Senior Political Correspondent @Islamchannel | Lawyer | @TEDx Speaker | Humanitarian | #YNWA | @maspatel01.bsky.social
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Andreas Malm is one of the world’s leading Marxist thinkers
Labour has just banned him from entering UK to speak at Tribune launch party in London next week
Starmerism never ended. Andy Burnham continues to dismantle our freedoms to protect the genocidal Zionist entity. Shame
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Hi, I'm free.
Beat up but fine. Police stole my phone. Settlers punched me in the face several times, likely broke @AdeleShoko's wrist and gave @the_andrey_x a concussion. They threatened to shoot us with an assault rifle over and over.
Will tell the full story later, but for now, I just want to be clear about what happened. We witnessed two settlers locking a military gate in Umm al-Khair, blocking the only way to more than twenty Palestinian communities: trapping families inside, preventing students from reaching school and workers from their jobs, blocking delivery of food and access to ambulances, etc.
It's a crime that the military has this ability at all--but last night, we discovered that random settler terrorists also have the key. We confronted them and began asking questions on camera, and they nearly murdered us for it. When the police finally arrived, they arrested Andrey and me and charged us with assault.
The gate is still locked.
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Leaflets promoting clinics in illegal Israeli settlements handed out at London medical recruitment event trib.al/qH1kLa5
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Israelian weapons manufacturers sell their latest baby killing technologies at AUSA Weapons Expo in Washington DC
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Mustafa Barghouti spells it out: the opposition zionist parties support Netanyahus policies when it comes to Palestinian issues so change won't come from within Israel. Instead it will only come about through external pressure, & thats why we in the west need to push for BDS.
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"There is NO Diet Coke Version of Zionism"
In this episode of Palestine Deep Dive, Irish journalist and commentator Barry Malone and American writer Benjamin Moser, author of Anti-Zionism: A Jewish History, join host Ahmed Alnaouq for a wide-ranging discussion on Zionism, anti-Zionism, media complicity and the language shaping public debate around Israel and Palestine.
Drawing on the history of Jewish opposition to Zionism, the conversation explores Britain’s role in the Zionist movement, the politics of antisemitism and the silencing of dissent. They also examine the Green Party’s recent adoption of its “Zionism is Racism” motion and the debate it has sparked.
With Israeli elections bringing renewed attention to Benjamin Netanyahu, the discussion also addresses whether a change of prime minister would address the deeper questions of Palestinian self-determination and equal rights
@benjaminfmoser | @malonebarry | @AlnaouqA
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Wonder how all those British commentators who worked themselves into such a lather with @ZackPolanski and the Green 'Zionism is Racism' motion, are squaring their convictions with the awkward fact that Netanyahu would actually have packed his bags by now and conceded if, well, Zionism wasn't racist & it was OK for mainstream Israeli parties to enter coalitions with moderate Palestinian ones.
As it is, we are probably in for another massively racist and genocidal government, quite possibly led by Netanyahu...
It goes without saying that on a historic election night for the Arab voters, in which they’ve elected an unprecedented number of MKs, Netanyahu has just totally disregarded them as equal citizens. But that was to be expected. What’s more disappointing (though sadly not very surprising) is that the Jewish opposition leaders didn’t make any gesture in their speeches to the Arabs either, and spoke of a “Zionist” government. They deserve to lose to Netanyahu.
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The mask comes off during Israeli elections. Jeffrey Sachs on the future of the world’s most bloodthirsty ethnostate.
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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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Yesterday, I was barred from entering the West Bank by Israeli officials, as part of a @ProgIntl delegation.
What's happening here in Palestine is unjust. We've just witnessed what Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch and many others have called a genocide unfold in Gaza.
We came here to show the world, and to show solidarity with the Palestinian people. The Israeli government didn't allow that.
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Netanyahu and his allies have beaten the opposition in the Jewish Israeli vote.
That's despite:
- Presiding over October 7th
- Netanyahu being on trial on charges of bribery and fraud
- A cost of living and housing crisis
- Attacks on the judiciary
- Outrage over shielding ultra-Orthodox Jews from conscription
- The Qatargate scandal
- The disastrous Iran war
- The Israeli establishment rationally believing that Netanyahu was making their state a pariah, and organising to get rid of him
- The opposition overwhelmingly also supporting the genocide, occupation and illegal settlements
If we include Ofer Winter's party - which pledged to support Netanyahu for prime minister, but hasn't crossed the threshold - then so far 51.5% of the non-Arab list vote went to the Netanyahu bloc.
With 84.4% of votes counted, among the non-Arab list bloc, the opposition has only increased its share of the vote by about 1.6 points.
Ben-Gvir and Smotrich stood separately this time, but are set to win almost the same combined number of seats as last time.
