Tim Homewood

He/They

[Middle East Eye @MiddleEastEye]

Exclusive: British Museum made false claims about its removal of ‘Palestine’ from displays

The British Museum removed the terms “Palestine”, “Palestinian” and “Israelite occupation” from its displays in direct response to months of lobbying in 2024, a Middle East Eye investigation has found.

[Rabbi David Mivasair @RabbiMivasair]

I analyzed data from the #HamOnt @HamiltonPolice Hate Crimes Unit. In the seven years of data that I received, there were hundreds of complaints about "anti-Jewish" hate incidents. All were "property" incidents, i.e. graffiti, except for exactly one incident per year, which was "verbal".

I personally had a Palestine human rights lawn sign stolen from my front yard. I reported it to the police. They knew I'm a rabbi. So, they reported as an "anti-Jewish" hate incident!!

Do NOT accept reports of anti-Jewish incidents at face value without investigating further.

[Whitney Webb @_whitneywebb]

We've been quiet recently because Mark Goodwin and I have been working to write the most comprehensive investigation into Polymarket's origins and ambitions to date.

We found that Polymarket's "official" origin story, that Shayne Coplan founded the company alone in 2020 and then built "the company in his bathroom", is a lie. Polymarket really started years earlier as another company called TokenBnk that was deeply tied to Israeli interests, specifically a crypto company founded by Benjamin Netanyahu's niece and nephew. Coplan has actively tried to obfuscate this company from his story and it's not the only thing either.

In Part 1 of this two-part series, we unravel the real history of Polymarket, directly connecting the company to Peter Thiel's efforts to resurrect controversial DARPA programs from its now defunct Information Awareness Office. Polymarket appears to have been chosen by Thiel and his associates to succeed in resurrecting DARPA's Policy Analysis Market where another Thiel-linked company, Augur, had previously failed.

Stay tuned for Part 2, where we explore the current influence of prediction markets and Polymarket, including how an insidious effort to have prediction markets replace representative democracy as a governance model is already being slowly implemented by the White House.

Read Part 1 here: https://t.co/xTmU5RzoZz

[Sana Saeed @SanaSaeed]

There should be no room for anyone who was part of the administration that began, supported, oversaw and funded the extermination of Palestinians and demonized anyone who spoke out against it. If so-called anti-genocide progressives give their support to Harris, or anyone who stood by the Biden admin, then it’s clear(er) that for our ‘left’ Palestinians serve as a rhetorical tool rather than a moral measure.

[Danny Haiphong @GeopoliticsDH]

MUST-READ: Scholar Barry Sautman debunks every facet of the Uyghur "genocide" accusation leveled at China by the US-led West.

In an age where the US and Israel are party to REAL genocides in Palestine and Lebanon, this book shows why words do matter and why accusations against China do not meet the internationally recognized definition of genocide.

I've been to Xinjiang twice now. It's a beautiful part of China where standard of living is rising as is hope for all ethnic groups in the region. Uyghurs, the plurality in Xinjiang, have not only preserved their culture but have also found in their home of China billions who are invested in their economic advancement.

Read this book. Then visit Xinjiang for yourself!
https://t.co/uBySr74T69

[B.M. @ireallyhateyou]

The photo used by JVP to commemorate the Deir Yassin Massacre in 1948 is actually a photo from 1938, of British forces bombing the Palestinian village of Mi'ar, in the Galilee, during the Great Arab Revolt of 1936-1939.

Mi'ar was a beacon of resistance during the revolt, and in 1938 the British army destroyed it almost completely. The village was rebuilt, but occupied in 1948 by the Zionists, who expelled the residents and later completely razed the village to the ground.

One of the reasons most residents fled to nearby villages when they spotted the Israeli army approaching was the circulating news of the horrors of Deir Yassin, intentionally weaponized by the Zionists as a scare tactic.

In the 1950s, the first Jewish settlement on Mi'ar's land was established. In the 1980s, another settlement was built on the hill where Mi'ar used to stand. The village site was turned into a JNF forest and picnic site.

