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[Paul O’Connell @pmpoc]

The British state has been eroding civil liberties steadily for decades, this process is accelerating now - the persecution of anti-genocide protestors is the exemplary case of how bad it's going to get unless we get organised to defend and reclaim the right to protest

[Declassified UK @declassifiedUK]

Several years ago we revealed the UK’s global military base involved no less than *145 sites in 42 countries*.

National media never bothered to report it.

Their coverage of “defence” spending, and military policy generally, is detached from reality. https://t.co/gYDZTFKoUN

[spunkmonkey @spunkmonkey1]

@MikeTho04795078 @afneil Neil's greatest danger is the Epstein files.

[Chris Corney @ChrisCorney1]

@Andrew_Hedges_ @breadf2man Of course all the Met chiefs have been hard-wired servants of the ruling class, but perhaps it's a sign of the desperate times that the latest one is forced to come out and propagandise in TV studios. Hopefully it will help a lot more people realise the Met is a political force.

[Annia Ciezadlo @annia.bsky.social @annia]

Your periodic reminder that Raphael Lemkin, the Polish Jew who coined the term genocide, considered the destruction of cultural heritage—the attempt to erase a people—to be a key component of the crime:

[Hala Jaber @HalaJaber]

Netanyahu asks Lebanese if they remember the days when Lebanon was called the “Pearl of the Middle East.”

We do.

We also remember who invaded Lebanon in 1982, besieged Beirut, occupied the south for nearly two decades, bombed our cities, carried out massacres, assassinations & repeated wars.

Interesting how Hezbollah is blamed for everything, including Lebanon’s decline, while the Israeli invasion, occupation & destruction that predated Hezbollah’s very existence are simply erased from the story.

Hezbollah did not invade Lebanon. Israel did.

Hezbollah did not create the occupation. Hezbollah emerged because of it.

You also speak as though Hezbollah is not Lebanese. Whether one supports it or opposes it, Hezbollah represents a significant segment of Lebanese society. It has MPs in parliament, ministers in government, & a constituency that cannot simply be wished out of existence. Millions of Lebanese cannot be erased because that makes for a more convenient Israeli political narrative.

The arrogance of telling Lebanese to “free themselves” from other Lebanese while Israeli forces occupy Lebanese territory & Israeli aircraft violate Lebanese airspace daily is difficult to miss.

You speak as though Lebanon’s problems began with Hezbollah & Iran. That is historically illiterate at best & deliberately dishonest at worst.

Lebanon has suffered from corruption, sectarianism, foreign intervention & political failure. But it has also endured repeated Israeli invasions, occupations, bombardments, assassinations & wars long before Hezbollah became a major force.

And now the man whose military has spent months bombing Lebanese towns, flattening homes, killing civilians, displacing entire communities & threatening the country with “another Gaza” wants to present himself as a concerned friend of the Lebanese people.

The audacity is staggering. It would be impressive were it not so grotesque. The historical revisionism is even worse.

You must be getting desperate if this is the story you are trying to sell.

[Melanie Ward MP @melanie_ward]

Funding illegal Israeli settlements is not charitable activity. It is extremist activity.

Working with Israeli human researchers, I found at least 32 UK charities who have sent £28 million to settlements in recent years.

There’s a likely taxpayer subsidy of at least £5 million

[A Left-Wing Account ™️ @PushDemsLeft]

Zionists can no longer get away with their lies, and it terrifies them.

[Jonathan Cook @Jonathan_K_Cook]

War and profit are intimately tied together. The billionaires cannot secure their profits without war, or the threat of it – whether against workers at home or against other nations abroad.

Read my latest here: https://t.co/KKv6Hqoknl

[pinkmiss @LynneCampbell5]

Morning

[Prem Sikka @premnsikka]

1,300+ deaths a month in England due to long A&E waits, tenfold rise in a decade.

Years of austerity take toll as govts cuddle fiscal rules to appease the City of London.

NHS budgets drained by PFI and privatisation of services.

Democide normalised.
https://t.co/EMNiJto9KN

[Gabbar @Gabbar0099]

🇮🇱 Retired IDF soldiers talk about their experience in the Israeli military and laugh as they do so :

“One of the soldiers rāped a 16-year-girl *laugh*”

“He put Palestinians in a cage and kīlled them”

“Soldiers chased villagers with flamethrowers and set them on fire”

“If I saw school children with their hands raised, I kīlled them.”

“I fired and kīlled everyone. It’s impossible for me to count *laughs*”

[Kathleen Tyson @Kathleen_Tyson_]

UK, EU, Japan, and South Korea are in decades long decline because every time we use our R&D to develop a breakthrough technology we are coerced, sometimes blackmailed, into selling it to US rentier owners by IPO or M&A so the profits of our innovation and R&D flow to US (Nokia, Skype, Alstom, etc). US bleeds its vassals whenever they excel.

John Bolton tried this on Huawei (cooperatively owned by employees) which refused US IPO listing by ordering the 2018 arrest of COO Meng Wanzhou. China stood up to the blackmail. Huawei remains employee owned and has massively expanded its range of operations to eliminate all US dependency in the Chinese tech stack.

It is refusal to be subjugated that distinguishes China’s rise to challenge US primacy and hegemony.

[Declassified UK @declassifiedUK]

The UK has now responded to the ICJ’s Advisory Opinion on climate change after 10 months.

After 22 months, it hasn’t yet responded to the ICJ’s 2024 opinion on Israel’s illegal occupation which requires all states to stop assisting the occupying power. https://t.co/EYXOHqd65D

[Novara Media @novaramedia]

“We’re going to terrorise you. We’re going to intimidate you.”

This is the message that the Home Office is trying to send to opponents of Israel’s genocide in the UK, commentator Cenk Uygur said on Novara Live.

The host of The Young Turks said the recent decision to ban him from entering the UK was less about preventing British people from hearing his views than discouraging others from speaking out.

Prominent Twitch streamer Hasan Piker was also banned from entering the UK due to his staunch criticisms of Israel.

[𐌁𐌉Ᏽ 𐌕𐌉𐌌𐌉 @OrevaZSN]

The fact that billionaires still want more money should be studied by the same people who study serial killers.

[they/them might be giants ☭ @babadookspinoza]

I don’t know how to explain it to people who don’t understand that something of all of us is buried in Gaza’s mass graves.

[Sean Biggerstaff @Seanchuckle]

@wesstreeting Who are you expecting to swallow this, you disgusting cunt? You don't deserve to live.

[Munchkin @BSonblast]

Today's quick update [Jun 3]:

- RSF drone strikes reported in Dilling, South Kordofan.

- RSF attack on Alberka, Blue Nile State.

#KeepEyesOnSudan

[Bisan owda @bisan__bisan]

The water crisis in Gaza
that Israel has created and what Palestinians in Gaza
have to do to get water in genocide.