Sam

....Don't believe half of what you see and none of what you hear... Lou Reed

[Paul Murphy 🇵🇸 @paulmurphy_TD]

Amazing to see this response from the people of Belfast.

We're the majority.

We need to mobilise to push the racists back and defend those who are targeted.

[Jake Wallis Simons @JakeWSimons]

A juror — a JUROR — in the Palestine Action case is now speaking at a rally in their support. 😵‍💫
This is the collapse of the apparatus of our freedoms. What is Britain becoming?

[Steve Sweeney @SweeneySteve]

The BBC is at it again.

Dahiye is not simply “where Hezb0llah is based.” It is home to 500,000–800,000 people. It’s where families live, where friends meet in cafés and restaurants, where people work, shop, study, and build their lives.

The choice of language is deliberate, dehumanising an entire community to justify I$raeli attacks on civilians.

Shameful

[Steve Sweeney @SweeneySteve]

There is no ceasefire in Lebanon with I$raeli attacks continuing in the south as it insists the MOU between Iran and the US doesn’t apply to them.

Multiple villages have been targeted this morning with demolition operations while a booby-trapped vehicle was detonated on the road between Haris and Tebnine.

Some municipalities have warned people not to return as many of those displaced from their homes are heading south.

I$raeli forces this morning opened fire on Kfar Roummaine and also targeted the area around Maifdoun as civilians tried to return with at least one person wounded.

[Tanita Tikaram💙 @tanita_tikaram]

Sir Trevor Phillips ' new boss Bari Weiss sounds nice 😳..
She sent out a memo to CBS news editorial staff to make anti-Trump protestors look more violent . Phillips will fit right in .

[Cenk Uygur @cenkuygur]

Israel started massive bombing campaign against Lebanon as soon as a potential peace deal was announced. They’re never going to let us live in peace. They are never going to be satisfied.

They’re insatiable fanatics, who want endless war because they think God promised that land to them 3,000 years ago. They’re the religious and nationalist fundamentalists we should have been warned about.

That’s so fucking obvious. Just look at a map!! Are the Palestinians occupying the Israelis, or the other way around? Are the Lebanese invading Israel, or the other way around? You would have to be both blind and deeply stupid to not see the reality at this point.

I’m furious at our national media. They all lied in unison for decades to trick us into supporting and funding the terrorists.

I don’t know that I can ever forgive all the reporters in the national press, who lied to help the fascists, and called their victims “terrorists.” These sick people helped the actual terrorists brutalize the Palestinians for six decades, while actively hiding the truth from us.

[Patrick Corrigan @PatrickCorrigan]

Who is Belfast? This is Belfast.

A city for all.

Belfast stands against racism.
(pic © Reuters)

[Saul Staniforth @SaulStaniforth]

Gideon Levy: "There is no other way to see it but the defeat of Israel & the personal defeat of Netanyahu. This was his life project - Iran, & this life project failed.."

[BreakThrough News @BTnewsroom]

BREAKING: Stanford University graduates staged a walkout during Google CEO Sundar Pichai’s keynote address at commencement Sunday.

The walkout was organized by Students for Justice in Palestine and No Tech for Apartheid as a protest against Google’s contracts with the IDF, Dept. of Homeland Security, and ICE.

[The Cradle @TheCradleMedia]

Leading medical journal The Lancet publishes call to expel Israeli Medical Association over Gaza genocide
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Medical journal The Lancet has published a petition calling for the Israeli Medical Association to be boycotted and expelled from the World Medical Association over its failure to condemn what the petition describes as Israel's genocide against Palestinians and the collapse of Gaza's healthcare system.

The campaign, launched by the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement, Healthcare Workers for Palestine, and Doctors for Gaza, has so far received support from more than 1,150 healthcare professionals and medical organizations. The call for expulsion is expected to be raised at the World Medical Association's general assembly in October.

The Israeli Medical Association opposed the move, arguing that its expulsion would not advance peace, healthcare, or human rights, and would instead create a precedent for using political pressure campaigns to isolate healthcare workers based on their nationality.

[Jeremy Corbyn @jeremycorbyn]

I was meant to meet Hasan in person, until our government banned him from entering the UK.

We met online instead to talk about the repression of Palestinian solidarity — and why we will never stop speaking out against genocide and apartheid.

[Pádraig Murchadhfinn @murchadhfinn]

“Nice to meet you, my name is Jewish Terror. I'm new in your world and on your screens, but I've been in the neighborhood for many years”
~Gideon Levy

Haaretz

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[Tom London @TomLondon6]

Read and share the article below by Gideon Levy @gideonle an Israeli journalist who has often been a near lone voice of sanity in Israel

Here he addresses his fellow Israelis who live with themselves by LYING and LYING to themselves

[The Aftershock @The_Aftershock_]

BREAKING: People Against Genocide are blocking all entry to Ultra I&C, a key supplier to Elbit's Israeli drone factory in Leicester.

They used modified suitcases to lock on and shut down the site for as long as possible.

"Direct action will continue undeterred"

[Steve Sweeney @SweeneySteve]

🚨 BREAKING: Lebanon files UN Security Council complaint accusing I$rael of violating the Chemical Weapons Convention in the south

Lab tests from Aita al-Shaab, Naqoura, and Dhaira confirmed catastrophic levels of Glyphosate—a cancer-linked chemical—in agricultural soil.

