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@BasilTheGreat “While it is true that some high-profile cases have involved men of Pakistani heritage, the broader [ONS] data suggests that the majority of offenders [88%] are white. This discrepancy highlights the danger of conflating specific cases with broader trends”.blogs.lse.ac.uk/religionglobal…

@MichaelRosenYes I don’t know the answer re: UK; but in 2024 (official figures), 87,000 Israelis emigrated and 1 in 5 did so to Germany.

How many Israelis have emigrated to Britain in the last few years?

In UK equality law people with transgender identities are separately & distinctly protected from discrimination under the protected characteristic of 'gender reassignment'. That does not give males with trans identities the right to access provisions services & sports for women.

So we are somehow supposed to believe that the paramedics whom Israel keeps killing and injuring in southern Lebanon are all Hezbollah? Targeting healthcare workers is a war crime.

I wonder what is the word for this...

@RestoreBritain_ Actually it was - hope this helps. x.com/SamCKx/status/…

Exactly all these British men and women from... Early Hunter-Gatherers (c. 10,000 BC) The First Farmers (c. 4,000 BC) The Beaker People (c. 2,500 BC) The Celts (c. 800 BC – 43 AD) The Romans (43 AD – 410 AD) Anglo-Saxons (5th Century – 1066) The Vikings (8th Century – 11th Century) The Normans (1066) The Huguenots (16th – 17th Century) African and Asian Communities (16th Century – Present) European Jews (1656 – 19th Century) The Irish (1840s – 19th Century) The Windrush Generation (1948 – 1970) South Asian Migration (1950s – 1960s) East African Asians (1970s) European Union Migration (2004 – 2020) Modern Refugees and Asylum Seekers (Late 20th Century – Present)

Its 4 years since Israel murdered journalist Shireen Abu Akleh A report on an event in London remembering Shireen and the lack of accountability over her killing.

Imagine being a Lebanese ambulance driver who must wait while people may be bleeding to death from an Israeli air strike to avoid being killed themselves in a "double tap" strike -- a war-crime pattern of Israeli forces. x.com/MiddleEastEye/…

Israeli settler violence in the occupied West Bank “is going into overdrive, it’s worse than ever,” says Norway’s Foreign Minister @EspenBarthEide. “Settler violence, settler activity, even supported by the Israeli government, allowing settlers to take full control of territories that legally is Palestine and which even agreements that Israel has signed have recognized as to be controlled by Palestinians.”

BREAKING: Rabbi Yehuda Gilad, head of Yeshivat Ma’ale Gilboa, visited Khirbet Humsa in the West Bank following a settler pogrom in which a 29-year-old Palestinian farmer was sexually assaulted, his family was beaten, and hundreds of his sheep were stolen. Below is his full statement, translated from Hebrew: Letter from the Head of the Yeshiva, Rabbi Yehuda Gilad With God’s help, Rosh Chodesh Nisan — “a time of atonement for all their generations” Yesterday I went through a very difficult and deeply disturbing experience. I visited Khirbet Humsa (about a 30-minute drive from our yeshiva), where a pogrom carried out by hilltop youth took place about a week ago. I heard the details of what happened there from several sources, including Ruti — a woman I have known for years and trust completely. It turns out that in the early hours of the night, a group of rioters (around 30–40 people) arrived, equipped with sticks and many zip ties. They bound the men (and apparently also two foreign volunteers, though I am not certain of this), and then beat them all over their bodies with fists and clubs. We saw many remnants of the zip ties on the ground. The men required treatment at the hospital in Afula for injuries of varying severity. At the same time, the attackers stole the entire herd — about 300 head — belonging to the few families living there, under unimaginable conditions of poverty. At first, I heard that there had also been sexual violence, and I did not believe it… Yesterday we arrived at the site with Ruti, a friend of mine who is well known to them. When they saw us — Rabbi Avidan Friedman and myself — they visibly recoiled in terror and anxiously pointed to the kippot on our heads. Ruti tried to calm them, explaining that we were not among the attackers. Even so, at the beginning of the meeting, they were hesitant and afraid. I heard directly from a young man — a firsthand witness — what had happened there. From his face, the blue bruise in his eye, and his sorrowful expression, it was clear he was telling the truth. In that same conversation (with the help of a translator), he described in detail the prolonged abuse they endured while bound. Then, with deep shame, he told us something I had previously found impossible to believe. I find it difficult — my hands tremble as I write this about Jews — and yet I will write it, because I am convinced it indeed happened. Yes, these wicked individuals bound his genitals in an extremely painful way — not to mention the humiliation involved. These events recall the pogroms our ancestors endured in various diasporas. Have we become like the worst of the nations? I want to turn to the question: what should be done? But I feel that I am still at the stage of crying out. Alas — what has become of us!

