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BBC journalists have been banned from describing the kidnapped Venezuelan leader as having been kidnapped.

The BBC News Editor has sent this to BBC journalists.

Absolutely insane.

Labour would have purged and smeared someone like Zohran Mamdani.

Wes Streeting's politics align far more closely with Andrew Cuomo.

The lessons from Mamdani are about how to defeat both the right - and the bankrupt "centre".

This 83-year-old priest has just been arrested for holding a sign which read:

“I oppose genocide. I support Palestine Action.”

According to Starmer’s new law, this puts her in the same category as an ISIS or Al-Qaeda terrorist, with a prison sentence of up to 14 years.

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Israel destroyed 83% of plant life in Gaza by June this year.

It destroyed 70% of its agricultural land.

It damaged or destroyed 65% of water tanks and 47% of groundwater wells.

Israel has deliberately tried to make Gaza uninhabitable. This is genocide.

If a leftist or a British Muslim posted something like this, they would go to prison for a long time.

The world's most famous medical NGO concludes Israel is committing genocide.

It joins a consensus of genocide scholars, including in Israel, and NGOs like Amnesty International.

No politician or journalist can claim "I did not know at the time!" to evade future justice.

As the ICC finally issues arrest warrants for Israel’s leaders, here’s a promise.

To those who helped facilitate Israel’s genocide - Western politicians, media outlets, and journalists:

We will not rest until you are held accountable for the crime you helped commit.

This is what our governments are facilitating.

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Gaza is being deliberately starved to death in front of the whole world, and the only people being arrested over it are those who opposed the crime.

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A new UN report finds that the policies and practices of Israel are "consistent with the characteristics of genocide".

There is no excuse for saying you did not know.

This is genocide in plain sight.

www.ohchr.org/en/documents...

A/79/363: Report of the Special Committee to Investigate Israeli Practices Affecting the Human Rights of the Palestinian People and Other Arabs of the Occupied Territories

SummaryThe present report contains information regarding the efforts of the Special Committee to Investigate Israeli Practices Affecting the Human Rights of the Palestinian People and Other Arabs of t...

Nigel Farage has been accused by multiple people he grew up with of extreme antisemitic comments and behaviour.

Yet he's allowed to present himself as a champion of Jewish people.

Meanwhile, our only Jewish leader, Zack Polanski, is smeared - because he opposes genocide.

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Good morning.

If you've just woken up, the politics of hope just crushed the politics of fear and hatred (Labour-Reform).

It wasn't even close.

40.6% for the Greens. Reform second on 28.7%, Labour third on 25.4%.

Israel is an apartheid state.

That apartheid now officially includes the death penalty.

Israel has long engaged in mass extrajudicial executions of Palestinians.

It's now official state policy.

Opposition to genocide is being conflated with very real threats to Jewish people.

It's not just a false smear:

It stops people believing that antisemitism is real - when it is a very real menace that needs to be fought.

Germany has facilitated Israel's genocide from day one.

Now over 1,000 academics, civil servants and public figures have signed a letter demanding this obscenity ends.

Delighted to interview two of the signatories 👇

youtube.com/watch?v=w8hX...

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Amsterdam's mayor was one of those who described events there as a 'pogrom'.

She has now publicly renounced what she said, and offered regret for erasing Maccabi violence - and how the narrative whipped up anti-Muslim and anti-Arab violence.

The story continues to fall apart

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This is insane.

This is the government’s “independent” advisor on antisemitism.

He sees four antisemitic cartoons targeting Zack Polanski.

His response?

To demand an end to the antisemitic targeting of Polanski?

No. It’s to attack the Green Party.

It is over for the genocide deniers.

Even the BBC is now splashing on the UN commission of inquiry concluding that Israel has committed genocide.

Those who supported Israel's onslaught:

You backed a genocide.

You will never scrub the shame away.

If that's the speech Starmer needed to save his premiership, he is sunk.

Equating the Greens with Reform will infuriate voters who abandoned Labour.

The man who kicked pensioners and disabled people says: "We got the big political decisions right".

Incoherent and dull.

50% of British voters think that Israel is committing genocide.

Just 17% disagree.

55% think the UK should no longer consider Israel an ally.

15% think the UK should be an ally of Israel.

That's the latest YouGov polling.

Support for Israel is a fringe position in Britain.