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@AbsonJill

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Independent far lefty. Doesn't eat or wear animals. Can't remember ever not being Left. #Free Palestine, obviously. Tiohtiá:Ke/Mooniyang/Montreal.

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2 years
@JesseRodriguez @prisonculture Angela Lansbury was a proud Socialist and the Daughter of the Communist Mayor of Poplar(a borough of London), Edgar Lansbury, and the granddaughter of Socialist head of the Labour party in the 30's, George Lansbury. You might want to include that in your obit..
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@Jairo_I_Funez I smell a lawsuit. You'd get a lot of crowd funding support, I'm sure.
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@edwardpoole1975 Vietnam with a population of 96 million and a poor country has only 35 deaths. They didn't however believe in herd Immunity and that a significant chunk of their population was expendable.
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@QudsNen 81% of Canadians want a ceasefire, so this isn't close to representative. Trudeau & Joly obviously spent the day on the phone to Washington. As a not remotely proud Canadian, I promise there are many of us who will not let this appalling position stick. Wretched government.
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@robrousseau Lords of capital didn't want to play by post-war labour & enviro regs anymore, so off shored to China, etc. China spent the money on advancing its populations' comprehensive well-being, which is considered an outrageously provocative act to our leaders.
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@NJSimmondsbooks This is disingenuous. You commented on Ukrainian suffering, but not Palestinians'. You clearly don't have the hard and fast, universal rule you claim. Like so many white psuedo-feminists.
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@davenewworld_2 He should try naming 10 "historical Israelis" who aren't famous for anything other than planning or carrying out the killing of Arabs. If he's trying to give Israel credit for the considerable contributions of non-Zionist Jews over 200yrs, it's just another origin lie.
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@_abuelbanat @AP_Doramaqueen There's a reason they've delayed the release of Churchill's papers by 50 years. We can only imagine what's in them if this is the stuff that's been deemed fine.
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@YousefAljamal If I feel such rage at this, I can imagine how it is for Palestinians. I don't know how to bear it.
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2 years
@RaniaKhalek My partner is a Wikipedia Administrator and after reading this he has included your bio on a list to be observed for smearers, there are a lot of repeat offenders and he's stopped a few. He's going to fix your bio today if you'd like.
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@Mivasair @cie1947 The sage Yeshayahu Leibowitz warned that occupation and settlements would lead to the rise of Judeo-Nazism. Hard not to see this horror-show-tune in anything but that light, with the added dimension of liberal's a-ok
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@robbycameron1 @QudsNen But Palestinian lives are worth less, are they? What else could your point be? We've seen plenty of images and hear of the Israeli dead, but not of the Palestinian dead in mainstream media. That's clearly how you need it to be.
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5 years
@D_Raval So many Brits don't know that they dont know they live in a unnecessary Dystopia.
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@alon_mizrahi Those same misrulers underestimate how angry and motivated most of the citizens of the planet are about this Genocide project, which, for once, is taking place with some daylight. There's more than a touch of Versailles in the late 1700s about this.
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@londiemurray Liam will demand you burn that picture someday, although his cute is hard to hide.
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5 years
@dcwoodruff @davidsirota Here's one for you from the UK election. A study found that Conservative ads on Facebook had been 88%misleading while Labour's ads had been 0%misleading. The headline for the BBC: "Election ads are misleading, study finds". Ffs.
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@QudsNen There isn't a court big enough to contain the crimes of Israel against Palestinians.
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@xgonjr Yes this will very much convince people there were no shenanigans going on in Iowa last night.
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@AnzelikaXO @sasa_ghada And you're being reported for racism, Angie.
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7 years
@robynkanner When Vice started here in Mtl in the early 90's it was understood as a backlash against feminism and the left.The founders were puerile &laughably cocky,commited to making the right cool.Folks were astonished&disgusted when it took off the way it did. Sign of things to come...
