Umer SL

Break it down

[shameen suleman @shameensuleman]

🟥 URGENT | QESSER ZUHRAH RE-ARRESTED

🔳 Qesser Zuhrah one of the Filton 24 has been re-arrested under counter-terror powers just weeks after being released on bail following 15 months on remand without trial after being taken at just 19 years old in a dawn raid.

▪️ She is not in normal condition she carried out a 48-day hunger strike, collapsing around day 46–47 and requiring hospitalisation after her body began to shut down, with reports she was left unable to move for hours without proper medical care.

🔳 This morning, counter-terror police turned up at her bail address and took her again knowing exactly the condition she is in.

▪️ The Filton 24 case is linked to action against an israeli weapons company operating in the UK, where multiple defendants were held beyond legal pre-trial limits, forcing hunger strikes as a last resort.

🔳 If you are in London, people are mobilising NOW outside:

▪️ Hatfield Police Station
▪️ Direct train from King’s Cross

▪️ A 19-year-old taken, held 15 months without trial, pushed to the brink on hunger strike, released… and now taken again if this doesn’t make you move, what will. @CrispinShow @Tracking_Power @swilkinsonbc @MENAUncensored @kennardmatt @Rehiana1980

[Niz @NizMhani]

This is Tracy-Ann, an actor apparently, and Alex Hearn, director of Labour Against Antisemitism.

Joining the movement harassing healthcare professionals into silence against Israels genocide in Gaza.

Israel relentlessly attack medics in Gaza.
Their propagandists relentlessly attack medics in the UK.

We won't be silenced!

[Safdar Alam @SafdarAlam]

People of Malaysia

Hear ye!
Hear ye!

I present to you a first rough draft of the People's Charter for Islamic Finance, I know you want it, just didnt round to asking me to write it

I will write a longer draft and present it so anyone can give feedback and have input

BOLEH!

[The Thinking Muslim Podcast @thinking_muslim]

Finance insider on the SECRET behind money and happiness.

Watch the full episode with @umersuleman here: https://t.co/KE76CLnqfz

[Dr. Yasir Qadhi @YasirQadhi]

No one deserves to be shot brutally in public, sliced open by the bullet of a cowardly sniper.

Hence, I condemn in the strongest terms the targeted assassination of at least 1500 Palestinians by snipers - many of whom were women and children collecting food - by the IDF cowards in Gaza.

And I condemn in the strongest terms the shooting of over 1000 Palestinians living in the West Bank in 'clashes' instigated by Isareli forces.

And I also condemn in the strongest terms the bombing and intentional killing of over 70,000 civilians in Gaza by the genocidal regime of Netanyahu.

Anyone who justified or mocked those deaths deserves no sympathy and is no hero - even as the same verdict above holds true for them as well.

Dying by violence does not cleanse a legacy of justifying violence.

[Dilly Hussain @DillyHussain88]

It is utterly disappointing and arguably a betrayal to Bedford town that @PeterMcCormack who is the chairman of @realbedford allowed Tommy Robinson to spread baseless and recklessly dangerous lies about the Queen’s Park area of Bedford and the town’s Muslim community, who were targets of last summer’s race riots — with little to no pushback.

I have emailed Peter conveying my disappointment and concerns, as well as notifying Bedford MP Mohammed Yasin about the dangerous disinformation being spread at a time when the country is a tinderbox waiting to violently explode.

Nothing Tommy said is factually true, it cannot be corroborated with the crime data available for Bedford town by wards, and @bedspolice can also confirm that the heroin trade in Bedford is not run by “Muslim gangs in Queen’s Park”.

Who Peter decides to host on his platform and why is entirely his prerogative, and excuses can be made for the host’s inability to live fact check claims made by guests during a show — but this wasn’t any subject which the host had no knowledge or connection to, these were baseless lies being made about a town Peter claims to represent and care about, he could’ve fact checked before the episode was released.

