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Following Plaid Cymru’s victory in the Senedd elections, rs21 member Morgan Rhys Powell interviewed Mike Jenkins, founding member of the 1980s socialist republican group Cymru Goch. revsoc21.uk/2026/05/19/int…

@MaryKenny4 I am Jewish and any cafe that puts up a free Palestine poster gets my trade. Stop mixing up Jews and Zionists, it is antisemitic

A local cafe I like a lot has now put up a "Free Palestine" poster. I don't feel comfortable about this - don't like politics in social exchange, & maybe Jewish customers may feel put off - but am I wrong? Everyone is entitled to express their opinions.

@RnaudBertrand @meadwaj It comes on the top of growing hostility to Israelis buying up land , running unregistered schools and businesses in part of the archipelago (the ‘party’ island of Siargao stands out).

This is pretty insane: the U.S. just tried to literally re-colonize part of the Philippines. They did so under the so-called "Pax Silica" initiative, the brainchild of - surprise, surprise - an ex-Palantir guy named Jacob Helberg who now runs U.S. economic "diplomacy" from the State Department. It's causing a big outcry in the Philippines, which is quite a feat given this is by far the most US-friendly country in Southeast Asia. If you're the US and you're getting the Marcos administration - of all governments - to push back on sovereignty, you've really overplayed your hand. What is the "Pax Silica" initiative? In a nutshell it's about the US getting other countries to commit to restructuring their AI tech infrastructure around a US-led stack. It's basically vendor lock-in: you hand over your critical minerals, align your export controls with Washington's, regulate AI the way America wants, and in return you get to be a US "trusted partner," whatever that means these days. In essence, let's not kid ourselves, it's all about China: this is the US's initiative to "win the AI race" by getting other countries to contractually commit to keeping China out of their tech supply chains. When you can't preserve your lead through innovation, you seek to lock countries in contractually. For instance as a country, this would mean telling Huawei they can't sell you AI chips, and telling Chinese firms they can't invest in your data centers - even if they're better and cheaper. It's not about choosing the best technology, it's about choosing the right flag. But in this instance, the US went much further still: they literally tried to carve out 4,000 acres of Philippine territory (in New Clark City, 60 miles north of Manila) to be governed under US common law with diplomatic immunity - the first arrangement of its kind anywhere in the modern world. This is according to the WSJ who ran the story last month (wsj.com/world/asia/u-s…) as if it was a done deal (it wasn't). Heard about the "French concession" or "British concession" in China during the century of humiliation? Same thing: the US basically asked for an "American concession" in the Philippines. Unsurprisingly, there was quite a bit of backlash in the country with for instance the Peasant Movement of the Philippines (KMP) calling it a “massive sellout” of the country’s land, minerals, and sovereignty (punto.com.ph/us-led-pax-sil…). So much so that the Philippines' government - namely Joshua Bingcang, president and chief executive of the Bases Conversion and Development Authority (BCDA) - issued a statement saying that the Philippines had rejected US proposals that would place the project beyond local jurisdiction (asianews.network/philippines-re…). Note, by the way, this delicious irony: the BCDA is the government agency that was created in 1992 specifically to convert former US military bases at Clark and Subic Bay after the Philippines spent decades negotiating their closure. New Clark City - where the Pax Silica's hub would go - is built on the old Clark Air Base. So the agency whose entire reason for existing is to turn former American colonial territory (i.e. US military bases) into sovereign Philippine land is the one now being asked to hand part of that very same land back under US jurisdiction (and, apparently, declined). Of course though, blocking this specific jurisdiction grab doesn't change the bigger picture. The Philippines is still a Pax Silica signatory, and Pax Silica itself is structurally neocolonial: you supply the cheap labor and raw materials, align your export controls and regulations with Washington's, cut yourself off from the world's rising technological powerhouse - and in exchange you get assembly jobs and the privilege of getting a pat on the head and being called a "trusted partner." They dropped the most cartoonishly colonial demand - governing Philippine soil under US law - but the underlying architecture is the same: you serve America's supply chain, on America's terms, and you relinquish your sovereign right to trade with whoever offers the best deal.

@GoodwinMJ Someone should deport you. I had happily replace you with 10,000 migrants

Hundreds of small boat migrants are in the Channel this morning heading to the UK. We are being invaded. It has to stop. Leave the European Convention on Human Rights. Repeal the Human Rights Act. Derogate from the Refugee convention. Deport deport deport.

