Soft Touch

List of TDs who voted against the sanctions bill in the Dáil yesterday, although Israel kidnapped 14 Irish citizens incl the president's sister. Ireland is not a neutral country. The govt here works for Israel & the US and just gives mere platitudes to absorb the public’s anger.

@mandyarthur **Extremely low—under binomial assumptions where new voters mirror typical primary turnout splits (say ~45-55% incumbent support), the odds of 52k new voters going >90% against one are vanishingly small (<<0.0001%), absent massive, targeted mobilization.**

You did fuck all to stop them being kidnapped to begin with though did you. There is literally a fucking UK air base on Cyprus. Fuck your hand wringing.

Does nobody realise how deeply Andy Burnham is involved in the scam that Freeports and SEZ's are costing taxpayers £84 billion+? Andy Burnham is already in BED WITH BLACKROCK. Burnham has kept this quiet hasn't he - BlackRock's joint venture (JV) with the Greater Manchester Pension Fund (GMPF), the UK's largest Local Government Pension Scheme. Announced in late March 2026, the partnership targets up to £1 billion in UK primary healthcare real estate (NHS-leased GP surgeries, primary care centres, and related facilities) by 2030. He is not the squeaky clean politician he is being made out to be.

When Ben-Gvir was 18, the IDF refused to draft him for his compulsory military service because his politics were too extreme. 30 years later, Netanyahu appointed him Minister of National Security, in charge of the police and the prisons. Netanyahu knew exactly what he was doing.

Itamar Ben Gvir and his fascist allies have been the face of Israel for at least 30 years. But apparently western politicians only noticed this week.

“RUC officers were involved in the distribution of weapons to loyalist gangs, the recruitment and retention of informers involved in and implicated in repeated murders…” ~Andrée Murphy @ATownNews ☕️🥐

"Why are you talking about Israel so much?" Why is Israel committing genocide, stealing land, stealing elections, buying politicians, running blackmail rings, censoring the internet, murdering journalists, kidnapping humanitarians, and taking away our right to protest?

You enabled this shit all along. You fucking knew what these cunts were like and you chose to side with the fucking demonic filth. We've watched children burn because your government won't hold these bastards to account. You give them weapons and supply RAF surveillance so they can bomb refugee tents more efficiently. Fuck you, you vile ghoul. Now go and arrest the ambassador.

In order for this propaganda to make sense, they're banking on you not knowing where the Black Sea is.

Least popular world leader. Worst polling on record. Elected by an Israeli slush fund to sell the entire state to Palantir brokered by a paedophile Mossad agent. Cyclical race riots. Government on the brink of collapse. Solution? Thirty days of free bus travel for children.

Either Starmer is lying that he didn’t know his people were spying on journalists or he is incapable of managing & leading anything, let alone a government or political party. Which is it @Keir_Starmer?

