Prof Michael Rigby

Happily 'retired', which means busy with interesting and hopefully worthwhile professional activities, home minding, family, and trying to find time to relax.

[Katie Halper @kthalps]

It's very simple. And it has nothing to do with whether you think Israel has the right to exist, or antizionism is antisemitism or Hamas's responsibility. Do you or do you not believe children should be starved to death for the crime of being born in Gaza. That's it.

[Farrukh @implausibleblog]

ITV News reporting a Jewish Israeli protestor in Tel Aviv,

"I am personally a grandson of a holocaust survivor"

"My grandmother always used to say that starvation was the worst thing, the worst suffering"

"So I feel a moral obligation to end it"

[John Simpson @JohnSimpsonNews]

At least 32 people were killed and more than 100 injured on Saturday when Israeli troops opened fire on crowds of Palestinians seeking food from two aid distribution hubs in southern Gaza, according to witnesses and hospital officials.

[Ramy Abdu| رامي عبده @RamAbdu]

In Bath, UK, people read the names of 15,500 Palestinian children killed in Gaza — nonstop for 17 hours.
Artists, teachers, parents, even an MP stood in tears, name after name.
Different tongues. One conscience.
Not just a vigil — a stand for humanity.
Their names filled the streets. Their memory lives on.

[Yaroslava @strategywoman]

I don’t know if you read Time magazine, but this cover made me stop and share.

It comes with an investigation into the mass abduction and forced displacement of Ukrainian children by russian forces.

I’m grateful this story is getting the attention it deserves.

[Nicola Perugini @PeruginiNic]

Finally @MSF joins the international human rights/humanitarian orgs consensus: “We are witnessing genocide in Gaza. And the UK government is complicit”

[sarah @sahouraxo]

Israeli settlers set fire to a Church that stood for 15 centuries, along with a Byzantine Christian cemetery in Taybeh, Palestine — a village where Christians have lived since the time of Jesus.

Israel is destroying Palestinian Christian heritage.

Not a peep from Western media.

[Drop Site @DropSiteNews]

🚨JUST IN | Message from Nasser Hospital:

“We are working now in the hospital, and the tanks are only a few meters away from us...
We are closer to death than to life.

The soldiers show no mercy—not to a child, nor an elder, nor a doctor or a nurse.

We remain here because we are human, and our mission is humanitarian.

If these ravens snatch our lives… don’t forget us. Don’t turn us into numbers.
We love life—we have dreams just like you. We have children and spouses we love deeply.

But to be truly human means not abandoning those who need your humanity.

Tell the world about us.
Tell them that we were more human than those who only claimed to be.
Tell them we chose death over abandoning our noble mission.

Do not call us heroes—just tell them we understood what it truly means to be human.

It was a blessing to get to know you all...
Forgive us.
We are not numbers.

Medical staff
Nasser Medical Complex.
Gaza

[Assal Rad @AssalRad]

Babies in Gaza are facing a “slow death” because ISRAEL is starving them.

But you wouldn’t know that from this headline.

[Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan]

"Iran is not the biggest issue in this region with America. Gaza is what is tearing people apart, is what is fueling hatred...children starved, the largest cohort of child amputees in the history of modern warfare..."

Brilliant from @clarissaward

[Adam @AdameMedia]

BREAKING: Israel's ambassador to the UN says he wants to BLOW UP the UN building.

Why does civilised society still tolerate these people?

[sarah @sahouraxo]

Horrifying.

Israel just dropped bombs on tents full of displaced civilians in Gaza.

15 tents were buried under the sand.

Entire families were swallowed by the massive blast crater.

They were buried alive.

A massacre in plain sight.

[Alex Crawford @AlexCrawfordSky]

‘….this scheme is slaughter masquerading as humanitarian aid and must be immediately dismantled’ - ⁦@MSF⁩ re the US-Israeli supply distribution system https://t.co/vGbQYbmLZZ

[Breaking the Silence @BtSIsrael]

Haaretz just revealed, based on conversations with soldiers, that commanders instructed them to fire at crowds near the GHF aid distribution centers to drive them away — even when it was clear the crowds posed no danger. Here’s how the soldiers described the horrific scenes:

[Resistance Solidarity Network @RSolidarityNet]

Tonight in Jerusalem, protestors are chanting: "From the river to the sea, we refuse [to serve] the gen0cide"

[WearThePeace @WearThePeaceCo]

The CEO of Palantir, Alex Karp, defends his position of mass murdering thousands of people using AI technology by insisting that the AI is used to kill ‘terrorists’ and that the protester is just another ‘useful idiot for Ham*s’ to further it’s ideology in the West.

[SophieSpring97 @SophieP25397]

I wish the BBC, ITV and C4 news would open with this every time he is mentioned or interviewed.

[Karim Wafa-Al Hussaini @DrKarimWafa]

I still remember when they said Rafah was going to remain the only “safe zone”.

[Craig Murray @CraigMurrayOrg]

I am horrified by all the attacks on civilian areas in wars, everywhere.
But the "massive attacks" on Kiev that are the Guardian and BBC lead headline are less than 10% of the size of Israeli attacks on Gaza every single day.
Most of which now pass unmentioned.