Stephen Quinn

[Rosie Holt @RosieisaHolt]

I keep watching videos of MPs this week I could parody but they are all so terrible I don't know how I can make them worse to be honest.

[Jonathan Cook @Jonathan_K_Cook]

Western media appear to have missed the story that a mass grave of Palestinian bodies has been found in northern Gaza, handcuffed and with signs that the victims were tortured, then executed. Busy news weekend presumably.

Story here: https://t.co/8vbDkKT16W

[Marina Purkiss @MarinaPurkiss]

Young people…

If you don’t take an interest and vote for your future

This lot will.

[richard oneill @silverrich39]

We all say it, but not quite as eloquently as Mick Lynch!

[Craig Murray @CraigMurrayOrg]

Here is an interesting question.
How many resignations have their been of MPs from Labour Friends of Israel over the genocide in Gaza?

[Left Unity @LeftUnityParty]

Leanne Mohamad the independent candidate for Ilford North who is campaigning to get rid of Wes Streeting will be speaking at the National demonstration for Gaza this Saturday. Go Leanne!

[Frank Owen's Legendary Paintbrush🥀🇵🇸🇾🇪🇸🇩 @OwenPaintbrush]

Why is a reactionary, right-wing, pro-Israel, anti-Palestine, genocide-enabling religious organisation issuing orders to the Labour Party?

And more to the point, why is Starmer obeying them?

I thought it was the Labour Party, not the Likud Party.

https://t.co/NVwi3EoUUE

[Jonathan Cook @Jonathan_K_Cook]

Israel has long plotted the downfall of UNRWA, aware that it is one of the biggest obstacles to eradicating the Palestinians as a people. Now most of the West is actively helping it advance its genocidal policy.

My latest article can be read here:
https://t.co/vwY4XyMYQZ

[Thelma Walker @Thelma_DWalker]

Sam is a really principled, dedicated socialist. Support Sam everyone!

[BladeoftheSun @BladeoftheS]

The Teeswork Freeport corruption in short.

2 businessmen paid £110 for a £100m site.
We paid £462m to clean it up they paid nothing
They made £100m selling scrap metal from clean up, we received nothing.

Michael Gove covers it up.

Time to get a real investigation.

[Left Unity @LeftUnityParty]

Leanne Mohamad's campaign for Ilford North has started. The feedback she got from the voters door step was positive - with one resounding message "get rid of Wes Streeting!"

[Jonathan Cook @Jonathan_K_Cook]

Israel’s war on the UN refugee agency UNRWA should be seen in a wider context. Israel long had a strategy that involved making Gaza uninhabitable, something the UN started warning about in 2015. Israel’s game plan went something like this:

By making Palestinians in Gaza ever more desperate, it was certain that militant groups like Hamas willing to fight to liberate the enclave would gain in popularity. In turn, that would provide Israel with the excuse both to further tighten the blockade on Gaza to deal with a “terrorism threat”, and to intermittently wreck Gaza in “retaliation” for those attacks – or what Israeli military commanders variously called “mowing the grass” and “returning Gaza to the Stone Age”.

The assumption was that Gaza’s militant groups would exhaust their energies managing the constant “humanitarian crises” Israel had engineered.

At the same time, Israel could promote twin narratives. It could say publicly that it was impossible for it to take responsibility for the people of Gaza, given that they were so clearly invested both in Jew hatred and terrorism.

Meanwhile, it would privately tell the international community that, given how uninhabitable Gaza was becoming, they urgently needed to find a solution that did not involve Israel. The hope was that Washington would be able to arm-twist or bribe neighbouring Egypt into taking most of Gaza’s destitute population…

On October 7, Hamas and other militant groups achieved what Israel had assumed was impossible. They broke out of their concentration camp.

The Israeli leadership’s shock is not just over the bloody nature of the break-out. It is that on that day Hamas smashed Israel’s entire security concept – one designed to keep the Palestinians crushed, and Arab states and the region’s other resistance groups hopeless.

Last week, in a knockout blow, the World Court agreed to put Israel on trial for genocide in Gaza, collapsing the moral case for an exclusive Jewish state built on the ruins of the Palestinians’ homeland.

The judges’ near-unanimous conclusion that South Africa has made a plausible case for Israel committing genocide should force a reassessment of everything that went before. Genocides don’t just emerge out of thin air. They happen after long periods in which the oppressor group dehumanises another group, incites against it and abuses it.

The World Court has implicitly conceded that the Palestinians were right when they insisted that the Nakba – Israel’s mass dispossession and ethnic cleansing operation of 1948 – never ended. It just took on different forms. Israel became better at concealing those crimes, until the mask was ripped off after the October 7 break-out.

