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Today parents in Iran buried 165 children killed in the attack on a girls’ primary school by the United States and Israel.
From Gaza to Iran, this is what “liberation” by the West looks like.
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Honoured to represent the #LibDems at the #Orpington #RemembranceDay service this morning alongside our two excellent local candidates, Rick Das and Steve Sollitt.
We will remember them.
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INVESTIGATION: Inside Project Nimbus
To secure the lucrative contract, Google & Amazon agreed to secretly notify Israel if a foreign court demands its data, and disregard their own terms of service.
By @yuval_abraham for @972mag @mekomit @guardian
972mag.com/project-nimbus-co…
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Several hundred Palestinian football players have been killed by Israel since 2023 including multiple members of Palestine’s national team.
You won’t hear anything about them from all the UK politicians and journalists currently outraged on behalf of Israeli football hooligans.
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Here's one of the best explanations of racism that I have read. It's one which @thedoctorkhan, @LDCRE1 Retweeted years ago. I prefer the infographic. Evelyn's Twitter handle is no more.
Here's the LinkedIn post of Glenda Bonde from which it originated linkedin.com/posts/activity-…
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My colleagues & I have taken a huge gamble to set up @thenerve_news. We’re trying to build a new independent publication from the ground up. Social media is our only distribution for now.
Sharing this article in your networks would make a huge difference. Thank you! 🙏🙏🙏
NEW: The British politician, his Russian intelligence handler & a Kremlin plot against the US & Ukraine.
My new piece about Nathan Gill and Nigel Farage for @thenerve_news in which we ask:
Why, even now, is no-one asking questions?
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A stonker of a night for us. Three huge wins, Reform nowhere near us and the Tories down to ten percent in Mel Stride’s own seat.
We are the only party taking Farage on and the only party beating him.
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A former Israeli hostage negotiator says the ceasefire deal agreed upon this week could have been done a year ago.
Gershon Baskin says he had Hamas agree to a deal releasing all the hostages but was told the Israeli 'prime minister refuses to end the war'.
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Yeah, we lost a lot of the people that joined in 2019. But as it says further down in the piece, we have a higher proportion of members who DO stuff.
Liberal Democrats believe in empowering people, not just collecting their membership subs
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Has this disgusting racist incident against Muslim girls in Liverpool received widespread media coverage?
Because if it was Jewish girls attacked outside a synagogue by a woman armed with a pair of scissors you can bet it would. Rightly.
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🇵🇸🇺🇳Palestinian-American legal scholar Noura Erakat (@4noura) made history Monday as only the second Palestinian woman to brief the UN Security Council since October 7, 2023— and the first to present the legal case that Israel’s war on Gaza is genocide.
Speaking for over 10 minutes, Erakat explained how Israel’s campaign amounts to the deliberate destruction of Palestinian life, laying out a four-part case of genocide through attacks on reproductive capacity:
⭕️ Stage 1 - Preventing conception:
92% of homes destroyed, privacy impossible. Systematic sexual torture in captivity including rape, forced nudity, electrocution of genitalia, creating trauma that impede sexual intimacy. Israel bombed the Al-Basma fertility clinic, destroying 4,000 embryos and over 1,000 vials of genetic material. Birth rates have plummeted 41% since 2022.
⭕️ Stage 2 - Preventing gestation:
Constant bombardment, destroyed medical facilities, hunger and disease make carrying pregnancies nearly impossible. Miscarriage rates increased 300% by 2024.
⭕️ Stage 3 - Preventing delivery:
55,000 women lack prenatal care. Fifteen women weekly deliver in “appalling conditions”—public bathrooms, without hospitals. Erakat describes C-sections without anesthesia, and “pain beyond human tolerance.”
⭕️ Stage 4 - Preventing survival:
Famine has been confirmed. Over 60% of mothers can’t produce milk due to starvation. At least 450 babies were born and killed during the genocide.
She urged the Council to ensure any end to the genocide does not come at the expense of accountability or international law—calling for UN, not Israeli, oversight of Gaza. She also called for protection of ICC and ICJ proceedings, and for ensuring that Palestinian women take part in rebuilding Gaza.
“Should you be paralyzed by fear, look to Palestinian women. They refused to surrender. Neither should you,” she concluded.
Palestinian-American legal scholar Noura Erakat will brief the UN Security Council today (2–5pm EDT) — making her only the 2nd Palestinian woman to do so since Oct 7, 2023. @4noura will be the first to put forward the legal case directly to the UNSC that Israel’s war on Gaza amounts to genocide, citing attacks on women, girls, and reproductive capacity. She’ll also join us this Thursday on the Drop Site News livestream.
🎥 Over the weekend, Erakat appeared on MSNBC with Ayman Mohyeldin, discussing Gaza and U.S. and international complicity, and the new Trump proposal.
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This afternoon we celebrated the opening of Phase One at Calverley Close, Beckenham.
A resident showed us her new energy-efficient home, which was lovely.
Phases Two & Three still to come in this 10-year project transforming the Riverside community here.
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EXCLUSIVE: Israel’s arms imports from the UK have hit record high values in recent months, our @FactCheck team can reveal.
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Not a single person here is glorifying violence
They are demonstrating to END the violence
This is how Zionists gaslight the world
He also purports to speak on behalf of all British Jews: you don’t speak for me
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I write as former Head of Maritime Section of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office
and Alternate Head of UK Delegation to the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea Prepcom.
1) The flotilla is on the High Seas and not in Israel's 12 mile territorial sea. Israel has no jurisdiction.
2) The Israeli maritime blockade has been in place for 17 years and is an intrinsic part of the long term occupation found illegal in the ICJ advisory opinion
3) It is therefore not a short term measure in time of armed conflict as specified in the San Remo manual
4) In any event the San Remo rules explicitly state that humanitarian supplies may not be blockaded
5) The UN Commission of Inquiry has already determined that Israel is committing genocide. The blockade is plainly a part of the machinery of such genocide.
For reasons 1 to 5 the Israeli attack on the flotilla is plainly illegal.
6) On the High Seas, the law applying on each ship is the law of its flag state. An attack by a state military warship on a vessel on the High Seas is an attack on the flag state of the vessel attacked.
7) Acts of illegal possession of vessels or abduction of crew on the High Seas should be pursued by each flag state as crimes within their domestic jurisdiction, not only in international law.
8) So the Metropolitan Police and DPP have an obligation to investigate and act over the abduction of persons from UK flagged vessels on the High Seas.
This applies to each flag state mutatis mutandi.
I hope you find this helpful.
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“It’s not up to Blair, Trump or Netanyahu to decide the future of Gaza. That is up to the people of Palestine”.
Retweet if you agree with Corbyn
