Q. what does the treatment of much maligned MP Diane Abbot tell us about the Labour Party?
Maurice Mcleod suggests quite a lot, and its not so good....
And just in case you've forgotten, in the run up to the 2017 election nearly half of all offensive & abusive tweets sent to female MPs (and this was a lot of tweets) were sent to Diane Abbot.
So, now it looks like the Labour Party is joining in with the Trolls (albeit more subtly).
@junesim63@ChrisMayLA6 I had to block some utter f-with yesterday who was on the get-on-the-#Starmer train-or-get-left-on-the-platform narrative. It’s like these folks have had a lobotomy. Kept asking me for peer review of my claim that he is a #genocidal#Zionist
It’s depressing when you realise you rightly despise large numbers of your compatriots…
The group diligently observes the collective dissent voiced by numerous Meta employees, encompassing #Facebook, #Instagram, WhatsApp, #Messenger, and #Threads, regarding the Meta #company's complicity in the #genocidal war against the #Gaza Strip, its endorsement of the Israeli occupation, and its fueling of the "Lavender" #artificialintelligence system used by the Israeli military to kill #Palestinian individuals within the Gaza enclave.
🧵 It feels inappropriate to argue on such matters on a Day of Remembrance, but since such a day became a stage for distorting truth and the essence of the #Holocaust, it seems necessary to do so.
In his speech Biden drew a parallel, comparing #Nazis murdering 6000000 #Jews during the Holocaust to #Hamas' 1200 Israeli victims during the Oct 7 attack. That was a x5000 stretch of truth and logic, without counting the 35000+ victims of #Israeli horrible thirty-eyes-for-an-eye retaliation,
@faab64@Miro_Collas@palestine@realskibidi
In late October last year the majority of #Israelis showed they supported the #genocidal attacks on #gaza. In fact, many thought the IDF should be killing far more. #Israel is, like South Africa once was, a nation of mostly white supremacists devoted to #apartheid and their own privilege built on oppression, and to treating the occupied, indigenous people as sub-humans.
#Israel's IDF about killing 7 aid workers: "It was a mistake"
It's not a mistake. It's 33000 - 6000 = 27000 revengeful murders of civilians, excluding 6000 Hamas fighters as acceptable war casualties. Israel's #genocidal revenge now stands at 253 hostages / 27000 civilian murders.
The count far exceeds other civilian massacres, like the #Nazi massacre at Kalavryta, Greece, where the whole male population (693) of the town was executed and the town demolished.
Sok Eysan, speaker of the #Cambodia People Party, said Cambodian people are lucky to have survived the #genocidal regime & did so thanks to the #KampucheanUnitedFront for National Salvation with the effective support of Vietnamese #VoluntaryTroops.
“Medical teams have added a new acronym to their vocabulary. WCNSF: wounded child, no surviving family,” he said. “Children who survive this war will not only bear the visible wounds of traumatic injuries but the invisible ones, too — those of repeated displacement, constant fear and witnessing family members literally dismembered before their eyes. These psychological injuries have led children as young as five to tell us they would prefer to die.” #Gaza#WarCrimes
And the #Israelis believes that their #genocidal actions in #Gaza will make #Hamas disappear? They're creating a whole generation of #Palestinians who will hate #Israel with an intensity never seen before.
It is taking all of my power, my restraint, my strength, not to just say the most violent diatribe imaginable that is trying to enter my mind right now.
TL;DW: Beau of the Fifth Column, a journalist specialized in international diplomacy, makes the point that the strategy of #israel is counterproductive to the stated goals.
I will add: it is productive for the politicians that push for it, because they will get to look like strongman, give the people the cruelty they crave and make them feel self-righteous, while ACTUALLY MAKING THE PROBLEM WORSE, which means those politicians get to do this again next time it happens.
TL;DR: even if you don't care about good and evil, supporting #genocidal#authoritarian#xenophobes might stoke your ego, but it WILL fuck you over.
Being moral, being good is just rational long-term self-interest.
Canada's taking a "wait-and-see" approach on whether or not to remove its support for Israel's genocide, but preemptively pausing funding for UNRWA over unproven allegation.
Israel wants as many of the remaining ‘live’ population of #Gaza to be pushed to the very limits of survivability so that they will be forced to ‘voluntarily’ give up their homes, their ancestral lands, their ancient olive groves, the graveyards of their parents and grandparents, their entire cultural memory!
So, in addition to murdering as many of them as possible, to complete the job of #Nakba2.0, they literally need to starve the remaining, pitiful ‘rump’ of #Gazans who have somehow managed to survive.
#UNRWA is an obstacle to that evil mission. #Israel has long accused the #UN organisation of being a ‘creature’ of #Hamas. Now we have evidence of former officials going on record as confirming, as part of its #genocidal intentions, the need to ‘destroy’ UNRWA!
“Your antisemitism is your apologia for a criminal government defaming a people.” - The truth in a nutshell! Excusing or denying the #genocidal actions of the State of #Israel creates a situation where Jewish people as a group are perceived as being complicit in the atrocities.
"So, take notes, Butcher Biden: The ancestors of the #Ireland that you claim to be from disown you. Keep our country out of your mouth. And as for von der Leyen (President of the #European Commission), and #genocidal#Germany with your words and deeds supporting #Israel in the #ICJ: Not in our name! The people of #Europe stand with #Palestine and with #SouthAfrica."
