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How can the UK be a liberal ‘democracy’, when the govt seeks to remove people’s rights and is mostly unaccountable? When it represents the few, over the needs and interests of the many.

⚠️ Warning: often uses too many commas, and is fond of semicolons; I’m working on the former.

“𝘐𝘵’𝘴 𝘯𝘰𝘵 𝘲𝘶𝘪𝘵𝘦 𝘢 𝘭𝘪𝘦, 𝘣𝘶𝘵 𝘪𝘵 𝘥𝘰𝘦𝘴 𝘢 𝘭𝘪𝘦’𝘴 𝘸𝘰𝘳𝘬 𝘢𝘯𝘺𝘸𝘢𝘺” – 𝘈𝘥𝘳𝘪𝘢𝘯 𝘛𝘤𝘩𝘢𝘪𝘬𝘰𝘷𝘴𝘬𝘺 (𝘊𝘩𝘪𝘭𝘥𝘳𝘦𝘯 𝘰𝘧 𝘔𝘦𝘮𝘰𝘳𝘺)

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— ‘Dozens of UN experts described the situation as “a genocide in the making”, hundreds of international scholars have warned of an unfolding genocide and prominent Israeli genocide expert Raz Segal has called it “a textbook case of genocide”. But most of the world … is looking the other way.
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The horrific murders of Israeli civilians by Hamas cannot in any way legitimise Israel’s ongoing war crimes. Genocide is not self-defence, nor is it … a proportionate response.’

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/dec/05/gaza-climate-justice-human-rights-greta-thunberg

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People need to stop making the assumption that the UK is a responsible first world country. It isn’t.

— ‘Jacob Birtwhistle, 28, an Australian triathlete, posted the Environment Agency’s results [and] wrote: “Have been feeling pretty rubbish since the race, but I guess that’s what happens when you swim in shit. The swim should have been cancelled.”

… Another wrote: “That now explains why I spent Monday night with my head in the toilet after racing Sunday morning!”’

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/aug/05/investigation-after-57-world-triathlon-championship-swimmers-fall-sick-and-get-diarrhoea-in-sunderland-race

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This term Netanyahu and his apologists are pushing now, ‘the new antisemitism’, seems to mean that which is not antisemitic but is critical of Israel’s actions; especially that which demands accountability.

— ‘Netanyahu said … “This is exactly what the new antisemitism looks like. It has moved from the campuses of the West to the court in The Hague."
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Smotrich … said the decision was "a display of hypocrisy and Jew-hatred" that "we haven't seen since Nazi propaganda."’

https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2024-05-20/ty-article/.premium/netanyahu-new-antisemitism-has-moved-from-campuses-of-the-west-to-court-in-the-hague/0000018f-96c3-da35-a3af-d7eb474a0000

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— “My dad was someone with really strong principles, and someone who cared about others,” Jo says now. “I just found it really, really galling to lose him in a way that felt so preventable, and like his life had been treated really carelessly and almost flippantly as if it hadn’t been valued. I found it very difficult to properly grieve who my dad was, because I just didn’t feel like he should have died. My initial feeling was anger, and I think it did quite energise me”

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/jul/21/covid-inquiry-politicians-matt-hancock-george-osborne

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— ‘The political damage that resulting worldwide revulsion is inflicting on Israel’s main ally, US president Joe Biden, and on the western-led international rules-based order may also prove irreparable.
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It’s plain Biden is out of step with US and global opinion. A new poll suggests 68% of Americans want a ceasefire, while nearly 40% think Biden should act as a “neutral mediator” rather than Israel’s defender-in-chief.

Democratic voters are particularly unimpressed.’

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/nov/18/netanyahu-liability-joe-biden-peace-impossible-israel-gaza

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— ‘its far-right successors [have] created a culture of permanent war that is supremacist and authoritarian towards Palestinians. A culture mirrored by Hamas.
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There is no military solution to this conflict. But 7 million Jews and 7 million Palestinians are not going to go away. They need leaders who will work for peace, and bring Palestinians and Israelis together. There can be no role for those who want perpetual war.’

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/nov/20/leftwing-jew-show-support-israelis-and-palestinians

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Dealing with antisemitism is a worthy goal, but hunting through likes – which are easily done by mistake, and don’t show up in a timeline like a retweet (so won’t be noticed to have a chance at correction) – shows another motivation at work.

I wish for PR and Labour to split into two parties. One of which I could vote for.

— ‘a dossier of posts that she had liked on X, some dating back to 2014. The most recent had prompted a complaint from the Jewish Labour Movement.’

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/article/2024/may/30/blocked-labour-candidate-faiza-shaheen-to-challenge-deselection

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I’m no fan of Iran, but this is a blatant reversal of the facts to use as cover for Israel.

The State of Israel has been assassinating (murdering) foreign officials, military, and bystanders in civilian and diplomatic buildings of Iran and/within Syria and Lebanon.

Iran targeted military sites and killed no one.

— ‘Cameron replied: “… this week, people can see that the truly malign actor in this region is Iran, a country that has launched a state-on-state attack.”’

