Mark Seddon
@MarkSeddon1962
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Director, Centre for UN Studies, University of Buckingham. Former Speechwriter, UN Secretary-General, Ban Ki-moon, former UN correspondent, al Jazeera TV.
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Spain gets it. The global South gets it. Most of the World gets it. The US doesn't though.
Spanish PM Pedro Sanchez:. If we defend international law in Ukraine, then we must defend international law in Gaza.
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Western politicians call this ‘self defence’.
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How,? Did he trip over?.
Fifth peacekeeper wounded in southern Lebanon, UN says
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Embarrassed to be British? I am. So should she.
What kind of country abstains on a vote to end plausible genocide?
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Now, if these were blonde, blue eyed Ukrainian children. .
Children in Gaza are rummaging through garbage, searching for food. I am at a loss for words.
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UNRWA reveals the truth. Israel tries to choke it and shut it down.
In north📍#GazaStrip, the scale of destruction and loss is staggering. This footage shows one of our @UNRWA health centres. There is nothing left. This is an unprecedented level of destruction and forced displacement, taking place in front of our eyes.
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ICC decision welcomed by most UN member states. Get a grip @BBCWorld.
ICC decision damned by Israel, welcomed by Palestinians
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It is beyond high-time to suspend ALL trade with Israel.
British Airways cancels all flights to and from Israel until April 2025.
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When Putin does it, it is an 'invasion'. When Netanyahu does it, it is an 'incursion'.
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What on earth is this woman still doing in our country?.
Israel's Ambassador to the UK, Tzipi Hotovely getting absolutely roasted on LBC.
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Thank you. But former Israeli Prime Minister, Ehud Barak, has told CNN that Israel built these facilities under Al Shifa some years ago in order to expand capacity. Is he wrong?.
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By this same perverted logic, Britain could have defeated 'terrorism' in Northern Ireland by turning much of it into a smoking wasteland, by bombing civilians, shooting children in the head, killing journos & aid workers. Lord Snooty is utterly deluded.
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Dear @KarimKhanQC Please let the World know when the International Criminal Court is proposing to act?.
Doctors Without Borders convoys attacked in #Gaza all elements point to the responsibility of the Israeli army. We call for an independent investigation to establish the facts and the responsibilities.
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This is the Britain so many of us love & recognise.
Grateful to all the Londoners who came out today to protest against the heinous act that took the lives of 20 of my family members and thousands of Gazans. Your support and solidarity mean the world to us. 🙏🇬🇧❤️ #LondonStandsWithPalestine
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But what if I see a dog?.
If you're right-brained, you'll see a fish. If you're left-brained, you'll see a mermaid.
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Israel needs to be suspended from UN membership.
"It's outrageous that a member state of the United Nations is working to dismantle a UN agency which also happens to be the largest responder in the humanitarian operation in #Gaza.".@JulietteTouma to @IrishTimes on the Israeli Parliament's ban on UNRWA.
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The equivalence, back in the day, would be the RAF bombing a school full of chlidren in West Belfast, with the Government claiming that it was being used by the IRA. Why is Israel being allowed to get away with this?
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Dear @AldiUK You would appear to be in breach of the Misrepresentation of Goods Act (1967).
Shame on Aldi for changing the packaging on their Israeli dates to mislead and deceive customers! This unethical behavior cannot go unnoticed. We demand transparency and ethical sourcing. Stop supporting oppression! @AldiUK #BoycottIsraeliProducts #EthicalSourcing
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Once upon a time BBC Panorama might have covered a story like this. Or Newsnight (before that flagship programme was completely gutted).
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A further $8 billion to pulverise Palestinians into the dust of the stinking rubble the billions already sent have created. This is what the American empire will be remembered for long after the footling Biden & Blinken are gone.
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This extremely disturbing report is being taken seriously now. Although I have yet to see this reported in the mainstream media? Unless anyone knows any differently?
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Britain should be suspending diplomatic relations with Israel.
Moment innocent civilian brandishing white flag in Gaza 'safe zone' is shot dead in the street | @johnirvineitv reports.
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Worth noting that Netanyahu's speech was played in full - some 35 mins or so on BBC Radio 5 today. I wonder, did BBC 5 play the whole of the UN Secretary-Generals' speech or that of the Palestinian President?
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@dannydanon @EmmaWatson As if any further confirmation is now needed that accusations of anti Semitism are being ritually weaponised by extremists to try & suppress any support for the Palestinians.
