Tariq Ali
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Tariq Ali is a writer & editor@NewLeftReview. He has written 50 books on history & politics, 7 novels. YOU CAN'T PLEASE ALL: Memoirs 1980-2024 is his latest.
Camden Town, London
Joined July 2010
Edward Said (suffering from a fatal cancer) throwing a stone in a symbolic gesture at the Lebanese-Israeli border in July 2000. We spoke a week later after the brouhaha that follow: 'The liberal Zionists are slandering me.' My response: 'Fuck them. Don't be put on the defensive.'
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Stuart Hall, first editor of the New Left Review, raises the flag at Easter 1961 Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament March
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When the Taliban destroyed the Bamiyan Buddhas the whole Western world was outraged. Civilisation barking at barbarism. Zionists Jews bombing Baalbek? No problem for the West.
They can't be bombing Baalbek?.
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I've just joined Peace and Justice. Hope many of you will too.
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Why should the police who have been relatively even-handed till now, suddenly turn nasty and behave like drugged dogs? The answer seems fairly obvious to me. They received firm instructions from the Home Secretary and the Mayor of London. Of course it backfired. These sort of.
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Asked on radio what I thought of Suella Braverman's description of our Saturday demo as a 'hate march.' I replied: 'It's true. We all hate her.'.
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For years the IDF has attacked and killed Palestinians at leisure, their supporters chanting: 'Death to the Arabs.' .Do the oppressed Palestinians have a right to resist the non-stop aggression to which they are subjected? Only one answer: Yes!.
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VOTE CORBYN, VOTE FEINSTEIN AND CHEER EVERONE UP ON JULY 4, UK DEPENDENCE DAY
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Democracy in action: France has banned all pro-Palestinian demonstrations.
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Don't vote for any MP who voted against a cease-fire and defends Israel's genocidal bloodbath in Palestine. This is the BIG issue. On other policies, too, there's no choice.If you're luck vote for an indy anti-war candidate. I am. My MP is slimy Starmer. I'll be voting Feinstein.
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Very sad that John Pilger has passed away.He was one of the best investigative journalists ever. I did a two-part interview with him on 'The World Today' on Telesur. Both segments are on YouTube:.
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Noam Chomsky once told me that the two most intelligent political leaders he had ever met were Hugo Chavez and Sayyed Nasrallah but couldn't say so in public. Given the genocide in Gaza I'm outing him! I'm sure he won't mind. Read the speech below.
NEW:. ⚡ 🇱🇧The leader of Hezbollah, Sayyed Nasrallah in a speech today: . Today, in the sixth month, Netanyahu stands up to say that if we do not go to Rafah, we will lose the war. We say to Netanyahu that even if you go to Rafah, you have lost the war and you cannot eliminate
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Yesterday I called for a vote for Jill Stein on DN. after watching the debate last night I’m very pleased I did so.
Pakistani British historian and activist @TariqAli_News says the Israeli war on Gaza has opened a "gulf" between the Global South, where most oppose it, and the richer countries of the North, where the establishment is "very much in favor of it."
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Solidarity with the two army horses who bolted from the military barracks in London and galloped down the streets. Unlike those who ride them and blindly obey orders, these magnificent creatures made a bid for freedom.
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This was expected, but still a huge blow. Noam (C) has just died. I will write about him at length but just to say that in a post Vietnam War world where dissent was gradually being restricted we missed Noam's voice in the New York Review of Books. He was not in the NYT that much.
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Amazing. A victory no less.
The joy of Brown University students in America after the university agreed to their terms, including voting to cancel the Israeli's financial investment in their university.
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Very sad news. Tom Nairn, one of the UK's most gifted leftwing thinkers died yesterday, aged 90. Most of his books were published by Verso and his most coruscating essays by New Left Review. More on him will be be written by others including myself. In the meantime, read him.
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Tariq Ali, what is your attitude when dictators are toppled in Iraq, Libya and now Syria?.There is no cause for celebration when these acts are carried out by Western imperialisms under the leadership of the United States.When they are toppled by their own people I celebrate.
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BBC's credibility is at its lowest ever. Very few people I know take the BBC TV news seriously. Most (like me) watch C4 News or move away altogether to al-Jazeera. Some do both. I think some enterprising should should take them to court for trading under a false name. It should.
