Tom Hasell

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Wow - those are quite phenomenal headlines given the details of the story.

Ahh look, he’s just a ‘nerdy’ guy. No harm done.

You need to scroll down to paragraph 13 of the Sky piece to find the full story!

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MP defends government plans to restrict repeated protests.

Screenshot of pdf of ID theft fake paper

Yep. I complained to the journal and asked them to take it down. Notified Uni legal team and asked if they could help. But its still up there. www.primescholars.com/articles/bro...

Climate change is not a con-job. If you want to know more about the evidence for and causes of #ClimateChange, head to our website: royalsociety.org/news-resourc...

“Climate change is real - the burning of fossil fuels and other human activities is resulting in fundamental changes to our planet. It is increasing the risk of extreme weather, warming the ocean and causing ice caps to melt resulting in sea level rise,” 1/3

What’s happening in Gaza is a genocide.

Censorship Is the Authoritarian’s Dream The right to free expression must include the right to say horrible and evil things.

"More professors in the United States have been fired for controversial views in the past week than any other week in all of American history."
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Wikipedia:
▫️Free
▫️Sources at the bottom
▫️Full edit history
▫️Discussion page to check controversies
▫️Openly stated editing policies
Academia: "This isn't trustworthy!!"

AI:
▫️Literally none of the above and, usually, the complete opposite
Academia: "I guess we have to embrace this!"

A new poem by the former poet laureate to mark Trump's state visit

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Israel has committed genocide in Gaza, says UN commission of inquiry. Report cites scale of killings and aid blockages and accuses Benjamin Netanyahu of inciting commission of genocide.

🚨 Israel IS committing genocide in Gaza - the UN commission of inquiry has said.

Will the UK government FINALLY listen to international experts and common sense, and ban arms sales to Israel?

Statement that reads: “The UN Commission of Inquiry’s statement that genocide is being committed in Gaza is the latest call to action that the UK, and international community, cannot and must not ignore. It follows countless testimonies of ethnic cleansing and a ruling of plausible genocide from the International Court of Justice, and statements from the International Association of Genocide Scholars and Israeli organisations B’Tselem and PHRI that the Israeli military’s conduct meets the definition of genocide. The urgency and significance of this moment cannot be understated. More than 64,000 have been killed and millions displaced. Entire communities and cities have been destroyed, and famine is being used as a weapon of war. We must see accountability, extensions to sanctions, an immediate and lasting ceasefire, a large increase in aid provision reaching those who need it, and release of remaining hostages - whose interests are not served by ever-escalating violence. While the recent step to recognise the state of Palestine is welcome, history has taught us that in all cases of genocide and human rights violations, the pathway to peace must include justice. Today’s statement from the UN confirms the horrors the Palestinian people have endured at the hands of Israeli forces. As a signatory to the 1948 Genocide Convention, our government, alongside international leaders, must act now before all hope is lost.”

The UN Commission of Inquiry’s statement that genocide is being committed in Gaza is the latest call to action that the UK, and international community, cannot and must not ignore.

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The UK government is not only complicit in genocide, it is complicit in genocide denial.

The UN has only confirmed what we already knew: Israel is committing genocide.

64,000+ killed, whole families wiped out. Yet UK Govt rolls out the red carpet for Israel’s president & Starmer stays silent.

Labour - this is a genocide. Are you going to continue to ignore that?

A UN commission of inquiry has confirmed what was already clear: Israel is committing genocide in Gaza. For nearly two years we’ve witnessed the deliberate slaughter of civilians, starvation of an entire population, and the systematic destruction of hospitals and essential infrastructure. This has been accompanied by open calls to annihilate Palestinians from Israel’s political and military leaders. This is the most documented genocide in history. Yet just two weeks ago, the UK government claimed it had not concluded Israel was acting with genocidal intent. It continues to arm Israel's genocide, provide RAF reconnaissance support and roll out the red carpet for Israeli war criminals. The government’s position was already morally indefensible. It is now politically untenable. Keir Starmer and his Labour ministers must be held criminally accountable.

A UN commission of inquiry has confirmed what was already clear: Israel is committing genocide in Gaza.

