@simon_brooke@mastodon.scot"a model of war that meant one side waging it without risk, the other without hope" — Azmi Bishara, paraphrased by Patrick Wintour.
Loud echoes, for me, of the first opium war. Or the wars waged by European settlers against the indigenous peoples of North America. Or of #Palestine.
From Bush Sr to Trump: the risks, lessons and legacy of US interference in the Middle East | …
@markhburton@mstdn.socialA reminder, Booking.com and other similar platforms offer accommodation in Israel's illegal settler enclaves in the Palestinian occupied territory.
Do what I do. Use booking.com as an accommodation search, then book directly off the platform.
#Palestine #BDS
@chris@mstdn.chrisalemany.ca
@vosje62@mastodon.nlRE: #Israel #Palestine #US
@simon_brooke@mastodon.scotThis is genuinely important and good news: as I expected, no British jury is going to convict #PalestineAction activists of non-violent protest.
Of course, this is why the UK government is trying to get rid of jury trials, but ...
Will the proscription of Palestine Action as a 'terrorist organisation'(!) also fall?
@ncoca@social.coopWhat's actually supporting #Palestine more - holding a sign at a rally, or actually quitting using platforms that enable their oppression?
It's not safe to be an activist, journalist, or, often, a minority and use #bigtech platforms
@markhburton@mstdn.socialFor the next 48 hours, every donation you make to UNWRA to support Palestine Refugees will be doubled, up to US$ 21,000!
#Palestine
@simon_brooke@mastodon.scotHallelujah! Hallelujah Halle-e-loo-jah!
"UK ban on Palestine Action unlawful, high court judges rule"
#UKPol
#RightToProtest
#PalestineAction
@pre@boing.worldPalestine Action have never been a terrorist group, have never tried to terrorize the British public. The attempt to classify them as one was unjust, authoritarian, and motivated by support for a foreign state committing war crimes.
I'm mostly just surprised that judges appointed by the British state operating in secret agree. Usually they back the corrupt British state entirely.
Yvette Cooper should be resigning in disgrace, suspected of treachery. Every MP and Lord that waved the proscription through through should be ashamed and probably also fired.
#ukpol #palestineAction
@chris@mstdn.chrisalemany.caThe BBC running damage control on its own broadcast is wild to witness. The most egregious part of the affair to me is that no one from BAFTA or the BBC even bothered to apologize to Michael B Jordan and Delroy Lindo when they got off the stage, let alone tell *them* what was going to be done about it. There was no effort to bring the three people involved together for resolution at the time of the incident, nothing.
But the other part of this that just grates on me with every article is the BBC trying to defend itself by saying “that another racial slur had been edited out of the broadcast.”
#BBC #BAFTA #Racism #FreePalestine #Israel #Gaza #Palestine #misinformation #disinformation #complicity
https://news.un.org/en/story/2025/09/1165835
@chris@mstdn.chrisalemany.ca“Canada supports the United States…..”
these are the only words that matter and I’m sorry what? This is “our” position? No. I reject this!!
Canada has stood for humanitarian law and international peace and security for nearly a century.
We should be a “Middle Power” with values. Right? Wasn’t that the Davos speech?!
But here we are clapping meekly from the sidelines as the country that would love to annex us, now ruled by a Christo-Fascist Regime, and in partnership with a Judeo-Fascist Regime blows up people in a country ruled by a Islamo-Fascist regime.
We are basically back to the Middle Ages but with nukes in our back pocket.
These are the three most dangerous countries in the world all fighting amongst themselves. We should not be taking sides, except for the side of peaceful civilians of all religions in all countries.
This is not the way.
I am shocked at the shallowness, the naïveté and the cowardice of Carney’s foreign policy.
#canpoli #cdnpoli #canada #iran #usa #israel #palestine #war #genocide #fascism
