Martin Franklin

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🚨🚨URGENT!!!!🚨🚨 The "israeli" lobby strikes again. @metpoliceuk are bowing to a foreign entity. Dr Ellen Kriesels, Consultant Paediatrician, was arrested about 1.5 hrs ago from her home in front of her children. The reason? Two tweets from 8th and 27th August 2025. Today is 20th December 2025. This is an absolute outrage @MPSIslington PLEASE MOBILISE OUTSIDE ISLINGTON POLICE STATION AND DEMAND HER IMMEDIATE RELEASE. 2 Tolpuddle Street N1 0YY

🚨British-Palestinian doctor Ghassan Abu Sitta is due to face his tenth legal action brought by UK Lawyers for Israel, which have cost him over £100,000. He told Declassified: "The aim is never to win. The aim is financial and mental attrition".

The Judge in the Palestine Action legal challenge has been removed, and replaced by 3 others. Two of them appear to have conflicts of interests, including Judge Victoria Sharp who has family connections to pro-Israel lobbyist Trevor Chinn. Chinn funded both Conservative and Labour Friends of Israel, and headed up lobby group BICOM, which Palestine Action targeted. Is this a set up?

The truth must be told — share it. 💔 **Israel is killing us with our own empty pockets** Prices in Gaza didn’t rise by chance — every truck entering pays *astronomical coordination fees* to Israel: 800,000 shekels for meat, 450,000 for shoes, 150,000 for vegetables! Add to that the corruption of international organizations, traders’ profits, and internal taxes — a shipment that once cost $6,000 now costs $65,000. The result? Insane prices, displaced families unable to buy food, while Israel collects billions daily from our hunger and suffering. The price of an egg carton before the war was 10 shekels — now it’s 120 shekels. **Israel funds its war on us — with our own money.**

Outrageous attack on the right to protest. What next?

I think the real significance of Caerphilly is that once centre-left voters start accepting that they might have to vote for parties to the left of Labour in order to block Reform, then the entire basis for centrist political strategy since the 1970s is out of the window.

Loved Irish comedian Tadgh Hickey @TadhgHickey talks of his ordeal in israeli custody: I’ve never seen anything so inhumane | via @trtworld

🔴 BREAKING: An Israeli official told Kan public broadcaster that UNRWA “will not step foot in Gaza again,” despite a ruling from the International Court of Justice ordering Israel to cooperate with the UN agency. According to the report, the official claimed that every UN body previously active in Gaza “either failed in its mission or allowed itself to be controlled by Hamas.” The same message, the official said, has been relayed to Washington “in the hope that the Americans will agree with Israel on this issue.” On Thursday, the ICJ ruled that Israel is legally required to permit UNRWA to deliver humanitarian aid in Gaza, finding that Israel had not presented evidence to support its claims that the agency was infiltrated by Hamas or had lost its neutrality.

Another day. Another clutching of pearls hit piece. Today courtesy of the Times. I'm not sure if the Daily Mail or the Express are on the rota tomorrow? You know what to do: Join.greenparty.org.uk

@KozbarM For the them - not local people around the ground.

@KozbarM Starmer and co are ensuring that Tommy and his mates have a fun day out. I hope it all goes terribly wrong.

The so called English patriots do not even support their English team! Britain first or Israel first?!

By 2021, John Mann had received £36,815.92 from the Israel lobby in donations and junkets. That number is now likely to be higher. Let’s break this down: John Mann is the government’s ‘tsar’ on antisemitism and former chair of the All-Party Parliamentary Group Against Antisemitism. He visited Israel in February 2008 at the expense of the Parliamentary Committee Against Antisemitism (forerunner to the Antisemitism Policy Trust) to attend the second Global Forum for Combating Antisemitism. At that meeting, the Inter-parliamentary Coalition for Combating Antisemitism (ICCA) was founded. In a keynote address, Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni stated: ‘I would also like to take this opportunity to thank John Mann for volunteering to host the Global Forum next year’. Mann returned to Israel in November 2009 to give a speech at the Balfour Dinner at the invitation of the Israel-Britain Commonwealth Association. Mann visited Israel again in May 2013, this time at the expense of Israel’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Israeli Embassy in London. Courtesy of the Parliamentary Committee Against Antisemitism, Mann visited Berlin in January 2008 and March 2016, Washington DC in June 2016 and Israel and Qatar in January 2017. The same funder covered the salary of a researcher in Mann’s office to support the work of the APPGAA. Mann returned to Israel in March 2018, at the expense of the Antisemitism Policy Trust, as part of an APPGAA delegation and to attend the sixth GFCA. The same donor flew him to the US in September 2018 to visit social media companies. The American Jewish Committee covered the cost of further trips to the US in May 2009, February 2018 and June 2019. The total declared cost of these visits was £27,815.92. In addition to this, Mann’s Bassetlaw Constituency Labour Party received donations from two pro-Israel donors, Sir Trevor Chinn and Sir Trevor Pears, totalling £9,000. Total donations received from pro-Israel sources (as of 2021): £36,815.92.

