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#Migration / #Environment #Africa (Views very much my own ; Retweets are NOT endorsements) #CeasefireNOW 🍉
#StopGazaGenocide Peace & Justice

[gathara @gathara]

"Entire towns have been ground into dust, and Israel has recently begun setting fire to kilometres-wide areas of cropland in the 65% of Gaza under its direct control. The demolition... is evidence of war crimes, crimes against humanity, and genocide."

https://t.co/gQeuSTivXJ

[Martin Shaw @martinshawx]

“The era in which Berlin saw itself as Germany’s creative – ‘poor but sexy’ – capital appears to fade. The city is reinventing itself as a key node in Germany’s military complex; and it is willing to do so in partnership with companies that are themselves facing legal scrutiny.”—Israeli arms firms selling “battle-tested technology” are set to establish themselves in the city.

[Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald]

One of the all-time most repulsive NYT headlines:

[B'Tselem בצלם بتسيلم @btselem]

The extensive killing of Palestinian children and teenagers in the West Bank is not a series of isolated incidents. It is a practice backed by every arm of the Israeli regime.

From 7 October 2023 to 29 June 2026, Israel killed 1,087 Palestinians in the West Bank, including 242 children and teenagers.

In 2025 alone, 54 minors were killed. Our new report, “Unshielded Childhood,” tells their stories.

The Israeli legal system helps whitewash these killings, grants impunity to the perpetrators, and shirks its duty to demand accountability from those responsible. The Israeli public remains largely indifferent, while some segments openly support the violence.

To legitimize this routine killing in the eyes of the Israeli public and the world, Israel systematically dehumanizes Palestinians. When the military almost automatically labels Palestinian children and teenagers who posed no threat as “terrorists” or “involved in terrorism,” it creates a reality in which their lives are treated as entirely disposable and harming them is seen as legitimate and permissible.

While the world looks away and grants Israel international impunity, the reality on the ground is clear: under the Israeli regime, no Palestinian is protected, and any Israeli who harms them enjoys full impunity.

Read the report, “Unshielded Childhood” >> https://t.co/DkrBDTGysN

[Alan MacLeod @AlanRMacLeod]

Palestinians can't enjoy the World Cup, because when they gather together, Israel bombs them.

Then their murder will be sanitized with headlines like this⤵️ from the @NYTimes.

[James Jackson @derJamesJackson]

Germany’s influential head of the German Israel Society calls for checking how to deport “Iranians or others from the region… regardless of their passport” after a Shia religious ceremony

[Alan MacLeod @AlanRMacLeod]

This is how the BBC reported a doctor being literally raped to death by Israeli forces.

[Mohammed El-Kurd @m7mdkurd]

NEW: The Board of Directors at the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) will formally change its definition of who qualifies as a journalist, to broadly exclude slain Palestinian and Lebanese journalists who worked for government-funded media outlets. Israeli, American, and Ukrainian journalists who work for state-funded outlets or are embedded with the military will remain recognized as journalists, of course.

The move was catalyzed to appease the right-wing Zionist rag The Free Beacon, which has repeatedly accused Palestinian and Lebanese journalists of being undercover militants or used their political opinions or affiliations as justification for their killing by the IOF.

This is a racist scandal of massive proportions for everyone involved, and it makes a mockery of the purported mission of the organization. It is absolutely abhorrent that the organization’s resources are wasted on this cowardly witch-hunt, at a moment in history that is the deadliest for journalists, especially in Palestine and Lebanon.

[Kenneth Roth @KenRoth]

The British Medical Association rejects the IHRA definition of antisemitism because it is so often used to censor legitimate criticism of Israel by tarring it as antisemitic. https://t.co/fy5HUViy7S

[Erika Guevara Rosas @ErikaGuevaraR]

It took me a couple of days to read the latest @UN Commission of Inquiry's report on how Israel is deliberately targeting Palestinian children. I had to stop, again and again, just to breathe. The level of devastation, the detail, the evidence, it is overwhelming.

The findings are devastating and unequivocal: Israeli authorities and security forces have deliberately targeted Palestinian children, resulting in genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes in #Gaza, and war crimes in the occupied West Bank.

At @Amnesty, we documented the genocide in Gaza in our report published in December 2024, and more recently detailed evidence of ethnic cleansing in the West Bank. We know the patterns. We have exposed the atrocities. Yet reading this report still shakes you to the core. It goes deeper into the intent, into the systematic nature of the violence, into the unbearable reality that children themselves are being targeted.

This is not collateral damage. This is not incidental. This is deliberate. Children, killed, maimed, traumatized, deprived not only of safety, but of any possibility of a future. Entire generations being erased in plain sight.

How much more evidence does the world need? How many more reports must confirm what is already undeniable?

Governments cannot continue to look away. Silence and inaction, in this moment, are complicity.

This must end. Israel must be held fully accountable.

🔗https://t.co/n6K8HpK3nh

[alinobilahmad @alinobil]

This is an unofficial advisor of the US government

[Laura Loomer @LauraLoomer]

Just when I thought I have reached my daily quota of Islamic bullshit, I turn on the TV and Turkey is playing the US.

Everywhere you look these days, Islam is in your face.

I’m sick of it.

[Novara Media @novaramedia]

The UK could have stopped a genocidal massacre in Sudan’s El Fasher but failed to act over concerns it would anger the United Arab Emirates (UAE), a top war crimes expert has told Parliament.

