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Read this. And if you have school-aged children, act on it.
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I've written to both my children's schools following the Government's antisemitism review.
I WILL NOT accept genocide being presented as a two-sided political debate, or Palestinian history and suffering being erased from their education.
I've drafted a template which I'm sharing for other parents to use or adapt.
Political impartiality must NEVER become historical dishonesty.
Please use them. Challenge your schools. Demand answers.
#GazaGenocide
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If it makes you feel better to frame it that way Jake but it is in fact a picture I took of poppies blooming on top of a massacre site at the erased Palestinian village of Burayr about ten miles east of the Gaza Strip fence. You can find it on pre 1948 maps if you want to check and you can find Burayr survivors/descendants in Jabaliya refugee camp, tho it will be hard as that too is now erased.
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Would you accept your own mother being attacked like this? Palestinian residents of Al-Mughayyir are being subjected to nationalist terror by the "Yarad" group; using brute force—and enjoying immunity granted by the authorities and the military—they steal livestock and more.
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Much punchier accusations from Sir Malcolm Rifkind - a former defence and foreign secretary:
"I choose my words very carefully. I think this week Donald Trump has shown himself as a person to be repulsive; as a President of the United States to be a disgrace to his own people as well as to his international responsibilities.
"We all know his actual reasons for this are a grubby attempt to win a few more votes in the midterms by trying to get oil prices down.
"In order to achieve that, he has not only betrayed Ukraine in the middle of a war, fighting for its very existence, but he is also directly - not indirectly - directly responsible for the deaths of many Ukrainians who will not now be protected by the attempts that have been successfully made using intelligence provided indirectly by the United States."
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Dear Israel supporters who talk so much about Jewish Safety and call Palestinians terrorists: A Jewish American woman was attacked by Jewish Israeli settler-terrorists. Her life was saved by Palestinians. Hope this helps.
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Hart, I was a Zionist for nearly all my life. I actually went to live in Israel and was there for some years. So, you don't need to instruct me about that.
Seeing the reality that, in order to exist, Israel requires the oppression, dispossession and expulsion of Palestinians took me decades. Now that I see it, I can't unsee it.
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مصورة الواشنطن بوست التي تعرض لهجوم من الوحوش الصهاينة في الضفة الغربية المحتلة.
"رسالة واحدة إلى أهاليهم: لا أعرف كيف يمكن لأب أو أم أن يربّيا مثل هؤلاء الوحوش. حقًا، وبكل صراحة.
لقد شهدت بنفسي سلوكهم وهم يعتدون على العائلات، وقد نشرنا مؤخرًا تقريرًا عن ذلك. وأشعر بخجل شديد، وبصفتي أمًا، لا أستطيع أن أفهم كيف يمكن لأهل أن يربّوا أفرادًا بهذه الوحشية. إنهم ليسوا بشرًا حتى.
ونعم، إنهم إرهابيون يهود، وهم يسيئون إلى سمعة الجميع في هذا البلد بصورة مروّعة. وللأسف، أصبح الجميع يرون حقيقتهم على ما هي عليه.
وهل تعرفون ما الأمر المحزن؟ أنا متأكدة من أن أحدًا منهم لن يُلاحَق قضائيًا، للأسف."
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Another case of the Israeli Army claiming they fired at a Palestinian running at them "posting a threat" who turns out was running away from them & unarmed. Unfortunately for the IDF, the NYT was on the scene to document the truth. nytimes.com/2026/10/16/world…
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Yay. Now we get to listen to Israelis lamenting that they didn’t know how bad things were in the West Bank all this time. Because listening to/believing Palestinians - who for decades have systematically documented/reported what is happening - was never an option.
“Everything we thought we knew about the deeds of violent settlers pales in comparison to the reality on the ground.” In a guest essay Nimrod Novik describes the shock he felt on a tour of the West Bank economist.com/by-invitation/…
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I long ago came to terms with the fact that Donald Trump’s worldview is entirely transactional and amoral. What still beggars belief is the failure of America’s institutional checks and balances to prevent him from committing serial acts of national self-harm. Deeply depressing
BREAKING: Volodymyr Zelenskyy tells @piersmorgan he has been betrayed by Trump, that Elon Musk and the US deliberately cut off Starlink and people are being killed as a result
“This is not the right side of history,” he says. “It is a pity that we are losing a strong partner”
On Musk and Starlink he says: “This decision will bring a lot of human losses. Of course, people will die”
“I am sure they knew what they
did, absolutely. Because it was 1am at night, Starlink was blocked by SpaceX and the United States”
“It’s not just about attack. It’s also about defending life. So people were killed because, not enough destroying, not enough
interceptors, including interceptors with Starlink, which didn't work. Of
course.”
