Casey Davison OBrien

MEL in the international development sector during the week, normally found in the garden or on the beach at the weekend. Big fan of Sprocker Spaniels.

[BladeoftheSun @BladeoftheS]

30 years ago Spitting Image dared to broadcast the truth about Israel.

Now no one dares.

[Craig Murray @CraigMurrayOrg]

On the morning of the ceasefire we get access to inspect the devastation in the suburbs of Beirut, Lebanon.

[Double Down News @DoubleDownNews]

Everything That's Wrong with Liberal Centrism in Under 3 mins

As told by the late great David Graeber

[Ashok Kumar | 🇵🇸 @broseph_stalin]

Plaid Cymru have voted to back the expelling of the Israeli ambassador, banning arms sales, and an economic boycott of Israel. It calls on Welsh sporting teams to boycott Israel and councils to divest from companies that profit from the occupation.

[Howard Beckett @BeckettUnite]

And so we get to the truth.

Israel 🇮🇱 intend to create ‘settlements’ in Gaza 🇵🇸

The genocide.
The ethnic cleansing;

It was never for ‘defence’
It was always a land grab.

[Alan MacLeod @AlanRMacLeod]

In years to come, students in university departments around the world will be studying the propaganda embedded in this headline.

As someone who regularly lectures in sociology, journalism and media studies, I could teach an entire lesson on the title alone.

For example:

1. Treating the 4 Israeli soldiers as more important than the 23 Palestinian children (by leading the story with their deaths and just chucking in the others at the end) implies their lives are of higher value.

2. Infantilizing active duty soldiers as "teenagers" while not emphasizing the age of the schoolkids, despite many of them being demonstrably younger.

3. The classic use of the passive voice: Israelis are "killed" while Palestinians merely "die".

4. Putting scare quotes around "23 die" subtly undermines the credibility of that claim. Maybe no one died, and the Palestinians are just lying?

5. Using the word "attack" for Hezbollah actions, but choosing a more neutral, clinical word like "strike" for Israeli aggression.

6. Allowing Israeli sources to dictate the framing of the story ("Israel names teenage soldiers") etc.

7. Actually naming the Israeli soldiers, but not doing the same for the far greater number of Palestinians, again sends the message to the reader that Palestinian lives don't matter nearly as much, if at all.

It's truly incredible how much propaganda has been packed into 16 words. We are swimming in an ocean of propaganda. That's why it is crucial to deconstruct it and critically assess everything you read, see and hear.

[Rania @umyaznemo]

Evil always looked like you, and never looked like me.

[Owen Jones @owenjonesjourno]

“What were you doing during this genocide, grandpa?”

[Adam @AdameMedia]

The best answer to “do you condemn Hamas” was given 13 years ago.

@KenOKeefe1TJP

[Sulaiman Ahmed @ShaykhSulaiman]

This is MASSIVE

Lebanese Foreign Minister Abdallah Bou Habib confirms Hezbullah agreed to a ceasefire, and the Lebanese government informed America, who said Israel also accepted.

Then Israel killed Sayyed Hasan Nasrallah.

This is US diplomacy. https://t.co/5EBp6H7xpZ

[Casey Davison OBrien @cdavisonobrien]

@EllStats ...and this is why people voted Green

[Esheru @Eshprojet1]

Listen to @s_m_marandi dismantle Sky News reporter @markaustintv. Note to the media, if you are going to tell a story, tell it from the beginning. Provide a little context.

[Casey Davison OBrien @cdavisonobrien]

@bushontheradio Hands down front of tracksuit trousers fiddling with genitals

[Dr. Mads Gilbert @DrMadsGilbert]

My dear and respected friend Prof. Noam Chomsky saw it all so clearly years ago. Listen to him!
Dr. Mads

[Casey Davison OBrien @cdavisonobrien]

@DecathlonUK I am due to collect an order from Decathlon in Brighton today, but the shop is closed. Are you able to redirect my order to my home address?

[Craig Murray @CraigMurrayOrg]

The details coming out today of the massacre in al Shifa hospital are simply incredible.
Surgeons executed. Children executed. Bodies mutilated. Medical facilities systematically destroyed.
Forget sanctions, there needs to be international military action against Israel. Now.

[Caroline Lucas @CarolineLucas]

What will it take for this Govt to actually call out racism? It could not be clearer here, yet rather than condemning it, they wheel out a white man to say it wasn't about race or gender and we should all move on? Solidarity with @HackneyAbbott https://t.co/Lk6O4RoGQq

[Led By Donkeys @ByDonkeys]

A short history of the Conservative Party backing the mob

[Nadia Whittome MP @NadiaWhittomeMP]

If a tax cut saves you £20 a month but:

- You can’t get the healthcare you need unless you go private
- Your rent was hiked by 20% because there’s not enough housing being built
- A short train journey costs more than an international flight

Are you really saving? #Budget2024

[Caroline Lucas @CarolineLucas]

PM is real threat, failing to name racism, undermining rule of law with terrible Rwanda Bill, trampling over rights to protest. This didn’t need “urgent address” he could’ve said it in Parliament. Fake theatre from desperate PM of a dying , discredited govt
#GeneralElectionlNow