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[State of Palestine @Palestine_UN]

“Declares that Israel’s policies and actions in Gaza meet the legal definition of genocide”

[Nicola Perugini @PeruginiNic]

The International Association of Genocide Scholars: "Declares that Israel’s policies and actions in Gaza meet the legal definition of genocide in Article II of the United Nations Convention for the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide (1948)" https://t.co/ZPhcmYDAA2

[Mikey Smith @mikeysmith]

It’s really unfortunate that so many right wing provocateurs and/or their immediate family and friends have been nearly mugged in London in the last few days.

[The Purple Pimpernel @Eyeswideopen69]

“Illegal migrant invasion spotted at Alton Towers” fumes Rupert Lowe.

[NJ @NoJusticeMTG]

Dredging this one up from the archives

[Farrukh @implausibleblog]

Former US Green Beret who was one of the armed American security guards in Gaza, who left after he saw American and Israeli colleagues killing Palestinian civilians,

"Without question I witnessed war crimes by the Israeli Defence Forces, without a doubt, using artillery rounds, mortar rounds, firing tank rounds into unarmed civilians"

[Media Lens @medialens]

Israeli soldier:

'I was stationed in front of a hospital in Gaza and it took a few days until the company commander ordered not to shoot the elderly and children. For a few days, that's what happened. It was clear that it was bad.'

[Nicholas Guyatt @NicholasGuyatt]

Extraordinary scenes in the Commons tonight as Tory MP @kitmalthouse correctly accuses UK foreign secretary David Lammy of complicity in Israel’s crimes and warns him that he could end up in The Hague

[Owen Jones @owenjonesjourno]

The world's most famous medical NGO concludes Israel is committing genocide.

It joins a consensus of genocide scholars, including in Israel, and NGOs like Amnesty International.

No politician or journalist can claim "I did not know at the time!" to evade future justice.

[Zarah Sultana MP @zarahsultana]

Parliament in a nutshell:

Yesterday MPs, including Yvette Cooper, celebrated the suffragette legacy of civil disobedience that won women the right to vote..

Only to then vote to designate non-violent direct action group Palestine Action as terrorists.

Westminster is broken.

[Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy]

But… words at Glastonbury.

[Stride @SamStride93]

My stag so. Estonia. Random karaoke bar.

Bloke comes in and smashes Nessun Dorma note-for-note and leaves 🐐😮‍💨

Once in a lifetime.

[Daniel Lambert @dlLambo]

Fontaines DC at Primavera just now 👏👏👏👏👏🇵🇸🇮🇪

[Media Lens @medialens]

Bravo, @pmillerinfo and @declassifiedUK 👏

You won't find a @BBCNews journalist making such a vital and articulate challenge.

Please watch, then share widely. 👇

[KNEECAP @KNEECAPCEOL]

KNEECAP STATEMENT:

They want you to believe words are more harmful than genocide.

Establishment figures, desperate to silence us, have combed through hundreds of hours of footage and interviews, extracting a handful of words from months or years ago to manufacture moral hysteria.

Let us be unequivocal: we do not, and have never, supported Hamas or Hezbollah. We condemn all attacks on civilians, always. It is never okay. We know this more than anyone, given our nation's history.

We also reject any suggestion that we would seek to incite violence against any MP or individual. Ever. An extract of footage, deliberately taken out of all context, is now being exploited and weaponised, as if it were a call to action.

This distortion is not only absurd - it is a transparent effort to derail the real conversation.

All two million Palestinian people in Gaza are currently being starved to death by Israel.

At least 20,000 children in Gaza have been killed. The British government continues to supply arms to Israel, even after scores of NHS doctors warned Keir Starmer in August that children were being systematically executed with sniper shots to the head.

Instead of defending innocent people or the principles of international law, the powerful in Britain have abetted slaughter and famine.

This is where real anger and outrage should be directed towards.

To the Amess and Cox families, we send our heartfelt apologies, we never intended to cause you hurt.

Kneecap’s message has always been — and remains — one of love, inclusion, and hope. This is why our music resonates across generations, countries, classes and cultures and has brought hundreds of thousands of people to our gigs.

No smear campaign will change that.

Suddenly, days after calling out the US administration at Coachella to applause and solidarity, there is an avalanche of outrage and condemnation by the political classes of Britain.

The real crimes are not in our performances; the real crimes are the silence and complicity of those in power.

Shame on them.

[KNEECAP @KNEECAPCEOL]

KNEECAP STATEMENT:

Since our statements at Coachella — exposing the ongoing genocide against the Palestinian people — we have faced a coordinated smear campaign.

For over a year, we have used our shows to call out the British and Irish governments' complicity in war crimes.

The recent attacks against us, largely emanating from the US, are based on deliberate distortions and falsehoods. We are taking action against several of these malicious efforts.

Let us be absolutely clear.

The reason Kneecap is being targeted is simple — we are telling the truth, and our audience is growing.

Those attacking us want to silence criticism of a mass slaughter. They weaponize false accusations of antisemitism to distract, confuse, and provide cover for genocide.

We do not give a f*ck what religion anyone practices. We know there are massive numbers of Jewish people outraged by this genocide just as we are. What we care about is that governments of the countries we perform in are enabling some of the most horrific crimes of our lifetimes — and we will not stay silent.

No media spin will change this.

Our only concern is the Palestinian people — the 20,000 murdered children and counting.

The young people at our gigs see through the lies.

They stand on the side of humanity and justice.

And that gives us great hope.

Kneecap ❤️

[Just Stop Oil @JustStop_Oil]

🔥 Great discussion on @BBCRadio4's Heresy about Just Stop Oil, throwing soup on paintings, and draconian sentencing.

Featuring @destheray, Grayson Perry and Ben Elton.

[BladeoftheSun @BladeoftheS]

The 'farmers' protest is a good time to remind people of the Just Stop Oil protestors who got 21 years, just for planning a protest.

Two tier justice indeed.

[Chris Packham @ChrisGPackham]

It’s old , and Australian , but it’s the same BS that will cost us £22billion . . . and all our futures .

[Owen Jones @owenjonesjourno]

It's today reported that Labour will now hike tuition fees by 13.5% to £10,500.

When Keir Starmer stood for leader, he pledged to "end the scandal of spiralling student debt."

One of the biggest con artists in British democratic history.