Mass funeral of 112 people in Gaza
This picture alongside millions will be a testament to the apathy, inaction, inhumanity of our brutal world.
We could’ve stopped it. You definitely could have. May it haunt the whole world.
I feel like I'm literally losing my mind. What we are living through in Gaza has become unbearable.
The bombing never stops not for a single moment. Explosions surround us everywhere: in the streets, between homes, and above our heads. As of this moment, more than 20 people have been killed, while the number of injured continues to rise. No one knows who will be next, or whether the next strike will be the one that ends their life.
Hospitals have returned to emergency operations, yet they can barely cope with the growing number of casualties. Ambulances never stop moving, families never stop crying, and the world continues to watch.
We have reached a point where death feels closer than life. We no longer make plans for tomorrow we simply try to survive the next few minutes. We fall asleep to the sound of airstrikes and wake up to news of more massacres, never knowing if we will live to see the end of the day.
I am writing these words from the heart of Gaza, and I do not know if this will be my last message. We are exhausted from pleading, exhausted from calling on the world, and exhausted from waiting for someone to act.
Stop this madness. Stop the war. What is happening here has gone beyond every limit of humanity, and civilians have nothing left to lose except the lives they are desperately trying to hold on to.
the man in the photo is my cousin Mahmoud Al Dremali. my family is in a panic trying to find info on what the zios did to him and if he’s alive. we have no information at all.
The Daily Mail should be proscribed under terrorist legislation. Every day it pumps this kind of poison into the political system. It should be considered an extremist body.
Like most gay and bisexual men, I have trans friends who are frightened, who worry that they have no future in this country, and who are anxious about basic things, like using a public toilet or not getting abused in the street.
As you know, a lot of the people who bought your (genuinely excellent!) music are LGBTQ+ people.
Many of them have trans friends. They certainly all know what it's like to suffer prejudice and to fear discrimination, abuse, rejection and violence.
They know enough about their own history - about being portrayed as defying the supposed laws of gender and biology, as being predators and threats to children, as having collective guilt because of the horrible actions of a minority.
They know what it's like to be told they're actually suffering from a mental illness, that they're some sort of weird, depraved fetish, that they're trying to impose themselves on the majority.
Like trans people, gay and bisexual men certainly also know what it's like to be ridiculed for their appearance, something that doesn't seem to bother you as you spend your precious time alive on this earth creating carousels of your gay male critics, while presumably telling yourself you're the righteous person here.
They know that both media outlets and politicians demonised them to tap into people's worst prejudices for political gain.
They now feel betrayed because they felt your music was a part of their culture. Now they are doing what consumers do when they feel disappointed with a brand.
You can portray this as the mob and being driven by misogyny and all the rest. But the truth is really very straightforward - part of your audience is LGBTQ+, supporting their trans siblings is very important to them either because they are personally close to trans people or they identify with the struggles of trans people, or both, and they are voting with their feet.
You can keep erasing the cis gay and bisexual women who are also speaking out - who the polling consistently shows are more supportive of trans siblings than gay and bisexual men - which is the classic tactic of the anti-trans rights movement - ironically enough, erasing women!
You can even pretend to yourself that gay men are uniquely misogynistic, and even tell yourself that there is nothing homophobic about believing this.
And yes, you can pretend that you, a highly successful music artist, are the victim here, not members of a tiny marginalised minority who often feel scared to leave their own home.
But, ultimately, all you are doing is lying to yourself.
Gary Lineker.
“We’ve seen pensioners being carted off the streets for holding placards, it’s utterly absurd what we’ve become.”
There’s going to be more Palestine Action arrests this afternoon as well, and it’s already cost about £30 million.
Burnham should end this nonsense.
Not a single person has been held accountable for their participation in genocide.
Meanwhile, opponents of genocide are sentenced as terrorists.
What kind of dystopian world are we living in? This absurdity must end. De-proscribe Palestine Action, now.
The absolute entitlement of Labour.
They'll rule out rent controls.
Refuse to bring in wealth taxes.
Continue to arm Israel.
And then ask for your vote.
We all deserve so much better than Labour.
There's a party for the people & for the planet.
https://t.co/0qbagSvIYp
The new Prime Minister talks a lot of about helping with the cost of living crisis. This is the one single measure that would help the most and save £billions.
All talk.
Continuity Starmer.
https://t.co/Pi38lOel1w
I am a Jew. It is a genocide. And while Jews did not kill Christian kids in medieval times, we do kill Palestinian kids in modern times. That is just a fact and therefore not a blood libel.
New defence secretary Wes Streeting has taken tens of thousands of pounds from donors linked to Palantir and arms companies supplying Israel during its genocide in Gaza.
Streeting, the former health secretary, received £20k in June from Daniel Luhde-Thompson, a strategic adviser at Quadrature Capital – a hedge fund which was exposed for holding $121m worth of shares in arms companies making Israeli fighter jets and bombs in 2024.
Quadrature’s most recent US filings show it currently owns a stake of nearly $35m in US spytech firm Palantir, according to analysis by the National.
The MP for Ilford North has also accepted seven donations totalling £31,750 from Trevor Chinn, a senior advisor to private equity giant CVC Capital Partners. CVC is the majority owner of Ontic, which has held two military export licences to Israel since 2021, according to Campaign Against the Arms Trade.
Chinn himself is a pro-Israel lobbyist who was awarded the Israeli presidential medal of honour for services to the state of Israel in 2024, and funded the Labour Together thinktank that commissioned a US firm to spy on British journalists.
Streeting’s most recent donation from Chinn – a single £12k payment – was listed on 17 June when he was considered a potential Labour leadership challenger.
During his tenure as Keir Starmer’s health secretary, Streeting was criticised for accepting donations worth more than £200,000 from people and companies linked to private healthcare.
Streeting also defended the use of Palantir technology in the NHS despite the company’s involvement with the Israeli military and ICE in the US, describing the company as “absolutely critical to the future of the NHS”.
Scottish National Party MSP Zen Ghani told the National: “Wes Streeting holds the record for private healthcare donations and it landed him the health secretary job.
“There are questions to answer here for the Labour party as yet again we see donations linked to companies appearing to fund Israeli arms throughout the genocide in Gaza.”