Michael Jessop

UK EU, E Europe,Politics. Sport.
Long time music business experience, songwriter

[Michael Jessop @MJes54]

In Odessa at the hypermarket “Epicenter” terrorists from the TCC staged a cruel raid

https://t.co/4tbg30RAT1

[Sarah Wilkinson @swilkinsonbc]

Israeli minister wants to ban the Red Cross from visiting Palestinian prisoners in jail because it’ll be ‘a PR disaster’ for the israeli regime

[Mick Wallace @wallacemick]

Dr Adnan Al-Bursh, Head of Orthopedics at Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza has been tortured to death in an Israeli prison and the EU says nothing, EU Member States say nothing. The EU no longer supports Human Rights or International Law, they have lost all credibility...

[Michael Jessop @MJes54]

RT @declassifiedUK:

[Marta Havryshko @HavryshkoMarta]

Women Perpetrators of the 1941 Lviv Pogrom

A few years ago, I published an article on the anti-Jewish pogroms in Galicia in 1941. One section examined Ukrainian women as perpetrators. It earned me my superiors' disapproval at the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine and a closed-door lecture from my boss about "patriotism" and the historian's "responsibility" in a "difficult time for the nation". The article was published nonetheless.

It tells the story of Ukrainian women who urged their husbands to beat, murder, and rob Jews.

Women who joined the carnival-like crowds in the streets of Lviv, celebrating the violence inflicted on their Jewish neighbors.

Women who shoved Jewish women, looted their ransacked homes for the last pillows and plates, and pointed pogromists toward Jewish houses.

"There were many women among the criminals—young Ukrainian peasant women no less cruel than the men," recalled the Lviv Jewish survivor Wilek Markiewicz.

In some cases, women proved even more relentless than their male counterparts. On July 1, 1941, on what was then Legionów Street, a mob seized the prominent Lviv lawyer Dr. Herman Allergand, his wife Zinaida, and their nine-year-old son Leon, intending to drag them to Brygidki Prison.

Along the way, Allergand—a former officer in the Polish Army—appealed to a German officer for help. The officer ordered the mob to release the family, and they obeyed.

But one Ukrainian woman refused to let them go.

She continued chasing the family through the streets. When they reached No. 20 Jagiellońska Street, where Allergand's father lived, Zinaida begged the German guard at the entrance to let them inside. He admitted her and the child but barred her husband. The mob immediately descended on Allergand, beating and robbing him of his silver watch, hat, and money before handing him over to the Germans, who marched him to Brygidki.

The testimony does not reveal whether the woman who had pursued the family was among those who attacked him. What it makes unmistakably clear is that she was still there.

This story, like so many others, demonstrates that Ukrainian women were willing perpetrators of anti-Jewish violence during the 1941 Lviv Pogrom. Their brutality fits the heroic national narrative even less comfortably than that of their male counterparts.

Yet these stories must be told—for the sake of their victims and for the sake of the democratic future of Ukraine's multicultural nation. A society that refuses to confront the crimes committed in its name cannot build an honest or inclusive future.

More on women in pogroms in my article in the comments.

[Jonathan Cook @Jonathan_K_Cook]

Adalah, a leading legal rights group in Israel, has a database showing more than 70 laws that explicitly discriminate between Jewish citizens and Palestinian citizens.

My latest article on how Israel seeks to veil its apartheid system:

[Mick Wallace @wallacemick]

Israel tortures and murders Children every day but that's no problem for the EU and Member States who continue to do Business with this Apartheid Israeli Regime no matter how many War Crimes they commit all across West Asia...

[Beate Landefeld @BeateLandefeld]

Former Odesa Mayor Trukhanov spoke out against the ban on Russian-language songs.

Who wrote such a Ukrainian song about Odesa that it brings tears to your eyes when you listen to it? - he asks.

ukr_leaks_eng

[Matt Kennard @kennardmatt]

This is a disgraceful move by @LloydsBank

Be under no illusion, it's an attack on all independent media in UK that doesn't tow the government line

If Lloyds doesn't sort this immediately, a widespread boycott campaign should ensue

[Marta Havryshko @HavryshkoMarta]

The Brutalization of Jewish Women and Girls during the Lviv Pogrom, 1941

As Ukrainian memory actors remain silent about the 1941 Lviv Pogrom—choosing instead to celebrate the OUN and its collaboration with Nazi Germany—I will speak.

