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andrew bryce retweeted
Kemi, congratulations on leading a major British party as a Black Woman. It takes real talent to rise to where you are and deceit is what it takes to rise as a Black leader in a western Conservative Party.
It is a pity the climb did not leave room for a history book and since you chose to argue in the language of history, let us do the history. Let’s dissect your verbal diarrhea point by point.
Everyone participated." Slavery existed on every continent. So did war, and nobody calls a village feud the World War. The transatlantic trade ran for 366 years (1501 to 1866) and put about 12.5 million Africans on ships, of whom about 1.8 million died before they saw the Americas, according to the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Database. It ran through joint-stock companies, chartered monopolies, Lloyd's underwriters and acts of Parliament. It was hereditary, because the law made the child of an enslaved mother property from birth. It was racial, because a whole continent was defined as chattel. No other system in history combined those features at that scale. Dissolving all of it into "people from every continent" is far worse than intellectual dishonesty.
Britain was a market leader, not a participant. British ships carried about 3.2 million Africans, second only to Portugal and Brazil. The Treaty of Utrecht (1713) gave Britain the asiento, a thirty-year monopoly to supply 4,800 enslaved Africans a year to Spanish America. The Royal African Company, chartered in 1672 and headed by the Duke of York, later James II, branded its captives "DY". During Edward Colston's years in its leadership it shipped about 84,000 people, and roughly 19,000 died on the way.
You say British taxpayers should not answer for what happened before they were born. They did. In 1833 Britain borrowed £20 million to compensate slaveholders, and taxpayers serviced that loan until 2015, including the descendants of the enslaved. So the principle you invoke was not applied when the cheque went to slaveholders. It only appears when the cheque changes direction.
"Navel-gazing" is a curious charge from someone whose party spends more energy on the past (Empire nostalgia, culture war crusades) than most of those you accuse. Defend Britain if you must. But do not use your Nigerian name as the permission slip for arguments Nigerians know better than anyone.
Slavery was an evil in which people from every continent and region participated. We should be honest about the whole history, not select the parts that are politically convenient today, especially given Britain's leading role in ending the transatlantic slave trade.
If Caribbean countries are asking Britain for a formal apology for Britain’s role in the transatlantic slave trade, will they also be asking the same of the descendants of African kingdoms, rulers and merchants who captured, sold and profited from the trade?
On demands for reparations, whether through cash or debt relief, we have been down this track before. Twenty-five years ago, Jubilee 2000, Drop the Debt and Make Poverty History argued that cancelling the debts of poorer countries would give them a fresh start. More than $100 billion of debt was eventually written off, but many of those countries have since built up even bigger debts. Labour are already spending too much on Britain's welfare state, now is not the time for Andy Burnham to be providing global welfare.
There is no reason British taxpayers today should be held financially responsible for things that happened generations before any of us were born. And I have even less patience for political elites in commonwealth countries who don’t know how to make their own citizens prosperous now looking for another opportunity to blame Britain.
As Prime Minister, Andy Burnham should be Britain’s greatest defender. Instead, he is writing articles saying we need to confront our history (as if we haven't done enough of that) and considering another formal historical apology. Tony Blair already expressed Britain’s deep sorrow and regret for our role in the slave trade nearly twenty years ago. There is no need to do so again.
This is all another navel-gazing distraction. The Commonwealth should be looking forward, not endlessly backwards. That means economic partnerships to make us all richer and deeper military and security cooperation against common threats. If every Commonwealth summit becomes an exercise in presenting Britain with demands for cash then we need to start asking if it is worth the effort.
andrew bryce retweeted
It took a little longer than expected, but we have finished the Gaza Geolocation Map. Every clip in the archive whose location we know is placed on a map of Gaza, so you can see where the footage was filmed.
It includes:
35,200+ videos and photos placed on the map.
Sources and the original post for every clip
Node map links & suggested leads
Our built-in AI iris can navigate the map
Fully searchable index
Filters by area, date, type of attack and precision
UN satellite damage survey layer (UNOSAT)
Built-in reverse image search links for each node
Downloadable dataset (CSV, GeoJSON and Google Earth)
It can be accessed here: archivegenocide.com/geolocat…
Please re-share and help us break out of the algorithm prison.
We will keep placing more of the footage as our researchers work through the rest of the archive.
Thank you to genocide.live, GeoConfirmed, @AbuLocation and @NemoAnno, whose geolocation work is credited on the map.
God bless all those who sacrificed their lives to get this footage out.
