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[Mick Wallace @wallacemick]

"We all want to live in a World of Gavin Bazunu's" - Respect for standing up for something that matters when so many refuse to go to that space...

[Sarah Wilkinson @swilkinsonbc]

Republic of Ireland goalkeeper Gavin Bazunu has told his teammates that he does not want to compete against the israelis #StopTheGame

[The National @ScotNational]

NEW: Train drivers have warned they will boycott vehicles manufactured by a company linked to illegal Israeli settlements

[Steve Sweeney @SweeneySteve]

“After the soldiers raped her, they cut open her stomach and pulled her unborn baby out, nailing it to the wall. Then they executed her."

Christian Phalangist militia justified this to watching Israeli soldiers by saying that Palestinians give birth to terrorists

The Sabra and Chatila massacre started on September 16, 1982 and was carried out by Lebanese Christian Phalangist militiamen, under the watch of Israeli forces surrounding the camps.

My report from the ground

https://t.co/q7JOceu7MK

[CD @cilliandoyle87]

Aaron used to play in the pub down the road from me (Noggin Inn)

It’s hard to understate what a massive break this must have been for him, and the courage it took to give it up on a point of principle

Massive respect

[Linda Mamoun @mamoun_linda]

I’m stuck on this photo today. Ayloul was one of the 20,000 children Israel killed in Gaza. Her aunt says she was “the most beautiful child I have ever seen in my life.” And I was just reflecting on that, I can’t imagine it because every day I look at my daughter and I think this is the most beautiful child I have ever seen in my life. I know I’m not supposed to, but every day I tell her her face is like a work of art, because I’m so limited in my ability to describe her beauty all I can come up with are those trite words. I can’t believe that Israel got away with killing 20,000 children each beautiful beyond the human capacity to describe.

[Ramy Abdu| رامي عبده @RamAbdu]

Palestinian father Fadi Dawoud:

“Yesterday, I recovered the body of my beautiful daughter Sama. I could only identify her by her teeth. I found her beside her sisters, Lana and Hala—the same place where they had sought safety together.

Earlier in this war, I recovered the bodies of their mother and little sister Jouri.

Sama, Lana, Hala and Jouri… until we meet again in heaven, never to part.”

[Ryan Grim @ryangrim]

Ha'aretz reports that Hamas, through Qatar, conveyed immediately on Oct. 7 that they were willing to return all the civilian hostages for nothing -- their only ask was for a mediator to arrange the exchange and establish a connection to then negotiate the further release of the soldiers. Israel refused to talk or hear about it.

So Qatar reached out to Antony Blinken to let him know that Hamas was willing to release all the civilian hostages.

Blinken told Qatar he didn't want to hear it because "Israel is still under attack, and there's no one to talk to."

Blinken had the opportunity to free every single civilian hostage and de-escalate the situation. Instead he wanted war.

[Mark Ruffalo @MarkRuffalo]

This is a little old but in light of Paramount’s newest moves I think it’s important to repost this. For anyone wondering about the cozy relationship the Ellisons have with the President and his family and how that relationship is driving and economically profiting from this merger. It’s okay for you to asks questions as this pertains to our democracy.

https://t.co/wvbwOa4o4T

[Trita Parsi @tparsi]

WOW!

Haaretz investigation is a MUST-READ!

The Netanyahu gov received numerous warnings - incl from the UAE's ruler 10 days before Oct 7 - that Hamas was planning an attack.

The ultimate source of the warning was Hamas' own Sinwar.

Netanyahu ignored all the warnings and took no precautions. He didn't even convey it to the Israeli intelligence apparatus.

But there's more. Immediately after Oct 7, Hamas offered to release all the civilian hostages - without asking for anything in return. The Biden admin was aware of this as well. But Israel wasn't interested, leaving both Hamas and the Qatari mediators baffled.

