David Tompson retweeted
To whom it may concern: It is with great sadness that I inform you that the first child has died from the extreme cold inside a tent in Gaza. The tent offered no protection against the freezing temperatures, and the lack of heating was enough to end his life.
David Tompson retweeted
Boom.
Burnham’s government refused a Gaza inquiry. A UN inquiry found genocide. The ICJ ordered it prevented. Corbyn’s Gaza Tribunal found Britain failed to. 100,000 people have demanded the inquiry ministers refused.
We’re taking this to Parliament. Complicity gets a hearing.
Keep up the pressure. Sign:
petition.parliament.uk/petit…
David Tompson retweeted
Today, our petition for a public inquiry into British complicity in genocide reached 100,000 signatures.
I have written to the Petitions Committee to ensure a parliamentary debate is arranged as soon as possible.
Well done to all those signatories who made this happen.
David Tompson retweeted
For last 24 hours I’ve seen footage of horrific scenes from Gaza, just absolute human misery. Yet..it’s not there on any news outlet’s home pages, not discussed on our witless political shows. We’re just going to ignore it? Is that the plan?
David Tompson retweeted
We do not need Andy Burnham’s permission to investigate Britain’s role in Israel’s genocide in Gaza.
He refused an inquiry. 80,000 people answered him in thirteen days.
Truth does not need the Prime Minister’s signature. It needs 100,000 of ours.
Sign:
petition.parliament.uk/petit…
David Tompson retweeted
Over 40 children killed by the israelis in a month: many images are missing: I don’t understand a world that thinks this isn’t an atrocity
David Tompson retweeted
Launch a public inquiry into the UK's role in Israeli operations in Gaza
At 100,000 signatures, Parliament will have to debate this petition.
Please SIGN and RETWEET 👇
petition.parliament.uk/petit…
David Tompson retweeted
A heartbreaking farewell to slain Palestinian girl Misk Hazem al-Dalu, who was killed this morning after Israeli forces opened fire on tents sheltering displaced Palestinians in al-Maghazi refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip.
David Tompson retweeted
قتلها الجنود الإسرائيليون بالرصاص..
قتلت إسرائيل الطفلة مسك صباح اليوم وسط قطاع غزة.
David Tompson retweeted
They’re still killing children every, single, day.
BREAKING: Israeli forces shoot and kill Palestinian girl in central Gaza, medical source says
🔴 LIVE updates: aje.news/e9uqrl?update=50573…
David Tompson retweeted
Note the very clear personal irritation coming through in the presenter here. Her opinion is palpable. This is one of the many issues with BBC, as also demonstrated by Nick Robinson two days ago. This was not a journalist playing devil’s advocate or, in adherence with BBC policy, stating Israel’s line in response. It was opinionated questioning. What she said was also inaccurate. The genocide is not “greatly contested”. It is contested by Israel.
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“ No one calls me Mum anymore.”
🚨HEARTBREAKING: An Israeli bombardment in Gaza during Israel’s genocidal war killed a Palestinian woman’s husband and all her children, leaving her as the sole surviving member of her immediate family.
She speaks about the loss of her entire family and the grief she continues to endure.
David Tompson retweeted
Streeting: "I have seen first hand.. the impact of Russias aggression in terms of the childrens toys lying in the rubble of the flats that had been destroyed, bombed out shopping centres.."
Now do Gaza, Wes. And the difference, of course, is that you've helped Israel do it.
David Tompson retweeted
Apparently Nick Robinson is proud of this exchange, which says a lot about journalistic standards at the BBC and the framing that it deems acceptable. What Robinson was doing here was aggressively guarding the Overton window. He was not playing devil's advocate as an impartial journalist – he was clearly arguing a point he personally believed in. The Today programme is not supposed to be hosted by pundits, but its presenters regularly lapse into opinionated questioning. And most of that opinion, that ire, is directed at the left.
David Tompson retweeted
If you attended a funeral every day for each child, it would take over 57 years.
The names of all 21,000 children killed by Israel in Gaza over three years of genocide, displayed in this powerful memorial by @FriendsofAlAqsa
David Tompson retweeted
The death penalty is inadmissible because it is an attack on the inviolability and dignity of the person. The common good can be safeguarded and the requirements of justice can be met without recourse to capital punishment: effective systems of detention have been developed that protect citizens while at the same time do not completely deprive those who are guilty of the possibility of redemption. #NoDeathPenalty
David Tompson retweeted
This is the best news of the week! Navi Pillay, a former ICC judge and chair of the UN commission that concluded Israel committed a genocide in Gaza, won the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday "for her efforts to promote peace and international law”. Thank you for your leadership!
David Tompson retweeted
Congratulations Justice Pillay!
The committee in granting her the Nobel peace prize: “An international legal system in which war criminals are held to account and the victims of abuse see justice served is a precondition for a peaceful world.”
May this justice start in Palestine
