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This picture was taken in 2014 on planet earth. Difficult to believe but it's true. #NothingToDoWithMisogyny

@hippyygoat @Martina Complete bollocks. Very disappointing to find Martina reposting this manufactured nonsense.

WTF‼️ Israeli man humiliates and degrades a Jewish Ethiopian who was using the showers at Tel Aviv beach…. He grabs him by the hair as if he were an animal and forces him to take a selfie with him.

@jeremycorbyn Hilarious that you thought holding a tribunal would make your predetermined conclusion seem any more valid than a pronouncement without the sham tribunal. Unsurprisingly, it doesn't.

We held The Gaza Tribunal to expose the full scale of Britain's complicity in genocide. Our conclusion: the British government has been an active participant in one of the greatest crimes of our time. Read the full report below. thegazatribunal.uk/report

@notanothertipst @WitlessWolrab @henrywinter He's so good he knows he's got a better chance of scoring than getting a penalty. Others, rightly not as confident of scoring, dive because that gives them a better chance of scoring.

@WitlessWolrab @MessierMessiah @henrywinter I just reposted the Harry Kane goal midweek. He could go down twice for a pen but stays up and sticks it in the top corner

Decisions, decisions. Amad Diallo was a penalty. That gets given as a free-kick anywhere else on the pitch. It’s even more a penalty than the Matheus Cunha penalty (which was a pen, however “soft”). Amad was just less theatrical. Penalty not given. Wrong decision. Harry Maguire was a penalty and red card. DOGSO. Penalty and red card given. Correct decision.  Understandable debate over the decisions and inevitable frustration for Manchester United. But United have benefited from decisions that go their way this season. All clubs have these issues, examples, frustrations. The main issue here is … 1) General standard of officiating in the Premier League. Amad decision was poor. Even more investment required in grass-roots refereeing, in fast-tracking talent, in training up academy graduates who don’t make it as pros, and in continued work to improve further the Select Group refs. PL has some good officials. Just need more. 2) Football belongs to fans, not officials. Fans deserve to know what is going on in real time. When decision/incident being discussed by officials, audio should be played live. The authorities don’t want to, feel it places too much pressure on officials so content themselves with brief explanation when announcing decision and clarification on PL Match Centre. Fans in the stadium and tuning in pay a lot for tickets and subscriptions, respectively, and shouldn’t be kept in the dark. Audio works well in rugby union and cricket (and acknowledging those sports have more pauses in play). l went to a VAR demonstration (not PL) earlier this week given by an elite official. Hearing the audio between officials gave insight into the process - and respect for what they are dealing with at speed, especially with players trying to con them.  You are never going to get complete consistency over decisions. There’s always going to be an element of subjectivity with so many incidents. But fans deserve more transparency and accountability. It might restore some trust. #BOUMUN

@notanothertipst @henrywinter Players have always dived. The difference now is that we have to wait for minutes for someone watching slow motion replays (which often distorts the play) before a decision is finalised. The waiting is unacceptable. It's football not US football.

@henrywinter The games gone totally soft. Fans asking for penalties, Managers asking for penalties All three incidents last night are players throwing themselves to the ground with the slightest contact. Stay on your feet and try to score in open play.

@henrywinter This can be summed up by stating the obvious. Fuck VAR. It doesn't work and it's spoilt the game. Use it for corners, throws-ins and goal lines. Nothing else.

@ProfDBernstein Might as well blow up the fucking thing then...

I'll take "most of the Muslim world will, within hours, be persuaded by demagogues that Israel did it," for $500, Alex.

@simonmontefiore Not sure that a hit on the Mosque would be a terrible thing. Iran would make more enemies if that should happen!

Oh my gosh. Jerusalem. A fragment of an Iranian missile so close to al-Aqsa and ha-Kotel. A blessing that neither were damaged.

@keepsayingitok @TempletonPeckJr @DPJHodges Yes. People deserve respect. Being religious adds nothing to the equation and indeed can diminish how much you respect them if they behave badly because of their religion.

