukraine? We all know his answer to the latter so why the double standard? Burnham's retreat into arguments about proportionality betrays a moral cowardice built on racist foundations. What is a proportionate amount of Palestinians slaughtered? What would be a proportionate response by Palestinians to decades of ethnic cleansing, apartheid and occupation? The answer of course lies in a support for the application of IHL consistently and universally. And an internationalist commitment to stand always with the oppressed and never with the oppressor. Those ought to be the minimum requirements of anyone seeking the highest office via an appeal to progressive values. Burnham is simply offering more of the same.
The genocide seems unstoppable,
Necrocapitalism seems invincible- but they are not!
All we need is UNITY. COORDINATION. PERSEVERANCE.
Keep Protesting. Striking. Boycotting. Litigating.
Not just once.
All the times needed till the Apartheid ends and the system which fed it too.
No, Camilla. @ZackPolanski & over 60 politicians, human rights lawyers + others are not calling for a “list of Jews”. They are supporting a letter asking the UK Govt to secondary screen returning dual nationals & Britons who have served with the IDF since Oct’23. The aim is to find out whether they have fought in Gaza. This is bec Israel is accused of Genocide at the ICJ. It would fulfill the UK’s commitment to the Genocide Conventions. You appear to be defending Polanski being called “human trash” by Goldsmith. Is that the case?
One for @bbclaurak who asked on air "Why would Israel lie?"
A leak has revealed the IDF actually has a programme to train its people in the “fundamentals of psychological warfare, propaganda, deception, legitimacy and public diplomacy." https://t.co/yW2WeZakYA
Every reply that pretends this is a “list of Jewish people” and “like the Nazis” is outrageously antisemitic. Conflating the IDF and Israel with all Jewish people is antisemitic to the core
Prosecuting individuals who may have committed war crimes is basic adherence to the law.
This is why there's a massive and more-blatant-than-ever global campaign by Israel and its loyalists in all countries to censor and criminalize Israel criticism by re-defining it as hate speech.
It's also why Larry Ellison bought CBS, Paramount, TikTok, trying to buy WB, etc.
if you oppose israel as a politician or a public figure, a lot of political operatives & mainstream publications will actively try to humiliate & make a lesson out of you. just remain steadfast and remember, no amount of manufactured outrage will wash the blood off their hands.
So we are now saying that the existence of Palestinians, displays of Palestinian identity & peoplehood (i.e. a Palestinian flag pin), & Palestinian cultural symbols are a risk of being offensive in the NHS.
But Ukrainian flags and such isn't offensive to Russian NHS patients?
Capitalism built a system where doing the right thing is treated like bad business. We can’t have sustainable energy because it threatens the oil industry. We can’t have healthcare because it threatens insurance. We can’t have peace because it threatens the weapons industry.
While ordinary people struggle every day to pay the rent or mortgage - Andrew was not only living in a palace for almost nothing, he was subletting them for cash.
The greed of the wealthy elites in this country is breathtaking.
BREAKING: Four Palestine Action activists found guilty of criminal damage are applying to remove the judge in their case on the grounds of bias. Mr Justice Jeremy Johnson is expected to sentence them as terrorists – despite being convicted of an ordinary criminal offence – in a move kept secret from the jury