Dave E 🍉

Brewing, fermenting, politics (mostly these days), justice, software, quiet pubs.
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[BDS movement @BDSmovement]

“Google’s aiding of Israel’s genocide against Palestinians exposes company and its leadership to potential legal liability.”

Abolitionist Law Center, Center for Constitutional Rights, and Tech Justice Law notify Google’s leadership in historic move of legal accountability.

This unprecedented legal notice to Google follows years of organizing by Google workers with @NoTechApartheid (NoTA).

[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.

[Craig Mokhiber @CraigMokhiber]

There are many shocking provisions in the scandalous “agreement” signed by Lebanon and the Israeli regime, but none more shocking than point 13 whereby Lebanon purports to give up its international legal claims against the Israeli occupation. But a news flash for the US-Israel Axis: Article 47 of the 4th Geneva Convention explicitly states that protected persons in occupied territories cannot be deprived of the benefits of the Convention“by any agreement concluded between the authorities of the occupied territories and the Occupying Power." The rights and protections guaranteed under IHL
cannot legally be signed away or contractually waived, not by Lebanese officials, not by the occupying Israeli regime, and not by its complicit US ally. Point 13 is null and void as a matter of law, and the other provisions of this absurd surrender deal will eventually follow it into the trash bin of history.

[Gabriel Zucman @gabriel_zucman]

I have some tremendous news to share: we've just won a decisive victory against Mark Zuckerberg and the Silicon Valley billionaires 🧵

[Dave E 🍉 @brewmook]

@DaleVince High running costs has to be down to badly planned or implemented installations. Please talk to @_heatgeek and educate yourself. The technology is sound. I love my heat pump, running costs are down slightly for me over gas.

[UN Human Rights Council Investigative Bodies @uninvhrc]

Israeli forces have killed over 20,000 children & injured 44,000 more since 7 Oct. 2023, Srinivasan Muralidhar, chair of the @UN Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory & Israel, told reporters today. #HRC62

More on their new report ➡️ https://t.co/gK2KhtlgFb

[UN Human Rights Council Investigative Bodies @uninvhrc]

#Israeli authorities & security forces have deliberately targeted #Palestinian children resulting in #genocide, crimes against humanity & war crimes, the @UN Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory & Israel says in new report. #HRC62
➡️ https://t.co/IWsZkK7eh7

[Drop Site @DropSiteNews]

💢🇺🇳 NEW: A UN Commission of Inquiry has concluded that “Israel continues to commit genocide and other atrocity crimes by deliberately targeting Palestinian children,” finding Israeli authorities and security forces have committed genocide, crimes against humanity, and war crimes in Gaza, as well as war crimes in the occupied West Bank.

➡️ The commission found the deliberate targeting of children is “one of the key elements establishing genocidal intent” and said Israel is pursuing “a deliberate strategy to destroy the future of the Palestinians in Gaza by targeting their children.”

➡️Among its findings, the commission said Israel has:
🔹 “Deliberately shot children in vital organs using precision weapons”
🔹 Attacked homes, schools, displacement camps, and neonatal and maternity care centers, harming newborn survival and Palestinians’ reproductive future
🔹 Used starvation through blockade and siege, causing child deaths and severe malnutrition
🔹 Arrested, tortured, and subjected Palestinian children to sexual violence in detention
🔹 Destroyed healthcare, orphanages, and education, obstructing children’s cognitive, social, and emotional development and undermining the foundations of Palestinian society

[Declassified UK @declassifiedUK]

🚨BREAKING -- Jury refuses to convict four Palestine activists accused of raid at arms firm

Our special report from Birmingham Crown Court👇

[Alonso Gurmendi @Alonso_GD]

It's not an under-16 social media ban, it's digital IDs with better marketing

[John McEvoy @jmcevoy_2]

I spent all day in Woolwich Crown Court yesterday for the Filton activists' sentencing hearing with my colleague @daniaakkad.

The court heard that the Terrorism Act was never intended to cover direct action protest.

It heard that all of the defendants had been cleared of violent intent and sentencing them as terrorists would mark a historic first for charges of criminal damage.

It heard that the Suffragettes, who did "a bit of smashing themselves", would have been labelled as terrorists but have now been vindicated by history.

It heard the activists' goal was to stop the supply chain of drones and weaponry to Israel as it commits genocide in Gaza.

It heard that attaching a terrorism connection to a case without it ever being heard by a jury was unconstitutional and posed a threat to the criminal justice system itself.

It heard that the "terrorism connection" has been disproportionately used against minority groups and those advocating for them while not being used for neo-Nazis and white supremacists, including the man who killed Jo Cox MP.

It heard that the law has been reinterpreted since the action took place, meaning the activists could have had no idea that what they did could have been caught up in terrorism laws at the time of the protest.

It heard that the prosecution submitted key evidence just eight days before the hearing, giving the defence no time to review it or even discuss it with their clients.

Despite all of this, Judge Jeremy Johnson, who has already tried to refer the defence's lead barrister for contempt of court and been forced to apologise for it, sentenced the defendants as terrorists.

The judgment was handed down within minutes, indicating Judge Johnson had already made his mind up before the hearing had begun.

Being in court yesterday felt akin to witnessing a colonial crime: punishing activists with terrorism offences in order to set a precedent that taking direct action to stop a UK-backed genocide will not be tolerated.

[Jonathan Cook @Jonathan_K_Cook]

Judge Johnson so rigged the trial of anti-genocide activists that thousands of legal professionals have urged him to step down from the sentencing hearing on Friday. But the judge’s dirty work is not yet complete.

Read my latest article here: https://t.co/Ie8BaEumwQ

[Joanna Hardy-Susskind @Joanna__Hardy]

David Lammy’s proposals to restrict the right to jury trial have been examined by the Justice Committee of the House of Commons.

And. Well. Um.

It’s *quite* the report.

I think it’s actually worse than politely scathing.

It’s embarrassing 👇🏼🪡🧵

[Double Down News @DoubleDownNews]

"They Call Us The Wrong Kind of Jew”

Miriam Margolyes, Michael Rosen & Alexei Sayle DON’T HOLD BACK https://t.co/31YAueA04k

[Daniel Mayakovski @DaniMayakovski]

Así es la esclavitud en las minas en el este del Congo, de donde sale más del 70% del cobalto del mundo, miles de esclavos diariamente extraen el mineral por apenas 2$ al dia para llenar los bolsillos a las multinacionales capitalistas.

El capitalismo que no te enseñan, así es como se sostiene el nivel de vida y de consumo en Occidente, en estas minas al menos hay 40.000 niños esclavizados que pican piedra para que Apple saque 4 modelos de Iphone cada año.

[Jonathan Cook @Jonathan_K_Cook]

Two years of lying about bombing hospitals in Gaza – supposedly to target "Hamas control and command centres" underneath – has really paid off.

Now Israel bombs Lebanon's hospitals and doesn't even need to pretend there's a military rationale.

[Dave E 🍉 @brewmook]

Coming out of twitter hybernation to say: buy this, it's delicious. Why did I only by one? @OtherworldBrew

[Ounka @OunkaOnX]

A Global Sumud Flotilla participant just testified from the depths of an Israeli detention center

"I was illegally kidnapped by Israel - like 425 other people."

"Handcuffs on my hands and feet. Dragged me. When I couldn't walk, they dragged me on the ground."

"They hit us. Hurt all of us a lot. Handcuffs so tight my hands lost feeling."

"They laughed all the time. Super sadistic."

"Took off my shirt. Took pictures. Mistreated us all night long."

Then she delivered her message to the world:

"Shame on you. Shame on all of you. Shame on every government that keeps trading with Israel. My government is complicit. Europe is complicit. The whole world is complicit."

[Double Down News @DoubleDownNews]

Tommy Robinson & Israel. IT'S WORSE Than You Think @Lowkey0nline

[Double Down News @DoubleDownNews]

The Fascist History of Ben Gvir @andrewfeinstein