Author and journalist who has written about war and sport for more than thirty years.

Joined January 2019
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Please read posts BELOW. Please SHARE Israel deliberately targeted & murdered journalist Amal Khalil The West is supporting & enabling such abominations The UK is still providing arms to Israel, still not imposing any sanctions on Israel Israel is even still at Eurovision
Everyone should read what the Israeli military did to journalist Amal Khalil today in this minute-by-minute account as the international community watched in horror. First the text messages threatening her then trapping her and a photographer in a house then bombing them then firing on international rescue crews, all with the world watching in real time. There are no words left for the horrors that U.S. political leaders are enabling.
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"Between October 2023 and December 2025, more than 38,000 women and girls were killed in #Gaza, the result of Israeli air bombardment and land military operations. ๐™๐™๐™–๐™ฉ'๐™จ ๐™–๐™ฃ ๐™–๐™ซ๐™š๐™ง๐™–๐™œ๐™š ๐™ค๐™› 47 ๐™ฌ๐™ค๐™ข๐™š๐™ฃ ๐™–๐™ฃ๐™™ ๐™œ๐™ž๐™ง๐™ก๐™จ ๐™ ๐™ž๐™ก๐™ก๐™š๐™™ ๐™š๐™ซ๐™š๐™ง๐™ฎ ๐™™๐™–๐™ฎ." - @UN_Women
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7 hours of silence from the Prime Minister. The US is using UK bases. The President is openly talking about destroying a civilisation. And Downing Street says... nothing. If you wonโ€™t speak up now, when will you?
It's now been 3 hours since our supposed "ally" Donald Trump threatened genocide on a country of 93 million people. We've had absolutely nothing from the UK government. This doesn't come in a vacuum either - every day the US & Israel have been murdering innocent people.
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Why campaigners want a referendum on water ownership After years of sewage scandals and complaints about water companies, there are calls for the industry in England and Wales to be re-nationalised. ๐Ÿ“ฉRead our latest newsletter here: channel4news.substack.com/p/โ€ฆ
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๐Ÿšจ๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ฑ Ben Gvir: โ€œWe have stripped the Palestinian hostages in our prisons of everything, and now we want to take their lives.โ€ Someone needs to arrest this guy now.
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At this point Israel could drop a nuclear bomb and anyone who criticizes them for it would be falsely accused of being โ€œanti-semitic.โ€ Anti-semitism has lost all meaning because Israel uses it as a shield to cover up its GENOCIDES in occupied Palestine and South Lebanon.
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Listen to what this psychologist has to say: "Trump has the most severe personality disorder a human being can have.โ€ โ€œThe world is in a hell lot of trouble, because the most powerful man in the world is both evil and demented."
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This is an absolute disgrace. In 2026, is the GMC fit for purpose?
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Disgusting. Ben Gvir and Smotrich are psychopaths, intent on dragging Israel into ever darker places.
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No one is attacking you because "after all those years I'm still a Jew". It's because you are supporting a state committing a genocide which was founded on genocide. In other words, you function as the agent of foreign country doing horrible things. I'm a Jew. I'm even a rabbi. The only people who attack me and tell me to go live somewhere else are Zionists who can't stand that a living, breathing, experienced, knowledgeable anti-Zionist Jew is messing with their control of the narrative here.
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This was my experience when I visited Israel in 2001. And if you question British support for Israel and British Jewish support for genocide (and there are so many brave exceptions), you are accused of being antisemitic. No matter that there's Jewish blood in my family!
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"Every single person she spoke to espoused casual genocidal rhetoric. Israeli society has gone full fascist. It's like Berlin 1930" - Abby Martin. The casualness: that's the horror. Not rage. Not passion. Just... normal. Like discussing traffic. Like the genocide is just part of the day
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๐Ÿ‡ฌ๐Ÿ‡ง BREAKING: Keir Starmer calls the antisemitic arson attack in Golders Green "horrifying." He's in touch with Jewish leaders. He says an attack on the Jewish community is an attack on us all. But where is this energy for Gaza? Where is this urgency for the 37,000 Palestinians killed? Where is this language for the bombs dropping on Lebanon, on Iran, on Yemen? An attack on Jews is horrifying. An attack on Muslims is geopolitics. Antisemitism is poison. So is Islamophobia. So is bombing civilians. So is funding genocide and calling it self-defense. You can't condemn hate at home while enabling it abroad.
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Hatzola, set up by the local Jewish community, provides life-saving care to people of all faiths and none. It is appalling that this valued, volunteer-run ambulance service has been targeted. We must oppose hatred, and build a society where everyone can live in safety & peace.
