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“On this Easter weekend, remember that American tax dollars are spent on destroying churches in the Middle East.”
St George’s church in Yaroun. I am no longer able to safely reach this church. This was shot on Christmas Day. I was able to reach this town and work right up until March 1st.
The second video is a destroyed church in Derdghaya.
On this Easter weekend, remember that American n destroying churches in the Middle East.
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The reality of the "independent" review telling every school in England to adopt the IHRA definition of antisemitism: its author, Sir David Bell, was being paid by a government agency while he wrote it, and a pro-Israel charity has listed him on its council for ten years.
The lic he was "independent of Government" and had "no conflict of interest". Neither is true.
What we found:
- Bell was paid £20,000 a year as vice-chair of Skills England, a government agency, in a seat the Department for Education gave him. He held it until August, through most of the review.
- The Academic Study Group on Israel and the Middle East has listed him on its council since at least 2016. Its website says its one firm policy is opposing boycotts of Israel. It gives talks on Israel in schools, which is exactly what his review was asked to judge.
- In 2005, as chief inspector of schools, he singled out Muslim schools as a challenge to "our coherence as a nation". The chairman of the Association of Muslim Schools called it Islamophobia, and his own inspectors said he had presented a personal view as inspection evidence.
Then we followed the money:
- The department's £1.3 million antisemitism training contract had one bidder, according to the tender record. It went to Palace Yard, a company set up in 2022 by the former Labour MP Natascha Engel.
- That contract says all its training must use the IHRA definition "as a foundation". It was signed eight months before Bell was appointed. His review then recommended IHRA.
- Two of the people who advised Bell, from Partnerships for Jewish Schools and the Antisemitism Policy Trust, now sit on the group putting his recommendations into practice.
- The Union of Jewish Students, also on that group, holds a contract worth almost £1 million to train universities. Its own policies include "UJS to advocate for Israel within UK Policy and International Law".
- UK Lawyers for Israel* (UKLFI) and the Campaign Against Antisemitism* (CAA) both say the review adopted their recommendations.
*For context, UKLFI once justified the starvation of Palestinians in Gaza by the Israeli occupation as "good for obesity". Both these groups have staunchly defended Israel throughout its perpetration of a genocide in Gaza, and regularly conflate Jewish people with the apartheid state.
This matters because the review decides how every school treats what pupils and teachers say about Israel, and the IHRA definition it recommends treats some criticism of Israel as antisemitic. A review with that power should come from someone with no pay from government and no tie to a pro-Israel charity. Bell had both. The government put one in a footnote and left the other out.
We mapped every link, each with its source, explaining just how far this review is from "independent": newscord.org/editorials/dav…
The lic he was "independent of Government" and had "no conflict of interest". Neither is true.
What we found:
- Bell was paid £20,000 a year as vice-chair of Skills England, a government agency, in a seat the Department for Education gave him. He held it until August, through most of the review.
- The Academic Study Group on Israel and the Middle East has listed him on its council since at least 2016. Its website says its one firm policy is opposing boycotts of Israel. It gives talks on Israel in schools, which is exactly what his review was asked to judge.
- In 2005, as chief inspector of schools, he singled out Muslim schools as a challenge to "our coherence as a nation". The chairman of the Association of Muslim Schools called it Islamophobia, and his own inspectors said he had presented a personal view as inspection evidence.
Then we followed the money:
- The department's £1.3 million antisemitism training contract had one bidder, according to the tender record. It went to Palace Yard, a company set up in 2022 by the former Labour MP Natascha Engel.
- That contract says all its training must use the IHRA definition "as a foundation". It was signed eight months before Bell was appointed. His review then recommended IHRA.
- Two of the people who advised Bell, from Partnerships for Jewish Schools and the Antisemitism Policy Trust, now sit on the group putting his recommendations into practice.
- The Union of Jewish Students, also on that group, holds a contract worth almost £1 million to train universities. Its own policies include "UJS to advocate for Israel within UK Policy and International Law".
- UK Lawyers for Israel* (UKLFI) and the Campaign Against Antisemitism* (CAA) both say the review adopted their recommendations.
*For context, UKLFI once justified the starvation of Palestinians in Gaza by the Israeli occupation as "good for obesity". Both these groups have staunchly defended Israel throughout its perpetration of a genocide in Gaza, and regularly conflate Jewish people with the apartheid state.
