author and critic of things essential, sometimes in the form of e.things... see In Ramallah, Running [2012] for example
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“Writing is a displacement, a displacement from the normal social contract. A displacement from the habitual, the pattern, and the ready form. The poet strives to escape from the dominant, used language, to a language that speaks itself for the first time."
🖤Mourid Barghouti🖤
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ישיבת תיאום והתייעצויות בין ראשי הרשימה המשותפת ורע״ם .המטרה: הפלת ממשלת נתניהו, בן גביר סמוטריץ והחלפתה בממשלת שינוי חדשה.
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JUST IN: IRAN FM SPOX BAGHAEI ON ANTISEMITISM:
“Antisemitism is a European phenomenon and has nothing to do with Iranian religion or civilization.
Across Iran, there are around 100 synagogues. Look at the tombs of Jewish prophets and prominent figures across the country.
Despite our all-out war with a regime that falsely claims to represent Jews, how many attacks on Jewish holy sites have we witnessed?
Even if there has rarely been an incident, it was dealt with immediately.
We should ask Europe what culture they have created, where Jewish cemeteries are attacked and synagogues must be surrounded by barbed wire or have their signs removed.”
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On this day, November 2, 1917, the Balfour Declaration was issued—a promise by a power that did not own the land, offering it to those who had no right to claim it, at the expense of a people who lived on that land, cultivated it, and built their dreams and future upon it.
109 years have passed, and Palestinians are still paying the price of that promise—with their land, their homes, their memories, and their children. Palestine continues to bear the wounds of history, from the Nakba to wars and forced displacement, all the way to the displacement tents of Gaza.
The Balfour Declaration was not merely a political letter. It was a pivotal moment in the tragedy of a people denied their right to self-determination.
We tell this history not to imprison the present in the past, but to understand how we got here, and why the Palestinian right to justice is still awaiting recognition.
Palestine is not a promise written in a letter. Palestine is a people, a land, an identity, and a right that does not expire with time.
#BalfourDeclaration #Palestine #Nakba #PalestinianRights
At last the British government/people is/are acting on its/their legal obligations to PREVENT genocide #CircuitBreaking
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To quote Andreas Malm, banned from Britain: 'The destruction of Palestine is the destruction of the Earth.' Single issue politics are doomed.
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The expendability of people, others, in genocide or climatic devastation is an obsession I will own, proudly. If Gaza were only larger! They've devastate/d the rest of Palestine daily/for decades. It's the condensation of everything, clarifies all human responses, incl Ukraine!
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“We are rarely given a voice” — exactly, and the whole point of my book: there are lots of Jews against Zionism and always have been.
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The Israeli military isn't just running patrols in south Lebanon—it's actively paving new roads and connecting hilltop outposts from Naqoura through Maroun al-Ras and Bint Jbeil all the way to the Shebaa Valley.
You don't pave lateral supply corridors across rugged terrain if you plan to leave before winter. Paved tracks solve the mud logistics for heavy armor, turning what was framed as a temporary border sweep into a fortified, semi-permanent buffer zone.
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In the pro-Netanyahu demonstration today, one of his supporters threatens left-wing Jews: "We’ll beat you. You’re the first enemies we’ll send far, far away, to Birkenau, to Auschwitz, and we’ll rebuild Sobibor for you!" Israel 2026. The Jewish state.
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Glory: limes in the Peace Garden re-united with Chearsley Copse planes after 13 yrs🌳
My pretence that it didn't take much time/effort since Jan 2010 blown apart in a very extensive archive of the precedent-establishing campaign now compiled haha🌳
31 10 2026 #HeygateForestLegacy
ALT Glory: limes in the Peace Garden re-united with Chearsley Copse planes after 13 yrs🌳 My pretence that it didn't take much time/effort since Jan 2010 blown apart by a very extensive archive of the precedent-establishing campaign now compiled haha🌳 31 10 2026 #HeygateForestLegacy
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UN Commissioner Chris Sidoti:
"Children were deliberately targeted by the Israeli military. Intentionally killed. Not accidentally killed. Not consequentially killed. Not collatorally killed. But intentionally killed."
The Genocide in Gaza and Israel’s Deliberate Targeting of Children
One of the most difficult events @SOAS that I have organised in the last 2 years: Powerful interventions by Commissioner Chris Sidoti, Nick Mynard @maynard_nick & Michelle Staggs
youtube.com/watch?v=RLNraZFh…
'This is a danger to Israel. It must end.'
And all of THIS is a danger to the world: look at the consequences of Isreal's violent/genocidal whims.
It must end.
שבוע טוב.
