A really interesting update on bots behaviour. I used to be able to spot bots on twitter. I can't spot them on Mastodon and maybe this 👇 is why.
I'll bear this in mind when I see suspicious answering patterns. The last thing I want to do is amplify bots on the Palestine issue ... er, No.
"Andrew Feinstein, a former MP from South Africa's ruling African National Congress (ANC), announced on Tuesday that he will be standing as an independent candidate in Holborn and St Pancras at the UK general election against Labour leader Keir Starmer"
"Feinstein, who is of Jewish origin and a strong supporter of the Palestinian cause, made the announcement at a constituency event,"
"...the army is destroying homes, bulldozing land, and erecting structures that will enable it to operate within Gaza for years to come"
"...plan to establish a kilometer-wide “buffer zone” between populated areas in Gaza and Israel...which Palestinians would be banned from entering"
"...building outposts along the Netzarim Corridor...to control and restrict movement across Gaza and continue to carry out ground operations"
And more...
Small article but a positive one:
The Not On Our Dime! Act
"A group of New York lawmakers have reintroduced a measure that would ban New York non-profits from using tax-deductible donations to fund Israeli settlers and Israeli military units in Gaza and the West Bank"
Brilliant piece by Juan Cole on Biden/Blinken's reaction to the ICC and why everything they said is wrong
"Everything Washington officials said in response to the request for warrants was wrong. I mean, incorrect. It isn’t a matter of opinion or a difference in values. They are spewing falsehoods. It is as though they have all contracted Trumpitis and now keep compulsively telling serial lies"
"The Israeli government is responding to the ICC bid to issue arrest warrants for its leaders with a “political blitz” aimed at undermining and isolating the court"
"Israel’s foreign ministry is also considering a series of measures...these include the establishment of a situation room geared towards getting pro-Israel advocates around the world to repeat the Israeli line both diplomatically and in the media"
It doesn’t have that kind of power and even Germany came out against this effort. It is a pariah state with a universally loathed government and no one trusts it or America anymore.
"Brett McGurk, US President Joe Biden's senior Middle East adviser, held indirect negotiations earlier this month with Ali Bagheri Kani, Iran’s point man for negotiations with the West, according to three Iranian sources close to the talks"
"The talks focused on three subjects: a shared desire for a change in government in Israel; ending Israel’s war on Gaza; and preventing the conflict from spreading elsewhere in the region."
“We found that across all five states, a critical margin of voters—roughly one in five [or more]—are less likely to vote for Biden on account of his handling of the war in Gaza”
"The Uncommitted movement is still spreading, and there are even Uncommitted delegates who will be at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago in August"
"Israeli forces launched a military offensive on Jenin and its refugee camp on Tuesday morning, killing seven Palestinians...including a child on his way to school, in addition to a teacher and a doctor while heading to work."
"...Hamas affirmed that the massacre committed by the Israeli occupation forces in the city of Jenin and its camp in the occupied West Bank will not weaken the resolve of the Palestinian people"
After Al Jazeera (and Al Mayadeen before them), now Israel shuts down Associated Press. Too late though ... the cat's been out of the bag for a while now!
"Israeli officials seized a camera and broadcasting equipment belonging to The Associated Press in southern Israel on Tuesday, accusing the news organization of violating a new media law by providing images to Al Jazeera"
Before Israel, Al Jazeera was first attacked by free speech champion US
"Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government shut down Al Jazeera earlier this month [the Ramallah offices]"
“This is not the first time for Al Jazeera either, which was closed down and its offices attacked both in Iraq after the U.S. invasion and in Afghanistan. In both cases, the Bush administration...branded the Al Jazeera reporters as enemies,"
It's not just Israel that gets to commit a genocide with help from the US. "...the International People’s Tribunal on War Crimes in the Philippines found Philippine President Ferdinand Romualdez Marcos Jr., former President Rodrigo Roa Duterte, U.S. President Joe Biden, and the U.S. government guilty of war crimes and violations of international humanitarian law against the Filipino people"
5 min interview with Fiona Lally, an activist from the Revolutionary Communist Party who is coordinating multiple pro-Palestinian encampments across UK universities. She has called Suella Braverman a war criminal on GBNews :blobcheer:
Sublime.