This matters because the review decides how every school treats what pupils and teachers say about Israel, and the IHRA definition it recommends treats some criticism of Israel as antisemitic. A review with that power should come from someone with no pay from government and no tie to a pro-Israel charity. Bell had both. The government put one in a footnote and left the other out.
We mapped every link, each with its source, explaining just how far this review is from "independent": newscord.org/editorials/dav…
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🚨 FUCK THE UK GOVERNMENT.
Hopefully that gets some attention, because this is EXACTLY what needs to be said.
Combine the latest horrors emerging from Gaza below, with Netanyahu and Trump repeating calls to "end the Iran threat once and for all", and tell me we're not watching the consequences of war criminals acting with complete impunity.
And who gave them that impunity?
WE FUCKING DID!
I cannot stress enough how dangerous the world we're living in has become. And the greatest danger isn't Netanyahu, Putin, or even Trump.
There will ALWAYS be dictators. There will always be powerful men willing to break international law, launch illegal wars, enrich themselves and sacrifice thousands of innocent lives in pursuit of power and profit.
The real danger is that NOBODY IS STOPPING THEM!
What good are @IntlCrimCourt arrest warrants if nobody enforces them? What good is international law if the very governments claiming to defend it are complicit in its destruction?
And that brings me to our own government.
@andyburnham, this is YOUR government. YOUR responsibility.
You aren't burying your head in the sand. You're actively enabling this.
Our government continues to avoid recognising the genocide in Gaza, despite its obligations under the Genocide Convention to PREVENT AND PUNISH genocide.
But a genocide is a fucking genocide, whether you say it or not.
And now we're dragging our children into it.
The government's adoption of the antisemitism in schools report, and its push to embed the contested IHRA definition in education, turns the @educationgovuk into something akin to the Nazi's Reich Ministry for Public Enlightenment and Propaganda, an institution designed to shape what society was permitted to think.
Are we really reaching a point where our own children's education is being used to determine which truths about state violence are allowed to be discussed?
Meanwhile, @jeremycorbyn Gaza Tribunal has gathered evidence raising serious questions about Britain's role in enabling atrocities, but yet again, his request to launch a formal inquiry into the UK government's complicity has been rejected.
We're not just marking our own homework. We're saying "what homework!?"
Where's the accountability? Where's the independent scrutiny? Why should allegations of British complicity be allowed to disappear just because it's British?
And where are the @UKLabour MPs who claim to stand for Palestinian rights, who have said nothing publicly against these latest education proposals?
SILENCE IS NOT A POSITION OF NEUTRALITY WHEN YOU HAVE THE POWER TO ACT.
Here's a fucking newsflash.
Refusing to say the word genocide doesn't remove your legal obligations.
Ignoring arrest warrants doesn't make international law disappear.
And refusing to confront your own government's actions doesn't make you an innocent bystander.
COMPLICITY IS NOT JUST ABOUT WHAT YOU SAY. IT'S ABOUT WHAT YOU ENABLE.
Every crime left unanswered makes the next one easier.
Every arrest warrant ignored makes the next dictator bolder.
Every government that chooses political convenience over international law makes the world more dangerous for ALL OF US.
THIS IS HOW IMPUNITY BECOMES PERMISSION.
And history will not simply remember the men who committed these atrocities.
It will remember the governments that enabled them, the politicians who remained silent, and the institutions that helped manufacture consent.
We all see what's going on.
And we're not going to pretend otherwise.
@ZackPolanski @KemiBadenoch
Hopefully that gets some attention, because this is EXACTLY what needs to be said.
Combine the latest horrors emerging from Gaza below, with Netanyahu and Trump repeating calls to "end the Iran threat once and for all", and tell me we're not watching the consequences of war criminals acting with complete impunity.
And who gave them that impunity?
WE FUCKING DID!
I cannot stress enough how dangerous the world we're living in has become. And the greatest danger isn't Netanyahu, Putin, or even Trump.
There will ALWAYS be dictators. There will always be powerful men willing to break international law, launch illegal wars, enrich themselves and sacrifice thousands of innocent lives in pursuit of power and profit.
The real danger is that NOBODY IS STOPPING THEM!
