Diane Hempsall

Old Barrovian. Left

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@SaulStaniforth @jeremycorbyn FREE FREE PALESTINE 🇵🇸 ✊

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.@jeremycorbyn: "Every euro, dollar or pound that is spent on buying more weapons.. that will end up killing people all around the world, is a dollar, euro or pound not spent on health, not spent on education, not spent on housing" 🎯

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Addressing the peoples congress for the Hague Group this evening, @jeremycorbyn on the complicity of the UK govt in Israels genocide.

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.@jeremycorbyn, who knows a thing or two about being targeted & smeared, on the importance of standing in solidarity with people like @FranceskAlbs

Absolutely.

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"Our revenge is going to be the laughter of our children"

@VarshaGandikota at the peoples congress for the Hague Group this evening ✊

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.@VarshaGandikota is spot on here. One factor that helped defeat South African apartheid was mobilising intl opinion against it. Support for South Africa was reduced to rabid right wingers as it became seen as a pariah state. The same will happen to the Israeli apartheid regime.

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Omar Barghouti: "Some in the solidarity movement have expressed genocide fatigue & hopelessness.. as Nadeem Aslam says, 'despair has to be earned. I personally have not done all I can to change things. I haven't yet earned the right to despair'"

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"It is often said that hope is not a strategy. Indeed. But colonising the minds of the oppressor with hopelessness is a powerful weapon for the oppressed"

Omar Barghouti, co-founder of the @BDSmovement, on building people power to fight complicity.

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"When most states.. are appeasing the self appointed world emperor.. standing in soldiarity with Palestinian freedom & justice.. can be quite costly, but its absolutely necessary"

Omar Barghouti, co-founder of the @BDSmovement, on building power to effect change

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Omar Barghouti: "The illegal and devastating Israeli US attack on Iran, triggering a disastrous regional war, proves that stopping Israel and holding it and its accomplices to account are the most urgent tasks to avoid a world war 3"

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"The new global sumud flotilla is about to set sail.. we are going [with] over 100 boats"

Thiago Avila announcing a new flotilla to Gaza at the Peoples Congress for The Hague Group this evening

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Thiago Avila: "Right now we are living in the decisive moments of our generation.. every person that comes after is.. is going to talk about this moment.. everybody is going to ask us what we did"

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Sally Rooney: "I would like to ask my fellow writers & artists.. not to dwell too exclusively on what we stand to lose. There is another more important side to the story. To join in something greater than ourselves, to participate in.. a struggle for human liberation"

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Sally Rooney: "By standing in solidarity with Palestine, we are learning how to fight for life on earth"

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Sally Rooney reminding us of the role played by Mary Manning & her colleagues in the fight against apartheid South Africa, and how its up to us now to fight in support of Palestinians in their struggle for liberation.

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Chris Smalls: "they are not asking for our sympathy, the people of Palestine are asking for our solidarity"

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Chris Smalls: "What Gaza & the people of Palestine have shown us.. they have shown us exactly who people are, whether they're good or evil, there's no in between. You're either on the right side of history, or you're not" 🎯