@wokekaren
Early retired, left wing, secular jewish anti zionist, feminist, in no particular order. Pining to rejoin. Getting angrier as I get older. Voting Green. Love London, politics, dogs, art, comedy, food . . .
the last few times iran has accepted a ceasefire, the US and israel have taken the opportunity to restock their weapons and then surprise attack iran again. "there's zero point in engaging in diplomacy with us any more" is what that strategy teaches
Across Germany, tens of thousands of high school students went on strike on Thursday to protest the likely reintroduction of military service.
Germany’s political leaders want a new generation of soldiers, but young people are against it.
Any sign of all those people who were apparently "concerned about racism" when Maccabi Tel Aviv fans were banned from watching a football match in England for the same reason?
If only Palestinians in Gaza in the West Bank could enjoy such facilities
Correspondence seen by The New Arab shows The Open University doubling down on threats made by UK Lawyers for Israel to remove the term 'Ancient Palestine' from its coursework:
– Sarah Sackman is a KC and former barrister. She is the Minister of State in the Ministry of Justice. – She was Vice Chair of JLM (Jewish Labour Movement), an openly Zionist group9, for 8 years from 2015-2024, and is still a member. – She spent time as a law clerk in the Israeli Supreme Court. – She voted to keep the two-child benefit cap. – Did not sign the 2025 motion to introduce an annual wealth tax. – She voted in favour of the cuts to disability benefits (1.7.25), described as a “sham of a bill“, and which despite concessions, is still a £2bn cut to UC affecting 750k new claimants. – Sackman is one of three Labour MPs who wrote a letter objecting to David Lammy’s partial suspension of arms sales to Israel in September 2024. The letter did not object because the embargo was a partial one – it was an objection to any arms embargo at all. – She chose not to sign the July 2025 letter calling on the Foreign Secretary to enforce sanctions on Israel. – She said the “Brown-Blair years were something to be proud of”. – Her grandfather was a government minister in Gibraltar. – Sackman was privately educated. – Landlord: Sackman receives a rental income from a flat in London. Her husband, Dan Squires is a barrister at Matrix Chambers and is on the Panel of counsel of the EHRC (Equality and Human Rights Commission). Donations: – £12k from pro-Israel multimillionaire Trevor Chinn. – £7k from Richard Greer. – £1k from Amery Capital. – £5k from Jon Mendelsohn and Red Capital, which is owned by the pro-Israel Labour peer, gambling tycoon and former corporate lobbyist Jonathan Mendelsohn via Red Capital Ltd. Lord Mendelsohn has investments in BlackRock, social care, gambling and private equity; his wife has been a top executive at Facebook/Meta for twelve years; he’s a patron of the right wing think tank the Adam Smith Institute, he was at the centre of one of Labour’s worst lobbying scandals, and he was director of private healthcare company the Europa Healthcare Group until…
Labour MP and Justice Minister, Sarah Sackman.
Just look at those donors. 💰🥀
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“The people who will pay the price for the false reporting live in Sulaymaniyah and Erbil. Not in Tel Aviv. Not in Washington.”
BREAKING: After badly losing the war he started for no reason, President Trump is carefully considering declaring victory and pretending he won 👀
Note to Israel: We've lost a lot of sympathy for you since you're treating Muslims the way Nazis treat you in 1939-1945.
Israel Denies Palestinians Access to Bomb Shelters as War on Iran Continues | Truthout truthout.org/video/israel...
Yes.
Who doesn't remember their uni days of flirting between Tel Aviv and Moscow for clubbing.
All that's over for us normal folk now.
Disgraceful that renters will be charged a fee to use the tribunal to challenge unfair rent increases.
A right isn't a right if you have to pay to exercise it. We've written to Housing Minister Matthew Pennycook urging him to reverse this decision.
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Their war crimes not paying off for these warmongers?! According to several reports Iran will endure, but at what cost to them, us, Israel, US, and Palestinians trapped in Gaza and the WB? End of US hegemony and collaspe of Zionism? 🤞🤞
www.europesays.com/2833418/
"Today, about 10 000 Jews...live in Iran, even as Jewish populations elsewhere in the Middle East have dwindled practically to zero. The Islamic Republic’s constitution preserved the quota seat in parliament for Jews" but for sure Israel wants to change this.
www.myjewishlearning.com/article/jews...
BREAKING: Women in Tehran are excitedly tearing off the hijab as their streets catch fire, oil rains from the sky, and their lungs burn with every breath. At last we've been liberated, they cry.
#Tel-Aviv #missiles #iran #bombardments
A Scottish-Israeli living in Tel Aviv has told of the “exhausting” toll of daily Iranian bombardments - with no end in sight a week into the war.
A wee taste of their own bitter medicine . . .
The playbook is always the same: control women, protect power.
This International Women’s Day, we want a system that actually protects us. We’re fighting back for Nina, for Liv, and for every woman the courts have silenced.
Join the movement 👇
https://goodlaw.social/33094f
Happy #InternationalWomensDay
In times of war, women are often the ones holding communities together while also leading movements for peace and justice.
Today, we honour their resilience—and the fight for a world without war or oppression. ✌🏻✊🏼
#SocialistSunday
'Justice is indivisible. You can't decide who gets civil rights and who doesn't.' Angela Davis
#IWD #SocialistSunday
“Just had an Iranian missile barrage land in Israel. Official version: "the missiles hit open territories with no casualties or damage". 20 minutes later: images from the scene of a hit in the middle of Givatayim, a Tel Aviv suburb. We decide what's real here in the asylum.”
We don’t know though do we? The censorship rules they put in place last June are still the rules.
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You’re not reporting how all
American bases are being stuck. You’re not reporting how Tel Aviv is holding up. Without that contrast you’re not engaging news you’re engaging propaganda- do better, the public aren’t as stupid as you think they are
I just saw that Tel Aviv is getting f-ed up.
If citizens are caught posting pictures of the damage done, they face 5 yrs in prison.
Mark Curtis
US B-1 bombers are arriving at Fairford.
They “carry the largest conventional payload” in the USAF and “deliver massive quantities of precision and non-precision weapons against any adversary, anywhere in the world”.
Great for defensive operations.
JUST IN: 🇮🇷🇺🇸 Iranian Foreign Minister Araghchi warns if US President Trump wants escalation, "he'll get it."
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Can you report on the consequences of Iran's strikes on Israel please. Lots of posts like this on social media but hardly any on news sites. Why?
Israel leveled an Arab neighborhood as part of a (failed) effort to retrieve the four-decades-old remains of a missing soldier.
That's what a criminal regime does.
I see social posts about several strikes on Tel Aviv but barely any coverage on news sites. What's really happening? Minimal damage or censorship? #Israel #Iran
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Trita Parsi:
"The US has struck Iranian desalination plants. If Iran responds in kind by striking desalination plants in GCC, the situation for Iran's Arab neighbours will be devastating. It appears the Iranian FM is hinting at that in his last sentence here."
#HandsOffIran
