The Voice from Above
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🌍🇪🇺🇵🇸 Peaceful but pissed - Mighty sweary - Environmentally & socially woke - Vile cunts averse (Tories & Lab) - Do I support Hamas? WelI, do you eat shit?
Fed up of the media lying to you every single day? Double Down Newswatch will hold them to account. Never before has aggressive scrutiny and fearless independent journalism been so important, yet never before has the mainstream media been so narrow in its perspectives, so infected in groupthink, and so tied to this failed political class and system. If you find yourself screaming at the telly at the established pundits and news providers. The Laura Kuenssbergs, the Robert Pestons, the Trevor Phillips, Dana Bash and Bari Weiss, you are not alone. There are millions of people like you and we’re here for you. This is not a program that will tell you what to think, the aim is to provide you with the information and knowledge you need to be able to make informed decisions in a functioning democracy, something that mainstream media is failing to do. Like millions of others I’ve watched in horror and astonishment as the Israelis have used Western weapons and diplomatic protection to maim, mutilate and murder tens of thousands of small children and other civilians. There’s no other issue where the divide between the mainstream media and political class, which apparently regards this as tolerable, and the rest of us who’ve reacted like normal human beings, is so profound. Above all, I feel deep shame and guilt at my own profession which continues to peddle a perverse inverted journalism, where allegations of racism are hurled not at the perpetrators and supporters of ethic cleansing, apartheid and genocide, but at their victims and their supporters, smeared and disempowered as antisemites. Gaza encapsulates the political and intellectual and moral bankruptcy of those who rule over us and those who are to tell us what to think. Western politics and Western journalism is in desperate need of renewal, we want to be a part of that and we hope you join us. @PulaRJS Double Down Newswatch, covering the stories that mainstream media misreports, underreports or simple doesn’t report at all. Premiers this Wednesday 6 May at 6pm
«Η ατιμωρησία δεν θα διαρκέσει για πάντα». Σήμερα είχα την τιμή να συναντήσω τη Francesca Albanese @FranceskAlbs, Ειδική Εισηγήτρια του ΟΗΕ για τα παλαιστινιακά εδάφη, μια από τις πιο θαρραλέες φωνές υπεράσπισης του διεθνούς δικαίου. Σε μια εποχή βαθιάς κρίσης για το διεθνές σύστημα προστασίας των ανθρωπίνων δικαιωμάτων, η ίδια επιμένει να μιλά για ευθύνη, λογοδοσία και δικαιοσύνη. Παρά τις πιέσεις, τις απαγορεύσεις και τις κυρώσεις που έχει δεχθεί, συνεχίζει αταλάντευτα να αναδεικνύει την πραγματικότητα στη Γάζα και τη Δυτική Όχθη. Η πρόσφατη έκθεσή της φωτίζει κάτι που δεν μπορεί πλέον να αγνοηθεί: Το πώς πολυεθνικές εταιρείες πλουτίζουν με την κατοχή και το πώς ο πόλεμος μετατρέπεται για ορισμένους σε κερδοφόρα «ευκαιρία». Η Αθήνα στέκεται ξεκάθαρα υπέρ της ειρήνης και της λογοδοσίας.
Israeli soldiers beat and tortured flotilla organisers Saif Abukeshek and Thiago Ávila after abducting them in international waters near Greece in the early hours of Thursday morning, lawyers and diplomats have said. After illegally intercepting 22 boats and kidnapping around 200 activists hundreds of miles from Gaza, Israel transferred the majority to Greek authorities, but refused to release Abukeshek and Ávila. Instead, it transported them back to an Israeli desert prison, where Palestinians are routinely tortured. Brazilian activist Ávila was dragged face-down across the floor and beaten so badly he passed out twice, lawyers said, after visiting him on Saturday. His wife, Lara Souza, said an embassy official told her he had been temporarily blinded by his injuries, with his left eye still swollen shut, but he was being denied medical treatment. In a brief visit, where he was separated from the consul by a glass screen and not able to speak freely, he reported pain all over his body, especially in his hand and shoulder, and said that soldiers had threatened to throw him overboard and target his wife and two-year-old daughter. Abukeshek, who had been sailing on an observer boat and did not intend to go to Gaza, was “in shock”, his wife Sally Issa said. He was forced to lie face-down on the floor of an Israeli warship for two days, lawyers said, blindfolded and with his hands bound behind his back. Spain has demanded Israel release Abukeshek, who is Palestinian but holds Spanish and Swedish citizenship. On Friday, prime minister Pedro Sánchez said he had been "illegally abducted by the Netanyahu government". On Sunday, the activists appeared before an Israeli court, where a judge extended their detention by two days. Lawyers demanded their immediate and unconditional release, telling the court the entire process was "fundamentally flawed and illegal", and describing Israel's actions as a "retaliatory measure against humanitarian activist leaders". The two men have now been transferred back to solitary confinement in Shikma prison, where they are being held in windowless cells. Both are on hunger strike, with Ávila saying he will not leave without Abukeshek.
"There is something very specific happening to Jewish communities” Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch says she supports a moratorium on pro-Palestinian marches but not for the march led by far-right activist Tommy Robinson later this month #BBCLauraK bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00…
Colonial courts have granted an extension of Saif and Thiago’s illegal detention by two days. Lawyers will update us soon with more information. We demand their immediate release. Keep the pressure up. 📷 Yoav Etiel, Walla
