Rainer Brömer 🐈‍⬛

Trying out Blue Sky @[email protected]
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[Rainer Brömer 🐈‍⬛ @rbromer]

Weizman’s book is an absolute must-read

https://t.co/zm38SK6FuE

[Zack Polanski @ZackPolanski]

There is now clear evidence that the Great Israeli Real Estate event had unlawful activity at it.

I've written to the Mayor of London to ask what he intends to do about it.

This needs to be escalated immediately.

[Torsten Menge @torte81]

Die von Steuerzahlern finanzierte @DIGeV_de und Präsident Volker Beck rechtfertigen und verharmlosen vom IGH festgestellte Verbrechen gegen die Menschlichkeit.

[nikki mccann ramírez @NikkiMcR]

For those wondering the visa bond implemented by the Trump admin against Cape Verde is $15,000 per person. Many players in this tournament are here without family or personal support because they literally cannot afford the visa.

[MarmaraFelsefeBölümü @Marmara_Felsefe]

Öğrencilerimizin gözünden Marmara Felsefe!

Geleceğin felsefecilerine ilham olmak için sabırsızlanıyoruz.
Bölümümüz yeni öğrencilerini bekliyor.

https://t.co/hD0uAoRGEA

[Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan]

Looks like the Board Of Deputies should apologize for this denial below and the fake ‘refutation’.
https://t.co/lbB5h4r0fe

[Novara Media @novaramedia]

A senior Labour MP has been accused of trying to get Green party leader Zack Polanski to commit a criminal offence by asking him if he supports Palestine Action.

After the government had won its appeal to maintain the ban on the direct action group on Monday, Polanski posted on X raising concerns about the branding of protest as terrorism.

Labour MP and home office minister Mike Tapp replied to Polanski’s post, asking: “Do you support the Palestine Action group?”

Multiple commentators responded to Tapp’s post raising concerns that he was trying to trick Polanski into saying something illegal.

Under the Terrorism Act, expressing support for Palestine Action is punishable by up to 14 years in prison.

Journalist Owen Jones wrote: “Mike Tapp is trying to coax Zack Polanski into saying he supports Palestine Action. That’s so he can get a political opponent arrested for their opinions.

“That tells you all you need to know about this government and their hideously sinister law.”

Tapp is a vocal supporter of the proscription of Palestine Action, as well as a longstanding supporter of the state of Israel. He was appointed as a co-honorary vice-chair of Labour Friends of Israel in 2024, and in 2025 criticised prime minister Keir Starmer’s move to recognise Palestinian statehood.

Novara Media has approached Tapp for comment.

[Rainer Brömer 🐈‍⬛ @rbromer]

@littlewisehen Versagen? Für die (Un-) Verantwortlichen ein Erfolg🤡

[Keine Stimme für Genozid @KStimmeGenozid]

Wir haben

- Ines Schwerdtner „Habt ihr keine anderen Sorgen?“

- Petra Pau „Von 10T € im Monat kann ich nicht leben!“

- Janine Wissler, die #LinkeMeToo-Chefin

Wer glaubt, eine genozidale Partei sei aber doch so wichtig für andere Marginalisierte, kann nicht klar denken.

[Sarah Wilkinson @swilkinsonbc]

I’m classed as a terrorist by a govt that supports terrorist regimes, says arrested 78yr-old retired psychiatrist Anne Read | via @SaulStaniforth

[Rainer Brömer 🐈‍⬛ @rbromer]

@IMVErlangen Einige von ihnen kenn ich (zumindest durch Online-Interaktion), scheint mir absolut legit

https://t.co/4m0qHNfm7z

[Rainer Brömer 🐈‍⬛ @rbromer]

@uzora5 @NurderK @ZentralratJuden KI ist halt nicht I...

[Rainer Brömer 🐈‍⬛ @rbromer]

https://t.co/uE6FoYQ4Tv

[Rainer Brömer 🐈‍⬛ @rbromer]

https://t.co/FgogGPMyLq

[Jody McIntyre @jodymcintyre_]

This man is desperate to get the keys to No. 10.

But did you know about the secret connection between Andy Burnham and a weapons company complicit in air strikes in Gaza?

This is the scandal Burnham does NOT want voters to know about…🧵

[Reza Nasri @RezaNasri1]

Israel poses a systematic threat to international peace and security:

The U.N was founded to do one thing above all: to maintain international peace and security and to suppress "acts of aggression or other breaches of the peace" (Article 1). When a single state repeatedly endangers that peace, the Charter does not leave the rest of the world as spectators.

Begin with the uncontested facts. Since the November 2024 cessation of hostilities, Lebanese authorities and ceasefire monitors have documented thousands of Israeli violations, including air strikes, incursions, and killings on sovereign Lebanese soil. The truce of April 2026 did not end them. As recently as this month, Israeli aircraft struck Beirut's southern suburbs while a fragile diplomatic process hung in the balance.

Each such strike on the territory of a UN member state is, prima facie, a use of force against that state's "territorial integrity", which is the precise conduct prohibited by Article 2(4) of the Charter. That prohibition is the cornerstone of the entire post-1945 legal order, and the International Court of Justice has affirmed it as customary law binding on all states.