The Shin Bet publicly describes itself as Israel’s domestic intelligence service. But that gives no sense of its real function. Israel is not like other western states, whose internal intelligence services typically deal with homegrown threats of organised crime and subversion (or at least what they claim to be those things). For decades, Israel has been occupying the Palestinian territories of the West Bank, Gaza and East Jerusalem – an occupation judged in 2024 to be be an illegal system of apartheid by the International Court of Justice, the world’s highest court. But as Israel has made clear for decades now, it does not regard the territories under its occupation as Palestinian. It regards them as lands divinely willed to the Jewish people and which it has a right to actively colonise – or as Israeli officials term it, “Judaise”. The Palestinians are simply an obstacle to the full realisation of that colonisation. They are viewed rather like an infestation of termites. They need to be removed or eradicated. Israel is at different stages in that eradication process, reflecting the degree of pushback it has received internationally. Gaza is near completion. The West Bank is well advanced. East Jerusalem is a work in progress. It takes brains as well as brawn to keep an ugly, dehumanising system of oppression like this running for so long and in ways that don’t embarrass allies too greatly. The Israeli army is the muscle. The Shin Bet is the brains. The latter’s main job is to constantly surveill Palestinian society and devise ways to subvert and weaken it to prevent Palestinians from successfully resisting their gradual dispossession and eradication. The Shin Bet oversees Israel’s extensively documented torture programme – one that relies on systematic rape and sexual abuse of Palestinian prisoners, including by specially trained dogs. Young children are routinely abused in this system: grabbed from their homes in the middle of the night, beaten by soldiers, and locked up for months or years by military courts that have a near 100 per cent conviction rate. As part of this system, the Shin Bet uses the threat of prison, or torture, or sexual abuse, or denial of medical treatment, to pressure Palestinians into turning informer. It recruits and runs an extensive network of Palestinian collaborators it uses to undermine any attempt at organised, collective resistance. Another major point of leverage is the Shin Bet’s control of Israel’s permit system, determining whether Palestinians are allowed to find work, travel to different areas of the Palestinian territories or access medical treatments Israel has ensured are unavailable in the Palestinian health system. Over the past 30-month slaughter in Gaza, the Shin Bet has been doing all this, and more, on steroids. It has taken a leading role in the genocide. You might imagine that anyone who has spent years in charge of an institution like the Shin Bet must be depraved to an unimaginable degree. A person with no conscience or moral compass. A monster without redeeming qualities. And yet in the 2012 documentary The Gatekeepers, Israeli director Dror Moreh interviews the six former heads of the Shin Bet and they seem all too recognisably human as they critically evaluate what the agency was up to during their tenure. Each expresses varying degrees of remorse or doubt about their work – from torture to targeted assassinations. One, Avraham Shalom, observes that Israel’s military has become “a brutal occupation force” and compares Israel’s treatment of the Palestinians to Nazi Germany’s occupation of Europe in the Second World War. These, Israel’s ultimate insiders, conclude that the occupation they were reponsible for running has hollowed out the moral core of Israeli society and at that the same time undermined its security. In other words, they argue that the occupation is making Israel less safe, not more. In many ways, their interviews prophesy the Hamas attack of 7 October 2023 – and contextualise it as the inevitable outcome of Israel’s ever more barbaric treatment of the Palestinian people. The occupation is unsustainable, they say. Which means Palestinians will keep finding ever more extreme ways to resist it. So how did these reflective individuals fail to grasp how abhorrent and self-sabotaging these policies were when they were actually implementing them? Why was it only much later, after they left the Shin Bet, that it became obvious to them that the occupation was wrong and that the means of its enforcement – the tools they were using – were both morally repellent and self-destructive? Why was that insight absent while they were being paid – and honoured – to lead the Shin Bet? In part, the question answers itself. As the writer Upton Sinclair famously observed: “It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends on his not understanding it.” But there is far more to it than that. Each of those Shin Bet leaders operated within an institution that was much bigger than himself. The truth is none of them ran the Shin Bet. The Shin Bet ran them. The Shin Bet evolved as an institution to manage Israel’s apartheid rule over Palestinians. That was not a choice of any single individual. It was inevitable in the logic of apartheid. Any apartheid system needs a Shin Bet-like organisation at its centre. Apartheid is a crime in international law because it requires the enforcement of systematic racism through a violent segregation of rights. As long as Israel is an apartheid state, its intelligence service will, by definition, routinely carry out inhuman acts of racist brutality. In other words, the institutional “brain” of the Shin Bet, not any individual in it, has selected a set of policies towards Palestinians – immiserating them, terrorising them, ethnically cleansing them, torturing them and firing ammunition at them – as the necessary price of maintaining Israel’s apartheid control. Questioning the morality or sustainability of Israel’s apartheid rule over Palestinians is a luxury available to Shin Bet leaders only when they are no longer tasked with the enforcement of that apartheid system. This is a lesson about how power works that is not confined to Israel. Western states have their own versions of the Shin Bet. This is an extract from my latest article Western leaders play their part in our charade democracies. Can you spot the tell? Find a link to the whole article in the reply post ⬇️

Labour Together didn't go away - McSweeney, Mandelson, Simons are being recycled, not removed. Burnham is already promising Simons a Downing street job. The apparatus that hounded Paul Holden is intact. "Change" is the rebrand, not the reality. It's a revolving door for Zionists

If the EU stopped promoting + fueling the #NATO Proxy War in Ukraine and worked for Peace instead, the Baltic States would have less Security concerns...

@YvetteCooperMP @90percenters All the sincerity of rose west criticising fred's media presence...

I am truly appalled at the video posted by Israeli Cabinet Minister Ben-Gvir taunting those involved in the Global Sumud Flotilla. This violates the most basic standards of respect and dignity in the way people should be treated. We are in touch with the families of a number of British nationals involved to provide them with consular support. We have demanded an explanation from the Israeli authorities and made clear their obligations to protect the rights of our citizens and all those involved.

Failure to act NOW to create full international boycott, divestment and sanctions against terrorist Israel is complicity with fascism without borders, coming soon to a neighborhood near you!

This seems Watergate level to me. Why is this not a bigger scandal?

These are all civilian activists from who were kidnapped at gunpoint, and I want you to understand what that demon is doing isn't just physically and verbally attacking them, he's using them as proxies to taunt their governments for what they've allowed Israel to get away with.

Lady !!