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[Times Politics @timespolitics]

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[castervaria @castervaria]

Far right newspapers are trying to run a smear campaign against Misan Harriman. We can't let them.
Add your name to the open letter, and stand against hate and division. https://t.co/XraVoN6CNk via @goodlawproject

[The Resonance @Partisan_12]

The Foreign Secretary didn’t just mention it. He said it twice.

“20,000 children.”

He repeated it so no one could look away. So the horror would sink in.

That should have been said long ago.
It wasn’t.

But it’s not too late.
It's time to sanction Israel.

[Torah Jews @TorahJews]

It might be a dark day for British Zionists like yourself, but not British Jews.

Your outrageous efforts to politicize Jewish identity as inherent with Israel is truly heedless and shameful of someone with an official “Rabbinical capacity.”

Israel is a political entity. Jews are a religious entity. Get on with the program and stop exploiting Jews like that.

[Rachael Swindon @Rachael_Swindon]

The de-banking of the Canary is a warning. If they can silence us, they can silence anyone.

New from me for @TheCanaryUK
https://t.co/22UzviIlQq

[Taylor @AntiTory999]

@MJtweetings @McardleTrevor lol it’s literally what happened
Ps stop conflating Israel and Zionism with Judaism

[Peter Hamilton @PeterHamil73098]

@MJtweetings @McardleTrevor https://t.co/1tQ5ZK7zEk

[Trevor McArdle @McardleTrevor]

You’re a paid advocate of Israel

You were fired by Theresa May from the cabinet for holding unsanctioned and secretive meetings with Israeli government officials including Netanyahu himself

It is you that is “disgraceful and dangerous”

[Saul Staniforth @SaulStaniforth]

"Germany is appearing before the ICJ to challenge allegations its facilitating genocide in Gaza"

Germany is trying to get the case thrown out. They are the 2nd largest supplier of arms to Israel after the US.

[Saul Staniforth @SaulStaniforth]

Margaret Hodge was on Woman's Hour this morning plugging her book, and you can imagine the sorts of things she said. Which meant the interviewer had to then read out a statement from @jeremycorbyn's spokesperson, which was to the point.

[Saul Staniforth @SaulStaniforth]

Kevin Maguire: "If you're an elderly vicar or a grandmother.. with a sign protesting against genocide.. & you're supporting Palestine Action, you're arrested.. who's more threatening, an elderly vicar/grandmother with a sign or a load of masked men.. wreaking havoc?"

[HOPE not hate @hopenothate]

Patriot Platform, the far-right group whose black-clad masked members caused hours of disruption in Dover yesterday, calls itself a Christian “army of patriots” dedicated to protecting women and children.

There’s a problem with that story.

Its supposedly “handpicked” and “vetted” members include men with violent criminal records, including convictions involving violence against women and violent disorder.

And its founder, Danny Tommo, Tommy Robinson’s right-hand man, spent time in prison for his part in a botched kidnapping attempt over a drug dispute.

[Declassified UK @declassifiedUK]

Did you know❓

The Israeli government spent £50,000 lobbying Reform UK.

This came before deputy leader Richard Tice told MPs not to talk about Israeli influence in British politics👇
https://t.co/GS4gOabc5L

[GBC @GBC_Press]

🚨 BREAKING:

Piers Morgan: "The Israeli military has killed more than 200 Palestinian journalists and tried to pretend they were all Hamas."

Rabbi Shmuley: "That's a lie and a blood libel."

Piers Morgan: "Oh, shut up with your 'blood libel' accusation."

[Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan]

A reminder that El-Sayed's '9/11 tweets' were perfectly banal and uncontroversial posts from him saying we should take Covid deaths seriously after they Covid had killed more Americans than 9/11 did.

Real nefarious, pro-terrorist stuff, right? RIGHT??

[Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan]

It should be a scandal that a major American news network is now led by an overt, hands-on, undisguised Islamophobe but... it isn't. Islamophobia has been normalized in our media, and in our country. Shamefully.

[Justin Bonomo 🇵🇸 @JustinBonomo]

Mehdi is correct of course. It’s absolutely disgusting how widespread Islamophobia has become in the west

[Syed Huseini @syedcurious]

@RedPillMediaX @JustinBonomo Its relevant because [as he said clearly] its repeating again and the world is watching...again.

[Justin Bonomo 🇵🇸 @JustinBonomo]

Why do I care so much about Palestine?

As a Jewish teenager, I struggled to understand how the world could let The Holocaust happen.

I learned about the lies and propaganda Germans were fed about Jews. I learned about the immense dehumanization of my people. I learned about the 10 stages of genocide. I learned how ordinary Germans became complicit in the most heinous crimes imaginable.

Many of us believed that events that unfathomably evil could never happen again. And yet the whole world is watching it play out again right before our eyes through strikingly similar steps. If you ever wondered what you would have done in Nazi Germany - it’s whatever you’re doing right now.

Ilan Pappé has long referred to it as an incremental genocide. For 100 years Israel has ethnically cleansed Palestine, completely subjugated its people, consistently slaughtered them both in times of peace and in times of war, illegally occupied and stolen their lands, and upheld a crippling blockade that has prevented them from having any chance of economic autonomy or even clean drinking water.

14 months ago it transitioned into a full fledged genocide. Just look at the photos of the rubble. That is the complete destruction of Gaza. If you think there’s anything targeted about that, I have a bridge to sell you.

“But Hamas…” - Listen, this has been going on since long before Hamas existed. 76 years of ethnic cleansing. If you don’t know what The Nakba is, please look it up. Israel and the US have consistently fought against Palestinian self determination for 50+ years. The international courts have long upheld that Israel’s occupation is illegal, and that Palestinian resistance therefore is legally and morally justified.

Yes it’s personal and I’m emotionally invested in this. It’s The Holocaust all over again. Except this time it’s happening by my people instead of to them.

My tax dollars are being used, by politicians I voted for, in the name of my family’s religion, to mass slaughter innocent people who have never known freedom or peace in their entire lives.

Israel has bombed every hospital in Gaza. Netanyahu has a warrant out for his arrest for crimes against humanity. The Hague / ICJ / ICC and the UN have been very clear that Israel is and has always been the aggressor - illegally occupying Palestine since 1967. Israel is *breaking records* for doctors, journalists, and even UN workers killed. And so much more.

If you support the above, you’re on the wrong side of humanity and you really need to question your beliefs.

Like I was taught as a Jewish teenager - Never Again Means Never Again For Anyone.

Don’t just take my word for it. Look up what the ICJ / ICC / UN have said. Every human rights org agrees Israel is committing crimes against humanity, from Amnesty International’s staggering 297 page report, to Human Rights Watch’s 179 page report. Doctors Without Borders, UNICEF, World Central Kitchen, and countless other humanitarian orgs have made similar statements. Even the Pope has condemned Israel for the endless terrorism its committing.

Just imagine siding against The Hague, Doctors Without Borders, and the Pope - the mental gymnastics one must go through to get to that point.

The simple truth is that the vast majority of the world supports Palestinian liberation, but the US is too powerful to stop. I belive the only way out of this is for the international community to band together and take a stand in the name of international law.

The near future looks bleak, but I’m optimistic about the long term. The veil has been lifted. The truth is out there for all to see. It’s only a matter of time before Netanyahu and the other war criminals receive the justice they deserve.

I believe that one day in my lifetime we will see a liberated Palestine.

“The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends towards justice.”

Free Palestine 🇵🇸

[Justin Bonomo 🇵🇸 @JustinBonomo]

https://t.co/UiEVxOs3A7