A little bit of history about the Queen’s Park area of Bedford:

- It was the ward where the Italians and Irish first arrived and settled post WW2.

- It was the ward where Bedford's first West Indian migrants arrived during wind rush.

- It was the ward where Pakistani, Kashmiri and Bangladeshi migrants, including my grandfather, arrived and settled in the 1960s and 1970s.

- It was the ward where many of the town’s Polish and Lithuanian migrants settled in the 2000s before Brexit.

- It is the ward where the town’s famous Charles Wells Brewery is located, and Rolls Royce factory used to be.

- It is the ward where one of Bedford’s oldest church is (All Saints Parish church), and where one of the largest Sikh temples in Europe is.

- It is the ward where Bedford MP Mohamemd Yasin lives and was a former councillor of.

- It is the ward that produced Bedford's most well known and successful Saturday & Sunday league cricket team: Westfield Colts and Westfield CC.

- It is a ward which successive MPs from Patrick Hall (Labour) to Richard Fuller (Tory) to Mohammed Yasin (Labour) have all stated has a cherished and historic place in the town’s history and multicultural identity.

- It is a ward where successive mayors of Bedford from Mayor Frank Branston to Abu Bagchi to Dave Hodgson to Tom Wootton have ALL vouched is a thriving and vibrant ward at the heart of the town centre. 

Does Queen’s Park have gang and drug activity? Yes, just like Putnoe, Black Tom, Cauldwell, London Road, Fenlake and other areas of Bedford do.

Bedford’s Muslims have always been a well integrated, welcoming and harmonious element of the town’s genuinely cohesive makeup, from consistently contributing towards humanitarian and local charitable projects, soup kitchens, food banks etc.

Peter allowed lies and disinformation to be shared on his sizeable platform about a town he claims to represent, has businesses in, and is the chairman of a local football club.

Very disappointing, and very damaging.

@Tom4Change @BedfordTweets @IslamBedford @BedfordTown @bedspolice @YasinForBedford

[William Dalrymple @DalrympleWill]

When the Macedonian soldiers of Alexander the Great first broke into Gaza after the siege of 332BCE, they recorded what they saw and left the first eyewitness account of Gaza that survives....

[Umer SL @umersuleman]

Somebody needs to teach @RobertJenrick how the law works in the UK... unless he thinks its one law for him and another for others...

[Fahad Ansari 🇵🇸 (Stop the Gaza genocide) @fahadansari]

🧵On Friday, @sra_solicitors wrote to me that it was opening an investigation into @riverwaylaw & myself over @RobertJenrick's report to them over our representation of Hamas. Today, I received an email from @Telegraph. It seems Jenrick is eager to trumpet this ‘success’.

[reachmeSohail @reachmesohal]

Excellent report from CAGE International on UKLFI and the Campaign Against Antisemitism and how they weaponise claims of antisemitism against doctors, lawyers, teachers, students and many others. Foreword by the International Jewish Anti-Zionist Network:
https://t.co/uuLjrGq205

[Fahad Ansari 🇵🇸 (Stop the Gaza genocide) @fahadansari]

Now that everyone seems to accept that Israel is carrying out war crimes in Gaza, can we discuss the Palestinians right to self defence? Shouldn’t we arm them? Shouldn’t Hamas, the only line of defence remaining between the genocidal Israeli army and the Palestinian civilian population, be deproscribed?

[Dr Asim Qureshi 🏞️➡️🌊🇵🇸🕊️ @AsimCP]

To understand Zionism at its core, the team at @riverwaylaw representing Hamas, wanted to ensure that adequate material was made available to the Home Secretary in understanding settler colonialism - the racist root of Zionist presence in the Occupied Palestinian Territory.

