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@unchartedworlds@scicomm.xyz
2025-08-09 18:50:18
Content warning: Anti-proscription protest in London today

Many arrests, as predicted.
I'm curious about this part of the BBC's write-up:
"A Home Office spokesperson said the decision to proscribe the group [i.e. Palestine Action] was based on "strong security advice" following "serious attacks the group had committed, involving violence, significant injuries and extensive criminal damage"."
What is this "violence" and "significant injuries"? I don't remember reading about that. The only thing I've seen reported is damage to property.
#protest #London #PalestineAction

@davej@dice.camp
2025-09-07 06:42:40
Content warning: CW: ukpol, Palestine, terrorism

I may be jumping the gun here, but “Der Starmführer” is just too good a name to leave laying on the table.
A text description of the attached video follows. (It was too long for ALT text.)
#ukpol #palestine #terrorism

Please see the thread for a text description of the video. I tried ALT text, but it’s about 900 characters too long.
@aral@mastodon.ar.al
2025-10-03 17:00:56

Folks, Alaa is still in the North. She cannot evacuate due to lack of money.
Please help if you can.
💕
#Gaza #Palestine #GazaVerified

@carloshr@lile.cl
2025-09-20 19:47:06

Brian Eno on change and Palestine: “Don’t be hopeless"
nme.com/news/music/brian-eno-i

@pre@boing.world
2025-10-03 09:34:06
Content warning: ukpol Palestine Action Protest

The cops and the government suggest that tomorrow's protest against the proscription of Palestine Action should be postponed because a crazy person done some murders.
The home secretary says
“If the point of protest is to stand up for something and persuade other people that you are right, then I think this is entirely the wrong way to go about it, but that is on their conscience.”
That is not the point of the protest. The point of the protest is to show that the proscription of a non violent protest organization under terrorism laws is ridiculous and unenforceable as well as being a massive waste of police and court time.
Delaying the protest would harm that demonstration. The police are over stretched and can't enforce this stupid counter-productive proscription without compromising their duty elsewhere.
Demonstrating that is the point of the protest, and police saying "We are too stretched to arrest all these demonstrators" just reinforces that point all the more.
You know what police and government? You could just not persecute non violent protestors as terrorists. That'd solve your over-stretched police resources problem in one stroke!
#palestineAction #ukpol #protest

@unchartedworlds@scicomm.xyz
2025-10-04 13:45:55
Content warning: Barcelona / Palestine / unions

Good thread commenting on union input to the Barcelona protest, from @…:
#unions #Barcelona #Palestine

@markhburton@mstdn.social
2025-07-29 12:26:20

Starmer says recognition of #Palestine has to be part of a peace deal. How will that work then when the government of the Zionist state has made it clear that it won't tolerate such an entity on its borders?
Recognition is part of the "peace process": that is, the necessary relentless pressure on Israel to transform to a plurinational Palestine for all citizens, like the end o…

@islamoyankee@mastodon.social
2025-08-03 17:04:37

“They’re sacrificing the moral center of Harvard Divinity School,” #Gaza #Palestine #Harvard

@simon_brooke@mastodon.scot
2025-07-22 17:14:58

“If the universities – or in this case a university press – are not willing to stand up for what is core to their mission, I don’t know what they’re doing. What’s the point?” – Thea Abu El-Haj
#Palestine
#Censorship

@Billybobbell@twit.social
2025-08-25 04:53:24

#palestine
#freepalestine

@aral@mastodon.ar.al
2025-07-19 11:39:23

What the fuck? This fucking government, I swear! Read the fucking room, you toffs!
#Ireland #Palestine #sports

@glauber@writing.exchange
2025-09-01 22:56:15

Links to free Palestinian documentaries.
Requires Bluesky account, sorry.
#palestine

@harrysentonbury@social.linux.pizza
2025-09-27 10:54:47

#stopthewar #palestine

@markhburton@mstdn.social
2025-07-23 08:20:56

Palestine protesters shut down arms manufacturer in Sheffield | Morning Star
morningstaronline.co.uk/articl

