🐁 #PardonMcBride. 🐝🐝🐝🐝

#auspol we must fix the #PIDact. Government whistleblowers like @MurdochCadell @Richard_D_Boyle are not protected by the current legislation and are gaoled instead.

BREAKING NSW’s highest court strikes down anti-protest law introduced in wake of Bondi beach terror attack | Sydney | The Guardian Congratulations to those defending freedom of political expression on behalf of us all. theguardian.com/australia-news…

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I welcome the NSW Court of Appeal's finding today that the NSW protest laws implemented after the Bondi terrorist attack impermissibly burdened the implied constitutional freedom of political communication and are invalid. Summary of judgment soon to be published

Judgment and summary here: caselaw.nsw.gov.au/decision/19d93…

Judge denies appeal. Australian @FreeDanDuggan to be extradited to US where they can't even prosecute Epstein pedophile ring - also slugged with costs. @RobbieBarwick on a travesty of justice #auspol michaelwest.com.au/prioritising-w…

Why is one of the world’s largest mining companies [BHP] fighting so hard to shut down the case of a single injured worker [Simon Turner]? “This is not just about Simon…This has the potential to affect thousands of workers and $billions in entitlements…” 👇👇👇

It's not Epstein. It's not Israel. It's the oil and gas. Always has been. The US plan is to move the planet's energy corridor to the Western Hemisphere, bypassing the Middle East entirely. All roads lead to Chevron.

Vote for the Alliance to Liberate Scotland - It was not my intention to run for election to the Scottish parliament from a hospital bed in Caracas, but sometimes we have to take what life gives us. I went to a cinic a week ago feeling dizzy and was craigmurray.org.uk/archives/2026/…

Italy suspends defence agreement with Israel bbc.in/4cdb9ch

Imagine if NPR ran the headline: “Russia plans to create buffer zones in Ukraine and Georgia to protect its territory”

When Israel destroyed the Rafie Nia Synagogue in Tehran today, it attacked the second largest Jewish community in the region, and the only one outside Zionism's control @MaxBlumenthal visited with Iranian Jewish leadership last year and discussed their relationship with the Islamic Republic, and their views on everything from Palestine to the Iranian Jewish diaspora Watch his film with director Maria Mavati, "Uncaptured: Jews in the Islamic Republic of Iran"

Yesterday, the government passed a law effectively banning repeat protests. The government is fed up with people protesting about genocide. Well, we are disgusted by its complicity in the greatest crime of our time. The government wants to silence us. It will never succeed.

Zarah Sultana MP invokes parliamentary privilege to inform the British public about reporting by The Grayzone on the corrupt trial of six Palestine Action activists Sultana stated that if convicted, the defendants "will be sentenced as terrorists, but the jury will not be told that” “They could convict them on criminal damage charges with no idea that terrorism sentences will follow," she continued. "Not a single terrorism charge has been brought forward. The proscription has been ruled unlawful and the defendants themselves have been banned from telling the jury that they acted to stop genocide under threat of contempt charges”

Whatever you think of her politics, she's based, and the dark arts she's exposing here, should be a concern for us all. It's Palestine action today, but it's you tomorrow.