It's interesting to note that @BBCNews regards the murder of seven people in the Ukraine to be a bloodbath. But 45 Palestinians dead in Rafah is dismissed as a "limited operation"
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I've been complaining that two pro-Palestine candidates in Blackburn was appalling. It now emerges that the candidate with a Muslim name's campaign is being run by Blairites to split the vote and get Labour the seat. Craig Murray the only real choice.
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Asked what I thought of the Shadow Home Secretary, David Lammy I replied: 'A sad, snivelling opportunist with the added complication that he's not the sharpest tool in a shed already filled with blunt instruments.'.
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More than 100 prominent Germans appeal for Julian Assange's release
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Slightly puzzling John McDonnell calling for the Labour whip to be restored to Corbyn. I assume its tongue in cheek. More seriously though how many of the SCG worthies are prepared to lose the whip when they oppose the Government. It would be positive to enlarge the tiny block of.
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We must try and get as many people as possible on tomorrow's march in London from Speakers Corner to the Israeli Embassy. 12noon at Speakers Corner or reach the Embassy by 1.30 pm. I'll be there with many others.
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Has Labour ordered a tougher policy? Looks like it.
British police conducted mass body searches of all protesters at a demonstration for Palestine in the UK, to harass and undermine their peaceful protest.
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These demos are impressive but why don't they target their own government that still recognises and trades with Israel and whose Donkey Sultan collaborated with Israel to invade and occupy Syria a few weeks ago. In Turkey's case the enemy is at home. All this seems to be for.
Thousands have overwhelmed the streets in Istanbul, Turkiye, on the first day of the new year 2025 in solidarity with the Palestinian people amidst the ongoing Israeli genocide.
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That Starmer and gang are awful seems to be a hugely popular view at the moment. Starmer's ratings are on -35%. Not a surprise. But the complete vacuum on the Left could be dealt with if the thimbleful of left MPs take the initiative NOW and do something together with others not.
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Zizek knows psychoanalysis well. He really needs it himself.
Zizek says "They are no less than Arabs, they are fanatical religious fundamentalists" in an attempt to describe Russian mentality on the Ukraine war. He's the softest "remove Netanyahu" liberal on the genocide in Gaza too. I'm done with this old guy trying to cling to relevancy.
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"Verso Books makes a casual inquiry to the German publisher of Alfred Sohn-Rethel’s essays. The response from the publisher, ça ira-Verlag, a classical anti-Deutsch institution:. On the one hand, we are delighted that Sohn-Rethel is attracting international attention and are not.
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Here’s an example of how it could be ended. In 1957 Israel occupied Gaza. The US president, General Eisenhower, ordered: “I want you out of Gaza.” and then said, “if you don’t get out of Gaza, we will impose sanctions against Israel”. The Israelis left. them.".
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The US/UK did nothing to disrupt the Judeocide during the Second World War. They and most other Western states are actively aiding the genocide taking place in Palestine. Yes, actively. In order to do this they have wrecked their own international legal system. Anything we do,.
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I usually ignore abusive attacks or severe criticisms of the New Left Review on social networks or elsewhere, but the interview with Ariella Angel of Jewish Currents has angered some of my friends and others I respect. The implication in one of the questions to Arielle (whose.
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The Metropolitan Police and this appalling Labour government still defending Israel and intimidating marchers.
Shame on the Met police, solidarity with the protesters. Cops arrested chief steward Chris Nineham from @STWuk on the #freepalestine march in London. Solidarity
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Tremendous news from Mexico. Huge win for Claudia Sheinbaum, a feminist of Jewish origin. Anti-Zionist and ecologist. Her victory also a sign of AMLO’s popularity in the country. A triumph of hope against despair. A relief after the disaster in Argentina.
Mexico’s National Electoral Institute's (INE) quick count shows Claudia Sheinbaum taking 58.3 to 60.7% of the vote, projecting her win of the Mexican presidency, while Xochitl Galvez is to receive between 26.6 and 28.8% of the vote. 🟠 LIVE updates:
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He always sounded a fraud. Now we know for sure that he is one.
This is quite something: Richard Dawkins, undoubtedly the world's leading atheist, the author of The God Delusion, comes out as "cultural Christian" and calls for the UK to promote Christianity as opposed to Islam, which he calls "not a decent religion".
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A LETTER TO THE STUDENTS AND WORKERS OF BANGLADESH. Dear comrades and friends:.Congratulations on your amazing triumph in removing a corrupt Prime Minister. Once a people that are resisting lose their fear of death anything is possible and the unrests spreads to the ranks of the.
