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[Caitlin Johnstone @caitoz]

So he killed one person. The Manchester synagogue attacker killed one single person and the entire western world stopped in its tracks to mourn and grieve and weep and denounce, on the same day Israel killed 57 Palestinians and it was completely ignored by the west.

[Frankity Frank 🍀🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @gIaikit]

@CelticFC "HANDBALL" - UEFA

[Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt @FranceskAlbs]

Hard to applaud this statement: too little, too late, intolerably insufficient under int’l law. EU states must ▶️impose a full arms embargo ▶️suspend trade (incl. @HorizonEU) ▶️prosecute alleged criminals and ▶️send a fleet to break the siege. Nothing less.

[Muhammad Shehada @muhammadshehad2]

Last time Israel raided & took over Nasir hospital, they executed doctors, patients, children & elderly after chaining their hands & legs!

Mass graves were discovered when Israel left the area. The atrocity was so shocking, the US demanded answers (that Israel never gave)🧵

[Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt @FranceskAlbs]

The EU-Israel Association Agreement was a disgrace when it was stipulated, as it completely disregarded Palestinian rights.

Keeping it alive today, in the face of the abominable crimes Israel is committing, triggers the responsibility of the EU leadership.

[Joe Brolly @JoeBrolly1993]

The Israel lobby gave Yvette Cooper £215,000 in 2024.

[Caitlin Johnstone @caitoz]

Yeah yeah, the journalists are Hamas. The journalists are Hamas, the hospitals are Hamas, the UN is Hamas, the peace activists are Hamas, the demonstrations are Hamas, telling the truth is Hamas, human empathy is Hamas, objective reality is Hamas. It's all Hamas.

[Philip Proudfoot @PhilipProudfoot]

No way

[Rug Slug @slug_rug]

@DavidLammy @Keir_Starmer You need fired

[Ash Sarkar @AyoCaesar]

To my colleagues in the UK media –

You may not agree with Palestine Action’s tactics, messaging, or political objectives. You may think protestors in general are noisy, irritating, and uncouth. Indeed, you may think the same of me! But all of us who work in UK journalism, in any capacity, should be horrified by the government’s proscription of Palestine Action as a terrorist group. It goes far beyond holding a protest group criminally liable for their activities. It makes it illegal to express support for them, in any capacity, under the threat of up to 14 years imprisonment.

Our work as journalists is built on the bedrock of legally protected free expression. But there’s no journalistic exemption to the Terrorism Act 2000. Let’s imagine that one of your colleagues, after this week, writes an opinion piece arguing that Palestine Action are brave and heroic, that they were part of a long tradition of non-violent direct action that includes the Suffragettes and the Greenham Common Women's Peace Camp.

You may disagree with the points they make. That’s fine – since when did everyone in the media get along?

But do you think they should be arrested? Do you think their house should be raided, work devices seized, that they should face prosecution and jail time? Because that is what the law allows for.

Perhaps you think this is unlikely. But already, journalists have been investigated under the Terrorism Act. One journalist reporting on Palestine had his home raided by police despite never being arrested or charged with an offence. He was targeted with sweeping warrants that granted police access to journalistic and legally privileged material, which were later ruled unlawful by the court. If one journalist can have their home raided by police under counter-terror powers, so can any of us.

I don’t think that free expression is a privilege that belongs solely to the media class. I don’t think that a teenager wearing a Palestine Action t-shirt should face arrest either. I don’t think someone conveying positive sentiments about the group to their friends should have to worry about prosecution. And I think that, when many ordinary people choose not to comply with the state’s restrictions on expressing support for Palestine Action after it’s proscribed, it is our moral obligation as journalists and media workers to back them up any way we can.

It doesn’t matter if you work for The Guardian or The Sun, Novara Media or The Telegraph, the BBC or GB News. The proscription of Palestine Action as a terrorist group is an unprecedented infringement on free expression. Every single one of us in the media, no matter our political affiliations, must stand firmly in opposition to it.

[Wolfie. 💙🧡💚 @Tpopularfront]

It goes without saying that Starmer doesn’t speak for me.

Who’s with me?

[Sony Thăng @nxt888]

Yaron, let’s get something straight.

You didn’t refute my point.

You confirmed it.

