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A mother & grandmother, Decades of working for peace, equality and justice - views my own and not any organisation or group R/T not an endorsement

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Just watch this! I’m really heartsick - can’t get up! Can’t function 😭 But it’s not about me it’s about these beautiful innocent babies! I’m sick of US, UK & all those that are doing this to them. They’re feeding the monster that’s Israhell. Sick, sick, sick… 😭😭😭
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"Is it far mom? " "yes, it is far, just stay close to me"
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@john_ford77 @Taj_Ali1 Local Muslim groups run food banks for everybody & go out on streets feeding homeless. A mosque in my borough runs a food bank, & feeds people on low incomes every Friday. @RumisCave in Harlesden runs a soup kitchen. @SufraNWLondon food bank was started by a Muslim. And you?
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@StanCollymore @Carl0s_Vela Remembering my great uncle Matloob Hussain who served in Europe as part of the British Indian army, also the millions of Muslims who served in the wars including 1.6 million Muslims who died in WW2
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Well done @georgegalloway ! 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾
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How to destroy a “reporter” in 30 seconds flat.
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@lorrainemking The 15th seems to be the top floor. Years ago council policies were that children should not be housed above a certain floor. But all these policies have been reversed now.
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@KaylaAncrum He was Islamophobic. Sadly you got a taste of what Muslim women who choose to wear a headscarf, experience all the time 😞 glad you were ok and got supported. But I wonder if you were actually Muslim would the reaction be so supportive?
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@john_ford77 @Taj_Ali1 @RumisCave @SufraNWLondon 40 years of work in voluntary sector. Work with vulnerable families. 12 years of it while working for local council in housing. Two years working on estate that was no go area. Working to support the homeless. At same time working to support family. Paid tax /never on benefits.
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Actress Juliet Stevenson in the crowd - great supporter of Palestine & speaks out about refugees. @hzomlot , @GhassanAbuSitt1 British doctors & medical workers marched in Westminster today to demand protection to Palestinian medical workers targeted by Israeli forces in #Gaza
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@nelsabbey Why does everyone leave the Muslim bit out? It was an islamophobic attack. He sent out Islamophobic tweets before he murdered them.
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@Tracking_Power @SamanthaBond I think she was enormously brave to send that tweet, fully knowing she would be viciously attacked. TAO & Maureen Lipman are two of the most vocal supporters of Israel’s genocide. So SB was justified to ask that question.
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@CllrAmmar I can never forget what happened. Watched it as it happened, My younger son was same age at the time, and it really affected me. Still does. 2014 Gaza carnage by Israel was horrific and it made me determined to advocate for Palestine.
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Forever in our hearts!! ❤️ South Africa's dream team, who filed the case against Israel at the ICJ - Adv John Dugard, Adv Tembeka Ngcukaitobi, Vaughan Lowe KC, Lerato Zikalala, Blinne Ní Ghrálaigh KC, Sarah Pudifin-Jones, Adv Adila Hassim, Tshidiso Ramogale, Adv Max du Plessis 🇿🇦
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@DrWaheedArian I wish there was someone arranging Iftars and Eid parties and gifts for refugees and for Muslim children in care. We did for a couple of years for kids in care but couldn’t sustain it. Maybe a few less grand Iftars and more of helping refugees and children in care?
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@JKSteinberger Thank you! 🙏🏿 As someone who has campaigned against Islamophobia for decades, I’m blown away of by your understanding of what’s been happening. Because no one gets it! Muslims are so dehumanised, demonised & vilified that it is ok to discriminate & carry out injustices against us
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@NafisaBakkar So happy you did that! That mosque is Saudi funded, the trustees are various Muslim ambassadors & the control is with the Saudis. So you get the gist. No way can the cameras be on the sly, they’re very prominent & huge. They need setting up! 🧵
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@melnickjeffrey1 Me too. Just sad and depressed all the time. No joy in anything. Everything is meaningless. Every day more horror I feel physically sick. 😞
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@Rrrrnessa I hope she was ok. Did the school handle it sensitively?
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@SholaMos1 No wonder she’s distanced herself from him! Sometimes toxic relatives have to be cut out from your life!
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I saw mostly white older Brits speaking up for Palestine! Are they ‘Islamists’ ? @Keir_Starmer @RishiSunak @SuellaBraverman
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Council meeting last night in Lindsay Hoyle’s constituency Chorley. The video allegedly shows Cllr Craige Southern, a Tory representative for Euxton South, Mawdesley & Croston, rush at and attack a campaigner. “This is Chorley, Not bloody Gaza” he yelled.
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📣🚨Urgent!! - if you are in or near central London there is a call out for support for staff at the Royal Society Of Arts, 8 John Adam Street, just next to Charing Cross station. Without informing anyone, the RSA are holding a fundraiser for Israel with Isaac Herzog and 🧵
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@A2x_be @BadawiLeila In addition to that, all the draconian Islamophobic laws such as women who wear hijab.
