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Socialist, antifascist, writer in various places, geriatric millennial, GQ's 9th Worst Dressed Man in 2016. He/him. YouTube channel https://t.co/KOwFSPHf2t 🏳️‍🌈
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Apr 27 13 tweets 3 min read
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. 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?
Apr 18 8 tweets 2 min read
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'
Apr 14 16 tweets 3 min read
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.
Feb 25 16 tweets 3 min read
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?
Feb 1 5 tweets 2 min read
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. Image 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. Image
Jan 30 18 tweets 6 min read
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? Image
"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…
Jan 29 5 tweets 2 min read
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. Image 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…
Jan 29 18 tweets 5 min read
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. Here are the facts.

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

Of those, 50,000 were children.
Jan 26 6 tweets 2 min read
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. 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.

Jan 15 21 tweets 4 min read
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.
Dec 26, 2024 10 tweets 4 min read
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." Image But it was previously reported - indeed nearly 9 months ago, in Israeli-Palestinian media outlet @972mag?

972mag.com/lavender-ai-is…Image
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Dec 20, 2024 4 tweets 1 min read
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. Image 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.
Nov 13, 2024 5 tweets 2 min read
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.
Nov 9, 2024 7 tweets 3 min read
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. Image
Nov 8, 2024 16 tweets 5 min read
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 👇

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Oct 21, 2024 26 tweets 8 min read
This was posted by Mohammad Magadli, journalist and Palestinian citizen of Israel.

It's a video of a girl in Gaza, maybe 7 or 8, walking barefoot with her injured sister.

“I'm tired, I have been carrying her for an hour and I can’t now”.

Brace yourself for the responses. This is Almog Cohen.

He's an elected Israeli politician in his mid-30s, a former police officer who founded a militia force in the Negev.

His tweet has been liked 1,200 times.

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Oct 14, 2024 14 tweets 4 min read
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
Aug 18, 2024 7 tweets 2 min read
Israel killed Hind Rajab, her cousins, her aunt and uncle.

They slaughtered the paramedics sent to save her.

If this one atrocity had been committed by Hamas against Israelis on 7th October, it would be seen as one of the most depraved acts that day 👇

theguardian.com/commentisfree/… This is one of thousands of atrocities committed by Israel.

While war crimes committed on 7th October are used to define the nature of Hamas, that does not apply to the never-ending litany of crimes committed by Israel.
Aug 6, 2024 53 tweets 15 min read
What we are witnessing in England is a mixture of a far-right racist riot, pogrom and terrorist insurgency.

It has been whipped up by our media and political elites for decades.

Some of those decrying this horror played their part in making it happen. As our politicians presided over crumbling public services, the trashing of secure jobs, an escalating housing crisis, and falling living standards, it was convenient for both political elites and media outlets to whip up anti-migrant hostility.
Jul 21, 2024 5 tweets 2 min read
Joe Biden has the blood of tens of thousands of Palestinians on his hand.

Israel would never have been able to raze Gaza to the ground without him.

I'm a non-believer, but if Hell exists, that man would have a first class ticket there.

A monster who belongs in jail. There will be outraged responses to this, I'm sure.

But if you're outraged, you simply do not believe Palestinians are human beings, certainly not in a meaningful sense, and that should be the scandal here.
Jul 21, 2024 6 tweets 2 min read
This repeated attempt to conflate 'Israel' and 'Jews' is a) a desperate and disturbing smear and b) implicitly antisemitic,.

Israel is a Western-backed state committing a genocide with Western arms and complicity.

Yes, I am focused on this. That is not "obsession" with "Jews". Note: I am not quoting a random person here.

This is a former BBC journalist.