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2024/apr/15/nick-robinson-israel-gaza-interview-bbc-david-cameron

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So long as Israel doesn’t cross Biden’s impossible-to-cross red lines (because they self adjust) anything else seems to be just fine.

Atrocities such as that on Sunday, or Israel’s ongoing stoppage of aid crossing the border, should not be dismissed because they’re not a “full ground assault“.

– ‘“When they briefed us on their plans for Rafah it did include moving along that corridor and out of the city proper to put pressure on Hamas in the city” Kirby told reporters’

https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/may/30/israel-idf-philadelphi-corridor-rafah-gaza-control-palestine-war-hamas

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Caulfield seems to sincerely believe the conspiracy theory, but refuses to acknowledge that; or that she’s wrong.

These are the people Sunak thinks will save us in his fearful future – I’m terrified.

— ‘there is no suggestion of charging people for driving further away … nor has there ever been, the council’s leader, Zoe Nicholson, said.
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Caulfield told the BBC: “That is the policy, though … that is the model of 15-minute cities … which is what that theory is about.”

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/article/2024/may/13/uk-minister-maria-caulfield-faces-calls-to-refer-herself-to-ethics-adviser-over-false-15-minute-city-claims

jmeosbn,
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@Wen @KathyJones

I think this is worse.

Others have cynically used this idea as cover to get rid of transport policies they don’t like.

She seems to have bought into it beyond reason. What else does she read online that she zealously takes as fact and has influenced her work in govt.

She’s the health minister ffs. 🤦🏻‍♂️

jmeosbn, to random
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Unfortunately, Netanyahu seems to be counting on drawing things out until a lawless Trump can come to power.

Why else would reports suggest the war continuing past Jan 2025?

— ‘If Israel decides to ignore the order – a near certainty – it will be declaring itself a pariah state …

We must hope … that this time the United States will draw the line on its willingness to defy the entire world, and international law, for the sake of its wayward protégé state.‘

https://archive.ph/newest/www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2024-05-26/ty-article-opinion/.premium/obeying-icj-order-is-israels-last-opportunity-to-save-itself-from-becoming-a-pariah-state/0000018f-b0d0-d8a2-a3cf-b4d34eb40000

jmeosbn, to random
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The university should reflect upon why they might be requiring this and the ethics of whatever that reason is and what seems a lot like an attempt at either brainwashing, a forced confession, or both.

— ‘What students can’t include in this paper is anything that justifies their actions …

The paper assumes from the start, in other words, that what the students did – protest against what the United Nations human rights council has termed a genocide – is morally wrong.’

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/may/22/new-york-university-student-protesters

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Some positions of authority just shouldn’t be elected.

It may be arguable at the govt level, but education being censored locally by any posing know-nothing extremist who can game a primary?! 😳

— “a concerning trend where far-right Republican candidates are replacing moderate Republicans on school boards, not because citizens believe they are better suited for the job, but because rightwing billionaires and Pacs are starting to pour money into these local elections”

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/may/19/us-public-schools-texas-book-bans

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This latter scenario has been foreshadowed for some time.

— ‘The lesser risk is that voters – many of whom dislike the Tories more than they like Labour – change their minds during the campaign. The greater risk is that Labour wins an Attlee-style landslide but then doesn’t know what to do with it … that they lock the economy into a new era of austerity that makes absolutely zero economic sense and for which there is absolutely zero political appetite.’

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/may/30/labour-1945-tories-fiscal-rules-election

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It’s not just pro-Trump, it’s denying the election was valid because their messiah did not win.

The flag was up for ”several” days – if you accept he was ignorant of its meaning(!) it’s a sign of either extreme distress or disrespect.

— ‘we now have [two] conservative justices whose spouses have engaged in apparent pro-Trump political activity.
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Gillers … did not believe Alito knew the upside-down flag was flying, or that it was a coded message for “stop the steal”.’

https://www.theguardian.com/law/article/2024/may/18/samuel-alito-flag-supreme-court-ethics-election

jmeosbn,
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— ‘But asking why Alito feels he can get away with it misses the point: he knows he can get away with it … Alito knows that he does not need to maintain any pretext of integrity, intellectual commitment or seriousness in his work. The … justices have done a sufficiently good job of insulating themselves from any accountability or consequence … He’s comfortable being a partisan operative right out in the open.

And why shouldn’t he? He’s not even the worst offender.‘

jmeosbn,
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— ‘The flag, then, is just the latest reminder of a disturbing reality: that as the Republican party further radicalizes against democracy, the supreme court – the body which is tasked with checking these unconstitutional impulses – has become their ally. The rule of law cannot be relied on to stem the tide of rising authoritarianism, because our legal institutions have been captured by the authoritarians.’

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/may/20/supreme-court-alito-flag

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— ‘The conversation began with the words, ‘We understand you know about the prosecutor.’”

Megiddo said it was “explained that if I published the story I would suffer the consequences and get to know the interrogation rooms of the Israeli security authorities from the inside”.