So much bloodshed could have been avoided. So many innocent lives could have been spared. But Netanyahu appeared to have been uninterested - and Biden, of course, never put any real pressure on Israel - effectively allowing Netanyahu to determine US policy.

https://t.co/EJUwMiwEzq

[Earth Hippy 🌎🕊️💚 @hippyygoat]

“We have to make sure that history books don’t write about the victims of Gaza”
…Mike Pompeo

[Dr Rahmeh Aladwan @doctor_rahmeh]

'The world's most secretive jewish community: Hasidic'

A must watch documentary that exposes the religious supremacy driving zionism.

https://t.co/zLDwrwNZy7

[Quds News Network @QudsNen]

Former Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett claimed that while he was in Croatia with his daughter, an ice cream vendor asked whether she was Israeli. After she answered yes, Bennett said the vendor took the ice cream away, threw it into the trash and told her, “No ice cream for Israelis.”

[PTI @PTIofficial]

“The most intense and harsh prison conditions I’ve seen in my 25-year career.”

International human rights lawyer @JaredGenser told @CNN that the torturous solitary confinement and isolation of former Prime Minister Imran Khan is part of a deliberate strategy by the Pakistani regime to “crush his spirit or break him psychologically.”

#FreeImranKhan

[Drop Site @DropSiteNews]

🚨Aid coalition chief: Israel blocks wheelchairs, prosthetics, watermelons, and fresh produce from entering Gaza

Athena Rayburn, executive director of the Association of International Development Agencies, which represents more than 100 humanitarian and development NGOs operating in the occupied Palestinian territory, detailed Israel’s sweeping restrictions on aid during a UN Security Council briefing Wednesday.

🔹Israel rejects scissors, crutches, wheelchairs and prosthetic limbs as “dual-use,” bars medical specialists and restricts engine oil so severely that its price has risen to 45 times normal levels, bringing aid operations to “an absolute breaking point,” Rayburn said.

🔹Israeli authorities have also rejected watermelon and onions under an unpublished “humanitarian policy,” deregistered more than 30 international aid groups and repeatedly moved the supposedly fixed Yellow Line, cutting access to at least 85 water points, schools and health clinics.

“Humanitarian assistance, by its nature, cannot be conditioned,” Rayburn said, noting Israel was shrinking “almost daily” the physical space in Gaza where aid groups can operate.

[automne @jepresume]

🟥PLEASE RETWEET IT!
This photo was removed from an exhibition at the Deauville Sports Photo Festival at the request of certain people. The management opted not to offend anyone. Please retweet it.

➡️Palestinian photographer Jehad Alshrafi.
Players of the Gaza Sports Club and Al-Ahly Club.

https://t.co/lVvDDBHygR

[Jemima Goldsmith @Jemima_Khan]

Prime Minister @andyburnham and Foreign Secretary @Ed_Miliband : how much longer will Britain remain silent?

For three years the father of my two sons, and Pakistan’s former Prime Minister, Imran Khan, has been brutally penalised by his political opponents, in a personal vendetta by Army Chief, Asim Munir,  which according to the UN,  amounts to torture and which  is now taking a potentially fatal toll on his physical and mental health. 

He has endured 3 years of solitary confinement. For nearly ten months now his family has been denied contact with him. He has been deprived of the most basic human contact, denied access to books, lawyers and doctors.

The international human-rights standards are unequivocal. Under the UN’s Nelson Mandela Rules, solitary confinement lasting more than 15 consecutive days is prohibited and amounts to torture.

He has endured this treatment not for 15 days, but for three years.

Pakistan’s own Supreme Court has now intervened: ordering comprehensive  medical treatment, access to his personal doctor, regular family visits and twice-weekly calls with his sons.

Yet those orders are being defied.

This is no longer simply a Pakistani political matter. It is a human-rights emergency.

He has deep and lifelong ties to Britain. He studied at Oxford University, captained Oxford University cricket and spent years playing county cricket in England. His relationship with this country stretches back more than half a century. His charitable activities were internationally recognised, and  include building the only free cancer hospital in Pakistan as well as a university.

