A UK court has sentenced four activists in support of Palestine to jail for a raid on an Israeli arms factory near Bristol in 2024. Palestine Action says their aim was to ‘dismantle drones and weaponry’ they believed would be used to kill people in Gaza.

BREAKING: Justice Jeremy Johnson has ruled that the Filton 4 will be sentenced as terrorists – even though two juries refused to convict them of violence charges over their efforts to disable an Israeli factory in the UK making killer drones for use in Gaza. They were found guilty of a minor charge of criminal damage. Judge Johnson kept the jury in the dark of his plans to sentence the four as terrorists. This is the first time in British legal history that anyone has been sentenced as a terrorist for damaging property. It's a very dark moment in an increasingly authoritarian Britain. Thousands of legal professionals complained about Johnson's clear abuses of legal procedures to help the government's case for proscribing Palestine Action as a terrorist group. Johnson has now proved this was always a show trial. I explain how he rigged the two trials here: jonathancook.substack.com/p/…

So the judge in Filton 4 trial has just decided that the defendants will be sentenced as terrorists because of intimidation of Elbit and those it does business with and because they sought to influence UK government policy on Israel

Une grande victoire pour les Albanais ! Le gouvernement albanais annonce l'arrêt des travaux du projet de Kushner et Ivanka et la suspension du projet. Les foules refusent de rentrer chez elles tant que le projet n'est pas annulé intégralement.

A year and a half later, this former under-secretary for defence in Tony Blair’s government has not been charged. Meanwhile, he has been hosted by LBC, though.

Palestinians have a long history of "laying down their arms." At least 8 ceasefire agreements were signed between Israel & Hamas in 2008, 2012, 2014, 2019 & 2021 & 2025 (Jan '25 & Oct '25). Each case followed a similar trajectory. Hamas, by and large, observed the agreement. Israel, by and large, did not. Why would anyone agree to a ceasefire with Israel, let alone lay down their arms? palestinenexus.com/articles/…

لم يحتمل جندي البحرية الإسرائيلي أن يرى الطفل محمد وهو يستمتع بوقته في بحر غزة الواسع، فقنصه برصاصة في الرأس وقتله ..

Gaza is taking its last breaths, and the situation we have reached is extremely dangerous. Temperatures are rising to suffocating levels, and the tents where hundreds of thousands live have turned into ovens made of fabric and plastic. There is no electricity, no air conditioning, no fans, no cold water. People try to sleep, but heat, hunger, and fear make sleep seem like an impossible dream. Clean water is scarce, cleaning supplies are almost nonexistent, and essential medicines are unavailable. Skin diseases are spreading in a terrifying way among children and adults, while garbage piles up and sewage mixes with displacement areas, spreading even more suffering. Long lines form for food, yet many return empty handed. Aid is decreasing, and most relief centers have stopped or are no longer able to meet even the minimum needs. At night, rats, insects, snakes, and scorpions crawl into the tents, while during the day people face unbearable heat and endless hunger. There is no safety, no privacy, and nowhere to go. Meanwhile, killings and destruction continue daily, while Gaza’s space shrinks day by day, forcing people into smaller and more overcrowded areas. This is not life. This is not displacement. This is a complete collapse of everything that allows human beings to live with dignity. What more is the world waiting for? How many children must go hungry? How many patients must die before the world acts? Do not stay silent. Speak about Gaza. Share what is happening.

RT @swilkinsonbc: Horrible casualties and severe injuries inflicted by the Israelis in more barbarous bombing raids on civilians in both no…

Crazy that this is getting barely any coverage. This year’s European Press Prize was just awarded to an investigative report by the Dutch newspaper De Volkskrant. It is entitled “What the Wounds Tell” and in it the journalists Maud Effting and Willem Feenstra document the cases of 114 children in Gaza under the age of 15 who were struck by a single bullet to the head or chest. Almost all of them died or were left severely disabled. They chose to document only the cases of boys and girls under the age of 15 (though often much younger: aged 3, 4 or 7) because these are children who can be immediately identified as such. “A single bullet in these parts of the body is a clear indication that these children were deliberately targeted“, the two journalists write. This is the article: volkskrant.nl/kijkverder/v/2…

RT @CaronAymericoff: J’enrage. Encore un enfant assassiné par Israël à Gaza. Il revenait de l’école, dans le camp de Jabalia, il portait so…

Yesterday, the UN Human Rights Office reported that Israel is systematically targeting public servants in Gaza—collapsing public order—as Palestinians continue to be killed and maimed. You might not know since it got no coverage. Because why would ongoing genocide be newsworthy?

