Words from a boat

Full-time research, writing and solidarity. Part-time trouble maker.

[Words from a boat @Wordsfromaboat]

“That was when they suspended the Constitution. They said it would be temporary. There wasn't even any rioting in the streets. People stayed home at night, watching television, looking for some direction.”
#CoronavirusBill #covidー19uk

[Craig Murray @CraigMurrayOrg]

I write as former Head of Maritime Section of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office
and Alternate Head of UK Delegation to the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea Prepcom.

1) The flotilla is on the High Seas and not in Israel's 12 mile territorial sea. Israel has no jurisdiction.

2) The Israeli maritime blockade has been in place for 17 years and is an intrinsic part of the long term occupation found illegal in the ICJ advisory opinion

3) It is therefore not a short term measure in time of armed conflict as specified in the San Remo manual

4) In any event the San Remo rules explicitly state that humanitarian supplies may not be blockaded

5) The UN Commission of Inquiry has already determined that Israel is committing genocide. The blockade is plainly a part of the machinery of such genocide.

For reasons 1 to 5 the Israeli attack on the flotilla is plainly illegal.

6) On the High Seas, the law applying on each ship is the law of its flag state. An attack by a state military warship on a vessel on the High Seas is an attack on the flag state of the vessel attacked.

7) Acts of illegal possession of vessels or abduction of crew on the High Seas should be pursued by each flag state as crimes within their domestic jurisdiction, not only in international law.

8) So the Metropolitan Police and DPP have an obligation to investigate and act over the abduction of persons from UK flagged vessels on the High Seas.
This applies to each flag state mutatis mutandi.

I hope you find this helpful.

[Ai Business Journal @ArchieIntel]

BREAKING: 🇬🇧🇮🇱

BBC journalist reveals network's editorial bias in favour of Israel.

WATCH👇

[Lowkey @Lowkey0nline]

Let history record that the United States military pretended to build a pier for aid in order to use it to assist Israel in the genocide.

The US and Israeli military entered Nuseirat Refugee Camp in aid trucks to massacre over 200 people.

[Marc Wadsworth @Marcwads]

@HackneyAbbott back as candidate big win for Black community flexing its political muscle to thwart left-bashing @Keir_Starmer Mustn't forget other Black women he also victimised: @KateOsamor & @faizashaheen Fight against @LabourParty racism goes on
Read https://t.co/T5W3LbE3OA

[Massive Attack @MassiveAttackUK]

There can be no place in Bristol’s cultural or sporting arenas for any identity that profits from the genocide in Gaza:

[Tiberius @tiberiusfiles]

The final post of Aaron Bushnell:

[Matt Kennard @kennardmatt]

The UK has been at war with Yemen since 2015.

The media just never told you.

[Spelling Mistakes Cost Lives @darren_cullen]

Anti-apartheid supermarket price tags for products covered by the #BDS boycott.

These are Sainsbury's specific but I'm making them for other supermarkets/products and the A4 print files all be available to download from my website:
https://t.co/ntxpzTEqaP

[Corporate Watch @CorpWatchUK]

Palantir, Israel and NHS data, a thread...
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[David Miller @Tracking_Power]

Rainwater is the property of 'Israel'.

Palestinians are forbidden from gathering rainwater.

Source: a UN report: 'according to Israeli military orders in effect in the area, rain is the property of the Israeli authorities and thus Palestinians are forbidden from gathering rain water for domestic or agricultural needs.'

And:

'As well as prohibiting nearly all construction of wells necessary for Palestinians to secure additional quantities of water to support population growth and socio-economic development, such policies have denied communities access to water and sanitation facilities, including water, toilets, sewage networks and cisterns for rainwater harvesting.'

This is Zionism.

#DismantleZionism
#Gaza_Genocide
#FromTheRiverToTheSea

https://t.co/f2lpPYY4Ta

[Lowkey @Lowkey0nline]

It has been reported that Tony Blair may be installed as humanitarian coordinator in Gaza.

Tony Blair is currently a patron of the JNF w/ Netanyahu. The JNF is the largest settlement-building organisation in Palestine.

Blair also has the blood of a million Iraqis on his hands.

[Words from a boat @Wordsfromaboat]

Gove drew attention to himself waking directly INTO the demo where he was seen and called out. Why would a self-declared Zionist who’s part of a govt backing Israel walk into a pro-Palestine march 🤔

[ℹ️ Not The Torygraph 💚 #SaveOurNHS #ScrapNHSBill @TweetForTheMany]

Politicshome have deleted this article from 2017

Baroness Warsi (a fellow Tory) was so concerned about Michael Gove's anti-Muslim rhetoric that she went public.

Gove is associated to right wing think tanks that promote racial hatred. Some directly others more subtly.

[The Raging Trousered Philosopher @glenninluton]

I spotted Michael Gove before anyone else did. I was amazed to see him walking from a side street directly into the body of the march. Once people realised who he was he had to turn back and walk the other way and was followed by protestors calling him ou . WHY did he do this?

[Words from a boat @Wordsfromaboat]

What they fail to report on is that shortly before this Gove (a self-declared Zionist) walked from a side street right into the main demo. He scurried off when people saw him and called him out

[Ben Smoke @bencsmoke]

and nothing else happened across the whole of london the whole day!

[Maha Hussaini @MahaGaza]

A real massacre is being committed inside the al-Shifa Hospital NOW

Patients, healthcare professionals, & thousands of displaced people are encircled by Israeli tanks while being bombed by airstrikes & artillery shells

Patients are literally dying after the electricity went off

[Asa Winstanley @AsaWinstanley]

“Shoot at everything”: How Israeli pilots killed their own civilians -- @AliAbunimah https://t.co/WW289YP08x

[Diana Buttu @dianabuttu]

In its 35th day of attacking Gaza, Israel has:
- killed 11,025 Palestinians; 4506 of them being kids. An additional 2,700 remain trapped under rubble.
- destroyed 270,00 Palestinian homes;
- internally displaced 1.6 out of 2.2 million people
Satisfied yet, world?

[S. Hm. @shahdhm]

39 babies on incubators in Al Shifa. This is the last room with electricity. Two have already died. 37 babies.

[Matt Kennard @kennardmatt]

We revealed today the UK military has flown 33 huge transport planes to Israel since Gaza bombing started.

Ministry of Defence refused to give us ANY detail on cargo + personnel carried on the planes.

Not a single mainstream media outlet has covered it👇
https://t.co/oz8FDaLnua