Human rights investigator Nathaniel Raymond said he provided the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) with intelligence for more than two years warning that the fall of El Fasher would unleash “one of the single largest mass casualty events of the 21st century”.

With his warnings ignored, more than 60,000 people were killed when the UAE-backed Rapid Support Forces (RSF) stormed the Northern Darfur state capital last October. The UN has since said the massacre showed “hallmarks of genocide”.

Addressing parliament’s International Development Committee on Tuesday, Raymond said his team from the Yale School of Public Health believed the UK was its “best hope” for stopping the siege. But his team’s warnings were ignored despite two dozen private meetings with the office of then-foreign secretary David Lammy.

He told MPs that Lammy’s officials prioritised the government’s “economic, security, and diplomatic relationships with the UAE” above “the genocidal slaughter of tens of thousands of civilians living in El Fasher and its surrounding communities”.

As the sole penholder for Sudan at the United Nations Security Council, the UK is responsible for driving international response to the conflict.

“They told me that the UK was facing significant private pressure behind the scenes from the UAE limiting its ability to affect the situation,” Raymond told MPs.

“Direct sanctions against UAE officials, at minimum, could have been used to interdict the clandestine UAE pipeline of advanced weaponry flowing to the RSF,” he added.

A UN report published Tuesday found that the RSF is responsible for 87% of verified incidents of rape and sexual slavery in Sudan, including el-Fasher, since the outbreak of violence in 2023.

“The tragedy of El Fasher shows that advanced technology and analysis can provide leaders essential decision support information, but satellite data and computing power cannot by itself generate either political will or moral courage,” said Raymond.

[Drop Site @DropSiteNews]

Israel is pursuing “a deliberate strategy to destroy the future of the Palestinians in Gaza by targeting their children.”

The UN’s highest investigative body concluded today that an aspect of Israel’s genocide involves “deliberately shooting children in vital organs using precision weapons”

And arresting, torturing, and subjecting Palestinian children to sexual violence in detention.

[James Jackson @derJamesJackson]

During a heat wave in 2003, BILD asked “will we all become Africans?”

[James Jackson @derJamesJackson]

Compare the headlines:

Zeit Online has omitted that the commission found that Israel is committing genocide

[Peter Daou @peterdaou]

This is one of the most disturbing things I've read or heard in my entire life. And I lived in a war zone for years. Gird yourself.

[Kenneth Roth @KenRoth]

Money before stopping genocide: The British government received intelligence that the United Arab Emirates and Ethiopia were supporting a genocidal militia in Sudan’s civil war in 2024 but did not go public with the news for fear of upsetting the UAE. https://t.co/Rk7ukTjdKB

[Ammar Ali Jan @ammaralijan]

In the past two weeks, GB elections were rigged, JAAC in Kashmir was declared a banned organization, PTI's leaders in Kot Lakhpat were sentenced to 10 years imprisonment. Now, Mahrang Baloch has been handed a life sentenced.

"Hard state" is weakening the foundations of Pakistan.

[Yanis Varoufakis @yanisvaroufakis]

Keir Starmer was not merely a disappointment. He is a mendacious figure of ethical decrepitude, a man who won the Labour Party leadership based on promises that he jettisoned five seconds after winning - a Labour leader who dared banish from the Labour Party not only his predecessor but also remarkable human beings like director Ken Loach - the gentleman who has taken the historic Labour Party and transformed it into a vessel for the very oligarchy it was elected to restrain.

Consider the litany of Starmer’s moral and logical failures. He promised a 'different Britain', yet his actions were a masterclass in Tory-lite politics—using the same maxed-out credit card analogies that once served the austerity brigades to justify his own failure of vision. He promised a human rights lawyer’s approach but he embraced a racist-lite version of Farage.

On Europe, Starmer promised Brexiteers that Brexit is Brexit yet stood before those who yearn to rejoin the European Union, winked at them to make them feel that Britain would gradually reconnect, even rejoin, with the EU while offering nothing of substance. This is not leadership; it is a fraud.

And then there's the manner in which Starmer and his government rushed to offer Israel unequivocal support in pursuing its genocide in Gaza, sacrificing precious political and civil liberties in the UK by imprisoning grandmothers, priests and peaceful activists who dared support Palestine Action, an organisation that Starmer and his minions proscribed as terrorists for practising the usual activist tactics of trespassing to spray paint military planes that had demonstrably aided in the genocide. To add insult to injury, Starmer performed the diplomatic pantomime of recognising a Palestinian state, in a manner that ensured it would never happen.

But above all else, this is a government that has learned nothing from the post-2008 era. Starmer and his Chancellor are playing the same tired austerity game while enabling and empowering the Finance Curse perpetrated by the City of London, throwing in forgood measure cuts in international aid to fund a military spending trickle under the guise of a "Strategic Defence Review" . It is the same old doctrine: austerity for the masses, socialism for the financiers and the arms dealers.

History will remember Mr Starmer as a man without conviction, a Prime Minister who offers not a shred of honesty, but merely the cruel illusion of change. He is ethically decrepit because he had chosen, consciously, to abandon principle for power. And for that, history will indict him. Good riddance, I say.

https://t.co/sGfebPkDXR

[liam cunningham @liamcunningham1]

This is all he will be remembered for. A human rights advocate who turned into a genocide advocate.
He has outlived his usefulness.
Watch closely where he ends up.
The cushy position will be his little token of thanks from the Establishment. Blair territory. Morally despicable.