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Oh look, a Labour politician doing things that voters like and want. Could it catch on?.
Despite all of the challenges - legal and meteorological - we did it!. After 40 years of damaging deregulation, Greater Manchester has this morning successfully retaken control of the whole of its bus network. 🙌🏻
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Britain would prefer to insult Japan than be seen to upset Israel. Pathetic.
This is astounding. British ambassador to Japan @JuliaLongbottom is boycotting the Nagasaki peace ceremony - because she disagrees with their decision not to invite Israel. Russia has not been invited for the past 3 years.
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*Correction: The Golan Heights are illegally occupied by Israel and have been since 1967 (no matter what some latter day bandit may claim).
The importance of this historic recognition has been underscored today. The Golan Heights will be an inseparable part of the State of Israel forever.
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Enough now @Keir_Starmer You are a human rights lawyer. You have read the ICJ adjudication. Stop the arms sales now.
More than 14,100 children have been killed by Israeli forces. British parts are used in planes bombing children in Gaza. The UK government must suspend ALL arms sales to the Government of Israel given the clear risk they might be used to commit serious violations of
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By this warped logic, Britain would have flattened West Belfast in pursuit of the IRA, bombed thousands of women & children & starved the rest. And this one is a Defence Minister?.
Voting for a ceasefire is essentially voting to give Hamas the green light to commit further terrorist atrocities. If Britain had been attacked on October 7, and we knew exactly where the murderers were, would any MP seriously be voting not to go after them?.
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This is dystopian. And yet we still see the US, UK & German governments pretending that war crimes are not taking place & sending the butchers more weaponry.
Al Shifa, Gaza's biggest hospital, a place of hope and healing. Turned to a burned out husk by Israel's marauding army. There must be accountability for this crime. A shame on every politician who has failed to oppose this.
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So from 12 to 4 (out of 30,000 UNRWA employees). On what basis did the US & UK Governments come to the conclusion that this warranted collective punishment by de-funding UNRWA? The Israelis can't even get their story right.
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If this were Ukraine, US, EU and UK politicians would be falling over themselves in condemning a war crime. Which is exactly what this is.
Extraordinary footage of the aftermath of an Israeli strike on the Jabalia Refugee Camp in northern Gaza. Dozens are feared dead.
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This one is a horror. If there really was a Court of St. James, she would be before it, being sentenced. Shouldn't she be sent packing?.
Israeli Ambassador claims "Mowasi" is a safe haven in #Gaza that civilians can take refuge in,. Followed by a wide camera shot of Mowasi. A deserted wasteland.
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How can we vote for the young woman on the right of the screen?.
"Can I ask what your view is of the events of October 7th?". Former British Home Secretary Suella Braverman is crushed on GB News.
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The Pope believes that ‘This is not war. This terrorism’. Every Western leader now needs to be asked; ‘Do you disagree with the Pope?’.
WOW! . Harsh words from Pope Francis on Israel's bombing of Gaza:. "This is not war. This is terrorism." . Israel and Biden have completely lost the moral argument globally.
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Britain's shameful abstention. Nothing appears really to have changed with a Labour Government.
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Very powerful. Hats off to these great people in Hastings.
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A very powerful, chilling, report, and should be compulsory viewing for all those who have continued and who continue to provide cover for the far Right Israeli Government. This is about the extermination, as far as possible, of the Palestinians.
The hardline Israeli settlers planning their future homes in Gaza
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The rest of the World will note that for 6 months Britain has done absolutely nothing to protect the lives of innocent civilians in Gaza. As soon as civilian lives in Israel come under threat because of Netanyahu's provocations, Britain mobilises the RAF. @grantshapps.
Last night the UK intercepted and destroyed multiple one-way attack drones - launched by Iran and its proxies - that posed a threat to civilian lives in the Middle East. Additional @RoyalAirForce aircraft were deployed this weekend to bolster our presence. I thank our armed
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Disgusting on every possible level. And the World sits by and says it is ‘concerned’.
Deja Vu: . Palestinians are forced to leave last place of refuge for medical treatment in Khan Younis. Where are injured Palestinians supposed to go. This is a war crimes scene.
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How the hell did we 'become involved in this conflict'? Why hasn't Parliament been consulted? And why are we supporting a country being accused of genocide? Netanyahu has long wanted to drag the US into war with Iran. But why us too?
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@PeterTatchell This war of unequals did not begin on Oct 7th. The extent of the death & destruction that followed the Hamas attacks is squarely on Israel. The war against the Palestinians, the burning of their villages, the tens of thousands of deaths, has been going on for almost 100 years.