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2 years
@EliseDB @guardian None of what you claim is true and some of it's actionable. Ken Loach's only"crime"is to support Palestinians in their struggle against very real Israeli oppression. Educate yourself and stop spreading Anti-Palestinian hate which the Green Party should def not be associated with
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@JonathanLordDC How's the weather over at the weapons manufacturers' fave think tank, Jonathan?
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@JoeMaristela @RnaudBertrand Nothing complex about it, honey. Zero nuance in industrial strength dehumanization.
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9 months
@ToryFibs When Palestinians told Western journalists that they were regularly shot for what seemed like nothing more than sport, they were not believed. That it takes murdering a man with a white flag in front of a TV crew for it to break thru tells us a lot, and none of it good.
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@BrianMteleSUR In 2003 Glenn Greenwald loved the War on Iraq and hated Latin America Leftists and used cringey florid prose to serve both tendencies. There was an interegnum where he fashioned himself a Leftist but has hopped back to his reactionary comfort zone - a silly boy horseshoe.
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2 years
@davidgilmour Equating criticism of ethno-nationalistic Zionism with the hatred of Jews for being Jews is one of the more powerful lies of the last 50 yrs. Y'all are telling on yourselves for its promulgation.
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@AyyashMohannad Julia Hartley Brewer is hated by the Left in Britain for good reason. She's a posh racist, anti-feminist, anti-Left hater who flourishes only due to the UK's thoroughly corrupt elite. A neo-con dream who hates Muslims the most. In a normal world, she'd be unemployed
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@NimerSultany It's also a battle between the public in the Global North and their not-very-democratic leadership. Majorities want a ceasefire and an end to Israel's hellish occupation, but the politicians don't feel a need to listen to them. In Cda,Trudeau responds to the WH and corps, not us
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@KufiyyaPS Depravity on steroids. There really aren't enough superlatives to cover the IOF's horrendous necrophilia.
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@fatumakhaireh Ms Smith, like so many successful British authors, has straight-up BBC lib politics. There isn't much that's been genuinely radical since Mary Wollstonecraft. They've had at least 200yrs of perfecting the Centrist template, and there's no sign of it letting up.
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@faisalkutty @Terrilltf @TrueNorthCentre Canada's media landscape is made up of far too many repulsive people like Sue-Ann Levy. They love Israel's "military muscularity" and the institutional Racism that actually gets to claim, unbelievably, the moral high ground. They want to get more of that action for Canada.
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@Jairo_I_Funez @olamahhh Israel trained & armed death squads in Nicaragua, Guatemala,& El Salvador during Reagan's dirty wars in the 80's, supported Apartheid SA in their regional wars&collaborated with them on their A-bomb. They have a long, inconvenient history of aggression on behalf of fascists.
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@glcarlstrom If you think Genocide is "winning the battle" on the part of Israel, you really are a twisted, insubstantial hack. The Economist is just the place for you, tho, in keeping with their long tradition of twisted, insubstantial "journalism"
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9 months
Ali Abunimah dismantles the continuing sex atrocity propaganda pushed by the NYT. There's still no actual evidence, and in this,Mr Gettlemen resembles Judith Miller and her breathless reporting for the NYT about Iraq's(non-existent)WMDs. War couldn't go far without these fictions
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On yesterday’s livestream we debunked @nytimes story claiming mass rapes by Hamas on Oct 7 (link to watch in quoted tweet). Now even more comes out indicating NYT should retract their piece of atrocity propaganda and incitement to genocide:
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@trklou I need a shower after reading her Tweets.We pay her very high salary, & I think Canadian's like to believe that someone as racist and filled with hate for a large sector of patients as Dr Smuilovich would be filtered out along the way,but clearly no such meaningful process exists
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@leilanifarha @JustinTrudeau @MClaude_Landry @CdnHumanRights @MarcMillerVM This is outrageous, @JustinTrudeau and @MarcMillerVM . Your servility to the US and to Israel's racist project is duly noted. It's also a part of a Genocidal profile that won't help the case against you at the Hague.
