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Muslim, Software Consultant and Activist. Secularism is destroying the world. The Quran is the mercy to save us; we must work to re-establish it! #Khilafah

[Channel 4 News @Channel4News]

This is the moment Channel 4 News Foreign Affairs Correspondent Secunder Kermani was charged at by a group of Israeli settlers in the Occupied West Bank.

The settlers have laid siege to a Palestinian home, while nearby Israeli soldiers keep watch but do not intervene.

Violent attacks by Israeli settlers against Palestinians in the West Bank have risen dramatically over the past two years, while Israel's government has approved a record number of new settlements.

[Caitlin Johnstone @caitoz]

That story about Google killing hundreds of thousands of trees in Finland for its data center project is such a perfect microcosm of what capitalism is doing to our world.

Recent mass media headlines are saying the tech giant "illegally" cut down "250,000" trees, but both claims paint an inaccurate picture of what actually happened. Google killed 400,000 trees (250,000 near a town called Muhos and another 150,000 near the village of Otanmäki), and unless the company's executives actually wind up going to prison for this, their actions cannot properly be described as "illegal".

I don't know who first coined the saying "If the penalty is a fine, then it's legal for rich people," but it certainly applies here. The Finnish Licensing and Supervision Authority has reportedly ordered Google to suspend all “measures that significantly change the environment," saying it will "consider enforcement proceedings and fines" if the megacorporation does not comply. Google's parent company Alphabet has a net worth of around four trillion dollars. Whatever paltry penalties Finland might impose for these ecocidal actions, it won't have any meaningful effect on Google.

Giant corporations do this shit all the time. They calculate that the fines incurred by their abusive actions will be dwarfed by the massive profits they generate, issue fake apologies as needed, and leave it to their armies of lawyers to minimize the damage. That's why the Sackler family is still worth billions despite all the fines Purdue Pharma was slapped with while creating the US opiate epidemic.

A 2017 Harvard study titled “The Opioid Epidemic: Fixing a Broken Pharmaceutical Market" contains the following paragraph:

"Although civil claims and criminal charges were brought against Purdue and its executives, the resulting penalties paled in comparison to extended-release oxycodone profits. In May 2007, the company and its president, chief counsel, and former chief medical officer pled guilty to falsely marketing extended-release oxycodone as 'less addictive, less subject to abuse and diversion, and less likely to cause tolerance and withdrawal than other pain medications.' As part of the plea bargain, Purdue agreed to pay the federal government $600 million and 27 states $20 million. The three executives agreed to $34.5 million in fines but avoided jailtime. By contrast, Purdue has earned an estimated $31 billion in total revenues from extended-release oxycodone since its launch. Rather than deterring fraudulent marketing, the penalties simply became a cost of doing business."

A cost of doing business.

That's how things work under capitalism. The law primarily exists not to protect people or the environment, but to protect the interests of capital. If you destroyed a Google data center you'd probably be charged as a terrorist and spend decades in prison, but Google can destroy the natural world around you and get off with a finger wag and a symbolic fine. If you stole millions of dollars from your employer you'd go to prison for grand larceny, but if your employer steals millions from its employees you need to win a class action lawsuit to get back what they stole from you.

Proponents of capitalism often pretend they support minimal government intervention in civilian affairs, but their entire model is at all times propped up by state power using force to protect the haves from the have-nots at every level of our society. Corporations are free to destroy the environment, destroy your health, rob you, exploit you, and manipulate your government to their advantage, and if you ever take action to stand up to this world-devouring onslaught, the state will lock you in a cage.

In school we are taught that that the law exists to protect ordinary people from bad people, but that's not true at all. Under capitalism, the law exists to protect the very worst among us from everyone else. That's why we are seeing our planet being turned into dust and ashes for no reason other than shareholder profit.

It's an insane system, and it needs to end. These freaks are feeding our entire biosphere into the woodchipper.

[Palestine Solidarity Campaign @PSCupdates]

NOW: Hundreds outside 10 Downing Street for an emergency protest for Palestine against Israel’s violence in the West Bank. We need full arms embargo on Israel now 🇵🇸

[NewsCord @newscord_org]

The BBC gaslit its audience for 3 years, routinely caveating death tolls from Israeli massacres in Gaza with "according to Hamas-run health ministry", all in the name of "transparency".

Yet again, that "transparency" runs only one way: no mention that this Bell review is far from independent, as we explain below.

[Andrey X @the_andrey_x]

A war is coming to the West Bank

Yesterday Palestinian resistance fighters conducted a surgical strike against Israeli occupation soldiers, fully in accordance with international law.

In response, Israeli government immediately announced that they will do war crimes and started doing war crimes.

All the Palestinian villages in the West Bank are under siege, the city of Hebron is under siege. IDF is demolishing house after house, raiding family after family. They said they want to turn Hebron into Rafah.

More than 250 families were kicked out into the streets with nothing. People slept on the street last night.

The Israeli election is in 3 days, and the Netanyahu-Smotrich government is going to use this to start a war in the West Bank.

The only way to stop this is pressure from all directions. We know it works. International pressure worked for the besieged house in Qusra, which still belongs to the Palestinians because of the all-around attention. It can work for Hebron too.

But it will require EVERYONE reading this doing everything they can to stop this. Call your representative, hold a demonstration, organise direct action against the occupation’s assets abroad. Keep attention on the West Bank.

ACT NOW.

[YourFavoriteGuy☭ @guychristensen_]

Ethnic cleansing in real time:

[بريد @baridmedia]

فضيحة كبرى على الهواء: سياسي اسرائيلي يدخل برنامج مورغان ليملي إملاءاته... فإذا بصحفي بريطاني يفجّرها في وجهه: أنت تتحدث مثل نازي!

[NewsCord @newscord_org]

The reality of the "independent" review telling every school in England to adopt the IHRA definition of antisemitism: its author, Sir David Bell, was being paid by a government agency while he wrote it, and a pro-Israel charity has listed him on its council for ten years.

The government told the public he was "independent of Government" and had "no conflict of interest". Neither is true.

What we found:

- Bell was paid £20,000 a year as vice-chair of Skills England, a government agency, in a seat the Department for Education gave him. He held it until August, through most of the review.

- The Academic Study Group on Israel and the Middle East has listed him on its council since at least 2016. Its website says its one firm policy is opposing boycotts of Israel. It gives talks on Israel in schools, which is exactly what his review was asked to judge.

- In 2005, as chief inspector of schools, he singled out Muslim schools as a challenge to "our coherence as a nation". The chairman of the Association of Muslim Schools called it Islamophobia, and his own inspectors said he had presented a personal view as inspection evidence.

Then we followed the money:

- The department's £1.3 million antisemitism training contract had one bidder, according to the tender record. It went to Palace Yard, a company set up in 2022 by the former Labour MP Natascha Engel.

- That contract says all its training must use the IHRA definition "as a foundation". It was signed eight months before Bell was appointed. His review then recommended IHRA.

- Two of the people who advised Bell, from Partnerships for Jewish Schools and the Antisemitism Policy Trust, now sit on the group putting his recommendations into practice.

- The Union of Jewish Students, also on that group, holds a contract worth almost £1 million to train universities. Its own policies include "UJS to advocate for Israel within UK Policy and International Law".

- UK Lawyers for Israel* (UKLFI) and the Campaign Against Antisemitism* (CAA) both say the review adopted their recommendations.

*For context, UKLFI once justified the starvation of Palestinians in Gaza by the Israeli occupation as "good for obesity". Both these groups have staunchly defended Israel throughout its perpetration of a genocide in Gaza, and regularly conflate Jewish people with the apartheid state.

This matters because the review decides how every school treats what pupils and teachers say about Israel, and the IHRA definition it recommends treats some criticism of Israel as antisemitic. A review with that power should come from someone with no pay from government and no tie to a pro-Israel charity. Bell had both. The government put one in a footnote and left the other out.

We mapped every link, each with its source, explaining just how far this review is from "independent": https://t.co/bPsbRjZNaN

[Gordon Dimmack @GordonDimmack]

Who are the "charity" the 'UK Lawyers for Israel' - and what do they do?

Take a listen 👂

[Double Down News @DoubleDownNews]

The claim in Sir David Bell's report that 3 in 5 Jewish students have experienced antisemitism was based on just 29 people - and was untrue. @pularjs

[Bushra Shaikh @Bushra1Shaikh]

27 recommendations to the DfE.

