Nicola (she/her) 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

With early symptoms which can be vague, #PancreaticCancer can be difficult to diagnose. Confirmation came too late for Mum. Please don't let the same happen to you - or someone you love.

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?

Genocide is literally the biggest hate crime out there. You cannot oppose hate crime without opposing genocide.

“Some Muslims think hatred against them has become normalised” Helen’s response translated: only Israel matters, f**k everyone else. Tommy Robinson’s march is backed by Israel, so of course she won’t call for it to be banned. And, ending colonial rule does not mean killing colonisers. But still, we’re supposed to watch @Helen_Whately and not notice the racism or the incoherence. This is what paid privilege looks like.

It pained me somewhat, but I unfollowed someone earlier today. Their constant sniping about @ZackPolanski has become creepily and tediously obsessive.

Come join the party, Glasgow!!

Universally Challenged

Bullshiteye

Satirists may as well pack up and go home. The entire Trump administration is a fucking joke, and the sooner everyone involved in it is consigned to the history books, the better.

Owen Jones: You can openly support Israel wiping Gaza off the map - that's mainstream. No debate. No "extremist" label. But march next to Jews against killing civilians? That makes you a dangerous hateful extremist. The world has turned on its head

If you’re calling for a ban on pro-Palestine marches, then you also have to call for a ban on Tommy Robinson’s far-right racist marches.

This is abhorrent with a capital F.

The two women who died - one a 16yo girl and the other in her 20s died from suffocation, as there boats are so overcrowded. Many injured due to chemical burns These lost lives are the result of political choices - It is urgent to put an end to this deadly situation and establish safe routes.

At the time of posting there were 1008 laughing emojis. You can imagine what some of the comments say, these are human lives FFS. This is what people like Farage, Lowe, Tenconi, and Yaxley-Lennon have emboldened. RIP. #ReformUK #RestoreBritain #UKIP #TommyRobinson

Mick Lynch calls our Melanie Phillips for accusing @ZackPolanski of inciting hatred. Phillips repeats the claim that anyone who says Israel is committing genocide is inciting hatred. Lynch points out Israel has committed mass murder in Gaza.

Two Sikh women have been raped in racist/religiously motivated attacks and yet they want to ban Pro Palestinian marches but NOT far-right marches. How is it that ok??

There seems to be some misunderstanding regarding Israeli attacks on Christians. Some of this violence and abuse, particularly when directed against clerics and others wearing identifiably Christian attire, is indeed motivated by specifically anti-Christian religious bigotry. As messianic religious extremism becomes more widespread and gains increasing power within Israeli Jewish society and Israel's government, attacks directed at Christians specifically because they are Christian have indeed been on the rise. But the majority of such attacks are not directed at Christians as such. Rather, the primary motive for such attacks is that these Christians are like their Muslim compatriots Arabs and, as in the case of Armenians, part of Palestinian society. The violence and abuse, the dispossession and expulsions, should first and foremost be understood in the broader context of Zionism and Israel’s determination to establish a Jewish supremacist state in which the Jewish community maintains demographic, territorial, political, and economic hegemony. Most prominently, the vast majority of Christians in the territory that became the state of Israel were expelled in 1948 as part of the Nakba. Not because they were Christian, but because they were like their Muslim neighbors not Jewish. Because they are Arabs. It is for this reason that they have been denied and deprived of the right to return to their homeland or reclaim their stolen properties. Since 1967 vast amounts of Christian land and property in the occupied territories have been expropriated by Israel. Not because it is specifically Christian, but because it is not Jewish and because it is Arab. Similarly, the regular pogroms against Christian villages and communities in the West Bank today are indistinguishable from those being launched by Israel, its military, and settler vanguards against Muslim villages. The motive is Israel’s insatiable appetite for Palestinian land and property, not the Christian identity of its legitimate owners. Israel’s campaign against churches and their properties also largely falls within this framework. The various churches have established extensive land and property holdings over the centuries. Property rights, it might be added, that were with few aberrations not only respected but upheld by successive Muslim authorities. That's why they still exist. That has all now changed. Israel is introducing a variety of tax measures, and engaging in a range of other gimmicks, the purpose of which is to seize these properties from the churches, transfer their ownership to the state or settlement groups, and reserve them for exclusively Jewish use. Again, and on the whole, not specifically because they are Christian, but because like their Muslim counterparts they are not Jewish. Needless to say, if the roles were reversed this would be immediately denounced across the globe for what it transparently is.

Melanie Phillips is doing exactly what Owen Jones suggests is happening. Note how she refers not to Polanski’s Jewish identity but to his Jewish ancestry.

I’d suggest that a Sky News presenter roaring at Polanski, who he quite obviously despises, and then nodding and smiling his way through wacko comments from brazen fascist crank Melanie Phillips, is helpfully illustrative of How It Came To This.

@jk_rowling You tweet like an A level politics student who's written their essay on chatgpt. Strawman after strawman and a complete lack of reading comprehension.

@jk_rowling 1) If I wrote about a Jewish person "'Jew' is his political shield" That would be the end of my career. 2) If you care about women: Why won't you speak out about Palestinian women being slaughtered by Israel? x.com/owenjonesjourn…