הסיכוי למערכה נוספת מול איראן גובר. הגענו למצב של סבבים חוזרים מול איראן. זה כמה גדול הכישלון של נתניהו.
אני מתריע: לנתניהו אין את האמון הציבורי הנדרש לניהול מערכה כזו. גם לא לגיטימציה מוסרית או אפילו יכולת בסיסית.
גדי איזנקוט, אביגדור ליברמן, נפתלי בנט, יאיר לפיד ואני מכירים היטב את מערכת הביטחון. יש לנו ניסיון, יכולת והיכרות עמוקה עם המערכת. אנחנו מחויבים לפעול יחד למען ביטחון ישראל.
בינתיים, נתניהו, ישראל כץ ובן גביר ממשיכים להחזיק בעמדות המפתח.
זו סכנה לישראל.
זה חייב להיגמר.
אסור לתת לביטחון ישראל להפוך לכלי במאבק ההישרדות הפוליטי של נתניהו. לכן הקמה של ממשלה חלופית כמה שיותר מהר היא קריטית, ביטחון ישראל ואזרחיה מונח על הכף.
'If your aim is for the Greens to become Britain's first genuinely radical, mass political party, capable of holding the balance of power in parliament' - a very big 'if' evidently - then get behind your popular, strategically adept leader/party & stop grand-standing for MSM?
Ahead of what will clearly be a coordinated assault on Zack Polanski - some basic facts.
1 - Yes, Polanski's own net approval ratings have dipped sharply in recent months. This is primarily the result of more people becoming aware of him and forming an opinion. His actual approval ratings have been remarkably steady and, at 19%, he remains considerably more popular than his party.
2 - By comparison Adrian Ramsay's approval rating when he was co-leader in June 2025 was 5%. 81% had either never heard of them or had never bothered to form an opinion. His fellow co-leader Carla Denyer was only marginally better on 9%.
3 - Reportedly 18,000 members have left in recent months. But this is in the context of an unprecedented surge in membership which took the party from 70k to close to quarter of a million members after Polanski became leader.
4 - The party now has more than 1300 local councillors, compared to less than 900 when Polanski became leader.
5 - Yes, the Greens have dipped in the polls recently. But even now they are at the same level they were when he became leader. And they are primarily victims of their own success having obliged the Labour Party to ditch Starmer - a level of influence the Greens could previously only dream of.
6 - The Zionism is racism motion is held up as having done huge damage to the party. An Opinium poll showed 56% of Green Party members supported it - and just 13% opposed it. A clear majority among all voters under 34 who expressed an opinion supported it.
By any logical criteria, if your aim is for the Greens to become Britain's first genuinely radical, mass political party, capable of holding the balance of power in parliament, it makes no sense whatsoever to get rid of Polanski.
It makes sense only if that is precisely what you don't want to happen.
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Word is he's the favourite for Best Supporting Actor in Oscar season, for They Swallowed It Whole, sequel to the ultra-violent Horseshit.
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There's no environmental justice without social, racial and economic justice.
Join.greenparty.org.uk
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It was exactly the same under Sunak and Starmer in Britain.
Biden officials sat "in windowless rooms without their phones, incapable of reaching a formal conclusion that a single war crime was committed in Gaza while the world watched war crimes live-streamed on theirs." trib.al/tDK16jy
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Much of the media hate that the Green Party want to tax the super rich & stand up for peace around the world.
They hate that we call out vast majority of media owned by a few billionaires who constantly distract.
One of the best things you can do?
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'On the other hand, Eisenkot would never demand that the ultra-Orthodox Jewish parties declare themselves "Zionists," something most of them are not, in order to form a coalition'
Eisenkot le pide a los partidos árabes israelíes (que van desde el Partido Comunista israeli, pasando por el islamismo suave de Ra'am y atravesando el nacionalismo de Balad) de que se declaren sionistas, algo que va contra la identidad de muchos ellos que se consideran palestinos y creen que el establecimiento de Israel obligó a parte de su pueblo a abandonar su tierra. De hecho los partidos árabes israelíes reconocen a Israel pues participan en sus elecciones. Pero reconocerlo como un estado judío va contra los principios de algunos en Hadash y Balad (risueñamente el islamista Ra’am posiblemente lo haga). Por otra parte, Eisenkot nunca le exigiría a los partidos ultraortodoxos judíos que se declaren “sionistas”, algo que la mayoría no son, para formar una coalición. Todo parece ser una especie de presión a los partidos árabes como si ellos lo necesitaran a Eisenkot y no al revés. Y después es más del mismo: es preferir supremacía judía antes que colaboración con los árabes para sacar a Netanyahu. Preferencias
