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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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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

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I’ve not seen any video but would condemn such, if so. Only mentions of a small amount of people apparently wanting to poison various protests or stage other interactions (see London protest).

What is clear from reporting, is that fear from donors/lobbying and GOP, not protesters, drives this clampdown on protest.

President Shafik should step down.

— ‘Fetterman likened the situation on campus for Jewish students to the 2017 Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville.‘

https://www.politico.com/news/2024/04/22/house-senate-members-call-on-columbia-university-president-to-resign-00153656

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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

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Politicians say antiwar protesters support terrorism and antisemitism?

— “being uncomfortable is different than being unsafe,” said one Jewish student on the call, …

“Months ago, I was sprayed with a noxious chemical on this campus. Multiple of my friends were hospitalised for the attack. I was bed-ridden for a couple days. I felt extremely unsafe on my own campus. I feel unsafe when Columbia professors like Shai Davidai tell me I’ll be on the last train to Auschwitz.”

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/apr/23/university-protests-arrests-yale-nyu-columbia

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— “We as American Jews will not be used, we will not be complicit and we will not be silent. Judaism is a beautiful, thousands-year-old tradition, and Israel is a 76-year-old colonial apartheid state, … This is the Passover that we take our exodus from Zionism … Let Gaza live.”
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[Naomi Klein said] “Our Judaism cannot be protected by the rampaging military of that ethno-state, for all that military does is sow sorrow and reap hatred, including hatred against us as Jews.”

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/apr/24/not-like-other-passovers-hundreds-of-jewish-demonstrators-arrested-after-new-york-protest-seder

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The exodus from Zionism. Naomi Klein’s Seder speech.

— “We want freedom from the project that commits genocide in our name. Freedom from an ideology that has no plan for peace other than deals with murderous theocratic petrostates next door, while selling the technologies of robo-assassinations to the world.

We seek to liberate Judaism from an ethnostate that wants Jews to be perennially afraid, … or at least keep the weapons and donations flowing.”

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/apr/24/zionism-seder-protest-new-york-gaza-israel

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That’s support of terrorism, and surely counter to anything these protests aim to achieve. Similar has happened in the UK, and those individuals should be dealt with according to law.

But politicians want to use such to tar the entire movement as antisemitic hate. A movement that has had Seders, etc. forcibly broken up by police. 🤷🏻‍♂️

— ‘At demonstrations aflutter with Palestinian flags, chants may be heard calling for repeat performances of the atrocities of 7 October.’

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/apr/25/pro-palestine-israel-language-conflict

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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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They should have “urged” Israel to stop its assassinations and attacks on foreign civilian and diplomatic buildings. They probably did. 🤷🏼‍♂️

How could Iran not respond? Israel bullies its neighbours expecting US defense. If it wants that defense, it should be contingent on not drawing “allies” into a war against our wishes.

— ‘Washington would urge Israel to moderate its own response, to prevent tit-for-tat escalation spiralling out of control, drawing in other countries’

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/apr/13/israel-under-fire-as-iran-launches-extensive-drone-strikes

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— Sahar Fetrat … at Human Rights Watch, said: “Two years ago, they didn’t have the courage they have today to vow stoning women to death in public; now they do.

They tested their draconian policies one by one, and have reached this point because there is no one to hold them accountable for the abuses. Through the bodies of Afghan women, the Taliban demand and command moral and societal orders. We should all be warned that if not stopped, more and more will come.”

https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2024/mar/28/taliban-edict-to-resume-stoning-women-to-death-met-with-horror

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Cameron previously implied, by his (eventual) response that the UK could not conclude Israel is complying with IHL, that they are presumably not asking (or disclosing) the more appropriate, and opposite, question.

The question they have clearly avoided examining officially, since the answer is so. fucking. obvious.

— “… the intent of individual Israeli commanders is not the legal test, … If a state fails to distinguish military and civilian objects … it’s immaterial …”

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/mar/22/david-cameron-urged-publish-foreign-office-legal-advice-israel-war-gaza

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— ‘Minna Daum … does not walk with the “Jewish bloc” on the march, she … prefers to walk under her own flag – today it’s a Palestinian one; previously it has read: “Elderly Jews against genocide.” If most of her outrage is directed at the bombing of civilians in Gaza, a little is reserved for those voices that would reduce the idea of London to a place of intolerance rather than tolerance. “I think you only have to be here, to see that this is not about that at all.”’

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/mar/09/im-jewish-and-feel-totally-safe-marching-for-gaza-london-protesters-defy-sunaks-extremist-slur

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— ‘What’s more, nearly 3,000 British Jews (including the CEOs of both Liberal and Reform Judaism – and 60 UK rabbis) have now signed a statement of principles stating that “Israel must take care to protect innocent civilians”; that it can “never be acceptable … to deny civilians their basic human needs”; and that the laws of war “place clear limits on what harm can be done to civilians”.

… the UK government must now call for an immediate ceasefire.’

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/feb/27/as-british-jews-we-call-for-an-immediate-ceasefire-in-gaza

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— “Vital inspections” into asylum accommodation including the Bibby Stockholm barge and the RAF Wethersfield site, as well as a report into the handling of modern slavery and human trafficking claims, cannot be submitted without an inspector, they said.