The 1941 Lviv Pogrom was saturated with public sexual violence against Jewish women and girls. In some photographs, women are completely naked; in others, their clothes hang in tatters.

One of the iconic images of the pogrom captures a young woman wearing nothing but her underwear and stockings. Terrified, she sprints down the street, desperately trying to escape the mob. Among her pursuers are even young boys armed with sticks and stones.

Other photographs show pogromists forcing women to undress—or tearing off their clothes themselves.

The stripping of Jewish women was not a fleeting act of humiliation. For hours, groups of local non-Jewish men and boys, under the silent gaze and tacit approval of their women, kept naked Jewish girls and women captive in public spaces. They groped their bodies, beat them with their fists and improvised weapons, showering them with jeers and abuse. Some blows were so severe that the bruises are clearly visible in surviving photographs.

The attackers mocked their victims, pulled grotesque faces, pressed the women against their bodies, yanked their hair, and shoved them from one assailant to another.

The perpetrators deliberately marched their captives through the streets. Public humiliation was the point. The more witnesses, the greater the spectacle of domination.

The Polish writer Tadeusz Zaderecki, then living in Lviv, recalled seeing a gang seize an "elegant" and "exceptionally beautiful" Jewish woman of about twenty on Sixtuska Street. They tore off her dress and underwear, inserted a whip into her vagina, and, laughing as they beat her, forced her to march past the Main Post Office, likely toward Brygidki prison on Łąckiego Street. Zaderecki stressed that this was far from an isolated atrocity: there were "many" such cases.

Pregnant Jewish women constituted another particularly vulnerable group during the 1941 Lviv Pogrom. They, too, were stripped naked, driven through the streets, beaten, and forced into brutal physical labor as a form of punishment and sadistic abuse. Ludwika Barb, a survivor of the pogrom, recalled:

"There was a prison on Łąckiego Street. It was full of corpses. The Germans seized Jews to clear away the bodies. They pulled Jews out of the queues. Before my eyes they dragged out a pregnant woman and began trampling her on the cobblestones. She miscarried and died."

In the eyes of many Ukrainians—and of the OUN members among the local perpetrators—this carnival of sexualized violence was meant not only to humiliate Jewish women but to punish the entire Jewish community for its alleged "crimes" against the Ukrainian nation. These women and girls became targets of hatred and militant ethnonationalism.

That same ethnonationalism is once again flourishing in Ukraine today. It proclaims its own innocence while claiming the right to determine the fate of its neighbors—even through the most brutal forms of violence.

[Glenn Diesen @Glenn_Diesen]

This is why they toppled the government in Kiev in 2014, despite knowing it would likely trigger war and knowing that only a small minority of Ukrainians wanted NATO membership. This is why they have sabotaged every peace deal for 12 years. This is why NATO chants that weapons are the path to peace, and basic diplomacy has been boycotted since 2022. This is why they pump billions into a corrupt system that keeps an extremely unpopular Zelensky in power and hunt for Ukrainian conscripts. This is why they pretend Ukraine is winning even as all evidence indicates otherwise. This is why we are not allowed to debate the overwhelming evidence of NATO's role without smears, intimidation, and censorship. The goal was never peace; it was to set up Ukrainians as cannon fodder to weaken a strategic rival of NATO.

[Richard @ricwe123]

That revealing moment in 2016 when Victoria Nuland was bragging to the US Congress about how thoroughly Washington had taken over Ukraine after the 2014 coup.

She spelled it out without shame:

🔴 US operatives embedded in a dozen Ukrainian ministries.

🔴 US-trained cops patrolling 18 cities.

🔴 US Treasury gutting 60 Ukrainian banks while sparing depositors to keep people quiet.

🔴Hundreds of millions of dollars funneled into molding Ukraine’s military.

This wasn’t "assistance", it was a takeover dressed up as aid....

[Diana Panchenko 🇺🇦 @Panchenko_X]

Center of Global Fraud.

Two ukrainian millionaires .
One was kidnapped and cut into pieces in Bali.
Other was blown up in the center of Monaco.

Both controlled networks of fraudulent call centers that scam pensioners in the EU, Russia, and US.

According to international organizations, Ukrainian scam call centers generate around $2 BILLION in annual profit.

This figure is likely underestimated. Putin publicly stated that Ukrainian scammers steal about $2 billion from Russia alone. Huge sums are also stolen in the USA and EU.

Watch the movie The Beekeeper with Jason Statham, where a network of call centers scamming pensioners finances U.S. presidential elections and the Democratic Party.

Western law enforcement cannot reach these scammers because they are protected by the military.

Even with a conservative estimate, over the years of the war this amounts to about $10 billion in pure profit.

The war in Ukraine is also being fought for this money.

[Michael Jessop @MJes54]

@Probahis I'm watching the match. Your analysis is pretty good )

[Michael Jessop @MJes54]

@TheTennisTalker Where do you reckon Korneeva would be ranked now if she hadn't had the longterm wrist injury ?

[The Resonance @Partisan_12]

🇮🇱: “People call us baby killers but you know what? They're not wrong and we should not be ashamed of it.”

This is Zionism

[Drop Site @DropSiteNews]

🇬🇧 British journalists reporting from countries such as Iran could face “terrorism” prosecutions under a UK national security bill expected to complete its final stages in Parliament this week, according to legal experts cited by The Guardian.

Expert David Anderson warned the legislation could criminalize foreign correspondents for obtaining information from sources within state-designated groups because it lacks explicit protections for journalists.

Press freedom groups are urging ministers to amend the bill, but the Home Office insists legitimate journalism is protected and that claims to the contrary are false.

🔗 Story is linked below.

[The Cradle @TheCradleMedia]

British anti-terrorism police detain prominent US human rights attorney Dan Kovalik
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British anti-terrorism police at Liverpool John Lennon Airport have detained US human rights attorney and international lawyer @danielmkovalik, sparking fresh condemnation over the UK’s expanding use of draconian border powers against prominent dissidents, independent journalists, and legal professionals.

Kovalik, whose high-profile legal repertoire includes representing Colombian President Gustavo Petro, was subjected to intense interrogation under the country's sweeping counter-terrorism legislation.

In a statement on X, Kovalik wrote:

"In the height of irony, I was detained at John Lennon International AirPort in Liverpool, England by anti-terrorism police concerned about my opposition to the Genocide on Gaza and the war on Iran."

​According to statements released by Kovalik and independent monitoring groups, British authorities seized all of his electronic devices, including phones and laptops, and forced the submission of his biometric data—including fingerprints and DNA samples—under strict legal duress.

Critics argue the operational overreach highlights a coordinated campaign by British political police to weaponize state security apparatuses to intimidate figures challenging western foreign policy narratives.

​The weaponization of Schedule 7 of the UK's Terrorism Act 2000 has increasingly drawn fire from international legal bodies, who warn that London is effectively operating a "bureaucratic dragnet" to suppress multi-polar advocacy and legal defense for Global South leaders.

Kovalik’s detention mirrors a broader, systemic pattern of state-backed harassment at UK entry points, which human rights advocates state is designed to criminalize anti-imperialist dissent and compromise confidential legal data under the guise of national security.

[Johnny miller @johnnyjmils]

"If all this can happen to me. Imagine what can happen to others."

I interviewed George Galloway and his wonderful wife Gayatri in Moscow this week. About their exile in Russia. And its so crazy. British police even interrogated Gayatri about the Palestine flag painted on her fingernail!

"Essentially the government will be able to designate any individual or organization as acting against the British state." And he's scared of getting that 4am knock on the door. So one of Britains most famous political figures went into exile.

And what has he done? Promoted peace with Russia. Well, that's in British interests. Promoted peace with Iran. Well, that's in British interests. Its not in British interests what Isreal is doing in Gaza either. And so how has he damaged British interests?

The British security state is out of control. Britain in not sovreign. Those in charge are acting in foreign interests. And everyone knows it. That is the problem. @georgegalloway @GayatriGalloway

[Jody McIntyre @jodymcintyre_]

Nigel Farage is under more pressure than ever.

But did you know that his main financer is connected to multi-million pound exports to the Israeli military?

Here’s what the mainstream media are NOT telling you about Christopher Harborne:🧵