Everyone knows who’s committing war crimes, except the headlines. We know who is bombing Iran, starving Palestinians and invading Lebanon—the US and Israeli militaries—but if you’re relying on mainstream media, you wouldn’t be able to tell.
UK democracy in action.
Thousands of unpaid carers prosecuted for inadvertently breaching benefit rules.
No Post Office exec prosecuted for false prosecutions of postmasters.
In 2017, 72 people died in Grenfell fire. Execs “deliberately concealed” the fire risks of cladding. No one prosecuted.
As the first UK airbase has already been subjected to a retaliatory strike by Iran, I find myself contemplating the "Interesting Case of the Complete Disappearance of the Principled Starmer". 🤔
It took just one phone call from Donald Trump for Starmer to jump into yet another Middle East illegal war, failing to learn the lessons of the tragedies of Iraq, Libya and Syria.
The vandalism of this statue provoked Keir Starmer to declare that it was"completely abhorrent."
To date, the murder of over 75,000 Palestinians by one of this country's allies, including over 20,000 children, has elicited no moral response from him whatsoever.
The successful challenge to the illegal proscription of Palestine Action is a landmark case. But the fight against the authoritarian misuse of terrorism laws by governments, including the UK, must continue. It will be one of the defining struggles of the present generation.
The imprisonment of six young people for 18 months without trial so the UK government could pretend it hasn't colluded in Israel's murder of more than 20,000 children is a national disgrace. Incredible that this has been under a PM who was formerly a human rights lawyer.
Gaza ceasefire:
Yesterday Israel killed at least 11 Palestinians in Gaza including two 13-year-old boys and three journalists travelling by car to a displacement camp in central Gaza.
At least 466 Palestinians have been killed by Israel since the ceasefire agreement in October.
[Guardian]
Gaza ceasefire:
Yesterday an Israeli helicopter gunship opened fire on Palestinian civilians in Deir el-Balah, central Gaza, while artillery attacked numerous areas.
At least 483 Palestinians, including 269 children, have been killed by Israel since the 'ceasefire' came into effect.
[Al Jazeera]
Bulldozing UN humanitarian relief facilities?
Teargassing UN schools?
Are these the kind of things we would expect our main allies to be doing?
Time for a rethink.
Chief constable upsets Israel lobby by refusing to let violent, racist Israeli football hooligans prowl his city – out of a job.
School cancels MP's visit after parents protest because he's a cheerleader for genocidal Israel – Ofsted announces it's inspecting the school. 🤔
Notorious football fans banned from attending football match. Streets are safe. No violence. Respected police chief forced to resign.
Three British army veterans working for aid charity in Gaza are located by Israeli forces, vehicles destroyed, men executed. No action taken.
What's going on here?
This needs to be stated repeatedly: the British establishment is more outraged by the potential offense given to a group of violent, racist football fans than it is by the genocidal slaughter of over 20,000 children.
How should we feel about that?
Palestine Hunger Strikers
“Our prisoners’ hunger strike will be remembered as a landmark moment of pure defiance... It exposed to the world Britain has political prisoners in service of a foreign genocidal regime, and has seen hundreds of people commit to take direct action in the prisoners’ footsteps.”
What kind of society have we become when we are more outraged by the treatment of a group of violent, racist football fans than we are by the massacre of over 20,000 children and the imminent death of young people imprisoned without trial for taking action to stop it?
Great work Zack, keep it up! You are speaking for the people and gaining momentum rapidly 👍🏻
Please help combat BBC news blackout of Green Party!
@zackpolanski.bsky.social was the only party leader not interviewed by Laura Kuenssberg during their party conference.
So please RT his cracking conference speech..
🚨HAPPENING NOW: Hundreds arrested in Parliament Square in protest organised by Defend Our Juries
The arrest of otherwise peaceful protesters is a violation of the UK’s international obligations to protect the rights of freedom of expression and assembly.
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Caption: Heroes. Every single one of them. Keir Starmer, Yvette Cooper, David Lammy — and the rest of this Labour government enabling genocide — aren’t fit to lace their boots. Screenshot text says: More than 500 people arrested after Palestine Action protest - with about a half aged 60 and above Some 522 arrests were for displaying a placard in support of a proscribed organisation contrary to Section 13 of the Terrorism Act 2000. As of 9pm on Saturday, the number was put at 466.
Heroes. Every single one of them.
Keir Starmer, Yvette Cooper, David Lammy — and the rest of this Labour government enabling genocide — aren’t fit to lace their boots.
As peaceful protestors are arrested for holding placards, starving Palestinians are being shot in the street.
This will go down as one of the most shameful moments in British legal history.
No amount of suppression can hide the truth: our government is complicit in genocide.
The UK is in the grip of an ongoing right-wing coup.
It is the main cause of economic decline and social tensions.
Successive govts have been enrolled to make us subservient to corporations and the rich.
Corporate power must be curbed/reversed for a better future.
Did you vote for this?
Cut in real wage/benefits
Queues for NHS appointments
Lousy social care
Crumbling schools
Poor housing
Corporate profiteering/abuses
Tax abuses by corporations/rich
Sewage in rivers
Political corruption
It happens because Govts indulge corporations and the rich.
Behind every draconian decision, there's secret evidence ("detailed security assessments") we're not allowed to see. We should just suck it up and believe them.
Sorry, Yvette Cooper, that's not how democracy should work. When you make a decision of such consequence, we need to see the basis for it.
The Israeli Centre for Human Rights in the Occupied Palestinian Territories, B'TSELEM, agonised long (too long in my view) and hard before coming up with this report and its crystal clear verdict: Israel is committing genocide. Nothing more needs to be said www.btselem.org/publications...
85 children starved to death in Gaza on the day that the man who legitimizes this abomination was playing golf in Scotland. Does the world's media not have a problem with this?
Water privatisation has been a complete & utter failure.
It is absurd that the government's report into the water industry didn't even consider public ownership.
That's not a report. That's a political broadcast for the private sector.
Put water back into public hands, now.
Starmer and UK government: do what you are required to do by international law - end your support of the Israeli genocide of Palestinians. Stop providing weapons and assistance. Stop delegitimising dissent. NOW.
