🇹🇭🇮🇱 A Thai zoo owner files a complaint against an Israeli tourist for threatening to burn her house and assault her after she hung a Palestinian flag and banned Israelis from entering the premises.
I had a great chat with @ZackPolanski about The Gaza Tribunal, Andy Burnham, and the British media.
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James Carville: "AIPAC can spend all the money they want. I'm not gonna believe them. People who say criticism of Israel is antisemitic are full of shit"
The antisemitism card has expired. Now it's badge of honor. Wearing it means you're not afraid to tell the truth.
🚨 BREAKING:
Israel accuses Algeria of supporting Hamas, but Algeria's UN representative responds:
"I will not allow myself to be drawn into a debate aimed at distracting humanity from the genocide in Gaza."
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This is an outrageous story about a police officer sacked for expressing totally understandable rage at the genocide inflicted in the Levant by Jewish supremacists.
No-one should be forced to humiliate themselves as apparently happened in this case.
"Nizam... told the hearing that he had undergone considerable reflection since the investigation began. He said he had started reading Jewish News, contacted the Jewish Police Association for guidance, attended an online seminar about antisemitism, visited a synagogue event commemorating the Holocaust and attended an exhibition relating to the October 7 attacks. He deactivated the relevant social media accounts and told the panel he was ashamed of some of his previous comments."
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As a Ugandan, it fills me with pride to see an illustrious son of our nation carry a lifetime of global service, a fierce commitment to the vulnerable, and a deep passion for justice to the world stage.
For years, many of us have followed with great respect, Ambassador Olara Otunnu’s incredible track record at the United Nations.
His work championing human rights and protecting children in armed conflict is exactly the kind of leadership the global community desperately needs right now. True leadership is measured by integrity, vision, and an unwavering dedication to peace and justice.
We can not forget the historical injustice when the Museveni regime vindictively denied him an endorsement for this very position years ago. They blocked him for simply refusing to stay silent about the atrocities they were committing against our people. Perhaps if he had risen to that position at the time, the world would be fairer, more just, and more peaceful.
Central to his vision is a profound passion for genuine multilateral reform, where international institutions must evolve beyond mere arenas of superpower politics to become true instruments of equity, accountability, and shared prosperity for all nations.
I hear some citizens who are raising tough questions about why the regime has suddenly changed its mind to endorse him now. Your scepticism is understandable, given what the bloodthirsty regime is doing to our people. And I know Ambassador Otunnu to be a man of deep humility who welcomes free speech and receives your concerns with grace. We can all bank on his long-term, proven integrity and hope that when he rises to become the world’s top diplomat, he will never turn a blind eye to the ongoing struggle for freedom in his own motherland. As he has consistently acknowledged, Uganda faces dark spots that need fixing.
Ambassador Otunnu has my full solidarity and prayers as he carries our collective aspirations for a fairer world to the global stage.
BREAKING: Iran's Parliament Speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf has told Qatar’s PM Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman bin Jassim Al Thani that the Trump administration “makes wrong decisions based on misinformation” and added that “Washington must implement its commitments under the MoU.”
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We, too, reach a breaking point as lawyers.
People are arrested. We go to court and apply for bail, sometimes five times, including applications for mandatory bail only for a magistrate to decline to grant it on the alleged readiness of the State, when the State is, in fact, not ready. The accused then spends six, ten, or even fourteen months in detention without witnesses being called or evidence being presented. Eventually, the accused begins to see a guilty plea as the only way out.
As a lawyer, you explain the consequences. You tell your client that they are innocent and that the law still provides avenues through which their case can be challenged. But they tell you that all hope is lost. And you see it too: the impunity of the judicial officer, the conduct of the State, and the failures of a system that appears indifferent to the suffering of the person before it. All of this is compounded by the client's personal circumstances.
Then the State tells the accused that they will not serve the maximum sentence. They are told that they will only receive a sentence equivalent to the period already spent on remand. The arrangement effectively enables both the court and the State to secure a conviction, but at the cost of a person who may be innocent and whom, in some cases, those involved know to be innocent, yet who has become collateral damage in the machinery of politics.
For those who refuse to plead guilty, you go to the High Court. You pursue every available legal remedy, but every judicial officer runs away from your file. You spend six, ten, or even fourteen months trying to get bail at High Court.
Where is the justice we studied at law school? Where are the Judges who stood for principle, fairness and the rule of law?
Are we truly doomed to watch the justice system descend into this apocalypse?
Ten years ago, Scottish Celtic football fans were fined over $11,000 for flying Palestinian flags at a game against Israel.
The fans responded by starting a #MatchTheFineForPalestine campaign and raised over $200,000 for a Palestinian refugee camp in the occupied West Bank.
BREAKING: Gaza's Board of Peace failing to protect basic Palestinian rights, head of umbrella aid group tells UN Security Council
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Hollywood has spent decades portraying Muslims as terrorists and extremists. Shapiro’s new film simply repackages those stereotypes for the present moment.
— #AJOpinion by Enjy El-Kadi ⤵️ https://t.co/il4umc11Os
Israeli settlers have set fire to parts of a Palestinian-owned aluminium factory in Ein Sinya, northwest of Ramallah, Palestinian sources say. The attackers reportedly threw Molotov cocktails at the factory, causing damage to its main gate.
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Thank you to every Korean voice that stood with the Palestinian people in calling for freedom, justice, and peace.
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