Nico

She/her. Third sector comms, senior editor, consultant. Rescued animal pack leader. Politically rather homeless. Retweets are not endorsements.

[Ounka @OunkaOnX]

Naftali Bennett: "If you ask an American student, 'Israel - what comes to mind?' They say genocide. You say Italy 'pasta, spaghetti.' You say Israel - 'baby killers. And part of this is because we allowed Qatar to operate and build influence for 25 years"

It's not Qatar's fault. It's Israel's actions.

And no amount of deflecting will change the fact that the world is watching - and calling it what it is.

[Dr Rahmeh Aladwan @doctor_rahmeh]

🚨UPDATE ON FINN JOUGHIN:

The jewish settlers locked him in a shed for 30 minutes before handing him over to the IOF.

He is set to appear before an 'israeli' court in occupied Al-Quds (Jerusalem) today.

A British Foreign Office spokesperson said officials from the British Embassy 'Tel Aviv' have raised the case with the 'israeli' authorities and are seeking further information.

Source @MiddleEastEye.

This is simply not good enough. This was an abduction. Finn must be released immediately.

[Dr Rahmeh Aladwan @doctor_rahmeh]

🚨🇬🇧 British activist kidnapped by armed jewish settlers.

Finn Joughin is being held hostage and interrogated right now in Umm al-Khair village, south of Hebron, occupied West Bank, Palestine.

The UK government must intervene and secure his safety—NOW @FCDOGovUK @andyburnham.

[Nico @NicoJohnson75]

@andyburnham - this means my vote is most certainly not yours in the next general election. Moralistic failure indeed.

[Matt Kennard @kennardmatt]

.@AndyBurnham sends his first UK military plane to Israel since becoming PM

This A400M flew from RAF Akrotiri on Cyprus to Tel Aviv on Wednesday. It stopped in Israel for an hour before returning to base

The A400M can carry a payload of 81,600 lbs or 116 fully equipped soldiers

[Hamza Yusuf @Hamza_a96]

Hang your heads in shame if you believed for one second that Burnham would bring genuine change.

[Wayne Hsiung @waynehhsiung]

Yesterday, the State dismissed all remaining charges against me in relation to a mass open rescue I led in 2018. It was an absurd, 8-year process that involved a Court of Appeal reversing my conviction. But it means I am no longer a felon in CA (though one misdemeanor trespass conviction remains).

There are two very important implications for animals:

- First, the CA court of appeal came very close to outright saying that the trial court was wrong for asserting that animals are mere property under the common law. The opinion could have been cleaner on this. It should have. But what was written is sufficient to say that the common law is beginning to acknowledge animal personhood. That has dramatic implications for every animal currently suffering in confinement and abuse at commercial facilities across the nation. And it came from a chicken rescue.

- Second, it shows animal rights activists, even against enormous institutional opposition, can beat animal abusers in court. The resource discrepancy was probably 100:1 or more. But the thing about animal rights arguments is that... well, we are right. That is a massive advantage for us at every stage of the legal system. One thing that happened during the court of appeal argument, that was not legally relevant but still very instructive, was one of the judges saying out loud that there were 200,000 chickens inside a single factory farm. She gasped for a moment and said "Whoa!" It was as if the entire city of Santa Rosa were forced to live in a single industrial shed!

What this demonstrates to me, once again, is that the key bottleneck for a kinder world for animals is attention. Everywhere we force systems to pay attention, to confront the problem, we win.

So let's keep forcing the argument. If we do, the animals will soon be free.

[Covie @covie_93]

-It is still Lake Ontario
-It is still the Gulf of Mexico
-It is still the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts.
-He is still a pedophile.

Thank you for your attention to this matter.

[Alon Mizrahi @alon_mizrahi]

Spray paint a gulf course and you're a terrorist. Kill 50,000 children and you're an ally

[Harry Eccles @Heccles94]

So, Donald Trump and Andy Burnham both think this woman is a terrorist.

Meanwhile, both continue to arm an Isreali Regime that has slaughtered over 100,000 people.

[Wayne Hsiung @waynehhsiung]

I went to jail and was convicted of a felony to expose this abominable system.

Because powerful people don't want you to know how animals are treated.

They don't want you to know what they're calling "cage free" and "humane."

[Databases for Palestine @databases4pal]

We need your help to protect the archives.

Please consider supporting our campaign to build backup infrastructure outside of corporate clouds.

We must protect the evidence.

[Zack Polanski @ZackPolanski]

8 fossil fuel companies made profits of $700,000 a minute in the first quarter of this year.

Whilst fires rage across the world.

Time to pay up.

[Tom London @TomLondon6]

The Gaza Genocide HAS been proven

There is more evidence for it than any other genocide in history

It is proven no less than the Holocaust is proven

Those that deny either of these - the Holocaust or the Gaza Genocide - are the most despicable, vile, cruel people imaginable

[Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt @FranceskAlbs]

From Bosnia to Palestine; never again is now.

[Israel Exposed @xIsraelExposedx]

Yonatan Rothschild, an othodox Jewish man, explains why he shows up to protect palestinians everyday and to fight the settlers.

He represents a tiny sliver of Israeli society, but deserves to be seen.

[Nico @NicoJohnson75]

@SkyHelpTeam I have given up on your AI online help system! No mobile signal in the BH19 area for weeks. Hundreds of residents complaining. Support worker here needing to make phone calls to keep clients safe, I cannot get through to you for any support! Help!

[Saul Staniforth @SaulStaniforth]

Jess Phillips is asked why, as the minister for violence against women & girls, she voted against an amendment to exclude sexual offenders from early release.

"Because there is a prisons crisis"

Got to free the rapists to make room for people who oppose genocide, I guess.

[Motasem A Dalloul @AbujomaaGaza]

DEMOCRACY
Shocking video for German police cracking down on a little boy protesting against Israeli genocide in Gaza

[Craig Murray @CraigMurrayOrg]

"Nobody in Scotland was consulted by the Home Office before the proscription of Palestine Action.

The Israeli Embassy were consulted, but the Scottish government were not.

The arms industry was consulted, but Police Scotland were not."

https://t.co/7tSEEuLZhr

[Nada Maucourant Atallah @MaucourantNada]

Following Netanyahu’s claim that Christian villages requested to be annexed by Israel, we spoke to three Lebanese officials from Christian-majority villages in the south.

All of them denied the claim.

“Whatever he says, we’ve never asked anyone for protection… We have the Lebanese state, and we will remain Lebanese.”
Our latest with @NadaOHomsi
https://t.co/XNAo4CvHu8