@simon_brooke@mastodon.scot
2025-09-28 05:44:34

I can't help feeling that any 'peace deal' for #Gaza supported by Cooper and Trump, and making Tony #Blair interim governor, will be a permanent stain on the conscience of the world.
#Palestine

@aral@mastodon.ar.al
2025-07-22 08:41:35

What the UK needs are *mass protests* with hundreds of thousands of people holding those “I OPPOSE GENOCIDE – I SUPPORT PALESTINE ACTION” signs.
They can arrest 50.
They can arrest 100.
They cannot arrest 100,000.
They cannot arrest a million.
#Palestine #PalestineAction

@unchartedworlds@scicomm.xyz
2025-08-18 22:20:53
Content warning: Law / UKPol / Palestine

Useful bit of political/legal analysis from @….
Plus bonus enjoyment from this little piece of advice:
"(As a general rule, the more reliance which is placed on how “distinguished” a lawyer is making a point, the weaker the legal point being made.)"
Haha!
#law #UKPol #Palestine

@islamoyankee@mastodon.social
2025-09-21 15:22:06

So the #UK recognizes #Palestine over a century after they “created” it, and are continuing to make it illegal for their citizens to recognize Palestine? What ape shit belfrian bat fuckery.

@harrysentonbury@social.linux.pizza
2025-08-28 21:18:47

🍉
#gaza #palestine

@UP8@mastodon.social
2025-09-25 19:48:57

🫗 Beyond labels: Memory, identity, and the Palestinian experience
globalvoices.org/2025/09/08/be

@Treppenwitz@sfba.social
2025-07-25 12:20:03

This is very good. #Israel #Palestine #antisemitism

@markhburton@mstdn.social
2025-07-29 17:15:49

Bizarre statement. Why the "unless"?
Or is this an attempt at pressure (while continuing to collude with Israel)?
"Starmer said the U.K. will recognize a Palestinian state in September – unless Israel agrees to a ceasefire in Gaza and takes steps toward long-term peace."
#Palestine #Gaza

@markrsmith@smithtodon.org
2025-07-14 13:01:23

This flight from Paris to Dublin has landed. The aircraft is scheduled to fly from Dublin to Hartford CT next. #AerLingus #Palestine

@chris@mstdn.chrisalemany.ca
2025-08-27 21:26:44

Dear Canadians supportive of #Palestine and against the ongoing #Genocide in Israel and the Humanitarian catastrophe that is ongoing.
There is a House of Commons e-Petition e-6751 currently open for signature.
It states:
Whereas:
Under Common Article 1 of the Geneva Conventions, Canada is required to respect international humanitarian law;
Under Article 59 of the Fourth Geneva Convention, Israel as an occupying power must allow and facilitate humanitarian aid by impartial organizations;
Canada’s own International Assistance Accountability Act requires that all Canadian foreign aid uphold human rights and international legal standards; and
Israel’s policy and actions violate all of these obligations.
We, the undersigned, Citizens and Residents of Canada, call upon the House of Commons in Parliament assembled to
1. Publicly and unequivocally reject the militarized aid model currently used in Palestine;
2. Request the full restoration of access for UN agencies and established humanitarian NGOs, including UNRWA and the World Food Programme;
3. Insist on safe and immediate entry for Canadian healthcare workers and other international humanitarian personnel to Palestine;
4. Withhold Canadian funding from any entity or model that does not comply with principles of neutrality, impartiality, independence, and humanity; and
5. Ensure that all Canadian aid to Gaza is delivered through internationally recognized humanitarian channels.
#Israel #Gaza #UN #UNWRA
ourcommons.ca/petitions/en/Pet

@unchartedworlds@scicomm.xyz
2025-09-05 13:20:15
Content warning: Palestine Action ban: police not happy

