MarkoPolo

Hard working - no laffing at the back - ukulele cruching diehard greenockian. Farting in the wind, because I can.

[Jonathan Cook @Jonathan_K_Cook]

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.

[Stanley Cohen @StanleyCohenLaw]

Iran is more than 5000 years old. The US 250. Israel 78. Please stop lecturing us on culture, history, and tradition.

[usaama @yoUsaama]

6 weeks ago, two Jewish men were stabbed in Golders Green. @Keir_Starmer convened an emergency Cobra meeting the same day, gave a national Ted Talk about "Jewish Pain", omitted any mention of the Muslim victim of the same attacker earlier the same day, and the Home Office increased the national terrorism threat level.

today, we have now seen two days of racist pogroms beginning in Belfast and large groups of white supremacists terrorizing entire communities across multiple cities in the UK, with families being firebombed in their homes, people calling in sick to work because they're too afraid to step outside, and Black and brown people literally sheltering and hiding in their white friends homes - and @Keir_Starmer has issued a few twitter condemnations.

right.

[Humphrey Plugg @HumphreyPlugg4]

Wheeey

[Jonathan Cook @Jonathan_K_Cook]

Gaza is not an aberration. It is fully in accord with an eight-decade-long Israeli military strategy. Westerners aren’t aware of that only because their political and media class have worked strenuously to stop them from learning about it.

If western publics knew what has really been happening to Palestinians for 80-plus years – first, from the Zionist movement and then from the Israeli state – they might swell further the ranks of the protest marches, making these demonstrations politically impossible to ignore.

If westerners knew what has really been happening to Palestinians, they might join activists who have been trying to incapacitate Israeli weapons factories, like Elbit Systems, operating quite openly in western countries such as Britain. They might, as a result, manage to smash the supply of drones and other weapons being used to massacre the people of Palestine and Lebanon.

Instead of thousands, there might be tens or hundreds of thousands of people willing to hold up a placard in the UK opposing genocide, and be arrested as a “terrorism supporter”, overwhelming the prison system and making a mockery of Britain’s supposed “justice” system.

Armed with knowledge rather dulled by ignorance, more westerners might board boats, amassing an armada that it would be impossible for the western media to disregard.

But most critically of all, were the real context understood – were Israel’s decades-long pattern of murdering, raping, and expelling Palestinians known – western publics might wake up to the fact that their political and media class are not moral actors. They are not upholding the values of a superior civilisation. They are not the guardians of international law and a democratic liberal order.

They are imposters. Or more accurately, they are working within political and financial structures that make it impossible to tell truths that would rock a system of power in the West that enriches a tiny elite through a lucrative war machine used to protect the gargantuan profits of the fossil fuel industries.

That system of power drives some Palestinians into an early grave, and others into concentration camps, or exile, or penury.

Meanwhile, it drives us in the West into prisons without physical walls – prisons either of ignorance and complicity, or of knowledge and impotence.

Either way, we find our humanity deadened. Our hearts are hardened or broken. The challenge we face is the same as the Palestinians: to find a path out of our confinement.

This is an extract from my latest article How Israel planned the Gaza genocide decades ago. Find a link to the rest in the reply post ⬇️

[The Serfs (youtube.com/theserftimes) @theserfstv]

Thousands of people have been arrested in the UK for holding up signs opposing genocide while white supremacists try to burn families alive in their own homes

[🇬🇧King 🇬🇧 @King0243_PJC]

Mark from Belfast just called it what it is on @BenKentish @LBC:

“30 women were murdered… not one road was closed, not one protest.
What was the connection? They were murdered by white locals.”

One stabbing by a Sudanese man and the whole place is engulfed with riots, fires, attacks on Whites, Black & Brown people across Belfast.

Years of local white men killing women nothing.

Undiluted racism. He is not the only local to have said this! Who is behind this violence? 👇 #BelfastRiots #CallItWhatItIs

[David__Osland @David__Osland]

Working-class white people are burning down the homes of black working-class people, at the instigation of the world's only trillionaire. How has it come to this?

[Domhnall (Cogito) @CogitoEdu]

Probably because nationalists fear the much deadlier migrants from the UK who have killed and burned people out of their homes for a very long time now.

[Paul @LeftySeparatist]

Just in case you’re wondering what kind of place the UK is, a few jewish ambulances being set on fire will bring about more COBRA meetings and hysterical mass media coverage than actual people being burned out of their homes by masked gangs rampaging through the streets.

[Frankie Connolly @FrankieDaLegend]

The recent attacks on immigrant families in Belfast, are from the same people who burnt the Quinn children to death in Ballymoney; threw excrement & urine at primary school kids in Ardoyne; gave us the cut-throat Shankill Butchers…and torched homes of Catholic neighbours in 1969

[Carl Bovis @CarlBovisNature]

Male and female Pochard with a Great White Egret photo bomber! 😁
Taken last week at RSPB Ham wall in Somerset. 🐦🦆

[SweetIrishGhirl @Newrygal1]

@Iromg John finucane whos father Pat was shot dead in his home in front of his three kids and wife while eating dinner, shot by loyalist who colluded with the british government and arms taken in by special branch.....so who are the terrorist ?

[Deirdre Heenan @deirdreheenan]

Ben Lowry: "There's a determination to depict Unionists and Loyalists as more racist than anyone else. -That's entirely wrong "

Jackie Long #c4news

"But most of the chaos of last night was in Loyalist areas wasn't it?"

Ben Lowry: "Yes, it was” 🤔

#c4news #belfast

[Lucie Fur @Lucie_Fur99]

When is someone going to address the issue of Robinson/Lennon? Last night he came within millimetres of getting people killed - then posts this shit. Why is he (along with Farage, Lowe, Fox, Hopkins, Connolly et al) apparently untouchable?

[MarkoPolo @borderman67]

@BiffenGerry @Jonathan_K_Cook Utterly

[MarkoPolo @borderman67]

@gerry_sull25275 @lil_doza https://t.co/0VRvBjWbQv

[Joolz Denby @JoolzDenby]

As of June 2026, 30 women have been violently killed in Northern Ireland since 2020. You didn’t go riot for them, did you? Fucking burning cars & houses with families and disabled children in them, you absolute dregs of humanity. Racist scum.

[MarkoPolo @borderman67]

@Ccl1 @lil_doza Fuck off you racist twat.
https://t.co/0VRvBjWbQv

[Joolz Denby @JoolzDenby]

As of June 2026, 30 women have been violently killed in Northern Ireland since 2020. You didn’t go riot for them, did you? Fucking burning cars & houses with families and disabled children in them, you absolute dregs of humanity. Racist scum.

[MarkoPolo @borderman67]

@mcnamkb @lil_doza https://t.co/0VRvBjWbQv

[Joolz Denby @JoolzDenby]

As of June 2026, 30 women have been violently killed in Northern Ireland since 2020. You didn’t go riot for them, did you? Fucking burning cars & houses with families and disabled children in them, you absolute dregs of humanity. Racist scum.

[Mhairi Hunter 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇺🇦 🇵🇸 @MhairiHunter]

This was not a "protest". Members of the public & police officers were attacked & worshippers in Glasgow Central Mosque were unable to leave due to fears of violence. Call it what it is, racist thuggery.