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Oct 14, 2024 14 tweets 4 min read Read on X
Israel will be studied for decades as an example of a nation overwhelmed with genocidal mania.

An Israeli peace activist shares a video of Palestinian children burning alive after an Israeli missile hits a hospital.

Let's see responses from Israelis and hit 'Translate post'. Image
This is Yair Oriel, former director of digital at Israeli TV Channel 14.

(Always bear in mind these are responses to someone sharing footage of Palestinian children being burned alive by an Israeli missile) Image
This is Dr. Rafi Kishon.

According to his bio, he is a 'multidisciplinary lecturer.'

He lists his interests as including "animals and smiles". Image
This is Lilach Leibovic. She claims to be addressed as "Her Highness". Image
Here's Ezra Yousef, a VP in Business Development. Here's an Israeli who now lives in San Francisco. Image
Their bio is "superhero". Image
Her bio is "full time mom". Image
Their bio is "absolute victory". Image
Her bio is "Mother and wife, secular and a proud Jew from the center of the country, loves Israel. I know that Kahane was not wrong." Image
According to their profile, they're a psychologist. Image
They claim to live somewhere in the "Holy Land". Image
This man claims to be "social-democratic left". Image
"Because as long as Hamas remains the ruler of Gaza, there is a moral obligation to continue the war, even at the cost of dead Palestinian children. This is clear and obvious to everyone." Image
You get the gist. Image

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Jul 9
This is infuriating crap.

He says:

“There's increasing evidence that war crimes appear to have been committed.”

He knows Israel has committed war crimes on an industrial scale.

He’s refusing to say so because it would impose legal obligations on him to actually act.
He talks about “criticising” Israel’s actions.

Which part will you “criticise”, @andyburnham?

The part where Israeli soldiers deliberately kill Palestinian children, as per a recent UN Commission?

The slaughter of 1,700 medics?

Deliberate starvation?
@andyburnham Israel has committed a genocide in full view of the world.

Its leaders have broadcast their genocidal intent more openly and proudly than almost any genocide as it happened in history.

And your government, @andyburnham, helped facilitate that.
Read 10 tweets
Jun 10
You see these scenes from Belfast?

That's our future if Reform, Restore, the Tories, GB News, Elon Musk and the right-wing media get their way.

Except this will be on a much bigger scale.

We have to decide: do we want those inciting hatred to destroy our country?
We already had our warning.

We had a national right-wing uprising / attempted pogrom in August 2024.

They tried to burn refugees alive.

They attacked shops, cars, mosques.

They attacked the homes of minorities, attacked people of colour in the street, dragged people from cars Image
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But the right-wing uprising of August 2024 was simply scrubbed from the record as though it never happened.

Why? Because it implicated our media and political establishment.

They continued to whip up hatred, bile and division.

And now we face an even greater catastrophe.
Read 10 tweets
Jun 9
In 2024, a white neo-Nazi tried to behead a Kurdish barber.

Did Patrick Christys say:

"I preferred our country before white men started trying to behead people in the street"?

No. He said zilch.

Both the perpetrator and the victim had the wrong skin colour for condemnation Image
In 2024, a white man tried to behead his female partner.

Nothing from @PatrickChristys condemning white men trying to behead people then, either. Image
@PatrickChristys In 2024, a white man beheaded his girlfriend.

Nothing from @PatrickChristys condemning white men beheading people then, either. Image
Read 7 tweets
Jun 3
A request for help.

Steve Laws demands all Sikhs are deported after Henry Nowak's murder.

But he supports deporting everyone with "non-British" heritage.

Henry Nowak had Polish heritage.

Would you have deported Henry Nowak?

I keep asking.

He won't answer.

So please ask him
Steve Laws has latched on to the murder of Henry Nowak to advance his racist agenda.

But Laws wants to deport Polish Brits.

So answer the question about Henry Nowak and his family, @Steve_Laws_ Image
@Steve_Laws_ Steve Laws is very clear:

People with Polish heritage might be white, but they're not English.

And he wants "England for the English" - i.e. England only for those deemed to have ethnic English heritage.

So answer the question @Steve_Laws_ Image
Read 7 tweets
May 1
A retweet by Zack Polanski is now the main story across every single media outlet.

Two days ago, it was revealed that Nigel Farage failed to disclose a £5 million gift from a crypto-billionaire.

It gets nowhere near the media attention, for straightforward political reasons.
I've worked in the British media for 15 years.

Aside from the fact that most newspapers have an aggressively right-wing orientation:

It's stuffed with people who regard the parameters of acceptable political views as being 'centrist to very right-wing'.
The British media are dominated by people who saw the 2017 election result as a nightmare.

That's when a left-wing Labour party won 40% of the vote, deprived the Tories of a majority, and looked on course to win.

My colleagues believed 2019 buried that nightmare for good.
Read 9 tweets
Apr 2
"We're going to bring them back to the Stone Ages where they belong."

Here's what has happened.

The West armed Israel while it exterminated Gaza and Israeli leaders bragged about their war crimes.

And that normalised a descent into barbarism.

While Israel was committing a livestreamed genocide, if you either:

1) Supported it

2) Stayed silent, apart from empty, meaningless handwringing

Then you have no right to cry over Donald Trump boasting of his war crimes.

You did this. You normalised our descent into barbarism
It should have been abundantly clear what the consequences of the West arming and supporting Israel's genocidal depravity would be.

The total destruction of even a pretence of international law, or the norms which govern warfare.

You were warned about this over and over again.
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