Tabitha Troughton

Journalist, writer etc. Byline Times, LRB blog, Constitution Society, Freedom News etc. (Was) not often on twitter.

[keewa 🇵🇸 @keewa]

Again: a suffragette threw an axe at Herbert Asquith

[BuDS Disability Service @BuDs_UK]

This Bill is unanimously opposed by disabled-led organisations representing millions of disabled people across the UK. Lauren Edwards hasn't consulted us. She's spent days closeted with the secretive multimillionaire lobbyists behind this Suicide Bill. Her priorities are clear.

[The Aftershock @The_Aftershock_]

BREAKING: People Against Genocide are blocking all entry to Ultra I&C, a key supplier to Elbit's Israeli drone factory in Leicester.

They used modified suitcases to lock on and shut down the site for as long as possible.

"Direct action will continue undeterred"

[Disability Rights @TalkThatTalk_K]

The rest of the country isn’t grateful, Claire. The HoL did their jobs and you’re circumventing the law. All to give the government a cheaper option than palliative care. And no, the country doesn’t support this bill. Only old polls conducted by Dignity in Dying (the ones who poured millions into getting this done for the government) actually suggest that.

A deeply dangerous bill that intends to remove safeguards in the coming years once it’s through the door is being forced AGAIN and refuses to ensure safeguarding.
Anyone who gives a damn about people being able to make a decision on AD without coercion being a factor, will oppose this bill.
Unfortunately, many will still back this bill because it’s the cheaper solution.

They would rather let you, your loved ones suffer to the point of asking for AD rather than fund proper palliative care. That’s already coercion. It’s also cheaper to people being on benefits. In a country that let a mass disabling virus let rip - this is a cost saving bill.

But we knew this was the agenda since the committee stage when we first heard them vote away safeguards for non terminal disabilities. No one needs AD for autism, Down’s syndrome, anorexia or diabetes. But that’s what they voted on. Any safeguards in place to get this bill through the door is smoke and mirrors to allow state sanctioned death via the back door.
It must fail. This bill is completely unsafe for all. Even those they’re hiding this appalling bill behind. They’re using these terminally ill people to get this through. They do not care what happens with them at all.

[Frances 'Cassandra' Coppola @Frances_Coppola]

Haaretz editorial calls for the release of Abu Safiyah, the Gazan doctor Israel is holding without trial and is reported to be torturing.

[Jen Wood - est optimum simpliciter @unojen_wood]

The welfare bill can be cut instantly - Make employers pay a living wage so that the 40% who claim while in work do not have to.
Govts will do ANYTHING but address this.

[B'Tselem בצלם بتسيلم @btselem]

Israel is running a network of torture camps for Palestinians. Our reports, Welcome to Hell and Living Hell, extensively documented a reality of extreme violence, starvation, and torture.

Palestinian prisoners are subjected to severe violence, deliberate humiliation, starvation, sleep deprivation, denial of medical care, and abuse in every facility where they are held. 

These abusive practices are fully backed by the political leadership, which openly boasts about the harsh prison conditions. Some inmates are subjected to severe sexual assaults. 

At least 89 Palestinians have died in Israeli detention facilities since October 2023 as a result of inhumane conditions, violence, starvation, and the denial of medical treatment. 

Despite the extensive evidence, media investigations, and reports issued by Israeli and international organizations documenting torture in Israeli prisons, the international community continues to stand by and allow Israel to commit crimes against the Palestinian people. 

Link to the full report >>
Welcome to Hell: https://t.co/41rgbvFjCx

Living Hell: https://t.co/vHSdH4GFsG

[Chris Doyle @Doylech]

And the EU and the UK will in many weeks time find a few settler entities to sanction. That will be it.

[Tabitha Troughton @ttroughton]

@reider Never unnecessary to revisit Ashutosh Varshney on this: https://t.co/pdLD5X7lCn

[Tabitha Troughton @ttroughton]

@reider During Covid. mothers were giving each other nappies across the divides.

[Dimi Reider | dimireider.substack.com @reider]

A few quick notes from Belfast:
1. Community response was astounding. 370+ ppl rescued, rehoused, fed, clothed, reassured. Some in homes. Some in offices of grassroot orgs - Loyalist and Republican both.
2. Houses will very likely burn this summer in England too. Are we ready?

[Quds News Network @QudsNen]

Police arrested peaceful Jewish protesters outside Edgware Synagogue during a demonstration against the illegal sale of Palestinian land, including properties linked to West Bank settlements.

[Tabitha Troughton @ttroughton]

@gaijingirl2004 That's why they're trying to get rid of juries

[Canary @TheCanaryUK]

🚨 URGENT: support needed at Edgware United Synagogue where peaceful anti-Zionist Jewish people are being arrested for protesting the Israeli Real Estate conference that is happening there today.

[Dr Órfhlaith Campbell @drorfh]

This week has been absolutely shocking. I have had threats that I will be hanged, deported, sexually assaulted and sent into reopened laundries. As Suzanne we will never be silenced and they will never win!

[No Context Brits @NoContextBrits]

No shortbread for little Nazis.

[BladeoftheSun @BladeoftheS]

Tommy Robinson was organising the riots in Belfast.

He should pay for them.

[Jews for Palestine Ireland @JewishPeace]

Today our Belfast members joined thousands to march against racism, against fascism, and for a united humanity in Ireland and beyond.

[Craig Murray @CraigMurrayOrg]

Sentencing the Innocent - Judge Johnson had proven his fascist credentials through rulings much earlier in the Filton trial than his vicious sentencing. Indeed, He had arguably already shown them when he released Tommy Robinson from a prison sentence, or https://t.co/MAe3fgb1RG

[Assal Rad @AssalRad]

A doctor kidnapped from a besieged hospital, tortured and held without charge for over 500 days, would surely be called a HOSTAGE.

Unless he’s Palestinian.