Based on 29 Jewish respondents saying yes to experiencing antisemitism.

24 hours later, it becomes government policy.

This is f^cking insane.

[Caitlin Johnstone @caitoz]

The report explicitly acknowledges that hatred toward Jews is NOT on the rise, and that only anti-Israel sentiments are increasing. And yet they STILL published a review claiming “antisemitism” is a major problem in British schools, because "antisemitism" means "opposing Israel".

[Tamer Nahed @Tamer_Alnoaizy]

Within the next 48 hours, if flour is not allowed into Gaza, all bakeries in the city will stop producing bread.

We are facing an enormous catastrophe. Famine is knocking on our doors once again, and this time, it could be worse than anything we have experienced before.

Please, do not remain silent! Talk about Gaza, make our voices heard around the world, and do everything you can before thousands of people lose access to something as basic as a loaf of bread.

[Nad @NadimHCr]

Headline: "3 in 5 Jewish students face antisemitism in schools" (Bell Review).

​The actual numbers behind that claim:
​• Total sample: 5,000+ students surveyed
• Jewish students in the sample: 92
• Answered the question: 70
• Personally experienced it: 29

​To reach "3 in 5" (~59%), the review combined those 29 with ~12 who said they had only witnessed it (41/70).

​That is why critics cite 29: a sweeping national headline and policy push rests on personal reports from fewer than 30 respondents in an unweighted self-selected sample.

[Jon Wiltshire @JonWiltshire_]

I'm not going to name the school, but the @BBC's coverage of the antisemitism in schools report featured interviews with children from a Jewish school.

Here's the rub, though.

The school's own published curriculum explicitly teaches Zionism, celebrates the establishment of Israel and describes preparing pupils to become "positive advocates for Israel" at university.

It even references bringing in organisations such as StandWithUs to prepare pupils for that advocacy.

Now, let me be absolutely clear. There is nothing wrong with teaching Jewish history, culture or identity. And antisemitism must be challenged wherever it exists.

But when children are actively encouraged to advocate for a particular state, rather than critically examine its history, policies and actions, surely we have to question whether this is education or ideological conditioning?

And here's the staggering hypocrisy.

We're being told that schools must exercise political impartiality when discussing Palestine, while a school can openly describe preparing children to advocate for Israel.

Political impartiality cannot be a principle applied selectively, depending on which side of a conflict children are encouraged to support.

And the BBC has a responsibility to scrutinise that distinction, not simply present children's views without examining the educational environment in which those views have developed.

Children deserve an education that teaches them how to think, not what to think.

@NEUnion @educationgovuk

[Saint Charlie🇵🇸🦈🐝™️ @PollyVinyl1]

I love this genre.
Was it said by a Nazi or a Zionist?

[Pilib De Brún (Phil Brown) @Malachians]

Like many of you, I will be a Utd fan ‘till I die, I’m in it for life no matter what but right now there is nothing pleasurable about watching Utd. Everything that made them great is almost gone, all that remains is the shirt and the stadium but now it’s a business that happens to play football, a company football team. Utd’s biggest strength is its greatest weakness, a club that could print money inevitably attracted parasitic scum and parasites never leave until there’s nothing left to take. An aimless vessel taking on water and a new captain won’t change a thing

[Ragged Trousered Philanderer @RaggedTP]

Sir David Bell's so-called "independent" review into antisemitism in English schools was commissioned in March 2026 by sacked Education Secretary Bridget Phillipson.
Phillipson received £181,000 in Israeli lobby money in just 4 years, most of it while education secretary.

[Steve W @StevenGWalker74]

Hang on a minute – something ain't right.

Since only 32% of British Jewish schoolchildren go to non-Jewish schools, and 60% (3 in 5) are supposedly facing "antisemitism" at school, that means at least 28% of Jewish schoolchildren are facing "antisemitism" at Jewish schools! /1

[YourFavoriteGuy☭ @guychristensen_]

I need your help.

Tiktok has permanently banned my account for speaking on the conditions in Italy’s South during the strikes.

IDK what to do. TikTok restored the video but not my account?
Can we make noise to restore/protect my voice?