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THE MAN IN THE 1968 PIC IS NOT STEPHEN HAWKING.Sad that Stephen Hawking has left us. he opposed the Vietnam war and Iraq. BUT he is not in the 1968 demo pic. Repeat NOT. An illiterate caption by the National Portrait Gallery has created this myth. Wish it was him but it isn't
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Very disturbing news from Vietnam re Gaza. How can the Vietnamese leaders have such short memories? Many of us who supported Vietnam fully against the United States urge the Vietnamese government to stop arming Israeli genocide:. Dear Tariq Ali,. I just want to inform you about.
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I am getting e-mails saying that Noam is NOT dead. That his wife has confirmed he is alive. If this is the case my apologies though nothing I wrote apart from the actual death needs correction. I really am sorry for this mistake but my informant was sure.
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An Italian friend writes that his GP wants Putin to get the Nobel Prize for Medicine since he cured COVID 19 within a week.
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@ManPalestine Tremendous LP meeting. All MPs who were against a Ceasefire Now deserve this. Every single one of them. Don't vote for any of them. It's not just Starmer and Lammy who need a double whammy.
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Remember Margaret Beckett? She was a Bennite, then took over as Acting Leader after John Smith's untimely death and started dressing like Princess Anne and then became a total stooge. I once asked her husband how he felt. 'It's difficult, mate.'.
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Someone asked a week ago what was happening in Indonesia. here's your reply.
2 million Indonesians in Jakarta came out in support of Palestine!
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Third Reich talk from a community that once suffered. .
Israeli President says there are no innocent citizens in the Gaza Strip
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Oxford, 1964. The third person is the great Scottish poet Hugh MacDiarmid.
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“Those who liked Steve McQueen's 'Small Axe' that recreates the Mangrove Trial and exposes the racism of the Notting Hill cops, biased judge, etc should think of the Assange trial. The judge is appalling;its a political show trial. Julian needs our support NOW.
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Pathetic demonstration of Arab weakness. It’s as if Oslo never existed. All this has been tried before and failed. Israel has made it clear it will never accept a sovereign Palestinian state. Never. So what are these bleating Arab sheep up to?.
BREAKING:. 57 Arab and Muslim countries offer Israel a PEACE DEAL. Guaranteed security in exchange for a Palestinian state and an end of occupation. The Jordanian FM expresses the Arab world is ready for peace but Israel refuses.
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They've done it before. In 1969, Ernest Mandel, popular on the German Left as Europe's leading Marxist economist was banned by Interior Minister Genscher. There were protests and ultimately the ban was lifted. This case is tied to one issue: German support for Gaza genocide.
By verbal instructions of German police @yanisvaroufakis was issued with a general ban on all activities „Betätigungsverbot“ apparently on orders of Interior Ministry without naming legal basis. This cannot stand! .
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Isn't it high time that we stopped referring to it as the IDF (Israeli Defence Force) but as the IOF (Israeli Occupation Force). It expresses the reality much better. I'm going to do so anyway. The more of you who do, the better. .
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Excellent. The political elite and its media supporters in France must be feeling a bit isolate. The state has decided to lift the ban on anti-Israeli demonstrations. Might Germany be next?.
BREAKING: . For the fourth night in a row, a massive protest is unfolding in the streets of Paris, supporting Palestine and condemning Israel’s massacres in Rafah. 🇵🇸🇫🇷🔥.
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Bangladesh is not yet out of trouble. The student leaders (not all students) fell for celebrity politics, a Nobel laureate charged with graft. All the cases against Yunus have been dropped. A friend, knowledgeable on these matters and a leading businessman himself and NOT a.
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Look at them, the ones who remained seated. The genocide and terrorism being inflicted on Arabs and Palestinians by Israel does not concern them. Bravo to the protestors.
The way those security guards manhandled the guy who was yelling about us still selling arms to Israel was horrible to watch. Then cutting to her saying the party is about change, not protest, felt dystopian.
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The Japanese recipients see through the disgusting and predictable failure of the ghouls who run the Nobel 'Peace' Prize Committee. These bastards rarely let us down.
"I thought those fighting hard for peace in Gaza would deserve it." . Toshiyuki Mimaki, the Japanese anti-nuclear campaigner whose group, Nihon Hidankyo, won the Nobel Peace Prize, says he was surprised they won the award instead of people working to stop Israel’s war on Gaza.
