This is legally wrong:
The laws of armed conflict apply even when you fight an adversary, like Hamas, that breaches them. You must not inflict collective punishments and you must protect objects 'indispensable to the survival of the civilian population'
It is also morally wrong
Defense Minister Yoav Gallant: "I have ordered a complete siege on the Gaza Strip. There will be no electricity, no food, no fuel, everything is closed. We are fighting human animals and we act accordingly."
@SteveBarclay
@premierleague
@FA
Here's what I want: a cabinet minister that does not mislead the public to believe that the number of non-EU players is in any way determined by our EU membership.
@SkyNewsPolitics
@tom_watson
You are Her Majesty's loyal OPPOSITION. In our parliamentary system, it is the core definition of your job to seek to replace the government, not to aid its failing projects and make the unworkable work. Gosh.
The risk of mass disenfranchisement in
#EP2019
is grave.
The solution is simple:
Let citizens sign the UC1 declaration form at the time of voting.
The
@ElectoralCommUK
should stock UC1 forms at polling stations and accept same-day declarations
@NewEuropeans
@the3million
Has your Council sent out the UCI1 form that EU citizens need to complete and return by 7 May so they can vote in EU elections?
Let us know please asap and we will add to this list
#Ep2019
#NoVoteDenied
@BellaSankey
@thetimes
@ukhomeoffice
As
@DetentionForum
long argues: there must be a general time limit on immigration detention.
Given there can be no returns to
#Afghanistan
all Afghanis should be released from immigration detention immediately.
& the UK should be providing gay Iranians pathways to sanctuary NOW
Judgment has been handed down this morning in the ‘Rwanda Appeals.’ UKSC 2023/0093, UKSC 2023/0094, UKSC 2023/0095, UKSC 2023/0096, UKSC 2023/0097, UKSC 2023/0105:
Very glad to have helped facilitate tonight’s
#vigil
4 peace at
#Oxford
: as far as I know a unique event in the UK and European landscape in terms of inter-communal joint grief and mourning
More of this needed if we are to avoid exporting division and hatred to our communities
@LaylaMoran
Such a feeble non-response from the minister to your powerful comment, Layla; you will know that many Israelis share your views both re
#Netanyahu
and on the need for recognition of the state of
#Palestine
@benjamincohen
I can't ever forgive May for the 'go home' white vans and the 'citizen of nowhere' slur, but boy did watching her skewer Johnson give me joy
My husband is a UK resident (with a physical residence card). He is employed at a UK university. Tonight we travelled back to the Uk together. He is stuck in a massive queue
@HeathrowAirport
T4 while I was through e-gates in 1 minute. Virtually no staff around. ‘Global Britain’
@DrJoGrady
I am glad to hear you disagree with this outrageous motion. Unfortunately, it is now UCU policy and for those of us who believe in its important work it is a very depressing and disappointing outcome.
@AliyeCornish
@HenryIrving10
(a) mate it has everything to do with
@the3million
whose lives are adversely affected by a referendum from which they were excluded (b) why do you assume I do not have British citizenship? is my surname too foreign-sounding for you?
@jeremycorbyn
This statement would have sounded more genuine had you actually stayed throughout the debate to listen to your fellow MPs' accounts and responded to them.
@DPJHodges
Dan, vaccinations work in Israel as well, and yet they have reintroduced masks indoors (not other restrictions) because adolescents are still mostly un-vaccinated and because the Delta variant is more transmissible. It has not prompted an existential debate.
@IanDunt
I thought she had to resign for breaching the ministerial code? and that Rishi is all about governing with “integrity, professionalism and accountability”? Well then.
@Channel4News
Hypocritical of course. But quite remarkable how even when advocating Remain the PM panders to xenophobic rhetoric. ‘Free movement is no good thing’: tell that to the millions of young people you are about to deny their right to live, love, study and work across the continent.
@davidallengreen
The question whether citizens of other EU countries should vote in general election may be 'a matter of opinion'.
BUT their participation in
#EuropeanElection2019
is part and parcel of their - and UK citizens' - EU citizenship.
@mattuthompson
This is ridiculous. The Home Secretary should apologise for demonising refugees and for breaking the ministerial code in her characterisation of civil servants.
Proud of my
@UniofReading
for relaunching its
Sanctuary Scholarships Scheme, offering up to 12 awards each year, for people with refugee, humanitarian protected or asylum seeker status
#RefugeesWelcome
@EU_Commission
@JunckerEU
@marianorajoy
The Commission does not have a view on the use of indiscriminate police violence against civilians, then. This is dismaying & disappointing.
@pierredevos
I was looking for a reference in this statement, or in its absence in an earlier statement, to the October 7th massacre committed by Hamas, an internationally designated terrorist organisation.
Can you please assist? Surely your moral outrage is not selective.
@DavidGHFrost
Beyond the obvious environmental damage, it is obviously not 30 minutes: you have to commute to and from the airport, to queue for security, to board, to disembark...if you're very lucky, that's at least 3 hours door-to-door but for most people would be more.
