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Palestine Action co-founder Huda Ammori said the group was banned as a terrorist organisation mainly because it was trying to save lives in Palestine as she continues her legal challenge against the proscription.
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My 2 'Great Uncles' (Potts) were never recovered from 'no-mans land' back in 1916
Nan still deeply grieved their loss all Her life
How many thousands of Palestinian bodies lie 'Lost' beneath the ruins of Gaza?
How many grieve for them?
'War' is one thing, 'slaughter' another
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❗️Iran condemns Saudi airstrikes on Yemen as war crimes, calls for immediate end to attacks and blockade
Iran's Foreign Ministry condemned Saudi Arabia's continued attacks on Yemen as violations of its sovereignty and territorial integrity, alongside the economic and aerial blockade, as contrary to international law and Islamic teachings.
The ministry cited Saudi airstrikes on a market in Taiz and residential areas east of Sanaa, which it said killed 56 Yemenis, including 13 children, and injured dozens more.
It also condemned the targeting of Al-Masirah journalists while working, describing the attacks as a “clear violation of Article 4 of the UN Charter” and fundamental human rights principles, constituting a “war crime.”
Iran stressed that the conflict must be resolved through “dialogue and negotiations” based on an agreed roadmap, calling for an immediate halt to military attacks, the complete lifting of the blockade, and respect for the Yemeni people's right to self-determination.
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A tapestry version of Gazan artist Firas Thabet's Gaznica has been exhibited across the west. It references Guernica which was also reproduced as a tapestry. Unlike Picasso,Thabet created his under relentless bombing.
The original painting is unable to leave Gaza, like its artist
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Where are you Western MSM. Where are you so called leaders who claim to be beacons of values. You make me sick each and every one of you.
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Israel wiped Gaza from the face of the earth.
The survivors have been living in tents for three years.
Those tents are now being flooded.
The West has condemned them to these apocalyptic conditions.
This abomination must end.
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I think this is sadly right. The duopoly in action. Owned by Yzrael and Big Business
1 million people have signed the petition to stop Hakeem Jeffries and at the rally today in New York City protesters carried “No Schumer! No Jeffries!” signs.
Despite all this history tells us the not-so-Democratic party will ignore the will of the people and install both of these corrupt corporate politicians anyway.
This party doesn’t want to win victories for the people. It wants to keep winning victories for its corporate donors. Get out now!
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Perhaps the most heartless BBC interruption in this compilation is this one:
Bushra Khalidi, Oxfam Policy Lead for Palestine, explains how his family in Gaza have never been allowed to leave Gaza, and how Israel is besieging the Strip and causing mass displacement.
The BBC: "I'm sorry this is obviously very personal, difficult situation for you and your family, and as you would understand as well, Israel would say well, they can't live next door to Hamas."
There is nothing journalistic about this. There is no world where that is a rational, humane response.
The presenters and journalists at the BBC are reading off a strict script where they have to staunchly defend the apartheid entity at all costs.
They have weaponised the term "impartiality", which is what they cite when they launder propaganda. But as we've proven, this "impartiality" has only worked one way.
They interject much less when they platform genocide deniers, and have never volunteered the other things that "Israel says", such as the genocidal statements from Netanyahu, Gallant, Katz, Smotrich and Herzog.
It’s hard to grasp the BBC’s systematic attempt to launder Israeli propaganda until you see the sheer scale of it. Here's a compilation of them doing it at 2x speed.
The latest was on Newsnight on 4 November. When Bernie Sanders called Israel’s government extremist, Victoria Derbyshire answered for it: “And the Israeli government would deny that they are extremists.”
As this video shows, BBC presenters repeatedly do this as guests describe Israel’s crimes: “Israel would say.” “Israel would deny.” “They would reject that.”
We counted 70 of these denials and justifications in 52 aired interviews. The BBC calls this impartiality. But in not one of those 52 did a presenter raise any of these words from Israel’s own leaders:
- “We are fighting human animals.” Yoav Gallant, 9 October 2023
- “It is an entire nation out there that is responsible.” Isaac Herzog, 12 October 2023
- “They will not receive a drop of water or a single battery until they leave the world.” Israel Katz, 13 October 2023
- “Remember what Amalek did to you.” Benjamin Netanyahu, 3 November 2023
- Starving two million people in Gaza until the hostages came back might be “justified and moral”. Bezalel Smotrich, 5 August 2024
On 10 October 2023, Tahani Mustafa told the BBC that Israeli forces were not distinguishing civilians from fighters. The presenter replied: “They would reject that.” Mustafa then had to bring up Gallant’s “human animals” herself. The BBC supplied the denial. The guest had to supply Israel’s own words.
That is cherry-picking. The Royal Charter requires the BBC to be impartial, and the public pays for it through the licence fee. In these interviews, it handed its audience Israel’s denials and left out its leaders’ own words, during a genocide streamed live to the world.
