Rick Foot

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[Jonathan Cook @Jonathan_K_Cook]

One of my most popular articles ever included a long extract from a powerful closing speech by barrister Rajiv Menon during a Palestine Action trial in January. In the end, the jury refused to convict the six defendants.

Menon is now on trial for that closing speech – for reminding the jury that they had a 350-year-old right in law to follow their conscience in reaching a verdict, even if it meant defying a direction from the judge to convict.

Paradoxically, Menon joked in his speech that, because of that earlier legal principle, the judge, unlike his counterpart in 1670, could not lock them, the jurors, up were they to choose to follow their consciences.

Instead, the judge is seeking to lock up the barrister. Does 2026 qualify as an improvement on 1670?

It is believed that this is the first time a barrister has been tried for comments made to a jury in his closing speech. That should serve as a potent reminder of just us how authoritarian the current political moment is, and of how quickly long-established legal rights are being dismantled to protect British collusion in genocide.

Read my article – and the part of the speech for which Menon is being tried – here: https://t.co/RyDHG3Iz81

[Voice of Rabbis @voiceofrabbis]

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There are hundreds of thousands of Jews who are against the Zionist State of Israel and Zionism.

Anti-Zionism is not antisemitism.

Criticizing Israel is not antisemitism.

Zionism is not Judaism, and Israel does not represent the Jewish people.

Large Torah communities such as Satmar have opposed Zionism for generations, following the teachings of Rabbi Yoel Teitelbaum.

Torah Jews seek to live in peace with all people in the Holy Land, as Jews did for centuries before the rise of political Zionism.

[Steve Sweeney @SweeneySteve]

“The miracle of the south”

Hezb0llah launches a record 87 operations as Taybeh turns into a “graveyard for the Merkava” with 21 tanks targeted by the Lebanese resistance fighters in a 24 hour period - I$rael’s heaviest tank losses in over 40 years

Reporting from Tyre with @AliRida_SB

[Sammy Obeid @SammyObeid]

Netanyahu is such a pussy he can’t even admit he’s dead

[David Graeber Institute @Graeber_social]

David Graeber made a warning about Keir Starmer in 2020. They did not listen

[Rick Foot @rick_foot]

'Back from the Brink' indeed. Originally scheduled for Nov 7 and cancelled due to a fairly brutal bout of covid; so I'm very happy that it's on again, at @sandyhillarts on Friday November 28

https://t.co/zn3u9PHGa7

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This Friday. I love playing at @sandyhillarts ... Some new things in amongst the usual dystopias and absurdities

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@egasuasay @Carlynotcarley @adamfare1996 Reform want to leave the European Convention on Human Rights. Doing so will literally take away human rights from everyone

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Since this platform was elongated I have no reach here; but on the off chance, next solo outing is at Sandy Hill Arts on November 7th

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@JmeMc123 @owenjonesjourno @StarmertheFraud If you scroll down here you can find an ebook option to get it direct from the publisher

https://t.co/wlmj9TeeCl

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@tf_politics Because a venal self-serving charlatan was seen as a good match for Trump?

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Unpaywalled version

https://t.co/EImtBF9Jvy

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Hard to argue with this

https://t.co/ros9h3SWey

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@Freedom7Restore @IDF Because nothing promotes peace more effectively than assassinating the opposition's peace negotiators

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Terrorism is using violence to pursue a political aim.

What Israel is doing in Gaza is textbook terrorism.

Protesting against Israel is not.

[Conservative Psychologist @psychologyright]

@Reuters Arrest Banksy for his support of terrorists.

[Tim Brannigan @tim_brannigan]

Crazed loyalist Jim Allister has raised the bar for everyone by getting a flag planted on his head. Your move Starmer.

[Michael Rosen 💙💙🎓🎓 NICE 爷爷 @MichaelRosenYes]

It was a brilliantly targeted attack mishap, that took out 6 terrorists deliberately in a mistake that we regret.

[Collective @wearecollectiv_]

“When you saw him on the telly — I mean, Jeremy just aced it.
Not because he was some amazing orator, or slick, or quick, or witty.
But because he was off-script.
Here comes this funny old Obi-Wan Kenobi figure who just says…

‘We’re talking about you — the British public — controlling your own country. How about that?’

— Jeremy Hardy, speaking about his friend Jeremy Corbyn

He’s not here to see it. But Jeremy’s vision lives on.
Join 👉 https://t.co/Y0cnN31foq

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"Most moral army in the world"

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Tickets here:

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Solo set this Sunday, @sandyhillarts on the same bill as the fabulous Francesca Martinez @chessmartinez