Mark Taggart

Weep for our 700 year old parliament. Weep for our traditions and culture. Weep for our international reputation. Weep for the millions of Britons who have gone before. Weep that we find ourselves here. But most of all weep for what is still yet to come.

@GuillermElodie As I have more than two brain cells, of course I would vote for a party that was committed to rejoining the EU. Its not rocket science.

@gunbyC Indeed, Clive. The pathos of it all though. the bloody pathos!

Channel 4 Miners Strike, painful watching for those of us who lived through it & supported them. The nauseating Thatcher. Scargill's mistakes. The brutal arrogant cops. The Scabs. The desperation of the strikers & their families. The one-sided media. The Defeat! Dear me!

@elonmusk Nonsense as usual Musk. Tucker Carlson is a right-wing propagandist and not a journalist. Hundreds of western journalists have tired to interview Putin without success. Carlson will get access not because he is a journalist but he is a propagandist tool!

If true, this would be disturbing indeed. One may agree with Tucker or not, but he is a major American journalist and such an action would greatly offend the American public.

@KimIversenShow I too have to Israel and the West Bank and I endorse your sentiments. No one who has seen the Palestinian plight first hand can easily shake it from their memories. What the Israelis have been doing for the past 30 years is beyond reprehensible. It is utterly inhumane!

Every American I know who has spent time in Palestine comes back angry, disgusted and traumatized. I’ve yet to meet someone who says “it’s not that bad. It’s their fault and they deserve it”. I’ve met many who went believing Israel were the good guys and Palestinians screwed themselves over only to come back with an entirely disgusted view of Israel. I came back in a state of shock. I witnessed in real life things I had only read about in history books. Things I never believed a government could do in modern times. I had a neutral view of Israel prior to my trip. During my trip I was extremely skeptical and even pissed off several Palestinians with my lines of questioning. When I came back to the states and began processing everything… I couldn’t turn on the lights or get myself out of bed for a week. What I saw was unimaginable. It was a cruelty aimed at a group of generous and warm people with a very very clear intent- to get rid of them. And I couldn’t believe the group doing it to these people had it done to them not long ago. They took similar tactics and weaponized them against others. That is what I saw and I can’t unsee it. The children in the schools would stop me and beg me to come home and tell America to stop. They know it’s us allowing this abuse. Myself and everyone I know comes back disgusted with Israel. And many of us weren’t even in Gaza witnessing war. Everyday normal life for Palestinians is cruel and it’s 100% controlled by Israel. And despite what we’ve been spoon fed our whole lives, it’s not done because the Palestinians are violent and dangerous, it’s done to rid the region of them. To make their lives so miserable they either leave or violently rise up giving Israel an excuse to take more land. And the Israelis are not shy about this when you speak to them. Some might couch it with statements like “well we tried peace but they didn’t accept it”. It doesn’t matter how they phrase it, they still end up in the same place which is “they can’t stay” and “we want them gone”.

@HananyaNaftali Like the rest of us most British jews want nothing to do with your Zionist claptrap or your corrupt evil Israeli government. So just clear off you warmongering moron!

🇮🇱🇮🇱🇮🇱 Israeli soldiers hang the flag of Israel in Gaza City. 🇮🇱🇮🇱🇮🇱 Just as the world defeated ISIS, We are defeating Hamas. Radical Islam is the enemy of humanity. Israel is making this world a better place. #HamasISIS

@CarlDoran13 What self-centred self righteous hooey. You will still be eating as they do. You will be celebrating Xmas as they do. You will still watch tele as they do. Or are you going to abstain from those things as well.

I speak as a former serviceman, a "veteran" as they say. Like most of us, many of my family fought and died in 20th century wars. I'll remember them. But I'll no longer wear a poppy, while supporters of war, death and genocide do so. My ancestors and I are not with them.

@JohnLewisEU Pity more indigenous brits don't pray a bit more is all I can say.

I didn't think it was possible to cause offense by..... Praying

@BellaWallerstei People have a right to protest. Its called democracy. And exactly why are jews scared? Which jews have been attacked? When were they attacked? Who were the perpetrators? How many have been charged? None as far as I am aware. You are just spouting Zionist claptrap. Idiot!

So are we all supposed to be OK with the oldest hatred in the world manifesting itself on our streets every weekend now? Are Jews going to have to avoid central London every Saturday? The cowardice of our political leaders is shameful.

@DouglasKMurray Stop talking nonsense and read a book. Hamas is a direct product of Israeli policy. It was Israel who despite agreeing to them, refused to implement the Oslo accords and thus undermined every moderate Palestinian politician striving for peace.

Anyone in any doubt about what those marching today are calling for should know this. There would be peace tomorrow if Hamas laid down its arms. If the Israelis laid down their arms there would be a second Holocaust. The people marching either don't know this, or want it.

@HenMazzig Really? Flouting International law: false flag ops: collective punishments: dehumanization of a whole people: ethnic cleansing to create new living space: walling people up in ghettos: denying them basic necessities. I think you will find the Nazis wrote this playbook!

Comparing Jews, and yes, Israel to Nazis is an act of hatred. We are not, and will never be like our murderers, who wanted us to go extinct. Israel is the reason my family is alive - a Nazi’s worst nightmare.

@HensonJames11 Its just plain murder. Pure and simple!

If there is a hell we are all going to it for allowing this.

@terryfizgerald @HensonJames11 Read a book you illiterate cretin!

@JMPSimor Flouting International law: false flag ops: collective punishments: dehumanization of a whole people: ethnic cleansing to create new living space: walling people up in ghettos: denying them basic necessities & a corrupt right-wing demagogue spouting hate. We've been here before!

“Payback” is not a legitimate military objective.

@SaulStaniforth @_LFI @schneiderhome Israel today. A corrupt far-right leader dismantling democratic Institutions: disregard for International law: state policy of living space expansion: dehumanisation of a people: collective punishments: false flag ops: ethnic cleansing: concentration camps. Sound familiar?

David Mencer, a former director of @_LFI, says @schneiderhome loves Jew haters & supports Hamas. Mencer has no defence for the war crimes being committed by Israel in Gaza, so he resorts to this.

@HananyaNaftali History is indeed. A corrupt far right leader dismantling democratic Institutions: a policy of Lebensraum: State dehumanisation: collective punishments: false flag operations: ethnic cleansing: mass walled & barb-wired concentration camps. This is the State of Israel 2023!

This not Nazi Germany of 1938. This is Turkey of 2023. History is repeating itself.

@JakeWSimons @JewishChron This is just more Zionist bullying claptrap to try to silence decent journalism: Israeli proxies have been doing this for years. Take no notice. As for then hospital bombing account given by the Israelis, this is as usual a lot of lies from start to finish!

@mishtal Oh shut up with your hateful Zionist propaganda!

For years anti-Israel activists demanded Israel tear down its 'walls'. We said they were for security. They lied & screamed 'Apartheid'. Hamas terrorists broke through once. On one day. And slaughtered 1400 Israelis. That is why the fences are there. Do you understand now?

@stephenpollard Another bullying Zionists trying to silence all opposition!

Even for the Guardian this is truly foul theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

@DPJHodges The Israelis will kill 50.000 innocent people. Gaza will be left a ruin. They will then cruelly deny people the basic materials to rebuild. They will turn off basic necessities at a whim. Conditions in the prison will be darker than ever. There is no justification for it. None!

18 days ago thousands of Jews were massacred. And their murderers were clear. "Dad, I am talking to you from a Jewish woman’s phone. I killed her". How we react matters now. Do we really mean "Never Again". Or do we actually mean "yeah, that's bad, but it's complicated".