“Effectively disabling independent scrutiny of a highly controversial policy area constitutes yet another step towards the erosion of government accountability, …”

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/feb/27/sacked-uk-borders-inspector-tells-mps-removed-doing-job-david-neal

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The political purity test in Germany – a country and culture I was quite taken with on work stays – to properly acknowledge their genocidal history, seems to be the unquestioningly slavish support and defense of Israel, while they conduct their own. 🤷🏻‍♂️

— ‘it is proving especially explosive in Germany’s culture sector, where a strong pro-Israel consensus across the main political parties and media publishers is rubbing up against a more politically heterogenous crowd’

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/feb/27/german-minister-says-she-was-only-applauding-israeli-filmmaker-at-berlinale

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— “If this is Germany’s way of dealing with its guilt over the Holocaust, they are emptying it of all meaning.”
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“You can criticise our acceptance speech, … But Germany is weaponising a term that was designed to protect Jews, not only to silence Palestinians but also to silence Jews and Israelis who are critical of the occupation and use the word apartheid. This is also dangerous because it devalues the term antisemitism.”

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2024/feb/27/israeli-director-receives-death-threats-after-officials-call-berlinale-antisemitic

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— Isaac said an immediate ceasefire was “a moral obligation. This is not a time for neutrality or soft diplomacy. Gaza should be your moral compass.”
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“If it has not become clear to the world that this is a war of vengeance aimed at destroying the possibility of life in Gaza … I am not sure what more proof people need. The destruction of schools, universities, hospitals … The Israeli soldiers brag and joke about it. How is the killing of 12,000 children a war on Hamas?”

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/feb/21/pastor-says-welby-would-not-meet-him-if-he-spoke-at-palestine-rally-with-corbyn

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— ‘Britain is seen as more corrupt than Uruguay and Hong Kong.

The lower ranking coincides with concerns about possible corruption in the awarding of PPE contracts … The UK was ranked at between the eighth and 11th most transparent country in the world between 2012 and 2021. However, it fell to 18th in 2022, and then joint-20th in 2023.
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The UK has experienced the biggest five-year decline of any western European country, according to the research.’

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/jan/30/uk-perceived-as-more-corrupt-lowest-score-global-index-transparency-international

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A great article on Israel’s implausible defense presented to the , the effectiveness of which we should see tomorrow.

— ‘Should the court take Israel’s side and dismiss South Africa’s claims, Israel will point to that as evidence of the justness of its cause. If the judges approve South Africa’s request for an order to halt Israel’s military attacks, the question will be called on whether Israel and its sponsors in Washington, D.C., will respect international law.’

https://theintercept.com/2024/01/12/icj-israel-genocide/

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Fossil fuels are more likely to be sold off overseas, while renewables are more likely to be used at home – can’t imagine why Tories are only interested in digging fuel up… 🤔

— ‘just one 1.3 gigawatt windfarm would generate more than enough electricity to offset the gas that would be lost if no new licences were awarded under the bill.

“Sunak … is obsessing over oil and gas but dithering on renewables and insulation which will boost UK energy security and lower bills”’

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/jan/21/rishi-sunak-facing-renewed-pressure-over-plans-to-max-out-north-sea-oil

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(Great questioning by Kearns, earlier today, also.)

— ‘Kearns said: “This bill is flawed in four key areas: it breaks with our foreign policy; undermines freedom of speech; goes against international law; and promotes an odd exceptionalism in UK primary legislation.

“We rely on the rules-based system to protect ourselves and to protect our allies and yet we are at risk of breaching UN security council resolution 2334, a resolution the UK was instrumental in drafting.”’

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2024/jan/10/senior-tory-alicia-kearns-scathing-attack-bill-banning-public-bodies-boycotting-israel

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— “The government has said this bill is about protecting energy security. But the reality is, the oil and gas extracted from the north sea is owned by private companies – the government doesn’t get to control who they sell to. And the price of oil and gas is set internationally so it won’t actually lower domestic energy bills either.”

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2024/jan/08/alok-sharma-i-wont-back-uk-government-oil-and-gas-bill

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— ‘Then Hamas struck, and what followed were the actions of an Israeli government that is not behaving like a stabilising force in the region, but an aggravating one. As long as the US and other western allies fail to confront that fact, out of inertia or fear of domestic blowback, everyone, including Israel, will pay a high price for a war that has long gone past justifiable self-defence, and could soon become a global threat.’

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/jan/08/israel-gaza-middle-east-escalation

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A population concentrated into camps.

— ‘The vote came as Israel expanded its ground offensive, ordering new evacuations in Bureij, an urban refugee camp in the west of the strip, and announcing plans to send more ground troops to fight in southern Khan Younis.

Both areas had previously been declared safe for civilians fleeing from the north. Those Palestinians who have survived weeks of intense aerial bombardment are being forced into ever-smaller pockets of Gaza.’

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/dec/22/un-security-council-backs-resolution-on-large-scale-aid-to-gaza-but-not-ceasefire

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Hospitals, journalists, aid workers, medics and ambulance crews… it’s clear Israel targets anyone aiding civilians, getting in the way of genocide, or trying to document their actions.

— ‘troops stormed the Palestinian Red Crescent’s ambulance centre in the Jabalia refugee camp, taking away paramedics and ambulance crews, the group said. Some of the paramedics, including women, were released on Friday but eight remained in detention with their whereabouts not known.’

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/dec/22/israel-widens-ground-offensive-gaza-un-aid-resolution-talks-continue

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