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andrew bryce retweeted
The amazing @susanabulhawa gives us another example of why it's so important to fight back against pro-Zionist censorship. Congrats to her on a huge win, and if you haven't watched her speech, don't miss it! It's all in my article: electronicintifada.net/blogs…
andrew bryce retweeted
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andrew bryce retweeted
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The post below is proof of what a complete idiot you are in regards to Aparthied. It's amazing you actually thought you were using a great argument to prove no Aparthied.
"There are roughly 60-80 times more Blacks in South Africa than there are Europeans in the ENTIRE African continent outside South Africa. But yeah, Apartheid."
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andrew bryce retweeted
British colonisers
Unionist tramps
Zionist rats
You boys took one hell of a beating.
andrew bryce retweeted
#Scotland - After months of bans, the Green Brigade are back at Celtic Park.
The Green Brigade are the spirit of Celtic FC.
andrew bryce retweeted
These slow motion during matches still blow my mind. It's extraordinary that until now, after almost 20 years, no one has ever come close to Nippon TV(G+) production in quality.
This era of Pro Wrestling NOAH was truly GOLDEN!
#noah_ghc
andrew bryce retweeted
@MrMikeBlake You fully know that Ritchie Torres helped expel me from my college and so you used my face in your campaign launch because you know that I make a strong case against genocide profiteers like Torres.
But when you faced a little bit of pressure from the same Zionists who dogpiled a young American student for having a loud voice- you sold me out. You apologized and condemned me. You bowed your head.
You proved you bow to the same people Ritchie Torres bows to. You’re not meant for the Bronx. You’re a fake ally pretending to be against genocide during an opportune moment.
We all know you scrubbed your Instagram of your many posts highlighting your AIPAC trips & events.
@JosBtrigga is the only person who could lead the Bronx to success unapologetically.
Yesterday, we marched to stand up for Don Lemon, demand ICE OUT FOR GOOD, #RepealLakenRileyAct & #JusticeforKeithPorter - a Black man murdered by ICE. We must prosecute ICE, pass an Immigrant Bill of Rights, and protect not deport immigrants.
Ritchie Torres' solution? QR codes on ICE agents. We want dignity not detention. Courage not QR codes. Donate today to send me to Congress to Prosecute ICE: secure.actblue.com/donate/mi…
andrew bryce retweeted
Here’s why I have less than no sympathy for Angela Rayner.
@DalloulAhmed, a Palestinian takeaway owner, was a constituent of hers.
She’d met him several times, visited his shop and posed for pictures with him, emphasised her support for Palestinian freedom.
She gave him a tour of Parliament. They repeatedly corresponded by text message.
Within weeks of the genocide, his mother, brother, sister-in-law, and two little nieces were murdered in an Israeli air strike.
He was desperate to evacuate his wife and little daughter, only 4 months old, from Gaza. This little child was buried under rubble three times by Israeli attacks.
He emailed Angela Rayner twice to seek her help evacuating his family. She ignored him.
He then turned up to a Labour fundraiser in January 2024, and stood up, clutching pictures of his dead mother, talking about his murdered family, asking for Angela’s support for a ceasefire.
She knew exactly who this man was.
He was then thrown out of the meeting and on to the street by security like he was trash. She did nothing, and simply said “Thank you, you’ve made your point.”
Just take a moment to absorb what was happening here.
A Palestinian man she was friendly with, whose family had been slaughtered by a British-facilitated Israeli onslaught, whose pleas to evacuate his wife and daughter had been ignored by her, stood up holding photos of his murdered mother, pleading for her to take a stand against the violence slaughtering her family.
It gets worse. A few days later she was interviewed about the incident by Sky News’ @BethRigby, who framed it as an example of the sort of threats that politicians have to face.
Here is one utterly repulsive example of the dehumanisation of Palestinians.
Imagine this was a Israeli man whose family had been killed on 7th October.
If the same thing had happened, it would have caused a national scandal and ruined Angela Rayner’s career long before any stamp duty row.
Since this hideous episode, so many of Dalloul’s loved ones have been murdered by the Israeli government that their names fill three pages.
Angela served as deputy prime minister in a government which continued to arm and facilitate this genocide.
I used to have huge respect for Angela Rayner. But she’s someone whose pursuit of power led her to make an accommodation with the worst people in the history of the Labour Party.
The great moral test of our time was Israel’s genocide, and a belief that Palestinians are human beings of equal worth.
Angela failed that test. Her political demise should be mourned by no one.
His family were killed in Gaza.
As he clutched photos of his dead mother, he was dragged out of this Labour meeting like he was trash.
@angelarayner and @jreynoldsMP just stood there.
What an absolutely disgusting spectacle.
I spoke to @DALLOULALNEDER. Please listen to him.