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Good god. This probably is the day that the Labour Party died.
Labour's Lammy states that the UN Human Rights Commissioner is 'entitled to his point of view' on Israel breaking international law
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Meanwhile, in another occupation which has lasted for over 50 years during which sanctions have never been deployed. .
An Israeli soldier chases a photojournalist after throwing a tear gas canister towards him during West Bank protests yesterday. 📸 Nedal Shtayya
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It may come as a surprise to some, but the Israeli Defence Force also shoots to kill unarmed Palestinians. Amnesty International has chronicled links between the IDF and US police departments. Since when has it been 'anti-Semitic' to point out this truth?
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While working for the National Union of Tailors & Garment Workers, Jeremy Corbyn was offered a suit for free but turned it down at it could be a ‘conflict of interest’. One, here, has real class (& graced the cover of GQ).
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So, Keir Starmer, David Lammy and all the rest of them. This is self defence is it?.
Oh, the wind, the wind is blowing.Through the graves the wind is blowing .Freedom soon will come… . Leonard Cohen
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No one thought that Milosevic would ever be handed over to the International Court. He was, by his own government. I was there. The same may well happen to Netanyahu & Gallant. Here's hoping - and let's raise our glasses to that!.
Netanyahu calls himself Churchill. History may recall him as Milosevic / @Etanetan23.
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I work at the United Nations in NY and let me tell you this, Gavin; Corbyn's stance on Palestine, the Chagos Islands and much more has him walking tall here amongst the vast majority of Member States. Time to stop sneering? @gavinesler @DavidLammy.
Jeremy Corbyn will not be remembered for his bloviating about Latin America or the Chagos islanders or Palestine - despite talking about them for decades. He will be remembered as the enabler and facilitator of Theresa May’s Brexit and all the jobs that are lost as a result. Nice.
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‘Humanitarian pauses’! What is he talking about? ‘Worse attack on Israel since the holocaust’. Israel didn’t exist then. Here is a former human rights lawyer who has lost any moral compass. The worst Labour leader of my life time. Period.
Keir Starmer is asked about his "red lines" - use of white phosphorus, collective punishment, bombing safe routes? . He doesn't list any and refers to Israel's "right to self defence", emphasising the need for humanitarian aid.
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This, on the day that the Israelis have completely destroyed UN headquarters @UNRWA in Gaza. @DavidLammy could perhaps reflect on what these 'shared interests' with Israel really are? (and what on earth he is doing with this apologist for genocide).
Honoured to join @DavidLammy on his first visit to Israel as UK Foreign Secretary. We are ready to get to work straight away on advancing our shared interests, including that of security and prosperity, in the region. 🇬🇧🤝🏻🇮🇱
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The sheer brass neck of this utter monster. The IDF have used churches & Christians in Gaza as target practice. He can go to hell in a handcart!.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu:. To our Christian friends around the world, Merry Christmas. Christmas is supposed to be a time of good will to all men & peace on Earth. Well, we don't have peace on Earth, not in our part anyway & we certainly don't see good will to all men.
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This is comparable to the British Army laying complete waste to West Belfast & Derry in pursuit of the IRA back in the day. Imagine what the Americans would have had to say. This, below, is one huge war crime.
A vision of hell. Insane levels of destruction in North Gaza. This isn’t simply the result of Israel’s fight against Hamas. It’s a punitive Medieval-style raid against a population of more than two million. How can any decent human support this?.
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Oddly enough, Tony Blair was never suspended or even lightly ticked off, for leading Britain into an illegal war that cost thousands of Iraqis, Britons and Americans their lives.
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So Hamas were in everyone of these destroyed buildings? Pull the other one! These heroic acts of 'self defence' have killed over 15,000, mainly women & children, and destroyed a whole infrastructure. Shameful.
"You come across whole city blocks that have been demolished, just a pancake of concrete layered as buildings have collapsed". On route to northern #Gaza, @TomWhiteGaza describes areas of total, catastrophic devastation. #UNRWAworks to deliver urgent aid across the 📍#GazaStrip
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When did any British Government raise the Yemen flag, or the Syrian flag when it’s people were being slaughtered, or the Palestinian flag now that they are also being slaughtered? Raise all the flags - or none.