Clare Daly - #Irish Politician and Member of the European Parliament - 16/02/2024
Long before #southafrica Africa filed a case against #Israel at the International Court of Justice on 29 December 2023 over its #genocidal war on #Gaza, its iconic anti-apartheid leader, Nelson Mandela, who came to embody the struggle for justice worldwide; stated, “#Palestine was the greatest moral issue of our time.”
The unstoppable #Israeli#U.S. armed #military juggernaut continues its #genocidal destruction of #Gaza’s #Palestinians. The onslaught includes blocking the provision of “food, water, medicine, electricity and fuel,” openly genocidal orders decreed by #Netanyahu and his extreme, blood-thirsty ministers.
"As global resistance to war and #apartheid grows, it is important that the public know exactly who is making this violence possible."
As of Wednesday, a U.S.-based #Quaker group's online database listed over two dozen companies profiting from the #bloodshed in the Gaza Strip, where Israeli forces have spent the last 10 weeks waging what experts call a "#genocidal" war that sent defense stocks soaring.
The more blatantly #fascist and #genocidal the #Israeli government gets, the more in danger live will be for #Jews all over the world. For Jews everywhere else, standing up to to this #genocide is not only a moral obligation to those who died in genocides prior but an act of self preservation. #Israel killed as many people in 2 months as #ISIS killed in 2 years. #Hamas approval rating in #Palestine has tripled when they were at a record low prior to the 7th. Had any other government been in power in Israel, they the response would have been rationally muted and Hamas would have just rightly fully looked like butchers to both sides, Hamas would have possibly lost even more favor with the Palestinian people. Fascists can't sit still and do the adult thing, everything is about unfettered impulse and emotion for them making the attack by Hamas look entirely justified to the people of Palestine.
We are not standing by doing nothing, but we are also aiding the aggressors by supplying ammunition in their efforts to execute their #genocidal#murders as they extend their property holdings.
What Is it about world politics that I'm missing? Shouldn't we all be outraged and demanding a #ceasefire and the assembly of a #world court?
"Washington, D.C., November 29, 2023 - Henry Kissinger’s death today brings new global attention to the long paper trail of secret documents recording his policy deliberations, conversations, and directives on many initiatives for which he became famous—détente with the USSR, the opening to China, and Middle East shuttle diplomacy, among them.
"This historical record also documents the darker side of Kissinger’s controversial tenure in power: his role in the overthrow of #democracy and the rise of #dictatorship in #Chile; disdain for #HumanRights and support for dirty, and even #genocidal, wars abroad; secret bombing campaigns in #SoutheastAsia; and involvement in the #Nixon administration’s criminal abuses, among them the secret wiretaps of his own top aides.
"To contribute to a balanced and more comprehensive evaluation of Kissinger’s legacy, the National Security Archive has compiled a small, select dossier of declassified records—memos, memcons, and 'telcons' that Kissinger wrote, said and/or read—documenting TOP SECRET deliberations, operations and policies during Kissinger’s time in the White House and Department of State.
"The revealing 'telcons'—over 30,000 pages of daily #transcripts of Kissinger’s phone conversations which he secretly recorded and had his secretaries transcribe—were taken by Kissinger as 'personal papers' when he left office in 1977 and used, selectively, to write his best-selling memoirs.
"The National Security Archive forced the U.S. government to recover these official records by preparing a lawsuit that argued that both the State Department and the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) had inappropriately allowed classified U.S. government documentation to be removed from their control. Archive senior analyst William Burr filed a FOIA request for their declassification. The draft lawsuit—which was never filed—is included in this dossier, since Kissinger’s effort to remove, retain and control these highly informative and revealing historical records should be considered a critical part of his official legacy, and the full texts have been published in the Digital National Security Archive series from ProQuest.
"This special posting also centralizes links to dozens of previously published collections of documents related to Kissinger’s tenure in government that the Archive, led by the intrepid efforts of William Burr, has identified, pursued, obtained and catalogued over several decades. Together, these collections constitute an accessible, major repository of records on one of the most consequential U.S. foreign policy makers of the 20th century.
"'Henry Kissinger’s insistence on recording practically every word he said, either to the presidents he served (without their knowledge that they were being taped) or the diplomats he cajoled, remains the gift that keeps on giving to diplomatic historians,' remarked Tom Blanton, director of the National Security Archive.
"'Kissinger’s aides later commented that he needed to keep track of which lie he told to whom. Kissinger tried to keep those documents under his own control. His deed of gift to the Library of Congress would have kept them closed until five years from now, but the Archive brought legal action and forced the opening of secret documents that show a decidedly mixed picture of Kissinger’s legacy, and enormous catastrophic costs to the peoples of Southeast Asia and Latin America.'"
Just like the attempts to ban discussion of race and gender in U.S. classrooms, Israel aims to censor historical truths
November 18 and 19, Israeli airstrikes killed at least eighty-two Palestinians in Israel’s #genocidal war on Gaza has already killed more than 14,000 #Palestinians in Gaza, including more than 5,600 #children, with Gaza’s Health Ministry reporting that one Palestinian #child is killed every ten minutes
“It should never have happened,” an elderly Holocaust survivor of a Nazi death camp told the New York Times He was referring to the colossal failure on October 7th, of Israel’s touted high-tech military In many parliamentary countries, the government ministers who are responsible for this kind of failure would have immediately been forced to resign. Not so with Prime Minister Netanyahu’s ministers