Wim Bramer

[Arnaud Bertrand @RnaudBertrand]

In a normal world, this should be an immense scandal in Europe.

Le Monde has a long article (https://t.co/HsWFThQ5wF) describing the hellish life of Nicolas Guillou, a French judge at the ICC in The Hague, due to U.S. sanctions punishing him for authorizing arrest warrants against Netanyahu and Gallant for war crimes in Gaza.

Guillou's daily existence has been transformed into a Kafkaesque nightmare. He cannot: open or maintain accounts with Google, Amazon, Apple, or any US company; make hotel reservations (Expedia canceled his booking in France hours after he made it); conduct online commerce, since he can't know if the packaging is American; use any major credit card (Visa, Mastercard, Amex are all American); access normal banking services, even with non-American banks, as banks worldwide close sanctioned accounts; conduct virtually any financial transaction.

He describes it as being "economically banned across most of the planet," including in his own country, France, and where he works, the Netherlands.

That's the real shocking aspect of this: the Americans are:
- punishing a European citizen
- for doing his job in Europe
- applying laws Europe officially supports
- at an institution based in Europe
- that Europe helped create and fund

and Europe is not only doing essentially nothing to protect him, they're actively enforcing America's sanctions against their own citizen - European banks closing his accounts, European companies refusing him service, European institutions standing by while Washington destroys a European judge's life on European soil.

Again, in a normal world, European leaders and citizens should be absolutely outraged about this. But we've so normalized the hollowing out of European sovereignty that the sight of a European citizen being economically executed on European soil for upholding European law is treated, at best, as an unfortunate technical complication in transatlantic relations.

[David Wolfe @DavidWolfe]

Starting December 16th, Meta will start feeding all your data to AI. This video is an instructional on how to turn these settings off.

[Wim Bramer @wimbramer]

@HilzFuld Apart from history books on the Ottoman Empire, and many of the books recommended below, try to include a book from another POV.

[Dave Smith @ComicDaveSmith]

It is so utterly bizarre that this question even gets asked at a NYC Mayoral debate and you simply can’t insist that people don’t notice it. Why would loyalty to a foreign government, let alone a view that said nation must be for a specific group of people, possibly be relevant.

[Saul Staniforth @SaulStaniforth]

Overnight Israeli settlers set fire to Palestinian homes in the occupied West Bank while the families inside were asleep.

The IDF and Israeli settlers have killed at least 972 Palestinians in the occupied West Bank since October 2023. Tell me again how this is a war on Hamas.

[Patriotic Millionaires UK @PatMillsUK]

Hello @RachelReevesMP, we wanted to make sure you see some important % and ££s:  
🇬🇧 80% of UK millionaires support a 2% tax on wealth over £10m
🇬🇧 81% think it’s patriotic to pay their fair share
We’re proud to pay and here to stay
#taxthesuperrich #taxwealthnotwork

[Lynn Boylan 🍷📖🐾 @LNBDublin]

They lie and they lie and they lie....

[Joe McAdam @JoeMcAdam99]

@IsraeliPM Israelis, demand your politicians reveal the exact amount of Israelis murdered by IDF Apache fire at the Nova festival. The rest of the world knows they opened fire on fleeing cars, you should too.

[Sulaiman Ahmed @ShaykhSulaiman]

BREAKING: HAMAS OFFICIAL STATEMENT

A brutal massacre has been carried out by the fascist occupation army as it targeted thousands of civilians who had headed to an aid distribution center operating under the occupation’s mechanism west of Rafah City. The attack resulted in the martyrdom of more than 35 people and the injury of more than 150 others.

This massacre affirms the fascist nature of the occupation and its criminal intentions behind this mechanism, as it uses centers under its control as traps to lure in starving innocents and then carries out the most horrific acts of killing, humiliation, and abuse against them.

Early this morning, thousands of civilians already suffering under an unprecedented war of genocide and starvation headed to the aid distribution area in response to an announcement and call issued by the occupation army, only to be met with brutal gunfire. This is a clear confirmation of the premeditated intent to commit this crime.

We hold the Zionist occupation, along with the U.S. administration, fully responsible for the massacres committed at the locations where this occupation-led aid mechanism is being implemented, as well as for the use of starvation as a weapon of war against our people.

We call on the United Nations and its institutions, foremost among them the UN Security Council, to take urgent and binding decisions that force the occupation to halt this bloody mechanism, to immediately open the crossings of the Gaza Strip, and to ensure the flow of humanitarian aid through recognized UN institutions.

We also call on the United Nations to form an independent international investigation committee and to enter the Gaza Strip to investigate these systematic crimes against civilians and to hold those responsible accountable as war criminals.

As we make this appeal, we urge Arab and Islamic countries to take immediate action to aid our people in the Gaza Strip, to pressure for an end to this brutal genocide, to break the siege, and to guarantee the entry of humanitarian aid without restriction or condition.

[Tom London @TomLondon6]

This is a photo of the current UK Ambassador to the US and the late Jeffrey Epstein, notorious for providing trafficked children to powerful men

Mandelson was close to Epstein AFTER much of his evil behaviour was known

UK media is FAILING to ask the obvious questions

[Moayed harazen 🇵🇸 @moayedHarazeen]

The way the Gaza American Foundation distributes aid is unlike anything we've ever witnessed. They place aid boxes and leave those with the energy to reach the centers to fight over them, as if it's straight out of a Hollywood movie where prisoners fight over each other's food. It's absurd.

[Peter Stefanovic @PeterStefanovi2]

Analysis by The Independent reveals Reform UK’s tax plans would disproportionately benefit the wealthiest 10% who would gain almost four times as much as the poorest 10%

Who would have guessed..

https://t.co/9XYaY46bva

[Rima Hassan @RimaHas]

🇵🇸 ⛵️ Avec @GretaThunberg nous appelons à la mobilisation citoyenne pour soutenir massivement le navire humanitaire de @GazaFFlotilla ! C’est le seul moyen de garantir notre sécurité. 🙏

[Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan]

I for one will never forgive or forget the people who did this and the people who enthusiastically and shamelessly enabled it.

[Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt @FranceskAlbs]

Now that the wind is changing and everyone starts to oppose the Gaza meat-grinding:

Netanyahu did not commit the genocide by himself. The problem will not be resolved by scapegoating him, ignoring the rest.

1. End genocide.
2. End occupation/annexation.
3. End apartheid.

[Hamza Yusuf @Hamza_a96]

The UK media have suddenly started to criticise Israel.

But it's too late. When it mattered most, they whitewashed the reality of Israel's crimes and enabled the genocide in Gaza.

And history will not forget.

My debut article for @ScotNational

https://t.co/0ufX6yWEvQ

[AIPAC Tracker @TrackAIPAC]

22 House Democrats led by Rep. @DeliaRamirezIL have introduced legislation to impose new restrictions on U.S. military aid to Israel.

Members co-sponsoring:
Jacobs
Jayapal
Pocan
Balint
Carson
Casar
Doggett
Escobar
Frost
Garcia (IL)
Jackson (IL)
Johnson (GA)
Lee (PA)
Ocasio-Cortez
Omar
Pressley
Schakowsky
Simon
Tlaib
Velazquez
Watson Coleman

[Wim Bramer @wimbramer]

@SuppressedNws Un peu trop tard

[Suppressed News. @SuppressedNws]

⚡️🇫🇷🇮🇱JUST IN: France’s President Emannuel Macron:

“If we abandon Gaza, if we consider it a free pass for Israel, even if we condemn the terrorist attacks, we kill our own credibility.”

[Agnes Callamard @AgnesCallamard]

Macron warns the West could lose credibility over Ukraine and Gaza wars… Seriously? Credibility was lost 19 months ago, the result of the West complicity or inaction to Israel’s genocide in Gaza. And it will take far more than words for it to be restored. https://t.co/NYyrv6OoEQ