Chris Foster

Socialist and grateful NHS supporter. Fifty years a Trade Unionist.

[Roger Gall @Shambles151]

Empty ambulances being set on fire in North London = COBRA meetings & hysterical mass media coverage.

Actual people being burned out of their homes by masked gangs rampaging through the streets in Northern Ireland = no such thing.

Please RT until this changes.

Thanks.

[simon maginn @simonmaginn]

'Moving welfare from hand outs to hand ups' is the kind of cheap rhetoric that could have come from the lips of any Tory.
Quite apart from being economically illiterate (government spends money into existence), it's the vapid, second-hand blather of the golf club bore.

[Ramy Abdu| رامي عبده @RamAbdu]

An Israeli soldier extrajudicially kills a young Palestinian man in Hawwara town, south of the occupied West Bank city of Nablus.

[Yanis Varoufakis @yanisvaroufakis]

There you have it. Anthropic's CEO said it: The murder of more than 100 schoolgirls in Minab targeted by Anthropic's CLAUDE "is a use case that doesn't even violate our red lines." Time to rise up against these technofeudal war criminals.

[Dusky Moko @DuskyMoko]

Don't use a synagogue to sell stolen land then

[BladeoftheSun @BladeoftheS]

The President of Palestine's football association has been banned from attending the World Cup.

He refused to shake hands with Israel's rep 6 weeks ago when Infantino tried to force him, instead shouting out "We are suffering"

Now the racist genocide supporters have banned him

[Chris Williamson @DerbyChrisW]

The 1960s apartheid govt of South Africa labelled the ANC as terrorists and used a compliant judiciary to suppress their activists and supporters. Today's British govt uses the same tactics against Palestine Action and its supporters.

Here's a photo of Judge Quartus de Wet who sentenced Nelson Mandela to life in prison, alongside Judge Jeremy Johnson who yesterday sentenced four Palestine Action activists as terrorists, even though they were never charged with terrorism, because such a charge would've been thrown out by every jury in the land.

Johnson would have fitted in very well in South Africa's apartheid regime.

[Tom London @TomLondon6]

What is Rowley up to @metpoliceuk?

He LIES about Palestine Marches, falsely labelling them antisemitic

He claims Russia and/or Iran are behind Belfast racist pogroms

Here he shills for Palantir

The man is a disgrace

[Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla]

Michael Gove - editor of the Spectator, Orwell Prize judge & overseer of the biggest electoral fraud in modern UK history - apparently upset that I called out his boss’s investment in Palantir after he ran a sycophantic pro-Palantir piece

[Jonathan Cook @Jonathan_K_Cook]

Apartheid South Africa and Nazi Germany needed compliant judges to provide a legal veneer to their darkest crimes.

Judge Johnson joins their wretched company. He overturned a jury's conviction of four anti-genocide activists for criminal damage and sentenced them as terrorists instead.

As one their barristers pointed out, the four defendants were initially arrested by police on suspicion of involvement in an act of terrorism. But the prosecution decided not to charge them with terrorism offences because it knew no jury would ever convict them based on the evidence.

Instead the Crown held two trials: a sham one for the jury, and the real one conducted in secret by the judge. That is not justice. It is a show trial worthy of the worst tyrannical regimes.

[Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan]

She is lying. Brazenly. Israel has forced over a million people (a million!) from their homes, razed entire neighborhoods to the ground, told Christian villagers to not let Shia villagers stay in their villages, and killed multiple first-responders in double tap strikes.

[Peter Reynolds @TweeterReynolds]

Why is anyone surprised that @BBCNews is systematically biased in favour of Israel? Its outrageous disinformation and unfairness towards Palestine is reaching new levels as it covers up Israel's crimes and fails to present the Palestinian perspective.

[MikeD @mjdaly57]

Ian Austin ‘tells it like it is?’ The last person to tell it like it is in matters relating to Palestine and Israel is Ian Austin.

Austen has been and continues to be a paid Israeli asset operating in the British Parliament. At some point, he stopped working for the @UKLabour Party and started working for Israel. That much is clear from the lavish funding he’s received over the years.

