Paul Ryder

[Paul Ryder @TheWitterings]

If you live in East Devon, including Sidmouth, do join us on FB #Sidmouth #EastDevon
https://t.co/45urcgiweM

[Defend Our Juries @DefendOurJuries]

‘Toxic’ and ‘radioactive’: Labour MPs turn on Palestine Action ban after 4,000 arrests

One senior backbencher said the security minister had assured Labour members that peaceful protesters would not be affected. “That is very clearly not the case".

https://t.co/OJ3LSpOVCv

[Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt @FranceskAlbs]

A handful of cowardly leaders shall not be allowed to destroy what decades of struggle for justice have brought about.

Time to #StandTogether4ICC
Together #WeAreONE

[The Associated Press @AP]

Democrat Scott Colom defeats Republican Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith, becoming Mississippi’s first Black U.S. senator since 1881.

[Martin Shaw @martinshawx]

An utterly formulaic, care-nothing answer from Andy Burnham, with no attempt to address the present situation in Gaza.

[NewsCord @newscord_org]

Just in: the BBC has replied to complaints about Newsnight's interview with Bernie Sanders.

Sanders called for "no more military aid for the extremist government in Israel". Victoria Derbyshire answered on Israel's behalf:

- "Okay. The Israeli government would deny that they are extremist."

The BBC's whole defence is one sentence:
"We reject the suggestion that highlighting the fact that the Israeli government would dispute Mr Sanders' description was inappropriate."

Nobody made that suggestion.

Complainants asked why Newsnight supplied Israel's denial and left out what Israel's own ministers have said:

Yoav Gallant announcing a complete siege of Gaza and saying "We are fighting human animals", and Bezalel Smotrich saying it might be "justified and moral" to let two million Gazans die of hunger until the hostages were returned. The BBC mentions neither.

It calls Israel's denial "the fact". It was a guess: Israel "would" dispute it. Complainants asked whether the BBC had a statement from the Israeli government or whether the presenter supplied the denial herself. The BBC does not say.

In the BBC's own account, the only answer to that denial came from Sanders: "what they've done to the Palestinian people, in my view, is genocidal." The BBC spoke for Israel and left its guest to answer alone.

The reply then declares the interview "accurate, duly impartial" and answers none of the questions complainants asked:

• Why have many Israeli talking points gone unchallenged, with no interjection on what Palestinians say?

• What editorial judgement made the denial necessary at that moment?

• Was it a response from the Israeli government, or one the presenter anticipated?

• How was the denial tested against Israeli officials' documented statements, and what other BBC coverage does the BBC rely on for due impartiality?

• Will Newsnight review whether presenters apply the same scrutiny when they put Israeli denials to guests?

• Why doesn't due impartiality extend to what Israel's leaders have said, including the words of Netanyahu and Herzog put to the International Court of Justice as evidence of genocidal intent?

If the BBC is going to speak for Israel's government, it owes viewers that government's own words too.

If you complained and are unhappy with the reply, log in to your NewsCord account, paste the BBC's reply and we will file your Stage 1b complaint for you.

You need your BBC case number (it starts CAS-) and the email address you complained from: https://t.co/hetrwgAUo1

[Zack Polanski @ZackPolanski]

It's important this performative video is met with the scorn that it deserves.

Silence would be unacceptable.

But it's actually worse to have Labour making sad videos whilst continuing to arm a genocide and arrest those who protest. It should be beneath contempt.

[Defend Our Juries @DefendOurJuries]

POLICE DISCRIMINATION

In yet another absurd twist in the spectacle caused by the proscription of Palestine Action, the Met Police has discriminated against a disabled man by NOT prosecuting him under the Terrorism Act (Really.)

See the newly published footage and thread:

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[Martin Shaw @martinshawx]

The question is, when is the UK government going to use the levers at its disposal to *compel* Israel to obey? Otherwise, just more words.

[Craig Murray @CraigMurrayOrg]

Here is Day 2 of my report on the Palestine Action Supreme Court Hearing.
I believe you will find it well worth waiting for, even if you think you already know what happened.
https://t.co/FirzkBcMjd

[Dan Neidle @DanNeidle]

In 2014, a woman accused Russell Brand of assault. A court then banned her from ever talking about it, even to the police. She had no lawyer; there was no proper trial.

It's hard to believe so here, for the first time, is a copy of the injunction: https://t.co/A8JvHcLtwD

[Hamza Yusuf @Hamza_a96]

The BBC’s veteran World Affairs Editor has made a remarkable discovery: Israel’s strategy is ethnic cleansing and land theft.

I hope the BBC is paying him well. It takes real investigative talent to uncover these things.

[Craig Murray @CraigMurrayOrg]

"It became very plain to me that this went beyond judicial testing of the strength of the case into active hostility designed to prevent the case from being developed, with elements of ridicule.
It was extraordinary and very unpleasant."

https://t.co/jlhRfPMDzU

[Declassified UK @declassifiedUK]

Strong pro-Israel bias among BBC bosses.

BBC executives met nine times with pro-Israel Jewish groups and just once with pro-Palestinians in first 14 months of genocide👇

https://t.co/pDd5HlpvXO

[Declassified UK @declassifiedUK]

The UK charities sending nearly £2 million to illegal settlements.

Six British charities appear to funnel donations to Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank👇

https://t.co/DQRxnGRAly

[Dan Neidle @DanNeidle]

Our full report is here, including a complete copy of the injunction (minus the Confidential Schedule) and three appeal documents.

https://t.co/IyivPYaMTX

[Dan Neidle @DanNeidle]

On Thursday I wrote about the 2014 injunction Russell Brand obtained against a woman who accused him of assault.

I've now obtained the final order. It's breathtaking.

She had no lawyer. No trial. Yet she was silenced for life - even barred from speaking to the police.

🧵:

[Martin Shaw @martinshawx]

British ‘justice’: this bias seems to me to create the grounds for an appeal to the European Court of Human Rights.

[Sarah Helm @SarahHelm1]

Hilarious from Tim- and deadly serious. All that needed to be said inside court he says before arrest: . « It’s democracy on the line. It’s freedom of speech on the line. » Thank you Tim.

[Declassified UK @declassifiedUK]

Israel killed three UK citizens. Now their families want answers.

A coroner’s court has been asked to investigate Israel’s aid worker massacre and review surveillance tapes held by Britain’s military👇

https://t.co/RW8jBAFNf5

[Zack Polanski @ZackPolanski]

@bbclaurak Journalists should scrutinise politicians and the answers we give. That's the whole point.

But it's not fair to say that someone isn't answering a question when the answer is just outside the frame of what you agree or disagree with!