What good are @IntlCrimCourt arrest warrants if nobody enforces them? What good is international law if the very governments claiming to defend it are complicit in its destruction?
And that brings me to our own government.
@andyburnham, this is YOUR government. YOUR responsibility.
You aren't burying your head in the sand. You're actively enabling this.
Our government continues to avoid recognising the genocide in Gaza, despite its obligations under the Genocide Convention to PREVENT AND PUNISH genocide.
But a genocide is a fucking genocide, whether you say it or not.
And now we're dragging our children into it.
The government's adoption of the antisemitism in schools report, and its push to embed the contested IHRA definition in education, turns the @educationgovuk into something akin to the Nazi's Reich Ministry for Public Enlightenment and Propaganda, an institution designed to shape what society was permitted to think.
Are we really reaching a point where our own children's education is being used to determine which truths about state violence are allowed to be discussed?
Meanwhile, @jeremycorbyn Gaza Tribunal has gathered evidence raising serious questions about Britain's role in enabling atrocities, but yet again, his request to launch a formal inquiry into the UK government's complicity has been rejected.
We're not just marking our own homework. We're saying "what homework!?"
Where's the accountability? Where's the independent scrutiny? Why should allegations of British complicity be allowed to disappear just because it's British?
And where are the @UKLabour MPs who claim to stand for Palestinian rights, who have said nothing publicly against these latest education proposals?
SILENCE IS NOT A POSITION OF NEUTRALITY WHEN YOU HAVE THE POWER TO ACT.
Here's a fucking newsflash.
Refusing to say the word genocide doesn't remove your legal obligations.
Ignoring arrest warrants doesn't make international law disappear.
And refusing to confront your own government's actions doesn't make you an innocent bystander.
COMPLICITY IS NOT JUST ABOUT WHAT YOU SAY. IT'S ABOUT WHAT YOU ENABLE.
Every crime left unanswered makes the next one easier.
Every arrest warrant ignored makes the next dictator bolder.
Every government that chooses political convenience over international law makes the world more dangerous for ALL OF US.
THIS IS HOW IMPUNITY BECOMES PERMISSION.
And history will not simply remember the men who committed these atrocities.
It will remember the governments that enabled them, the politicians who remained silent, and the institutions that helped manufacture consent.
We all see what's going on.
And we're not going to pretend otherwise.
@ZackPolanski @KemiBadenoch
Serious development - just before elections......
Israel orders army to prepare to fully close West Bank after 'thwarting terror attack' news.sky.com/story/israel-o…
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5,114 hectares of occupied Lebanese land incinerated by Israel since the “ceasefire”. This is Zionism
🔍🇱🇧 ENQUÊTE : 5 114 hectares brûlés, 24 villages rasés, au moins 10 000 maisons détruites : comment Israël achève l’effacement d’une partie du Liban sous couvert de cessez-le-feu
liberation.fr/international/…
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The past 20 days have marked one of the most monolithic pushes by British media to vilify the Zionism is Racism Green Party motion.
Imbalanced coverage would be an understatement.
The papers wrote 447 articles on the Greens' Zionism vote. Israel, pro-Israel groups and the Chief Palestinians got 3,173.
Any institution that parades as a "news outlet" can no longer be taken seriously if it covers this motion without also covering the people, Palestinians, who have endured, suffered and been oppressed the most by the ideology in action.
What the figures show:
• Israel's government alone got 3,904 words. More than every Palestinian put together.
• 2,422 of the 3,173 Palestinian words came in stories tying Lubna Speitan, the Palestinian who proposed the motion, to al-Qaeda.
• Apart from Lubna, two Palestinians were quoted across 436 articles, for 76 words between them. Nobody in Gaza, the occupied West Bank or Lebanon was quoted at all.
• Lubna told the Telegraph that 56 members of her family had been killed in Gaza. One article mentioned it: the Telegraph's own al-Qaeda story, in paragraph 44 of 51.
• Lubna has received death and rape threats since the vote. Al Jazeera reported it. None of the 447 British articles did.
• 43 articles said, in the paper's own voice, that the motion meant the destruction or abolition of Israel. The motion calls for one state with "equal rights for all".
• 36 headlines said antisemitism. Not one of 447 said genocide.
• 304 of the 436 articles we read in full never mentioned the genocide at all.
