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It's revealing that an attack on two men by a man with a mental health condition, instead of causing a debate about mental health provision, provokes an immediate political/media tsunami of demands for a crackdown on anti-genocide protests. UK is having a mental breakdown.

@hugh_canning @JoyceDiDonato 👏👏 👏 Ann Murray/Joan Rodgers ENO twenty years ago

I bailed out after Act 2 of Ariodante - going home to listen to @JoyceDiDonato’s Act 3 😀

And couldn’t the same be said about the principal bad faith actors who were at the forefront in helping to derail Jeremy Corbyn’s leadership with their plotting, bullying and smears? Ruth Smeeth (a mediocre MP at best but much else), Ian Austin (a disloyal thug), Woodcock, Jenny Chapman, John Mann, Tom Watson (a ‘lifelong professional wrecker’ according to the late Dawn Foster), Margaret Hodge (who has openly admitted to working every day to bring down Corbyn during his leadership). These gangsters were working against the interests of millions of hopeful Labour voters. And here they are - set up for life in the Lords. All just as bad as Mandelson and all representing everything that is rotten about the Labour right wing.

I write as former Head of Maritime Section of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office and Alternate Head of UK Delegation to the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea Prepcom. 1) The flotilla is on the High Seas and not in Israel's 12 mile territorial sea. Israel has no jurisdiction. 2) The Israeli maritime blockade has been in place for 17 years and is an intrinsic part of the long term occupation found illegal in the ICJ advisory opinion 3) It is therefore not a short term measure in time of armed conflict as specified in the San Remo manual 4) In any event the San Remo rules explicitly state that humanitarian supplies may not be blockaded 5) The UN Commission of Inquiry has already determined that Israel is committing genocide. The blockade is plainly a part of the machinery of such genocide. For reasons 1 to 5 the Israeli attack on the flotilla is plainly illegal. 6) On the High Seas, the law applying on each ship is the law of its flag state. An attack by a state military warship on a vessel on the High Seas is an attack on the flag state of the vessel attacked. 7) Acts of illegal possession of vessels or abduction of crew on the High Seas should be pursued by each flag state as crimes within their domestic jurisdiction, not only in international law. 8) So the Metropolitan Police and DPP have an obligation to investigate and act over the abduction of persons from UK flagged vessels on the High Seas. This applies to each flag state mutatis mutandi. I hope you find this helpful.

Why on earth did these two very greedy war supporters join a socialist party if not to destroy it?

The overwhelming degree to which Israelis have supported the Gaza genocide should terrify us No society since Nazi Germany has allowed itself to become so thoroughly poisoned by ethnonationalist venom 20,000 Palestinian children slaughtered, and their killers surge in the polls

🇮🇱: We’re blocking food to Gaza, starving everyone is moral and just Also 🇮🇱: We can’t believe our people didn’t have enough food, it’s a crime against humanity

The Labour Party concocted a pack of lies to expel Jeremy Corbyn from the party which he had served for forty one years as the MP for Islington North. Jeremy’s real failing was that he wasn’t as nasty, vindictive, insensitive and as truly f*cking awful as Andrew Gwynne, Liz Kendall, Rachel Reeves, Mike Amesbury, Streeting, Nandy, Starmer and the rest of their rotten gang of bullies.

RT if you want @RishiSunak investigated. @ExcludedFighter @ChrisPDuck

Day in, day out glassy eyed Western politicians and journalists spoke of “Israel’s right to self defence” when it was obvious that Israel was carrying out a GENOCIDE

Do you agree?

“isn't it time we stopped supplying Israel with the weapons” Retweet if you agree with Corbyn

Amos Goldberg, Professor of Genocide Studies at The Hebrew University in Jerusalem "Yes, it is genocide. It's so difficult and painful to admit it, but we can no longer avoid this conclusion. Jewish history will henceforth be stained" Is there anyone more qualified and unbiased?

RT if you want King Charles to be the last monarch of the UK. @RoyalFamily

If Corbyn opens a socialist party retweet if you would join

For centuries: *Palestinian Arabs and Jews live together peacefully, respecting each other’s religions and cooperating; Jews account for 5-10% of the Palestinian population* 1914-1916: *Ottoman Empire collapses, Britain and France carve up Middle East, Britain occupies Palestine with absolutely no right to do so* 1917: *Balfour Declaration signed, promising Zionists a home in Palestine, also with no right to do so* 1919: *Zionists begin immigrating to Palestine in massive numbers to make Palestine “as Jewish as England is English” (Weizmann) — looking to replace the existing population with this <10% minority group* 1922 - 1935: *Immigration takes Jewish population in Palestine from 9% to almost 27%; Incoming Zionists rename towns and cities, ignoring existing practices and customs* 1936: *In an attempt to protect their homeland, Palestinian Arabs mount revolt against British and Zionist colonists; British violently suppress revolt, killing, injuring, imprisoning or deporting 10% of Palestinian males by 1939* 1944 - 1946: *Zionist colonists declare war on British colonists — eventually bombing King David Hotel in 1946 killing 91, including Jews, Arabs and Brits — as they wanted to take over Palestine faster than Brits would allow* 1947: *Brits hand over Palestine to the UN; due to relentless immigration, 1/3 of population are now Jewish, but only 6% of land is Jewish-owned, however the UN partitions the land giving Zionists 55% of the land including key Arab-populated areas* 1948: *Nakba happens: Zionists ethnically cleanse Palestinian Arab homes and lands by force* For the next 77 years: *ethnic cleansing, apartheid, massacres, rapes, oppression of the worst kind against Palestinians* Every day, right up to Oct 6th, 2023, where a 19-year-old was shot dead in the West Bank by a Zionist settler: *Palestinians endure kidnapping/rape/torture/murder/dehumanisation of the worst kind* Oct 7th, 2023: *Hamas attacks Israel, taking hostages to trade for some of the thousands Israel holds* Oct 8th - ongoing: *Israel unequivocally commits genocide on Palestinians, refusing to agree hostage release deal, creating the worst live-streamed collection of war crimes in the history of mankind* Some drooling little man sitting behind a keyboard who can’t even fathom the totality of suffering that exists within a single point on this list: hAmAs StArTeD tHiS wAr

Brilliant from @johnmcdonnellMP who advocates the economic and military isolation of Israel to prevent war crimes and bring it to a negotiated settlement. He makes a really powerful point regarding @IsraelinUK Ambassador pointing out that @TzipiHotovely is an Israeli ambassador who is an advocate of a greater Israel, refuses to recognise the Palestinian state, defies all the UN resolutions that have been passed about how to secure peace and she still remains in this country - why aren't we expelling the Israeli ambassador?

On this day in 1947 Labour took the coal mines into public ownership. And on this day in 2025 there are huge majorities in the opinion polls to extend public ownership to water, energy etc.