Because British political journalists and columnists

a) are politically hostile to the left

b) don’t see the left as legitimate political actors

c) think “legitimate concerns” includes backlash at migrants, but not economic injustice

d) don’t understand the left

https://twitter.com/scarlett__mag/status/1983114631863513305

Political journalism isn’t about allowing voters to make informed decisions, thus enhancing democracy.

It’s about setting and policing the parameters of political debate - determining everything from what’s considered extreme, to what’s considered scandalous.

55.6% of Jewish Israelis say they are "not at all troubled" by the "reports of famine and suffering among the Palestinian population in Gaza".

Another 23.4% are "not so troubled".

Only 13.5% say "somewhat troubled".

Just 6.7% say "very troubled".

This is genocidal mania.

https://twitter.com/AdHaque110/status/1952815668384153738

Genocidal mania has three components:

1) Ethnic chauvinism

2) Victimhood

3) Impunity

Mix those three factors together and you will have catastrophic consequences, as we can all see.

I've got ADHD, Joanne.

It comes with the territory.

Now we've cleared that up:

What's the explanation for The World's Number One Women's Rights Defender™ saying zero, zilch, nada about the impact of Israel's genocide on Palestinian women?

Here's a thread on what JK won't say

https://twitter.com/jk_rowling/status/1941753554785517778

70% of Palestinians killed by Israel are women and children.

@jk_rowling says nothing.

Cindy McCain says there's no evidence that Hamas is stealing aid.

But what does she know.

She's only the director of the World Food Programme, and widow of the hawkishly pro-Israel Republican Senator John McCain.

https://twitter.com/MrTCHarris/status/1939747967478485035

Then there's David Satterfield, the diplomat who served Bush, Obama, Trump and Biden, former US Ambassador, former Special Envoy for Humanitarian Issues.

He says Israel has never offered privately alleged or offered evidence of Hamas stealing aid.

This depraved psycho publicly declared that hundreds of thousands of Palestinian children can just go to hell.

This morally warped man called for the death of hundreds of thousands of kids - which is what his statement means in practise - and thinks he has a moral high ground.

https://twitter.com/DPJHodges/status/1939265051174842427

He publicly supports the mass murder of innocent civilians.

Yet instead of disappearing into a hole somewhere forever, @DPJHodges has faced no consequences for his support for genocide and feels able to adjudicate on morality.

Fucked up doesn't begin to cover it.

Israeli officers and soldiers have revealed they’ve been ordered to deliberately shoot at unarmed Palestinians trying to get aid.

That’s in Israeli newspaper Haaretz.

Israel is deliberately massacring civilians it’s deliberately starving.

There are few crimes more depraved. It’s easy to feel like you’re going mad watching a live streamed genocide for a very obvious reason.

You can see overwhelming evidence that the most depraved crimes are being committed every day, yet you’re treated as a hateful extremist if you say so.

Trans women legally obliged to use men's toilets, trans men legally obliged to use women's toilets.

Trans people are not going to do this. Every visit to the toilet would be humiliating, at worse dangerous.

In practise, it means trans people not using public toilets.

https://twitter.com/LGBwiththeT/status/1915875240241946927

What happens to your life if the very act of using a public toilet becomes a source of fear or panic?

Well, it largely means you don't leave your home unless you really have to. You don't go to pubs or bars or cinemas or theatres. Do you even go shopping?

Israel's lies about the massacre of the Red Crescent medics are comprehensively taken apart by Sky News.

Israel's initial lies, and subsequent lies, are taken apart.

This is important journalism.

But it isn't good enough. Here's why.

news.sky.com/story/two-hour… Since the genocide began, Western media outlets have sporadically taken apart Israel's lies about atrocities it has perpetrated.

For example:

- The Flour Massacre

- The November 2023 attack on al-Shifa hospital

- The use of 2,000lb bombs in so-called 'safe areas'

Opposition to Israel’s genocide is a position shared by millions of people.

And yet there are some on this website who want to make it a fringe position, by imposing a purity test which would exclude the vast majority who oppose the genocide. Even if you oppose the genocide, even if you support a total arms embargo and sweeping sanctions on Israel, the arrest of the entire military and political leadership, the creation of a single state with equal rights for all:

Even then, they will say you’re not pure enough.

We are getting to the point where we are increasingly normalising the idea that direct war with Russia is inevitable.

This will significantly increase the chance of nuclear apocalypse, in which the lucky ones will die in the initial blast.

It is OK to resist this. There is no question that Vladimir Putin is a very unpleasant irredentist autocrat.

My question here is, leaving aside existing Western horrors inflicted on the world, if Donald Trump achieves his goal of annexing, say, Gaza and Greenland, are we going to war with the US?

Keir Starmer's aides openly brief that he is not actually running the country.

