Want to hear something truly depressing? Simon Schama took 24hrs to realise that the people at Liverpool Street calling for a ceasefire were chanting "ceasefire now" not "intifada". Yet he tweeted the opposite at the time.
And Rachel Riley (of Countdown fame) thought they were shouting "Jihad".
FFS #CeasefireNow#GazaGenocide
Al Jazeera (Mohammed Haddad, Mohammed Hussein and Konstantinos Antonopoulos): Know their names; The thousands of Palestinians killed in Israeli attacks on Gaza
Very impressive overview of the almost 10.000 deaths in Gaza. 😢 Just keep scrolling down for the illustrations. This is real journalism!
@Greenseer I read that this morning 🤬
He also said that "collective responsibility is measured on a gradient".
At this point, any shadow cabinet minister who hasn't resigned can just STFU with their platitudinous bullshit. #FuckLabour#Gaza#CeasefireNow
Fuck sake. After all the pearl-clutching "I had no idea it could be so bad" nonsense from the British commentariat in reaction to yesterday's Covid inquiry, today they're in full "what difference does it make if British politicians don't acknowledge and condemn war crimes and genocide" mode. #UKPolitics#BritishMedia#Gaza#CeasefireNow
FFS. Go to check the news hashtags over the other side and literally the first post I see:
"It's wrong to bomb a refugee camp. But in some cases it can be justified".
David Lammy
Can someone PLEASE take a copy of the Geneva Conventions (no. 4 in particular) and batter the entire front bench to death with them? #CeasefireNow#GazaGenocide#UKPolitics#NeverLabour#WarCrimes