• 0 of 89 comment pieces backed the motion.
• The Daily Mail ran 38 articles on the motion, and in that time, just 2 on Israel's ongoing attacks across Gaza, the West Bank and Lebanon.
Full report: newscord.org/editorials/zio…
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“Israel unequivocally condemns violence against anyone”.
Wait until Israel finds out what Israel has been doing
Wait until Israel finds out what Israel has been doing
The Prime Minister’s Office:
The facts surrounding the confrontation near Abu Falah, during which Washington Post photojournalist Heidi Levine was allegedly assaulted, remain unclear and are under investigation.
Israel unequivocally condemns violence against anyone—Jews, Arabs, Christians or journalists. Those responsible will be held accountable.
But serious questions remain. Reports indicate some 200 Arabs and far-left activists confronted approximately 40 Israeli youths. Footage shows masked individuals on both sides hurling objects, amid reports of fireworks fired at Jewish youths. Other footage appears to show Levine knocked down and immediately helped to her feet by the same unidentified individual.
The investigation must establish the facts, including who initiated the violence.
We will not allow disputed incidents to be exploited to demonize the hundreds of thousands of law-abiding Jewish residents of Judea and Samaria.
The facts must determine the conclusions. Not the headlines.
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hey @UKLabour what do you have to say about these Zionists - will you go after them with the same energy as you did @TheGreenParty - or will it be just another mealy-mouthed “condemnation”
Masked Israeli settlers attacked Palestinian villagers on Friday, setting olive groves on fire and slinging rocks.
Caught in the attack was Post photographer Heidi Levine. “They just kept kicking me and kicking me, like probably 50 times,” Levine said. wapo.st/4yt6dHY
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Zionism in action 👇🏻
Dozens of masked Israeli settlers attacked Palestinian villagers trying to gather their autumn olive harvest. Heidi Levine, a veteran photographer for The Post, was also knocked her to the ground, kicked repeatedly and stripped of her camera and phone.
wapo.st/4yY8dJw
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The @UKLabour government is complicit in this - meanwhile the spineless UK press is going berserk over the Green Party’s Zionism is racism motion. They are panicking because the greens under Zack Polanski are no longer a minor fringe party
Her name is Maryam Ahmed Ghanem and her story matters.
Please share widely:
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Zionism in practice
📸 Gaza: A 3-year-old girl watched her mother burn to death after an Israeli airstrike hit their apartment.
Maryam Ghanem was found on a bed surrounded by flames and heavy smoke in the Al-Rimal neighborhood, her mother Reem Asaad Awad, 33, burning nearby.
Maryam suffered burns hifa Hospital.
Her father was already killed earlier in the war — her grandmother is now her only family.
Israel claimed the strike targeted a Hamas member but gave no evidence.
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This is Jennifer Gerber. She was @andyburnham’s principal adviser during his 3 ministerial roles from 2007-10
After Labour lost the 2010 election, she became executive director of Israeli embassy front group "Labour Friends of Israel" (LFI). She would stay in the role for a ng role in the campaign to destroy pro-Palestinian Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn from 2015-19
Gerber is still listed as a director of LFI on Companies House
Andy Burnham was funded by LFI and Israeli Foreign Ministry in 2004 to go on a propaganda tour of Israel. The then chair of LFI was James Purnell. Burnham recently appointed Purnell as his chief of staff in No 10
At the LFI leadership hustings in 2015, Burnham said that Israel would be the first place he visited if he won the Labour leadership race. The year after, Burnham joined LFI
The lobby has the whole political class sewn up
After Labour lost the 2010 election, she became executive director of Israeli embassy front group "Labour Friends of Israel" (LFI). She would stay in the role for a ng role in the campaign to destroy pro-Palestinian Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn from 2015-19
Gerber is still listed as a director of LFI on Companies House
Andy Burnham was funded by LFI and Israeli Foreign Ministry in 2004 to go on a propaganda tour of Israel. The then chair of LFI was James Purnell. Burnham recently appointed Purnell as his chief of staff in No 10
At the LFI leadership hustings in 2015, Burnham said that Israel would be the first place he visited if he won the Labour leadership race. The year after, Burnham joined LFI
The lobby has the whole political class sewn up
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Israel's elections are coming up on Oct 27. Polling suggests that Netanyahu & Eisenkot's blocks are ~ tied w/ neither one capturing a majority.
