Scott S Simpson

Art lover, writer, poet, artist, philosopher, illustrator, painter and man who walks. Art begins in a bowl of soup. Was Swiss, now Scottish Singapore once more!

[Scott S Simpson @simisimpson]

Art is the door in the wall, access to the impenetrable

[liam cunningham @liamcunningham1]

When the Knesset yesterday, passed the law approving the death penalty for Palestinians ONLY, they popped champagne bottles in the chamber as they applauded. You read that correctly.

Not your problem?
It’s complicated?
STILL SILENT?

SILENCE IS COMPLICITY.

[MOHAMMED𓂆 @Mo7mmd30]

Everyone felt sad for the penguin walking alone and the monkey rejected by his mother. But this video is far more heartbreaking, yet it didn’t receive the same attention.

[Simon Forrest @SimonForrest11]

Grangemouth produced 97% of Scotland’s aviation fuel. We now have to import all our aviation fuel.
Scotland is Europe's 2nd biggest oil producer. We now have to import all our oil products at inflated prices.
Scotland: Asset-stripped. Wealth-extracted. Better-together? 🤔

[Nicky @NickyZog]

Grangemouth made jet fuel.

[Jvnior @Jvnior]

You thought Epstein Island was bad?

Israel built the only military prison in the world designated for children.

Children are subjected to beatings, torture, and rape on a regular basis.

Conviction rates in courts reach 99.7%.

This applies only to non-jewish children.

[courtneybonneauimages @cbonneauimages]

Americans, your tax dollars are paying for illegal chemical warfare.

Cameraman: @aliezzedine7

[KNEECAP @KNEECAPCEOL]

Remember Hind Rajab.

Just 6 years old. She sat for hours on the phone to paramedics with 6 murdered family members around her.

She told them “They are shooting at us. The tank is next to me.”

The Red Cross waited hours for Israel to permit them rescue her.

When the ambulance that was cleared to rescue arrived they executed the medics and then murdered her putting 355 bullets into the car she was in.

Her final words to paramedics and recorded were "I’m so scared, please come".

[Tehran Tadhg @TadhgHickey]

I "appear" to be losing my fucking mind.

[Adam @AdameMedia]

You can’t watch this video and not hate Israel.

Israeli soldiers EXECUTE two young Palestinian men at point-blank range AFTER they surrendered near in the northern occupied West Bank.

This apartheid must end. Boycott and shun everything to do with it.

[cinesthetic. @TheCinesthetic]

Leonardo DiCaprio recalls his first meeting with Daniel Day-Lewis, after Martin Scorsese sent him to recruit the retired actor for the role of Bill the Butcher in Gangs of New York (2002).

[The National @ScotNational]

BREAKING: The Fife Ethylene Plant, one of Europe’s largest ethylene plants, is set to close with more than 400 jobs at risk

Workers have been told bosses had been in talks with the UK Government but did not get what they needed to secure the future of the facility

[Angry Pict @SymbolStones]

We’ve had a wave of replies from England to this thread.

The individual comments aren’t important — what matters is the structure of what they all said.

And when you read them, it's illuminating — we actually see the colonial relationship functioning in real time.

1/ 🧵👇

[Channel 4 News @Channel4News]

Mahmoud Abu Foul was detained by Israel after the military stormed Kamal Adwan Hospital in Gaza last December.

Now, after being freed as part of the ceasefire deal between Hamas and Israel, he recalls the 'torture' he suffered in a detention centre that he says caused him to lose his eyesight.

We put the accusations to the Israeli military. It has not responded.

[Ragged Trousered Philanderer @RaggedTP]

First words from Tadhg Hickey as he returns home to Ireland after being kidnapped and illegally detained by the occupying forces. We pray for the release of all Palestinian Men, Women and Children being illegally detained.

[The Resonance @Partisan_12]

🇬🇧While being arrested, a protester recited a poem by 9-year-old Fatema Saidam, who was k!lled by 1$rael.

“Eyes are for looking & seeing sun,
Tongues are for greeting & saying fun,
Legs are for walking slowly & also run,
Hands are for shaking with friends Not for shooting gun”

[Ounka @OunkaOnX]

🚨 INTERCEPTION 🚨
Israeli forces have illegally boarded the Flotilla’s vessel Oxygono and others in international waters. Livestreams and communication are down, and the status of those on board is unknown. Governments must demand their safety and release.

[Craig Murray @CraigMurrayOrg]

I write as former Head of Maritime Section of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office
and Alternate Head of UK Delegation to the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea Prepcom.

1) The flotilla is on the High Seas and not in Israel's 12 mile territorial sea. Israel has no jurisdiction.

2) The Israeli maritime blockade has been in place for 17 years and is an intrinsic part of the long term occupation found illegal in the ICJ advisory opinion

3) It is therefore not a short term measure in time of armed conflict as specified in the San Remo manual

4) In any event the San Remo rules explicitly state that humanitarian supplies may not be blockaded

5) The UN Commission of Inquiry has already determined that Israel is committing genocide. The blockade is plainly a part of the machinery of such genocide.

For reasons 1 to 5 the Israeli attack on the flotilla is plainly illegal.

6) On the High Seas, the law applying on each ship is the law of its flag state. An attack by a state military warship on a vessel on the High Seas is an attack on the flag state of the vessel attacked.

7) Acts of illegal possession of vessels or abduction of crew on the High Seas should be pursued by each flag state as crimes within their domestic jurisdiction, not only in international law.

8) So the Metropolitan Police and DPP have an obligation to investigate and act over the abduction of persons from UK flagged vessels on the High Seas.
This applies to each flag state mutatis mutandi.

I hope you find this helpful.

[Slàinte 🥃🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @WhiskyElf]

Equal.

Deals funded or backed by labour

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿
Jaguar Land Rover £1.5b
British Steel £600m
Thames water £3b

Deals PROMISED but then not funded by labour

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿
Grangemouth £0

Deals funded by labour

🇧🇪 INEOS in Belgium £600m

#nevertrustlabour
#voteSNP for a stronger Scotland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

[Tehran Tadhg @TadhgHickey]

DO SOMETHING BEFORE WE'RE MURDERED!