You can read more from my latest article In waging war on the UN refugee agency, the West is openly siding with Israeli genocide here:
https://t.co/31iUb2ZLUd

[Left Unity @LeftUnityParty]

Sam Gorst who is a councillor in Liverpool will standing against Maria Eagle in Garston and Halewood for the Liverpool Community Independent party. Good luck Sam.
No Ceasefire No Vote

[Jonathan Cook @Jonathan_K_Cook]

UNRWA is separate from the UN’s main refugee agency, the UNHCR, and deals only with Palestinian refugees.

Although Israel does not want you to know it, the reason for there being two UN refugee agencies is because Israel and its western backers insisted on the division back in 1948.

Why? Because Israel was afraid of the Palestinians falling under the responsibility of the UNHCR’s forerunner, the International Refugee Organisation. The IRO was established in the immediate wake of the Second World War in large part to cope with the millions of European Jews fleeing Nazi atrocities.

Israel did not want the two cases treated as comparable, because it was pushing hard for Jewish refugees to be settled on lands from which it had just expelled Palestinians. Part of the IRO’s mission was to seek the repatriation of European Jews. Israel was worried that very principle might be used both to deny it the Jews it wanted to colonise Palestinian land and to force it to allow the Palestinian refugees to return to their former homes.

So in a real sense, UNRWA is Israel’s creature: it was set up to keep the Palestinians a case apart, an anomaly...

Israel’s efforts to get rid of UNRWA are not new. They date back many years. For a number of reasons, the UN refugee agency is a thorn in Israel’s side – and all the more so in Gaza.

Not least, it has provided a lifeline to Palestinians there, keeping them fed and cared for, and providing jobs to many thousands of local people in a place where unemployment rates are among the highest in the world.

It has invested in infrastructure like hospitals and schools that make life in Gaza more bearable, when Israel’s goal has long been to make the enclave uninhabitable.

UNRWA’s well-run schools, staffed by local Palestinians, teach the children their own history, about where their grandparents once lived, and of Israel’s campaign of dispossession and ethnic cleansing against them. That runs directly counter to the infamous Zionist slogan about the Palestinians’ identity-less future: “The old will die and the young forget.”

But UNRWA’s role is bigger than that. Uniquely, it is the sole agency unifying Palestinians wherever they live, even when they are separated by national borders and Israel’s fragmentation of the territory it controls.

UNRWA brings Palestinians together even when their own political leaders have been manipulated into endless factionalism by Israel’s divide and rule policies: Hamas is nominally in charge in Gaza, while Mahmoud Abbas’ Fatah pretends to run the West Bank.

In addition, UNRWA keeps alive the moral case for a Palestinian right of return – a principle recognised in international law but long ago abandoned by western states.

Even before October 7, UNRWA had become an obstable that needed removing if Israel was ever to ethnically cleanse Gaza. That is why Israel has repeatedly lobbied to stop the biggest donors, especially the US, funding UNRWA.

Back in 2018, for example, the refugee agency was plunged into an existential crisis when President Donald Trump acquiesced to Israeli pressure and cut all its funding. Even after the decision was reversed, the agency has been limping along financially.

You can read more from my latest article In waging war on the UN refugee agency, the West is openly siding with Israeli genocide here:
https://t.co/31iUb2ZLUd

[BladeoftheSun @BladeoftheS]

Admiral Penny Mordaunt deleted this and she will hope that no-one remembers it.

So make sure that they do. Because she definitely doesn’t support Rishi Sunak.

[Farrukh @implausibleblog]

Ben Kentish explains that paying Junior Doctors would cost £2 billion a year

Ben Kentish also refers to an article in The Telegraph which shows inheritance tax cuts proposed by Rishi Sunak and the Conservative party would cost us £8 billion a year

How about we keep inheritance tax and pay doctors and nurses properly? #DoctorsStrike

And maybe spend the other £6 billion a year fixing NHS and school infrastructure?

[Dr Rachel Clarke @doctor_oxford]

I'm sorry @wesstreeting but accusing the NHS of complacency when I work in hospital conditions so brutal they can reduce the toughest, most professional doctors to tears is downright offensive.

Not a single member of my Trust is "complacent". Not one.

Why would you trash us?

[BladeoftheSun @BladeoftheS]

James Cleverly says that everyone supports the Rwanda Bill.

If you don’t and respect Human Rights LIKE
If James Cleverly can f*ck off RT

#RwandaBill

[Ian Lavery @IanLaveryMP]

I can assure you my constituents do not in anyway share this view.
Thatcher brutalised the miners and their families.

https://t.co/WqelJNpA8j