Anna

socialist, feminist, human and animal rights, vegan, spiritual.

[Mrs Gee 💚 @earthygirl011]

You can be a 'decent man' *or* you can be Zionist

But you can't be both

Which is it @andyburnham @Ed_Miliband @wesstreeting?

Which are you?

[The Resonance @Partisan_12]

The world will Never Forget these monsters

[Variety @Variety]

EXCLUSIVE: Javier Barden, Tilda Swinton and Adam McKay are among 81 names to sign an open latter condemning the Berlin Film Festival for its “silence” on Gaza and its “censoring” of artists who have spoken out.

“We call on the Berlinale to fulfill its moral duty and clearly state its opposition to Israel’s genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes against Palestinians, and completely end its involvement in shielding Israel from criticism and calls for accountability,” the letter concludes.

https://t.co/5iw1LrCCxo

[Paul Weller @paulwellerHQ]

'LULLABY', the Together for Palestine charity single, is competing for UK Christmas Number One, with only just a few hours to go: https://t.co/QfkjcVXTXq

(1/4)

[Nancy Sinatra @NancySinatra]

omg

[Gary Lineker @GaryLineker]

WTF?

[Meidas_Charise Lee @charise_lee]

She was a POLITICIAN‼️ Not a podcaster‼️

[Caitlin Johnstone @caitoz]

The word "terrorist" gets more and more meaningless by the day.

In the UK a terrorist is someone with a cardboard sign saying "I support Palestine Action".

In the US a terrorist is a Venezuelan suspected of drug trafficking.

In Israel a terrorist is someone resisting occupation.

We're told Yemen is full of terrorists because they're trying to stop a 21st century holocaust.

We're told Lebanon is full of terrorists because they oppose a genocidal apartheid state.

We're told Iran is full of terrorists because its government resists imperial regime change agendas.

We were told Al Qaeda were terrorists because they perpetrated the 9/11 attacks, but when Al Qaeda helped the west get rid of Assad they suddenly weren't terrorists anymore.

Uyghur militants used to be terrorists, but they came off the list when they were deemed useful operatives against Beijing and Damascus.

Iraq needed to be invaded because Saddam wanted to give weapons of mass destruction to terrorists, but after the invasion it turned out that there were no weapons of mass destruction, and then Iraq was suddenly plagued by an epidemic of suicide bombings.

Afghanistan needed to be invaded because the Taliban was providing a safe haven for terrorists, but after 20 years of military occupation the empire needed its war machinery for other duties so they let the Taliban retake Afghanistan.

In 2010, then-vice president Joe Biden proclaimed Julian Assange a "high-tech terrorist" because his journalism with WikiLeaks exposed US war crimes.

Terrorism was used as an excuse to roll out the Patriot Act in the US and the Terrorism Act in the UK, and countless other authoritarian measures throughout the western world which tyrannical empire managers had been seeking to impose for years.

Really "terrorist" just means someone the empire wants to kill or imprison, or a group whose terrorist designation might be used to justify the advancement of preexisting geostrategic agendas.

Propaganda is used to seer events like 9/11 into western consciousness as examples of terrorism which must be prevented at all cost, and then this label "terrorism" is applied to literally anyone who poses an obstacle to the agendas of the western empire.

Once it is accepted that there should be no rules restricting how the state responds to the threat of terrorism, all the state needs to do is label someone a terrorist to remove all rules which might stop them from doing whatever they want to do. Nowhere is this more clearly illustrated right now than the ongoing genocide in Gaza which is being justified by the need to eliminate terrorists.

When power-seeking empire architects are given limitless power to fight terrorism, we suddenly find ourselves in a world full of designated terrorists.

The more despised the western empire becomes, the more "terrorists" there are going to be. Because a terrorist is anyone who takes action which inconveniences the empire.

If this keeps up, soon we will all be "terrorists".

[Abby Martin @AbbyMartin]

Palestinian journalists are the bravest on earth. They know their work is a death sentence as Israel openly hunts them, yet they do it out of duty to their people and defiance of a world that ignores their suffering—heroism western media can’t fathom

[Double Down News @DoubleDownNews]

BREAKING: UK Parliament votes to proscribe Palestine Action by 385 to 26 votes.

If the bill goes through, sharing this video could get you 14 years in prison:

[sarah @sahouraxo]

Israel killed France, a young Palestinian artist, in Gaza today.

They dropped a bomb on the beachside café where she was sitting.

[Shaiel Ben-Ephraim @academic_la]

They are putting the survivors of the genocide into smaller and smaller spaces, with no food, clean water or medical care. But don’t compare it to concentration camps or you might hurt someone’s feelings.

[Asa Winstanley @AsaWinstanley]

“I said what I said” — @BobbyVylan on Instagram.

Take note! This is how you do it.

[Sony Thăng @nxt888]

In the empire’s eyes, the real obscenity isn’t genocide.

It’s naming it.

You can flatten cities, bomb hospitals, starve children, and still get standing ovations.

But say the words "Death to the IDF," and suddenly you’ve crossed the line.

Not because the IDF is innocent, but because the system that funds it, shields it, and sells it as democracy cannot survive unmasked.

This was never about civility. It was always about control.

They will kill in public, but they will not let you speak in truth.

Because once truth breaks the spell, the whole structure begins to crack.

Bob Vylan didn’t say anything obscene.

He said something the empire cannot afford to hear.

And that’s why they tried to silence him.

Not because he was violent.

But because he was clear.

[liam cunningham @liamcunningham1]

"The party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command." — George Orwell

[Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy]

But… words at Glastonbury.

[Richard Sanders @PulaRJS]

Banning Palestine Action. But happy to pose for photos with the ambassador of a genocidal Apartheid state.

Does Yvette Cooper have any idea how this photo will look in 30 years time?

[Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt @FranceskAlbs]

Persecuting those who fight apartheid is an act of apartheid itself (Convention on the Crime of Apartheid, article 2f).
Perhaps it is time to investigate whether the crime of apartheid can also be committed as part of a joint criminal enterprise?