Jillian McBride 🧡

Hugging refugees since 2004 | Children’s Policy Officer @scotrefcouncil | formerly Rape Crisis|sociology grad | Orco's mum🐾 **All tweets are personal** she/her

[Jillian McBride 🧡 @iamjillianmc]

I’ve found the coverage of the inquest into Alexander Tekle’s suicide too painful to comment on.

Until now.

(This will be a LONG one.)

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[Jillian McBride 🧡 @iamjillianmc]

@gunsnrosesgirl3 @gracecarrilloc

[Jillian McBride 🧡 @iamjillianmc]

@SqueakinglyJen A wee curer is the best hangover cure.

[Jillian McBride 🧡 @iamjillianmc]

@lyishibashi Ooh love that, “everyone is free to move & nobody is forced to move” 🧡

[Aamer Anwar✊🏾🏳️‍🌈#BlackLivesMatter @AamerAnwar]

Over 600 of us lawyers, academics & Retd. senior judges including 3 former supreme court justices, as well as the court’s former President Lady Hale, have warned @RishiSunak that his government is breaching international law by continuing to arm Israel https://t.co/vp58RB4gYN

[Jeremy Corbyn @jeremycorbyn]

This is a war on civilians.

On doctors trying to save lives.

On aid workers trying to feed Palestinians.

On teachers trying to put a smile on the faces of children.

This is a war on humanity — and our government should never be forgiven for its contemptible complicity.

[Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt @FranceskAlbs]

Knowing how Israel operates,my assessment is that Israeli forces intentionally killed #WCK workers so that donors would pull out & civilians in Gaza could continue to be starved quietly.Israel knows Western countries & most Arab countries won't move a finger for the Palestinians.

[Griff Ferris (Bluesky - @gferr1s) @gferr1s]

Police at the Palestine demo grabbed and arrested a child, holding them in a police van.

People rallied (esp the queer bloc) and surrounded the van, stopping it moving away by sitting down.

People demanded his release and refused to move - and the police released him.

💥💥💥

[Taj Ali @Taj_Ali1]

BREAKING: The Foreign Office will face a legal challenge over their decision to defund UNRWA.

The challenge has been launched by Bindmans LLP, on behalf of a British-Palestinian man in a desperate bid to protect his family in Gaza, who are UNRWA-registered refugees.

[Sahar Alshobaki @SaharSys]

Hi Everyone. This is Sahar; I'd like to give Arabic classes/workshops to raise money to help my family evacuate Gaza to a safer place. Please share with anyone interested in learning Arabic.

[Good Law Project @GoodLawProject]

“Our appeal highlighted the injustice of being silenced so that it could be examined and put right for the future. We hope and expect that other defendants can speak their truth and fully defend themselves.” – @Gio__tweet
https://t.co/pbEtYcUM9H

[Jillian McBride 🧡 @iamjillianmc]

Every time we talk about age-disputed young people being wrongly placed in adult accommodation we should remember that it’s a system that brings adults to their knees. We are expecting increased loss of life. We must remember that could include children.

[Scottish Refugee Council 🧡 @scotrefcouncil]

"Something desperately needs to change"

Concerns are growing over the mental health of people seeking asylum living in hotels

CW: Suicide

https://t.co/UCeImJqA5g

[Jillian McBride 🧡 @iamjillianmc]

Terrible news for all of us in Glasgow.

[STV News @STVNews]

Around 150 jobs are set to go after a package of cuts was agreed to help plug a financial deficit of more than £36m in Glasgow’s health and social care services. https://t.co/JJP8PCmaHb

[Falastin Flip @TOliveFern]

Don’t have the energy to cry
Don’t have the energy to cry
Don’t have the energy to cry
Don’t have the energy to cry
Don’t have the energy to cry
Don’t have the energy to cry

[IfG events @ifgevents]

Asylum seekers have curfews and face horrible conditions in hotels, and this treatment over long periods of time is inhumane.

[IfG events @ifgevents]

Asylum seekers should be embedded in communities and not isolated.

[IfG events @ifgevents]

Alvina recounts her terrible experience of living in a hotel as a asylum seeker. She says the public have a false impression of what a hotel is like.

[Owen Jones @owenjonesjourno]

Politicians and media outlets have tried to portray Gaza protests as a dangerous, violent, extreme mob.

That's despite a tiny proportion of arrests.

And it's not like the police aren't looking for desperate excuses for arrests.

Just have a look at this example.

[Jillian McBride 🧡 @iamjillianmc]

“Age assessment has developed into the most monstrous of procedural devices”. Agreed.

[Humans for Rights Network 🧡 @humansforrights]

https://t.co/rcps04yPM4

For over a year now, Humans For Rights Network has been identifying age disputed unaccompanied asylum seeking children in criminal courts or incarcerated amongst adult prisoners in HMP Elmley. 🧵