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We called it a "shooting gallery" at the time. And that's exactly what it was. The NAZA film describes how it worked.
During the famine, thousands of Palestinians would pour out in crowds, running for many kilometers toward locations where tanks and snipers were stationed. The snipers never stopped firing live ammunition directly at the starving people, who were facing death just to obtain a bag of flour.
Every day, hundreds of Palestinians were shot by snipers positioned atop tall towers, as if Palestinians had become moving targets for target practice. Despite the extreme danger, Palestinians kept coming in endless streams because they had children dying of hunger in their tents.
We will never forget, we will never forgive.
Mr Benn retweeted
You didn’t mind it when they protected trees; it’s when they try and protect actual Palestinian people from British arms that you object.
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Step 1: Make protesting against genocide a terror offence
Step 2: Ban everyone on TV from saying genocide
Step 3: Get all kids off social media
Step 4: Ban kids from talking about genocide in schools
Step 5: Re-educate kids so that they're more sympathetic towards Israel
Mr Benn retweeted
Israel has murdered a who's who of frontline journalists exposing its crimes in southern Lebanon, so I have little doubt it destroyed Radwan Mortada's family home as revenge for his blockbuster investigative documentary on the pager attacks
His home was several km behind the Israeli-imposed yellow line, so the occupying soldiers went out of their way to blow it up
The photos in @wyattreed13's report illustrate what a devastating loss this is
Earlier this year, Israel was destroying 1000 homes a day in southern Lebanon
The Israeli army targeted prominent Lebanese journalist, @radwanmortada, pillaging and demolishing his hand built family home, located outside the “buffer zone” in southern Lebanon
Was it retaliation for his widely-viewed film on Israel’s pager attacks?
thegrayzone.com/2026/10/23/i…
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The report on antisemitism in schools provides a fascinating study in the parallel universes independent and mainstream media occupy.
Indie media has done it's job, scrutinised the report and highlighted its glaring inadequacies. The entire mainstream has simply reported it uncritically. /1
The Bell report finds that anti-Jewish attitudes are "less prevalent", while "anti-Israel sentiments are more prevalent" More here ⤵️
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Trying to understand why a prominent Tory party member organising contract killings isn’t being given wall to wall coverage. The BBC hasn’t even mentioned it on their site.
🚨🇬🇧 Turning Point UK's CEO was filmed offering an undercover reporter a menu of beatings, stabbings and killings through a Glasgow contact who says he arms the UVF
Al Jazeera’s undercover operation started in 2021 when a reporter joined the British offshoot of the American student group.
Its CEO Jack Ross, a Conservative candidate in 2023, introduced the reporter to Allan Nesbitt, a convicted criminal and self-described UVF member, agreed on camera to pay him to stage a fake pro-Zimbabwe rally, and priced out what Nesbitt’s friends could do to a person, from cutting faces to MURDER.
The UVF is the Ulster Volunteer Force, a Protestant loyalist paramilitary from Northern Ireland’s Troubles that killed over 500 people between 1966 and 1999, including 33 in one day in the Dublin and Monaghan bombings, and is still banned as a terror group.
Since the peace deal it has run mostly as a drug gang that kept the name and the guns.
Nesbitt reportedly met the reporter in a London hotel, offered to have a fictional business rival “finished,” claimed he’d personally stabbed a man to death, showed a shotgun and pistol on a video call and said the fee would buy weapons smuggled from Scotland into Northern Ireland.
Ross says it was a joke. The joke came with a price list, a weapons demo and a smuggling route, and the police now have a name and a video... and wasn't particularly funny.
Somebody in Turning Point UK’s donor base should be asking when the fundraising dinners turned into this.
Source: Al Jazeera / Writer: Daniel
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This is absolutely insane.
The UK seems to have been involved in the kidnapping of Maduro - and the story spiked by an MOD D-Notice.
The kidnapping was the most brazen act of criminality, and UK involvement would almost certainly have been given with Starmer's sign-off. A wretched, wreck of a PM. An unforgivable assault on international law.
Mr Benn retweeted
Nobody said anything about ‘secretly’ or ‘controlling’ - why are you making up quotes?
