Michael Callaghan

Retired IT guy. Recovering BBC News addict. Democratic(-ish) Socialist. Politics. Economics. Football - playing more than watching. 🇵🇸

[Zarah Sultana MP @zarahsultana]

“They brought me here to kill me. I don't see myself surviving. This is the end.”

These are the words of Dr Hussam Abu Safiya, the paediatrician who ran Gaza's last children's hospital. He has been held without charge by Israel for over 18 months, alongside at least 13 other Palestinian doctors from Gaza.

His lawyers say he has been held in solitary confinement, beaten, starved, and denied medical care. He is now in life-threatening danger and requires urgent hospitalisation.

Silence is complicity. @YvetteCooperMP must demand his immediate release and urgent medical treatment NOW.

[Sony Thăng @nxt888]

In 1988, the USS Vincennes shot down Iran Air Flight 655.

290 people.

66 of them were children.

A civilian airliner, flying a scheduled commercial route, broadcasting its identification codes, operating within Iranian airspace, was destroyed by a missile fired by an American warship.

The captain of the USS Vincennes, William C. Rogers III, was later awarded the Legion of Merit, one of the highest military decorations in the United States, for his service during the period that included the shootdown.

The United States never apologized.

The U.S. government eventually paid $61.8 million in compensation to the families, without admitting legal liability and without any formal apology.

290 people.

66 children.

A medal for the captain.

No apology.

Now consider how Iranian actions against American interests are covered.

Consider the language used.

Consider the moral weight assigned.

Consider how many times you have heard the USS Vincennes discussed in mainstream Western coverage of Iranian-American tensions.

You haven't.

Because the architecture of consciousness requires that Iranian grievances not fully exist.

Requires that they be acknowledged, if at all, as context, a paragraph of background before the real story, which is always the Iranian threat, the Iranian aggression, the Iranian program that must be stopped.

290 people fell out of the sky because an American warship shot them down.

The captain got a medal.

And Iran is the irrational, dangerous, threatening party in this relationship.

Hold that. Feel the full weight of it.

That is what they need you to forget.

[The Green Party @TheGreenParty]

"This has all been distorted often by a right-wing media... The vast majority of people want to see action on the climate crisis" - @ZackPolanski on the public's support for climate action and the need for polluters and corporations to pay their fair share.

[liam cunningham @liamcunningham1]

The horrors happening in Iran and Lebanon are happening because of what the world is allowing to happen in Gaza and the West Bank. The Zionists are emboldened by silence. Silence is tacit approval.
SILENCE IS COMPLICITY.

[Harry Eccles @Heccles94]

Powerful

[Defend Our Juries @DefendOurJuries]

Seven people have been arrested at Lakenheath Peace Camp under the Terrorism Act while wearing tabards with individual words written on them.

When combined, their tabards read “We oppose genocide, we support Palestine Action”.

📸: Richard Bayfield @fruitloop158

[Dominic Waghorn @DominicWaghorn]

Pro Israeli groups masquerading as honest/objective reporting campaigners do not like @AlexCrawfordSky because goes to places and tells the truth with enormous courage despite Israeli efforts to either block or intimidate journalism. We should all ignore them. Nuff said.

[Richard Murphy @RichardJMurphy]

Let's not beat about the bush here: a madman is threatening to escalate the biggest geopolitical crisis in my lifetime, and where is the UK government? On holiday, conveniently pretending to ignore the "it's not our war" issue.

[Aaron Bastani @AaronBastani]

The first time in British history that the Greens have topped a national poll for Westminster.

Despite whatever talking points you’ll hear in legacy media my sense is they are gently nibbling into people who were considering Reform.

[Matt Kennard @kennardmatt]

Same actually applies if Israel assassinated any of us within US or UK

That’s how occupied we are

[William Dalrymple @DalrympleWill]

"A strategy ‘to make life intolerable’: Israeli settlers are driving Christians out of West Bank. The Taybeh community has survived crusaders and the Ottoman and British empires, but the latest attacks leave its future in question"
https://t.co/bBQDFlTno1

[Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt @FranceskAlbs]

EU countries with the most pro-Palestine population maintaining ties with Israel's economy, explains who are the real decision makers.
People DON'T have the power. Corporations do. We/People are just the chain that enriches them: produce, consume, say "cheeese" and then goodbye.

[Owen Jones @owenjonesjourno]

"Genocide" and "occupation" are now antisemitic tropes.

You probably think this is satire.

It isn't. They're being deadly serious.

They are determined to rid antisemitism of meaning - to defend Israel as it commits monstrous crimes.

[The Crispin Flintoff Show @CrispinShow]

She didn’t care for maritime law when Israel illegally ‘intercepted’ ships carrying baby formula to Gaza.

[Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt @FranceskAlbs]

BRING ALL HOSTAGES HOME.
If you have forgotten about the other hostages, chances are: you are racist.

[Andrew Feinstein @andrewfeinstein]

The inhumaity & racism of this statement on Sky is truly astonishing!

[Jeremy Corbyn @jeremycorbyn]

If you provide somewhere for the bombs to be loaded onto planes and then dropped on schools, hospitals, roads and railways in Iran, then yes, you are involved.

Me for @vioryvideo on how Britain has been dragged into the illegal war on Iran.

[Zack Polanski @ZackPolanski]

Palantir is burrowing into the heart of the UK's institutions - our health, our defence, our finances.

Join me in telling the govt to send this dangerous company packing:
https://t.co/oqsZdtN3pZ

[simon maginn @simonmaginn]

The defence editor at @TheEconomist admits the 'beheaded babies' story he promoted, and which was widely used to justify Israel's atrocities against Palestine, was fraudulent.
Are our journalist class just credulous little babies, or do they lie to order for Israel?
#ItWasAScam

[Lowkey @Lowkey0nline]

Nobody should attack ambulances.

Israel has directly attacked at least 30 ambulances in Lebanon.

Israel has attacked 36 ambulances in Iran.

In the past month alone.