We have archived the BBC’s coverage for three years, and we are now counting all of it: 50,000 video clips and many more written excerpts.
We are calling this first part: "BBC: The Would Say Files".
Handing Israel its denials is only one of the ways the BBC launders Israeli propaganda, so we will count every other technique too. Over the next few weeks, we will announce each milestone as we complete the report.
These are the first results, with every clip, quote and source: newscord.org/editorials/bbc-…
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@simon_schama described allegations of genocide in Gaza as a “blood libel” and a “profound lie”.
And STILL not a single Palestinian voice on your panel.
THE @BBC's COMPLICITY IS SO FUCKING OBVIOUS!
We talk about how you can't present genocide as a debate with two equally legitimate sides.
But the BBC isn’t even doing that.
Palestinians aren't even given a voice. Those who dare speak up for them are smeared as antisemites, while those who defend Israels war crimes are handed a national platform.
What the actual FUCK has happened to our media?
This is beyond a failure of journalism. It's a failure of humanity.
#GazaGenocide #FreePalestine
On the #BBCLauraK panel...
Historian Simon Schama
Conservative peer Baroness Bertin
Retail entrepreneur Theo Paphitis
Sunday 9am @BBCOne @BBCiPlayer
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It’s hard to grasp the BBC’s systematic attempt to launder Israeli propaganda until you see the sheer scale of it. Here's a compilation of them doing it at 2x speed.
The latest was on Newsnight on 4 November. When Bernie Sanders called Israel’s government extremist, Victoria Derbyshire answered for it: “And the Israeli government would deny that they are extremists.”
As this video shows, BBC presenters repeatedly do this as guests describe Israel’s crimes: “Israel would say.” “Israel would deny.” “They would reject that.”
We counted 70 of these denials and justifications in 52 aired interviews. The BBC calls this impartiality. But in not one of those 52 did a presenter raise any of these words from Israel’s own leaders:
- “We are fighting human animals.” Yoav Gallant, 9 October 2023
- “It is an entire nation out there that is responsible.” Isaac Herzog, 12 October 2023
- “They will not receive a drop of water or a single battery until they leave the world.” Israel Katz, 13 October 2023
- “Remember what Amalek did to you.” Benjamin Netanyahu, 3 November 2023
- Starving two million people in Gaza until the hostages came back might be “justified and moral”. Bezalel Smotrich, 5 August 2024
On 10 October 2023, Tahani Mustafa told the BBC that Israeli forces were not distinguishing civilians from fighters. The presenter replied: “They would reject that.” Mustafa then had to bring up Gallant’s “human animals” herself. The BBC supplied the denial. The guest had to supply Israel’s own words.
That is cherry-picking. The Royal Charter requires the BBC to be impartial, and the public pays for it through the licence fee. In these interviews, it handed its audience Israel’s denials and left out its leaders’ own words, during a genocide streamed live to the world.
We have archived the BBC’s coverage for three years, and we are now counting all of it: 50,000 video clips and many more written excerpts.
We are calling this first part: "BBC: The Would Say Files".
Handing Israel its denials is only one of the ways the BBC launders Israeli propaganda, so we will count every other technique too. Over the next few weeks, we will announce each milestone as we complete the report.
These are the first results, with every clip, quote and source: newscord.org/editorials/bbc-…
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A rag bag of racist parties in the London Assembly has unanimously condemned The Green Party's #ZionismIsRacism policy. Greens on the GLA stood firm. Zionism is Racism.
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This is British "democracy":
Government issued a block on MPs asking questions about the use of RAF flights to conduct surveillance in Israel and Gaza. It can do so because it is operating under royal prerogative, not parliamentary authority.
British foreign policy is frozen in the ruins of empire.
The impact on people who live under dictators propped up by Britain is immense. British voters have almost no say in what’s going on👇
declassifieduk.org/british-f…
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Ending 40 years of neoliberalism update.
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Genocide scholars disagree with you. @archivegenocide
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Genocidal “Israel” is literally pushing Palestinians into the sea.
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The UK charities sending nearly £2 million to illegal settlements.
Six British charities appear to funnel donations to Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank👇
declassifieduk.org/the-uk-ch…
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Yet more proof UNSG Antonio Guterres has zero credibility:
The man below standing with indicted ICC fugitive Netanyahu and holding a Barak sniper rifle to be sent to IOF genocidaires is the man UNSG Antonio Guterres has just appointed as the new head of the UN World Food Programme. He is Luke Lindberg, a former Trump administration official and vocal Israel regime supporter who publicly praised Netanyahu in the middle of the genocide in Palestine (wishing him “godspeed”), and who is the son-in-law of Israel lobby darling US Sen. John Thune. In the meantime, WFP has announced it is cutting food aid to half a million genocide survivors in Gaza, as winter approaches and their situation grows ever more dire. This is the UN on its knees before the US empire. It will find the courage to stand up, or it will fade into permanent irrelevance. #Shame
