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Tim J. Barry retweeted
The restitution will entail the return of the Central Kalahari game reserve, ancestral land, measuring 52,000km2 the largest structured restitution of land rights to an indigenous population within a protected area on the continent.
#BWSONA2026 #BWGovtAtWork
Tim J. Barry retweeted
Another point from the Supreme Court hearing you may have missed.
For the Burnham government, Sir James Eadie characterised Palestine Action's "escalating campaign" as "starting from the Hamas attack on October 7" - with no mention of Gaza.
craigmurray.org.uk/archives/…
Tim J. Barry 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.
Tim J. Barry retweeted
It's official. 100,000 people have signed our petition for an inquiry into the UK's role in genocide. Thank you to everyone who signed & shared.
Parliament must now make time for a debate. We are not going away until we get this inquiry. We want the truth, and we want justice.
Tim J. Barry retweeted
The reason Americans defend billionaires with such genuine passion:
Not cynical passion. Genuine. Heartfelt. "How dare you tax him more, he earned it."
The reason is that the billionaire is not experienced as a class enemy.
He is experienced as a possible future self.
And you cannot tax your future self. You cannot regulate your future self. You cannot speak with contempt about your future self without experiencing it as self-hatred.
The fantasy protects him better than any security team.
The fantasy is the security team.
The gate that keeps the pitch fork away from the manor is not made of iron.
It is made of the unexamined belief, held by people who are one medical bill from catastrophe, that they are fundamentally more similar to the man with nine houses than to the man sleeping in a doorway.
It costs him nothing to maintain.
It costs you everything.
Tim J. Barry retweeted
Saudi are committing War Crimes in Yemen with the unconditional support of the Europeans + US. What are they doing in a country that's not theirs...?
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We launched this petition 2 weeks ago.
Now, we are just 2,000 signatures away from forcing a debate in Parliament.
Will you be one of 100,000 who helped exposed the truth of Britain’s complicity in genocide?
petition.parliament.uk/petit…
Tim J. Barry retweeted
Israelis are demons. This is completely planned, and they talked openly about creating unlivable conditions for Palestinians. But all we hear about are these whiny wankers, like multi-millionaire business owners like Michael Solomonov, prattle on about "antisemitism" and "kristallnacht" and whatever other altar of Jewish victimhood we're all supposed to worship at while these jewish supremacists commit genocide in the most sadistic ways.
Israele vieta l’ingresso a Gaza di rifugi mobili, case prefabbricate e persino camper. Limita drasticamente anche l’arrivo di tende e attrezzature per la ricostruzione. Non è solo un blocco degli aiuti: è una strategia che rende impossibile abitare, riparare, ricostruire.
Non è solo negare gli aiuti: è negare qualsiasi futuro.
E l’obiettivo? Imporre ai palestinesi di Gaza condizioni di vita destinate a provocarne la distruzione fisica, in tutto o in parte. Il nome è uno: #GENOCIDIO.
Tim J. Barry retweeted
They can buy X, they can buy Facebook and Instagram, they can buy TikTok and Google, they can buy journalists and television stations, and they can buy politicians. But they can't buy the people.
They tried to erase Palestine, but the world has become Palestine.
Tim J. Barry retweeted
This is just so, so, so bleak.
The development of big chunks of Burnham's much vaunted Ten Year Plan have been outsourced to the Boston Consulting Group, one of the world's three biggest management consultancies.
Most recently, BCG was revealed to be a contractor in the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation - the wretched private organisation that was created to deliver aid to Gaza after the destruction of UNWRA. You may remember the scenes of starving Gazans flooding into gated pens to get food, with civilians repeatedly sniped by the IDF. BCG were paid $1m/ month for their consulting work.
BCG also received $4m for Project Aurora - a plan for a reconstruction plan for Gaza. The plan included costing giving Gazans $9000 to leave the territory.
How is the government even considering contracting BCG considering this?
But BCG also partners with the world's biggest private equity firms. It is a massive, massive AI booster. It closely advises MBS in Saudi Arabia on its economic plans.
It is, in other words, precisely the sort of late-capitalist horror show that should have no role in helping a nominally socialist Party develop a 10-year development plan.
There is already so much worrying briefing on this plan, about how half-baked and thin it threatens to be. Now we know big parts are being outsourced to BCG, the more pressing concern is that it'll be some Tony Blair Institute-style neo-liberal spiel about the potential of tech and the need to liberate the market.
Interesting that parts of the 10 year plan are being outsourced to Boston Consulting Group, where James Purnell used to work.
Story by @KatieTarrant_
thetimes.com/article/8a202a0…
Tim J. Barry retweeted
At least three children have been killed in Gaza in the past 24 hours as heavy rains and bitter cold batter displaced families in makeshift tents. For the fourth consecutive winter, Palestinians are being denied adequate shelter as Israel continues to block the entry of tents, mobile homes and other essential materials, with President Trump’s @BoardOfPeace failing to press for their delivery despite trucks waiting at Gaza’s borders.
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Palestinians in Gaza are being flooded out of their tents while SNL tells Babylon Bee jokes pretending to believe that anyone who humanizes them must hate Jews. It’s not just the American news media that’s propaganda; it’s all American mainstream entertainment.