“In the end, it was made clear to me that even sharing the information ‘with my friends abroad’, referring to foreign media outlets, would lead to the same results.”’

https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/may/30/journalist-threatened-over-reporting-on-spy-chief-and-icc-israeli-newspaper-says

jmeosbn,
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Haaretz had part of the story on Israel’s ‘war’ on the ICC two years ago, but the journalist was threatened by security services. Now they’ve published another, redactions included.

(or not)

— ‘Amid growing concern over Israel’s censorship regime, enforced by the military censor’s office and by gag orders issued by the courts, Haaretz published an article on Wednesday with blacked out words and sentences to demonstrate the scale of redactions.’

https://archive.ph/20240530093145/https://www.haaretz.com/opinion/2024-05-29/ty-article-opinion/.premium/reason-for-detention/0000018f-c0d3-dade-adef-ecfb884f0000

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It would be an outrage if Israel’s “assurances” are treated as credible, and their obstruction of supplies and various glaring atrocities are ignored.

But if they are “cleared”, and only then attack Rafah, Biden will be humiliated.

— ‘the state department is also due Wednesday to deliver a formal assessment to Congress … assessing whether the IDF are conducting its campaign in accordance with humanitarian law – in other words, whether the IDF is committing war crimes.’

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/may/07/biden-israel-palestine-policy

jmeosbn,
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— ‘Israeli forces have carried out at least eight strikes on humanitarian convoys and their facilities in Gaza since October, even after aid organisations provided their coordinates to the Israeli authorities …

Belkis Wille, a director at HRW, said: “… Israel is blocking access to critical life-saving humanitarian provisions, and … attacking convoys that are delivering some of the small amount that they are allowing in … there should be accountability for these crimes”’

https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/may/14/israel-strikes-aid-groups-gaza-october-human-rights-watch

jmeosbn,
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The US confirms its complicity in Israeli war crimes.

— ‘Van Hollen … called it “contradictory”, pointing out that it found evidence of violations while it accepted Israeli assurances of compliance to be “credible and reliable”
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“While the administration reaches this general conclusion, it fails to do the hard work of making an assessment and ducks the ultimate questions that the report was designed to determine with respect to compliance with international law.”’

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/may/10/us-weapons-israel-human-rights-law

jmeosbn,
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They already have supplied the weapons – Israel hasn’t run out of US bombs – they already have triggered a humanitarian disaster – is he not watching the fucking news?! – and they already have “gone into Rafah”, closing the border and purposefully making that situation worse.

— ‘The US president … made clear his administration would not provide the weapons for an offensive on Rafah, which the US, the UN and other aid agencies warn would trigger a humanitarian disaster.’

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/may/08/biden-israel-weapons-shipment-rafah-invasion

jmeosbn, to random
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Governments and businesses suspend democracy when their own private interests differ.

— ‘“It didn’t seem like any kind of measures were taken to de-escalate,” Khawaja said. “It also just seems completely unnecessary. This was by all accounts, a non-violent protest … camping out on the lawn … It’s not any different from everyday life on campus.”

As Columbia announced it would be holding classes remotely, students on campuses across the US launched their own protests.’

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/apr/22/columbia-university-protests-shutdown

jmeosbn,
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— ‘Protesting this slaughter is not expressing antisemitism. It is not engaging in hate speech. It is not endangering Jewish students. It is doing what should be done on a college campus – taking a stand against a perceived wrong, thereby provoking discussion …

If Columbia or any other university now roiled by student protests were doing what it should be doing, it would be a hotbed of debate about the war. Disagreement would be welcome; demonstrations accepted …’

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/apr/23/israel-gaza-campus-protests

jmeosbn,
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— ‘An analysis [found] fewer than 20 demonstrations with any serious interpersonal violence or property damage [and] at least 70 instances of forceful police intervention …

Nearly half … categorized as violent involved protesters fighting with law enforcement during a police intervention, …

Acled … found two instances of property damage serious enough [such as broken windows and furniture] to disqualify the demonstration as peaceful [at Portland State and Columbia] …’

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/may/10/peaceful-pro-palestinian-campus-protests

jmeosbn,
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— this protest ‘is centered on one thing: moral outrage at the slaughter of tens of thousands of innocent people – most of them women and children.

To interpret these protests as anything else – as antisemitic or anti-Zionist or anti-American or pro-Palestinian – is to miss the essence of what’s going on and why.

Most of the students and faculty I’ve spoken with found Hamas’s attack on October 7 odious. They also find Israel’s current government morally bankrupt …’

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/may/05/police-crackdowns-war-protesters

jmeosbn,
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Ignoring the support of Jewish students for Palestinians and the harassment they’ve received for not being unconditionally supportive of Israel – implying obligatory allegiance – is in itself antisemitic.

These students haven’t forgotten anything – they are the ones protesting a genocide today.

— ‘The narrative that the Gaza solidarity encampments are inherently antisemitic is part of a decades-long effort to blur the lines between criticism of Israel and antisemitism’

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/may/07/biden-israel-commitment-pro-palestine-protests

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