"Palestine before Zionism: A golden Age?" The article covers the period, 1860s-1910s, when Jews, Muslims & Christians were experiencing a golden age in Palestine: Social Life ▶️ In Jerusalem, Tiberias & Hebron: Jews, Muslims and Christians lived on the same streets, shopped at the same stores, frequented the same bathhouses, shared residential courtyards ▶️ Jews had Muslim physicians & vice versa; Muslims were invited over for Shabbat dinner. Muslim girls learned Judeo-Spanish from their Sephardi Jewish neighbors. ▶️ Christian musicians played at Jewish weddings & Jews performed at Muslim and Christian weddings. Jews, ▶️ Jews, Muslims & Christians started going to Ottoman schools as well as the Israelite Alliance schools, ▶️Palestine’s Jews and Christians used Muslim religious courts to settle disputes among themselves. ▶️ Jews formed business partnerships with Muslims in the wheat, livestock and dairy industries ▶️ Muslim & Jewish children from one courtyard would defend one another against Muslim and Jewish children from another courtyard. ▶️ Muslim and Jewish women also breastfed one another’s babies in the event of a death or if the mother was unable to nurse. Religious Life: ▶️ Muslim & Christian children dressed up for Jewish holiday of Purim ▶️ Twice a year, Muslims & Christians joined Jewish celebrations at the shrine of Simon the Just in Sheikh Jarrah, with music, festivities, singing, etc. ▶️ Christians and Muslims merged Orthodox Easter with the Muslim Nabi Musa Pilgrimage, with Jews joining in the national festivities. ▶️ Fire Saturday was combined with Muslim folk festivals. There were Muslim processions on Palm Sunday, starting at the Abrahamic Mosque in Hebron heading toward Jerusalem. ▶️ All three communities shared common holy sites, like the tombs of Nebi Samuel and Nebi Rubin. ▶️ Jews & Muslims exchanged gifts on the last day of the Jewish holiday of Passover. Muslims gave their Jewish friends a round copper bowl, laden with fresh bread, goats’ butter and honey, while Jews gave back the same copper bowl with matzot and home-made jam. Jewish Arabs ▶️ Christians, Muslims and even Jews all embraced an Arab consciousness. ▶️ Palestine's Jews were roughly half Sephardi Jews who spoke Arabic, a minority of Moghrabi Jews spoke Arabic as a native language and some wrote in Arabic as well, such as Shimon Moyal and Nissim Malul, even established a short-lived Arabic newspaper. ▶️ One native Jew said in 1902, “we knew Arabic and conversed freely with our Arab neighbors, but Judeo-Spanish (Ladino) was our mother tongue.” ▶️ ~300 Jews in Tiberias were described as Yahūd evlād-ı ʿArab, or “Jewish sons of the Arabs” or “Jewish children of the Arabs" in a 1914 Ottoman military conscription registry document. The entry was validated with the signet stamp of Yaakov Neḥmad, who identified himself as muḫtār-i evvel, the head of a local community bearing the same designation. ▶️ Christian writers at the time such as Khalil Sakakini & Wasif Jawhariyyeh referred to the native Jews of Palestine as “sons of the country” (‘abna’ al-balad’), “compatriots” or “Jews, sons of Arabs,” (“Yahud awlad Arab”) in their diaries and autobiographies. The community was also known as “ha-‛am ha-yisra’eli” (‘the Israelite people’) or “yahadut falestinit,” “Palestinian Jews,” or “Ivrim” (Hebrews). Jewish, Muslim & Christian Ottomans ▶️ Palestine’s religious communities also united around Ottomanism, a political vision based on shared civic values ▶️ The slogan of the revolution was  Liberty, Equality, Fraternity and Justice, and the CUP called for a constitution, freedom of the press, democratic elections and the centralization of the empire ▶️ In elections held in the 1910s, Jewish (Zionist) Ottomans like David Yellin & Muslim Ottomans (anti-Zionists) like Ruhi al-Khalidi, loyaly served the CUP side by side ▶️ Similarly, Palestinian Arab newspapers like Filastin & Jewish Sephardi newspapers like ha-Herut both supported the CUP. ▶️ The opposition party, known as the Decentralization Party (Hizb al-Lamarkaziyya), was much less popular in Palestine, but nevertheless attracted Jewish, Muslim and Christian members. No society with religious diversity is without religious tension. But late Ottoman Palestine was a world before the Zionist movement had tainted relations between Palestine’s religious communities, and it offers us a taste of what a world without Zionism could look like once again.

Something remarkable is happening in Britain...

Xi’s 4 point proposal on safeguarding and promoting peace and stability in the Middle East, meets Spanish PM. sinocism.com/p/xis-four-poi…

Seems a reasonable thing to clear up.

It's ironic that China and Russia let the Board of Peace pass through the UNSC. I wonder if they understood at the time it would be used as a cover to steal Gaza's gas, before turning up the heat on Russian and Chinese energy. In my investigation, I found it was after this period that the massive attacks on their energy infrastructure and deliveries began.

A shockingly corrupted trial that exposes the British state’s weaponization of censorship and secrecy laws has just begun. The Grayzone's @MaxBlumenthal details how six activists from the direct action protest group Palestine Action face terrorism charges and the possibility of long prison terms – but the jury in the case is forbidden from knowing this. The UK media is similarly banned from reporting on these facts, while the defendants in the case are blocked by court order from explaining their motives for damaging and occupying Israeli weapons factories on British soil. Blumenthal explains why Palestine Action is being targeted with such a draconian prosecution: because they are effective. Having caused the closure of Israeli factories, they have provided activists around the world with a workable model for raising the cost of occupation and genocide. Now, he argues, the British state is so determined to prevent their acquittal before a potentially sympathetic jury that it rigging the trial and perverting whatever's left of democracy, all to preserve its special relationship with Israel.