Sarah ⚖️

Fighting the good fight. Always try to change the world - you might not succeed, but never give up ❤️❤️❤️

[Sarah ⚖️ @crazykool999]

Love you all Free Palestine ❤️❤️❤️

[yazan𓂆 @yazanomarrr]

People all over the world are watching the World Cup right now and are very happy.
Meanwhile, here in Gaza, we are dying under the Israeli bombardment.💔💔😭

[mustafa yazıcı @myzccc]

🔴Eski CIA görevlisi John Kiriakou:

“İsrail, seni öldürmek istiyorsa ve bir apartman bloğundaysan, seni vurabileceklerini düşündüklerinde tüm apartmanı havaya uçurur ve seninle birlikte 2 bin kişiyi öldürürler; işte İsrail’in politikası bu.”

[Jonathan Cook @Jonathan_K_Cook]

* Judge Jeremy Johnson had to rig two jury trials before he secured a criminal conviction for damage against four activists who targeted an Israeli drone factory in the UK.

* Johnson did not tell the jury he was going to sentence the four as terrorists – the first time such an "upgrade" has happened in British history.

* This week he's referred their defence barrister for contempt of court proceedings for a second time – again a British legal history first – even though the Court of Appeal rejected his previous application.

But hey, the government, police and courts' treatment of Palestine Action – the first direct action group ever to be proscribed as a terrorist organisation in British history – has been completely normal.

A link to my new article, The Plot Against Palestine Action, can be found in the reply post ⬇️

[Shaiel Ben-Ephraim @academic_la]

Netanyahu just cut a deal with the Haredi parties to give them everything they want in exchange for creating a commission that will exhonerate him for responsibility October 7 as quickly as possible:

1) Netanyahu, Deri and Gafni and agreed to pass four laws before the Knesset dissolves. Basic Law: Torah Study, the law blocking arrests of draft evaders, and the kashrut law.

2) In exchange he gets a political commission to investigate October 7, rather than a state one. The updated text lets it function with three of six members and bars the comptroller from filling empty seats. That means it can run on coalition appointees alone, with zero opposition members.

3) A real state inquiry has subpoena power and independent members and would put Netanyahu's own conduct on October 7 under oath. A political committee he controls does not. That means everything.

4) Another part of the deal is delaying the election date to October 27 (rather than September). That gives him more time to rule, cover up his crimes, try to derail the Iran deal and come to elections in better condition.

5) The families of the fallen in October 7th and since are livid. There will be no accountability for their families and Haredi men will not have to serve while their families died. This creates massive bitterness in Israeli society.

The man who presided over the worst security failure in the country's history now controls the terms of his own inquiry and the timing of his own election. Everything he does is designed to remain in power and to exonerate himself. Everything.

[Sony Thăng @nxt888]

Erick, you suggested I might be "under communist rule" without American intervention.

Let's examine the "communist threat" that required 58,000 American deaths and three million Vietnamese deaths to contain.

Vietnam, after the war, became a socialist republic. It is today a single-party state with a market economy, a growing middle class, significant foreign investment including from American companies, and a government that the United States has full diplomatic relations with.

Vietnam is also, incidentally, a popular tourist destination for Americans.

The dominos did not fall.

Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia: none of them became communist.

The entire strategic premise of the war, the foundational justification for the deaths of millions of people, was wrong.

But here is the more important point:

Even if Vietnam had become a Soviet-aligned communist state, the choice of Vietnam’s political system was Vietnam’s to make.

It was not America's to make.

Not with bombs.

Not with chemical weapons.

Not with half a million troops.

The logic that says, "We had to kill millions of Vietnamese people to prevent them from choosing a government we didn't approve of," is not the logic of freedom.

It is the logic of empire.

Naming it "stopping evil" doesn't change the logic.

It just makes it harder to see.

[Frank.Riot 🍉 @RiotFrank]

Unfortunately I don't think your chakras ever recover from sniping infants for fun.

[CrémantCommunarde #NION💙🤍🩷 @0Calamity]

I have to say, this placard at the recent Brighton Carnival Against Fascism is absolutely brilliant!
#StopTheBlokes 🤣

[Declassified UK @declassifiedUK]

👉NEW -- Palestine Action lawyer faces renewed contempt proceedings

by @daniaakkad

Judge rules to refer Rajiv Menon KC once again over his closing speech in trial of pro-Palestine activists
https://t.co/AlQ4UsWDCe

[Drop Site @DropSiteNews]

⭕️ Iran’s chief negotiator Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf described why Tehran abruptly walked out of talks with the U.S. delegation in Switzerland:

“Naturally, we entered the meeting room and began our discussions. The talks were going well. There was no dispute. We were almost at the end of the discussions and preparing to move into the second phase when I realized that, during the very time we were negotiating, Trump had made highly threatening remarks directed at both our negotiating delegation and our president, and had also threatened to attack our country.

Right there, I told Mr. Vance: “Mr. Vance, we are here negotiating, and we have already signed Article One of this agreement that says there must be no threats or coercion. But today your president used threats and coercion. You should know that we never negotiate under threats or coercion.”

We ended the negotiations and walked out of the meeting. We did not return. We even rejected a proposed meeting with the American delegation in the presence of the mediators. We left the session.

However, Pakistan’s prime minister, Shehbaz Sharif, who was serving as a mediator, along with the Prime Minister and Foreign Minister of Qatar, came to speak with me. We discussed the situation. They had some points to raise, and we told them, “We will talk with you, but we will not speak with the American delegation more right now.”

