Richard Sanders

Presenter of Double Down Newswatch, your one-stop shop for the best of independent media.

[Richard Sanders @PulaRJS]

Next Wednesday sees the launch of Double Down Newswatch, a new weekly magazine programme that will showcase the best of independent media.

Here I explain why it's needed.
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[Richard Sanders @PulaRJS]

This woman continues to be invited on to the BBC as a pundit.

[Melanie Phillips @MelanieLatest]

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Whether motivated by hatred of National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir or corrupt funding by Qatar, the huge mobilisation of Israeli Arabs at this election was the democratic version of the “Al-Aqsa Flood” of October 7.

In both Israel and the West, public bamboozlement is so great that deliriously energised Islamists believe they’re now within sight of victory over both. To prevent that, governments in Israel, Britain and America need to wake up to the jihadi threat they are facing.

[Verso Books @VersoBooks]

The Marxist Writer the British Government Doesn’t Want You to Read.

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[Declassified UK @declassifiedUK]

Declassified UK wants to make it absolutely clear that we will not allow people to smear our media organisation with baseless accusations without consequence and that we reserve the right to take legal action against them.

[Richard Sanders @PulaRJS]

Amazing work as ever from @marcowenjones

[Marc Owen Jones @marcowenjones]

Here's a short video summary of our investigation, Manufacturing the Great Replacement

Remember you can read the full report and view the archive at https://t.co/FBGTkfk279

#disinformation

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They Thought They Owned Britain. Then Macklemore Sold Out Wembley @Lowkey0nline https://t.co/mAzynKlvXo

[Richard Sanders @PulaRJS]

This is appalling. In it's repressive and authoritarian instincts Burnham's government appears to be no different from Starmer's.
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[Defend Our Juries @DefendOurJuries]

IT'S NOT TOO LATE

This Saturday hundreds of people will be outside the US Embassy in London with signs reading "I oppose genocide, I support Palestine Action".

Missed last night's open call? It's not too late to get involved.

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[Declassified UK @declassifiedUK]

📹NEW VIDEO -- This UN Expert Just EXPOSED The Pro-Israel Media

We spoke with Francesca Albanese about how the Western media covered Israel's genocide in Gaza.
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[Joshi Herrmann @joshi]

The absence of any kind of radical
Burnhamite programme in the budget is only surprising if you believed he had one. As I wrote months ago, that’s not who Burnham is. He’s a connection politician not a conviction politician. By their budgets shall ye know them and now we know.

[Richard Sanders @PulaRJS]

The Israeli election proves definitively a) that a clear majority of Jewish Israelis are psychotically racist and b) the opposition will only oust the psychotically racist right by allying with Palestinians which they won't do because ... see point a).

[Channel 4 News @Channel4News]

Israel’s parliament deadlocked after election leaves no clear winner
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[Declassified UK @declassifiedUK]

Journalists should be able to question politicians without being smeared and libelled like this.

Defenders of the Israeli government have run out of rational arguments to support it.

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[Richard Sanders @PulaRJS]

"Jewish Israeli and Palestinian Israeli parties teaming up to form a coalition is seen as a political taboo – particularly after anti-Arab sentiment rose in the wake of the October 7 attacks"

Gdn-speak to describe a political system is that deeply racist and normally works on the understanding that Palestinian votes don't count.
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[Richard Sanders @PulaRJS]

This is frankly disgusting from @TiceRichard. Solidarity with @declassifiedUK who are a superb journalistic outlet and put Britain's mainstream media to shame.

[Richard Tice MP 🇬🇧 @TiceRichard]

Declassified are a deeply antisemitic organisation who bully and intimidate their opponents

[Richard Sanders @PulaRJS]

As Peter Oborne forecast on Double Down Newswatch - it looks as if Israel's opposition may be forced, kicking and screaming, into coalition with Palestinian parties.

[Double Down News @DoubleDownNews]

I Just Left the West Bank: What Israel is Planning is TERRIFYING @OborneTweets

[Double Down News @DoubleDownNews]

Israel going to the polls changes NOTHING for Palestinians.

Western media treats the election as a contest between Netanyahu’s far-right coalition and a "moderate" opposition. In reality, the alternative to Netanyahu is an alliance of generals and hardliners who have driven the exact same machinery of violence and dispossession for decades:

Gadi Eisenkot: The opposition frontrunner who formulated the Dahiya doctrine—mandating the deliberate, disproportionate destruction of civilian infrastructure. He sat in the war cabinet over Gaza and dismissed ICC war crimes investigations as "antisemitism."

Yair Lapid: The supposed centrist whose stated principle is "maximum Jews on maximum land with minimum Palestinians."

Avigdor Lieberman: Declared "there are no innocents in Gaza" while cutting off water, power, and food.

Naftali Bennett: Boasted on record, "I have killed many Arabs in my life, and there is no problem with that."

As Peter Oborne reports from the West Bank, an opposition victory might actually be far more dangerous internationally. It would provide Western allies with the diplomatic PR cover they crave to drop pressure, restore impunity, and pretend Israel is back to being a "rules-based democracy."

Meanwhile, on the ground:

State-armed settlers continue expelling Palestinian communities at gunpoint.

Demolitions across East Jerusalem accelerate unabated.

Human rights bodies document systemic, industrial torture across detention camps.

The ballot box in Tel Aviv is not a choice between occupation and peace. It is a choice between overt extremism under Netanyahu and an internationally sanitized version of the exact same apartheid state under his rivals.

[Double Down News @DoubleDownNews]

Israel election opposition in their own words

"There are no innocents in Gaza"

"Maximum Jews on maximum land with minimum Palestinians"

"I've killed many Arabs & there's no problem with that"

"Maximum havoc, disruption & destruction of civilian infrastructure to send message"

[Richard Sanders @PulaRJS]

A Campaign Against Antisemitism steward was filmed by Al Jazeera offering to provide “muscle” at a rally organised by Turning Point UK, a far right group that Al Jazeera revealed to have links to Loyalist paramilitary contract killers.

The CAA was already thoroughly discredited last December when a judge ruled a case it had brought against the comedian Reginald Hunter was “vexatious” and “abusive” and aimed purely at getting him “cancelled”. So horrified was the judge by their behaviour he instructed a copy of his ruling to be attached to any future legal action brought by the CAA.

It is astonishing the CAA still has charitable status and more astonishing still that the BBC interviews it as being representative of the Jewish community.

Lorna Hosford reports for Double Down Newswatch.

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EXPOSED: Campaign Against Antisemitism Steward Tied to Far-Right Hitman for Hire Scandal @lornahosford

[Richard Sanders @PulaRJS]

A Campaign Against Antisemitism steward was filmed by Al Jazeera offering to provide “muscle” at a rally organised by Turning Point UK, a far right group that Al Jazeera revealed to have links to Loyalist paramilitary contract killers.

The CAA was already thoroughly discredited last December when a judge ruled a case it had brought against the comedian Reginald Hunter was “vexatious” and “abusive” and aimed purely at getting him “cancelled”. So horrified was the judge by their behaviour he instructed a copy of his ruling to be attached to any future legal action brought by the CAA.

It is astonishing the CAA still has charitable status and more astonishing still that the BBC interviews it as being representative of the Jewish community.

Lorna Hosford reports for Double Down Newswatch.
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[Peter Oborne @OborneTweets]

My interview with Richard Sanders on what today’s Israeli election means for Palestinians: