Alexander McColl

Barrister at Garden Court North Chambers - housing, protest, prisons, JR, social welfare - former debt adviser

[Garden Court North @gcnchambers]

(1/2) Garden Court North welcomes the Court of Appeal's ruling earlier today that the trial judge alleging that @gardencourtlaw's Rajiv Menon KC committed contempt lacks jurisdiction to refer him to the High Court for prosecution.

https://t.co/f2lXH0216Z

[Mira Hammad @MiraHammad10]

Solidarity with Rajiv Menon KC, in the face of a prosecution which threatens all independent members of the Bar who fearlessly defend individuals the govt would rather not be defended.

[Garden Court North @gcnchambers]

(1/3) Garden Court North members express solidarity with Rajiv Menon KC, a highly respected silk and member of @gardencourtlaw, who faces prosecution for contempt of court following his closing speech in a high-profile and politically sensitive criminal trial.

[Franck Magennis 🍉 @FranckMagennis]

My friends and comrades in Palestine Action are among the bravest, most principled people I’ve ever met. Starmer’s government of liars and war criminals will be crushed by history.

Let a thousand @Pal_action’s bloom. The empire can ban a group, but they can’t ban our solidarity.

[Claudia Webbe @ClaudiaWebbe]

Why are we still allowing Israel to kill Palestinians queuing for food and aid in Gaza?

Arrest Netanyahu. Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions now. End all arms sales to Israel.

Free Palestine

[Garden Court North @gcnchambers]

GCN's @MiraHammad10, Alexander McColl & Rosalind Burgin will be speaking alongside the esteemed Professor Avi Shlaim at this exclusive webinar on 7 July.

Free registration here: https://t.co/A153abw6Zs

More details below.

https://t.co/KSZhzXQTsM

[Double Down News @DoubleDownNews]

“I consider Palestine Action heroic people and that's how they will go down in history, as appropriate resisters.”

Holocaust Survivor Stephen Kapos message of solidarity to @Pal_action:

[Garden Court North @gcnchambers]

Garden Court North’s Rosalind Burgin secured the acquittal of a client charged with conspiracy to cause criminal damage to a factory in 2024, in protest of what they alleged was involvement in the manufacturing of weaponry to Israel.

Read below.

https://t.co/W98A3k5vZ6

[Alexander McColl @amccollpg]

“Urgent and decisive action is required to avert the destruction of the Palestinian people of Gaza”
https://t.co/fI4sf4wp4A

[Alexander McColl @amccollpg]

@gcnchambers @VLCLiverpool

[Garden Court North @gcnchambers]

GCN's @amccollpg successfully secures an interim injunction - and temporary accommodation - for a vulnerable client.

Read more about Alexander's complex housing case below.

https://t.co/EFS6RwVC7U

[Owen Jones @owenjonesjourno]

The video of Israel's execution of Palestinian paramedics is the stuff of nightmares.

It destroys all the lies IDF came up with.

This is what they do over and over again.

They commit an atrocity, lie, then the Western media treats their lie as credible

[Mira Hammad @MiraHammad10]

Israel holds the entire population of Gaza hostage and openly announces it will commit war crimes to get its way.

[Fahad Ansari 🇵🇸 (Stop the Gaza genocide) @fahadansari]

Reminder that Netanyahu has been indicted by the international criminal court for the war crime of starvation. The manner in which Western leaders have undermined the indictment by refusing to arrest Netanyahu and instead offering him VIP treatment has emboldened him to continue his atrocities. This isn’t appeasement, it’s complicity.

[Mira Hammad @MiraHammad10]

Before Trump, what exactly did we think that Israel, with Western support, was planning for Gaza? Trump thinks he can achieve through business deals what Biden was supporting them to achieve through force. The masks have dropped but the colonial heart stays the same.

[Mark Ruffalo @MarkRuffalo]

We have to be direct about Trump’s plan in Gaza: He is calling for ethnic cleansing. Congress must stand firm against his demand for war crimes. 

Palestinians have a right to live with equal rights and freedom on their land.

[United Nations @UN]

There is no safe place in Gaza, and the war is taking a catastrophic toll on children.

Safe, sustained humanitarian access is urgently needed to ensure life-saving aid reaches those in desperate need.

Above all, what children in Gaza desperately need is peace.

via @UNICEF

[Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt @FranceskAlbs]

Shameful decision, which I did not expect Sweden would take, given its tradition of principled foreign policy in the Levant. May the Swedish people act swiftly to reverse and remedy it.

Necessary reminder: UNRWA is a subsidiary organ of the UN General Assembly and cannot be dismissed by individual states' decisions. If member states want to dismiss UNRWA:
1. they must go through the General Assembly
2. they must act to address the root causes of the Palestinian refugee question: the Nakba.

[Mira Hammad @MiraHammad10]

The UK's position on Israel has become untenable. It needs to immediately (a) enforce the warrants (b) end all arms exports (c) suspend the 2030 roadmap and trade (d) impose sanctions on the state and private sector actors who are complicit (e) utilise UJ to uphold justice.

[Palestine Deep Dive @PDeepDive]

"It is NOT a war. It is full destruction. It is GENOCIDE." @FranceskAlbs