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[Thomas @Sea__Solitude]

Don't fucking talk to me about antisemitism anymore.

[Andy Burnham @andyburnham]

In a difficult and dangerous world, a decade on from Brexit, there is a risk that Britain loses the confidence to lead and stand up for its values.

I’m not prepared to let that happen. It is more important than ever that Britain stands for something.

We have called for years for a two-state solution in the Middle East, but we must recognise that those words are meaningless unless we back them up with action.

For too long, we have been hesitant to act, fearful of being accused of being anti-Israel.

Today we are announcing carefully judged, targeted steps that are not aimed at the Israeli people, but at the unacceptable policies of the current Israeli government.

The suffering of the Palestinian people is a scar on the conscience of the world. Innocent Palestinians, including children, continue to be killed in Gaza. And there is still a humanitarian crisis, with far too little aid getting in.

The scale of destruction is hard to comprehend. More than 70,000 people lie dead - at least 20,000 of them children. Families and communities have been torn apart. Millions displaced. And the population of Gaza is now penned into just one third of the territory.

I know that people across the UK feel very deeply about this issue - and so do I.

Before I became Prime Minister, I said our country’s response had been too slow and simply not good enough. That’s why I committed to changing the government’s approach.

I will not stand by as the horrific suffering continues to grow and the prospect of a two-state solution - the best hope for peace and stability in the region - comes under attack.

More settlements have been approved under the four years of this Israeli government than in the previous 20 years. The UN has reported more than 1,500 incidents of settler violence so far this year, aimed at driving out Palestinians. And the situation is growing worse, fast.

The Israeli government has now approved 104 new settlements since it took office in December 2022, and ahead of the October elections in Israel, it is allowing tenders for the construction of the E1 mega settlement to go ahead. This would cut a swathe through the heart of the West Bank - snuffing out the hope of realising a two-state solution. It cannot be allowed to happen.

That’s why we are announcing a new package of tough measures to put pressure on the Israeli government:

First, we will ban the trade in goods with illegal settlements in Palestine.

Second, we have formally changed the view of the British government to say for the first time that the Israeli occupation of Palestinian territory is unlawful - independent of, but in line with, the conclusion of the international court of justice.

And third, we will sanction individuals and companies that support, facilitate or profit from illegal settlements. That includes any businesses or investors that take part in the construction of the E1 settlement.

In addition, we are announcing a new package of desperately needed humanitarian aid to Gaza.

We are taking these steps because it is the right thing to do.

I have condemned the monstrous terrorist attack on Israel on 7 October 2023 in the strongest possible terms - and continue to condemn Hamas. However, it does not justify the Israeli government’s actions in Gaza or the West Bank.

The measures we are taking are about targeting illegal settlements and increasing the pressure on the Israeli government to change course. We are not imposing sanctions on Israel as a whole, which would punish the Israeli people, many of whom disagree with their government’s position.

The Israeli people are not responsible for the actions of their government. And nor is the Jewish community in the UK. Blaming British Jews for the actions of Benjamin Netanyahu’s government is wrong, plain and simple. And it is antisemitism, plain and simple.

I met the representatives of the Jewish community just last week. I know the fear they live with day by day. My government will stop at nothing to ensure they are safe and to stamp out antisemitism in every part of our society.

The measures we are announcing today are about protecting the only solution that could see the Israeli and Palestinian people living side by side in peace and security - something that people up and down the UK desperately want to see.

The government I lead will keep working with our partners around the world to keep that hope alive.

[PraiseClip @PraiseClip]

This is, of course, what the Nazis said about the Jews.

[LIVERPOOLHONDURAS🐦‍🔥🇭🇳 @LIVERPOOL_504]

▪️ Pirámide con los mayores clubes de todos los tiempos:

[ً sofia ꕤ @lacyspov]

don’t you remember when you came into a mosque during Ramadan and started attacking Muslims that were peacefully praying in 2023 for ur own pleasure? because I do. https://t.co/yF0QVkccFc

[Connor @C0n_TwT]

‘I can’t be bought’

My brother in Christ, I watched you scream big chungus and Up the RA into your phone camera for a fiver 😭

[Bev 🇨🇦 @Garnet_2203]

I was born in 1961 too.
And this version of the past is a myth.

Kids did have food allergies we just didn’t have the science to name them.
I lost a brother before he was two because medicine didn’t yet understand what allergy killed him.

Trans kids didn’t “not exist.”
They hid. They were shamed. Many never survived adolescence.

Violence didn’t start with social media.
Bullying, racism, misogyny, and abuse were simply normalized and ignored.

Families didn’t stay together because things were better
they stayed together because women and children had fewer choices.

And no, it wasn’t just “Merry Christmas.”
We said Happy Holidays. Season’s Greetings. Yuletide.
Nobody lost their mind. Nobody felt threatened. We just… lived.

I rode buses and subways too
they weren’t magically safer.
We just didn’t talk about what happened on them.

What really changed wasn’t people.
It was visibility.

Data replaced denial.
Voices replaced silence.
And accountability replaced nostalgia.