One of the most brutal scenes in human history has been leaked. Footage from an Israeli aircraft shows thousands of starving Palestinians running towards an aid truck, before it bombs and kills them all. A video that the world must never forget.

RT @swilkinsonbc: The israelis commit another horrific crime in Gaza, killing 9 civilians including children, bombing an apartment engulfin…

Pensons chaque jour au peuple libanais, courageux, soumis à nouveau la barbarie israélienne, comme si souvent dans son histoire récente. Total soutien, amis libanais. Que la France fasse enfin preuve de courage en exigeant d’Israël la fin de ses opérations criminelles.

Israeli forces have detained a player on the Palestinian national women’s football team, along with a former national player, sparking renewed anger at Fifa for its failure to ban the apartheid state’s football association. Rand Halawani, 20, was taken on Tuesday night in Jerusalem and a court extended her detention until Friday, amid reports that her family did not know where she was being held. Ex-national player Natalie Abu Diyeh, was also detained in the illegally occupied West Bank alongside three other young Palestinian women, AFP reported. Israel’s military claimed, without offering evidence, that the women were suspected of “terrorist-related” activity. Palestinians detained by Israel are at serious risk of abuse. Israeli rights group B’Tselem has found that Israel runs a “network of torture camps” where Palestinians are subjected to beatings, starvation, sleep deprivation and sexual violence. The Palestinian Football Association (PFA) said the players’ detention was part of a “pattern of systematic targeting of Palestinian athletes, which continues without accountability”. Palestinian footballers are “denied freedom of movement, safety and the basic right to participate in sport under equal conditions, rights that Fifa explicitly guarantees,” it added. Fifa has not commented on the players’ detention, even though the PFA is a member. “The continued silence and inaction of the international football community… enables these illegal practices to continue with impunity,” the PFA said. As the federation gears up to host the World Cup in North America next week, it is under renewed scrutiny for continuing to allow the Israel Football Association (IFA) to be a member despite Israel’s long history of suppressing Palestinian sports. In 2014, Israeli soldiers repeatedly shot two Palestinian footballers in the feet as they returned from a training session in the West Bank, ending their careers. In March, Fifa’s disciplinary committee said Israel had brought “football into disrepute” and was practising a “de facto system of segregation” by excluding Palestinians from the sport and failing to take action against rampant anti-Arab racism in many clubs. But it stopped short of banning or suspending the country’s football association, as it did with Russia shortly after its invasion of Ukraine in 2022.

UN Special Rapporteur @profbensaul in 2024: "Germany & the United States supply 99% of the weapons exported to Israel. They could stop this conflict overnight if they stopped the weapons that kill the Palestinians"

Rape with objects. Gang rape. Rape by trained dogs. Targeted genital shooting. Filmed. Photographed. Archived by the perpetrators. Across 12 named Israel detention sites. The UN calls it a pattern. B’Tselem calls it a network of torture camps. Both are correct.

HORRIFIC: Israeli settlers attacked the village of Baytin in the West Bank, setting tens of olive trees on fire. The Israeli army is blocking fire trucks from reaching the site.

This opens up a can of worms @NHSEngland 🔴Will poppies be banned? 🔴Will LGBTQ/Pride emblems be banned? 🔴Is a Palestinian flag with no text considered "political"? 🔴Why is a Palestinian flag considered to "anti Jewish hatred"? Is that idea not racist towards Palestinians? 🔴Will all flags, including Union Jack and St Georges Cross, be banned? 🔴Will Ukraine badges be banned? 🔴Will the Star of David be banned? 🔴Where is the line that constitutes what is "political" and what is not? Is a Keffiyah a political symbol? 🔴Can badges be worn on clothing on the way to and from work? 🔴If a Jewish person decides to wear a Palestine badge, is that Jewish person exhibiting "anti Jewish hatred"?