Many of those displaced from Mi'ar and their descendants still live in the remaining surrounding towns and villages, unable to return to their own land. One of them is Palestinian author Muhammad Ali Taha, 85 years old now, who lives with his family in the town of Kabul, a mere 3 kilometers from his stolen home in Mi'ar. But even if he doesn't get to return, his children will. And I, personally, will never forget Mi'ar. And I will never stop talking about Mi'ar.
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Also, @jvplive, I'm sure you've got quite a bit of money for social media. Please respect the victims and survivors of the Nakba and do better research.

[Jonathan Cook @Jonathan_K_Cook]

Notionally, Israel confers on all its citizens – Jews, Muslims, Christians, Druze – equal rights as citizens. But with a sleight of hand, it then undermines those equal rights by conferring superior “national” rights on one group only, Jews.

If there is a conflict between a citizenship right and a Jewish “national” right, you’ve probably already guessed that the Jewish national right takes precedence.

Education is a good illustration. All Israeli citizens enjoy a right to have their children educated, because education is a citizenship right. But lots of veiled manoeuvres – like extra budgets for National Priority Areas, special subsidies for Jewish religious schools, funding from the diaspora, and bigger tax disbursements from central government for Jewish local authorities – mean Jewish schools are far better funded than “Arab” schools.

Education for Israel’s Palestinian citizens – whom Israelis dismissively calls "Israeli Arabs" – has been underfunded for eight decades. So even though Israel’s apologists will claim the funding gaps are slowly narrowing, the continuing shortfall simply compounds a decades-long historical injustice.

Arab schools are so far behind they can never catch up without aggressive additional funding Israel clearly has no intention of ever providing them with.

There are massive shortages of classrooms and staff in dilapidated school buildings. Old books are often grossly outdated and poorly translated into Arabic by the state.

Palestinian educational leaders – "Israeli Aabs" – have no input into the curriculum the community’s children are taught. There are strict controls by Jewish (usually racist) officials over what can be taught and who can teach.

And on top of all this, huge cultural biases in qualifying tests make it far harder for Palestinian citizens to gain entry to universities in Israel.

There are many other problems in education. For example, nearly one in 10 Palestinian children in Israel live in historic communities built on lands that the Israeli state now wishes to “Judaise” – reserve for the Jewish population – and are therefore denied all recognition.

Treated like criminals, these children rarely have schools in their communities because no permanent buildings are allowed. What buildings there are cannot be connected to the electricity or water grids.

Even children of kindergarten age must typically travel long distances – sometimes close to 60 km a day – to get to a licensed school.

The forms of discrimination in education alone are endless. But they do not stop there. The discrimination is replicated in all major facets of life for Israel’s more than 2 million Palestinian citizens through Israel's conceptual and legal contortions over religion, citizenship and nationality.

None of this should be a surprise. It is exactly what you would expect in an apartheid state like Israel.

This is an extract from my latest article Israel is an apartheid state – and its weird marriage laws show us how. Find a link to the full article in the reply post ⬇️

[Warfare Analysis @warfareanalysis]

⚡️Gaza sources:

Fouad Abu Odeh was a talented electronics engineer and artist, but his life changed in an instant after an Israeli bombing targeted the shelter where he had taken refuge in the northern Gaza Strip, leaving him completely blind.

He says the last thing he saw was the Israeli bomb that changed his life.

Today, he depends on others for even the simplest daily tasks after losing both his eyesight

[Rabbi David Mivasair @RabbiMivasair]

Hasbara is now Hashtakah — to silence
This used to be called “Hasbara” (Hebrew for trying to “explain” Israel’s actions).
Hasbara has morphed into “Hashtakah” (Hebrew for silencing.)
The latest strategy is to engage in relentless shut-down campaigns against critics of Israel, including attempts at prohibiting protests, throwing people out of jobs, dismissal from schools, denial of awards, criminal charges, doxxing, slander and abuse.
It’s All About Erasure, by @judyhaiven https://t.co/oe43zRWE5R

[Jonathan Cook @Jonathan_K_Cook]

Israeli nationality exists only as a fiction on Israeli passports to allow the population to travel.

Inside Israel, everyone is identified by their religious group – and one group, Jews, get far more rights.

I lay bare Israel's veiled apartheid: https://t.co/ECcEXiBcmA

[Zo Brown @receipts_lol]

1/ Did you know there is alternative database to CPJ's?

