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[TuscanBat @tuscan_bat]

@FreedomMatty Oh do fuck off

[Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan]

If you were to write this headline or article in a variety of US, UK, German or French media outlets, your career might be on the line and you’d probably be accused of antisemitism.

And yet the author of this piece is a former prime minister for Israel.
https://t.co/xUqPAHxsab

[Mukhtar @I_amMukhtar]

Billy Allison, the original founder of Raise the Colours, has been charged with murder and grievous bodily harm with intent after a man was badly beaten in a bar in Lichfield on Sunday. The victim died in hospital yesterday from his injuries.

He's due to appear in court today.

[Artur Nadolny @ArturNadol7566]

POLICE KILLED AN INNOCENT MAN, LIED ABOUT IT, AND ARRESTED THE WOMAN WHO TOLD YOU

In July 2005, Jean Charles de Menezes, an innocent man, was shot dead at Stockwell tube station by Metropolitan Police firearms officers who mistook him for a terrorist.

Police initially claimed he was wearing bulky clothing, had vaulted the ticket barriers, and run from officers. None of it was true. But police did not correct the misinformation. They waited until someone forced their hand.

That someone was Lana Vandenberghe. A secretary. Not a senior official, not a KC, not a politician. A secretary who sat at her desk at the Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) and watched the official story fall apart in front of her.

As files passed across her desk, she began to feel that the facts of the case were being misrepresented, or not presented at all, to the public.

So she did something about it.

Over several weeks, Lana stayed late at the office and used her camera to photograph the evidence, which she then handed to a news producer.

She leaked the documents to ITN, which contradicted the official narrative being promoted by the Metropolitan Police.

The story broke. The cover was blown. And the state's response?

Dawn raids. Vandenberghe was arrested by Leicester Constabulary Serious Crime Unit acting on behalf of the IPCC. Two more dawn raids followed weeks later, including the arrest of the ITN journalist who ran the story and his pregnant girlfriend.

Vandenberghe said she was "scared to death" and that it never crossed her mind she would be treated as a criminal for telling the truth. "Unlike the police," she said, "I hadn't killed an innocent person."

She lost her job. She lost her home. She was treated for depression.

The threat police reportedly considered charging her with?

The theft of ink and paper.

Ink and paper.

The first IPCC inquiry concluded that none of the officers involved would face disciplinary charges. The Crown Prosecution Service later found "insufficient evidence" to prosecute any named individual.

No charges were ever filed against Vandenberghe.

No charges were ever filed against the officers who killed Jean Charles de Menezes and then lied about it either.

Lana has said she would do it all again. She does not consider what she did heroic. She was taught to speak out for the truth, no matter what. She stands by that code today.

The system called her a criminal. History called her a witness.

SOURCES:
@metpoliceuk | @policeconduct | @WhistleUK | @BBCRadio4 | @itvnews | @Wikipedia

[Richard Burgon MP @RichardBurgon]

Israel's Finance Minister has ordered the eviction of a Palestinian village in the occupied West Bank.

Tough words are not enough. We need real action to stop this.

In Parliament’s Middle East debate, I called for widespread sanctions on Israel to help stop these war crimes.

[Parody Nigel Farage @Parody_PM]

As Lee Anderson becomes Chairman of Reform UK, let us remember that time he got his mate to pretend he didn't know him, but got caught on camera.

[Declassified UK @declassifiedUK]

"The moment I realised Israeli society was fully fascist"

Journalist and filmmaker @AbbyMartin shares her experience speaking to everyday Israeli citizens in 2017, and explains how genocidal rhetoric has now gone mainstream in the country.

[Mel @Villgecrazylady]

This is Dr. Nicholas Maynard, a gastrointestinal surgeon at Oxford University, in February 2025 after returning from volunteering for a 3rd time in Gaza. Dr. Maynard describes how he treated a dozen children who had been used as target practice by the IDF.

[Mick Wallace @wallacemick]

Israel bombed every Hospital in Gaza, the US + Israel bombed 307 Medical Facilities in Iran in just 4 weeks, now they're doing it in Lebanon. Israel + the US deliberately target Medical Facilities...

[Jeremy Corbyn @jeremycorbyn]

As Health Secretary, Wes Streeting deepened the privatisation of our NHS and handed over our data to Palantir, a company involved in genocide.

I am sure his friend Peter Mandelson is very proud.

Time to reinstate our NHS as a fully public service — and kick Palantir out!

[The New Arab @The_NewArab]

Israeli settlers, protected by the army, have stolen herds of sheep from Palestinians in the West Bank, the latest in weeks of similar incidents. The timing is pointed: with Eid al-Adha approaching, livestock sales represent a critical source of annual income for many farmers.

[Zarah Sultana MP @zarahsultana]

Please retweet.

[Saganism @Saganismm]

"The idea that the poor should have leisure has always been shocking to the rich. In the early nineteenth century, fifteen hours was the ordinary day's work for a man; children sometimes did as much, and very commonly did twelve hours a day. When meddlesome busybodies suggested that perhaps these hours were rather long, they were told that work kept adults from drink and children from mischief.

When I was a child, shortly after urban working men had acquired the vote, certain public holidays were established by law, to the great indignation of the upper classes. I remember hearing an old Duchess say: 'What do the poor want with holidays? They ought to work.' People nowadays are less frank, but the sentiment persists, and is the source of much of our economic confusion."

— Bertrand Russell

[George Galloway @georgegalloway]

BETRAYED
Kidnapped, trussed up, drugged and flown out of the country as baggage

I was the person who revealed in parliament that Mordechai Vanunu, the brave Jewish whistleblower who tried to tell the world about Israel's nuclear weapons, was betrayed by Robert Maxwell, father of Ghislaine

Follow #MOATS 549 #GeorgeGalloway #MordechaiVanunu #Israel #nuclearweapons #RobertMaxwell

[Rangzen @revoltinghippie]

@ShabanaMahmood

[Howard Beckett @HowardRBeckett]

Zack Polanski words then are as important now:

‘Shabana Mahmood is being deeply irresponsible’
‘Conflating, ultimately weaponising an antisemitic attack against those protesting against genocide is wrong’

Speaking to truth.

[BladeoftheSun @BladeoftheS]

Klopp

[Michael Rosen 💙💙🎓🎓 NICE 爷爷 @MichaelRosenYes]

@UA_Books Thanks UA!

[Zack Polanski @ZackPolanski]

That future: Lower bills. Tax billionaires. End Rip off Britain.

Who's in?