cliveb

Keen observer of current affairs and commentating on issues of the day. left leaning, Plaid, #indywales, #YesCymru & long standing Palestinian rights advocate.

[cliveb @seabee0]

If you're thinking of voting for Reform tomorrow in the #Senedd2026, please consider what they stand for. Maybe this helps. They don't represent our values, culture or our future ! #seneddelection

[cliveb @seabee0]

@AJEnglish They need to withdraw immediately because sooner or later, they'll get a bloody nose.. probably from Turkey

[Zack Polanski @ZackPolanski]

The fact that your government has made it illegal for me to answer yes is a damning testament to your flagrant disregard for civil liberties.

This may be targeted at those taking action against the genocide, but it sets a very dangerous precedent that puts everyone at risk.

[Owen Jones @owenjonesjourno]

Read that again:

“The average terror suspect arrested in England and Wales is now a white woman in her 50s.”

That’s because of the proscription of Palestine Action.

It is absurd. It is self evidently absurd.

And history will damn every last person implicated

[Saul Staniforth @SaulStaniforth]

"This government is treating Palestine Action as equivalent to Islamic State or Al Qaeda, which is intellectually bankrupt, politically unprincipled and morally wrong. Frankly I'm deeply ashamed"

Labour peer Peter Hain in the Lords in July last year

[Michael Rosen 💙💙🎓🎓 NICE 爷爷 @MichaelRosenYes]

You're deeply disturbed? I think a lot of people are deeply disturbed that you were deeply disturbed.

[Dr Rahmeh Aladwan @doctor_rahmeh]

A masked man was telling the Met police what to do outside Edgware United Synagogue yesterday.

No badge. No ID. Screaming at a British protester on the ground.

Since when does the Met answer to an anonymous civilian?

[Declassified UK @declassifiedUK]

REVEALED: Jewish activists @JAZA_UK have shown us material from inside an Israeli property event in London yesterday, which shows that illegal settlements on Palestinian land were on sale in the UK.

Activists gained access to the event, spoke to numerous developers about the properties for sale in Israeli settlements - which are illegal under British and international law - before they were ejected for disrupting the speeches.

The Board of Deputies, which calls itself a representational body for British Jews, claimed that all properties being sold were inside Israel, however these pamphlets clearly show the opposite is true.

[Jody McIntyre @jodymcintyre_]

This man is desperate to get the keys to No. 10.

But did you know about the secret connection between Andy Burnham and a weapons company complicit in air strikes in Gaza?

This is the scandal Burnham does NOT want voters to know about…🧵

[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

[Zack Polanski @ZackPolanski]

There is now clear evidence that the Great Israeli Real Estate event had unlawful activity at it.

I've written to the Mayor of London to ask what he intends to do about it.

This needs to be escalated immediately.

[Hamza Yusuf @Hamza_a96]

This is misleading framing by the BBC.

Completely omitting from the headline that the synagogue hosted an event that was encouraging and facilitating Palestinian land theft.

Instead it’s worded as though a place of worship itself was the target.

[Dr Rahmeh Aladwan @doctor_rahmeh]

NHS Dr @NadimHCr was suspended MID‑SHIFT for opposing genocide. I am currently listening to his Orwellian employment tribunal and his witness's story will shock you.

Dr David Patch is a senior British consultant who also posted against the genocide and starvation in Gaza.

What happened?
Two jewish GPs reported Patch to his hospital. They claimed (threatened) that they would NOT refer their patients to him because of his political views. UKLFI reported him to the medical regulator (@gmcuk).

What did his trust, the Royal Free Hospital in London, do?

Asked Patch to delete his posts. Sent him to occupational health. Made him sign a behavioural contract.

For opposing genocide and 'israel'.

One of the posts he was made to delete said:
'The Holocaust of Gaza is a stain on humanity.'

Dr Patch has worked at the Royal Free for over THIRTY years. Dr Crowe had worked there for FIFTEEN years.

And this is how they were treated.

This is how zionists use their positions of power in society to silence British citizens and healthcare workers.

Power to Nadeem for fighting back against his unjust suspension and for our freedom of speech in Britain. May justice prevail.

[Yanis Varoufakis @yanisvaroufakis]

Meanwhile, the heroic doctor's torture by Israel continues. They continue to torture Dr. Hussam Abu Sefia for the crime of not abandoning his patients. Without laying charges, offering him anything resembling due process, Israel is killing him slowly. One day, everyone will say they were against this

[John Stealer @JohnStealer]

Israeli asset & @UKLabour MP Peter Kyle is responsible for exporting death in the shape of arms sales to Israel & so complicit in genocide.

Kyle has the blood of thousands of innocent Palestinian children on his hands

At the same time he was an LFI member which he kept secret.

[Peter Tatchell @PeterTatchell]

After Palestine protest at Appeal Court, I went for a coffee in Pret, far up the road in The Strand

As I got my coffee, I turned to find myself surrounded by police. They demanded I show my placard & filmed it

My placard is not unlawful. This was intimidation. POLICE STATE!

[David Miller @Tracking_Power]

Isn’t it a shame after all that posh schooling, poor old Zac still doesn’t know basic geography.

The ‘homes’ they are buying are not in ‘Israel’. They are in illegal settlements.

[Johann Spischak @SDGMasterglass]

!!The Israeli army opens fire on a Palestinian girl near Nablus, resulting iher immediate death.

[The Independent @Independent]

Colin Firth’s ex-wife Livia has unleashed an angry tirade on Gwyneth Paltrow, after the actor and wellness entrepreneur appeared in an advert for a housing development in Israel.

[William Dalrymple @DalrympleWill]

The illegality of Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank is one of the most well-established positions in international law, resting on four distinct pillars:

📜 GENEVA CONVENTIONS
Article 49(6) of the Fourth Geneva Convention (1949) explicitly prohibits an occupying power from transferring parts of its own civilian population into the territory it occupies. Israel ratified the Convention in 1951. The International Committee of the Red Cross, the authoritative interpreter of humanitarian law, has consistently held that this provision applies directly to the settlements.

🌐 UN SECURITY COUNCIL RESOLUTIONS
The Security Council has repeatedly affirmed settlement illegality — including in binding resolutions the US did not veto:
• Res. 446 (1979): settlements have "no legal validity"
• Res. 465 (1980): calls on Israel to dismantle existing settlements
• Res. 2334 (2016): passed 14-0 (US abstained), explicitly states settlements constitute "a flagrant violation of international law" and have "no legal validity"

⚖️ ICJ RULINGS
• Advisory Opinion on the Wall (2004): the Court found settlements in the West Bank, including East Jerusalem, had been established in breach of international law, and that the wall built to protect them compounded that illegality
• Advisory Opinion on the Occupied Palestinian Territory (2024): the Court went further, ruling that Israel's continued presence in the OPT — including the settlement enterprise — is itself unlawful, and called on all states not to recognise or assist it

🏛️ UN GENERAL ASSEMBLY
Countless UNGA resolutions have reaffirmed settlement illegality, including Res. 77/247 (2023), which requested the landmark 2024 ICJ opinion.

No serious legal scholar disputes this consensus. The settlements are illegal. The only remaining question is whether the international community will act on it.

[Zachary Foster @_ZachFoster]

Imagine if 8,000 Israeli Jews were missing to this day.

We’d get minute-by-minute updates on their status. We’d know the names of all 8,000 of them.

But because they are Palestinian …. mainstream media is totally indifferent …. they have been completely forgotten.