Film & Media Teacher, MA in English Lit, glutton for punishment priming for a Ph.D in Film Studies.

Joined July 2018
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"In Vietnam, I didn't want the US to win. I don't want the US to win in Iran. I'm not America First, I'm Justice First. If it were switched and the Palestinians were doing to the Israelis what the Israelis are doing to them, I'm not pro-Palestinian". —Professor Norman Finkelstein
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Alexei Navalny…
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Navalny referring to Muslims as cockroaches and advocating for their extermination
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I see Sam Harris, the Gaza genocide apologist and ‘New Atheist’ apologist for a self-proclaimed Jewish state, is doing the usual pro-Israel whataboutism by cynically asking why people aren’t protesting, or didn’t protest or condemn, the killing Yemeni kids by a Saudi coalition backed by the US. So here’s my challenge to Sam Harris. Let’s compare records. Let’s compare what I have said and written about Yemen over the years with what Harris has said/written. Let’s compare what Ro Khanna or Bernie Sanders has said about Yemen, and what Harris has said. Let’s see who uses Yemen cynically as whataboutism to defend Israel’s genocide in Gaza, and who actually gives a damn about the people of Yemen and is consistent when it comes to objecting to US-backed foreign wars and genocides. Shame on Sam Harris.
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BREAKING: Apocalyptic scenes in Lebanon’s capital right now. Israel is bombing residential buildings in densely populated neighborhoods of Beirut. A ceasefire that still allows bombs to fall on civilians is not a ceasefire.
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you’re a multimillionaire paid by multibillionaires to DEFEND a trillionaire.
Multimillionaire paid by multibillionaires very angry at trillionaire
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Musk = 4 billion poorest people. In the UK: 🔻 4.3m kids in poverty 🔻 3m using food banks 🔻 27% rise in homelessness One trillionaire. Zero conscience. A system that celebrates hoarding while children starve. Grotesque? It's criminal. 💀🇬🇧
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Apartheid South Africa and Nazi Germany needed compliant judges to provide a legal veneer to their darkest crimes. Judge Johnson joins their wretched company. He overturned a jury's conviction of four anti-genocide activists for criminal damage and sentenced them as terrorists instead. As one their barristers pointed out, the four defendants were initially arrested by police on suspicion of involvement in an act of terrorism. But the prosecution decided not to charge them with terrorism offences because it knew no jury would ever convict them based on the evidence. Instead the Crown held two trials: a sham one for the jury, and the real one conducted in secret by the judge. That is not justice. It is a show trial worthy of the worst tyrannical regimes.
Here’s injustice Jeremy Johnson handing down the sentences at today’s disgusting stitched up Palestine Action trial. Any faith I ever had in the fairness of the British justice system is completely is dead.
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Daily Mail posts lies about the Greens that are spread far and wide. I wish half the number of people saw their apologies. Solidarity with Kamel.
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The rioters have set a house on fire in Belfast.
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Owen Jones: Racists now think they're legitimate. Because Farage gave them a script. Tommy gave them a signal. Musk gave them a platform. Now Belfast burns. And they're acting surprised. Don't be. 🎯🔥
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Why is Elon Musk "obsessed" with amplifying far-right voices in the UK? To advance his "very racist agenda." @mehdirhasan breaks down why Musk wants to influence British politics – just as the SpaceX IPO could soon make him a trillionaire.
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.@JohnHealey_MP is one of world’s most heinous war criminals He ordered UK spy flights over Gaza for over a year The intel gathered was handed to genocidal Israeli military in real-time @IntlCrimCourt cannot let him escape accountability for his crimes

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Replying to @antisemitism
CAA claim to back the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) definition of antisemitism. It says that “Holding Jews collectively responsible for actions of the state of Israel” is bigotry, but that’s exactly what CAA are doing here. Dangerous, cynical, shameful.
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“Self-defense”
BREAKING: The U.S. military has said it began launching "self-defence strikes" against Iran news.sky.com/story/iran-isra…
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The OLDEST CHRISTIAN village in the world is burning. Taybeh, Palestine. The last 100% Christian Palestinian village, where Christ resurrected Lazarus, build the Church of St. Michael.
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One of the most brutal scenes in human history has been leaked. The moment the tents of displaced people were bombed in the southern Gaza Strip, in the Mawasi area of ​​Khan Yunis, killing more than 500 civilians. A video that the world must never forget.
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This is the kind of thing that was said about the Jews in the 1930s. It is not hyperbolic to say that degrading an entire culture leads us to a very dark place. Reform are playing with fire right now trying to stop themselves being outflanked by the extremists of Restore.
Some cultures are MUCH better than others.
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The big change in Britain isn't rising violence. All statistics show that violence has fallen steeply. It's that the far-right uses social media to selectively weaponise crimes if they can stoke division, fear and indeed violence.
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What really unsettles critics isn't the shirt. It's the idea that Palestinians might have a leader capable of uniting their people and leading the fight for liberation from apartheid the same way Nelson Mandela did. newarab.com/news/uks-zack-po…
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