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I wanna be the one to walk in the sun 🌞

[Ariana Jasmine @arianajasmine__]

You are genuinely sick in the head if you try to defend this

[Rebecca 📖 @willowsbythesea]

If you’ve ever read to a young child, most anything other than contemporary slop (Mrs piggle wiggle, E Nesbit, Narnia, even frog and toad) you will find they encounter words and ideas on nearly every page that they are unfamiliar with. They will deduce some of it, they will ask you to explain much too, and in this way they acquire a deep and rich vocabulary and language that they would not come by through simple verbal communication. But we can watch the opposite happen in real time too; children who are never read to, adults who also do not read, are lacking this depth, not just of language, but of thought. It is a death, a death of something vital that I think links to our souls, to the very essence of what makes us human.

[Zack Polanski @ZackPolanski]

Trans rights are human rights.

Thank you, Wembley.

🏳️‍⚧️

[Zack Polanski @ZackPolanski]

This is awful and beyond the realms of what anyone would see as basic decency for human beings.

It's awful not just for trans people but for anyone who doesn't present with narrow stereotypes of
femininity and doesnt want the state policing women's appearance.

[Jonathan Cook @Jonathan_K_Cook]

Details of the assessment that led West Midlands police to ban Maccabi Tel Aviv fans from attending a football match in Birmingham next month have been leaked to the Guardian.

They unequivocally show that police feared the Israeli club's fans would be the ones to instigate violence.

Starmer misrepresented the police assessments to demand that the ban be reversed. It is inconceivable that he was not aware of the police intelligence.

1. Dutch police told British counterparts that the Maccabi fans were behind the trouble in Amsterdam last year.

2. A source with inside knowledge of the police assessments said: “The biggest risk was always the extreme Maccabi fans who want to fight.”

3. A huge Dutch police effort, involving 5,000 officers across three days, was needed to quell the trouble.

4. According to a community impact assessment by West Midlands police, members of the Jewish community were among those who wanted the Maccabi fans banned.

5. So severe was the risk, police believed that at least 1,500 to 2,000 specialist riot police officers would need to be drafted in from around the country to cope with the Maccabi fans, at a minimum cost of £6million.

Starmer knew all this. So why did he effectively accuse the police of antisemitism and overrule their decision?

Who else has he been falsely accusing of antisemitism?

More here: https://t.co/6U3DE7Wu6n

[Andrew Feinstein @andrewfeinstein]

This is an antisemitic statement @Keir_Starmer as it assumes all Jews support the State of Israel & all Jews support these racist thuggish football fans!
You have done more to undermine the very necessary struggle against actual Antisemitism, Islamophobia & racism than any PM in living memory

[Mr Demos of Pnyx @gem_ste]

This is now quite sinister, I have never seen such an unprecedented campaign of reality altering and gaslighting across the political and media spectrum like this.

[Muhammad Smiry 🇵🇸 @MuhammadSmiry]

We will never forget you Saleh.

[Nate Bear @NateB_Panic]

The story about Israel using fake animations of Hamas tunnels should be huge and covered by all mainstream media because it undercuts everything Israel said about why it needed to invade hospitals and schools and level Gaza to the ground. And this is why it won't be

[Joe Guinan @joecguinan]

Actually, this is what should happen at the end of a genocide.

[Quds News Network @QudsNen]

Tears streamed down the faces of two Palestinian twins as they were finally reunited after a year of forced separation amid the Israeli genocide.

[Dan Sheehan @danpjsheehan]

These children deserve the world

[Dr Iain Overton @iainoverton]

@ukhomeoffice "We will protect your right to protest by limiting your right to protest."

Orwellian

[Chris Corney @ChrisCorney1]

This means under British law you can now be prosecuted as a terrorist for saying that you disagree with a law. Quite something that.

[Ahmed @ahmedIfc]

Is he fucking insane? Has the genocide paused for the weekend? It’s utterly insane that they’d use this attack to conflate a protest against the Israeli government’s genocide and the UK’s complicity with it with disrespecting the grief of British Jews. THIS is antisemitism.

[Mhairi Hunter 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇺🇦 🇵🇸 @MhairiHunter]

Holding Muslim people collectively responsible for the actions of Islamic terrorists is as wrong as it is to hold Jewish people collectively responsible for the actions of the IDF. Could we for once have a conversation about tackling hate & extremism that isn't completely stupid.

[Philip Proudfoot @PhilipProudfoot]

I have been on countless Palestine demonstrations and not once –– ever –– has anyone shouted "death to Jews" –– and if you're pretending they have, then you should be ashamed of yourself for weaponising murder to advance your agenda.

If you can still experience shame, that is.

[Pistachio 🇮🇷 🇵🇸 @HarleyShah]

Meanwhile Jewish people in London:

[Hamza Yusuf @Hamza_a96]

“Boarded”

Are you having a laugh? @guardian

This isn’t some friendly cruise that Israeli forces innocently joined.

They illegally hijacked and seized the flotilla.