@TempletonPeckJr @DPJHodges I'm not religious but, I respect people who are religious. Am I wrong to do so?

If you want to argue public spaces should not be used for worship - because that’s exclusionary - fine. But condemning just one religious group, in this case Muslims, is bigotry. I’m not sure what the debate is.

@meister_funk @RealTolmie Lol. Sorry Pep!!

@MessierMessiah @RealTolmie Not sure you understand football tbh.

Very proud of the team last night, I thought we were very good from minute one and after the sending off, excellent. The power, running off the ball, the chances we created against that standard of opponent was first class.

@meister_funk @RealTolmie They didn't lead to us getting back in the game. We created chances but at the expense of giving away massive ones and in the end a penalty and red card. Not sure how anyone can argue they worked!!!

@MessierMessiah @RealTolmie If the first half tactics didn’t work then how did we create the goal scoring chances? Thats not tactics. That’s great goalkeeping/poor finishing. Big difference.

@RealTolmie I'd be happy if we played like that every week. We're good enough to outscore teams. We were better in the second half though when we changed the defence!

@MessierMessiah We could have scored three or four in the first 20 minutes ourselves. You always have to measure against the opponent and the deficit we were starting from.

@JohnLig09877600 @persianjewess Satire is dead.

@persianjewess Bowen is echoing Margaret Thatcher's view of Gorbachev as 'someone that we could do business with'. And we could... as luckily no one killed him in the meantime.

Like clockwork, BBC airs a glowing eulogy of Ali Larijani. Larijani oversaw the massacre of tens of thousands of Free Iran protesters just two months ago. But BBC calls him “moderate” and “a man you could maybe do business with.” Absolute trash.

@HansNiesund @archer_rs @guardian You should stay up to date with the news.

@MessierMessiah @archer_rs @guardian I wonder what might have happened since then to impact attitudes to Israel

Hearing that @Guardian editor Katharine Viner has been overwhelmed with complaints (many from her friends) about Jonathan Liew’s abhorrent column justifying smashing up a branch of Gail’s because it had a Jewish founder. Insiders say she is beyond angry and heads will roll.

@HansNiesund @archer_rs @guardian In 2023...

@MessierMessiah @archer_rs @guardian

@HansNiesund @archer_rs @guardian No business in the UK would risk flying any flags associated with Jews. They smash up shops on the basis that Jews own shares in the business that runs the shop. What would they do to businesses who flew flags?

@MessierMessiah @archer_rs @guardian Uh huh. Let me know when Islington Council come round to take your flags down, or your next column portraying Palestinians sympathetically results in two days of hysterical conniptions.

@HansNiesund @archer_rs @guardian "In the current oppressive climate, even to exist as a Palestinian in western society is to be the target of aggression" The Jews are terrorising Palestinians? We all thought it was the Jews being murdered in their synagogues. How wrong of us.

@MessierMessiah @archer_rs @guardian It's hard to read any implied sympathy into this description of misdirected futility at all.

@HansNiesund @archer_rs @guardian The writer isn't stupid enough to say it outright but it's clearly implied. You have to be tone deaf to not get it or disingenuous. Big bad business which denies any connection to big bad Israel terrorises 'local' cafe owner by opening nearby. A bit of vandalism is deserved...

@MessierMessiah @archer_rs @guardian Where exactly is the sympathy and support to those vandalising businesses, or to any organisation proscribed by law?

@mishtal They'll be vandalising branches of Well Pharmacy all over the country tonight...

Hundreds killed in Pakistan air strike on a hospital in Kabul... Corbyn? Silent Sultana? Silent Amnesty? Silent Shockat Adam MP? Silent Iqbal Mohammed MP? Silent Our streets are quiet. Where is the outrage?

@BobbyVylan Yet you led the chants. Maybe don't do that if you don't want to be regarded as a terrorist supporter.

The news wants to focus on a chant to detract from the more important message, so here is the whole speech (minus a few seconds) from Al-Quds day rally.