Stop Murdering Journalists.

The key feature is we don't lie to protect Israel.

If you are researching Israel's journalist mass-murder spree, please include Stop Murdering Journalists (by @databases4pal) in your research.

[Ramy Abdu| رامي عبده @RamAbdu]

في هذه الصورة، الفتاة المبدعة عُريب عزمي الريس.

قبل عامين وستة أشهر وخمسة وعشرين يومًا، قتلتها إسرائيل بعدما دمّرت منزلها فوق رأسها مع جميع أفراد عائلتها.

واليوم، وبعد كل هذا الوقت، انتُشلت رفاتها من تحت الأنقاض. ولم يبقَ منها سوى بطاقة هويتها.

[Stanley Cohen @StanleyCohenLaw]

How Israel uses water as a weapon of war from Palestine to Lebanon https://t.co/6eeWrNG452

[EuropeanPowell @EuropeanPowell]

⚠️UK people, wake up!

Did you know it's highly likely you and your family live in a deregulated Special Economic Zone?
There are 91 of these zones, and counting, in the UK.
What Is A Special Economic Zone (SEZ)?
An SEZ is a geographically designated area where normal planning rules, corporate tax arrangements, and regulatory oversight are loosened to attract private investment.
The pitch is always: jobs, growth, levelling up.
Heard this before?
What actually happens: public money, aka State aid, removes the risk and friction for corporations and dumps it on the public sector.
Land values rise.
Private capital captures the gain.
Democratic accountability is bypassed because decisions are made by zone boards, development corporations, and mayoral offices rather than elected councils.
Secondary legislation on zone policy bypassed Parliamentary debate, public consultation, and notification of the press.
This is why you have not heard of free zones.
Both the Tories and Labour colluded on the nationwide rollout of free zones immediately after Brexit. While out of office, Labour publicly said free zones were not a silver bullet for the economy, but mayors like Andy Burnham and Steve Rotheram signed off with the Tories on setting them up anyway.
Zone ideology is the resurrection of Thatcher's free zone policy, which delivered hugely underwhelming results, partly because EU state aid rules limited how far the model could go.
Brexit rewrote those rules, opening the door to the scale of corporate subsidy now flowing through free zones to major asset managers and private capital.
The books below on free zones are few and far between. They all examine the history and contemporary application of free zone ideology.

[Zo Brown @receipts_lol]

HonestReporting makes the CPJ editorial decisions.

[Quds News Network @QudsNen]

ICC Prosecutor Karim Khan stated that Israel threatened his wife and children if he continued pursuing arrest warrants against its leaders accused of committing genocide.

In an interview with Al Arabiya English, Khan said that a 5,000-page report issued by the UN Office of Internal Oversight Services cleared him of any wrongdoing. He added that the ICC Bureau, the court’s main oversight body, appointed three judges to review the report, and they confirmed on 21 March 2026 that there was no evidence indicating any misconduct.

He also said that he had not fully understood the extent of influence held by governments and states he described as aligned with the US and Israel, noting that 12 US senators contacted him and threatened his family if he continued pursuing action against Israel.

[Ramy Abdu| رامي عبده @RamAbdu]

Heated debates erupted in the Israeli Knesset today over an Israeli Supreme Court decision allowing the Red Cross to visit Palestinian prisoners and hostages in Israeli prisons after nearly two and a half years of denial.

The main objection? That Red Cross visits would expose what is happening inside the prisons and become a public relations disaster for Israel.

[Declassified UK @declassifiedUK]

Genocide in Gaza

73,041 Palestinians killed
595 aid workers killed
260 journalists killed
81% of structures destroyed/damaged
58,000 children have lost one or both parents
87% of cropland damaged
850,000 in need of emergency shelter items

https://t.co/z4G6vtcqY7

[Deepcut News @deepcutnews]

Re the ABC being summoned to the Royal Commission on Antisemitism and Social Cohesion, it might be worth revisiting this analysis we did a year ago showing ABC bias in favour of Israel throughout the coverage of a 'genocide' it still refuses to name.

https://t.co/tHaZcSm1pm

[Ryan Rozbiani @RyanRozbiani]

Aftermath of the strikes on Khan Younis

Look at that CRATER. What little the people had left got destroyed.