Arthur Guinness

People's reaction to things you say and do will often say a lot more about them than it ever could about you

A Palestinian man from Gaza has made a formal submission to the International Criminal Court (ICC) prosecutor, demanding that 14 Hamas leaders be investigated for crimes committed against the Palestinian people. This is the first such filing by a Palestinian against Hamas. The man lost his wife, children, and other family members in the war in Gaza. Should the ICC move forward with this case, I hope the world takes it as seriously as the one filed against Israel by South Africa.

Mayor, my grandparents were expelled from their land too. I have deep sympathy for the many Palestinians who experienced that. I’m not going to debate who was responsible. My grandmother fled North Africa and Iraq after the Farhud of 1941. Six years before any war over Israel. Palestinians were expelled during a war Arab states launched against us. Over 850,000 Jews were driven from Arab lands. Almost none remain. Maybe the mayor of New York should stay out of it. Or speak to both. Don’t weaponize one trauma while actively erasing another. Especially when using this “Visit Palestine” poster created by Frank Krausz, a Holocaust Survivor and a Zionist Jew.

I highly recommend this whole podcast about THAT NYT opinion piece. A few things among many that emerge: - it was not a good faith effort to get to the truth - the role of the highly-resourced, highly-orchestrated NGO industrial complex in feeding propaganda to credulous ideological-laundering media in a self-validating loop - this plays into the hands of not just those who want to destroy Israel but also the extremists like Ben Gvir and to the extent that there needs to be improvement and accountability in the Israeli prison system (as is surely the case and is in every prison system) it undermines efforts towards that good faith conversation (see first point)

BBC Panorama on fake accounts and foreign influencers trying to undermine the UK (and Western liberal democracy). The same or similar groups are also behind a lot of antisemitism and conspiracy theories about Israel. bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

@MartinSLewis I can share my story - retired for 4 months but no pension payments or lump sum yet. I believe it was morally wrong to issue a P45 and cease my employ when it was clear my pension was not in place. The interest-free bridging loan has helped but is limited. How do I contact you ?

Are you having issues with the civil service pension, delays or contact difficulties? If so how long has it been going on and what are the problems you face. I'm asking my news team to take a look at it. They'll be going through your responses as part of our research.

@Argonfire263196 @MartinSLewis Only 2 hours? I have had to wait 3 hours on multiple occasions only to speak to someone who knows nothing and makes empty promises which amount to nothing

@MartinSLewis 2 hour waits on phonelines. Pension payday changed without notification. Messages/emails/complaints not responded to - over 5 months. MyCSP app with all personal info decommissioned - no warning. 3 weeks to reregister on the new website. Zero communication. Utter shambles.

@BLAHBLAHBL53710 @MartinSLewis Capita say they will pay interest fir the period of delay, but no additional compensation

@MartinSLewis I think people that have delayed pension payments should be awarded interest on what they've lost due to not receiving their lump sums and pension payments when they became due! It's not fair you waited 60 years for this for god sake!

UK economy grew faster than expected but still the media is focused on Labour leadership and the Party is tearing itself apart. Ridiculous. Just stick with Starmer and get on and govern. The country is starting to get better and this needs to continue bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

It has come a time when the King and his sons speak better for the kingdom than their politicians. That may be necessary and they may be right but it is also not a sign of a healthy democracy in Britain today newstatesman.com/comment/2026/0…

Two weeks ago, Gazan women testified to a system of rape by Hamas to Palestinian women living in tents. Last week, Gazan children testified to being raped by Hamas clerics. This week, a report revealed the extent of sexual violence on Oct. 7th. The NYT hasn’t written a word.

@HamasAtrocities June 2025, the Co-Op supermarket chain in UK decided to boycott Israeli products. From summer 2025 the Co-Op also started to suffer losses, which it blamed on a cyber attack. I'm not saying sales of Israeli products did it, but poor management decisions seem the common thread.

🤣🤣🤣 You can't make this shit up! Italian episode n. 9,675,332 2025: CGIL (Italy's largest worker's union) calls to boycott TEVA, the Israeli pharmaceutical company 2026: CGIL raises an alarm about the loss of jobs due to TEVA's "deindustrialization" in Italy

I was sceptical but this is a good achievement. London is thriving.

