In Britain you will get charged under terror legislation for holding a sign calling for action to end the genocide in Palestine.
But you won't get charged under terror legislation for holding a banner with the words "kill em all" targeting asylum seekers.
Make that make sense.
I am sickened by the relentless demonisation of refugees.
No refugee underfunded a school.
No refugee closed a hospital.
No refugee took away support from the sick and disabled.
We need solutions not scapegoats. Stop blaming refugees and tax the rich instead!
Rock Band Enter Shikari on Gaza at the Reading Festival,
"15 years ago I wore a t-shirt on stage with big print which said Free Gaza"
"Back then I was a young man who just learning about this thin strip of land on the eastern Mediterranean"
"I was just learning about a people, the Palestinians, who alongside Jews and Christians have lived there for millena"
"And I was just learning about the state of Israel and how it treated Palestinians as second class citizens, subjecting them to constant intimidation, humiliation, subjugation and forced them to live in what was often described an open air prison - that was 15 years ago"
"We've all seen how f*cking horrific things have got now"
"We've seen the firepower equivalent of six Hiroshina atomic bombs dropped on Gaza in the last two years"
"Ever single school and university destroyed"
"Almost 300 journalists murdered"
"Doctors, killed, maimed, detained"
"Children shot in the head by snipers"
"This is not a tragedy, a national disaster"
"This is a coordinated, mass displacement, mass starvation, an mass murder of the Palestinians in Gaza"
"This is not a tragedy, it is a war crime"
"If you're watching this live streamed genocide on your phone and your heart breaks every day, take strength in knowing you still have your humanity left"
"Enter Shikari would like to express their solidarity with the Jewish people, Muslim, Christian, Atheist, and everyone around the world who demands an end to this atrocity"
"Open the borders and let the aid into Gaza now"
"Stop supporting and arming Israel now"
"Just play music, no politics, play music, no politics. We've had that for 20 years now and we've ignored it. And I'll tell you why"
"To be silent in times of atrocity, is to assist in maintaining that atrocity"
"A great Jewish sage one said: it is not the duty of you alone to heal this world, but you should not refrain from trying"
Imagine just half the energy campaigning against trans rights had been put into
- Fighting the underfunding of women’s refuges
- Fighting for single mums
- Fighting for low-paid women
Compared to fighting trans rights, which would have had most impact on women’s lives?
It bears repeating today: the women celebrating the UK supreme court ruling do not speak for me. History shows that the rights of women and the rights of trans people will rise and fall together. My safety as a cis woman will never spring from the persecution of trans women.
‘NO OTHER LAND’ co-director Hamdan Ballal has been beaten and injured by Israeli settlers then abducted from the ambulance he was placed in.
Yuval Abraham says there has been no sign of Hamdan since.
Next time I have a difficult Teams call at work I will drown myself in an ice bowl in front of them to forever change their bond and the trajectory of their lives
the thing about me is that i am ready to hate anyone's boyfriend at a moment's notice. i need approximately zero seconds to prepare. literally just lmk