Pro-human & animal rights. Anti-war. Opposed to tyranny, dictators and lies, whether pro-West or anti-West. Human rights are universal, not selective.
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European Citizen retweeted
🚨 NOW: Settler terror attack on Abu Falah in the West Bank.
American journalist Heidi Levine was beaten by the settlers, many Palestinian were injured, one shot by the IDF.
The army allowed the settler attack, and tear gassed and assaulted the Palestinians.
European Citizen retweeted
If you haven’t yet seen this, it’s worth taking a look at this detailed examination of the UK Govt’s response to Israel’s bombardment of Gaza. One key revelation is when aid workers including British nationals were killed in an Israeli strike on a World Central Kitchen convoy. Two days later, the then UK Foreign Sec David Cameron signed off on the latest arms export approval to Israel. That same day he announced an urgent and “transparent” investigation into the attack. channel4.com/programmes/brit…
European Citizen retweeted
Israel has no right to exist. That’s the position in international law. It has nothing to do with hatred of Israel or antisemitism.
In fact, no state – none – has a “right” to exist, including states busy extolling their democratic credentials.
If the UK had a “right” to exist, for example, it would mean that Scotland could not be allowed to vote for independence. Why? Because such a vote would break up the UK. It would be a violation of the UK’s supposed “right” to exist as the UK.
Which is precisely why the UK has no “right” to exist.
Peoples have a right to exist. When that right is abused, it invariably involves very serious violations of international law – often through crimes such as apartheid, ethnic cleansing or genocide.
States, by contrast, don’t have a “right” to exist. They simply do exist as a matter of fact – until they suddenly don’t. Like apartheid South Africa. Like Rhodesia. Like Czechoslovakia. Like Yugoslavia. Like Nazi Germany.
This is so obvious it should not even need stating.
Were states to have a “right” to exist, completely arbitrary factors such as their borders, demographic make-up and political institutions would be sacrosanct. Inviolable. It would be impossible for minorities to secede, for territories to be transferred, for apartheid structures to be overturned . Any such change would be a transgression of the state’s “right to exist” as it is.
And yet every single journalist employed by an establishment media outlet is suddenly playing dumb on this most elementary of issues. They’ve all suddenly had a collective lobotomy. They insist Israel must be the exception to the rule that no state has a “right” to exist.
Watch, for example, the BBC’s Nick Robinson berating Green party leader Zack Polanski for refusing to affirm Israel’s “right to exist”. Polanksi correctly argues instead that Israelis and Palestinians have a right to live in equality.
Why all this incendiary stupidity from our supposedly brightest and best journalists?
Find the answer in my latest article No state has a ‘right’ to exist – least of all an apartheid, genocidal state like Israel. A link to the full article is in the reply post ⬇️
European Citizen retweeted
On January 16, 2007, Abir Aramin, a 10-year-old Palestinian girl, was shot in the back of the head with a rubber-coated metal bullet fired by Israeli Border Police in Anata, near Jerusalem. She had just finished a school examination and gone to buy sweets with her sister and two friends.
She died in hospital two days later, on January 18.
Israeli police initially maintained that she might have been struck by a stone thrown by Palestinian youths.
But in August 2010, Jerusalem District Court judge Orit Efal-Gabai ruled that Abir had been struck by a bullet fired by one of two Border Police officers, that no stone-throwers were present in the street where she was walking, and that the shooting was negligent or violated the rules of engagement.
Neither officer was ever criminally prosecuted. In July 2011, Israel's Supreme Court severely criticized the original police investigation as negligent and deficient but declined to overtur NJn the decision not to prosecute, citing evidentiary difficulties compounded by the passage of time.
In September 2011, the state was ordered to pay Abir's family approximately 1.6 million shekels in compensation.
Her father, Bassam Aramin, was a co-founder of Combatants for Peace, an organization bringing together former Palestinian militants and Israeli soldiers to promote reconciliation.
European Citizen retweeted
Still thinking about a call I joined today with Palestinian and Israeli activists about the medical situation in Gaza. In brief: there are thousands of sick people in Gaza in need of urgent treatment. Palestinian hospitals in East Jerusalem and the West Bank are ready and willing to treat them. But the Israeli authorities won’t allow them to cross from Gaza to the West Bank for surgery or chemo or whatever. A two hour ambulance drive so that a child’s life can be saved. Zero security risk. No legitimate excuse. So if you want to help, call your Member of Congress and ask them to demand that Israel open a medical corridor from Gaza to the West Bank immediately. Thank you!
European Citizen retweeted
Wtf!
Just arrived in Tel Aviv for coverage ahead of the Israeli elections
Only to be told the Israeli authorities are denying me entry to the country!
Have reported widely on Israel / Palestine for the past 4 years for @Channel4News
European Citizen retweeted
Por favor, lean esto. Un régimen capaz de apresar y torturar a niños.
Todos los venezolanos lo sabemos, todos.
Que el mundo también lo sepa.
Entre los detenidos por órdenes de Maduro hubo más de 200 niños. Aún hoy varios voceros del chavismo insisten en mentir diciendo que eran "terroristas" o que estaban protestando.
Al entrevistarlos, resulta que no fue así. Los detuvieron al azar en cualquier parte, incluso en sus casas, para llenar la cuota de detenciones.
Algunos denunciaron que los torturaron para obligarlos a inculpar a Edmundo González y María Corina Machado, diciendo que les pagaban por manifestar. Les hicieron juicios telemáticos y masivos. Les inventaron causas donde conectaban a muchos acusados sin que se conocieran entre ellos. Les impidieron tener abogados. Sufrieron desapariciones forzadas, incomunicación y otras violaciones sumamente graves.