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Not surprising, but why describe Nick Cohen as 'leftwing'. He hasn't been that for ages. Pro-Iraq war, pro-Israel, pro-NATO, viciously anti-left now.
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An excellent piece on Germany and Israel by Pankaj Mishra. A must read. Memory Failure
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When I wrote 'The Extreme Centre' years ago pointing out the political logic odf t capital and empire, I was criticised for using the word 'extreme' to characterise centre parties. I wish I had been wrong. Can anything be more extreme than genocide.
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A must watch!!.
Harvard University professor Caroline Elkins, a leading scholar of British colonialism, details the brutal violence exacted on Kenyans who dared to resist British rule during the early reign of Queen Elizabeth II.
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More support from South America than from neighbouring Arab governments or Erdogan's Donkey Kingdom. Its been like that for most of this century. One day the Arab people will. .
JUST IN: 🇨🇴 🇮🇱 Colombia officially suspends all coal sales to Israel.
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Something grotesque about the tributes to 'Genocide Jo' Biden (Bernie Sanders amongst the worst). Biden's demented backing for the destruction of Gaza, the genocidal massacre of 40,000 Palestinians by Israel is still going on. its very unlikely that he'll be replaced by a.
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Noam at his best. Bravo.
a Zionist asks Chomsky what he thinks about the statement that Israel should not exist, and whether he is horrified by it and thinks it's anti-Semitic and genocidal. He responds: "Actually, I agree with that." And adds that Zionists are the actual genocidal ones.
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All true. When he was running for the Presidency he was petrified that this pic would go public and wreck his chances. He made sure by pleading with some present to keep it hidden. Early signs of the scumbaggery to com!.
These are photos of Obama at a Palestinian community dinner in Chicago seated at a table with Edward Said, Ali Abunimah and Rashid Khalidi. The latter have both attested to his betrayal and how Obama used to always attend events in their community. In 1999, Abunimah introduced
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Assange ruling not a surprise. The 'miscarriages' of justice in Britain have a long pedigree and a huge majority of senior judges (as the Irish and Muslims will tell you) are genetically bent in the political meaning of the word.
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A multi-millionaires' yacht collapse in a storm and his subsequent disappearance of the Sicilian coast is being treated as a huge tragedy with headlines in the FT and The Guardian. Remember the refugee boats that were struck a few years ago,. Those who drowned. Those who were not.
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Utterly pathetic. Egypt should immediately break of ALL relations with the monstrous state of Israel and use its Army to save lives and provide food and medicines. I hope there are uprisings in Jordan too where anger is growing. The ICJ is powerless as is the UNSC.
BREAKING: EGYPT CALLS ON SECURITY COUNCIL TO INTERVENE IMMEDIATELY AFTER RAFAH MASSACRE. Egypt denounces the intentional targeting of displaced persons' shelters by Israeli forces in Rafah, Palestine. Egypt urges Israel to adhere to its legal responsibilities and to enact the
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The front cover of the latest issue of the London Review of Books is strong. I can't download it, but it should be circulated. Yet again the New York Review of Books has fallen way behind, no equivalent of Shatz or Mishra. With NYT floundering its a pity the NYRB is so cautious.
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Just watch the degeneration of Germany!.
German police brutally assaulted a Celtic fan for carrying a Palestinian flag during last night’s game against Dortmund at Signal Iduna Park.
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Amazing. LA Times refused to endorse Harris because of Dems position on the genocide in Gaza.
Here's the daughter of the LA Times' owner, Patrick Soon-Shiong, explaining: the paper's non-endorsement was due to the support Biden/Harris continue to give to Israel's war in Gaza. "For me, genocide is a line in the sand". Also recounts her father's experience with apartheid:.
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I knew he was political, but not to this extent.
In 1983, Paul Newman explained that the truth has no kind of importance for the American state, it will always manufacture or designate an exaggerated enemy to justify wars and massacres for profit and to ignore the crimes committed by other nations like Israel.
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Good riddance to Gove. I debated him on C4 News at the beginning of the Iraq war that he defended wholesale. He was an ignorant oaf. I think I said as much.
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Great news from EC. He really has changed.
Along with my dear friend Roger Waters, I stand in support of Andrew Feinstein, independent candidate for Holborn and St Pancras, in his fight for the children of Gaza, for the freedom of the people of Palestine, and for the soul of the human race. Against the genocide in.
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Western double standards no.longer work for the many.
Remember that time when world leaders came together in Paris to protest against the killing of the Charlie Hebdo journalists? . Nearly 200 journalists have been killed in Gaza, by the man at the front, Netanyahu, and the same leaders are silent about the ongoing Genocide in Gaza.
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Am getting fed-up reading posts that Biden is appointing or thinking of appointing rogues [warmongers, corporate backers] to his administration. Everybody knew he would be the same as Clinton or Obama. So please don't feel betrayed. All that's been betrayed is your illusions.
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Have these wretched Green parties disowned their German brethren. Pro- NATO warmongers. Disgusting people on every level, Jill stein is a model Green in many ways. The European compromisers should follow her example!.
We call on European Green parties to stop supporting genocide in Gaza and suppressing democracy in U.S. elections.
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The new President of Mexico. US liberal feminists in the USA (who backed war criminal Hilary Clinton) don't like her because she's a socialist and pro-Palestinian. Stupid sectarians have been attacking her for being a closet Zionist.
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Macron is losing it. He has announced that he will not accept a government formed the winners, the New Popular Front. The Fifth Republic has to go. And demonstrators and strikers should demand a Constituent Assembly to create a new Republic in which the President is ornamental as.
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This is wonderful news. BDS completely vindicated. Starbucks coffee has been deteriorating too.
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Great news from France. The Left alliance is in the lead, the Macron extreme centre is second and the far-right is third.There will not be a far-right majority. Within the Left, Melenchon's party is in the lead. It was their strategy to unite the Left. So how will this develop.
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At the time the pier was built by the United States, some Palestinian activists warned that it would be used for offensive purposes rather than supplying food and medicines to the Gazan people. Releasing four hostages at the cost of 200 plus Palestinian deaths, with chi;dfren in.
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First they came for the Corbynistas, and I did not speak out—because I was not a Corbynista. Then they came for the STW MPs, and I did not speak out—because I was not a STW supporter. Then they came for the ' Bad'Jews, and I did not speak out—because I wasn't a 'bad' Jew. .
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A defeat for this hypocrite and liar would be a step forward for Turkey and that Gaza is the cause would make it even more delicious.
For the first time in over 20 years Turkey President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is set for a landslide defeat in local elections…. Ekrem Imamoglu is pro-Palestinian candidate and said Turkey should show the same conviction as South Africa. Ekrem Imamoglu said Turkey should end trade
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VIETNAM/ISRAEL: SOME GOOD NEWS.Within 48 hours of posting the sale of Vietnamese weapons to Israel there has been a rapid response. My Vietnamese comrades write:.Hi Tariq, I am delighted to share some good news: Vietnam’s foreign ministry were 'shocked and unaware' by the news.
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This is Erdogan’s real policy.
Turkish police forces stormed the gathering of supporters of the people of Gaza, who demanded the termination of business relations between Ankara and the Israel, and arrested dozens of people.
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The most effective UN person ever! Bold and truthful. Doesn’t prevaricate.
“Israel membership of the UN to be suspended” . No wonder Zionists hate her
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The Guardian has not been the same since Alan Rusbridger 's departure. Its decline has been consistent. Its campaign against Corbyn and pro-Israeli bias difficult for many of its readers to stomach. Here is another example of double-standards.
SCOOP: Guardian editor Katharine Viner personally intervened to block a piece by a preeminent Palestinian author for describing Gaza as "the holocaust of our time". Meanwhile staff claim they are subject to a "double standard" on Israel & Palestine:
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Why were the Americans invited? They decided to nuke the two Japanese cities. Good they decided not to come.
The US refuses to pay its respects at Nagasaki Memorial because Israel was not invited. The memorial for the victims of the US atomic bomb attack against Nagasaki, Japan, made the decision not to invite Israel after it has caused similar devastating damage in Gaza. In response,
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Just walking over to the polling booth at the Irish Club in Camden to vote for Andrew Feinstein. The only points of interest tonight are the percentage of those who voted, the size of Labour's majority and how the anti-genocide candidates fared: Corbyn, Galloway, Feinstein,.
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News, unconfirmed as yet, coming through from Brazil that Bolsonaro has been removed by a military coup. It would be a supreme irony if this was the case. Bolsonaro is deranged and a liability, but the Army.
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Dockers in Livorno and Naples are refusing to load ships carrying weapons to Israel. Bolivian delegate at UNSC is reading out the names of the Palestinian dead.
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