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@RamiJarrah @elgindy_ @annabotting First time I felt a journalist did their job! Instead of giving Israel an easy ride every time! Well done!
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@jalalayn They were traitors to the Ottoman Empire. They helped Britain destroy them so that they could be given bits of land for themselves. That’s why we have all the problems in the Middle East including the establishment of Israel. Traitors then, traitors now!
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@YomnaSharony Made me cry reading this! A gesture of respect and friendship is belittled by Western commentators!
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@sarahkhn89 @Idlibie I will never forget your brother and his selflessness and humanity in going to Syria to help. And your wonderful mother’s efforts to get him released. ❤️💔
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@JustinWelby Yes no excuse for #Antisemitism whatsoever. We condemn it most strongly. The issue about Israel/Palestine however is not about race or religion it’s about the continued oppression by #Israel of indigenous #Palestinians , who are #Muslim & #Christian . Please pray 🙏🏿 for them.
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@Ha_Matar Good to hear that you understand what the Palestinians have gone through and go through still for over 70 years. 🙏🏿
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@BennnyH @Tesco @BDSmovement Well done to your Mum! It’s these small acts of defiance & resistance that create change! ❤️ #BDS 🍉
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@ShabbirLakha @eventbrite @EventbriteGB @STWuk @PSCupdates We’re disgusted at this. Perhaps we should all boycott @eventbrite . We use it for our events too!
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@SholaMos1 @krishgm @EylonALevy Well done @krishgm - finally some proper journalism/interviewing/grilling of Israeli spokespeople by someone in MSM. You let him off easy last time. Keep it up!! Thanks @SholaMos1 - loved your interjections. Please please do more!! 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾
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@lorrainemking 21st floor!! You made right decision. I hate high rise social housing buildings.They’re not fit for people with children, the elderly & disabled. Lifts & nothing else works.
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@AkanKwaku You can report really vile statements on X & they never uphold them. Yet they’re blocking & censoring our posts about Palestine
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@sunnyright @Mirna_elhelbawi @NPR She’s incredible! We applaud her for connecting desperate people in Gaza to the internet, giving them a lifeline.
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@PhilipProudfoot The guy was red in the face & looked super stressed 😃
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@JustinWelby Thank you @JustinWelby you’re beginning to sound more understanding. Yet you still fail to mention who is doing this to Palestine. My view of faith, is to speak truth to power no matter the consequences to oneself. Are you afraid to call Israel out by name?
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@Jonathan_K_Cook Which countries can invoke genocide and why aren’t they ?
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Genius! I can’t believe the BBC allowed this! Point well made guys! #FreePalestine
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This BBC comedy sketch still remains the best. #FreePalestine
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@ShabanaMahmood @concordiaforum And what prevented you from voting for a ceasefire first time around? You are complicit in genocide, you have no credibility!
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@LPStaySafe I’ve just read vile comments against you on this post. Typical of what we Muslims have to face all the time. Muslim women are particular targets. Trolling by the far right and now #Hindutva This is #Islamophobia . The police and councils have to get a grip on how serious this is.
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@BBCDanielS Thanks for clarifying. I hope this gets as much publicity as the fake news did about it being a hate crime by Muslims. The damage is done. This ratchets up anti-Muslim hatred resulting in abuse & attacks on Muslims.
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@Jackiew80333500 I suspect anti-Israel is being conflated with anti-Jewish hate.
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So Rachel Riley, arch Zionist, is whipping up fear and over reaction to stupid boys driving around in cars with flags. So the police and @MayorofLondon have gone into overdrive, which they never do if it was Islamophobia and racism. 🧵
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@SholaMos1 Yes feel exactly the same!! All the moral moorings have disappeared! They were never real! 😔
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@IsraelMFA Yes our children play in the mosques. Because they love being there
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@RichMillett @mrjamesob @LBC FYI - Watch this interview with Prof Avi Shlaim an Iraqi Arab Jew. Muslims gave sanctuary to Jews when they were expelled from Spain. They lived in harmony in the Muslim world until Israel was created. Anti-Semitism is a European problem he says.
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@NewhamIndParty @mmehmood73 @SophiaNaqvi1 @ZGulamussen I saw mostly white older Brits speaking up for Palestine! Are they ‘Islamists’ ? @Keir_Starmer @RishiSunak @SuellaBraverman
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@Tracking_Power This is on your post I started to reply and couldn’t do a thread it blanked out all the responses
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@SholaMos1 I can relate. In early 60’s at primary school I suffered humiliating racism by students & some teachers. For first year at secondary it continued. It really hurt. Then I discovered my identity through a self discovery road trip to Pakistan & a passion for fighting injustice.