I said already that the Palestine Action proscription was bringing the law into disrepute.
Now we see how it's bringing the law into disrepute even with police officers charged with enforcing it.
“I was told to help in the arrest of a disabled person for holding up the sign stating they opposed genocide and supported Palestine Action, which I did.
“I did it knowing it had nothing to do with upholding justice or our professional values, just to protect my job and livelihood. My father was an officer, and the reason I came into the police. I know he would be ashamed and turning in his grave if he saw what I did. ...
“Instead of catching real criminals and terrorists, we are arresting pensioners and disabled people calling for the saving of children’s lives ... It makes me question why I’m even in this career anymore.”
- police officer
People in the Crown Prosecution Service not happy about it either apparently. Interesting article.
(I don't like that they used "mad" in the headline though. I realise it was a quote, but I bet there were some other quotable words they could've chosen.)
#PalestineAction #police #CPS #UKLaw #UKPol

@tmv@tilde.zone
2025-09-21 23:13:48

#palestine

@lukem@hachyderm.io
2025-10-03 20:06:41

Urgent demonstration in solidarity with Global Sumud Flotilla in front the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MSZ) in Warsaw, Poland, 2 October 2025.
Hundreds of people expressed outrage over passive stance of Polish ministry in light of recent interceptions of the flotilla ships on international waters.
During the demonstration two activists spillt red paint and smashed the window in the entrance to the ministry. The crowd marched for several hours through the city centre despite police trying (and quickly failing) to stop them. The march concluded in front of the police station the activists had been taken to and turned into a solidemo.
#photography #reportage #palestine #warsaw #poland

@barijaona@mastodon.mg
2025-07-22 02:21:06

Occupied Palestinian Territories: joint statement by 28 countries and EU.
gov.uk/government/news/joint-s

@markhburton@mstdn.social
2025-07-20 13:35:52

And now this.
FFS, what did Palestinians ever do to these banks?
Two UK pro-Palestine organisations have bank accounts frozen | Protest | The Guardian
#Palestine

@islamoyankee@mastodon.social
2025-08-04 12:48:18

More details on the #Harvard purge of open intellectual inquiry on #Palestine in light of the #Gaza #Genocide

@aral@mastodon.ar.al
2025-10-02 14:32:36

Please help Aseel’s family in Gaza if you can.
Thank you!
💕
#GazaVerified #Gaza #Palestine #mutualAid

@unchartedworlds@scicomm.xyz
2025-09-27 18:52:37
Content warning: If you're feeling overwhelmed by how many people need help...

Good thread from @… on the right headspace for encountering requests here from people in Gaza.
"Remember a simple thing: you alone cannot do it. It doesn’t depend on you. It depends on all of us. ...
"The occupation uses stochasticism to make you exhausted & heartbroken!
"Release your guilt, be kind, talk to people as people, & do what you can."
#Palestine #Gaza

@midtsveen@social.linux.pizza
2025-09-24 21:17:03

🇵🇸 #FreePalestine 🇵🇸
#Palestine #Gaza #Flotilla

@markhburton@mstdn.social
2025-08-01 14:01:52

Good news, MAPs Gaza Solidarity Polyclinic has reopened!
"We are relieved to share that Israel’s displacement order has been revoked, and we are now able to access the polyclinic. We started receiving patients again on Tuesday 29th July."
One of the best ways to give support to Palestinians in #Gaza, donate to MAP.

@unchartedworlds@scicomm.xyz
2025-07-29 06:43:26
Content warning: Gaza & "Western" complicity, good article

From Martin Shaw in New Lines magazine.
"I may have missed something, but the major Western publications that have recently carried “genocide” editorials or prominent features have devoted virtually no space to the measures that governments should take against Israel to stop the genocide. It’s as though they are saying, “Yes, it’s a genocide, but what can we do about it?” ...
"How many have identified the arms flows from their countries to Israel? How many have reported on the deep political ties between their ruling political parties and Israel? Or have covered military collaboration, which in the case of Britain has helped the Israeli military to keep bombing civilians over 21 months, through surveillance flights over Gaza and extensive data sharing? ...
"Since even genocide-aware media are not reporting how Israel’s policies are made possible by wider Western support, they are also very weak in identifying policies that might break it. ...
"Today, genocide scholars, the serious press and even voters have interpreted Gaza as a genocide — but the point is to stop it. Until we do that, we are still in denial."
#Gaza #Palestine #Israel

@islamoyankee@mastodon.social
2025-08-16 19:52:15

So grateful to all the exhibitors @flamecon.bsky.social for their support of #Palestine #Gaza