Original BBC source here bbc.co.uk/news/world-mid…

OMG I thought this was a joke but it is a REAL story - albeit from 2015. Hamas claimed that Israel had turned the poor dolphin into an assassin. The Hamas affectation for bullshit and fabricating stories clearly didn't begin in 2023.

A while ago, I watched the infamous 47-minute video documenting the atrocities of October 7th — the one not made publicly available, to protect the privacy of the victims. The worst part of this video is not what it displays, but who is displaying it: the perpetrators themselves. Gleefully. Sadistically. Unabashedly. Most of the footage was filmed by Hamas terrorists on their GoPro bodycams, some also by ordinary Gazan civilians on their cellphones. Even the Nazis tried to cover up their atrocities, but Hamas brags about theirs for the entire world to see. The killers are euphoric throughout the massacre, and their relentless, ecstatic cries of "Allahu Akbar" (punctuated by the occasional "Kill the Jew!") are simply nauseating. Some images are seared into my memory forever. I will never forget the two boys in their underwear — one with his eye socket hanging out of his face — asking his brother whether he thinks they're going to die, while the Hamas monster who had just thrown a grenade in their saferoom helps himself to a drink from their fridge, taking a casual break from the slaughter. Neither will I ever forget the terrorists playing football with a severed head. Or the Thai migrant worker whose head is viciously hacked off with a garden hoe — another "Zionist colonizer" getting what he deserved, right?quillette.substack.com/p/what-did-you… Or the throngs of Gazans crowding around pickup trucks loaded with the mutilated corpses of Jewish women, filming and spitting on the bodies. Or the woman in Kibbutz Mefalsim, crouching and begging in vain for mercy. There is some evidence of sexual violence in the video — the charred corpse of a young woman with her legs splayed and her genitals exposed — but not much. Apparently even Hamas draws a line somewhere: they are not as proud of raping Jewish women as they are of murdering them. Or, more likely, they simply didn't want to embarrass the delicate sensibilities of their legions of useful idiots in the West. But yes — there was rape. Not "rape" in scare quotes, as the apologists would have it, but sadistic, murderous sexual violence, documented in a new damning new report by The Civil Commission, an independent Israeli women's rights NGO. (video summary here: youtube.com/watch?v=K7fJuz…) Across its 180 pages, the report describes "a recurring pattern of rape and gang rape; sexual torture; mutilation; targeted shooting to the face, head and genital area; forced nudity; binding and restraint; genital burning; objects inserted into intimate areas; post-mortem sexual humiliation; and execution during or after sexual assault." And it was premeditated and organized. The terrorists crossing into Israel carried printed Arabic-to-Hebrew phrasebooks with handy expressions like "take off your pants," "lie down," "spread your legs," and "don't make trouble." I wonder why they expected to need those particular phrases? I know one thing: no civilized country on earth would tolerate the existence of an organization like Hamas on its border after October 7th. Not one. This includes every self-righteous Westerner currently lecturing Israel from thousands of kilometres away, without an inch of skin in the game. dailymail.com/news/article-1…

@YouGov I'd probably vote to leave, but nothing to do with Israel's participation, just that most of the music is predictable and a bit rubbish.

Would Britons vote to leave the Eurovision Song Contest? Remain: 25% (-8 from 11 May 2023) Leave: 24% (+12) Would not vote: 40% (-5)

Meanwhile, the "Jewish rape dogs" hoax has been refuted not because it's a slur against Jews, but because the American Kennel Club attests it's an impossibility for dogs.

At last a positive story from Gaza, and people who deserve to help frame its future

@rodrigvm Lots of countries have organisations that lobby on their behalf. What's your point? AIPAC do not deal in photos of dead Palestinians as you well know. But thanks for pointing me to their website. For my $25 donation they'll send me a lovely Blessed are the Peacemakers T-Shirt

@AbsurdityCool The American Israel Public Affairs Committee AIPAC is an American pro-Israel lobbying group that advocates its policies to the legislative and executive branches of the United States. They will send you fotos of Palestinian children killed for a $100 donation!

Has anybody actually defined who this 'Israel lobby' actually are? How can I contact them and ask to be paid? (jk)

@AlexanderSoros Bravo

Proud to announce that today, we’re pushing back against this abhorrent rise in antisemitism and anti-Muslim hate and violence. apnews.com/article/george…