John Knock

Keen follower of football

[John Knock @JohnKnock1]

Israel ignores MOU - Max on the Iran "deal", by @TheGrayzoneNews https://t.co/BpcD9JJA9L

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

«In a world where you can be anything, be kind»

[The Communists @CPGBML]

To allow genocide to continue: those who oppose genocide must be silenced, intimidated, threatened, repressed. https://t.co/NNC3hWwfGj

The IHRA definition of antisemitism labels those who oppose genocide as Racists. The states perpetrating the genocide then criminalise workers for speaking out against Israeli, British and US wars and genocide. THAT is its REAL role: WE MUST CHALLENGE IT!

In Britain and across the “western” NATO countries, thousands of doctors, lawyers, teachers, workers and citizens are under legal attack for defending Palestine.

I was suspended after criticising Israel’s actions in Gaza, and the US-Israeli and British war on Iran. Police arrested me at my home, leaving my children to look after each other. This is the third time I’ve been targeted by the police and I have faced multiple vexatious complaints and attacks at work - all coming from the state and the zionist lobby working hand in glove with our government. The management are complicit and collaborate in creating this politically repressive environment.

In every case of police and workplace harassment, it is the “IHRA definition of antisemitism” that is being used as a benchmark to adjudicate what is “legitimate speech”. The definition was designed as a data gathering tool, and was never intended to become a law, or to be used in this way.

Theresa May adopted it for the UK together with Nicola Sturgeon in 2016 without any consultation. The major political parties followed suit (including Plaid Cymru, SNP, Liberal, Labour and the Greens). It was pushed on police forces, schools and colleges, and Wes Streeting has been pushing it actively into the heart of the NHS.

So now we have a situation in which existing laws (Public order act, professional regulatory frameworks, university regulations and constitutions) are being interpreted in its light, and the IHRA definition is therefore being “applied” as “law” - to silence legitimate speech on Palestine, and criticism of Israeli, US and British genocide.

*How to help*:

£30,000 needed for the first stage of the legal challenge

👉 *Donate:* https://t.co/NNC3hWwfGj

Please donate and forward on. Justice depends on our ability to speak out.

[WikiLeaks @wikileaks]

"In granting Julian Assange only the most limited appeal rights, the UK High Court has deliberately closed its eyes to the press freedom issues at stake and shown a grotesque indifference to Assange’s basic human rights" https://t.co/QbJ00itjgt

[Double Down News @DoubleDownNews]

Genocide

[SKWAWKBOX @skwawkbox]

Israeli forces execute 13 CHILDREN near Al Shifa hospital. Human rights organisation reports further IDF war crimes...
https://t.co/nQTWl8MhqU

[Workers Party of Britain @WorkersPartyGB]

BRISTOL: All members in Bristol are invited to our branch meeting launch on the 13th April.
Come and discuss plans for the general election and how we'll take the fight to the Labour Party!

[Ragged Trousered Philanderer @RaggedTP]

In 1982 Tony Benn warned us of the dangers of allowing the media to drive the removal of socialism from the Labour Party.
Everything he predicted is coming true.

[The Palestine Chronicle @PalestineChron]

“Dozens of bodies, some of them decomposed, have been recovered from in and around the Al-Shifa medical complex,” the Palestinian Health Ministry in Gaza said, adding that the hospital was now “completely out of service”.

Footage published by Al-Jazeera showed charred bodies of Palestinians in the streets and roads surrounding the complex.

https://t.co/TwKqA2KMrp

[We Own It @We_OwnIt]

📮Royal Mail was sold off on the promise that privatisation would improve the service.

They must take us for fools! Now Ofcom is consulting on reducing the service we get.

Take 5 mins to reply to the consultation by April 3. #takeroyalmailback⬇️https://t.co/4wqvNxtEEp

[Left Unity @LeftUnityParty]

Another 20 councillors have resigned from Labour. They will form independent groups on Pendle Borough Council, Brierfield Town Council, and Nelson Town Council. They cite the lack of democracy in Labour and its abandonment of core principles as their reasons for leaving.

[Richard Medhurst @richimedhurst]

Nothing sickens me more than Western “Christians” pretending to care about Easter while bombing Palestine and Syria.

They know nothing of Jesus and Christian values.

Arab Christians stand with the resistance against Israel. @DrHananAshrawi