Ian Austin’s entries on the @ElectoralCommUK home donations page show that he’s received £69,560.67 in declared donations and gifts. He has been personally funded by businessmen and pro-Israel lobbyists including Sir Trevor Chinn and the late Sir David Garrard.

After Jeremy Corbyn became leader of the Labour Party, Austin went into overdrive in working against the interests of his own leader and party.

Austin was soon shuttling between Israel and the UK on fully funded trips. These included Labour Friends of Israel organised trips and one trip organised and funded by the ‘Israeli Knesset.’

In 2019, between March and May, he received substantial donations from Trevor Chinn, David Garrard, Tim Allen and the Israeli-linked Big Change Ltd.

In November 2019, less than a month before the UK general election, Austin and John Woodcock, under the Mainstream organisation, unveiled their ‘Don’t vote for Corbyn’ campaign. The ultimate betrayal of millions of Labour voters across the UK.

The former Conservative minister Alan Duncan has describe the pro-Israel lobby groups in Westminster politics (Conservative and Labour Friends of Israel) as fronts for ‘“entrenched espionage.”’

Ian Austin is a perfect fit for that description: his record in Parliament, his sabotaging of his own party’s election chances, his inflammatory behaviour, his funding and his controversial activities have all painted the picture of a British politician working to a different agenda entirely.

Austin was rewarded for his treachery (treason?) when Boris Johnson nominated him and awarded him a lifetime seat in the House of Lords. He supplements his generous daily remuneration in the Lords with a number of corporate advisory and directorate roles.

Ian Austin might tell it like it is for you but for many here in the UK he is a undignified rabble-rouser - a bit of a bully boy if his attacks on Corbyn and his ‘“full frontal assault”’ on poet Michael Rosen at a 2018 Westminster Committee hearing were anything to go by. Austin has also had complaints of abuse made against him at Westminster.

@UKLabour @UKHouseofLords @LordIanAustin @jeremycorbyn @MichaelRosenYes

[Ounka @OunkaOnX]

Richard Burgon just exposed the most glaring double standard in British policy

"Imagine if this weekend in London there was a Russian real estate event selling Ukrainian land. The government would ban it immediately.

Instead, we have an Israeli real estate event openly advertising the illegal sale of land in occupied Palestinian territories. The government recognizes Palestine. Why isn't this banned?"

[Matt Kennard @kennardmatt]

He's another amoral machine politician

An empty suit

Labour has nothing else to offer

It is set up to absorb and neutralise the left and—by doing so—make sure nothing fundamental ever changes in Britain

[Jonathan Cook @Jonathan_K_Cook]

The Jewish activist Tony Greenstein, whose opposition to the Gaza genocide will see him on trial in August for "supporting terrorism", is now being hounded – like other prominent Palestine solidarity activists – with a freeze on his bank accounts.

This is being directed by the government through the National Crime Agency.

Santander are the latest culprits to engage in what Greenstein calls "financial terrorism", after similar bank freezes from Nationwide, HSBC and First Direct.

One of the accounts frozen by Santander held money raised to help a Palestinian children's centre in Jenin.

As Greenstien notes, Jenin's children "suffer enough at the hands of the terrorist IDF without facing the terrorism of the British state acting via its banking system".

More here: https://t.co/RtpmLKSP9D

[sarah @sahouraxo]

Israel dropped a bomb on Mona’s home in Mansouri, South Lebanon, today.

Mona is not a fighter.

She is an environmental activist who dedicated her life to protecting endangered sea turtles.

Because of Israel, Mona is now fighting for her life in a hospital bed.

[Derrick Evans @DerrickEvans4WV]

This is INSANE.

AIPAC controls 76% of the members of Congress, regardless of which party they belong to.

There’s def a uniparty, but it looks much different than I could have ever imagined.

I NEVER looked or paid attention to any of this until they took out Thomas Massie.

[BladeoftheSun @BladeoftheS]

Strange isn't how Elon Musk told everyone to mark this post, then he deleted it.

Must have been a mistake.

Let me repost it for him.

[Nick Cruse 🥋 @SocialistMMA]

Is it antisemitic to say I would never want one of these people to be my doctor ever?