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While proscribing Palestine Action as a terrorist organisation, the UK government has repeatedly granted special immunity to visiting Israeli military officers, protecting them from prosecution for genocide and war crimes. declassifieduk.org/israeli-a…
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Görüntüler Batı Şeria'nın Nablus şehrine bağlı Hawwara kasabasından,israil askeri Filistin'li genci ailesinin yanında zorla kaçırmak istiyor, genç itiraz edince orada yargısız infaz yaparak katlediyor, dünya, israil terörünü konuşmuyor !
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10 years ago my wife, the mum of our kids & the MP for Batley&Spen was killed by a far right extremist. At anniversaries I try to be optimistic about the future. But not this time. In the ten years since she was killed we have gone backwards & I fear our democracy is now at risk
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Not even 24 hours since the ceasefire deal was signed. And Ben-Gvir is already demanding: 'We must continue destroying houses in southern Lebanon. Continue pushing residents away. Continue eliminating Hezbollah'

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A group of 40–50 settler terrorists torched a mosque with people inside and several cars in the West Bank. How could the IDF have missed 40 young men on their way to attack a village? In fact, they couldn't have. They must have chosen to let it happen.

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Remember in 2017 when a woman was pushed into the path of a bus on Putney Bridge by a jogger? Well, a 44-year-old multimillionaire private banker with ties to the Royal Family and a former British Army officer has been arrested on suspicion of attempted grievous bodily harm.
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En la Italia fascista de Meloni alguien llamó a los bomberos para retirar una bandera Palestina izada en el monumento Emanuele Filiberto, en la plaza de San Carlos de Turín. El bombero subió y lejos de retirarla, la ondeo entre aplausos... Palestina, el mundo está contigo.
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"You dont need to be Muslim to stand for Palestine, you just need to be Human." Sikhs for Palestine 🇵🇸❤️
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Hollywood ünlüleri Filistin için bir araya geldi. "Öldürmeyi durdurun"
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Palestine Action is in good company. British governments and courts criminalised resistance to slavery, the Chartist movement for universal male suffrage, any organising by trade unionists, and the Suffragette movement to win women the vote. None of our rights were given to us by the ruling class. We had to fight for each of them tooth and nail. The British establishment is always on the wrong side of history, because history is with the struggle of ordinary people, not with the selfish interests of the billionaires and war industries. Those earlier struggles were deemed the terrorism of their day by the very same "liberals" – the British establishment and its useful idiots – who today declare any practical action to stop British complicity in Israel's genocide to be terrorism. Note too as proof of bad faith: the British establishment is well advanced in its efforts to declare entirely peaceful protest – marches through the streets – as anti-social, hate crimes and soon enough terrorism too. The ruling class consider attempts to stop a genocide, even holding a banner against the mass murder of children, to be far worse than racist pogroms in Belfast, which try to burn alive people in their homes because of the colour of their skin.
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The case for Labour to introduce a wealth tax has never been stronger. 99% of us are paying, in total, 40% to 50% tax on our incomes, billionaires are paying 25% at most. 2% levy on fortunes above £100m could begin to reverse decades of rising inequality theguardian.com/politics/202…
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"This government is treating Palestine Action as equivalent to Islamic State or Al Qaeda, which is intellectually bankrupt, politically unprincipled and morally wrong. Frankly I'm deeply ashamed" Labour peer Peter Hain in the Lords in July last year

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One of these people is an 83 year old Priest who held up a sign expressing her right to free speech. The other has decapitated his political enemies with a knife. Guess which the UK government calls a terrorist, and which gets invited to number 10 for dinner.
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There are tens of thousands of anti-Zionist Jews in America, yet the mainstream media won't acknowledges their existence. Take a look at this video. These are members of the Satmar Jewish community—an openly anti-Zionist Orthodox Jewish community that has opposed Zionism and the State of Israel for generations. Their loyalty is to the Torah, not to Zionist political movement. There are hundreds of thousands of Jews around the world who reject Zionism and do not identify with the State of Israel, but this reality is ignored by media outlets that present Israel as speaking for all Jews. Israel is not synonymous with the Jewish people. Zionism is not Judaism. Criticizing or opposing the State of Israel is not antisemitic. Source @authenttorahjew @TorahJudaism
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Blaming asylum seekers for homelessness? What about the 720,000 empty homes in England, and the 1,627,450 second homes in England alone. Blaming asylum seekers for expensive food shops? What about the £3,100,000,000 profit Tesco made last year? Blaming asylum seekers for expensive energy bills? What about the £438,000,000,000 made by just 20 energy companies in profit? Blaming immigrants for not getting an NHS appointment? What about the 260,000 migrant workers keeping the NHS going? And what about the 25% real term cut in NHS funding, think that could do it? Blaming people on welfare for a lack of money to fund the NHS? What about the £36,000,000,000 tax gap due to avoidance and evasion by the elite? It's time to realise it's not immigrants, asylum seekers or people on welfare causing you any harm, it's capitalism and the mega rich hoarding all the wealth.
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10 years after the Brexit vote. UK economy is significantly smaller than it would otherwise have been. Trade has suffered. Business investment and productivity growth have stalled. Families are on average thousands of pounds a year worse off. theguardian.com/politics/202…
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"The machinery of government itself has been left to decay. Decisions that should take days, take months. Departments fight each other instead of the problem. Officials and ministers who know the truth are not always rewarded for telling it." @Keir_Starmer bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cgjx…
Tell Facebook: shut down wildlife trafficking. actions.eko.org/a/facebook-s…

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There's a girl from Belfast who, along with her friend, is offering assistance to minority residents who are afraid to leave their homes to go to the shops or work because of the riots. Bless them.
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