Journalist & campaigner since 1984 specialising in fighting NHS cuts & privatisation, with PhD on marketisation of health care and international health policy
Oxford, England
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John Lister retweeted
Watch 🚨
"We must flood social media with fake news to defend Israel’
Israeli politician Eli Hazan says the ‘truth no longer matters"
Israeli official's confess that their statements are aimed at spreading lies rather than revealing the truth
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This is a map of voting sites in Jerusalem. As you can see, they are completely absent from most of East Jerusalem, where the majority is Palestinian. This is how apartheid works. You give a small and harmless minority of Palestinians the right to vote, take pictures of them and talk about how you have democracy. Then you don't let them into the coalition and make sure only Jews have power.
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White South Africans did not want to dismantle Apartheid.
They overwhelmingly believed in it.
They ended up deciding the costs were too great - sanctions, being a pariah state.
It will end like that for Israel, too.
The problem isn't Israel - it's Netanyahu, we were told.
The Israeli election exposes this total, raging horseshit.
New column 👇
zeteo.uk/p/israels-election-…
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JUST IN: 🇮🇱 The Israeli people have just elected a man who believes that “every baby in Gaza is an enemy” and that it is “Moral” to KILL THEM ALL so that “Gaza is empty”
Moshe Feiglin, who has just been voted into parliament, also believes that Israel needs “to occupy Gaza and settle it, so NOT A SINGLE GAZAN CHILD will be left.”
In what kind of society does such evil positions win you votes?
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Wow @DavidGWrigley that is scarily ruthless and a frankly dangerous decision. For hospital decision-making, patient care and GP workload stress. And the Budget has ignored the NHS crisis undermining the health of the population and the economy.
So my local FT - @UHMBT - has allegedly just told all its consultants they CANNOT book any further follow up appts for patients in their clinics. All clinics are now for ‘new’ patients. It’s an absolute outrage. What do patients do now for ongoing care. Yup - they come to us…..
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Why is there a lack of coverage about this?
#YourVoiceMatters
#JasonArday has been cleared of plagiarism for a fourth time. Why is the media silent about it?
As another investigation ends without substantiating plagiarism claims, @richardsudan asks who will hold the British media accountable for its treatment of the pioneering Black academic?👇🏿
voice-online.co.uk/opinion/c…
@aljhlester @SholaMos1 @misanharriman @BellRibeiroAddy @GoodLawProject
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Not a single news outlet has reviewed its coverage of Jason Arday, for accuracy or proportionality. Zero attempt has been made to conduct any inquiry into the media’s role in his death. Instead, the industry has moved into self-congratulatory mode. This isn’t just tone deaf, it betrays a systemic failure
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If you think it's not important to fix conditions and pay for consultants then read just one of the messages I got today. Where are the Drs? They've gone to places with better work life balance and better pay. Without Drs there's no NHS.
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The latest betting odds show the Israeli election is now a foregone conclusion. Bookmakers say there's a 100% that a supporter of genocide will be the next Israeli PM. You heard it here first.
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A message to those who still believe that it all started on October 7. No, it didn't. A 'managed genocide', to keep 1.5 million Palestinians "on the edge of life" was in force years before. Read the latest report by Eyal Weizman:
"A military document called ‘Red Lines’ set the minimum number of calories required to sustain Gaza’s population at a level just above the UN definition of hunger (2100 calories a day for men, 1700 for women and a varying amount for children depending on gender and age). The total number of calories was translated into the tonnage required to feed Gaza’s then population of 1.5 million and thus the number of aid trucks allowed into the territory. The same went for megawatts of electricity and litres of fuel and water. What was seen as good behaviour was rewarded by an increase in the amounts coming in, any acts of resistance by the tightening of the siege, like a population-scale version of a Milgram experiment."
lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v48/n20/…
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In this picture, you see a Palestinian woman named Hadeel Al-Dahdouh. Her home was raided while she was safe with her husband and her child, who was only two years old.
They removed her hijab, placed her among men wearing only their underwear, and subjected them to severe beatings. They then dug a large pit and began burying the men alive.
When the sand reached her husband's face and he began to suffocate, she tried to remove the sand from his face to save him. They beat her so brutally that even men would struggle to endure such violence.
