Michael Gates

"Genocide" and "occupation" are now antisemitic tropes. You probably think this is satire. It isn't. They're being deadly serious. They are determined to rid antisemitism of meaning - to defend Israel as it commits monstrous crimes.

Whenever there's even the mere possibility of US/Iran negotiations, one thing tis certain: Israel will act immediately to destroy any such possibility, because Israel's goal is to lure the US to destroy the entire Iranian state and render it permanently shattered.

Despite being thoroughly discredited, the genocide-shielding group UK Lawyers for Israel still managed to persuade the General Medical Council to pursue a lawfare-style antisemitism complaint against Dr Ghassan Abu-Sittah. The surgeon has incensed Israel's apologists by testifying to the International Criminal Court about Israeli war crimes he witnessed in Gaza. The Medical Practitioners Tribunal threw the case out last year and exonerated Dr Abu-Sittah. Now the GMC has announced it will appeal the decision to the high court, forcing him to raise £150,000 to defend himself once again. It's hardly surprising that UKLFI wishes to persecute and impoverish Dr Abu-Sittah for being an upstanding human being. But it is off-the-charts outrageous that a professional regulatory body like the GMC is colluding in this campaign of harassment on behalf of Israel. More here: theguardian.com/society/2026/m…

The General Medical Council are targeting Dr. Ghassan Abu-Sittah again - join thousands of doctors to support him and demand the GMC leadership resigns! palestinecampaign.eaction.org.uk/complaint-gmc

One month after starting the war in Iran, this is the statement of the President of the United States on Easter Sunday. These are the ravings of a dangerous and mentally unbalanced individual. Congress has got to act NOW. End this war.

77 million Americans voted this lunatic into power. It was obvious after his first term he’d be far more dangerous second time round. Hard to believe how far they’ve fallen and how no one is prepared to do something about it.

Running out of language to denounce and condemn. Iranian Civilians will be the first to suffer from the destruction of power plants and bridges. No heat, no electricity, no water, no capacity to move or to flee, and all that it means for their right to life. A revolting statement

See, they know all the words. They just choose not to use them for Israel.

We are living in very dangerous times - and the source of that danger is not the ‘baddies’ which mainstream media want you to believe but our supposed allies.

‘Deus vult’ (God wills it) was the rallying cry of medieval crusaders. Its reappearance, symbolically and rhetorically, in the US defence secretary Pete Hegseth’s public language should alarm anyone who believes war must remain bounded by law rather than theology. The Independent reports that Hegseth has repeatedly framed the Iran conflict in explicitly theological terms, portraying it as a confrontation between “good and evil,” invoking Christian scripture, praising Crusader symbolism, and describing God as aligning with US military action against Iran. #Opinion by Dr Ahmad Ghouri Read: middleeastmonitor.com/20260404-the-u…

BREAKING: Trump’s 2027 budget is out, and it’s a DISASTER for the American people. Here’s what it contains. -Cuts $240 million from the McGovern-Dole Food for Education -Program. -fully eliminates the Job Corps, which provides free education and vocational training for young Americans -A $5 BILLION cut to the National Health Institute, which guts our research into curing deadly diseases -fully eliminates the Food for Peace program -$73 billion cut from housing, education, and climate programs -Cuts the EPA’s budget by HALF -Guts NASA by 23% -Cuts nearly $5 billion from USA -Cuts $354 million from historically Black colleges and universities -Cuts $204.5 million for the Community Development Financial Institutions fund, which stimulates growth in economically disadvantaged communities -Cut $10.7 billion for housing -Cut $8.5 billion for K-12 programs -Cancel $15 billion for clean energy -Cut $2.5 billion for clean drinking water -Eliminate $1.6 billion for youth job training -Cut $3.5 billion from the Labor Department -Eliminate $395 million for senior employment -Eliminate $775 million in food assistance grants -Eliminate the National Endowment for Democracy All to pay for $1.5 TRILLION for the military, including money to build 41 obsolete battleships. This is the most regressive, anti-people, pro-war budget ever proposed. It is a horrifying, deeply evil document that hangs the American people out to dry and funnels all our taxpayer dollars into the pockets of arms dealers and blood profiteers. We cannot allow it to pass.

A huge betrayal. Won't lower bills. Won't give us more energy security. Won't insulate from price shocks. And sends a clear message to the world that we are backing new oil and gas drilling.

Ursula Von der Leyen rewrites history. As if the US never attacked Iran. As if Israel never attacked Iran. As if they did not put global economic stability at risk. Constructing parallel realities to whitewash the crimes of her friends. She does not speak for Europeans.

Stone Age? At a time when you were still in caves searching for fire, we were inscribing human rights on the Cyrus Cylinder. We endured the storm of Alexander and the Mongol invasions and remained; because Iran is not just a country, it is a civilization.

Keir Starmer utterly silent on the war crimes that are happening. He'll drone on about a special relationship but nothing to say on war crimes in Iran, Lebanon, Palestine. Trump and Netanyahu able to behave like we have law of the jungle.

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Are they alleged children, or alleged victims, or is this just the Alleged Press?

Israel is ethnically cleansing southern Lebanon - a displacement of people bigger than the 1948 Nakba. It ought to be front and centre of western news reporting.

It must be tough work for BBC headline writers to find so many creative ways to avoid saying “occupy”