Ruth Griffin

🌻 she/ her

[Read Raising Expectations (and Raising Hell) @JPHilllllll]

Today of all days we need to internalize this

[Middle East Eye @MiddleEastEye]

Forensic investigation reveals Hind Rajab's car was hit with 355 bullets and finds it "not plausible" that the Israeli tank couldn't see children inside the car

https://t.co/Jwb8bvGHh6

[Liz Wasser @TheLizWasser]

so long farewell

[Benedict Pringle @benedictpringle]

Comedian Jon Richardson aping Margot Robbie in a bath, explaining Rishi Sunak’s career as hedgie, Big Short-style, is a thing of genius.

[Chris Nineham @ChrisNineham]

Whitehall was completely shut down by protestors tonight in one of the biggest static protests I have ever seen outside Downing Street. Watch this….

[Cedar Salvo 🇱🇧🇵🇸 @cedarsalvo]

Seeing mighty mega corps like these confess BDS has meaningfully hurt them really subverts the cliche that there’s “no ethical consumption under capitalism”. Knowing that your efforts are having an impact should strengthen your resolve. Today is a good day to keep boycotting.

[Walid Mahmoud @walidmahmodrouk]

For English speakers, here is the first message on social media,from @WaelDahdouh after Israel killed his son Hamza.

[Dr Shola Mos-Shogbamimu @SholaMos1]

Weaponising the definition of antisemitism to enable the extermination of 20,000+ Palestinians, murder of 8,000+ children & displacing millions from their homes & land should be a war crime. #FreePalestine #Gaza_Genocide

[Zoe Gardner @ZoeJardiniere]

@theleaduk The most important thing I hope people will take from it is this👇

Anti-migrant politics is used to make European people believe it is worthwhile to throw our human rights protections against governments away.

It is a power-grab from all of us, won off the back of racist hate.

[Ashok Kumar @comrade_kumar_]

Marc Lamont Hill puts every interviewer to shame by forcing Israels former Foreign Minister to admit that Israel is deliberately starving and bombing a captive civilian population to get what they want. A War Crime. Not one British journalist has done this

[Naila @BrownNaila]

"I’m personally a Holocaust survivor as an infant, I barely survived. My grandparents were killed in Aushwitz and most of my extended family were killed. I became a Zionist; this dream of the Jewish people resurrected in their historical homeland and the barbed wire of Aushwitz being replaced by the boundaries of a Jewish state with a powerful army…and then I found out that it wasn’t exactly like that, that in order to make this Jewish dream a reality we had to visit a nightmare on the local population.

There’s no way you could have ever created a Jewish state without oppressing and expelling the local population. Jewish Israeli historians have shown without a doubt that the expulsion of Palestinians was persistent, pervasive, cruel, murderous and with deliberate intent - that’s what’s called the 'Nakba' in Arabic; the 'disaster' or the 'catastrophe'. There’s a law that you cannot deny the Holocaust, but in Israel you’re not allowed to mention the Nakba, even though it’s at the very basis of the foundation of Israel.

I visited the Occupied Territories (West Bank) during the first intifada. I cried every day for two weeks at what I saw; the brutality of the occupation, the petty harassment, the murderousness of it, the cutting down of Palestinian olive groves, the denial of water rights, the humiliations...and this went on, and now it’s much worse than it was then.

It’s the longest ethnic cleansing operation in the 20th and 21st century. I could land in Tel Aviv tomorrow and demand citizenship but my Palestinian friend in Vancouver, who was born in Jerusalem, can’t even visit!

So then you have these miserable people packed into this, horrible…people call it an 'outdoor prison', which is what it is. You don’t have to support Hamas policies to stand up for Palestinian rights, that’s a complete falsity. You think the worse thing you can say about Hamas, multiply it by a thousand times, and it still will not meet the Israeli repression and killing and dispossession of Palestinians.

And 'anybody who criticises Israel is an anti-Semite' is simply an egregious attempt to intimidate good non-Jews who are willing to stand up for what is true."

[Political Cartoon @Cartoon4sale]

Ben Jennings on the Tories’ attempts to make the UK unwelcoming to arrivals #SuellaBraverman #Rwanda #migrants #RishiSunak #Refugee #Migration – political cartoon gallery in London https://t.co/dePcTdnXF6

[Bonnie Greer @Bonn1eGreer]

Rescuing human beings in the water....is a poll question?

#Migration

[Ash @theashrb]

The UK is celebrating an offshore refugee camp in 2023… madness.

[Tom Rogers @RogersHistory]

Fair point #TeacherStrike

[Ashley James @ashleyljames]

It's funny that the media is so outraged by pupils missing school tomorrow so that teachers can strike for a fair wage... Are very happy for schools to be closed an extra day for the King's coronation.

[Gabriel Pogrund @Gabriel_Pogrund]

EXCLUSIVE🚨w/@HarryYorke1

The BBC chairman helped arrange a guarantee on a loan of up to £800K for Boris Johnson weeks before then PM selected him for the role

Johnson was told to end Richard Sharp’s involvement in his financial affairs by Cab Office 1/7 https://t.co/H8Vk3pd0V4