BREAKING: The Government has asked all UK govt buildings to fly the Israeli flag and use appropriate coloured lighting to show solidarity victims. Latest: 📺 Sky 501, Virgin 602, Freeview 233 and YouTube
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The truth is that most people in Britain have a very low opinion of Israel now and see Netanyahu as one of the principal troublemakers. Starmer could have played a minor role in reigning him in, but wouldn't. He is, frankly, fairly irrelevant now.
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I was a member of Labour’s ruling NEC & an editor of Tribune for 14 years. I was a member of the party for over forty years. I urge you - do not vote for Keir Starmer.
‘Humanitarian pauses’! What is he talking about? ‘Worse attack on Israel since the holocaust’. Israel didn’t exist then. Here is a former human rights lawyer who has lost any moral compass. The worst Labour leader of my life time. Period.
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This would be the equivalent of the British state ordering a complete siege of Northern Ireland during the Troubles; cutting electricity, food, water & humanitarian supplies & demolishing Belfast, building by building.
Israel Defense Minister Yoav Gallant: . "I have ordered a complete siege on the Gaza Strip. There will be no electricity, no food, no fuel, everything is closed. We are fighting human animals and we will act accordingly."
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It doesn’t take a split second to realise that @BBCWorld has one editorial standard for covering Russian attacks on civilians & quite another for Israeli attacks on civilians. Do they think that we are stupid?.
In a split second, Russia wipes out three generations of a Ukrainian family
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Tony, when I lost the vote on the Iraq war on the NEC (you voted for it) I didn’t leave. Rather more significant an issue I humbly suggest.
I’ve left the Labour Party after nearly 45 years of service at Branch, Constituency and NEC levels,partly because of it’s continued duplicity on Brexit, partly because of it’s antisemitism, but also because its leadership is complete shit.
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Framing all wrong here. It is the US & the UK who have split from Western allies. @itvnews.
France splits from Western allies to back ICC arrest warrants of Israel and Hamas leaders.
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Here is Margaret Hodge, some ex Tory MP turned Labour, and a couple of other unrecognisable Labour MPs at the court of President Herzog, who just the other day was autographing bombs to be dropped on Gaza. Solidarity with what exactly? A possible war criminal? The shame of it.
We’re in Israel for a solidarity mission. Today, we met Israeli president @Isaac_Herzog to express our support for Israel and her people in the aftermath of October 7th. We stand with you 🇮🇱🇬🇧
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If this is true, BBC senior management need to explain how it is that one of their own appears to have greater authority on these matters than the International Court of Justice, the ICC and the UN. And bloody quickly.
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Just a reminder that this should have been coming from the Official Leader of the Opposition.
🚨BREAKING: The SNP announces it will force a vote in parliament calling for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza. In the last vote, 294 MPs voted against a ceasefire, and only 125 for.
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Missing in inaction. Whatever happened to this international human rights lawyer?.
Keir Starmer at the International Court of Justice in 2014, making a case for genocide.
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The treatment of @zarahsultana this morning was boorish, ignorant and pretty contemptible. Were they even vaguely interested in listening to her? Compare & contrast how they might have treated someone like Margaret Hodge.
The sneering contempt of ‘journalists’ will never stop me from calling out racism and Islamophobic hate.
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This will be watched all over the World. It will be barely mentioned by our media. Still less the politicians (who have helped enable it). @AJIunit.
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Corbyn is held in high regard throughout the global south for standing up for justice for the Palestinians and peace in the Middle East. Your 30 year personal vendetta against him is demeaning & petty. A period of silence from you would be most welcome. @margarethodge.
I simply cannot comprehend why it is acceptable for Corbyn to be a Labour MP if he thinks antisemitism is exaggerated and a political attack, refuses to apologise, never takes responsibility for his actions & rejects the findings of the EHRC report. Ridiculous.
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What a surprise. But it's not only British Muslim voters, it's younger people and virtually anyone with a conscience.
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Why hasn’t Britain recognised Palestine yet? This was a Labour Manifesto commitment. When is it happening?.
🇵🇸🤝🇧🇪 Today, I presented my credentials to the King of the Belgians as Ambassador of Palestine becoming the first Palestinian ambassador to do so. I conveyed President Abbas' gratitude for Belgium's unwavering support for Palestine.
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Breaking: Having discovered that he shared a platform with J.Corbyn, Sir Keir Starmer has expelled himself.
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Some of us are old enough and lucky enough to have been around when 'World in Action' or 'Panorama' would have produced something like this.
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A not unreasonable question; who elected Jacqui Smith?
