NEW: 100 Manchester artists and their helpers have gathered to remove their works en masse from this year’s @HOME_mcr exhibition in protest at the cancellation of Palestinian event, ‘Voices of Resilience’
Comes after 1000 people protested outside the venue on Saturday.
Woke up this morning with this on my mind. I think it is particularly triggering not just for black women and men but also for all women "of a certain age." Looking at it intersectionally, It's not just a demonstration of how racism is deeply embedded in our society but also how prevalent misogyny still is. I will bet a pound to a pinch of salt that every woman in this country over the age of 40 will have suffered some form of male-inflicted public humiliation in their professional lives based on pure misogyny. I feel like we have been fighting for decades for absolute equity and the eradication of racism and misogyny for nothing. Little has changed. In fact, if anything, it has got worse again over the last 15 years. What comparatively little progress we have made over the last half-century is being chipped away by far right demagogues and their repugnant supporters.
Perhaps I am a daft old bat, but this photo has literally brought me to tears.
The endless abuse that poor woman suffers, played out in front of her by a Speaker of the HoC that won't even recognise her right to be able to address it.
I curse on all their houses! Awful, awful treatment of Diane Abbot. Just awful.
This was a lovely way to end the #Gaza demo today. Quite moving - well done @charlottechurch.
She was last on at the rally after the #StopTheGenocide march. She led the crowd in Yma o Hyd. Amazing. #CeasefireNow
Listening to a 'journalist' from the Daily Express say its slightly concerning that so many Royals are off work at the moment, I'm reminded of what Eddie Dempsey said.
"He told me that we have troops in those tunnels in Gaza and that it's US soldiers participating in the killings..."
A friend of Aaron Bushnell recounts the last conversation between them.
People seem to have forgotten that the ICJ has been hearing evidence on the matter of Israel - here is Dr Ralph Wildes submissions. He pulls no punches and speaks plainly.
This Reddit response from Aaron Bushnell last year demonstrates a level of sanity that is not common in the American public.
It is not Aaron who was sick, but the society around him—and he knew that.
A sordid affair tonight.
I wanted to vote for an immediate ceasefire to halt the suffering in Gaza sending a clear message from Westminster.
But political shenanigans stopped that.
An embarrassment of a day that surely sullies the reputation of Parliament on a global stage.
Short version of what happened in Parliament today was that Starmer plotted with Speaker Lindsay Hoyle to prevent a vote on an SNP motion calling for immediate ceasefire in Gaza, thus sparing the shame of Israeli cash-receiving Labour MPs who would have voted against a ceasefire.
I think you'll find that anti-zionism is not antisemitism, and it's a protected belief, as the court decided in Mr Miller's case. I suggest you withdraw this immediately.
Israel has killed over 11,500 Palestinian children in Gaza and the West Bank since October 7th, when 36 Israeli children were killed.
It’s impossible to imagine that number. This is what it looks like. A line 5km long.
(Location: Bournemouth Beach)
The International Court of Justice has announced that the presentation of South Africa’s case of war crimes against Israel, and the response, on the 11th and 12th January will be held in public hearings.
Let the world judge Netanyahu, Biden, Sunak and Starmer.