@midtsveen@social.linux.pizza
2025-08-25 14:02:38

🇵🇸 #FreePalestine 🇵🇸
#Gaza #Palestine #Flag

Two Palestinian flags laying on a light wooden floor The flags feature horizontal stripes of black, white, and green with a red triangle on the left.
@markhburton@mstdn.social
2025-07-13 20:08:18

Once the Tory Party at prayer, now a voice of conscience.
#CofE #Palestine #BDS
Bishops call on UK government to take action over West Bank settler violence | Anglicanism | The Guardian

@chris@mstdn.chrisalemany.ca
2025-09-27 06:07:03

I feel proud that Spain is sending its own Navy ships to help protect and shield the flotilla to Palestine.
Me siento orgulloso de que España esté enviando barcos militares para ayudar a proteger y escudar la flotilla para Palestina.
#gaza #israel #palestine #endGenocide #BDS #apartheid #activism #gretaThunberg #espana #italy fed.brid.gy/r/https://bsky.app

@markhburton@mstdn.social
2025-09-18 17:00:10

UN commission rejects the UK government claim that the duty to prevent genocide is only triggered when an international court has established that a genocide has taken place.
ht @…
#Gaza

@chris@mstdn.chrisalemany.ca
2025-08-25 17:42:40

The genocidal war criminals in the Israeli Government just double-tapped a hospital in order to kill journalists and first-responders in addition to the injured civilians and medical workers they killed with the first bombing run.
The ‘western world' frets about calling a spade a spade... and cowers at US and Israeli pressure to continue turning a blind eye and re-arming the genocidal army.
I am embarrassed and shocked as both a Canadian and Spanish citizen at our flacid response to blatant murder of innocents.
#Israel #Hamas #Palestine #Genocide #Famine #WarCrimes #Gaza

@unchartedworlds@scicomm.xyz
2025-10-05 08:42:00
Content warning: London protests / police / law / proposed mask ban

"After Saturday’s protest, the chair of the Metropolitan police federation said officers policing protests in London were “emotionally and physically exhausted”.
"Paula Dodds said: “Enough is enough. Our concentration should be on keeping people safe at a time when the country is on heightened alert from a terrorist attack. And instead officers are being drawn in to facilitate these relentless protests.”"
Well that's the government's fault for having completely unnecessarily created this conflict and brought the law into disrepute!
No wonder the police are "emotionally exhausted", when they have to keep on arresting peaceful old people like their grandparents, and being mocked for it! Not what any of them probably imagined their job was gonna be!
But this to me is the worst bit of news in that article:
"The planned new power follows protest-related measures in the crime and policing bill going through parliament, which bans the possession of face coverings ... at protests"
Planning to ban masks, in the time of covid. Denial or what.
I wonder if they've done an "impact assessment" for that bit of the law, because it certainly would disproportionately affect people disabled with Long Covid & similar things.
#UKLaw #masks #London #protests #Palestine #CovidIsntOver #KeirStarmer

@chris@mstdn.chrisalemany.ca
2025-08-18 16:03:41

Israel is the absolute worst kind of colonialism. (not that there is a good kind)
Literally masked bandits running people (Palestinians) off their land with the IDF providing cover
#Israel #Palestine #Colonialism #Imperialism #Racism
bbc.com/news/articles/cewy88jl

@unchartedworlds@scicomm.xyz
2025-07-17 08:51:40
Content warning: UK police suppression of support for Palestine

UK police conflating "support for Palestine" with "support for proscribed group Palestine Action".
When they passed that law, I _thought_ things might slide this way at some point!
"In the encounter, which she filmed, one officer told her: “Mentioning freedom of Gaza, Israel, genocide, all of that all come under proscribed groups, which are terror groups that have been dictated by the government.”
"He went on to say that the phrase “Free Gaza” is “supportive of Palestine Action”, adding it was an offence “to express an opinion or belief that is supportive of a proscribed organisation, namely Palestine Action is an offence under section 12(1A) of the Terrorism Act”. The officer told her she had committed that offence."
Starmer & co really need to speak out if this _wasn't_ exactly what they wanted to have happen :-/
#FreedomOfSpeech #UK #law #PalestineAction #censorship #police #Palestine #Israel #UKPol

