Nino Rocha

Former journalist. BSc Psychology. Keen on gardening. Interested in politics, current affairs and the arts. Retweets in PT, EN & FR.

[Nino Rocha @ninorocha]

The brutality inflicted by Israel on the Palestinians in the last two years brought tears to my eyes several times. Very hard, as a human, to be insensitive to so much suffering, daily massacres, relentless destruction.

[Double Down News @DoubleDownNews]

"It brings me no pleasure to compare what Israel is doing to what the Nazis did, but how can we not? When you have things like ghettos, starvation, concentration camps and planned systematic extermination of people"

Jewish journalist @kthalps

CC: LBC @lewis_goodall @hasanthehun

[Double Down News @DoubleDownNews]

EXPOSED: Israel’s TERRIFYING Plot to Make Europe Fascist @davidahearst

[Pedro Sánchez @sanchezcastejon]

La responsabilidad pública también implica la obligación moral de no mirar hacia otro lado.

Es un honor otorgar la Orden del Mérito Civil a una voz que sostiene la conciencia del mundo: @FranceskAlbs, Relatora Especial de la ONU en el territorio palestino ocupado.

[Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt @FranceskAlbs]

When will it be enough?
Thiago and Saif were kidnapped and are unlawfully detained by a state known for the torture and ill-treatment it inflicts on thousands of Palestinians.
Free Thiago & Saif
Free Palestine
Free us all from lawlessness and barbarism driven by predatory elites.

[Lula @LulaOficial]

Manter a prisão do cidadão brasileiro Thiago Ávila, integrante da flotilha “Global Sumud”, é uma ação injustificável do governo de Israel, causa grande preocupação e deve ser condenada por todos. A detenção dos ativistas da flotilha em águas internacionais já havia representado uma séria afronta ao direito internacional. Por isso, nosso governo, juntamente com o da Espanha, que também teve um cidadão detido, exige que eles recebam plena garantia de segurança e sejam imediatamente soltos.

[Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt @FranceskAlbs]

Israel must immediately release the activists it has kidnapped in int'l waters. Persecuting those who oppose Apartheid is part of the crime of Apartheid.

Israel won't stop bullying killing and torturing people until it is forced to:
Boycott, Divest, Protest, Activate courts now.

[Nino Rocha @ninorocha]

@haaretzcom Not surprising at all! It’s clearly a deranged, sick society, supporting death, destruction and land theft. We can see you! Not an ounce of sympathy from me!

[Jonathan Cook @Jonathan_K_Cook]

Does Israel look like the frustrated peacemaker facing off with barbaric opponents, or a rogue state whose decades-long aggression has provoked the very retaliatory violence exploited to excuse its constant war-making?

Is Israel a small, reluctant fortress state defending itself, or a western military client so drunk on its own power that it can no more limit its territorial ambitions than a great white shark can stop swimming?

The truth is that the past 30 months have graphically exposed not only what Israel always was but, by extension, what our own western states aspired to achieve through their most favoured Middle East client.

In a moment of imprudence last month, Christian Turner, Peter Mandelson’s replacement as British ambassador to the US, let slip the reality. Washington, the West’s imperial hub, he said, had no deep loyalty to its allies – apart from one.

Unaware his words were being recorded, he told a group of visiting students: “I think there is probably one country that has a special relationship with the United States, and that is probably Israel.”

That special relationship requires that the political and media class in Washington’s other client states, such as Britain, shield the West’s Sparta in the Middle East from critical scrutiny.

So glaring have Israel’s atrocities become that the British government announced last month that it was shuttering its Foreign Office unit tracking war crimes – citing the need for cuts – rather than face further exposure of its collusion in those crimes.

If the British government refuses to monitor Israel’s war crimes, don’t expect more from the establishment media.

For months, Israel has been blowing up village after village in south Lebanon, driving millions of inhabitants from lands lived on for millennia by their ancestors, and it barely registers with our politicians and media.

Israel is destroying Gaza’s water supplies, as it earlier did the tiny enclave’s hospitals and health system, ensuring the further spread of disease, and our politicians and media have barely a word to say about it.

Israel kills journalists and emergency crews in Gaza and Lebanon week after week, month after month, and it raises barely an eyebrow from the political and media class.