Therefore, we reviewed and finalized what had been discussed during the previous 80 minutes. That summary became the statement later issued by our two mediators, Qatar and Pakistan.”

🎥 Translated by Drop Site

[Tamer Nahed @Tamer_Alnoaizy]

I do not know whether the world will pay any attention to what I am about to say in this post, but what I witnessed yesterday confirmed to me that we are facing a major humanitarian, health, and environmental catastrophe in the days ahead.

Yesterday, I was on my way to the south of Gaza City along the coastal road when I was shocked by what I saw. Untreated sewage and wastewater are being discharged directly into the sea after the destruction of the sewage network and infrastructure during the war.

An estimated 80,000 cubic meters of wastewater are being dumped into the sea every day. These are terrifying numbers in a city already struggling amid the collapse of essential services.

The most alarming part was seeing thousands of displacement tents located near these streams of polluted water. Entire families, children, women, and elderly people are forced to live surrounded by contamination.

Yesterday, I realized that this city has suffered a complete collapse. Skin diseases are spreading at an alarming rate, infections are becoming more common every day, and the sea near these sewage outlets is no longer safe for swimming, fishing, or even approaching.

We are heading toward even darker days if this situation continues. More than two million people cannot be left to live between the rubble, sewage, and the constant threat of disease. What is happening here is a real humanitarian disaster that continues to worsen every day before the eyes of the world.

[Nuel @LfcNuel]

🚨 JUST IN 🚨
FIFA will apologize to Iran following their disallowed goal versus Belgium. Mehdi Taremi thought he'd given his side the lead following a smartly worked free kick, followed by a tidy finish from the striker, just out of reach of Courtois' outstretched arm.

The decision of offside was given on field before there was a subsequent VAR check where the goal was confirmed as offside. However, FIFA have revealed there were several errors which led to the goal being wrongfully disallowed. The first being the VAR team marking out their lines based off the wrong player, and Taremi was in fact being kept onside by a Belgium defender when the free kick was taken.

The VAR team quickly realized this once play had restarted, but it was too late to correct the mistake. Iran feel this was done intentionally by FIFA, believing that with the US as the hosts, they have been told to try and have them eliminated from the competition at the earliest opportunity, and that they don't care how obvious it is that that's the case."

[Turkish Archives @TurkishArc]

James Henderson, a former Royal Marine, was murdered by the IDF while carrying food to children in Gaza.

His fiancée said of him: “We want to keep his memory alive for as long as we possibly can.”

Remember his name.

[Ashley Cowburn @ashcowburn]

Former Labour leader Neil Kinnock suggests Andy Burnham should change the fiscal rules. He tells Times Radio: “They're treated as if they are sacrosanct tablets of stone from Mount Sinai, and they're not. I mean, Osborne used to change them every couple of months. More often than some people change their shirts.

“And the idea that they should be regarded, regardless of the objective economic circumstances or the needs of the country, to be fixed and permanent as if they were, I don't know, in the planetary system is not true.”

[The Crispin Flintoff Show @CrispinShow]

Jeremy Corbyn should sue them for libel. I'd happily promote a crowdfunder and I'm sure many with lots of money would contribute.

Campaign Against Antisemitism is supposed to be a charity and it should certainly lose its charitable status if it loses a court case on this.

[Sana Saeed @SanaSaeed]

Seeing footage of Palestinians in Gaza, watching the World Cup and cheering on Muslim/Arab teams - it’s hard not to feel something in your throat. Abandoned by almost all of their Arab & Muslim brothers, so many still wave their flags in love and solidarity.

[Ashok Kumar @comrade_kumar_]

Take notes kids this is how you answer cynical accusations of antisemitism

[Peter Hague @peterrhague]

While we are doing our autopsies of Keir Starmer’s unimpressive premiership, I’d like to suggest he is a prime example of a certain personality type that causes us problems.

He has been a high achiever his whole life. From the 11+ onwards he passed tests and ascended every hierarchy he found himself in. This, I believe, shaped his worldview in a way that made him absolutely unsuited for the office.

For Starmer, you accept the rules of the system, you play the game, and when you win you get rewards. Number 10 was just the last objective that he earned by mechanically playing society like a video game - it was his by right for ticking all the boxes correctly.

His visible confusion and inability to grasp the job of actual leadership is, I think, a result of never having had to deal with the world beyond whichever social game he was playing at the time. Law is such a bounded game where a rigid, goal oriented thinker like Starmer can and did thrive.

A better leader would be someone who has some experience doing something which contacts base reality, where outcomes are not socially determined. Business, STEM, the military etc all fall into this category. Those people who spend their careers in the purely social feedback loops of law and politics do I think make poor leaders even if they excel at the process that gets them to the leadership.

[Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan]

Will Elon Musk and other MAGA types be tweeting about this former top rightwing politician in the UK who was just found guilty of being a pedophile and whose wife aided and abetted him in those sick sex crimes against children? If not, why not?

[Larry the Cat @Number10cat]

"I have accepted Keir Starmer's resignation as my chief servant and have invited Andy Burnham to lay out details for how many meals a day he'll give me"

[Top Girl Keiko, J.D. ✝️🙏 @TopGirlKeiko]

Trump threatened to blow up the plane carrying the entire Iranian delegation if they close the Strait of Hormuz in response to Bibi’s continued bombing of Lebanon, a subject of the peace negotiations. As a consequence, they immediately ended the negotiations in protest. A few days ago, an Israeli official expressly stated that Bibi would fully release the Trump’s tapes in his position. Now Trump wants to kill the entire Iranian government. So many people shouldn’t have to die to save one man from prison for his sex crimes. What is wrong with the world?