@VividProwess No this is nonsense. The figure for Arab Jews in Palestine was minuscule until the Zionists turned up. Read some real history not the bollocks the Zionists pay you to spout

Bill Maher: “Israel did not steal anybody’s land. Jews have been living there since since about 1,200 BC - way before the first Muslim or Arab walked the earth.“ He's 100% correct..

@emilykschrader You are a complete liar regurgitating hasbara. This Jew wishes Israel was non existed. I am sick of being a human shield for the Zionist entity

In a surprise to absolutely no one, organizers of the flotilla propaganda stunt have been identified as Hamas operatives.

@PatrickChristys Why not? Who do you pray to? Satan?

Islamic prayers at Birmingham City Council meeting yesterday. Wake up, people.

After this weekend's "unite the kingdom" rally in London, Richard @leninology ponders the Christian nationalist turn in far-right politics, its origins, its meaning and whether it has a future in a country as irreligious as Britain. patreon.com/posts/christof…

@joshxhowie LOL. I am Jewish and was chanting from the river to the sea which means one democratic state in historical Palestine. Meanwhile there was a far right demo with placards calling for Jews to be driven out of Britain

Antizionism is just antisemitism for people who want to pretend they’re not racist.

@stefg11 @DalrympleWill Hamas are heroes compared to the idf and I say this as a Jew

@DalrympleWill How terrible for them that they cant openly share their grief at this👇

"British Palestinians feel ‘gaslit’ and unable to speak out, says leading activist. Ahead of Nakba march, Sara Husseini says many feel they are being treated as suspects rather than victims of mass suffering" theguardian.com/society/2026/m…

@BaronRodrigo2 @DalrympleWill @Kathleen_Tyson_ Oh go F off holocaust denier

@DalrympleWill @Kathleen_Tyson_ How can there be Brittish Palestinians when there’s no Palestinian Palestinians…… Jordanian?

@jonathanshainin @BarnabyRaine @Equatormag Just read it.excellent

New @Equatormag: an exhaustive account of Germany’s relentless philosemitic repression – which has not been slowed by Gaza or Iran or Lebanon and increasingly demonises Jews and Palestinians and anyone who criticises ‘memory culture’ gone mad

@NicholasLissack So why did you march alongside the antisemites and Nazis of reform

I’m British. I’m Jewish. Britain is my home. Antisemites can choke on their hate. Nothing changes that. Death threats or not, I’m staying and fighting. Nobody will ever stop me.

@BellaWallerstei So you marched alongside the antisemites and Nazis of reform because they support genocide, hypocrite

Off to protest against Jew hatred in central London. 87 years after my Jewish grandfather fled Nazi Germany to Britain and it’s still necessary to protest against this shit. But here we are….

@Patelindianlion @Keir_Starmer So you are a genocide denier mr Patel or is it mr bot

@Keir_Starmer Starmer, you should resign and go to picnic Palestine, the place you have recognize Otherwise, your only option is Sadiq Khan's Pakistan. This would be better for the people of the UK.

We must respond to the message that voters have sent us and break with the status quo once and for all. We must confront the big challenges the public face with real answers. That is how we will deliver the change that people are desperate for and build a stronger and fairer country. theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

@SamaramGill Quite right you are Zionist media. And I as a Jew have been on hundreds of Palestine marches

JUST NOW: Outside another “pro-Palestine” march days after Jewish people were targeted in a terror attack. The SILENCE about antisemitic violence is becoming impossible to ignore. We were called the ‘Zio media’ and told to get out.

@Zeev81309558 Lots of impact on me as a Jewish Londoners. Israel makes good people think I support genocide which I don’t. The Israelis manufacture lethal weapons in Israel. The British government uses the raf to spy for Israel. Local councils invest in Israel

Do I understand correctly that in the UK's local elections, one of the main issues is Israel — a country the size of Wales, 2,000+ miles away, with almost zero direct influence on the daily lives of British citizens?

@aziz0nomics And brits because we make weapons for the Israelis to kill children, and we give them information to help them do it. Stopping murder is more important than garbage collection

I am tired of people in Western countries saying "Palestine is on the ballot" in your local elections. No—it is not. What is on the ballot: trash collections, social care, local jobs, economic growth, energy, etc. Palestine/Israel is a problem for Palestinians and Israelis,

On Golders Green, and what people won't say