By limiting single sex spaces to one sex, it ensures those, of that sex, who would otherwise not access the service if mixed sex, will do so. So in that sense, it is inclusive as one option in a range of different types of service. I wrote about it here audreyludwig.com/how-to-reconci…

I don't think I've ever read in a British newspaper or seen on UK TV, or heard on UK radio the phrase 'Jewish terrorism'.

It’s not “the left”. It’s every major human rights group, including every major Israeli human rights group; multiple UN commissions and rapporteurs; and almost every major genocide scholar, including multiple Israeli historians of the Holocaust.

@cathydevine56 Given she seems to believe men have superior rights to women, I anticipate the day when she argues white people have superior rights to everyone else.

Quick feminist analysis. Q: Does Nadia advocate for males or females? A: Males. Q. Does her preferred policy benefit males or females? A: Males at the expense of females. Conclusion: Nadia & preferred policy reinforce power hierarchy between the sexes. This is sexism.

Another one for the Hague

No one is attacking you because "after all those years I'm still a Jew". It's because you support a genocide. You are serving a foreign country doing horrible things. They are attacking you because of what you do, not because of who you are. I'm a Jew like you are. At age 74, I've been a Jew longer than you. So what? And my family arrived on Turtle Island at least a generation before yours did. So what? The only people who attack me and tell me to go live somewhere else are Zionists who can't stand that a living, breathing, experienced, knowledgeable anti-Zionist Jew is messing with their control of the narrative and influence over government, the media and public institutions here.

The ethnic cleansing in East Jerusalem is happening now! Large Israeli forces entered the Silwan neighborhood today, 25 March, to evict 11 Palestinian families from their homes. Amidst the ongoing illegal and lethal Israeli-American offensive against Iran, Israel is expanding its ethnic cleansing in East Jerusalem, throwing Palestinian families into the streets. The eviction of 11 families, marks the continuation of a massive displacement wave: approximately 2,200 people in Silwan are facing an imminent threat of forced displacement, 150 families (1,500 individuals) in al-Bustan and 90 families (700 individuals) in Baten al-Hawa. This is the reality of systematic, institutionalized violence and a clear manifestation of an Israeli policy aimed at engineering the demographic balance and "Judaizing" the neighborhood by exploiting discriminatory laws. These measures are designed to expand Israeli presence and control over one of the most politically and religiously sensitive areas in the region, serving as a crucial component of the broader ethnic cleansing currently unfolding across the West Bank.

@Eurostar COMPLAINT! Despite my contacting you on 16 March to inform you that I was cancelling my booking 10 days in advance of travel tomorrow, you have FAILED to provide me with a refund. #bad #CustServiceFail #CusComplaint #CustRights