Israel declares “yellow lines“ in Gaza and Lebanon, demarcating expanded borders that formalise its theft of other peoples’ lands, and this instantly becomes the new normal.

Israel continuously violates ceasefires in Gaza and Lebanon, spreading misery and inflaming yet more anger and bitterness, and once again, our politicians and media turn a blind eye.

Which western media outlets are pointing out a starkly revealing fact: that Israel now occupies more of Lebanon than Russia does of Ukraine?

This is an extract from my latest article The West’s bubble of illusion about Israel - and about itself – is finally being burst. Find a link to the article in the reply post ⬇️

[Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @NYCMayor]

Last night, Israeli forces intercepted and boarded a humanitarian aid flotilla bound for Gaza in international waters off the coast of Greece — unlawfully detaining more than 175 people, including several New Yorkers.

My team has been in direct contact with State and Federal partners as we work to confirm the whereabouts and conditions of these New Yorkers.

This is a brazen violation of international law. Those detained must be released.

[Nino Rocha @ninorocha]

@haaretzcom Crying to maintain the status of perpetual victims while committing a #genocide and ethnic cleansing. The longer Jews in the diaspora keep supporting the lunatic, ethno-supremacist zionist project, the more they will be hated and targeted all over the world.

[Nino Rocha @ninorocha]

@haaretzcom Another child killer now burning in hell! Hopefully, there will be many more of those meeting their maker! No rest, no peace for mass murderers!

[Nino Rocha @ninorocha]

@netanyahu Another child killer now burning in hell! No rest, no peace for mass murderers.

[Pedro Sánchez @sanchezcastejon]

Israel vuelve a violar la legalidad internacional al asaltar una flotilla civil en aguas que no le pertenecen.

Nuestro Gobierno está haciendo todo lo necesario para proteger y asistir a los españoles retenidos.

Pero con eso no basta. La UE tiene que suspender el acuerdo de asociación YA y exigir a Netanyahu que cumpla la ley de nuestros mares.

[Nino Rocha @ninorocha]

@chiefrabbi Tell Israel to stop the indiscriminate killing of Palestinians and other assorted brown people! Tell Israel to stop claiming to represent all Jews! Stop supporting the ethno-supremacist zionist project! Then, perhaps, you will be able to talk about actions to stop antisemitism.

[𝘊𝘰𝘳𝘳𝘪𝘯𝘦 @OopsGuess]

Cuba has been blockaded, sanctioned, strangled, threatened, and punished by the United States for decades.

So long, in fact, that many people forget what Cuba still chose to be.

During the early days of COVID, while Cuba itself was short of medicine and supplies under U.S. sanctions, Cuban doctors were sent abroad to help countries drowning in crisis.

This is a country that had to cut cloth to make masks, yet still sent medical teams to others.
A country pushed into blackouts by resource strangulation, yet still persevered and refused to kneel.
A country repeatedly threatened with invasion by Trump, yet still sacrificed 32 elite soldiers in Venezuela while defending an allied neighbor.

Now Washington talks about “spying,” “security,” and “threats” while pretending its blockade is not slow survival violence against an entire people.

But China remembers what Cuba represents.

Not wealth.
Not obedience.
Not empire’s approval.

Dignity.

The United States may be the strongest bully on earth.
But it still cannot rewrite the pride of nations that refuse to surrender.

Not every country is Japan.

[Nino Rocha @ninorocha]

@haaretzcom When are you going to realise that the victim card has expired? You are the perpetrators now! I don't give a f*ck about your grief! I hope to see some of you suffer at least a fraction of all the pain you've been inflicting on Palestinians and others.

[Jeremy Corbyn @jeremycorbyn]

They were not intercepted. They were abducted in international waters.

This is piracy - and is a flagrant violation of international law.

[Nino Rocha @ninorocha]

@haaretzcom This genocidal, apartheid hell hole must be boycotted by every sane person in the world! #BoycottDivestSanction #BDS

[Nino Rocha @ninorocha]

@netanyahu War criminal boasting about committing war crimes. You are the terrorists!! Your lies don't stick anymore. We can see how depraved and immoral you are.

[Nino Rocha @ninorocha]

@haaretzcom Nothing like slaughtering children, women and men to boost your mental health! That many more of those immoral c*nts follow suit and rot in hell!