The past wasn’t safer.
It was quieter because suffering had nowhere to go.

I don’t want a time machine.
I want a future where we stop confusing silence with peace.

Stop being such a boomer.

[Daniel Lismore @daniellismore]

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Saint George was not English. He never lived there. He never travelled there. He never imagined it.

He was born in Cappadocia. Modern Türkiye. Eastern Roman Empire. Borderland heat. Dust. Trade routes. His mother was from Lydda in what is now Palestine. Levant soil. Levant people. He grew up between cultures. Greek spoken. Roman law. Middle Eastern life.

His skin would not have been white. Not northern. Not pink. Olive to dark. Sun marked. Dark hair. Dark eyes. A body shaped by outdoor work and military service in the eastern empire. No marble skin. No medieval fantasy. No fog light.

He was a Roman soldier. Infantry. Not a knight. No horse. No dragon. No helmet. The cross came centuries later. He refused to renounce Christianity under Diocletian. He refused paperwork. Refused obedience. Refused the state. He was tortured and beheaded. His body discarded.

His father had already been killed for the same reason. This was a family of dissent. Christians inside a hostile empire. Minor aristocracy. Educated. Mobile. Dangerous to power because they would not comply.

England adopted him late. Crusaders imported the cult. They liked the clean symbol. Warrior. Martyr. They stripped him of geography and colour and language. Turned a Middle Eastern man into a national logo.

The cross of St George was not born English. Genoa used it. Byzantium used it. Crusaders carried it. England claimed it.

His shrines sit closer to Gaza than Gloucester. His name was spoken in Arabic long before it was shouted in English streets.

So here he is.

A Middle Eastern man. Brown skinned. Not pink. Foreign born. Raised between cultures. Religious minority. Refused the state. Executed by authority. Migrant by story. Adopted only after death.

Exactly the kind of man some of his loudest supporters would be protesting against if he tried to enter England today.

The supporters of Reform UK. The crowd orbiting Tommy Robinson.
While they wave his flag.
While they chant his name.
While Nigel Farage and Reform and Tommy tell their followers who to hate.
They meet them in private Hotels, Back rooms, Boardrooms.. Tommy travel to the Middle East.

Both talking business? ….

[. @LouiseRawAuthor]

UPDATE: it was indeed a middle aged white man- so middle aged and so white, he’s even called DAVE..

You’re a clown, @TRobinsonNewEra 🤡 - leave our @GNev2 alone!

[Afif Aqrabawi @AjAqrabawi]

This passport belonged to a 6 year old child from Gaza. Look at the date of the tweet — 2014.

Israel’s genocide did not begin on Oct 7.

[Farrukh @implausibleblog]

Ed Davey, "I'm afraid Nigel Farage should be apologising for helping cause this problem in the first place"

"Before Brexit we didn't have a small boats problem because we had 27 return agreements with European Union countries and we could return people"

"But that's to Nigel Farage, Boris Johnson and the Conservatives, we tore up those agreements when we left the European Union, and now we have this problem"

"I hope when he's on your program you'll ask him to apologise"

"What Nigel Farage and Boris Johnson did is have a magnet of people, more and more people coming to the UK, because we can't return them"

"So again I ask you please, that Nigel Farage is exposed for his failures and contributions to the small boats crisis"

- Maybe we should call them Farage's Brexit Boats

[Irish Unity 🇮🇪🇵🇸 @IrishUnity]

A British guide to..

Terrorism:
- picking up a flag
- putting paint on a war plane

Not terrorism:
- executing 250 journalists
- murdering 20,000 children
- bombing 37 hospitals
- allowing babies to decompose in ICU beds
- starving 2million people
- shoot people queuing for food

[Mukhtar @I_amMukhtar]

This is disgusting.

A local lad came out to give his opinion to the media, and when the thugs didn't like what he was saying, they chased him and called him a pedo.

[PALESTINE ONLINE 🇵🇸 @OnlinePalEng]

A young Libyan Mohamed Alnaas produced a boycott video delivering a clear message, urging people to boycott products that support Israeli apartheid.

[Politics UK @PolitlcsUK]

🚨🎥 WATCH: Keir Starmer addresses the nation as he announces the UK will recognise a Palestinian state in September

[KNEECAP @KNEECAPCEOL]

Israel needs to be stopped.

They have squeezed the remaining population into 12% of Gaza.

They are murdering starving people queuing for food with white flags.

They are sending in armoured demolition companies to destroy every single building in Gaza.

They have murdered every highly qualified doctor/surgeon to prevent them treating victims - mostly kids.

This is the most clearly planned GENOCIDE imaginable.

And the Zionists will say "prove it" - and the whole world can see it even though they've murdered every journalist in Gaza and banned any more from entering.

[scott smiley @scottsmiley18]

@Parrrky You still got these mate? Won’t let me do you

[Luton Town FC @LutonTown]

Elijah Anuoluwapo Oluwaferanmi Oluwatomi Oluwalana Ayomikulehin Adebayo.