Fran Rourke 🌻

Poetry fiend

[Sir Edward Leigh MP @EdwardLeighGB]

Ban trade with illegal settlements. The Palestinian people have the same right to a nation as anyone else.

[Medical Aid for Palestinians @MedicalAidPal]

“We are hearing that Dr Hussam Abu Safiya is being beaten to the point of collapse in an Israeli prison.

He has been charged with no crime; he simply treated patients." - Steve Cutts, MAP's CEO

[Sarah Wilkinson @swilkinsonbc]

Perhaps this will be the last cry, pleads Dr Hussam Abu Safiya's son Ilyas.. if we let israelis torture him to death, we may as well all be dead

[John McDonnell @johnmcdonnellMP]

An Open Appeal to the UK Government and Britain’s Medical Institutions: Speak Out for Dr Hussam Abu Safiya Before It Is Too Late – Labour Hub https://t.co/uI9KokDf8e

[Dr. Nika Soon-Shiong @nikasoonshiong]

I have been informed that I'm no longer a member of the Committee to Protect Journalists board. Below is the email I sent the board last night.

[Irlandarra @martinez_j7902]

“My young son, 7, is under the rubble. My 15-year-old daughter is still under the rubble. My whole family is gone. What have they done to you, Netanyahu?”

Palestinian father sobs with pain as he describes the bitterness of displacement.

[Rohan Talbot @rohantalbot]

Genocidal unchilding isn't just about Israel's wanton murder and maiming of Palestinian children, it is also the deliberate elimination of the conditions needed to experience childhood. Israel has eliminated education, dignity. safety, even play.

[Herman Meeuwissen @HermanMeeuwiss1]

Terwijl Courtney Bonneau ons vanuit Libanon bijpraat over de tragische situatie daar, stuurt het Israëlische leger een gewapende drone in haar richting en haar cameraman.

[Alex Crawford @AlexCrawfordSky]

Simply don’t understand those willing to deny the evidence of multiple doctors from a variety of different countries; independent investigators all with long and established careers, journalists, survivors and witnesses, a pile of visual evidence as well as their own eyes - and still attempt to discredit those who report this. - whether they’re survivors, medics, academics or journalists…

[Alex Crawford @AlexCrawfordSky]

The UN inquiry’s findings that genocide is being carried out by Israeli authorities and security forces in Gaza - as well as crimes against humanity and war crimes - and additionally war crimes in the occupied West Bank - is due to what the inquiry found was the deliberate targeting of children - and it is horrifying reading. The details of the targeting are chilling. Children. Killed. Wounded. Tortured. Starved. Raped. On a mass scale

[Harriet Williamson @harriepw]

Corbyn's spokesperson said: "Keir Starmer ends as he started: with lies.
"Corbyn turned Labour into the largest party in Europe, built and funded by half a million people who believed in social justice and peace.
"Starmer swapped political principles for corporate donors - and leaves behind a legacy of broken pledges, grotesque inequality and complicity in genocide. If that isn’t moral bankruptcy, then what is?"

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

Take this in. Step by step. Phrase by phrase. Word by word.

[Tamer Nahed @Tamer_Alnoaizy]

My childhood friend and schoolmate was killed today, just 3 days before his wedding. He was on his way to distribute his wedding invitation cards. I still can’t believe what happened.

He had told one of our friends that I must be there with him at his wedding party. The vehicle he was in was bombed while he was distributing the wedding cards for his own happiness.

The shock is enormous… the attack happened right next to my house, and I didn’t know it was him. I heard the terrifying sound, ran out, but I didn’t see him inside the car. I don’t know what to say or how to say it…

Why is it written for us to live this torment? Why does fate force us to stay in this endless dark cycle? Why don’t we have the right to be happy? Why has this cruel life been written for us?

[Alex Crawford @AlexCrawfordSky]

Not only is Israel banning foreign journalists from entering Gaza to report independently, there’s a growing number refused entry to Israel and Palestinian territories, says @CPJ_Eurasia Journalists legitimately reporting on widespread Israeli killings and bombardment of Gaza, West Bank and Lebanon are smeared as non-partisan and antisemitic. ‘For two-thirds of the journalists, officials directly cited their reporting or public statements as grounds for the decisions, including their use of terms such as “apartheid” or “genocide” to describe Israeli policies, according to documents seen by CPJ and news reports’ https://t.co/DS3iFs4RbL via @CPJ_Eurasia

[Sarah Wilkinson @swilkinsonbc]

Sharif Abdel Kouddous says the number of journalists the israelis have killed is unprecedented: press vests are bullseyes | via @SaulStaniforth

[Hamza Yusuf @Hamza_a96]

Can’t wait to hear from our fearless and principled media and political class how selling Palestinian land in London and facilitating ethnic cleansing is right and opposing it makes you a fervent antisemite.

[William Dalrymple @DalrympleWill]

If you read, and retweet, one post on Gaza this weekend let it be this

[Ross Greer @Ross_Greer]

🚨 French authorities have confirmed Israeli interference in May's Scottish elections.

Will @YvetteCooperMP follow France's lead and summon the Israeli ambassador? Or will she continue Labour's tradition of letting them away with absolutely anything?

https://t.co/0VdgZEZ2QZ

[John McDonnell @johnmcdonnellMP]

Scale of sentences on the 4 young people who took direct action against the arms supplier to Israel is truly shocking. To impose years of imprisonment for protesting to save lives in Gaza is unjust, especially sentencing on terrorist grounds they were never convicted of by a jury

[Jonathan Cook @Jonathan_K_Cook]

BREAKING: Justice Jeremy Johnson has ruled that the Filton 4 will be sentenced as terrorists – even though two juries refused to convict them of violence charges over their efforts to disable an Israeli factory in the UK making killer drones for use in Gaza. They were found guilty of a minor charge of criminal damage.

Judge Johnson kept the jury in the dark of his plans to sentence the four as terrorists. This is the first time in British legal history that anyone has been sentenced as a terrorist for damaging property. It's a very dark moment in an increasingly authoritarian Britain.

Thousands of legal professionals complained about Johnson's clear abuses of legal procedures to help the government's case for proscribing Palestine Action as a terrorist group.

Johnson has now proved this was always a show trial.

I explain how he rigged the two trials here: https://t.co/fXTkUAmIvh