Asked if he’s angry with Musk, Zelenskyy says: “Yes, I think he is not right. It's a big mistake.”
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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…
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News: I'm told there was a very combative meeting of the CBS News London bureau today held by foreign editor Shayndi Raice.
Raice, I am told, "lectured" staffers about hierarchy, obedience and management’s right to dictate editorial decisions, explicitly warning that ignoring instructions could constitute insubordination and grounds for dismissal.
I am told that CBS News senior foreign correspondent Holly Williams pushed back on Raice regarding an incident mentioned in last night's edition of Status -- about an Evening News report on the anniversary of the Oct. 7 Hamas attack that omitted the death toll from the war in Gaza .... and Raice defended the decision.
Lesley Stahl’s 60 Minutes report on extremist Israeli settlers underwent a contentious screening process at the Bari Weiss-led CBS News, leading the veteran correspondent to privately express the possibility of quitting the show
Scoop from @oliverdarcy
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Dr. Peter Prinsley is a Deputy on the Board of Deputies of British Jews and was appointed the Honorourary Vice-Chair of Labour Friends of Israel in December last year.
In September 2025 he was found to be in breach of Parliamentary rules for failing to declare an all-expenses paid "solidarity trip" to Israel in May 2025 funded by Labour Friends of Israel. Along with other Labour MPs, Prinsley met with Israeli President Isaac Herzog, who was cited in the ICJ's 2024 judgement for making plausibly genocidal statements, and widely pictured signing bombs destined to be dropped on Gaza.
When Prinsley was asked what he thought voters might say about him visiting Israel by DeClassified, he said: "I really don't know that they'd be interested in it, to be quite honest." When he was asked why he went, Prinsley said: "I was asked to go. I just do what I'm told."
Prinsley was again found in breach of Parliamentary rules in June this year. Prinsley "inadvertent[ly]" failed to properly declare his interests (the LFI trip) during a Home Affairs Select Committee Inquiry into the police's decision to block Tel Aviv Maccabi fans travelling to the UK. He later admitted he may have failed to declare the trip because he was "attempting to avoid allegation of bias."
LFI does not declare its funding.
LFI has previously said that there is "no place" for antizionism in the "labour movement." Approximately 12% of all British Jews are anti-Zionist according to the Institute for Jewish Policy Research, with less than half of all British Jews between 20-29 declaring themselves Zionist.
Now, a test: if Prinsley's objections in Parliament about the Zionism-is-Racism motion is covered by the press today, or shared by journalists and commentators on here, will any of this context be given?
As a British Jew, I am deeply concerned by the Green Party's vote to declare Zionism racism.
Whatever our political differences, Jewish people must never face prejudice or discrimination.
Yesterday, I raised these concerns in Parliament and asked how Jewish communities can be reassured.
I welcome the Home Secretary's clear response: every council, regardless of political control, must uphold equality law and protect its residents from discrimination.
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🇮🇱🇵🇸 At some point, we have to stop pretending that everything happening in Gaza is exclusively about defeating Hamas.
Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich is now saying openly:
“I want all of Gaza. I want Gaza to be ours.”
And he explains why:
“I want it for Zionist reasons.”
There's no ambiguity here at all.
We should be paying attention to what these officials are actually telling us.
Writer: Oliver
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One of the men in this picture is a politician currently serving 10 and a half years in prison for accepting Russian bribes. The other was his boss and doesn't think there's evidence of Russia interfering in UK politics.
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I made an exposé on how Israeli settlers steal Palestinian olives during the harvest, press them into oil on an outpost built on Palestinian land, and sell it in Israeli shops, at Ben Gurion airport and as far as Singapore. A former chief rabbi ruled they may take the olives. The religious establishment now argues about whether the stolen crop needs tithing. The army keeps Palestinians away from their own trees while this happens, and the Defense Ministry buys the oil and hands it out as gifts. This is the economic mechanism of dispossession.
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The FT with a very helpful graph on understanding why diesel prices are high. Trump's got the wrong war in mind. ft.com/content/445b2856-a276…
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What Boris Johnson is doing here is finding a way to grossly mislead us all without telling a direct lie. Let me explain how...
The 2020 Intelligence and Security Committee report found that the government had "failed to adequately investigate potential Russian interference in the 2016 Brexit referendum". It did not conclude that Russia had not interfered. It concluded the investigation was a failure.
The US investigation, however, backed by a comprehensive, bipartisan Senate inquiry, did establish extensive Russian interference in the 2016 US presidential election.
This is just not true. As soon as I became foreign secretary I asked the security services the same question and they replied that there was no evidence of any successful interference in the 2016 referendum, by Russia or any other power.
Either the security services have changed their view - which would be very odd - or Burnham is lying about what he has been told. After all Starmer was in power for two years and had access to exactly the same information.
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