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They told you the enemy was across the border.
And you looked across the border.
They told you the enemy was across the aisle.
And you looked across the aisle.
They told you the enemy spoke a different language, prayed facing a different direction, came from a country you couldn't find on a map, wanted to take what you had, hated you for your freedom.
And you looked.
Every time, you looked where they pointed.
The only place you never looked was up.
Not because you couldn't.
Because they made sure that looking up felt unpatriotic.
Felt ungrateful.
Felt like the kind of thinking that dangerous people do.
And you were not dangerous.
You were good.
You believed in the country.
You looked across the border.
You looked across the aisle.
And the people above you kept their hands in your pocket and thanked you for your service.
Tim J. Barry retweeted
⭕️ President Donald Trump asked Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in a call Thursday to start implementing his Gaza plan, Axios, a frequent conduit for official US and Israeli leaks, writes, citing two sources.
Secretary of State Marco Rubio, Trump's son-in-law and adviser Jared Kushner and envoy Steve Witkoff reportedly joined the call, which also covered the Iran war. Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair, a member of Trump's Board of Peace, met Netanyahu and his rival Gadi Eisenkot the next day to push the plan.
The plan, frozen since July to accommodate Israel's domestic politics, calls for the delivery of basic aid into Gaza in return for decommissioning Hamas's weapons, starting with heavy arms and tunnels, in step with a staged Israeli withdrawal, an international force and a Palestinian technocratic government to run Gaza.
Hamas agreed to the 15-point deal with the Board of Peace in July, but Netanyahu's government refused to move on it and kept killing Palestinians ahead of the election. When Kushner met him in August, following a week-long lull in Israel’s genocidal murder in Gaza, Netanyahu showed him polling that suggested Israeli voters opposed rebuilding Gaza and supported daily strikes and killings, Israeli outlets reported at the time.
Kushner gave a “green light” to continue the slaughter, Haaretz reported, and Israel struck a Gaza City café the next day, killing six people and has continued killing civilians each day in the weeks since. Israeli forces have killed over 1,600 Palestinians in Gaza since agreeing to a “ceasefire” that began 13 months ago, Gaza's Health Ministry said today.
Tim J. Barry retweeted
عندما يُنتخب إسرائيلي لمنصب في الأمم المتحدة، تصبح فجأة مؤسسة محترمة تستحق الإشادة والتهنئة، كما حدث مع انتخاب شاي مزراحي لعضوية اللجنة الاستشارية المستقلة للمراجعة في الأمم المتحدة.
لكن عندما توثق الأمم المتحدة جرائم الحرب الإسرائيلية والإبادة في غزة، تتحول في الخطاب الإسرائيلي إلى "منصة لحماس"!
هكذا تتعامل إسرائيل مع الأمم المتحدة: مؤسسة جديرة بالاحترام حين تخدم مصالحها، ومنصة معادية حين تكشف جرائمها.
ازدواجية فاضحة في التعامل مع الشرعية الدولية
Tim J. Barry retweeted
"Now you get all the Labour MPs saying.. Abdul El-Sayed is so good. You would have 100% blocked him"
Yep! @michaeljswalker remembers how El-Sayed was in the UK in 2019 campaigning for Labour candidate Faiza Shaheen. Who was subsequently blocked by the Labour right leadership.
Tim J. Barry retweeted
UFC chief Dana White says he’ll meet Donald Trump after the US president urged him to become White House press secretary.
But social media users say the administration may have intended to nominate a more experienced, Black woman with the same name.
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Your regular reminder that only 22 MP's were principled enough to vote against the proscription of Palestine Action.
All 9 SNP MPs, 4 Plaid Cymru MPs & 72 Lib Dem MPs abstained (with the Lib Dems, 66 had no vote recorded & 6 abstained by voting both for and against)
Labour MPs regret voting for Palestine Action ban that led to 4,000 arrests in a year
Backbenchers say the right to protest has been harmed since they were ‘pressured’ into proscribing the organisation as a terror group
observer.co.uk/news/politics…
Tim J. Barry retweeted
Israel did not create the rainstorms hitting Gaza. But it made sure that the people there have no shelter.
Gaza’s first winter storm hit this weekend. Within 12 hours at least 70,000 tents had flooded.
The UN, EU and World Bank put housing destroyed or damaged at 76.6%. The UN’s housing rapporteur says 92%. He called his report “Domicide.”
OCHA, November 5: Gaza needs about 121,000 tents. The UN has about 2,800 inside. Timber is “being rejected by Israeli authorities.” The Shelter Cluster says tents and tarpaulins are “limited to one day per week.” 5,000 mobile homes from Egypt and Qatar are sitting at the Egyptian border, per the Times of Israel.
Gaza Municipality says what’s left of the drainage can carry about 20% of the rain “under the best circumstances.”
COGAT says more than 20,000 tents went in during one month and cites “genuine security concerns that Hamas could exploit certain components.” Even on its numbers, that’s a fraction of what the UN says is needed.
The Israeli policy is that Gazans should have no shelter. It makes them more liklely to die or leave.