A brief history of Israeli attempts to occupy Lebanon, 1918-present. ⤵️ 1918. David Ben-Gurion & Yitzhak Ben-Zvi published Erets Yisroel in Fergangenhayt un Gegenvart (The Land of Israel, Past and Present), describing "our country" as stretching from the Litani River in southern Lebanon, the Hermon Mountain foothills and Wadi A'waj (just south of Damascus) in the north... archive.org/details/righte… 1919: Chaim Weizmann told British Prime Minister David Lloyd George the Litani was 'valueless’ to Lebanon but was “essential to the future of the Jewish national home.” He said we “consider it essential that the Northern Frontier of Palestine should include the Valley of the Litani, for a distance of 25 miles above the bend” researchgate.net/publication/37… ​​and aljazeera.com/news/2009/8/12… 1919: The World Zionist Organization proposed to the Paris Peace Conference the boundaries of the "Jewish National Home" should start on the Mediterranean coast south of Sidon, following the foothills of the Lebanon mountains to the Litani River, and then following the river eastward. bu.edu/mzank/Jerusale… In 1944, the Zionist movement put forward a plan by American Zionist, Walter Clay Lowdermilk, calling for the usage of the Litani River in Lebanon for Zionist projects. scienceopen.com/document_file/… On May 24, 1948: Ben Gurion told his general staff: “we should prepare to go over to the offense with the aim of smashing Lebanon, Transjordan and Syria… The weak point in the Arab coalition is Lebanon, for the Muslim regime is artificial and easy to undermine. A Christian state should be established, with its southern border on the Litani River. We will make an alliance with it.” archive.org/details/bengur… 1948: During the 1948 war, Ben-Gurion thought the Litani should be Israel's northern border. In Oct. 1948, Israeli forces crossed into southern Lebanon & occupied 15 mostly Shiite villages. The Israeli commander Carmel said he was motivated by the consideration that the Litani River & Wadi Duba afforded natural, defensible boundaries for Israel & by a desire to leverage control of Lebanon in negotiations with the Syrians. After the operation IDF units uprooted villagers along the Lebanese border, including Kafr Birgim, Iqrit, and Mansura dn790004.ca.archive.org/0/items/islami… Israeli troops remained in southern Lebanon until March 1949 when the two countries signed an armistice agreement. Israel was forced to withdraw back to the international border at Ras al-Naqura. 1950s: Recall the Litani was Lebanon's longest river & could be easily & cheaply be diverted to Israel. Complete control of the Litani river would add 800 million cubic metres/yr to Israel's water supply, a theoretical increase of 50% to Israel’s 1600 million cubic meters. scholars.wlu.ca/etd/1497/ 1950s: Recall as well that Israeli military leader Moshe Dayan (Chief of the General Staff (1953–1958) had an urge for territorial expansion. In one meeting with Ben-Gurion in the mid 1950s, they discussed using an Iraqi invasion into Syria as a pretext for an Israeli intervention in Lebanon with the aim of annexing the south and turning the rest of the country into a Maronite state.” For Moshe Dayan, it would be easy to occupy Lebanon. “All that is required is to find an officer, even a captain would do, to win his heart or buy him with money to get him to agree to declare himself the savior of the Maronite population. Then the Israeli army will enter Lebanon, occupy the necessary territory, and create a Christian regime that will ally itself with Israel. The territory from the Litani southward will be totally annexed to Israel, and everything will fall into place” (Avi Shlaim, The Iron Wall, p.424) archive.org/details/ironwa… 1950s: Moshe Dayan’s plan was to "'enter Lebanon, occupy ... the territory south of the Litani, which will be annexed to Israel," according to Prime Minister Moshe Sharett at the time. researchgate.net/publication/37… 1960s: Moshe Dayan pronounced again in the 1960s that Israel's northern borders are "not satisfactory" books.google.com.mx/books?id=SZ7qD… 1968-1976: Palestinian guerilla fighters, now based in Lebanon, carried out raids on Israel from southern Lebanon. Israeli forces carried out mass destruction & death across the south, including artillery shelling, air raids, ground incursions, and helicopter commando raids. During this period, Israel forced out as many as 300,000 Lebanese, mostly Shiite farmers, due to Israel’s indiscriminate attacks. ucalgary.scholaris.ca/server/api/cor… 1975-6: The Lebanese government collapsed, civil war broke out in Lebanon. Israel presented itself as the “protector” of three Christian enclaves on the Lebanese side of the border, placing them under de facto Israeli military occupation. merip.org/1982/09/israel… 1978: In March 1978, the Israeli army invaded south Lebanon up to the Litani River, killing 1,100 Lebanese & Palestinians, mostly civilians. Israel also consolidated control of the Wazzani-Hasbani springs in the southeast of Lebanon to increase water flow to the Jordan River, laying pipes to catch the runoff. books.google.com.mx/books?id=SZ7qD… From that time forward, the Israeli army moved freely back & forth across the border, and at any one time Israel deployed at least 1,000 soldiers in Lebanon jstor.org/stable/pdf/267… Then US President Jimmy Carter forced an Israeli withdrawal from South Lebanon, threatening to cut off all military aid otherwise. The U.S. moved aggressively to create & deploy UNIFIL to oversee the withdrawal of Israel's forces. Israel was forced back to the border, but managed to install Major Saad Haddad, head of South Lebanon Army (SLA), as the leader of a buffer zone as a bulwark against the PLO. jstor.org/stable/pdf/253… 1982: Israel re-invaded Lebanon, occupies the territory south of the Litani River, besieged Beirut for 10 weeks, devastating civilian infrastructure, killing >19,000, mostly Palestinian & Lebanese civilians, facilitating the massacre of thousands in the Sabra and Shatila refugee camps. 