Normal farming levels would show 0.5 to 2 mcg/g but tests on soil in South Lebanon show 22,750 mcg/g, 11,000 times above safe levels

It has been labeled by some as a deliberate war crime designed to permanently destroy arable border lands.

Here is our report from the scene filmed in February

[Arnaud Bertrand @RnaudBertrand]

So what is in "The Deal with Islamic Republic of Iran"?

If you're confused, it's normal: the US and Iran already publicly disagree on what they agreed to, and it's not even a "deal": just a memorandum of understanding (MOU) that sets the terms for negotiating the actual deal within the next 60 days.

We do, however, know a few things:

1) Israel is actively trying to undermine the deal - for instance by striking Beirut yesterday Sunday.

Israeli media say that the deal is causing "profound concern among Israeli officials," that "Israel, despite having started the war alongside the US, was not involved in the negotiations," and that "the deal do[es] not achieve the goals of the war that were set out by the US and Israel" (https://t.co/hMqvezz08J).

That last part is clear: the very existence of this MOU proves the objectives of the war were not met, as they certainly didn't include the US negotiating an exit with an undefeated Iran while Israel is freaking out about it on the sidelines.

2) We know, because both parties and Pakistan (the mediator) confirmed it, that a finalized MOU does exist and that it's due to be formally signed on Friday in Switzerland by JD Vance and maybe Trump himself (Vance told Fox News: “I certainly plan to be there, but it’s possible the president himself could be there” https://t.co/sTmdfAv7DS)

3) We know Trump ordered the US naval blockade to be lifted (supposedly today, Monday)

4) The Strait of Hormuz will reopen on the Iranian side (though both parties publicly spun the terms differently - Trump says "toll-free," Iran's FM Araghchi says with "service fees")

5) The war would end on all fronts including Lebanon - both sides used this exact phrase. Israel, obviously, is trying hard to spoil this.

6) Some form of sanctions relief is included - Iran speaks of "termination of all sanctions" (https://t.co/3v7Xa3n9lv) and a senior US official confirmed the structure is "Iran would earn economic rewards each time it met a set of US demands"

7) The MOU apparently does not agree on anything wrt nuclear, just that it will be discussed during the 60-day negotiation window, with Iran maintaining its current nuclear status quo in the meantime

8) In fact I suspect the MOU defers most things truly contested - like nuclear - to later negotiations while resolving in the immediate only the problems the war itself created: stop shooting, reopen the strait (under updated Iranian rules), and lift the blockade.

Which means that, most likely, this "deal" is - at this stage - less a deal than an acknowledgement of the new status quo reached in the war. It differs from the April 5 ceasefire in that, this time, the US is lifting all coercion it introduced in the war - including the naval blockade it imposed on April 13.

So in effect the war had two phases of failed coercion (military, then economic with the blockade), and the MOU formalizes the failure of both.

In exchange what the US is getting is a conversation about its initial stated war objectives (like nuclear), which it will now have to pursue after having proven it cannot impose them by force.

Needless to say, you don't get better terms at the table after showing you couldn't get them on the battlefield 🤷

[Drop Site @DropSiteNews]

🔴 Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor says it has been forced to shut down its Gaza office after 15 years of operation, citing an escalating Israeli campaign of threats and punitive measures against the organization and its staff that intensified after it published a report documenting sexual violence against Palestinians in Israeli detention facilities.

Euro-Med said Israeli officials, media platforms, and affiliated actors are waging disinformation and defamation campaigns, alongside making direct and indirect threats, including calls for the “physical assassination” of senior staff members.

Euro-Med also said Israeli authorities imposed movement restrictions targeting dozens of staff. The organization described the closure as a precautionary measure rather than a retreat, saying its mission to document human rights violations in Gaza will continue.

[Sarah Wilkinson @swilkinsonbc]

You cannot hide the israeli genocide from us, says @AbbyMartin: we see your crimes every day: the unvarnished truth has been shown to us

[Jonathan Cook @Jonathan_K_Cook]

As former British ambassador Craig Murray notes, a raft of recent legislation has given the police and courts enormous, authoritarian powers, including the right to treat any form of civil disobedience as terrorism because it seeks to "influence the government".

The timing of Judge Johnson's sentencing of the Filton Four as terrorists on Friday, after a jury had found them guilty only of a relatively minor charge of criminal damage – as well as the renewed cacophony of fake news about a policewoman having her spine broken / smashed, rebutted by Murray in his latest article – is not accidental.

As Murray points out, the purpose is to smooth the path for the Court of Appeal to reverse the High Court's recent ruling that it was "unlawful" of the government to proscribe Palestine Action as a terrorist organisation. The Appeal Court will issue its decision tomorrow (Monday).

The government is desperate to ensure the crushing of Palestine Action continues and thereby prevent the group from drawing attention to the UK's continuing complicity in Israel's atrocities, such as our hosting of Israeli factories that make killer drones for use in Gaza.

More from Murray here:
https://t.co/Mh8At5XE4C

[Suzanne Breen @SuzyJourno]

“Shut up, traitorous appeaser. You will pay the price eventually. Tick f***ing tock.” Online posts this week called for my execution, my home to be burnt down & my kids hurt. The far right want to freeze their critics into silence. They will never win.
https://t.co/nQY9xVSRaJ