He's just the frontman for Labour's most right-wing faction, a bunch of unpleasant political gangsters who don't believe in much, apart from hating the left. Fascinating how Keir Starmer's leadership campaign lying to and conning the Labour membership can be treated as just a throwaway line.

Rather than a scandalous act of deception, which drenched Starmer's political project in dishonesty from the start.

The public parading of detainees is indeed unacceptable.

If you're going to damn all Palestinian society for it, where does that leave Israel, which stripped little children to their underwear and paraded them in front of cameras?

https://twitter.com/faniaoz/status/1884920633340862527

"Human bestiality", says @faniaoz.

Let's talk about human bestiality.

Like an Israeli army which deliberately shoots children in the head and chest, as dozens of US-based medics testified.

nytimes.com/interactive/20…

Curious about who this man is?

He once posted the X-ray of a Palestinian child who had been shot in the head by the Israeli army - and turned it into a joke.

https://twitter.com/Mr_Andrew_Fox/status/1884300454617923885

This disgusting little man then tried to claim this X-ray was a hoax, along with the testimonies of dozens of US-based medics who had served in Gaza.

nytimes.com/interactive/20…

My latest piece on Palestinian hostages has driven pro-Israel extremists into howling outrage.

None of them have tried to rebut the facts.

There's a simple reason for this: they don't have a factual rebuttal.

https://twitter.com/owenjonesjourno/status/1884240355593470415

Here are the facts.

Between 1967 and 2021, Israel locked up an estimated one million Palestinians.

Of those, 50,000 were children.

Donald Trump wants to empty Gaza of its Palestinian population.

This is ethnic cleansing.

It's not subtle. It's not even slightly disguised.

It's loud and proud support for an obscene war crime.

https://twitter.com/W7VOA/status/1883330187300950376

That Israel's plan all along was to annihilate Gaza, so that its people were either killed or driven out, was obvious from the start.

I recorded this video in November 2023. The evidence was always there, from the very start, in plain sight.

https://x.com/owenjonesjourno/status/1719792492252483730

A ceasefire gives the surviving Palestinians of Gaza a chance to live.

Here’s what must remain forever buried in the apocalyptic rubble of Gaza.

The reputations of the Democratic leadership. They’re left naked, exposed, as the willing architects of genocide. In 466 days of genocidal mayhem, the Democrats posed as troubled bystanders as they armed Israel to the teeth to wipe Gaza from the earth and butcher its people.

All that cynical handwringing had one purpose - to disguise the truth: they could have stopped this at any moment.

This is absurd.

The @nytimes published a piece about Israel's bombing campaign in Gaza.

They refer to an Israeli order allowing the killing of up to 20 civilians, including if the target was a "lowest-ranking fighter".

They claim the order "has not previously been reported." But it was previously reported - indeed nearly 9 months ago, in Israeli-Palestinian media outlet @972mag?

972mag.com/lavender-ai-is…

In BBC coverage, mentions of Israeli and Palestinians deaths competed for space since 7th October.

That's despite far more Palestinian deaths.

There's one exception - a huge spike in the mentions of Palestinian deaths in early April.

The reason for this should disturb you. On 1st April 2024, Israel bombed a World Central Kitchen aid convoy.

That killed multiple Western aid workers. So the BBC took a heightened interest in their deaths.

But their driver was Palestinian. So after mentioning their nationalities, they'd mention his.

Here's the thing.

Whenever you get smeared with a false claim of antisemitism - I dunno, you object to Israeli hooligans beating people up, or Israeli soldiers shooting kids in the head - click on their profile.

You will almost always come across a sewer of racism. On the one hand, there are the right-wing extremists who openly incite racist bile against Arabs and Muslims.

Then there are the 'liberals' who don't even pretend to treat Palestinian or Muslim life as having worth, or treat anti-Arab racism as having meaning.

All are racists.

This is a massive media scandal.

@SkyNews posted a video accurately describing what happened in Amsterdam.

It described violence perpetrated by Israeli football hooligans, and their hideous racism.

They then deleted it. This is the original.

They then posted a re-edit.

Except it's not a re-edit. It's a totally different video, which now qualifies as disinformation.

@SkyNews then posted a tweet saying their previous video didn't meet their standards for balance and impartiality.

That was deleted too.

Imagine Russian football fans in a foreign city:

- Interrupted a minute’s silence in memory of dead flood victims with chants in support of killing Ukrainian children

- Rampaged through the city

- Ripped down Ukrainian flags

- Chanted “death to Ukrainians”

- Attacked local residents

Imagine then, when local residents attacked them, they were presented as victims of a racist pogrom. Mainstream media outlets and politicians are simply lying about Amsterdam.

This gaslighting is just insane.

We can see for ourselves what racist, genocidal Israeli football hooligans chanted and did 👇