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If a great Irish writer’s books can no longer be published in the UK because she stands with Palestine, the question isn’t what law might Sally Rooney have broken, it’s what sort of country has Britain become. irishtimes.com/culture/books…
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“Even years after I’d left Sky, it appeared I was still fair game for Gray and Keys,” Logan wrote in The First Half. “I sat a row behind them on a flight to Istanbul for the Champions League Final in 2005, which I was covering for ITV. I was seven months pregnant with twins, and I was huge — I looked like I’d swallowed a space hopper. In full earshot of me, and anyone who might be listening in our business-class cabin, Richard said: ‘So, Andy, what do you think of pregnant women?’” “‘I’m afraid I don’t find them very attractive, Richard. In fact, I never slept with my wife when she was pregnant with our kids.’ ‘So you didn’t have sex, Andy?’ Keys asked. ‘No, I didn’t say that, Richard.’ Then they laughed their heads off at their little ‘comedy’ routine.” “I was embarrassed and thought their comments were especially cruel, bearing in mind they both had children and wives of their own. Luckily, by that time I had been working with lovely men such as Ally McCoist and Andy Townsend at ITV, who were kind and caring, always asked after my wellbeing, and seemed genuinely excited for me about the babies. Keys and Gray were dinosaurs, waiting to become extinct.”
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A Palestinian girl rescued alive from beneath the rubble, surviving the Gaza Holocaust. This is childhood in Gaza.
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"Get lost! How dare you ruin what's part of our country, our DNA in this country." Ian Holloway had some very strong words when asked about the Man City charges.
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Former MI5 Agent ANNIE MACHON reveling how the Mossad setup a false flag by bombing their own Israeli embassy in London in 1994 and blamed it on Palestinian activists They received 20 years sentences for crimes they did not commit.
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The IDF and a 12 year old Palestinian girl
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Hundreds of young people in our care system are being forced to choose between full-time education and a roof over their heads. One young person I know has a flat funded by the local authority, with a charity topping up the cost. He’s building friendships and continuing his education. He’s finding his feet. Now they want to move him miles away into a shared house with strangers who haven’t been vetted. Why? To save money. How can we expect young people to thrive when we keep taking away their foundations?
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Police called to children’s homes for smoking, answering back, refusing to go to bed or get up. Even going into the kitchen after hours. Would we call the police on our own children for that? Children in care should never be criminalised for behaviour we would respond to with patience in our own homes. If you’re building a business around children’s lives, you owe them more than a bed. #FGUK
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🚨 BREAKING: The Met Police has now submitted charges against 54 individuals and 20 companies over the Grenfell Tower fire in 2017 The charges include fraud, corporate manslaughter and misconduct in public office
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These are the means of livelihood for families, so if they're destroyed, the families will find it difficult or impossible to survive. But it's not a genocidal act. Apparently. Ahem.
Today Israeli terrorist settlers have set fire to hundreds of olive trees in Deir Sharaf, west of Nablus in the West Bank.
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“There must be no victory because the miners must not be defeated. They are desperate for their communities and this desperation forces them to action.” The Bishop of Durham, David Jenkins, #OnThisDay 1984.
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For shame. The president of the United States goes to the United Nations and threatens genocide against a UN member state in front of the world. This is where we’re at.
Trump to the UN: "Do I annihilate the Islamic Republic, and do it quickly? Do I drive them into hell?"
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More than 21,000 children have been killed by Israel in Gaza. More than 60,000 children in Gaza have lost one or both parents. Gaza currently has the highest number of child amputees.. The genocide has not yet stopped.
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Ireland shouldn't play Israel. It'll be a stain on our island and our history. Don't normalise genocide. #StopTheGame
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30 years ago Spitting Image dared to broadcast the truth about Israel. Now no one dares.
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An American legend has taken his final rest. John Kinsel Sr., one of the last original Navajo Code Talkers who used their language to outwit the Japanese in World War II, has died at 107.
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Today we learned that the Prime Minister of Israel repeatedly raped, choked and beat Virginia Guiffre and the media today won't even say his name or the country he was the Prime Minister of. It's impossible to hate the media enough.
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A Video Zionists don't want you to see. Jews marched against Israel and Zionism in Washington DC. Zionism is NOT Judaism. Israel is NOT the Jewish people. Israel does NOT represent Jews or Judaism. We call out to President Trump: Zionism is not Judaism. Israel is not the state of the Jews. Zionist lobbies can never speak on behalf of the Jewish people and represent them. Jews want the United States to be saved from the occupation of Zionist lobbies.
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