“Anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that 'my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.'” - Isaac Asimov
UK ministers have allowed Israeli arms imports into Britain to increase over 100-fold during Israel’s destruction of Gaza.
This comes as the British military and police sign deals with Israeli arms, drones and surveillance technology firms. https://t.co/qzKeqGEApA
Calling for "all of Lebanon to burn" is a horrendous and abhorrent statement from an Israeli Minister who has rightly been sanctioned by the UK Government.
We call on both Israel and Hizballah to comply with the agreed ceasefire, and ensure that all civilians are protected.
Just another reminder that Andy Burnham voted for the Iraq war - an illegal war that cost over a million lives.
He has refused to describe the systematic slaughter of Palestinians in Gaza as genocide.
So what will change? Nothing.
Arms sales to apartheid Israel will continue.
Palestine Action will remain banned, and more pensioners will be locked up.
Welfare will be cut to fund more weapons.
Immigration detention will expand, and mass deportations will continue.
Andy Burnham is not the second coming. He's the establishment's last roll of the dice.
We've already seen racist pogroms on our streets. That danger has not gone away.
So we must organise, build solidarity, and create power from below. Fascism isn't at the door. It's already here.
Only socialism can face down this barbarism.
Blaring reports suggest that UK arms destined to feed Israel's genocidal war machine have been shipped ILLEGALLY.
That should outrage every MP and citizen across the country.
There can be no exceptions to the rule of law. Full transparency, a thorough investigation and accountability are essential.
BREAKING: Israeli settlers set fire to mosques in the occupied West Bank as violence against Palestinians continues
🔴 LIVE updates: https://t.co/TOXBUuzQoM
🚨 BREAKING: Lebanon files UN Security Council complaint accusing I$rael of violating the Chemical Weapons Convention in the south
Lab tests from Aita al-Shaab, Naqoura, and Dhaira confirmed catastrophic levels of Glyphosate—a cancer-linked chemical—in agricultural soil.
Normal farming levels would show 0.5 to 2 mcg/g but tests on soil in South Lebanon show 22,750 mcg/g, 11,000 times above safe levels
It has been labeled by some as a deliberate war crime designed to permanently destroy arable border lands.
Here is our report from the scene filmed in February
If a company tried selling apartments in apartheid South Africa in London, there would be outrage.
Yet Labour is allowing a real estate fair marketing homes in illegal Israeli settlements built on stolen Palestinian land.
Labour rolls out the red carpet for Israeli war criminals, criminalises those resisting genocide, and keeps supplying arms to a genocidal apartheid state.
Ban this event NOW.
BREAKING: Israeli settlers are burning down the villages of Deir Dibwan and Burqa in the West Bank.
They set a mosque on fire, torched several vehicles, and poured gasoline on an elderly man in an attempt to burn him alive.
There’s a pattern of the Israeli military ramping up its attacks just as there appears to be hope of a US-Iran deal (as suggested by Trump yesterday). Iran has warned a strike on the Lebanese capital Beirut would prompt another rapid response by them.
Justice Jeremy Johnson will go down in history alongside Percy Yutar who sent Mandela & his comrades to jail for life, alongside all the apartheid South African judges who shamefully jailed activists for opposing the system. Despicable & indefensible
Gut wrenching to see four young people jailed for direct action against an arms supplier to Israel.
Years in prison for protesting to save lives in Gaza, with 'terrorism' used despite no jury convicting them of it.
A truly dangerous attack on the right to protest.
This is what happens when you make Muslims a target.
When you talk of Muslims and Islam as a problem that needs dealing with, don't be surprised that people act on your rhetoric.
Where is the emergency COBRA meeting from the PM? Or is he too busy trying to save his job to care?