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@mbueckert A journalist in a newspaper that touts its investigative journalism: Chelsea Manning exposed "State Secrets". Don't you mean "revealed war crimes" @globeandmail ?
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@IrwinCotler Anti-Palestinian hate is not something you can dress up as the moral high road for much longer Irwin, the kids are having none of it.
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@AaronBastani @IKeirHardie Asa Winstanley exposed Westerman's lack of veracity on this 3 yrs ago but you and other Novara Media clout chasers chose to ignore it and continued to refer to Winstanley as a crank, not Westerman.
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@alon_mizrahi @experimentalis If English is your second language, your skill with it is beyond many native speakers. Joseph Conrad, Samuel Beckett, and Refaat Alareer all had remarkable skills in a second language - you're in brilliant company!
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@NourNaim88 @Normanjam67 War Crimes and Crimes Against Humanity commited every single second, that's quite a record Israel is amassing. They're going to have to build a giant new complex at the Hague to accommodate all the active perps.
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Jill Abson
3 years
@LorraineDWilke @therecount @SpeakerPelosi You lost a lot of folks at"love you Speaker Pelosi" Good gawd, what the hell was lovable before she made this all too typical comment?!
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@wickdchiq @onestsam Ivy league schools are now run on the whims of racist billionaires. Ackman is one of the most overtly so.
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4 years
@LukewSavage Just as Labour elites expended vastly more energy defeating Corbyn and a whiff of Socialism than they did to beating Johnson. It's almost as though Centrism is hollow or something...
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@CIJAinfo @BoardofDeputies It's being recommended that Jeremy Corbyn take action against CIJA and this slander. I really hope he does, unlike the CIJA the Majority of Canadians believe that Israel should have to play by the same rules.
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@LeahGazan This is a strange reaction. Ms. Joly has been an enthusiastic supporter of Israel's crimes in Palestine and has not responded to the majority of Canadians who want this hell stopped.This is what democracy looks like when politicians remove themselves from the informed public will
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@LHSummers Ya see, Larry, Palestinians can lawyer up, too. That can still happen in the US. The door hasn't been slammed shut yet, and your effluence of the mouth still gets you into all kinds of jams. You're lucky Dr Khalidi has the grace you're so sorely lacking and accepted the apology
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@DonnyDeutsch You wouldn't know an "honest conversation" if one grabbed you and bit you on the arse. At least you're building the case against you at Hague with these egregious appearances..
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3 years
@churnwell His name is "Stormzy" and he gets that Corbyn has universal values and Starmer has none at all, so, probably no.
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@AlanRMacLeod The slap doesn't look real, neither are any of the US state's apparent Humanitarian concerns.
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@BBCBreaking This is why you've lost your international rep, BBC. You know damn well that it was pro-Israel counter-protesters that committed the "horrific acts of violence" at UCLA, but you'd prefer to sow doubt by leaving it out. That's propaganda on behalf of a client state, not journalism
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@MariamBarghouti Great that there's a growing number of bright young journalists who want to be like you and not Anderson Cooper. There's hope for something beyond court stenography and onto actual world changing contributions.
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@matthaig1 @redsarah99 Don't forget Diane Abbott, a lightening rod for so much that's wrong with Britain and its toxic racist patriarchy. The press is a cause and a symptom.
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@IBJIYONGI Recent studies have shown that there's zero correlation now between public opinion and actual policy in the US, and in that sense, of course, zero democracy. The attacks on Rashida Tlaib, while 80% of Dems agree with her, screams that out loud.
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@AlanRMacLeod You'd think they'd go for the super-clickable headline of Mr nail gun head saying, "Kill all Palestinians." How very odd.
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@MccarthyFintan @mettlesome_teri @LaylaMoran I guess he doesn't see Shireen Abu Aqlah as civilian, or human, nor the countless other Palestinian civilians Israel first denies, and then is forced to admit to killing. These lying shills are getting very tiresome.