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@DrNkrumahKwame Thank you for your effort. I’ve never ever heard what Hamas has to say. Their charter which the media and politicians mentions all the time which they say calls for vile things. I’d like to read it for myself. But don’t know if I look for it, will I get Prevent at my door!
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Amazing! Brooch found in Ireland with the shahada in Arabic on it. “There is no God but One God.” 700-900 CE Europe’s connections with Muslim world go back a long way. Plus at that time Spain was Muslim.
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BREAKING: Today, we witness the total ISraeli destruction of the most important, 700 beds specialty hospital in Gaza, Al Shifa Medical Complex. It was established 78 years ago during the British Mandate, the name Shifa meaning 'The House of Healing'; now turned into a 'House of
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@lacanian_bimbo People should bombard TFL not to discipline or sack him. I’m Really grieved that a person with a heart should be penalised. It was a beautiful sentiment of his.
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@ahmedbilal172 @BinhamidAli @DillyHussain88 You’re name is Bilal? No it isn’t! Why don’t you use your real name - a Hindu name
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A Muslim woman in hijab is appointed as a Hate Crime Officer for Leicestershire Police. Her tweet introducing herself is met with vile #Islamophobic abuse by far right extremists & #Hindutva . This is the direct and institutional #Islamophobia we are faced with on a daily basis.
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@IsraelMFA Our children also love to clean and care for our mosques ❤️
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@BAFTA Congratulations #BigZu so proud of you and other young #Muslims who are changing the narrative about Muslims. Muslims have been stereotyped negatively for too long! #RepresentationMatters
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Brent’s faith communities 2011 Census. Most of our communities identify more by faith. Muslims r second largest faith community. We’re looking fwd to next Census results due soon. These figures are important as used to develop services. @Brent_Council @MAsgharButt @HarbiFarahh
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Praying 🤲🏾 for Türkiye 🇹🇷
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Another natural disaster hits #Turkiye After 50,000+ killed by an Earthquake, violent floods ripped through the country this morning. RT Continue to Support the people of Turkiye - @baitulmaal
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@yasmin_khan @hzomlot “We are aware of the root causes” Emily Maitlis says in a muffled aside, then why not start and expand with that instead of the Israeli propaganda so that there is greater public awareness of them!
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@georgegalloway @MMuddassarAhmed You hosted a man & his posse who are all complicit in genocide, for an Iftar in the sacred month of Ramadan. I can’t get my head around it! 😱
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@ZacGoldsmith People praying and walking around peaceably is a ‘celebration of depravity?’ The police don’t look disturbed. Have you got your glasses on?’
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@akh1e Thank you so much!! I don’t believe what I see unless it’s verified. Thank you for verifying! All these fake posts designed to discredit the Palestinian struggle. 🙏🏿
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@concordiaforum @Keir_Starmer @DavidLammy @ShabanaMahmood @USAinUK Labour needed an Iftar photo op to woo back Muslim voters, so they got some dodgy think tank to invite them! We can’t forget 100,000 Gazans, killed, maimed & injured, missing under rubble, & starved to death so easily! Starmer supports a genocide & didn’t call for a ceasefire!
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@NewhamIndParty @mmehmood73 @SophiaNaqvi1 @ZGulamussen So disingenuous! The motion didnt acknowledge Oct 7th!! So she’s not voting to prevent a genocide on that basis??!! I’m gobsmacked! Why do these people want to be an MP if not for justice and equality for everybody, without fear or favour! They’re not fit to rule us!
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@SaulStaniforth It’s not a war. It’s a massacre - collective punishment - All these black and brown gatekeepers the US and UK put up to be their spokespeople!
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@alon_mizrahi I lived through Vietnam demos & US used same tactics. They were wrong then & they’re wrong now. But they never learn do they!
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@darshnasoni George hadn’t even heard Sunak’s monumental speech, and he kept questioning him about the details of it! If it wasn’t for the white lady there, they’d be calling it a mob, who put him in fear of his life. Hateful Muslims & the like.
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@glenninluton @Jonathan_K_Cook We didn’t have social media then so couldn’t witness it. Terrible things were done to the Iraqis. Remember Abu Ghraib. This time we are witnesses and yet we are helpless. 😞
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@DrKarimWafa Stop eating humus and felafel perhaps !
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@thismorning @CamillaTominey @CamillaTominey always comes across as anti-Meghan. TM needs a more balanced Royal commentator. Why wasn’t she grilled more about the toxic racist media onslaught that #Meghan was subjected to? I almost spluttered my tea at her very rosy version of the media! 😂
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Sooo cute mA
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@PACBI @Eurovision Well done @riocinema !!! We love you!! ❤️ Shame on @Eurovision for not banning Israel from Eurovision. Despite banning Russia previously!! Double standards & hypocrisy! #FreePalestine
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@ShabanaMir1 Build homes that are environmentally friendly. They used wind towers in the Muslim world and other features with cooling and warming features without using electricity! I’ve been in an old Mughal house that was as cool as a cucumber!
