The Met’s own war crimes team says acts in Gaza “could amount to War Crimes”.
2,000+ Britons served there.
Arrests reported: 0
Charges: 0
Questioned on return: 0 reported
This is the state that questioned an 87-year-old Holocaust survivor over flowers at a Gaza march. That jailed Ben Stimson for 5 years under terrorism law for joining a pro-Russian militia, even though that militia was never on Britain’s list of banned terrorist groups.
Those are two cases among thousands: arrests, Schedule 7 stops, police interviews and prison for people who march for Palestine or go abroad to serve a side the government opposes.
The law is not the obstacle. UK war crimes law covers British nationals anywhere on earth.
To the Met and the government: why do you allow this imbalance? You claim to police without fear or favour. This looks like policing under political control, and a force that looks controlled has already lost what makes it a police force.
When did anything like this last happen to a pro-Israel activist?
Who is making these decisions? Do they not see how it makes them look?
The freedom pro-Palestine voices still have is the last thing stopping Britain from looking completely captured. Take that away, and the integrity you destroy is your own
The Holocaust succeeded in part because local collaborators did much of the killing.
On Jan 30, 1941, U.S. Minister Franklin Gunther reported to FDR that an engineer at a Bucharest slaughterhouse found 60 Jewish corpses on hooks. All had been skinned alive by the Romanian Iron Guard.
The total number killed in this massacre is not known. However, burial permits for 727 Jews were requested, and the Turkish ambassador’s count of 284 dead was called the most conservative.
The State Department had the report, but they suppressed it and took no action.
In Romania, as in many European countries, locals carried out repeated mass murders of Jews while the Allies looked away.
From the beautiful model Paulina Porizkova whom I once met at Saks fifth Avenue.
I thought she was the most beautiful woman I’d ever seen.
(Even more on the inside! )
“Antisemitism is creeping back, sprouting like poisonous mushrooms after the rain.
I was born in a country where almost no Jewish people remained — because the Nazis had already exterminated them.
When I moved to Sweden, we were taught the Holocaust in school. We watched films that made the other kids cry. Sophie’s Choice came out, and everyone seemed sensitive to the Jewish plight. Yet there were almost no Jewish people in Sweden to receive that sensitivity.”
She is now married to a Jewish guy!
Remains of the Roman Fort at Ambleside in the Lake District. Built during the 2nd century AD, the fort guarded the Roman road from Brougham to Ravenglass, and replaced an earlier 1st century fort. 📸 My own. #RomanFortThursday#RomanBritain#Ambleside#Cumbria
BREAKING: Democrat Muslim NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani is reportedly set to announce plans to DISBAND the NYPD's Strategic Response Group.
This department handles counterterrorism operations and controls mass protests.
This makes no sense at all.
A unisex facility can be used by person of any sex or gender identity.
How can using one "out" someone?
And in any case how reasonable is it for someone to think that other people don't notice what sex they are?
Pink crystallised calcite grown over clear quartz and specularite on hematite, a classic West Cumbrian combination. Beckermet Mine, Haile, Copeland, Cumbria. Ex Harry Critchley collection.
#calcite#specularite#WestCumbria#UKminerals
On average, 12 Christians are killed for their faith every day in sub-Saharan Africa.
For an hour this morning, this powerful installation showing the photographs of 12 martyrs from the region is on display in Parliament Square, London. #ariseafrica
Toe curlingly horrific…..
My interview with @thetimes and @TimesRadio this morning done in a corridor 5 minutes before we went back into court for day 3 of @TMOFCharity Judicial Review into the government’s failures to implement the recommendations of @IICSAVSCP
We are Exhausted tbh but I’m very proud to be leading this charge and there’s absolutely no doubt in my mind that history will judge us well in this, whether we ultimately win or lose
Our legal team @HoweAndCo barrister Chris Jacobs from @Landmark_LC and KC Stephanie Harrison have been incredible as has our CEO!
Our thanks also to @Article39 for standing alongside us, and there’s absolutely survivors who added their voices to ours in court including @fionagoddarduk@KellyAnneLees1 Jade and Michelle!
I’m content! We could have done nothing more….
Full update to follow.
https://t.co/0F1YEqhn7w
ROUGH AS OLD BOOTS. Ben Wiggins, 36, has been jailed for 7 months after a series of theftsacross Carlisle. He was also handed a 2-year Criminal Behaviour Order banning him from all Co-op and Esso stores in Carlisle, as well as shops in the Shopwatch scheme.
Partly. Sellafield (edge of the Lake District) does hold the world’s largest civil plutonium stockpile (~140 tonnes). DM Longtown is a major ammunition depot in north Cumbria near the Scottish border.
No nuclear submarine base is in the Lake District itself. Barrow-in-Furness (adjacent, just south) builds them; the operational base is Faslane on the Clyde in Scotland.