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Perhaps the most stark and revealing (accidental?) admission in the David Bell 'antisemitism in UK schools report. Antisemitic attitudes aren't increasing, only anti-Israel ones are. That's what most of this is about.
From the horse's mouth:
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Basic education piece:
Not all Jewish people are Zionists.
Lots of Zionists aren't Jews.
The Board of Deputies largely self identity as Zionists.
The Media often report the Board of Deputies as the opinion of Jewish people.
Yet many Jewish people say #NotInOurName
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You can't make it up.
Sir David Bell was asked to lead the antisemitism review that was just published.
But he faced severe criticism for alleged Islamophobia for attacking faith schools when he was head of Ofsted twenty years ago.
And his new report now blithely says that Muslims disproportionately express anti-semitic views...
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If self-determination requires the dispossession & displacement of another people its not self determination, its ethnic cleansing & colonisation.
🎥 WATCH: LFI vice chair @PeterPrinsley yesterday on the danger of fabricated definitions of Zionism during the Bell Review statement.
"I am a Zionist, for Zionism is the belief that Jewish people have a right to self determination in their ancient homeland - nothing more, nothing less"
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"Terrorists are people that bomb people & blow people up, they're not people that break into missile manufacturers to stop people bombing & blowing people up"
@IrvineWelsh on why he signed the letter in support of Sally Rooney & against the proscription of Palestine Action 🎯
Racism 👇
Earlier today, a number of harvesters, accompanied by dozens of individuals, arrived to conduct an uncoordinated olive harvest in an area near Beitar Illit. Harvesting in this area requires a request to be submitted to the relevant authorities in advance of the start of the olive harvest season. This coordination is necessary to ensure the security of the area and maintain public order.
Due to the security risk posed by conducting an uncoordinated harvest near an Israeli community, IDF soldiers, Border Police forces in Judea and Samaria, and officers from the Judea and Samaria District Police arrived at the scene and detained those present.
The landowner was informed that he must coordinate the olive harvest on his plot of land and was provided with the relevant contact information to arrange a harvest at a later date.
It should be emphasized that authorized olive harvests have taken place and continue to take place. To date, approximately 100 coordinated harvests have been conducted across Judea and Samaria, yielding many dozens of tons of produce, with security provided and coordination by the security forces, without any unusual incidents.
In areas designated for coordinated harvesting, only harvesters will be permitted to enter, solely for the purpose of harvesting.
As in previous years, security forces are working to facilitate a safe and orderly olive harvest season, with a firm commitment to enabling harvesting without unusual incidents or interruptions, alongside their ongoing defensive and counterterrorism missions.
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“We were willing to be kind, generous, and even agreed to share the land,” says this Israeli diplomat to me.
A reminder that at partition, in 1947, Jews owned 7% of the land. This guy says they were willing to “share” the 93% that wasn’t even theirs.
There is a word for that.
We were willing to be kind, generous, and even agreed to share the land. But apparently, our willingness to compromise made you mistake our goodwill for weakness - and believe that the land was yours to claim.
Let me be clear: it is not. It never was. And it never will be.
The Land of Israel is the historic homeland of the Jewish people. Our willingness to share it does not erase our history, diminish our rights, or make anyone else its owner.
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🚨 THIS SHOULD ALARM EVERY PARENT IN ENGLAND.
Tomorrow, the Government is expected to receive 27 recommendations on tackling antisemitism in schools and colleges.
Among the reported proposals:
• Schools to reconsider political symbols, including Palestinian watermelon badges.
• New guidance on teaching the Israel–Palestine conflict, emphasising political impartiality.
• Greater scrutiny of how teachers discuss geopolitical issues.
• Encouraging schools to adopt the IHRA definition of antisemitism, including its controversial examples relating to Israel.
Let me be absolutely clear...
Antisemitism must be challenged wherever it exists. Jewish children deserve to feel safe in every school.
But this is not about antisemitism.
IT IS ABOUT BRAINWASHING OUR CHILDREN TO COVER UP OUR GOVERNMENT'S COMPLICITY IN WAR CRIMES.
