Jasmine Rowlands

Brussels-based Brit. Team @GDelboscorfield, @greensefa on digital rights, Brexit & Western Balkans 🇬🇧🇪🇺🇧🇪she/her

[Gordon 🇵🇸 / rent controls fan account @istreasatuatha]

if i didn't want to get attacked while on holiday, i would simply not attack anybody or loudly tell everyone how much i loved killing children

[Arnesa Buljušmić-Kustura @arnesa_kustura]

Wow. This is what genocide is, for the record. This, precisely, is what the end result of genocide is. Entire lineages erased.

[The Green Party @TheGreenParty]

The Green Party is clear on what is needed to stop the killing in Gaza.

The UK government must now call for an immediate ceasefire and the release of all hostages and political prisoners.

[Fadi Quran @fadiquran]

Here’s a personal story about Palestinian child prisoners:

- In 2012, I was arrested in Hebron while participating in a march to open Shuhada street, which was a main market street for Palestinians until the Israeli military shut it down, and made it for Israeli settlers only. It’s part of the area @JamaalBowmanNY visited.

- Handcuffed and blinded by pepper spray, and thrown in the back of an Israeli humvee after my head was slammed against it, the soldiers drive off. They suddenly stop, run out, and all I hear is a child screaming and crying.

- This child is then thrown on top of me, and is handcuffed. I ask him his age, he said 13. I asked him what happened, he says he was walking to his sister’s house and they just stopped and picked him up. He’s in panic mode crying “my sister cooked lunch for me, she’ll be terrified if I’m lost”. I tell him not to worry, we’ll make it out and give him the basic tips: You have a right to remain silent, don’t say anything without a lawyer…etc.

- We get to the Israeli military outpost, we’re dragged out of the humvee. The kid’s terrified, telling them not to blind him (He thought I was blinded because of the pepper spray, I couldn’t open my eyes).

- The smack the kid around and tell him to shut up.

- We wait a bit, then kid is called in for interrogation.

- The Israeli military interrogator literally tells him: I’ll let you go home, you just need to confirm the guy with you led the protest and told you to throw the stones at us.

- Kid says I want to call my family/lawyer. Interrogator says ok: Picks up mobile and gives it to kid. Kid puts in his mother’s number. Soldier snatches mobile. The mother answers. Soldier says: Your son is going to go to jail and if he doesn’t talk I’ll come and arrest you too. Puts it on speaker, mother is panicking. Kid starts to panic. Soldier hangs up in her face.

- Soldier tells kid: I can make your family’s life hell. But if you say what I told you to say, everything will be ok.

- Kid starts sobbing and says: But I don’t know this guy I just met him in the humvee when you picked me up. Sitting outside the room, I yell: Kid, stay strong, say your truth and don’t fall into his lies.

- They come and take me away. Thirty minutes later kid comes out of interrogation shaken. He says the soldier told him he’d shoot his mother. The poor child told me not to worry though, he only said the truth 🥺.

- The case brought against this poor kid was stone throwing, with two soldiers “testifying” they saw him throw a stone.

- He spent 3 months in prison as court hearings kept getting delayed, eventually he was advised by his lawyer to “admit” to stone throwing because that way he’d spend less time in prison because the lawyer could be able to negotiate his release in 4 months, while waiting for a ruling from Israel’s military courts could take a year.

- In short, working on this issue in Palestine for 12 years, I can tell you the majority of child arrests in Palestine follow this exact pattern:

- Israel wants to teach a Palestinian community a lesson, deterring people from protesting its oppression.

- It targets the kids, arresting dozens - up to 700 a year.

- Majority of kids get abused and interrogated.

- Lawyers and kids know it’s better to “confess” even if they didn’t do the crime, as waiting for a ruling and being in uncertainty/limbo is hell. That’s why you have a 95% conviction rate.

- Then the Israeli government, when challenged for the systematic abuse, comes out and says: “These kids are terrorists - they attacked our soldiers and admitted to it.”

- And because the lives of Palestinian children don’t matter, the world turns a blind eye again and again and again and again.

[Frankie Boyle Updates @frankieboyle]

We’re not worried that you’re not ruthless enough mate: it’s more that we’re worried you’re a total psycho

[Jasmine Rowlands @jtrowlands]

@alexblancobxl 😂😂😂

[Andrew Kersley @AndrewKersley]

EXCL: MPs took £1m+ last year from private donors including gambling firms and climate deniers to fund extra staff in their offices.

Most of that went to Labour frontbenchers – Rachel Reeves alone took around £248,000.

https://t.co/1HPz9UFgdx

[Jasmine Rowlands @jtrowlands]

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[Rajan Basra @rajanbasra]

On October 30th, a man threw petrol bombs at an immigration centre in Dover, injuring two. Minutes later he killed himself.

Three days on, the attack has been largely forgotten.

But it's worth taking a closer look at what he posted online, and what it says about radicalisation:

[Jasmine Rowlands @jtrowlands]

@MrSamWilkin And it depends on your commune of course, but I was told that you need to have a registered civil status in their system before introducing a nationality request. I would recommend calling the UK General Register Office to ask for a no trace letter. Good luck!

[Jasmine Rowlands @jtrowlands]

@MrSamWilkin I've actually been struggling with this for about a year now. The commune refused to accept a notarised declaration & the UK embassy no longer provides the document that other embassies apparently provide without an issue. I've just received a certificate from GRO... Let's see!

[Zoe Gardner @ZoeJardiniere]

Sturgeon is correct: “Abusive men are a threat to women. Trans women are not a threat to women. This is about further stigmatising & excluding an already stigmatised group. Real feminists should be concerned with real threats to women, not with stigmatising trans women.” #r4today

[Jasmine Rowlands @jtrowlands]

EU citizens get in the bin - latest UK govt policy on citizens' rights.

[Zarah Sultana MP @zarahsultana]

When Liz Truss rejects a windfall tax on the £170,000,000,000 profits oil and gas giants are expected to make, it's worth remembering:

She's a former Shell employee whose party has taken more than £1,500,000 in donations from the oil and gas industry since the last election.

[Jasmine Rowlands @jtrowlands]

@ConnorAllenEU I was just incredulous that you somehow made this about Corbyn 😂😂

[Lewis Goodall @lewis_goodall]

Spent the day back in northern France talking to those in the camps. What’s striking, is how similar the mood is to November, just after the catastrophe on the Channel. Fear yes, of the seas and now Rwanda- yet total resolution to make it across, all the same. This is why (🧵)

[Al Jazeera English @AJEnglish]

"The Israeli army is asking people if they are Christian or Muslim. If you’re Muslim you weren’t allowed in." - @ajimran

Israeli occupation forces are attacking Palestinians during the funeral of killed Al Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh.

[First Truly Global Vanessa @Vanessa_ohaha]

Time for my own hot take.

I think as a society we’ve outgrown the need for comedians. Everyone and their grandmother is funny. I’ve gotten more laughs off of Twitter than watching a set by a comedian.

[Ashleigh Stewart @Ash_Stewart_]

This is Anastasiia Yalanskaya 🇺🇦

She was killed yesterday, just outside Kyiv, delivering supplies to a dog shelter that was without food for 3 days

The car she was in was targeted at close range

Yalanskaya stayed behind in Kyiv to volunteer as everyone fled around her