[Ryan Grim @ryangrim]

More protests inside Microsoft

[Dr Asim Qureshi 🏞️➡️🌊🇵🇸🕊️ @AsimCP]

The @riverwaylaw application brought by @fahadansari @FranckMagennis and Daniel Grutters centres the right of resistance of those facing settler colonialism, apartheid and occupation - all of which describes the Zionist state’s presence in Palestine.

[reachmeSohail @reachmesohal]

The Riverway Law case is upholding the legal principle that people under occupation who have faced apartheid, ethnic cleansing and genocide have the right to resist.

@riverwaylaw
@FranckMagennis
@fahadansari

[Dr. Ezzideen @ezzingaza]

They gave out a hundred shekels today.
Imagine that: twenty-five dollars is handed out like bones thrown to starving dogs.

I saw it.
I saw them, the doctors, the nurses, the radiologists ,people who once stood tall, who once wore their suffering with quiet pride, who worked through the entire war without pay, through the blood and the smoke and the endless nights, lining up, heads bowed, hands outstretched like beggars in the street.

And it was filmed.
Of course, it was filmed.
What use is charity without humiliation?
What use is a crumb without the spectacle of groveling?

I watched, and a sickness took hold of me, a loathing so deep it crawled under my skin and sat there, rotting.

I called a friend, a nurse. “How could you allow yourselves to be filmed like that?” I demanded.

He answered without anger, without shame even - that is what broke me - he said, “You didn’t see the rest. You didn’t see the ones who didn’t get anything. They chased him. They begged.”

God, they begged.

I sat there, my throat closing, the phone heavy in my hand. Three months without salaries. Endless nights under bombs. And now, now they chase a stranger with a camera for the dignity of a few coins.

Dignity? No, not even that. The last rags of human pride, torn away in the dust.

Picture it: a physician, a man who once commanded life and death, reduced to running after a man he does not know, for a handout he does not deserve to need.

This is what is left of us. This is what remains.

Gaza is the only place where war has humiliated everyone, doctors, nurses, children, and mothers all dragged down into the same pit.

We are not only defeated. We are made grotesque, monstrous, pitiful even to ourselves.

Those in far-off places, with full bellies and clean hands, they talk of peace, they talk of aid, they talk and they talk while here, here, the soul itself is being crushed into the earth.

I want to tear my skin off.
I want to howl.
I want to gouge out the eyes of those who watch and do nothing.
But instead, I sit here, alone in the dark, writing words no one will read, feeling everything rot inside me.

We are not men anymore.
We are something else.
something that crawls, that begs, that forgets what it once meant to walk upright.

#GazaGenocide

[Niall Stanage @NiallStanage]

Please take the two minutes for this.

Irish barrister Blinne Ní Ghrálaigh, counsel for the Palestinian State, at the International Court of Justice:

[Riverway to the Sea @riverwaylaw]

@fahadansari speaking on Middle East Eye Live, responds to a question first asked by TalkTV to Franck Magennis and then raised again by Spiked. 'How do you sleep at night?'

Fahad states he sleeps well knowing his work is aimed at ending mass killing. He challenges those supporting Israel and wonders how they can sleep knowing the entity they are supporting is on trial for genocide at the ICJ.

[reachmeSohail @reachmesohal]

@Mr__Righton @riverwaylaw Why are you so afraid that due process is being carried out under UK Law? The law of proscription has the mechanism for appeal.

Are you afraid that the law will eventually catch up with the perpetrators of genocide in Gaza?

Clock is ticking..

[Umer SL @umersuleman]

@FranckMagennis @petercardwell @TalkTV @fahadansari What do you expect from someone who couldn't show an ounce of sympathy for the Gazans? Life obviously means nothing to him.... unless it's of a certain type of person.

[Franck Magennis 🍉 @FranckMagennis]

Last week, I spoke with @petercardwell on @TalkTV. Despite my warning, he doubled down and said "I am associating you with [Hamas] because you've chosen to act for them." Whether from malice or ignorance, he put me, @fahadansari and Dan - and lawyers more generally - at risk.