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@maryam_dh White pseudo feminists are really only comfortable with baseless accusations of sexual assault by Black and Brown men..
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4 years
@siennamarla Those latter comments are lies. I think you'll find people believe in the veracity of Corbyn over Starmer, a man who afterall lied his way into the Leadership. I hope the courts respond accordingly, but we know the press won't.
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5 years
@DCKennard ...Miriam Margolis and 250 more from the arts and academia who signed a letter to the Guardian that went quickly down the memory hole...
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@nscoll @kennardmatt Owen Jones is a very unreliable ally to any Palestinian Liberation movement, much more trouble than he's worth. Matt Kennard should be applauded for pointing that out, not sworn at.
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@4ILorg Jesus, y'all are unwell..
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@alon_mizrahi Great stuff, as per usual. Chomsky points out that the US only really became interested in the Holocaust after the 67 war, when they consolidated Israel's role as the US' Gendarmerie in the ME, strengthening their control over energy reserves. The Holocaust provided moral cover.
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@TameeOliveFern I loath the usage. Innocent of what? Trying to survive like every one of us is hardwired for doesn't require cleansing to be just and righteous.
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@sleafordmods Pick sides!?There are 2 sides to Genocide!? Maybe you should educate yourself before weighing in. This is not the neutral statement you imagine it to be.
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@ToryFibs Cda, Aus,&the UK need to be added to South Africa's petition to the ICJ charging the US with supporting Genocide, and we citizens of the Anglosphere need to rid ourselves of these unrepresentative misrulers. @JustinTrudeau , maybe you could find a traveling minstrel show to join?
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@ZaKhatib 30,000 Boers,1/2 women& children, died in Britain's concentration camps in South Africa in the 1800's. Altho they tried, past victim status didn't exonerate the Boers for the eventual crimes of Apartheid. Prior victimhood isn't a free pass for conduct in life nor in law.
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@danbloom1 The Labour Party is not actually a wholly owned subsidiary of Keir Starmer, however much he behaves as though it is. He needs to be defeated as resoundingly as Sunak does.
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@tomfriedman You are not a bright man, Thomas Friedman. Racist, yes. Gobsmackingly privileged and pampered, yes. Smart? Gawd no! Your piece offers ample proof of this assertion.
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2 years
@ninaturner @Sen_JoeManchin Zing! Impeccable Zing.
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2 years
@LeeCamp Blackrock explicitly guides major policies of the Trudeau govt, esp infrastructure, and most Canadians don't even know they exist. Another tribute to our supine and often complicit press.
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@muhammadshehad2 Predictable results of a totalitarian process of dehumanization on display. Palestinians are undesirable "things" standing in the way of the virtuous Israelis desperate for their just rewards. The same throughout human history. Add US billions without strings, a voilà!
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@YorkUniversity Careful, they could (and should) sue you. And win.
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Jill Abson
4 years
@jrschlosberg @OwenJones84 More and more of this Corbyn as ditherer is being squeezed out but it collides completely the man's willingness to do the right, not the expedient and comfortable thing, and of course his arrest record.That some don't recognize that as guts says something problematic about them.
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@Louise_J_17 @agelender Germany had posters that said that about Jews in Germany in the Nazi era. British andFrench Colonialists said that about the Indigenous pop of everywhere they took over. See where I'm going with this, honey bunny? Evil doers are never very original in selling their slaughter.
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@SarahJKS77 @islndchicaMD @Monika_Dutt Racists like yourself will always "find a way" to take Racism out of Racist incidents because that's the way Racism operates. Then they go on Twitter and say it's never Racism (except when it's against white folks)
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@AlanRMacLeod It's just naked. Like the 1918 flu epidemic probably coming from a Kansas farm but everyone still calling it the Spanish Flu.