The latter in alliance with Moshe Feiglin, who declared "Every child, every baby in Gaza is an enemy."
The only significant shift is the surge in support for the Palestinian-led parties.
But most of the opposition is opposed to working with them. Avigdor Lieberman, for example, has taken even more extreme positions towards Palestinians than Netanyahu himself.
If they do a pact with the Palestinian-led parties, not only would it not last long, it would produce a huge right-wing backlash.
That the opposition could on paper form an arithmetical majority with the support of the Palestinian-led parties - but absolutely will not - trashes the "well if the small minority of Palestinians who remained in Israel after the Nakba can vote, then Israel is a democracy for all its citizens" nonsense.
A very likely prospect is that this will pave the way for new elections.
The two right-wing parties which didn't cross the threshold would likely not stand again, boosting Netanyahu.
The same huge mobilisation of Palestinian citizens of Israel would likely not transpire.
Netanyahu and his allies would likely benefit from shock at the unexpected surge in support for the Palestinian-led parties.
The opposition would be demoralised by its failure, and Netanyahu strengthened by having come out on top in this election.
So it's best to bet on Netanyahu winning a coming election.
What does all this mean?
Any illusions that change can happen within Israeli society should long ago have been destroyed.
The opposition would have continued the genocide, the occupation, apartheid and colonisation.
But as Israel's support in the West collapsed, Israel's cheerleaders pushed the position that Netanyahu was the bogeyman, and that a shift in figurehead could allow the state to do a PR relaunch.
Netanyahu isn't Israel, we were told.
Well that's true in the sense that on many key issues, Israeli society is actually more extreme than Netanyahu.
This baseless illusion is now dead and buried.
There must now be a much more determined push for a total arms embargo and sweeping sanctions on Israel.
Those arguing that Israel is something it plainly is not are now completely and utterly discredited.
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"Little or no action is being taken by #Israel or Member States to stop the atrocities against the #Palestinian people," Srinivasan Muralidhar, chair of the Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory & Israel, told the UN General Assembly's 3rd Committee. #UNGA81
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No people in modern history have suffered injustice on the scale endured by the Palestinian people.
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EXPOSED: Campaign Against Antisemitism Steward Tied to Far-Right Hitman for Hire Scandal @lornahosford
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Lula's reelection in Brazil is not just a domestic victory. It is the single biggest geopolitical defeat the US empire has suffered in Latin America in decades.
Here is what was actually at stake:
The Resources:
Brazil holds the world's second-largest rare earth reserves — nearly a quarter of the global supply. The US military-industrial complex is desperate for these minerals to break its dependence on China. The Bolsonaro dynasty was ready to hand them over. A US government-linked company already bought Brazil's only active rare earth mine from Bolsonaro-aligned oligarchs for $2.8 billion. They wanted Petrobras privatized next. Lula said no. These are our minerals. We will build our own economy.
Palestine:
Lula lost a finger in a factory at 17. He is the working class. The Bolsonaros are the landlords, the oligarchs, and the cheerleaders of settler colonialism. They waved Israeli flags at their rallies. They held Zoom calls with Netanyahu on stage. They posed with a map of Israel colonizing ALL of historic Palestine — Gaza, the West Bank, the Golan Heights. Lula stands with Palestine and calls the genocide what it is.
The Multipolar World:
Lula co-founded BRICS. He is building parallel financial systems to bypass the weaponized US dollar. He called for a new global reserve currency. He wants Latin America to trade in its own currency, free from Washington's sanctions. The empire cannot tolerate a continent that refuses to pay rent in dollars.
So how did Washington respond to a sovereign democratic choice?
Trump slapped Brazil with 50% tariffs — even though the US has a trade SURPLUS with Brazil. The tariffs were never economic. They were punishment.
Meta censored Lula's accounts and boosted Bolsonaro.
The Bolsonaro campaign hired a US AI company to spread disinformation.
Eduardo Bolsonaro literally called on Trump to send the US military to attack the Brazilian government.
They threw everything at him. Tariffs. Censorship. Disinformation. Coup attempts.
And they still lost.
The American empire tried to enforce the Monroe Doctrine with algorithms, tariffs, and a puppet dynasty. But the Brazilian working class just voted to keep their minerals, defend Palestine, and build a world where Washington doesn't get to decide who eats.
You can tariff the economy. You can censor the candidate. You can beg for a military coup.
But you cannot colonize a people who have already decided they belong to themselves.
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What an absolute PI** take!!
Benefit bashing those who desperately need it whilst conveniently invoicing the tax payer with a £45k worth of expenses herself.
Biggest benefit scrounger going @SuellaBraverman ..you are a LEECH.
Let the poor suffer as long you're getting your bills paid by us!!
In what way is your use of water at home an expense related to your job?