Israel answers with Article 51. But Article 51 is a narrow exception, not a standing license. It requires an actual armed attack, necessity, immediacy, and proportionality. A campaign of recurring, pre-emptive, and punitive strikes across an entire country's territory, sustained over many months and many hundreds of incidents, cannot be squeezed into the doctrine of self-defence without dissolving the doctrine itself.

Now add the pattern that should concern every serious observer of regional diplomacy. Time and again, escalation has arrived precisely at the moment dialogue between Tehran and Washington was bearing fruit. In June 2025, the sixth round of US–Iran talks in Muscat — talks both sides described as making progress — was cancelled within hours of a sweeping Israeli air offensive against Iran.

The sequence has repeated. As the United States and Iran moved this June toward an agreement to de-escalate and reopen the Strait of Hormuz, Israeli strikes on Lebanon intensified. Even the US President has publicly registered his frustration with the Israeli premier as talks neared conclusion.

One need not allege a single hidden hand to recognize a pattern with legal significance. International law does not only police discrete attacks; under Article 39 it empowers the determination of a "threat to the peace", which is a forward-looking, situational standard. A consistent practice of escalation that imperils diplomacy is exactly the kind of situation Article 39 was written to capture.

To this we must add the political dimension: a sustained, well-resourced effort to steer the world's most powerful state away from negotiation and toward confrontation with Iran. Lobbying is a normal feature of statecraft and is not unlawful in itself. But when its object and effect is to obstruct the peaceful settlement of an international dispute, it cuts directly against Articles 2(3) and 33, which oblige states to seek settlement of their disputes by peaceful means.

Aggregate these three strands — recurrent force against Lebanon, escalation timed to diplomatic openings, and a campaign to redirect a great power toward war — and the cumulative picture points to a conduct that endangers regional and global security. That is the definition of a "threat to the peace."

Here is the point that must not be lost. The danger lies not only in the conduct, but in how the world chooses to describe it. The prevailing reflex is to file these episodes under politics — "Israel is simply trying to derail the talks" — as though that were a shrewd but lawful manoeuvre.

That framing is a category error, and a consequential one. The Charter contains no exception permitting a state to use force, or to drive a region toward war, merely because it dislikes a diplomatic outcome. There is no lawful category called "derailing diplomacy by force." To treat it as ordinary statecraft is to launder an unlawful use of force into acceptable politics.

Characterization is not a semantic nicety. In international law it is the gateway. The words "threat to international peace and security" are the precise trigger to which Article 39 attaches the entire collective-security framework. How we name the conduct determines which rules apply and whether any apply at all. Misname it, and the law never engages.

Recognition carries hard legal consequences that mere disapproval does not. The prohibition on the use of force is a peremptory norm. A serious breach of it engages the law of state responsibility: the responsible state owes cessation and reparation, and, critically, every other state comes under a duty not to recognize the resulting situation as lawful and not to aid or assist in maintaining it.

That duty of non-recognition is the line between law and acquiescence.

There is, further, the question of accountability. Bombardment of the territory of another state sits among the enumerated acts in the General Assembly's Definition of Aggression (Resolution 3314, 1974). Conduct of that gravity is not captured by the vocabulary of "tactics" or "spoiling." Naming it correctly is the precondition for any accountability whatsoever.

So the imperative is, first and above all, one of recognition. Before any institution lifts a finger, the international community must refuse the comfortable misdescription. It must say plainly that a sustained pattern of force against Lebanon — timed to moments of diplomatic progress, and accompanied by efforts to push a great power toward war — is not a political inconvenience to be absorbed. It is a threat to international peace and security within the meaning of the Charter, with all the legal consequences that phrase carries.

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[Amnesty International USA @amnestyusa]

🚨The recent images of Dr. Hussam Abu Safyia are shocking evidence of Israel's abuse against Palestinian detainees. Dr. Abu Safyia has been arbitrarily detained for one and a half years without charges, while being physically abused and denied healthcare. His recent solitary confinement adds a further layer of concerns over his deteriorating health. Dr. Abu Safyia must be immediately and unconditionally released. Israel must release all Palestinians arbitrarily detained. States must pressure Israel to stop abusing Palestinian prisoners.

Take action now to demand his release: https://t.co/0FgWzrI2JR

[New Direction AFRICA @Its_ereko]

🚨 Absolute madness in the US right now as the Uruguay national team gets pulled to the side of the road and treated like straight-up suspects.

​They literally just landed for the World Cup and security is already ripping their luggage open on the tarmac with sniffer dogs everywhere

​Qatar and Russia hosted without this level of paranoia but the "land of the free" is handing out pure humiliation to Global South athletes before a single match is even played, the double standards are screaming.

[dokuz8haber @dokuz8haber]

🌎 İngiltere’de Filistin’e destek yasağını mahkeme onayladı, polis protestoculara saldırdı

https://t.co/b3RIbCcgVb

[PALESTINE ONLINE 🇵🇸 @OnlinePalEng]

Armed Israeli settlers, protected by the occupation forces, attack Palestinian residents in the town of Qiblan, southeast of Nablus.

[Rainer Brömer 🐈‍⬛ @rbromer]

@Illumination100 An unfunny standup "comedian" - what do we expect? No one in their right mind would probably accept this kind of award?