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@mohamadfakih8 You are a true Mensch. Only useless bigots could characterize you otherwise. They wouldn't know good works and solidarity with humanity if they tripped over them
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@Jackiew80333500 Therapists working with children who saw their mothers abused by their fathers found that the kids more often aligned with him, preferring to identify with power. It tells us a lot about a cycle that needs to be broken.
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@mhdksafa This guy is probably not an IDF soldier. Just another everyday English fascist with fantasies of being an IDF thug
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@KasiaMadera @andrewfeinstein @Issaamro @lawrence_wright Good gawd! The BBC is interviewing a Palestinian! Not talking at, about, or above some of the most excluded people on earth. Hope it's the start of a trend.
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@conceptualsaeen @oliviakatbi Utterly mystified that nobody has filed a massive libel suit against David Collier, ultra hater of Palestinians, Arabs in general, Muslims, the Left and who regularly borrows material from actual Nazi's. This is not a case of ignore him and he'll go away.
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@QudsNen They look much better in Hamas' care than Palestinian hostages do in the IOF's care by a long shot.
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@MrBenSellers @Keir_Starmer The public agreed with Corbyn that the Manchester bombing was aided by terrible US & British policies in the Middle East, astonishing & dismaying the establishment. Something like that seems to be happening in response to Starmer's repulsive support of Israeli's ongoing Genocide
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@Lowkey0nline And the old prick was thoroughly against rationing during and after the war, instead Churchill favoured that those rich enough could hord the scarce items for themselves. Probably also had something to do with him losing the post war election so massively.
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@mandersoncfa @Jackiew80333500 And a countersuit would be coming your way in return, you racist fraud.
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@QudsNen "an unimaginable loss.." that Blinken could have prevented. The cynical gaslighting here is gobsmacking
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@samah_fadil Proud to say I've not had any of their products in over 30 yrs. They both have terrible labour and enviro policies, home and abroad. Showing they're proud to be associated with infanticide and mass murder is a new low.
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@kennardmatt I read once that Guardian writers had a term for explaining their towing the line: they didn't want to get" Pilgered," i.e., being tossed out and forever deemed a crank. It said everything about them and ended up paying cack-handed tribute to Pilger.
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@QudsNen They should be leading the world, not dying in Israel's hell on Earth
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The mainstream media ignoring sexual atrocities on Palestinians that have oceans more veracity than Israeli claims of organized rape squads on Oct 7th says more than volumes could about who counts, who doesn't, and what kind of relationship they want us to have with the truth.
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Why are US politicians ignoring this? When will Western mainstream media raise the alarm about this? What will POTUS do about it?
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I guess Bastani putting a like on this bit of Thatcherite policy from Starmer is an example of his famed political nuance...
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@Lowkey0nline Churchill also opposed rationing during and right after ww2 and felt those with money should be able to hoard scarce food and material goods. Even some of his fellow elites thought that a bit extreme in war time.
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@Lowkey0nline I can smell the sulphur off of Blair from 3000 miles away..
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@PhilipProudfoot People with the strength of their moral convictions are such good arguers!
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@Lowkey0nline Kind of hard to believe at this point that Guardian Editor Katherine Viner co-wrote a deeply sympathetic play about Rachel Corrie's death at the hands of the Israeli State.
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@Gaza_Psych I'm finding it very hard to muster any sympathy for those dealing with a reality they could have helped change and instead showed so much enthusiasm for. Humans are really not designed to kill each other.
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Jill Abson
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@alexnunns Patrick McGuire reported that Corbyn's planning a run as some kind of independent in Islington North. Ratcheting up the attacks again seems like a predictable pre-emptive strike. Corbyn probably expected this. He's not the ditherer Owen Jones claims in his dubious book
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Jill Abson
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@ProfDBernstein @AymanM None of these kids had a trail. They were under "administrative detention" for throwing stones. It's probably a good idea to educate yourself rather than repeat mindless propaganda if you're going to wade into a place where folks have receipts at the ready.
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@nour_odeh The most moral army in the known universe ever.
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