New open-access article (co-author
@Davebil36
):
We critique a
#SouthAfrican
High Court judgment which upheld a provision automatically stripping
#SouthAfrican
citizens of SA citizenship if they voluntarily acquire another without first seeking & obtaining minister's permission
No more talk of ‘bargaining chips’? The EU Committee has written to the Immigration Minister
@BrandonLewis
to confirm details of the Government’s offer on
#Brexit
#citizensrights
:
@joncstone
I would like to report JRM fans being offended that their messiah was called an extremist on
#bbcqt
by Jo Swinson. It offends me that anyone can find this offensive :p
Yesterday I co-organised a vigil this evening in Oxford. We were grieving for those murdered in Hamas' barbaric attacks and called for the immediate release of hostages /1
What is wrong with you
@BBCBreakfast
?
This is not some entertainment sport where you can be blasé about 'choppy' water. These are human beings seeking protection who face risk of capsizing because they lack safe and legal routes to asylum. Shameful coverage.
"They're using a plastic container to try to bail out the boat"
Live on
#BBCBreakfast
@SimonJonesNews
found another migrant boat attempting to cross the Channel. The group say they're from Syria.
@lisaocarroll
if the form was submitted on time then the council is clearly breaching its obligations under the regulations by denying them the right to vote.
March against antisemitism in Paris: 20+ members of the French government led by Prime Ministrer Elisabeth Borne and MFA Catherine Colonna; former French presidents François Hollande and Nicolas Sarkozy; all political parties except the far-left represented.
@SkyNews
@BarryGardiner
@BethRigby
Mr Gardiner, in a liberal democracy politicians don't get to dictate to journalists which questions to ask or to reprimand them for their choices. This is a very bad look.
My letter in today's Times critiquing the government's treatment of asylum-seekers from Afghanistan (in response to the Home Secretary's self-congratulatory column on Tuesday...) 1/
@sundersays
@iainmartin1
A legitimate challenge is also that Brexit was celebrated by those now invading Ukraine and lamented by those Ukrainians fighting for their freedom *to join the EU*
I know
@ruviz
as a passionate campaigner, and he is someone who I am very proud to have supporting my campaign.
We know how to defeat the Tores in OxWAb, and if I’m elected leader, we will replicate that across the country.
Join Ruvi & I here:
Making such choices is also in direct breach of Article 3 of the 1951 Refugee Convention (non discrimination), which states that 'The Contracting States shall apply the provisions of this Convention to refugees without discrimination as to race, religion or country of origin'.
@JolyonMaugham
@cliodiaspora
Moreover at least until 29th March 2019, all Britons are EU citizens, so it should really read: citizens of other EU countries are leaving.
The government appears to need regular reminders that a person who meets the 1951 refugee convention definition is a
#Refugee
irrespective of how their entered the UK. To ban 'those who enter illegally' from applying for asylum is a flagrant breach of the UK's treaty obligations.
When they meet tomorrow,
@RishiSunak
must demand that Benjamin Netanyahu and his government stop their attack on the independence of the Israeli judiciary. Take a stand for democracy.
#RishiSaveIsrael
Amazing scenes- activists wearing gowns & headdresses from Handmaid's Tale are blocking Kaplan Street in central Tel Aviv to protest against the Netanyahu government's efforts to overhaul Israel's judicial system and put women's rights (among others) at risk.
You cannot be serious that Labour's problem with this far-right speech is the lack of 'practical policies'.
How utterly disappointing and disheartening.
Suella Braverman speech devoid of practical policies &divorced from reality of 13yrs of Tory failure
No mention of knife crime, shoptheft epidemic, fallen prosecutions or 1,000 arrivals by boat this wk
Home Sec who cares more about Tory leadership bid than solving real problems
@OwenJones84
@keiranpedley
Which part of a [genocidal, homophobic, antisemitic] organisation parading naked women and elderly women in the street being charitably defined as scum do you disagree with? and how on earth would that detract from your general sentiments about the occupation and dispossession?
Critical data to consider in light of the Home Secretary's vile
#AntiRefugeeBill
which penalises those who arrive spontaneously and those who assist them
@IanDunt
@IanBlackfordMP
noted that
@theSNP
is preparing to stand candidates. It is high time for other parties to make similar statements and preparations, and for Parliament to ensure UK participation during an extension period.
As the UK prepares for a national lockdown, here's my
@legalscholars
editorial on the folly of the government's approach to teaching in higher education amidst a pandemic
@ucu
@UniversitiesUK
.
@Will_DryOFOC
Hard to believe it has to be said explicitly:
Even if he crosses his fingers behind his back, this is a post in his name asking voters to vote for the Front Bench agenda articulated in the post.
Adonis has dealt himself - but critically the movement - a serious blow. For shame.
Delighted to see my book review of Maria O'Sullivan's 'Refugee law and durability of protection' published in the latest volume of the International Journal of Refugee Law
@RishiSunak
should not roll out the red carpet for Israeli PM
@Netanyahu
.
Sunak must challenge Netanyahu, whose far-right govt is attacking the independence of the judiciary, promoting illegal settlements and espouse language that erases Palestinian identity.
See my letter ⬇️
On my way to
@SLSConference
@KCL_Law
@legalscholars
to co-convene with
@ana_beduschi
the Migration & Asylum Subject Section.
Looking forward to fascinating panels on Migration policy & practice, Britain past & present, regional approaches to migration & asylum, and refugee law