You said, "Look at the U.S., Canada, Australia, Argentina, Brazil…"

As if listing other settler-colonial crimes somehow absolves Israel.

But that’s not a defense.

That’s a confession.

Yes—those countries were built on genocide, dispossession, and the erasure of indigenous peoples.

And we condemn that.

We don’t recycle it.

We don’t use old crimes to justify new ones.

But here’s the difference:

They aren’t still doing it.

They aren’t bulldozing homes in real time.

They aren’t turning cities into rubble with U.S.-made bombs.

They aren’t live-streaming airstrikes on refugee camps and calling it "self-defense."

They aren’t locking entire nations in open-air prisons, starving them, bombing their hospitals, and then crying antisemitism when the world calls it out.

Israel is.

You say, "Why don’t those countries face the same outrage?"

Simple.

Their crimes were committed in the 17th, 18th, and 19th centuries—before international law, before the UN, before "human rights" were written into global conscience.

Israel’s founding crime took place in 1948.

And it never ended.

You mention Palestinians rejected "six offers."

Let’s translate that:

They rejected a series of bantustans, military zones, and broken promises—offered under occupation, at gunpoint, with no sovereignty, no borders, no army, no control of airspace or water, and no right of return for the very people expelled to make "Israel" Jewish in the first place.

What you call "offers" were ultimatums from a colonizer to the colonized:

Accept your cage, or die in it.

And still, Palestinians have survived.

You complain their population "has grown sixfold."

You know who else grew while being enslaved, exiled, and brutalized?

Every indigenous people on Earth that refused to vanish.

Growth is not a rebuttal to genocide.

It’s a miracle in spite of it.

And you think demographics cancel out war crimes?

What next—will you say Black Americans aren’t oppressed because there are more of them now than in 1865?

Do you hear yourself?

And then you reach for the last refuge of propaganda:

"They teach their children to hate."

As if the child under rubble should've sent flowers to the pilot.

As if trauma from occupation, checkpoints, exile, and mass graves is a choice.

Israel didn’t produce peace.

It engineered desperation.

You think people are born wanting to resist?

They’re born behind fences, under drones, in camps their grandparents were forced into.

You want to talk about radicalization?

Start with the bulldozer.

Start with the sniper.

Start with the siege that starves a people, then blames them for the scream.

And you end with the last, tired fallback:

"People just hate Jews."

No, Yaron.

People don’t hate Jews.

They hate apartheid.

They hate ethnic cleansing.

They hate watching a state built on trauma use that trauma to inflict it on others.

Stop hiding behind Judaism to shield a settler project that desecrates its own ethics.

Zionism is not Judaism.

And opposing mass murder is not antisemitism.

It’s called being human.

You want to know why Israel is "singled out"?

Because it is not a relic of the past.

It is a live wire of atrocity, playing out in front of our eyes, funded by empires, shielded by lies, and broadcast with pride.

We’re not watching history.

We’re watching it repeat.

And this time, we refuse to look away.

[Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt @FranceskAlbs]

I wonder whether the European Civil Protection Mechanism can be activated for people—especially children—burned alive in plastic tents, or is it just for trees.

[Frances 'Cassandra' Coppola @Frances_Coppola]

Get this poisonous piece of filth off our screens and out of our country.

[Rug Slug @slug_rug]

@FlawedPlane @hewantswealth I’m up in Scotland and mortgage + council tax (water included) + gas and electric comes to around £400 a month

[Rug Slug @slug_rug]

@cmatbaby Will the CMAT dolls ever come back on sale? My niece would love one!

[Jeremy Corbyn @jeremycorbyn]

A new study has found that almost half of children in Gaza wish to die, as a result of the trauma they have been forced to endure.

Every single supplier of arms to Israel has blood on its hands — and the world will never forgive them.

[Craig Murray @CraigMurrayOrg]

Here is the most interesting question -

why could the people of Southern Lebanon stop Israeli tanks dead,

but ISIS/AQ/Al Nusra/HTS cannot even fire one single shot at Israeli invaders taking land in Syria?

And have never in history fired one shot at Israel?

[Flying_Rodent @flying_rodent]

Absolutely fucking wild stuff here, beyond the wackiest 80s movie satire: the PM televised thanking military personnel for their vital work but nobody can explain to the public what that work is, because that work is “materially supporting crimes against humanity”.