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My late father was forty years in the British Army. I know that as a professional soldier he would have been utterly disgusted at the mass killings by the Israeli army & appalled by the absence of any moral backbone in our Tory/Labour Govts.
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As someone has observed, turning off aid to Palestinians because of the alleged activities of a handful of UNRWA workers, can be compared to shutting down the NHS because of the activities of Lucy Letby.
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Just when you think; ‘Can this really get any worse?’ It does.
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Another one of those 'terrible mistakes' by the murderous rabble known as the IDF. Respect to my former Al Jazeera colleague.
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Which is odd because I watched him welcome the fall of Assad. If you are paid handsomely to cover Parliament, at least try and do your job. I also heard him ask about Israel's illegal occupation of the Golan Heights and its continued bombing today of Syria, Lebanon & Gaza.
Corbyn up. nothing about Assad. slags off Israel.
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Dresden really was one of the inexcusable acts of Bomber Command. The Soviet Army was on the outskirts; the city was packed with refugees & there weren’t any real military targets. Shapps needs to learn some history. Firebombing civilians is illegal for very good reasons.
"When Britain bombed Dresden, 35,000 people lost their lives". Defence Secretary Grant Shapps says "we've sort of forgotten that in war, very sadly, people lose their lives" when asked about the scale of Israel's retaliation strikes on Gaza. #BBCLauraK
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As a spin doctor, I am sometimes asked; 'What is the difference between calling for an immediate ceasefire and Sir Keir's call for a 'ceasefire that lasts permanently? The answer: is Sir Keir is waiting for permission from the US State Department & agreement of the Israelis'.
Keir Starmer has called for a ceasefire that lasts permanently. Why did it take more than 130 days of bloodshed and more than 28,000 murdered Palestinians? . Because he realises it’s going to cost him political support. Not because he developed a backbone.
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Hey presto! The new member for Tel Aviv East!.
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Astonishing that a foreign country -- and one that is in breach of the Geneva Conventions and International Law -- has so much influence & leverage. This should be illegal. Plain & simple.
🇮🇱Pro-Israel lobby groups and individuals have donated to 13 out of Labour’s 25 cabinet members, Declassified has found. The list of recipients includes Keir Starmer, his deputy Angela Rayner, chancellor Rachel Reeves, and foreign secretary David Lammy👇.
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Difficult to think of any media organisation that is so out of touch with the people and city it purports to broadcast too. Sorry @LBC the game is up. Many of us won't be listening to you again.
In announcing the name of her replacement (Vanessa Feltz) @LBC have pretty much confirmed that @SangitaMyska was silenced for questioning the conduct of Israel’s war. This is insane. #GazaWashing at its worst. Our mainstream media is fast becoming a farce. Boycott @LBC
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One of Netanyahu's most shrill supporters and an apologist for genocide. What on earth is this woman doing at a Labour Party Conference?!.
Thank you so much to our dear friends at @_LFI for such a warm welcome in Liverpool, and for standing in solidarity with the Israeli people. Am Yisrael Chai!!
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The uncomfortable truth is that apartheid South Africa wasn’t as brutal & so utterly malevolent.
Now: Israeli forces demolish the entire Bedouin village of Wadi Khalil in the Negev/ Naqab leaving over 300 residents without any housing solution
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Ladies & Gentlemen. The Grim Reaper!.
Residential areas aren't being flattened, they're "susceptible to combat operations"
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Netanyahu has reportedly humiliated Lammy. But try and find a report of this anywhere in the mainstream British media.
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Always. The great people of Cuba.
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Looking forward to seeing this individual standing in the dock one day, and hopefully not in the distant future.
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Why? Just, why? This isn’t an army - it’s a renegade terror outfit.
The Israeli army detonates the last university it hadn't destroyed yet. A scene from the explosion of the Palestine University with 315 bombs. The university is owned by businessmen and is not affiliated with any political agenda. Israel has destroyed all universities and about
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There are many of us who tend to defend the BBC, not least because it is much more than its increasingly parochial news service. But what possible explanation can there be for life streaming Israel's defence at the ICJ while failing to live stream South Africa's case? @BBCNewsPR.
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Dr. Faiza Shaheen is standing for Chingford and Woodford Green. I've signed up to help her win - will you join me? :
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Why does the BBC insist on describing these dangerous fanatics as 'activists'?
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The last time I saw this was at Port au Prince, Haiti, the poorest country in the Western hemisphere. What is Britain’s excuse?.
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