Of course, from the perspective of Palestinians, Lebanese & others in the region, there's little difference between the two, because they both echo majority Israeli Jewish opinion on topics related to Palestine, Lebanon & other countries in the region (Israeli govt policy does actually roughly reflect the will of its Jewish population).
To give you an idea of such views, I spent 3 months last year collecting & analyzing every Israeli survey since Oct 7 (over 70 were deemed reliable and used for the analysis) & compiled them all into a database with an accompanying 7,500 word write-up (the article is linked below; link to the database in the article).
A sample of the views of Israeli society is provided below w/ the range based on surveys between October 7 2023 and July 4 2025 (Israeli Jews only):
· 94% say not enough or appropriate amount of firepower was used by IDF in Gaza (only 2% to 3% say too much firepower was used)
· 78% to 93% say IDF has “performed” very good or excellent in Gaza (with 83% giving it high marks on “moral conduct”)
· 77% to 83% say Israel should not take into account suffering of civilian population when fighting in Gaza
· 77% to 82% are not distressed by humanitarian situation in Gaza
· 70% believe you should not be able to post messages on social media that express sympathy for civilians in Gaza
· 50% to 68% say Israel should not allow humanitarian aid into Gaza
· 76% to 87% believe number of Palestinian “war” casualties is justified
· 90% say Israel is doing too much or appropriate amount to “avoid” civilian casualties in Gaza (only 7% believe it’s doing too little)
· 62% to 82% support the ethnic cleansing of Gaza
Much more detail in article below (in comments)
notesfromunderground.me/2025/07/04/the…
Of course, from the perspective of Palestinians, Lebanese & others in the region, there's little difference between the two, because they both echo majority Israeli Jewish opinion on topics related to Palestine, Lebanon & other countries in the region (Israeli govt policy does actually roughly reflect the will of its Jewish population).
To give you an idea of such views, I spent 3 months last year collecting & analyzing every Israeli survey since Oct 7 (over 70 were deemed reliable and used for the analysis) & compiled them all into a database with an accompanying 7,500 word write-up (the article is linked below; link to the database in the article).
A sample of the views of Israeli society is provided below w/ the range based on surveys between October 7 2023 and July 4 2025 (Israeli Jews only):
· 94% say not enough or appropriate amount of firepower was used by IDF in Gaza (only 2% to 3% say too much firepower was used)
· 78% to 93% say IDF has “performed” very good or excellent in Gaza (with 83% giving it high marks on “moral conduct”)
· 77% to 83% say Israel should not take into account suffering of civilian population when fighting in Gaza
· 77% to 82% are not distressed by humanitarian situation in Gaza
· 70% believe you should not be able to post messages on social media that express sympathy for civilians in Gaza
· 50% to 68% say Israel should not allow humanitarian aid into Gaza
· 76% to 87% believe number of Palestinian “war” casualties is justified
· 90% say Israel is doing too much or appropriate amount to “avoid” civilian casualties in Gaza (only 7% believe it’s doing too little)
· 62% to 82% support the ethnic cleansing of Gaza
Much more detail in article below (in comments)
notesfromunderground.me/2025/07/04/the…
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Three years of war in Lebanon, these years of devastation. More than 7 per cent of the country occupied by Israel. The south ravaged. Thousands killed in Israeli strikes. A slew of ceasefires that were never upheld.
This is what’s left of Mansouri, a village outside the occupied after the June ceasefire.
This is what’s left of Mansouri, a village outside the occupied after the June ceasefire.
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A one-time 5% wealth tax would bring Silicon Valley’s billionaires’ wealth back to where it was just 31 days ago, on September 7.
When it was "just" 178% higher than on January 1, 2023.
They’d rather let 3 million people lose their health insurance than let that happen.
When it was "just" 178% higher than on January 1, 2023.
They’d rather let 3 million people lose their health insurance than let that happen.
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"The last thing I did is the report on Gaza naming what is happening there as genocide. One of the main reactions to that report [was] paying tribute to me for my courage.. why would you need courage to speak the truth?"
Navi Pillay upon winning the 2026 Nobel peace prize
Navi Pillay upon winning the 2026 Nobel peace prize
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