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Here are the ugly scenes of Jewish supremacists in London today who imagine they can racially abuse non-Jewish journalists with no consequences. All solidarity to the Al Jazeera reporters involved. Arrests should follow. But will they?
This is what Jewish Supremacism looks like. Al Jazeera journalist being intimidated by a Jewish supremacist in Golders Green today. He is shouting 'Al Jazeera off our streets' in the ear of the journalist. Occupying Palestine. Occupying London. #EndJewishSupremacism Link in replies
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@TheEconomist has utterly destroyed its reputation with its deeply racist and profoundly bigoted coverage of the mass-murder of the people of Gaza. For six months we have seen issue after issue of scandalously one sided-coverage which has has made it complicit in the continued enslavement of the Palestinian people, the on-going seizure of their land, the systematic abuse of their human rights and the industrial slaughter of their innocent civilians in both Gaza and the West Bank. Shame on its senior editorial staff responsible for the travesty of inhumanity and bias. @zannymb
Am I the only one who found the Economist cover a bit melodramatic and jumping the gun? Israel still has full US backing and other countries and is not under nearly enough pressure to stop the war. You know who is alone? Palestinians in Gaza, the West Bank and East Jerusalem
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IF THERE WAS ONLY ONE CLIP THAT SUMS UP EVERYTHING ABOUT ISRAEL โ€” this is itโ€ผ๏ธ
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Today I$rael tried to kill me in a targeted airstrike in southern Lebanon as I was reporting on was the targeting of bridges and the forced displacement of 1 million people, an ethnic cleansing operation on a larger scale than the Nakba I have absolutely no doubt that this was deliberate. Despite claims there were no warnings ahead of the strike and no notifications sent to the Lebanese Army who allowed us to film As we have seen in Gaza they want to silence journalists who document and report their war crimes It is the western powers who provide political and military support for I$rael, arming it to the teeth to carry out genocide in Gaza and ethnic cleansing here in Lebanon. They are not simply complicit, but active participants and should be held accountable for their actions. But if I$rael thinks todayโ€™s strike will silence us and keep us out of the field they are very, very mistaken
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23 years ago today, American peace activist Rachel Corrie was killed in Rafah, Gaza while trying to stop the demolition of Palestinian homes. She was brutally run over by an Israeli militarized bulldozer. She was 23. โ€œI wonder if any of the children here have ever existed without the tank-shells and the demolition.โ€ Rachel Corrie said. Today, much of the city she died to defend has been reduced to rubble. RIP Rachel, may your memory inspire each of us to nurture the courage to stand in defense of others.
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The Jewish Labour Movement doing what itโ€™s always done, weaponising antisemitism and smearing the left as racists for taking a stand against Israeli war crimes, for taking a stand against the murderous facism of Netanyahuโ€™s regime. Itโ€™s not the Greens or Corbyn pulling communities apart - itโ€™s Labour policies that unconditionally support Israeli slaughter and aims in Gaza, the West Bank and across the region. People feel powerless and totally disenfranchised by a dystopian Labour Government that is controlled by the @JewishLabour Movement, Labour Friends of Israel and by the people who exert financial control over both undemocratic and secretive organisations. Mike Katz has been one of Jeremy Corbynโ€™s fiercest critics alongside his close colleagues Margaret Hodge, Ruth Smeeth, Adam Langleben and Ivor Caplin. Hodge and the JLM submitted the initial complaints to the Labour Party and @EHRC about antisemitism in The Labour Party under Corbynโ€™s leadership. Of the 200 complaints submitted by Hodge, 91 were found not to be about Labour members. As the late Sir Geoffrey Bindman KC said about Hodge- Euan Phillips/David Gordstein - Sarah Sackman - Mike Katz - Langleben et al - most of their complaints were โ€˜โ€œalmost entirely bogus.โ€โ€™ Mike Katz, Ruth Smeeth and Adam Langleben with Margaret Hodge.๐Ÿ‘‡
A great article from former JLM Chair @mikekatz. At a time when the populist left and right are trying to pull communities apart, this Labour Governmentโ€™s Social Cohesion Strategy couldnโ€™t be more important to combat antisemitism and heal divisions. thejc.com/opinion/labours-soโ€ฆ
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You remember when Louis Theroux made that film about 'The Settlers' and people said it was unfair because it showed 'extremists'? Even then and certainly now, it showed mainstream policy: threaten and kill Palestinians and annexe the West Bank. Going on right now.
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