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I'm just so so sick of ignorant media Islamophobes in senior positions of the UK & US media viciously going after anyone that dares stand up against the slaughter and ethnic cleansing of the Palestinian people. Trevor Phillips notoriously got suspended from the Labour Party for Islamophobia, and you get the feeling, watching this astonishingly rude & sneary interview with @ZackPolanski, virtually the only senior British politician to show any sympathy for the Gazans, that Phillips frankly wouldn't lose a wink of sleep if every last Palestinian was erased from the face of the earth. He certainly can't see anything positive about protesting their genocide. Which raises the question: how and why did someone with such a record of toxic divisiveness ever get offered a Prime Time show in the first place?

The only good thing about Trump - only thing! - is that he sometimes says what we all know to be true but don’t expect an American president to say, admit, out loud.

Weird that even the police, in their tweet, though not in the full statement itself, are just airbrushing the fact that he’s being charged with three attempted murders, not two, the third person being a Muslim man he stabbed earlier in the day

What? He’s been charged with THREE counts of attempted murder. The third alleged victim is Ishmail Hussein. What is the editorial justification for not even stating that it’s three counts of attempted murder!

How is it a “temporary ceasefire” if Israel keeps killing people??

This day, I was among the first to return to my city, Beit Hanoun. I walked for dozens of kilometers on foot until I could no longer feel my feet from exhaustion. But the longing for home overcame the fatigue and extreme weariness. Whenever I felt tired, I would look ahead and see elderly men, bent over, their shoulders nearly touching the ground, They walk with slow steps, so heavy that you would almost be certain they might not survive the way, yet they move forward without hesitation or retreat, the love of home is more precious even than life itself. When I saw them, I forgot my own exhaustion and kept going. After nearly 10 hours of continuous walking, I arrived to find that the homes had been completely destroyed, there wasn’t a single house left standing. It was an unforgettable day, where exhaustion, hope, and pain all intertwined. A day that confirmed how deeply we love this land, so much that we crawl back to it even when it has turned to rubble. This is a day I will tell my children about, so they can tell it to their children, so our story is never forgotten. We are the survivors of a genocide.

According to Reporters Without Borders, Israel accounted for almost half of the world's journalist deaths this year. It says Israel has now been the deadliest country for journalists for three consecutive years.

Israel killed every single person in this photo in Lebanon. Every. Single. One. All journalists. Targeted and assassinated intentionally. For reporting the truth from the frontlines.

I think this is the best picture I've ever taken

BREAKING: U.S. Military veterans are occupying the Cannon building in the nation’s Capitol to protest the US’s war on Iran and Israel’s genocide on Gaza.

KERRY: “Yes, Netanyahu wanted us to strike Iran. Obama refused. Biden refused. Bush refused. The only president that agreed to this was Trump.” For anyone still buying the two weeks away from a nuclear weapon excuse👇🏽

What would he say today? Maybe: When the powerful bomb, it is strategy. When the weak respond, it is terror.

NEW: Pope Leo XIV’s close ally Cardinal Robert McElroy received a standing ovation at the end of his homily, where he called on Catholics to take up civic action to help end the “immoral” war against Iran. “When we leave this church tonight, we must move beyond prayer. As citizens and believers in this democracy that we cherish so deeply, we must advocate for peace with our representatives and leaders. “It is not enough to say we have prayed. We must also act. For it is very possible that the negotiations will fail because of recalcitrance on both sides, and the president will move to re-enter this immoral war. “At that critical juncture, as disciples of Jesus Christ called to be peacemakers in the world, we must answer vocally and in unison: “No. Not in our name. Not at this moment. Not with our country.”

Israeli strike kills infant girl in Lebanon while she is at her father's funeral Read it again And ask yourself, when is it enough? How much more depravity must we witness until there is accountability? When does Israeli impunity end? We must speak up against this insanity

Carlson: "it is a crime for which you can be arrested.. criticising Israel. You say you're for Palestine Action, you can be arrested.." Derbyshire: "That is not true.." "What is not true about that?" "Palestine Action is a proscribed group. It is banned" "Why is it banned?"

One of Orwell's nightmares materialised would be this: potential war criminals and arm manufacturers implicated in a genocide allowed to roam and operate freely, while citizens get arrested for opposing a genocide.

In his strongest condemnation yet of the Trump-Vance war against Iran, Pope Leo XIV said today: “We are surrounded by a delusion of omnipotence that’s becoming increasingly unpredictable and aggressive.” “We are met by threats instead of invitations to come together. “Those who pray don’t threaten death. Death enslaves those who have turned their backs on God and turned themselves and their own power into a mute, blind, and deaf idol. “They demand the whole world bends their knee. Enough of the idolatry of self and money! Enough of the display of power! Enough of war! “True strength is shown in serving life!”

MASSIVE PROTEST IN ROME TODAY Protestors in Rome carried a massive symbolic shroud, inscribed with the names of more than 21,000 Palestinian children killed by Israel.

If this is Britain’s idea of the terrorist threat, then British counter-terrorism has lost all connection to reality.

It is incredible that Israel literally bombed a synagogue in Tehran and the vast majority of western media just completely ignored it.