His sons, my two boys, Sulaiman and Kasim, are British citizens. They have been forced to watch their father’s health decline from thousands of miles away, prevented from visiting him, denied visas, publicly threatened by government officials with arrest themselves, and even denied court-mandated regular phone calls. 

I have repeatedly appealed to the UK government to intervene. Purported attempts at back channelling have evidently failed. The previous Foreign Secretary @DavidLammy informed me in writing that Britain would not  intervene if my sons, British citizens, are arrested when they travel to Pakistan to visit their father. 

@FCDOGovUK: Britain must now speak out publicly and unequivocally. Demand that Pakistan comply with its own Supreme Court;  restore Imran Khan’s medical access, his right to see his family, end his prolonged isolation and uphold his fundamental human rights.

Pakistan is a Commonwealth country. Britain has a long and proud tradition of standing against arbitrary detention, inhumane treatment and the denial of fundamental rights. Those principles mean very little if we invoke them only selectively and neglect them when inconvenient.
This an appeal to the new Burnham government  to please now do the right thing.

[Mark Ruffalo @MarkRuffalo]

The accusation that I am antisemitic is appalling and fundamentally dishonest. Criticizing the actions of the Israeli prime minister, a military technology contract, or the executives who supply it is not the same as criticizing Jewish people. This critical and necessary dialogue is then dishonestly framed as being anti-Israel. To be clear, my views come from my own political convictions and should never be interpreted as hostility toward Jewish people, for whom I have deep love and respect.  Everything I know about acting, activism, and humanism has been profoundly shaped by the Jewish friends, colleagues, and loved ones who have been integral and family throughout every point of my life.

This merger has real consequences for real people, and for the entire country. Scrutinizing the Ellisons, including Oracle’s business built on data, surveillance technology and government contracts, and the serious threat to editorial freedom and the loss of a livelihood for thousands of families, is fair and necessary. The $111 billion deal would hand one family control over CNN, HBO and Warner Bros., backed in part by foreign money whose influence on editorial decisions has never been fully explained to the public. 

Lawmakers on both sides of the aisle have called for serious national security review, and regulators still haven’t given the public a real answer. Until they do, the merger shouldn’t move forward. Now is the time to dive boldly into all these issues, not step back or concede.

[💧Mary Kostakidis @MaryKostakidis]

Juries now have refused to send Palestine Action astivists to jail as well as Tony Greenstein. His speech to the Jury that refused to send him to jail for ‘terrorism’ worth reading in whole, but here is an excerpt:
‘In the second world war, the Nazis walled the Jews of Warsaw, half a million of them into a ghetto — a sealed district, starved and diseased, from which the trains left for the Treblinka death camp. And in 1943 the young Jews who remained did something nobody expected. With a handful of smuggled pistols, against tanks and the SS, they rose. They knew they could not win. They rose because it was better to die resisting than to be led away quietly. It is one of the proudest moments in Jewish history.
The last surviving commander of that uprising was a man named Marek Edelman. And in his old age, Edelman wrote to the Palestinian resistance and addressed them as fellow fighters — much to Israel’s annoyance. When he died, Poland gave him a state funeral, a fifteen-gun salute, the President gave the oration. Israel did not send the lowliest clerk at the Israeli Embassy. Edelman wasn’t a Zionist.
Edelman, who led the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising against the Nazis, described Gaza as a ghetto. I have used his comparison for years before October 2023. Two million people, most of them refugees or the children of refugees, sealed into a strip of land under blockade for 16 years, where the majority are children who have never once been allowed out. When I wrote “ghetto,” I meant a ghetto. My blog supported the Uprising just as I would have supported the slave uprisings of the 19th century. That is a political opinion. It was a political opinion on 7 October 2023, and it is a political opinion now.
And here is the crazy thing. Read section 1 of the Terrorism Act 2000 and ask what it would have made of the Warsaw Ghetto fighters. If this Act had existed in 1944, they could have been classified as terrorists. So could the French Resistance.’

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