If you are a member of an extreme party or an extremist government then just what counts as extreme? Guy Venables cartoon nails this idea. #GazaGenocide #Protest
“What is the point of having power," she says, "if you will not use it to stop crimes against humanity?”
Jewish Presidential appointee Lily Greenberg Call resigned in protest at its refusal to stop arming Israel. It's an astonishing letter.
Update: a few minutes after tweeting this, her X account was suspended 🤨
At least 100,000 said to protest to stop the #GazaGenocide in #London right now. This crowd looks MUCH bigger than the two previous marches that were estimated at 100,000 by the MetPol. This is organic, and it is growing with every day of #IsraeliGovernment atrocity in #Gaza.
Murdered 71 Palestinians in Gaza
Murdered 7 international food distrubution volunteers
Bombed a foreign Embassy in a third country
Passed a law banning foreign journalists from Israel
" ... platforms which take part in this kind of targeting, such as Unmanned Aerial Vehicles or fast jets, are equipped with advanced optics and sensor pods. These are capable of extremely high optical magnification."
To all the brave university students protesting the ongoing genocide in Gaza, I see you, I hear you, and I applaud your resolve. Also, please protect yourselves.
It is my duty now for the future to point out that the band DEVO formed in the early 1970s "in response to the failed promise of utopian progress peddled by post-WWII politicians and consumer culture" and amid the turmoil surrounding Vietnam war protests in the US.
The core members of DEVO were friends with two of the four students who were shot by gas-masked National Guardsman at the May 4, 1970, Vietnam war protest on the campus of Kent State University in Ohio. Three founding members of the band attended Kent State at that time.
Gerald Casale (co-founder, co-lead vocalist and bass player) said that was "the most DEVO day of his life." The theory that humankind is evolving in reverse. That was the first evidence that hit him square in the gut and the heart and the mind that this was true.
"In the next two years, I realized that the system was rotten to the core. That everything I believed was an illusion."
This evening MPs will vote on whether the UK should call for a ceasefire in Gaza and Israel. Despite the UN and humanitarian agencies saying a ceasefire is essential to save lives, Parliament is split on the issue. Will you help tip the balance by telling your MP to vote for a ceasefire?
'Gaza has been described over the last 15 years as a large open-air prison, with an air, sea and land blockade choking 2.2 million people within 365 sq km. Most young people have never left Gaza. Today, this prison is becoming the graveyard of a population trapped between war, siege and deprivation.'
I'm sure Naomi Klein's speech at the Columbia University protests, on the day of the Jewish Passover, Seder, has been posted and shared by many already here, but I wanted to do so myself. She speaks with such power, clarity, and moral authority. Amazing person
Sunak has no power to impose public order legislation on Scotland, which remains an independent judicial jurisdiction within the UK, with its own public order legislation.
Any further restrictions on freedom of expression and assembly dictated by Sunak (and supported by Starmer) will apply exclusively to England and Wales.
Ireland's getting it right.
"UNRWA said yesterday that more children have been killed in Gaza since 7th October than have been killed in all conflicts globally since 2019."
Extract from official statement by Micheál Martin 👇 #CeasefireNow#GazaGenocide
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Guardian: "UN chief says Gaza is becoming a 'graveyard for children'"
"I’m deeply concerned about the clear violations of international humanitarian law that we are witnessing. Let me be clear, no party to an armed conflict is above international humanitarian law." #CeasefireNow#GazaGenocide#StopArmingIsrael
Fears Israel is influencing location of dock away from the north, where famine threat is most severe. A giant floating dock is nearing completion in the eastern Mediterranean from where it will be pushed towards the Gaza shore, but there is growing uncertainty over how useful the US project will be in containing a famine....
Israeli Ambassador to the UK on Sky last night: "Just imagine how things would have looked ... this huge missile, think about it falling in the middle of a city like Jerusalem ... look how populated it is. Just think about it hitting neighbourhoods and people and children"
Now imagine hundreds of 2,000lb bombs and innumerable missiles and rockets day and night for six months.
Unfuckingbelieveable.
Israel has taken significant steps in recent weeks on allowing aid into Gaza, the U.S. special envoy for humanitarian issues said on Tuesday, but considerable work remained to be done as the risk of famine in the enclave is very high....
Woman sacked from radio station for telling truth about Israel
Critics of Israel cannot be allowed to have jobs
LBC has made the courageous decision to sack a radio presenter after she forgot know her place and dared challenge an Israeli spokesperson during an interview.
Catherine Russell, the head of UNICEF, said this week that of the 600,000 children in Rafah, southern Gaza, all of them are either injured, or sick, or malnourished. Much of the Gaza population has been forced south to Rafah by the Israeli military, which had promised them it was a safe zone. She added, “Over 200 days of war have already killed and maimed tens of thousands of children in Gaza.” #Gaza#GazaGenocide#Israel#IsraeliWarCrimes#War#Middleeast
Wie immer sehr empfehlenswert: Erica Zingers Kolumne auf @tazgetroete - diesmal über die antisemitischen Demonstrationen an der Columbia University. Tröstet ein bisserl hinweg, über das, was man in der taz sonst zum Thema manchmal lesen muss…
Israelis need to understand, they have used up their "international credit of sympathy and goodwill" after 6 months of committing genocide and well-documented warcrimes in Gaza, and also, to a lesser degree, in the West Bank.
‘It’s death there’: babies and children hit hardest as famine tightens hold on Gaza (www.theguardian.com)
Estimated 27 children killed by famine, with fears many more will suffer lifelong effects, despite Israel’s promise of more aid
‘Smokescreen’: officials voice concern over US plans for Gaza aid pier (www.theguardian.com)
Fears Israel is influencing location of dock away from the north, where famine threat is most severe. A giant floating dock is nearing completion in the eastern Mediterranean from where it will be pushed towards the Gaza shore, but there is growing uncertainty over how useful the US project will be in containing a famine....
Famine risk in Gaza very high, especially in north, US official says (www.reuters.com)
Israel has taken significant steps in recent weeks on allowing aid into Gaza, the U.S. special envoy for humanitarian issues said on Tuesday, but considerable work remained to be done as the risk of famine in the enclave is very high....