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@DrUmarAlQadri That’s wonderful news! So thankful the family honoured her wishes ❤️ Alhamdulillah
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@LaoziO99 @Indusland_ Pakistani Cuisine is from our North Indian Muslim heritage heavily influenced by Persian, Turkish, Central Asian areas brought to India by the Turks and Mughals, who introduced new ingredients and techniques also drawing on what was there in India before.
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@Doylech Has this even been proven?
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@ZacGoldsmith There was also a pro Israel demonstration in London and it’s pretty scary. It’s deeply unfair to London’s Palestinian and Muslim community who are really intimidated! The @metpoliceuk should step in!
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@thebluecairo @DaliaRashed Disgusted beyond belief! How could they demolish this beautiful building??
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#paradisegardens @TheMontyDon brought tears to my eyes - sublime, spiritual gardens beautifully described and understood by you ❤️
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Ladbroke Grove going crazy!! Morocco 🇲🇦
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@Variety @Jackiew80333500 Very good news!! Well done to @riocinema they are standing up for humanity!! 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾
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@freemonotheist With harmony between all the faiths. They preserved and protected all the different faiths & their institutions
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@shahanSean @JosephLumbard Mehmet purchased it. If the Europeans purchased it and it was willingly sold, then there’s no problem covering it. The Spanish Christians either demolished or converted all the mosques in Spain into churches, like Cordoba.
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@khabghareally @EmpireFiles @AbbyMartin It was actually the ROMANS who expelled the Jews. They could not come back until Caliph Omar when he conquered Jerusalem 1400 years ago let them return. Those Jews & their descendants lived in peace in Palestine until it was unethically given to European Jews by the British.
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#WhatMuslimsReallyThink -Tmrw the rest of the 3 million that didnt take part will be harassed, attacked, stared at, excluded, humiliated
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@JANGZ999 Many kids have mental ill issues at that school. One tried to commit suicide. There was a post about it a while ago, with lots of comments from parents whose kids were affected. I know a child there who is deeply unhappy. Needs investigating. Strict doesn’t mean a terror regime
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@Taj_Ali1 Well done!! Oxford councillors seem to have more of a conscience than others it seems!
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@robin_ep_myers Me too! You’ve expressed my feelings so well
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@Jackiew80333500 @MsJulieLenarz And certainly not on someone else’s homeland!
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@HalimaNyomi He’s a child!! Same age as my grandson! 😭
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@SanaSaeed There was no ‘fighting’ as in equal combat. There was a one sided bombardment of people in their homes, in their beds, on the streets. Let’s call a spade a spade! Stop using language that underplays the atrocities being carried out by #Israel western media complicit in #WarCrimes
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💔 I hope they both stay alive 🤲🏾
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“Palestinian journalist plays with a little baby boy who survived an lsraeli airstrike in Gaza.” A reminder, half the population of Gaza are children So when you say to “flatten Gaza” THIS IS WHO YOU ARE TALKING ABOUT!
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@meralhece Yes use the right word @BBCNews it was ISLAMOPHOBIA!!! You’re not backwards in using the word anti-Semitic are you so why are you not using the right terminology? 🤨🤔🤷‍♀️
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@JonathanACBrown Reuters wrote this piece?! This is journalism? Just a lot of suppositions about being raped, which never happened in all that time. And they chatted enough for him to confide that he didn’t love his wife. I mean you wouldn’t normally share such info unless you trust someone?
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@MyriamFrancoisC I can’t understand why that’s a problem if people willingly out of their own will choose a path that suits them. Freedom of choice, freedom of faith - aren’t they British values?? 🤔
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@DalrympleWill @HumzaYousaf @RishiSunak @Keir_Starmer @SuellaBraverman And hes a Muslim! I’m proud to say. We are so demonised & vilified that I myself am beginning to think I must be so inhuman. Well here’s a great example of our community! A class above @RishiSunak @SuellaBraverman @Keir_Starmer
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@alon_mizrahi Thank you & God bless you. Such a pleasure to have met you, albeit at such a terrible time. 🙏🏿
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@StanleyCohenLaw Wow! Amazing lineage of standing up against injustice!
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@Duchess_Summer @yashar @amanpour Many if not most Jordanians are Palestinian refugees from the time of the Nakba in 1948. Queen Rania is one of them
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@PhilipProudfoot I don’t agree with Galloway on Syria & Uyghurs. But this was the Muslim community sending a message to Starmer that you can’t take our vote for granted! You’ve not supported Gaza & your party is Islamophobic. Plus Starmer & his team were behind getting JC out. And all MPs 🧵
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