What the hell are we doing when expressing solidarity with Palestinians becomes something schools are encouraged to challenge?
When teachers are expected to demonstrate political impartiality, who decides what constitutes impartiality?
And since when should the documented genocide and displacement of Palestinians be treated as simply another political opinion?
Human rights ARE NOT a partisan position.
International law IS NOT a matter of political preference.
The slaughtering of civilians IS NOT something we should teach children to be indifferent about.
Education is being hijacked for political conditioning rather than encouraging children to think critically.
If we reach a point where children are discouraged from showing solidarity with victims of oppression, where teachers fear telling the truth about atrocities, and where political impartiality becomes a euphemism for silence, then we have crossed a truly terrifying, line.
Education should teach children to recognise injustice, question authority and stand up for humanity, not to condition them to look the other way when those in power are responsible.
And if our Government is more concerned about children wearing Palestinian badges than the suffering those badges represent, then we need to ask ourselves a very serious question:
Are we educating the next generation to prevent the atrocities of history from happening again, or teaching them how to accept them when they do?
#GazaGenocide
@andyburnham @jeremycorbyn @ZackPolanski @KemiBadenoch @owenjonesjourno @Heccles94 @zarahsultana
Mr Benn retweeted
Where on earth are you getting this from?
Do you know that after the Israeli expulsion of Palestinians in 1948, all those who remained were put under martial law in Israel until 1966? They could not leave their villages and towns without a travel pass. Thousands were imprisoned in labor camps.
You write as if you have never been there or seen it with your own eyes.
You say you "think" that I am just lying. Please look at yourself. That is a classic psychological defense mechanism to avoid having to re-evaluate tightly held beliefs. I am not lying about anything. My history in Israel goes back to 1971. I studied in university there. I studied in yeshivas there. I speak, read and write Hebrew. Why would I lie? Please look at where your beliefs come from. What makes you believe them?
I think you are just lying.
You know that in the aftermath of the 1948 war, there was approx 200,000 Arabs in Israel proper. They were offered full citizenship, most accepted. Today they and their descendants number 2 million.
That is not what a people being ethnically cleansed experience.
In the entire Middle East, only the Arabs in Israel proper have all of their religious and civil rights protected by law.
That is not what a people being ethnically cleansed experience.
The Arabs in Israel go about their daily lives, shop at Israeli malls, use Israeli services, frequent Israeli restaurants and bars, send their children to study at the many universities, and receive Israeli social and health benefits.
That is not what a people being ethnically cleansed experience.
You know that Israeli Arabs are the most educated Arabs in the world, with the best living standards and opportunities in the region.
Arabs serve as judges in the Israeli Supreme Court;
Some of the best doctors in Israel are Arabs, working in almost every hospital in the country;
They vote in open and free elections. They can run for office in these elections.
That is not what a people being ethnically cleansed experience.
In fact there are 10 Arab members of parliament who enjoy the right to criticize the government – a right that they exhaust to the fullest – protected by the freedom of speech;
That is not what a people being ethnically cleansed experience.
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Shami Chakrabarti, meet Ahmed Alnaouq- who lost almost his entire extended family in an Israeli bombing, including 13 small children - and @ghadakarmi - exiled as a child from Jerusalem in the Nakba and forced to live her entire life in exile because she belongs to the wrong ethnicity .
Perhaps you could explain to them why their views are "foolish ... student politics." /1
"For me as a Palestinian, Zionism is racism. Zionism is genocidal. Zionism is sociopathic. Zionism is all about ethnic cleansing for a group of people at the expense of another. If I were not Palestinian, if I just happened to be a Jewish person, I would have lived with all my rights granted. No one would have questioned me, no one would have come after my land, my country, to kill us. So if that is not racism, then what is? Ever since I came to the UK, I've been hearing some bizarre ideas: 'Zionism means different things to different people'. Zionism means only one thing. And it means one thing to the people that it was manifested at. Zionism means genocide and death."
Ahmed Alnaouq, who lost almost his entire extended family in a single air-strike, including 13 children, speaks at this morning's Greens4Palestine press conference./1