After that, they fired shots into the air, told her that her husband had been killed, and then released her. Today, she lives in Gaza, suffering from severe psychological trauma as a result of what she endured.
As for her husband, he was released after three months, having endured a journey of torment inside the prisons. Throughout that entire period, Hadeel lived with the agonizing belief that her husband had been killed, unaware that he was still alive.
Israel has committed filthy and savage crimes against Palestinians unlike anything the world has ever witnessed in the entire history of humanity.
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Settler Terrorism Reaches the Polling Stations: Israeli terrorist Settlers Attack Arab Voters to Prevent Them from Casting Their Ballots during Israeli elections.
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On this Israeli election day, I’d recommend reading this extraordinary @haaretzcom interview with billionaire Ronald Lauder, president of the World Jewish Congress and once one of Benjamin Netanyahu’s closest confidants.
One of Lauder’s most striking conclusions: “I realized at the end of the day that Israel really didn't want peace, but they wanted dominance.”
This is coming from someone who helped launch Netanyahu’s political career, introduced him to powerful figures in American politics and media, and secretly negotiated with Hafez al-Assad and Rafik Hariri on his behalf in the late 1990s.
In one of the interview’s biggest revelations, Lauder says Netanyahu agreed to a comprehensive peace deal with Syria and Lebanon, including withdrawal from the Golan Heights, but ultimately refused to sign it for political reasons.
“He chose politics over peace. He put his political future before the deal.”
Now 82, Lauder describes his profound disillusionment with Israel’s direction. After decades of supporting Israeli and Jewish institutions, he has sold his Tel Aviv apartment, given away his Be’er Sheva property, and says he has no intention of returning to Israel.
He warns that Netanyahu’s dependence on figures like Ben-Gvir and Smotrich is damaging Israel, alienating diaspora Jews and eroding support in Washington.
The interview is also full of fascinating details about Lauder’s role in Netanyahu’s political rise. The two became close friends in the 1980s, when Netanyahu was Israel’s ambassador to the UN, speaking almost daily at times.
Lauder says he introduced Netanyahu to speech coach Lilyan Wilder to improve his public speaking and, crucially, to Republican strategist Arthur Finkelstein, who would become instrumental in Netanyahu’s electoral success.
When Netanyahu left New York to pursue a political career in Israel, Lauder threw him a farewell party attended by some of the most influential figures in American media and politics, including Rupert Murdoch and the head of the New York Times.
Lauder recalls opening doors for Netanyahu and helping him cultivate the relationships that would underpin his rise to power.
What makes this interview so revealing is that Lauder is no longtime critic of Israel. He had been a committed Zionist, a Republican power broker, and a man who spent decades financing Jewish institutions, cultivating relationships with Arab leaders, and pursuing diplomatic openings on Israel’s behalf.
A fascinating read 👇
haaretz.com/israel-news/elec…
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I wonder if the Burnham government will issue an immediate set of responses in relation to this much more credible and properly researched report?
Or will it, instead, end bin collection in Birmingham because the Green Party believes the ideology behind those crimes is racist.
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Would Suella Braverman of the Nigel Farage Party #ReformUK like to explain herself to the ELECTORATE of this Country and explain why its ok for her to claim 45 grand while the Commoners struggle with their energy bills
Sure there are more MPS doing the same thing THEY SHOULD ALL BE HELD TO ACCOUNT
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A three-year-old boy named Nevada was so good at football against five-year-olds in Winter Park, Florida, that the police were called and his family was escorted off the pitch in front of other children.
His offence? He kept the ball for too long. Grown racist adults complained that their five-year-olds could not get the ball off a toddler. The league then served his family with a trespass notice.
This is 2026. A Black child who should be celebrated as a rare talent is instead treated as a threat. Had he been white, he would be on every television channel as the next great star of the game.
Imagine what would have happened to this little boy a hundred years ago.
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Over the weekend I have been taking ever deeper dives into Sir David Bell's “Independent” Review into Antisemitism in Schools and Colleges.
There is zero doubt in my mind that this sloppy, misleading, and inaccurate report is contribution to a systemic, legal, and institutional dismantling of any support for Palestine, or any education and discussion about Palestinian history and existence within the UK education system.
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Dear @andyburnham You can no longer ignore this.
ohchr.org/en/press-releases/…
