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Dear the BBC Politics.
I think I can safely speak for approx 89.43% of the UK population when I tell you that Zia Yusuf is not wanted on our TV screens. Again.
He's an unelected party donor using up a seat that could be offered to a credible alternative.
Your cold rage should be for the Politicians and billionaires who are trying to divide our community so they can rule.
A moment of crystal clear clarity on Question Time last night.
This woman speaks the truth.
"Tomé mi lanzacohetes y ordené a los soldados bombardear un edificio donde vivía una familia palestina, les ordené que los quemaran a todos vivos. Cuando los bombardeamos, miré a mi amigo y le dije que era muy divertido oírles gritar mientras se quemaban vivos".
Yarden Megira, soldado sionista, criminal de guerra y psicópata profesional, confiesa que quemó viva a una familia palestina y luego se quedó a escuchar como gritaban de dolor mientras ardían.
In Jurassic Park (1993), the insect preserved in amber is shown as an elephant mosquito, a species that doesn’t feed on blood. Because of that, it would not have been capable of carrying dinosaur DNA.
Elephant mosquitoes are among the largest mosquito species, with wingspans reaching nearly 24 mm. They are often recognized by their striking metallic coloration—shades of blue, gold, and purple—and a long, curved proboscis that resembles an elephant’s trunk.
Unlike typical mosquitoes, both males and females are non-biting; their mouthparts are not designed to pierce skin. Instead, they feed on nectar, plant sap, honeydew, and other sugary plant sources.
In their larval stage, however, they are active predators. They hunt and consume the larvae of other mosquito species, including many that are disease carriers. A single larva can eat hundreds of others before maturing into an adult, and may even resort to cannibalism when food is limited.
Because of these habits, elephant mosquitoes have been explored as a natural form of biological control to help reduce pest mosquito populations without the use of chemical insecticides.
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The Tank Man image is so powerful that most people believe tanks crushed protesters at Tiananmen.
They didn't. The tanks stopped for Tank Man. He lived.
The Israeli bulldozer did not stop for Rachel Corrie.
She was 23.
She was American.
She was wearing an orange vest.
She died on March 16, 2003.
Marco has never posted about March 16.
NATO's fight to the last Ukrainian...
Political leaders in NATO countries are so "pro-Ukrainian" that they toppled the democratically elected government in Kiev in 2014 without majority support in Ukraine; they supported purging Ukraine's political system, media, and society of "pro-Russian" elements; they backed the killing of thousands of Ukrainians in Donbas from 2014 onward who did not recognise the legitimacy of the new authorities; they pressured Zelensky to reverse the peace platform that 73% of Ukrainians voted for in 2019 because NATO viewed peace as "capitulation"; they torpedoed the peace negotiations in Istanbul in 2022 after Russia invaded; they boycotted diplomacy and negotiations for more than four years and declared that "weapons are the path to peace," even as a large majority of Ukrainians wanted immediate peace talks; they maintained public support in the West for fuelling the war by ensuring that the brutal "recruitment" of Ukrainian men to the front lines and other uncomfortable realities were not debated in the media; and now, leaders in NATO countries are pressuring the authorities in Ukraine to lower the conscription age, while the EU will also "help" Ukraine by sending Ukrainian refugees back home to die in NATO's proxy war.
Two years of lying about bombing hospitals in Gaza – supposedly to target "Hamas control and command centres" underneath – has really paid off.
Now Israel bombs Lebanon's hospitals and doesn't even need to pretend there's a military rationale.
The Henry Nowak thing. If you watch the video, before Nowak complains of being unable to breathe and having been stabbed, the one police officer notes that "he has a mouthful of blood". Now when a person with a mouthful of blood starts complaining that they can't breathe and that they have been stabbed, alarm bells should be starting to go off. Then, a few moments later a policewoman requests an ambulance saying "His pupils aren't even reacting". By that point anyone with any bit of sense would surely have realised that there was a very serious problem. Now these same officers, apparently having been bereft of anything approaching basic common sense, are blaming their DEI training.
The right-wing press in the UK and Israel is rounding on Zack Polanski, the only Jewish leader of a major political party in Britain, for supporting our campaigning journalism.
Our letter with the ICJP makes simple demands which are firmly in the public interest: to investigate whether Britons who served in the IDF are complicit in violations of international humanitarian law.
Polanski is among over 60 prominent figures to have signed the letter, yet the media has decided to focus its attention on him.
Tory party chairman Kevin Hollinrake has urged Polanski to remove his signature and told the Telegraph that the Green party “need to get serious about tackling anti-Semitism and rooting out hate within their own ranks”.
It is outrageous for Hollinrake to suggest that upholding international law could be playing into anti-Semitism.
Being an IDF soldier is not a protected characteristic and conflating Judaism with the Israeli military is dangerous.
Other prominent signatories of our campaign include human rights lawyer Michael Mansfield, anti-apartheid campaigner Andrew Feinstein, genocide scholar Martin Shaw, former British army general Charlie Herbert, and Palestinian surgeon Ghassan Abu Sitta.
Over 14,000 of our readers have already signed. You can add your name here: https://t.co/F2NqKyg1mt
The President of the Oxford Union Arwa Elrayess is being smeared by the Daily Mail because she is evading Israel's ban on Hasan Piker and Cenk Uygur speaking in the UK by letting them speak virtually
It has enraged Israel supporting, Free Speech hating people like the Daily Mail
Why did the BBC describe rioters in Southampton last night as ‘protestors’. They weren’t protestors, they were rioters. Where has the BBC's objectivity gone? Why can't they tell the truth?
I love how this segment is all about the Jewish community fighting "record levels of antisemitism" but exactly zero antisemitism happens anywhere in this segment. A guy gets frightened by a Jewish woman telling him the Shomrim are coming and they have guns. People are scared that a fire is an act of antisemitic terrorism but it turns out it's just an electrical fire. Someone's car temporarily stalled in front of a Jewish person's house. An imam says he's disturbed by a Jewish man taking photos of him. That's it. Nothing happens. It's an entire news segment about absolutely nothing happening, reported in a solemn and urgent tone.