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[Milli Hill @millihill]

New piece.

[Farrukh @implausibleblog]

Zack Polanski shames @ShabanaMahmood

"Shabana Mahmood is being deeply irresponsible"

"Conflating protests against a genocide in Gaza and weaponising that against an antisemitic attack on our streets, a terrorist attack, is deeply irresponsible"

"Democratic non violent protest is a cornerstone of our democracy"

"And I think it's worrying when government are increasingly trying to crush down dissent and agains using, what is a brutal attack that all of us in the Jewish community are feeling very deeply"

"To try and use that to point at a protest and say people don't have a right to also speak out against the genocide is both conflating issues, it's incoherent, and it's exactly the opposite of what we need from politicians"

"We need statesmanship, we need responsibility, we need people to be sensible about their language and also to recognise that there is complexity to this, and it can't just be about finger pointing, and people very worried about a genocide"

[cez @cezthesocialist]

“We must all be able to debate freely and openly” is crazy coming from a man who arrested over 1.3k in a month for holding pieces of cardboard that said genocide is bad.

[Colin the Dachshund @DachshundColin]

While parliament was debating child protection from criminal rape gangs Farage went to see a rapist who is trying to block the release of a list of people in a criminal child rape gang.

[Smajo Bešo OBE @SmajoBeso]

We came to this country as refugees. This photo was taken just months after we arrived at our refugee centre in Gosforth, Newcastle. My brother is on the left; I’m the grumpy one. I was 9, he was 11, & neither of us could speak a word of English.

[Dr. Ezzideen @ezzingaza]

There is no medicine left here. Not for the body. Not for the soul.

I have long spoken of the disintegration of Gaza’s hospitals: how we labor beneath roofs that leak shrapnel, beside beds where children lie half-alive. The World Health Organization calls it a collapse. Collapse is too gentle a word.
This is annihilation.

Today, at Ahli Al-Arabi Hospital, we lost the last of our saline.

Yes, saline. Salt and water. The most elemental tool of medicine.
Without it, we cannot hydrate the sick, cleanse a wound, keep a child alive through the night.
Without it, our hands are not healing hands. They are hands that bury the living.

This morning, a boy was carried in, limp and burning with fever.
His father had wrapped his leg in a torn T-shirt soaked with old blood.
We had no IV solution. No sterile wash. We used boiled water and a prayer.
I looked at the boy’s eyes. He did not cry. He had passed beyond crying.

In another room, a mother whispered that she feeds her infant boiled lentil water.
Not out of neglect. Out of poverty. Out of starvation.
Formula now costs more than the monthly aid they no longer receive.
She cradled her child with the tender silence of someone who has already rehearsed the funeral.

Forty-six children with impetigo passed through our doors today.
We gave them what we could: compresses, sympathy, and lies we hoped they wouldn’t recognize.

At Al-Shifa, we are down to our final doses of Decortin.
Doctors ration them with the same arithmetic used in war. Who is most likely to live?
Who can be sacrificed quietly?

But this is what I cannot make peace with:

We have run out of saltwater.
Not morphine. Not blood. Saltwater.
We have salt in our tears, but not in our clinics.
And with it, we have run out of excuses. Out of illusions.
There is nothing left to mask the truth. This is no longer a crisis. It is a crime.
A crime committed not just by siege or bomb, but by silence.

Where is the world?
Where are the voices that spoke of humanity, of law, of God?

You want numbers? I will not give them.
Numbers dehumanize. They make the dead easier to digest.

Instead, I give you this:
The sound of a child gasping through dust.
The look in a nurse’s eyes as she realizes she has nothing left to offer.
The quiet, unbearable dignity of a people condemned to die tidily, without spectacle.

This is not a plea.
It is an accusation.

#GazaGenocide‌

[Guardian Opinion @theguardianfeed]

Israel kills innocent Palestinians. Activists spray-paint a plane. Guess which the UK government calls terrorism | Sally Rooney https://t.co/cABuhYgdg5

[Taj Ali @Taj_Ali1]

Petrol bombing the house of a random Filipino family in Ballymena because 2 Romanians are in court over sexual assault.

That's not legitimate concerns. It's racism, pure and simple.

[Matt Kennard @kennardmatt]

Yesterday, Keir Starmer sent a huge A400M military transport plane from the UK base on Cyprus to Tel Aviv

The A400M can carry 116 soldiers and an array of weapons, including Chinook helicopters

Britain is a participant in the Gaza genocide

You are paying for this

[KNEECAP @KNEECAPCEOL]

An email in to us:

"As a South African, I can tell you that the artists who initially came out against the Apartheid regime did not have an easy life.  They were blacklisted; some were exiled; and the media and political classes—and even some organisations that purported to be artist-centered—turned against them in every way. 

But they are heroes to us, to this day; and the youth always responded to their message, because the youth have a strong spirit and sense of justice. 

Never be afraid to speak the truth. Your fear of "consequences" is the only hold that the establishment has over you, and when that is gone… only the truth, as you see it, remains. 

This fact is known to all those who resist oppression, no matter what form it takes."

[Matthew @MatthewTorbitt]

A reminder that 11.8 million people are registered to participate in football across England from kickabouts to organised leagues with The FA.

20 of those individuals are trans women.

[Michael Walsh @thatbloodyMikey]

This man does not deserve a single day without being reminded what a Fucking Loathsome, lying, evil Bastard he is.

[Val @shegoingtogloat]

Kier Starmer with the mother of Brianna Ghey, a teenage girl who was murdered because she was transgender. He paraded her around parliament last year in order to gain points with the left.

I wonder if he would be able to look Esther in the eye now after such a U-turn.

[AJ+ @ajplus]

Pope Francis has died.

He dedicated himself to marginalized people – especially refugees – as the world’s politicians fought culture wars.

Here’s how the first Pope from the Global South changed the narrative:

[✍🏼 roxana | ✊🏼 zivar | ⚒️ hadadi @roxana_hadadi]

thinking "we have to protect our mother" about the earth after going on a vanity space flight funded by a billionaire whose company is destroying said planet is just so funny, she's got jokes

[David Challen @David_Challen]

He refused to accept his relationship with her was over so stabbed her 15 times.

Punctured both lungs. A frenzied attack that left her w/life-threatening injuries.

Five men had to drag him off.

Matthew Jones CLEARED of attempted murder of Emma Kirk.
➡️ https://t.co/4wTVwiqnqZ

[Ellie Wilson @ellieokwilson]

When I went to court to give evidence against my rapist I was confronted with a lawyer who ignored the law and tried to bully and break me. He didn’t succeed. Instead, I taught myself the law and pursued a case against him. And won. Today is the 1 year anniversary of that win 🥂

[paul bassett davies @thewritertype]

As a fun Comic Relief stunt to benefit underprivileged kids maybe billionaires could pay their fucking taxes.
#RedNoseDay

[Leah Dionne @leahdionne__]

This is peak liberalism, doing a bit of sign language at the same time as taking away the dignity of the disabled across the country

[vi @itadiaries]

Israelis are “massacred” whilst Palestinians have “lost their lives”….you can’t even afford them humanity even in this statement, disgusting