Tuvo que salir un día de agosto María Corina en un evento de calle a exigir que los liberan y mientras tanto le pedía a los presos que protegieran a esos chicos y chicas de lo que les hacían los custodios. Esa declaración provocó que liberaran a decenas de ellos en menos de un día. A otros los excarcelaron meses después.
Todavía hoy algunos deben presentarse en tribunales. Todavía hoy viven secuelas de lo vivido y no hay un Estado que investigue, sanciones a los responsables ni repare todo el daño.
Es que ni siquiera lo reconocen. El chavismo todavía justifica las detenciones, las falsas acusaciones y todo lo que ocurrió con ellas. Se siguen presentando como las víctimas, mientras son responsables de crímenes de lesa humanidad.
Ahora aparecen informes de alto nivel que confirman lo que pasaba en Tocorón y Tocuyito, como en otras cárceles, y este video de Maduro y toda su gente aplaudiendo gana muchísimo más significado.
Se robaron las elecciones y reprimieron a la población de las formas más brutales para imponerse a la fuerza. La mayoría de los responsables sigue impune.
European Citizen retweeted
60 children in Gaza. Thousands more are "missing". They are not "missing". They lie under the rubble or in mass graves brought on by the genocide. May their memory serve as the torch that lights a revolution for justice, first in Palestine and then all over the world.
European Citizen retweeted
Just had a guy on a bike almost crash into me on Marsham Street (maybe 8 mins walk from Parliament) as he was speeding along the pavement on an electric bike. 20s probably, Asian-looking
I tell him to not ride on the pavement as I walk away - angrily, but no shouting or swearing etc
He throws the bike down and comes after me and says "do you want me to shank you?" (aka stab). Tucked into his belt he has a longish piece of metal - seemed to be some sort of blade but I can't be 100% sure what it was in truth. Enough to scare me anyway
I very hurriedly walk away and he yells "yeh run you posh cunt", and at some point he (I think) stops following
I call the police (was in two minds between 101 or 999 ; ended up going for the latter). Operator asked me my name and then how to spell it (hardly seemed the priority)
Tell her what happened. She asks if I am still in danger - I say well I've walked away but the guy is still around I think
She says it's not an emergency so I need to fill out a form on the police website. She says she'll text me the link
I say - there's a guy threatening to stab people and is that not a priority? She says no and to fill out the form. I try to interject but mid-sentence she cuts the call
That's it
Not sure what to think really but as someone who doesn't have many interactions with the @metpoliceuk I just didn't really expect it to be so..dismissive? Maybe they were having a busy Friday night who knows
European Citizen retweeted
I asked for sources for your claims that 16–24k deaths were natural & over half the rest were combatants. Changing the subject doesn’t substantiate your figures. Please provide your sources.
European Citizen retweeted
Andy Burnham has promoted a unifying, pluralistic approach.
Let's see if that includes challenging this toxic culture.
European Citizen retweeted
On a packed train with my family. Couple across the aisle both alternatively playing social media videos on speakers at full volume. Managed not to say anything until the woman started playing a documentary about serial killers. I'm here with my daughter.
I politely said "please could you turn it down it's not appropriate." To which she replied "I'm sure she's heard worse at school." I said that really wasn't her call to make and in general could she please reduce the volume.
Her response "Its a public train for heavens sake".
For me that's exactly why it is anti social (and what headphones were invented for). I'm wondering which one of us is out of kilter on this?
Ps I should note she did thankfully reduce the volume and we all left it there.
European Citizen retweeted
Every party bears the responsibility of their own actions.
"Look what they made us do" isn't a defence of evil. It /is/ evil.
European Citizen retweeted
In late 2023, @loffredojeremy recorded interviews with Israelis in NYC who held a rambunctious pro-Israel protest (for some reason, those who typically claim they don't want foreigners protesting on US soil were silent).
These Israelis called for genocide. Whenever I posted it in response to those claiming it was Palestinians who were violent and extremist, I was told it's unfair to use these interviews because these Israelis were just fringe, aberrational extremists unrepresentative of Israelis as a whole.
All you have to do is look at the new Google Maps images of Gaza to see that they were completely representative of the sick mindset of the Israeli government and the country generally. Israel:🇮🇱
European Citizen retweeted
Haaretz reveals Israel to postpone the E1 bidding deadline. Would not have happened but for Ed Miliband's principled, astutely managed ban on trade with the settlements. Embarassing for those who dismissed Miliband's decision as performative:
haaretz.com/west-bank/2026-0…
European Citizen retweeted
"NAZA" is forcing some Israelis to reflect on their military's profound devaluing of Palestinian civilian life in Gaza, but not enough yet to stop the killing. trib.al/PsVM66T
European Citizen retweeted
I’ve been clear: Delcy Rodríguez is NOT the legitimate president of Venezuela. She is a cartel leader who must cooperate with the United States as we work toward a true democratic transition and ensure the commitments that have been made are fulfilled.
The United States knows exactly who Delcy Rodríguez is.
We must restore Venezuela’s democratic institutions, beginning with a legitimate Supreme Court that can guarantee free and fair elections. And for those elections to truly be free, ALL candidates must have the freedom to run and campaign without oppression, intimidation or persecution — starting with @MariaCorinaYA. She must be able to return home and live, organize and participate freely in her own country.
That also means every political prisoner must be released — no exceptions, no conditions. Venezuela cannot be free while innocent people remain behind bars for standing up to this evil regime.
Thanks to the leadership of @POTUS and @SecRubio, we are getting closer every day to seeing the Venezuelan people finally have the freedom, democracy and future they have fought and sacrificed for.
European Citizen retweeted
"NAZA - official trailer
The award-winning documentary that details the systems behind Israel’s mass killings in Gaza"
theguardian.com/film/video/2…