1982-2000: Israel occupied southern Lebanon south of the Litani River, giving rise to Hezbollah, founded in 1982 in response to Israel’s occupation of Lebanon, with support from their co-religionists in Iran. 1980s: Israel showed no intention of withdrawing from Lebanon & the Lebanese government offered the mostly Shiite population of the south no services or protection, a total absence of state presence. Hizballah soon began attracting large numbers of followers. In 1983, Israel pulled back from the Shouf Mountains overlooking Beirut but continued to occupy all of Lebanon from the 'Awali River southward, including Sidon, Lebanon's fourth largest city. The occupation was costly & Israeli losses continued to mount, and attempts to create village militias in southern Lebanon floundered. Israel redeployed its forces in Lebanon in January 1985, declaring a "security zone,” 10% of Lebanon now effectively under total Israeli control. jstor.org/stable/pdf/267… The occupation included arbitrary imprisonment and torture at the Khiam detention (jstor.org/stable/pdf/301…), economic stranglehold, and attacks on Lebanese villages. 1993: Israeli forces carry out “Operation Accountability” against Hezbollah, which attempted to force Hezbollah north of the Litani River: 140 Lebanese civilians killed, 500 Lebanese civilians wounded, 300,000 Lebanese civilians displaced. Israel’s purpose was, in the words of HRW, “to effect a massive displacement of the civilian population in south Lebanon in the operation was to "to effect a massive displacement of the civilian population in south Lebanon.” hrw.org/legacy/summari… 1996: “Operation Grapes of Wrath” Israel again sought to force Hezbollah out of South Lebanon and "to effect a massive displacement of the civilian population in south Lebanon,” according to HRW. Israel killed 154 civilians & injured 351 in Lebanon during the war. Israel pressured the Lebanese government to disarm Hezbollah and Amal. Israel threatened civilians unwilling or unable to leave would risk their lives; hrw.org/legacy/summari… and #P81_5005" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">hrw.org/reports/1997/i… 1996, 1999-2000: Israeli strikes on Lebanese power plants darkened much of Lebanon in 1996, 1999, and twice in 2000, causing $300M in damage. The goal was to punish the civilian population of Lebanon for not dealing with Hezbollah jstor.org/stable/pdf/267… 2006: Tit for tat border skirmishes led to the 34-day war in which Israel killed more than 1,109 Lebanese, the vast majority of whom were civilians, and displaced 1 million people. Hezbollah rockets killed 43 Israeli civilians. Israeli airstrikes destroyed or damaged tens of thousands of homes. hrw.org/report/2007/09… Yet, according to the Pentagon, the war was seen as "a disaster" for the Israeli military. Hizbullah forces were able to wreak havoc on Israeli armor columns. ynetnews.com/articles/0,734… Nov, 2023-Sep.2024: The Israeli military carried out >70 small covert raids into southern Lebanon since November 2023 telegraph.co.uk/world-news/202… Sep. 2024: Israel carried out a series of terrorist attacks, planting bombs in communication devices, killing scores across Lebanon. Israeli forces began a series of airstrikes on 23 September, killing over 800 in the first week. Since mid-September 2024, Israeli strikes on Lebanon have killed at least 2,267 people & injured 11,022 more, mostly civilians. On 1 October 2024, Israel invaded southern Lebanon again with ground forces. They advanced very slowly & failed to take and hold territory, primarily due to heavily Hezbollah resistance on teh ground. See for example, the following analyses of Hezbollah’s military capabilities discussed youtube.com/watch?v=PGp9sB… and youtube.com/watch?v=JFa_1e… by @jonelmer The fighting was supposed to end on 26 November, when Israel & Lebanon signed a ceasefire agreement, Yet, Israel kept troops at five 'strategic points' inside Lebanese territory beyonf the final withdrawal date. today.lorientlejour.com/article/144824… And Israel has continued to bomb Lebanon & killed hundreds of Lebanese since, violating the ceasefire over 15,000 times, killing hundreds. This past week, Israel renewed its ground invasion. Israel announced plans to seize the entire area south of the Litani River in a “massive invasion”. In the past week and a half, Israel has killed 800+ in Lebanon, wounded thousands and displaced a million. Israel Katz warned displaced Lebanese civilians forced out of their homes would not be allowed to return until the safety of Israelis near the border was guaranteed. He added: “just as was done against Hamas in Rafah, Beit Hanoun and the terror tunnels in Gaza” theguardian.com/world/2026/mar… Israel has announced its going to do to Lebanon what it did in Rafah & Beit Hanoun: genocide.