Reminder The Tories, Labour, and Reform UK all back deregulated free zones. These zones are Ponzi schemes where State aid (public money) is used as profit motive for corporations like Blackrock, Vanguard, and Blackstone, who are creating a competitive unlevel playing field which due to Brexit is going to last for 25 years, that is the duration of the licenses these companies enjoy, along with 10 year corporate tax breaks. Most people aren't aware they are even living inside a free zone, but look closer and you will see how council funding is being syphoned off to the private sector while being framed as 'economic growth'. Mass compulsory purchase orders, land grabs, collapse of public services, capture of green spaces for real estate development, environmental pollution accelerating, protest stifled, all contributors to what Blackrock call their 'Infrastructure Imperative' My UK Govt petition calls for a review of all free zones in the UK. Freedom of Information (FOI) requests are either ignored or returned, with the govt claiming that public enquiries put too much strain on their governmental department teams. Deadline of the petition is 30th December 2025. I'm a volunteer who continues to expose the partnership between corporations and the government, which the nationwide rollout of deregulated free zones is a core component of. petition.parliament.uk/petitions/7294…

#trevorphillips: "Should the regular marches organised by the @PSCupdates be called off now?" Bridget Phillipson says these protests can be deeply upsetting to British Jews & the govt will be bringing in new powers to restrict peoples right to protest.

On this week’s cover of The Lancet, a new letter: “Gaza’s healthocide: medical societies must not stay silent”. Read the letter and more in our latest issue: hubs.li/Q03LX2fw0

No one in power respects my grief. And no one is coming to console me: Members of the Jewish community have been grieving for three days now over the killing of two innocent people in last week’s attack on a Manchester synagogue. Politicians and the media keep telling us how important it is to respect their grief. I and millions of other Britons, some of them Jews, have been grieving for much longer – over the killing of tens of children in Gaza not on one day last week but on every single day, without break, for two years. And yet no politicians or media seem to think it important to respect my grief. I grieve over much more than a death toll that now runs into many tens of thousands of children. I grieve over my government’s active complicity in providing the weapons and intelligence that made possible the mass slaughter in Gaza. I grieve over my government’s refusal to oppose the abduction of British citizens trying to reach Gaza and bring food to the population Israel is starving. And I grieve at my government’s refusal to mount an official flotilla of its own, a naval one, to break Israel’s illegal siege of the enclave and end the famine it has engineered there. I grieve over the relentless erosion of the public’s right to protest the slaughter and starvation in Gaza. I grieve over the designation of any practical effort to stop the slaughter as “terrorism”. I grieve over the condemnation by politicians and the media of my grief as “antisemitism”. I grieve for the death of my last illusions. The illusion that a civilised society treats all life as precious. The illusion that a civilised society learns from history, so that it stops recycling history’s worst atrocities. The illusion that our society is civilised. I grieve knowing that no one in power is coming to console me in my grief. Not the police. Not the politicians. Not the media. I grieve knowing that, in truth, they will vilify me, they will legislate against me, and one day they will arrest me. They want me and millions of other Britons to imagine we are alone in our grief, and that our grief is shameful. They need us to succumb to their lies. But we must never forget. We are many. And is they, not us, who are the monsters.

Owellian?

Sarah Wilkinson just faced horrific abuse in an Israeli prison and has now been detained by terror police at Heathrow Airport for pointless questioning. She has no money, no phone. Her 'crime' is that she has covered the genocide in Gaza with footage Israel try to suppress.