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We know only too well that our freedom is incomplete without the freedom of the Palestinians. Free Palestine. Zionism is Fascism. No War But Class War.

[Dr Rahmeh Aladwan @doctor_rahmeh]

Jewish settlers are poisoning wells again.

[Declassified UK @declassifiedUK]

The judge who will rule on Friday in the case of four Palestine Action activists was previously paid to represent the interests of MI6 and the Ministry of Defence. https://t.co/McT8kxulCM

[Helen the Zen (reboot) 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🍉 @glaisian]

Protester Terrorist

[ALUTHEDON @Mbakaza4L]

"They're not hostages. They're in prison for crimes."

the crimes

[Suppressed Voices @supressedvoic]

Don't look away.

[𝓙𝓲𝓶𝓶𝔂 𝓙 @JimmyJ4thewin]

Mexico shows its support for PaIestine. 🙌

[Jonathan Cook @Jonathan_K_Cook]

Israeli lawyer Ben Marmarelli says Palestinian prisoners he represents beg him not to visit because they're raped each time he is due to meet them.

This is a scene from Al Jazeera's shocking new documentary on Israel's systematic use of rape.

[Middle Eastern Affairs @OpsHQs]

🇲🇽 Mexico: Burning of the Israeli flag in Guadalajara

Israel is hated everywhere

[Jonathan Cook @Jonathan_K_Cook]

Met police chief Sir Mark Rowley tries to tie Russia and Iran to the riots in Belfast.

The same man tells us the marches against genocide, packed with Jews, are actually driven by Jew hatred.

It's all establishment smoke and mirrors, regurgitated by the corporate media.

[Mannie Quinn & The Dolly Liberation Army @DollidarityArmy]

Jimmy Savile in Tel Aviv, 1975.
Right in his element.

[Mehmet Ardıç 🇹🇷 @MehmetArdic_]

Ayrılık anneler için asla kolay değildir.

Bu video bugün Khan Younis'ta katil işgal güçleri tarafından şehit edilen genç Ahmed Naeem'in annesinin görüntüleri..

Sözde ateşkes yerini sinsi ve vahşice katliama bıraktı..

[Caitlin Johnstone @caitoz]

People show you examples of discrimination against Jews and it’s somebody wearing a watermelon pin or saying “from the river to the sea”. People show you examples of discrimination against Arabs and it’s families being burned alive in Palestine and Lebanon with western backing.

[Jonathan Cook @Jonathan_K_Cook]

Pro-Israel organisations now insist that not only must the perceptions, or feelings, of Jews about racism be accepted without question, and without the need for actual evidence, but that these same organisations must alone decide what constitutes racism towards the community.

The result is a massively expanded definition of antisemitism that, unsurprisingly, makes a priority of ring-fencing Israel from meaningful criticism.

This has been formally codified by a preposterously wordy definition from the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance that reduces antisemitism to a “perception” that “may be expressed as hatred toward Jews” – but equally, it seems, may not. Jew hatred can also, according to the IHRA, be directed to “non-Jewish individuals”.

The reason for this unnecessary convolution is clarified by a set of 11 potential “examples” of antisemitism offered by the IHRA – the majority of which relate to Israel. Antisemitism, defined in this way, may as often as not be expressed, not as hatred towards Jews, but as opposition to the actions of Israel, such as its current genocidal rampages in Gaza and south Lebanon.

Because “non-Jewish individuals” support Israel and its Jewish supremacist ideology of Zionism, the IHRA makes sure to enfold these individuals prominently in its definition.

All UK police forces, like the main political parties, have adopted the IHRA definition. Which presumably explains why the Met are currently investigating as an antisemitic incident a man being rude to actress Helen Mirren, who is not Jewish, over her support for Israel.

What the Israel lobby has managed to do so triumphantly is, first, wrongly associate a political outlook with an ethnic community – the false, indeed antisemitic, assumption that all Jews identify with Israel and its crimes – and then classify any kind of meaningful criticism of Israel as an attack on the Jewish community. As racial hatred.

This is the Macpherson Principle on steroids. It treats perceived Jewish feelings – a perception entirely confected by the Israel lobby – as proof of a hate crime.

The campaign to corrupt the definition of “race hate”, and thereby criminalise certain kinds of political speech about Israel, was honed by the political and media class during Jeremy Corbyn’s years leading the Labour party. Corbyn and the majority of Labour members who supported him were quickly vilified as antisemitic over their critical stance towards Israel.

Any attempt to push back, rejecting the idea that criticising Israel equates with Jew hatred, was, of course, cited as proof of antisemitism.

The left’s long-standing criticisms of Israel, particularly over its apartheid nature and brutal colonisation of Palestinian lands, have sounded ever more credible in the wake of Israel’s sustained genocidal assault on Gaza since late 2023.

Israel has killed many tens of thousands – possibly hundreds of thousands – of Palestinian civilians there, destroyed almost the entirety of the enclave’s homes, schools and hospitals, and starved the population.

When hundreds of thousands of Britons began regularly turning out to march against British complicity in the genocide, and students organised encampments on university campuses across the country, the logic was already firmly in place to condemn these protests as “antisemitic”.

Soon even anti-genocide chants – calling for Israel’s apartheid rule to end and urging global support for Palestinians as they struggled to liberate themselves – were denounced as hate crimes.

The Met has been visibly taking a leading role, along with the Labour government and rightwing parties, in steadily criminalising expressions of solidarity with Palestinians as they are annihilated with western munitions, intelligence and diplomatic support.

The police force now arrests people over anti-genocide chants, and is using a heavier and heavier hand to disappear the protests, from limiting their regularity to strictly circumscribing permitted march routes.

The direction of travel can be seen in the government classifying as a terrorism offence any support for efforts to stop Israeli factories in the UK from arming Israel’s genocide. Thousands of Britons, many elderly, have been arrested by the Met and other forces simply for holding up a placard.

This is an extract from my latest article UK policing culture – from the Nowak murder to crushing protest – grows ever more rotten. Find a link to the rest in the reply post ⬇️

[Social Alchemy @socialalchemy_c]

This intentional conflation of Zionism with Judaism is actual anti semitism

[Retro Coast @RetroCoast]

@KosherChutzpah It's okay to hate Israel.

Israel is a criminal terrorist state.

It's okay to hate criminal terrorists.

[Peter Daou @peterdaou]

The world is now divided between those who oppose the deliberate massacre of children and those who support it.

[Jvnior @Jvnior]

This you?

[Jvnior @Jvnior]

X is committing suicide for israel.

[Shadow of Ezra @ShadowofEzra]

Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich threatens to declare war on the entire world and destroy everything if an arrest warrant is issued against him.

He declares himself and Netanyahu’s government above the law and says war crime accusations do not apply to them.

“And in the face of a declaration of war, we will respond with war.”

“I promise all of you, this is only the beginning.”

[daz @MetamateDaz]

If capitalism is so great, why do corporations need tax breaks, subsidies, exemptions, grants, legal protections, bailouts, and trade protections?

and why when citizens need these things, it's socialism?