Ben Richmond @criticalwit

ITV’s correspondent in Tel Aviv during the News at Ten described the release of an Israeli hostage as “482 days in grim captivity”. A Palestinian was released the other day after spending 36 years in Israel’s dungeons. Where was the same humanising and vivid reporting then?

"Forced through." I was in this group of people carrying flowers - and the police had stepped aside to let us through. For the police to say that a group had "forced it's way through" is simply inaccurate & seeks to stoke division from a peaceful protest.

Metropolitan Police @metpoliceuk

a year ago

The group that forced its way through the police line is now held at the north west corner of Trafalgar Square. Anyone in that group should now disperse and leave the area. Anyone remaining in breach of the conditions, or inciting further breaches, will be arrested.

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This is not an accurate description of events at all. I was part of a delegation of speakers, who wished to peacefully carry and lay flowers in memory of children in Gaza who had been killed. This was facilitated by the police. We did not force our way through. When we reached Trafalgar Square, we informed police that we would go no further, lay down flowers and disperse. At that point, the Chief Steward, Chris Nineham was arrested. We then turned back and dispersed. I urge the police to release all bodycam footage and retract its misleading account of events.

Metropolitan Police @metpoliceuk

a year ago

The group that forced its way through the police line is now held at the north west corner of Trafalgar Square. Anyone in that group should now disperse and leave the area. Anyone remaining in breach of the conditions, or inciting further breaches, will be arrested.

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This week Rachel Reeves went on a BBC podcast to talk about how prudent she is with cash. She takes a lunchbox to work! So why didn’t Nick Robinson raise the fact she was one of a handful of MPs to have their credit card suspended because of £4000 of unauthorised spending?

That AIPAC purchased the seats of about 90% or more of our current congress. JFK famously wanted them registered as a foreign agent right before he was shot and thus they changed their name and never registered. Why are we letting a foreign lobby buy off our congress? That Israel was obviously the state sponsor of Jefrey Epstein, whose handler was Ehud Barak, ex head of Israeli military intelligence, his funding was Les Wexner one of the worlds richest Zionist 'philanthropists' and he was accused by ex Mossad assets of being Mossad. Not to mention the Maxwell connection. (They had blackmail on Clinton, and many, many more.) He who holds the blackmail holds the leash- just ask J. Edgar Hoover. That Israel is the only nation who has a defacto sanctioned, yet actually secret and unsanctioned nuclear program. A program that they stole from the United States- look into the Apollo affair, NUMEC, the Dimona nuclear facility. That jews, muslims, and christians lived side by side in peace in Palestine before the Rothschilds purchased the country from Britain during WW1 (see the Balfour declaration) and began their colonial program. That the groups that founded Israel, Lehi, Irgun, and Hagannah, were declared terrorist organizations by Israel itself because their tactics were so deplorable (bombing British and Palestinian civilians) yet these three 'paramilitary' groups rebranded to form the IDF and their leadership became the leadership of Israel for the following thirty plus years. That Israel is a foreign nation halfway across the world that has no business receiving my tax dollars. Why are we sending them billions of dollars of our tax money while our country burns, is overrun by illegal immigration, etc? We are told Israel is our 'greatest ally' so why would they have had a massive spy network targeting US government agencies leading up to sep 11, 2001 - see the Israeli art students DEA report for copious evidence of Israeli surveillance all across the continental US. This is an official government report that cites hundreds of incidents of observed Israeli surveillance teams documented by US government agents all across the continental US. And we still have received 0 answers why there were numerous fake Israeli moving companies positioned all across the eastern seaboard leading into September 11, 2001 and we have multiple eye witness reports, as well as hard photographic evidence that they knew the attacks were coming at least a day before they did and that they were positioned at a vantage point to photograph the attack up to a half hour before the first plane hit. Never got any answers- but you can read the official FBI reports about the incident. I've broken them down live on X before. That's just a small list of some of the best documented reasons why I, as an American, dont want Israel receiving any of my tax dollars. And I didn't even mention my obvious objections to the collective punishment, mass surveillance, forced starvation, bombing of refugee camps, brutal murdering of women and children that's been going on in Gaza and the West Bank for years, decades- which you can watch in graphic detail right here on X. And that's not to mention that somehow we let congress pass laws outlawing 'antisemitic' speech, despite our own first amendment. And we have anti-boycott legislation in multiple states, despite the fact that it's perfectly legal to boycott American companies... just not Israeli ones. Every content creator knows the fastest way to get demonetized, banned, and slandered is to be critical of Israel. I figured you would have realized this too after what they did to you and tried to do to X last year.

I love how these days leftist just means anyone who believes in the germ theory of disease

Disclose.tv @disclosetv

a year ago

NOW - Canada's leftist PM Justin Trudeau resigns.

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The private sector don’t do better care. They do better carpets, they do free parking, they do easy, picking-off care, they do staff poaching, they do union-undercutting, they do leaving the NHS to train the staff, mop up the emergencies, and crumble under the impact. For shame.

Robert Peston @Peston

a year ago

Starmer: “Today I welcome a new agreement…with the private sector” to deliver more beds and treatment to reduce waiting lists. He says better care should Trump ideology

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No filmmaker, writer or artist should ever have to tell the story of their own extermination. Yet 22 courageous Palestinian filmmakers found a way to film their story this past year in Gaza using whatever tools they could pull from the rubble of their homes and cities. The extraordinary film FROM GROUND ZERO — for which I am proud to be an Executive Producer — is the collection of these short films, told all together in under 2 hours. The fact that this film exists at all is a human and cinematic miracle. Go see FROM GROUND ZERO — in theaters now!

Thinking about how Emily Maitlis had two movies made about her for frowning at a paedophile and neither of them even touched on the only remotely interesting plot twist publicly available to them

But me and my family have to carry West Bank ID cards that prohibit our freedom of movement and prevent us entering the very cities that these New Yorkers are free to settle in. Makes sense.

Hananya Naftali @HananyaNaftali

2 years ago

Meet Talya and Abigail: two sisters from New York who made Israel their home. Now, both IDF combat soldiers are fighting for what they believe in! 🇮🇱💪 Photo by Menachem Mendel Geisinsky

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Hitting the last three words in the headline

San Francisco Chronicle @sfchronicle

2 years ago

The recent killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson in Manhattan has brought renewed attention to the escalating costs of protecting top executives. trib.al/4GUNGGX

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Macron built up the far right and attacked the left. He thought it would give voters nowhere else to go but him. He pursued austerity and copied Le Pen's anti-migrant rubbish. It has ended in disaster for him and chaos for France. Lessons to be learnt. bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

Migrants don’t drain billions from the public purse — tax dodgers do. They don’t drive down wages or exploit workers — greedy bosses do. And they don’t starve schools or hospitals of funding — political choices do. Labour won’t defeat the far-right by parroting their myths.

The French government just gave Putin a magnificent gift: It will ignore the ICC's arrest warrant for Netanyahu because "Israel is not a signatory to the ICC." But neither is Russia! So, is Putin in the clear too? Or is this another case of different rules for "our" bastards?

Wes Streeting also has ‘religious reasons’ for opposing it. So does Gordon Brown. But I don’t hear either of them being picked up on it.

If the bill does pass we will soon have a national suicide service fully funded by the NHS, while palliative care is 30% funded, at best. telegraph.co.uk/politics/2024/…

Over 28 hours since the ICC issued arrest warrants for Benjamin Netanyahu and his former defence miniter. Still not a single tweet from either British Foreign Secretary @DavidLammy, or Prime Minister @Keir_Starmer. What an absolute farce from two morally bankrupt little men.