Iftikhar Khan

Bon vivant, raconteur, eejit...funny tinged

[William Dalrymple @DalrympleWill]

I can’t see you how you can possibly avoid using the term ethnic cleansing, without losing your last remaining shreds of integrity as a journalist, Adam.

Lebanon's internal displacement rate is now 22.6 percent — more than one in five of its people. Over 1.2 million people, including 350,000 children, have been forced from their homes, with the IDF launching more than 1,840 attacks on Lebanon since March 2, killing more than 1,497 people and injuring more than 4,639.

Moreover, the language used by Israel Katz to describe his aims in Southern Lebanon is extraordinarily explicit and self-incriminating. He has confirmed that Israel's military would establish a permanent "security zone" inside Lebanon up to the Litani River, that hundreds of thousands of displaced residents would be "completely prevented" from returning, and that "all the houses in the villages adjacent to the border in Lebanon will be demolished in accordance with the Rafah and Beit Hanoun model in Gaza."

The targeting of civilians for displacement specifically identified by their religion (Shia), combined with the destruction of their homes to prevent return, combined with the explicit statement that they will not be permitted to return — these are precisely the elements that international law identifies as forcible transfer and ethnic cleansing. Human Rights Watch has said that "the displacement of the Shia population looks less like a temporary military necessity and more like a move to permanently displace the civilian population based on their religion."

Its not complex, Adam. You just haven't got the balls to say it straight, and that failure makes your reportage worse than worthless. It makes it morally bankrupt.

[Iftikhar Khan @zabberdast]

@RobertJenrick

[Iqbal Mohamed MP @iqbalmohamedMP]

A statement from the Independent Alliance re. the comments made by @lisanandy in Parliament on Monday which do not align with the facts reported in the @guardian yesterday. If she knowingly mislead the House, she should do the honourable thing & resign.

https://t.co/IJUR1KmH0q

[Ayoub Khan MP @AyoubKhanMP]

If it transpires that a minister lied & conflated matters in the House of Commons & to British public; I’m afraid it’s not just a resignation from a ministerial post; it’s one where the British public would expect a by-election! And rightly so! https://t.co/gH6QgYABar

[Jeremy Corbyn @jeremycorbyn]

The government and the media have been lying to you over the Maccabi Tel Aviv ban.

We will not let these lies and smears go unchallenged.

[Jeremy Corbyn @jeremycorbyn]

When will Lisa Nandy correct the record on the Maccabi Tel Aviv ban?

A statement from the Independent Alliance.

[The National @ScotNational]

To equate the Maccabi fans – known for their violence and genocidal chants – with all Jewish people is appalling. Yet that is what Keir Starmer did, writes @stephenpaton134 ✍️

[Philip Proudfoot @PhilipProudfoot]

Every single idiot in British politics and media who humiliated themselves for 48 hours needs to apologise: @IainDale @DPJHodges @Keir_Starmer @lisanandy @JuliaHB1 @EdwardJDavey @timfarron

The list is almost endless.

You absolute clowns.

[William Dalrymple @DalrympleWill]

BBC News is now running a full-blown recruitment campaign for Reform. This report, by the BBC political editor, doesn't even make a stab at neutrality in its breathless enthusiasm for Farage

Reform conference shows party's growing ambition
https://t.co/kiV6ZLACEh

[Iftikhar Khan @zabberdast]

@andrewsduncan1 @MirrorFootball @johncrossmirror

[Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan]

If you use the word ‘woke’ as part of your political discourse, I’m sorry, you’re just not a serious person.

[Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan]

A reminder that this guy’s ’role model’ and political hero had five children with three different wives, and was unfaithful to those wives.

[Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan]

No matter what Israeli politicians say in English to the international media, pay attention to what they say in Hebrew to the Israeli media.

[No Lie with Brian Tyler Cohen @NoLieWithBTC]

Checking in on this, @JDVance.

[Iftikhar Khan @zabberdast]

@JBTFooty @SkySportPL

[. @LouiseRawAuthor]

This would normally be a sign I’d been kidnapped, but:
I STAND WITH YVETTE COOPER!
😱🤣

[Zarah Sultana MP @zarahsultana]

Parliament in a nutshell:

Yesterday MPs, including Yvette Cooper, celebrated the suffragette legacy of civil disobedience that won women the right to vote..

Only to then vote to designate non-violent direct action group Palestine Action as terrorists.

Westminster is broken.

[CrémantCommunarde #GreenTransitionNow💚 @0Calamity]

How is it that Haaretz is braver and has more integrity in its reporting that the overwhelming majority of UK media outlets?

[Breaking the Silence @BtSIsrael]

Haaretz just revealed, based on conversations with soldiers, that commanders instructed them to fire at crowds near the GHF aid distribution centers to drive them away — even when it was clear the crowds posed no danger. Here’s how the soldiers described the horrific scenes: