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Rishi Sunak says: "We must face down the extremists". Most of the British public back a ceasefire in Gaza. The extremists are in government.
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Scotland's first minister, Humza Yousaf, has written to the UK government urging it to back an ICC investigation into war crimes in Gaza. "No country, Israel included, has a right to ignore international humanitarian law", Humza says.
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Petition to expel Israel ambassador Tzipi Hotovely from the UK reaches over 90,000 signatories.
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Jeremy Corbyn asks whether Britain has troops on the ground in Gaza. Foreign minister Leo Docherty refuses to answer.
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🇵🇸 Some 139 countries recognise Palestine as a state. The UK and most of its Nato allies are not among them. Sources: /
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🇮🇱Watch the moment a high-ranking Israeli soldier was questioned by Declassified about war crimes during what he thought was a secret trip to London👇
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🇮🇱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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David Lammy attended a Labour Friends of Israel event yesterday and posed for pictures with the Israeli ambassador in London, Tzipi Hotovely. Hotovely has suggested that “every school, every mosque, every second house" in Gaza is a legitimate target for Israel.
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🇮🇱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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Before Keir Starmer failed to declare donations for his wife, the Labour leader billed the taxpayer nearly £250,000 for travel expenses as head of the CPS. This included £160,000 for a chauffer-driven car despite living just four miles from his office.
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BREAKING -- The UK will keep arming Israel, David Cameron confirms - after over 22,000 killings of Palestinians. British complicity in war crimes must be investigated by the @IntlCrimCourt. What on Earth is it doing?
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🇮🇱Israel has been quietly financing UK parliamentary staff, Declassified has found. This comes after we revealed that one in four British MPs had accepted funding from the Israel lobby.
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🇮🇱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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In November, Keir Starmer was asked about his "red lines" on Gaza - white phosphorus, collective punishment, bombing safe routes. Starmer refused to give any. The media should now ask whether burning hospital patients alive is a red line for the prime minister.
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🇮🇱Israel has been quietly financing UK parliamentary staff, Declassified has found. This comes after we revealed that one in four British MPs had accepted funding from the Israel lobby.
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🚨Breaking -- The Council of Europe's parliamentary assembly has voted to confirm that Julian Assange was held as a political prisoner.
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🚨Palestinian photojournalist calls out British media for their biased coverage of the ceassefire negotiations. Motaz Azaiza says Sky News' coverage focussed on "dozens of Israeli prisoners" with no mention of the thousands of Palestinians taken captive by Israel👇
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🇮🇱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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At 7pm last night, Keir Starmer's government sent a RAF spy plane over Gaza to collect intelligence for Israel. The planes are usually in the sky for 6 hours. The plane was likely over Gaza when Israel bombed tents housing displaced people at Al-Aqsa hospital in Deir el-Balah.
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🇮🇱Leaked Israeli documents reveal how Benjamin Netanyahu's government waged a secret campaign to stop boycotts of Israel in Britain. That included a "sensitive" meeting with Michael Gove about countering the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions movement.
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There's no crisis in Gaza, UN workers are members of Hamas, We're not killing children, We haven't killed 11,000 people, We're not bombarding Gaza - A compilation of Israeli officials claims
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Now an arrest warrant has been issued for Netanyahu, the ICC must also investigate British ministers for complicity in the Gaza genocide. That includes Keir Starmer, David Lammy, John Healey, Rishi Sunak, David Cameron, and Grant Shapps.
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🚨Priti Patel has been appointed by new Tory leader Kemi Badenoch as shadow foreign secretary. Patel was forced to resign in 2017 after it was revealed that she had held undisclosed meetings with Israeli ministers while on holiday in the country.
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🚨Breaking -- 37 British human rights and aid organisations have called on David Lammy to clarify his statement on what constitutes genocide. This comes after Lammy said that people calling Israel's campaign in Gaza a genocide "undermine the seriousness" of the term.
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🇮🇱Israel has been quietly financing UK parliamentary staff, Declassified has found. This comes after we revealed that one in four British MPs had accepted funding from the Israel lobby👇.
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94 today, Noam Chomsky - one of our advisers - on Julian Assange -- . "Britain is doing it because they have to follow US orders"
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Declassified documents from 1998 show Tony Blair was consistently informed military action against Iraq was unlawful. But he told parliament Britain had “the proper legal authority”. 👉Blair misled parliament over 1998 Iraq bombing, files show.
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👉 NEW -- Imran Khan: ‘West gains from corruption’ . by @pmillerinfo . Western nations are benefiting from corruption across Asia, the ousted prime minister of #Pakistan has said in a brave new documentary: Behind Closed Doors.
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The International Criminal Court’s chief prosecutor is British. He’s issued an arrest warrant for Vladimir Putin. Why hasn’t he done so for Benjamin Netanyahu?. 👉 Is Karim Khan compromised?
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David Lammy actually said at the UN security council, on Ukraine -- "Unless Putin fails, we could plunge into a world where the principles enshrined in the UN Charter will have lost their meaning.". As the UK continues military assistance to Israel.
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Now an arrest warrant has been issued for Netanyahu, the ICC must also investigate British ministers for complicity in the Gaza genocide. That includes Keir Starmer, David Lammy, John Healey, Rishi Sunak, David Cameron, and Grant Shapps.
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Israel's ambassador to the UK Tzipi Hotovely has been permitted entry to the Labour conference. Hotovely claimed that “every school, every mosque, every second house" in Gaza is a legitimate target for Israel. Yet Labour refused Declassified's entry 👇.
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📽️ Watch this 📽️. An official from the Israeli embassy in London is recorded promising £1 million to Labour MP Joan Ryan, then chair of Labour Friends of Israel. What was it for?. @_LFI does not disclose its funders. How long will we put up with this?.
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🇮🇱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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A compilation of how senior Labour figures refused to support the upholding of international law as Israel killed 10,000 Palestinians in a month of bombing. 👇
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"The BBC has been keeping the public in the dark. It is simply not telling the truth about the UK's support for Israel". Declassified's director @markcurtis30 exposes how the BBC has covered up British complicity in the Gaza genocide👇
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14 years ago, WikiLeaks published "Collateral Murder", which showed US forces gunning down civilians in Iraq. Julian Assange is now facing 175 years in a US maximum security prison for publishing evidence of war crimes. 👉
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Stephen Flynn MP: "The collective punishment of the Palestinian people will not be forgotten by history. "All those who sat silent, who encouraged, and who armed the extremists in the Israeli government will be judged by history too". #DCUKParliament
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🚨 Last night, the UK sent a huge A400M military transport plane from its base on Cyprus to Tel Aviv. The A400 can carry 116 soldiers and a 81,600 lb payload.
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The ICC has issued arrest applications for Netanyahu and Gallant for the use of "starvation as a method of war" including "cutting off cross-border water pipelines from Israel to Gaza". Keir Starmer said "Israel does have that right" to cut water and power off from Gaza 👇
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The Labour party wants you to believe it has played no part in the Gaza genocide. Here's a compilation of what senior Labour figures were saying as Israel killed 10,000 Palestinians during the first month of bombing. 👉Watch more
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71 years ago, MI6 and the CIA overthrew Iran's democracy. British officials wanted "a non communist coup d'état" in Iran to install a "dictator" who would promote UK oil interests, declassified files show.
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A compilation of how senior Labour figures refused to support the upholding of international law as Israel killed 10,000 Palestinians during the first month of bombing👇
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Former British foreign minister Alan Duncan wrote in his memoirs:. "The Israelis think they control the Foreign Office. And they do!". Not one UK newspaper reported it. We did.👇.
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Palestinian and Irish lawyers take Keir Starmer to court over arming Israel. Watch on our YouTube channel . 👉
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David Lammy just visited Israel to meet foreign minister Gideon Sa’ar. They discussed “Syria, Lebanon and the Iranian threat” and Lammy reportedly invited Sa’ar for an official visit to Britain. Lammy should be investigated for complicity in war crimes.
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🇮🇱Israel has been quietly financing UK parliamentary staff, Declassified has found. This comes after we revealed that one in four British MPs had accepted funding from the Israel lobby.
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🚨Over 100 MPs and Lords have signed a letter calling on the UK government to respect the International Criminal Court. Keir Starmer and David Lammy have not signed the letter.
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If Tony Blair won't be tried at the Hague, we're going to try him through our investigations in the declassified files. Will you help us?. 👉
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As Director of Public Prosecutions, Keir Starmer accepted more hospitality from Rupert Murdoch-owned newspapers than the rest of the British media combined. Who is Keir Starmer❓.
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Incredibly, the High Court has refused to admit fresh evidence of CIA plots to kidnap or kill Julian Assange. The judges say the rationale for kidnapping or killing Assange would be removed if he is extradited, and the evidence is thus not worth consideration. Read that again.
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Hard to believe that Julian Assange is about to begin another year of UK political persecution in maximum security Belmarsh. At the hands of people who want us to believe they promote media freedom, democracy and the law.
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❗️Israeli foreign minister says David Cameron's opposition to South Africa's genocide case against Israel follows lobbying by him.
I thank @David_Cameron, the British Foreign Secretary, who, following my appeal to him, expressed firm and clear words against Israel's accusation of genocide.
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🇮🇱The Israel lobby has funded one third of all Conservative MPs, Declassified has found. Thirteen of those MPs have accepted over £50,000 to travel to Israel amid the Gaza genocide, including for “solidarity” missions.
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Britain condemns “Yet another brutal attack by Russia against the Ukrainian people” — while supporting yet another brutal attack by Israel against the Palestinian people.
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🚨135 MPs and Lords have signed a letter urging the UK government to suspend arms sales to Israel. The letter notes that UK-made weaponry was likely used by Israel to bomb British doctors in Gaza.
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🇮🇱Israel has been quietly financing UK parliamentary staff, Declassified has found. This comes after we revealed that one in four British MPs had accepted funding from the Israel lobby 👇.
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"They're trying to do what we're failing to do: preventing this government supplying the arms to a regime that's killing children". John McDonnell lambasts the UK government's campaign against Palestine Action. #DCUKParliament
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🇮🇱The Israel lobby has funded one third of all Conservative MPs, Declassified has found. Thirteen of those MPs have accepted over £50,000 to travel to Israel amid the Gaza genocide, including for “solidarity” missions.
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John Pilger passed away one year ago today. Recently declassified files reveal that the UK government wanted to discredit Pilger's journalistic work. He was secretly monitored and targeted by a covert British propaganda unit 👇.
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In April, David Lammy implored the Foreign Office to publish the legal advice on sending arms to Israel. David Lammy is now the UK foreign secretary. When are you going to publish the legal advice, @DavidLammy?
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In his first public speech since being released, Julian Assange says:. "All judges whether. finding in my favour or not, in the UK, showed extraordinary deference to the US, engaged in astonishing intellectual backflips to allow the US to have its way on my extradition".
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"We've uncovered documents showing that the Attorney General's office was lobbied by the Israeli government". Palestine Action's @HudaAmmori reveals how Israel is trying to clamp down on pro-Palestine activism in Britain. 👉Watch more and subscribe
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Human Rights Watch has concluded that Israel's denial of water to Gaza amounts to an act of genocide. In October 2023, Keir Starmer said "Israel does have that right" to cut off water and power from Gaza. This is what complicity in genocide looks like👇
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In 1988, the US Navy shot down an Iranian airliner, killing all 290 civilians on board. Recently declassified files show how the UK government offered immediate support to the US, and assisted in the cover-up.
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On this day in 1953, MI6 and the CIA overthrew Iran's democracy. British officials wanted "a non communist coup d'état" in Iran to install a "dictator" who would promote UK oil interests, declassified files show.
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🇬🇧🇮🇱David Lammy met with Israeli president Isaac Herzog this morning. In December 2023, Herzog was pictured signing bombs due to be dropped on Gaza.
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Did you know❓. Britain's new health secretary Wes Streeting has accepted £30,000 from the Israel lobby, and £175,000 from companies linked to private healthcare.
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Mask off moment from NATO chief?. Jens Stoltenberg told the EU parliament last week: "President Putin invaded a European country to prevent more NATO" expansion.
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After Russia's invasion of Ukraine, the UK allowed Ukrainian children to receive medical treatment in Britain. The same offer has not been extended to children in Gaza - home to the largest number of child amputees in modern history. 50 MPs have now called on this to change.
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Now that the British media is interested in who's funding Labour MPs, will there finally be some scrutiny of the Israel lobby's influence in UK politics?. 👉Israel lobby funded half of Keir Starmer's cabinet.
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"I have never described what's going on in Gaza as genocide". Keir Starmer announces proudly that he doesn't view the annihilation of Palestinians and the destruction of Palestinian civil society as genocide. #DCUKParliament
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🚨BREAKING: The directors of 20 UK arms companies have been given notice of potential criminal liability for atrocities being committed in Gaza. The letter, signed by @GLAN_LAW, @CAATuk, @ICJPalestine, & @WarOnWant, warns that companies can be held accountable for war crimes.
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🚨 British complicity in genocide in Gaza goes much further than arms. UK deployed 500 extra troops to its base on Cyprus supplying weapons to Israel. Why?. UK flew 50 spy flights over Gaza in support of Israel. What intel did it share?. ICJ must investigate UK ministers.
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🚨Labour Friends of Israel has removed the list of MPs that it counts as parliamentary supporters from its website. 37% of Labour MPs are supporters of Labour Friends of Israel. You can still view the full list of list here👇.
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Our editor @markcurtis30 has now emailed @_LFI three times asking who funds it and why it doesn't say. This is a matter of public interest given LFI funds numerous MPs. ❓What is LFI hiding. We ask again: Who is funding Labour Friends of Israel? . Please retweet.
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After fourteen months of genocide in Gaza, Keir Starmer was the guest of honour at Labour Friends of Israel's annual lunch this week.
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"I think a much more likely reason that Iran attacked Israel was because Israel attacked the Iranian consulate in Damascus". Lord Ricketts reminds a pro-Israel advocate that bombing a diplomatic building tends to provoke a response. 👉Watch more
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The International Criminal Court has issued new arrest warrants for Russian commanders "for the war crimes of directing attacks at civilian objects". Where is the ICC's arrest warrant for Benjamin Netanyahu? . 👉Is the ICC's Karim Khan compromised?.
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🇦🇫🇬🇧 Prince Harry has reportedly disclosed in his new autobiography that he killed 25 people while an Apache attack helicopter pilot in Afghanistan. Harry reportedly writes that he is not embarrased of the killings as he didn't see the victims as "people" but as "chess pieces".
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Did you know❓. In 2011, as DPP, Keir Starmer blocked the arrest of Tzipi Livni - Israel's foreign minister during the brutal bombing of Gaza in 2008 - over alleged war crimes. The CPS is now censoring Starmer's emails about how that decision was made.
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MP Zarah Sultana presents a Bill to Parliament that would suspend UK arms sales to Israel.
The British government is deeply complicit in the atrocities inflicted on the Palestinian people in Gaza, including by selling arms to Israel that are likely being used for war crimes. That's why today I am presenting a Bill to Parliament that would suspend arms sales to Israel:
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Leaked cable published by @wikileaks raises the possibility the US is flying surveillance missions over Gaza from the UK base on Cyprus and sharing the intelligence with Israel — which would further implicate Britain in war crimes in Gaza.
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Since 7 October, the UK has sent 48 military aircraft to Israel, flown 65 spy missions over Gaza, and at least 9 Israeli military jets have landed in Britain. Is the @IntlCrimCourt watching?.
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Declassified documents from 1998 show Tony Blair was consistently informed military action against Iraq was unlawful. But he told parliament Britain had “the proper legal authority”. 👉Blair misled parliament over 1998 Iraq bombing, files show.
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🇳🇬 Declassified files show Britain’s Labour government secretly armed and backed the government in #Nigeria as it massacred Biafrans seeking to secede from the country – in order to protect Shell/BP oil interests. ICYMI .
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🚨 Yesterday afternoon an A400M military transport aircraft—operated by RAF—landed in Tel Aviv. It can carry 116 soldiers, a Chinook heli + a payload of 37 tonnes. UK military is refusing to divulge what the dozens of aircraft it has sent to Israel are carrying onboard.
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🇮🇱Israel has been quietly financing UK parliamentary staff, Declassified has found. This comes after we revealed that one in four British MPs had accepted funding from the Israel lobby👇.
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Declassified documents from 1998 show Tony Blair was consistently informed military action against Iraq was unlawful. But he told parliament Britain had “the proper legal authority”. 👉Blair misled parliament over 1998 Iraq bombing, files show.
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🚨Ignored by the UK press:. Hundreds of civil servants have written to David Cameron urging the UK government to publish its legal advice on supporting Israel. Some staff are even rejecting requests to work due to concerns of complicity in war crimes 👇.
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Labour Friends of Israel does not disclose its funders. But in an interview with us, Jeremy Corbyn had a guess at who it might be. “What I am concerned about is. the apparently very generous funding Labour Friends of Israel gets from, I presume, the Israeli government” 👇
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❗️UK ministers must now be investigated by the ICC for giving material support to Israel. Netanyahu is now wanted for "war crimes", "crimes against humanity", starvation of civilians", "extermination and/or murder", "intentional" attacks on civilians.
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David Lammy told the Foreign Affairs committee this week that "there are no journalists in Gaza". The Israeli forces, armed and backed by Britain, have killed at least 137 journalists in Gaza. Do these journalists not exist for you, @DavidLammy?
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Declassified documents from 1998 show Tony Blair was consistently informed military action against Iraq was unlawful. But he told parliament Britain had “the proper legal authority”. 👉Blair misled parliament over 1998 Iraq bombing, files show.
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Reminder — A quarter of British MPs have been funded by the Israel lobby.
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👉NEW -- Blair misled parliament over 1998 Iraq bombing, files show . by @markcurtis30 . Tony Blair was informed military action against Iraq in 1998 would be unlawful without UN authorisation. But he told parliament he had “the proper legal authority”.
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A compilation of how senior Labour figures refused to support the upholding of international law as Israel killed 10,000 Palestinians during the first month of bombing👇
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After playing a role in the persecution of Julian Assange, and as British counter-terror police raid the homes of critical journalists, Keir Starmer writes in the Guardian:. "Journalism is the lifeblood of British democracy. My government will protect it".
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Keir Starmer and David Lammy have the “blood of Palestinian children on their hands”, a lawyer from Gaza told Declassified. Ahmed Abofoul, who has seen over 60 members of his family killed, said the PM and foreign secretary are “monstrous war criminals”.
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Two paragraphs before Prince Harry said he killed 25 Taliban, he gave a critique of the Afghan war that has received much less attention:. "Afghanistan was a war of mistakes, a war of enormous collateral damage - thousands of innocents killed and maimed"
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