@chris@mstdn.chrisalemany.ca
2025-07-31 05:22:24

You know how in Canadian federal politicians like to sometimes say the hard things in French during a press conference, rather than in English?
Well... this feels like that, except it's the Israeli Government telling Israelis in Hebrew about their plans for genocide and war crimes while they claim in English that everyone is anti-semitic for criticizing the actions of their government.
#Canada #CanPoli #CdnPoli #Israel #Hebrew #France #Genocide #Palestine #Hamas #Gaza #IsraelApartheid

@aral@mastodon.ar.al
2025-08-21 14:50:43

Bibi C News.
#BBC #israel #genocide #Gaza

@unchartedworlds@scicomm.xyz
2025-09-14 10:15:05
Content warning: Palestine

Sick at heart at what I'm seeing, and the collusion and acquiescence of our government.
Never again is now, and we're failing.
#Palestine #Gaza #Israel #NeverAgainIsNow

@unchartedworlds@scicomm.xyz
2025-08-27 12:39:08
Content warning: thoughtful article on Jewish solidarity with Gaza

Appreciating these reflections from writer & organiser Simone Zimmerman.
"Standing at the action that day, I was heartened to witness the growing ranks of Jews standing against the horrors in Gaza. But the presence of these progressive Zionist groups also provided a painful reminder of their long absence. ...
"Jewish communities should ask themselves “What would you have done to stop the annihilation of the Jews of Europe?” and should do just that for Palestinians now. You are either for genocide or against it.
"... most of us—myself included—had our own painful confrontation with Zionism. We recall both the isolation of being cast out of the mainstream Jewish community and the sweetness of building new relationships of solidarity. I’m only here today because many people offered me an off-ramp. That’s why many in my position feel that it is our responsibility to engage—to exercise humility and grace as we sit with other Jews in their fear and shame, and invite them to take action with us."
#Israel #Palestine #Gaza #Judaism

@unchartedworlds@scicomm.xyz
2025-08-16 08:34:17
Content warning: heartening interviews with the over-60s getting arrested

“I’ve been a very law-abiding citizen and very respectful of authority all my life but I knew I had to do this and it was my duty to do this.”
- Deborah Hinton, 81
“The focus shouldn’t be on Palestine Action. The focus should be on what the government isn’t doing for the Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank.”
- Father John McGowan, 75
“As a former officer in the British army, I am horrified that the government is misusing our armed forces to be complicit in the genocide rather than to end it.”
- Chris Romberg, 75
“Palestine Action’s methods sit very uneasily with me. It’s difficult to accept that vandalism is the only way to go. However, I feel we have to do something and I support their stand against genocide.”
- Richard Whitmore-Jones, 74
“The policeman said: ‘You’re a bit heavy.’ He had to call one of his friends over to help carry me. I thought that was a bit of a liberty.”
- Trevelyan Evans, 64
#PalestineAction #protests #UKLaw #Gaza #Palestine #Israel

@chris@mstdn.chrisalemany.ca
2025-07-11 04:19:55

just watched Schindler’s List... where they show the Jews being sent to the Ghetto.... then the Ghetto is emptied....
Don't tell me Rafah is different.
#crimesAgainstHumanity #Genocide #Fascism #Israel #Palestine
mastodon.social/@jricole/11483

@unchartedworlds@scicomm.xyz
2025-07-22 14:00:46
Content warning: UK protests & terrorism laws

Useful analysis from Nour Haidar on the wider implications of proscribing Palestine Action, inc blurring the difference between property-harm and people-harm.
#UK #terrorism #law #UKPol #UKlaw #PalestineAction

@unchartedworlds@scicomm.xyz
2025-08-10 18:55:30
Content warning: arrests in London yesterday

521 arrests yesterday "for displaying placards in support of Palestine Action at Westminster's Parliament Square".
Bad for the reputation of the law, bad for the country.
Also, preposterous to contend that this is a good use of police time. Go and retrieve some stolen bikes!
#UKLaw #UKPol #London #police #PalestineAction