The government’s position was already morally indefensible. It is now politically untenable.

Keir Starmer and his Labour ministers must be held criminally accountable.

🚨BREAKING -- The UN Commission of Inquiry has concluded that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza.

Will the UK government continue to engage in genocide denial, @yvettecooper-mp.bsky.social?

MP claims Surrey Care home is a “hot bed of terrorist activity” filled with Palestine Action supporters.

Quote retweet by Zarah that says: “890 people have been arrested for demanding an end to genocide in Gaza. To call them “terrorists” is beyond disgusting. Shame on you and this Labour government for criminalising solidarity with the Palestinian people, while continuing to sell arms to Israel that fuel genocide.” In response to Shabana Mahmood, Home Secretary who tweeted: “Supporting Palestine and supporting a proscribed terrorist group are not the same thing. An honour to visit Sir Mark and @metpoliceuk to see them at work policing protests yesterday.”

890 people have been arrested for demanding an end to genocide in Gaza.

To call them “terrorists” is beyond disgusting.

Shame on you and this Labour government for criminalising solidarity with the Palestinian people, while continuing to sell arms to Israel that fuel genocide.

Mike Higgins, who is blind and wheelchair bound, has joined the Parliament Square protest, to once again oppose genocide and the Palestine Action ban.

He, and over a thousand others, face a 'terror arrest' because of the draconian proscription of a direct action group.

The world’s top genocide scholars have confirmed what has long been clear: Israel’s actions in Gaza meet the legal definition of genocide.

This is yet another call our government cannot ignore.

End the UK’s complicity now: sanction Israel, end arms sales, recognise Palestine.

Israel committing genocide in Gaza, world’s top scholars on the crime say Almost 90% of leading academics on subject back resolution stating that Israel’s actions meet legal definition An overwhelming majority of members of the world’s leading genocide scholars’ association has backed a resolution stating that Israel’s actions in Gaza meet the legal definition of the crime. Eighty-six percent of those who voted in the 500-member International Association of Genocide Scholars (IAGS) supported the motion. The resolution states that “Israel’s policies and actions in Gaza meet the legal definition of genocide in Article II of the United Nations Convention for the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide (1948).” Continue reading...

Israel committing genocide in Gaza, world’s top scholars on the crime say

"Do you call this a genocide?"

Humza Yousaf: "Yes"

"Do you see the UK govt as complicit in genocide now?"

"Completely"

It's genocide. We know it's genocide. It's defined as genocide. It is being live-streamed to the world.

Never again has to mean something, because it clearly didn't mean anything before, to some people.

It. Is. A. Genocide.

Intervention is required.

#FreePalestine #Genocide

Israel is committing genocide in Gaza, scholars' association says The world's leading genocide scholars' association has passed a resolution saying that the legal criteria have been met to establish Israel is committing genocide in Gaza, its president said on Monday.

"Israel’s policies and actions in Gaza meet the legal definition of genocide in Article II of the United Nations Convention for the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide (1948)".
Israel is committing genocide in Gaza, genocide scholars' association says - www.reuters.com/world/middle...

No10 spokesman not prepared to criticise anything about Farage speech today.

Not his description of "invasion", not his prediction that the UK on brink of civil war, not plans to pay the Taliban or Iran to take back migrants, or indeed to rule out doing so themselves.

UN-backed experts have declared a famine in Gaza.

This isn't some natural disaster but a deliberate tool of genocide by the Israeli government.

Our government needs to get its head out of the sand. History will judge those who were complicit through their actions or inaction.

ALL SYSTEMS GO ELBIT Systems, which as Israel's largest arms firm is a key cog in the Israeli war machine, is close to winning a £2bn contract that would make it a "strategic partner" of the Ministry of Defence, working on the training of 60,000 British soldiers every year. Elbit Systems UK, its British arm, is bidding for the Army Collective Training Service contract. The chosen bidder will work with the MoD to transform military training "through digitalisation, simulation, a different relationship with industry, and by changing how and where the military trains" Many defence giants put in bids, but in February the MoD reduced the bidders to two: Elbit and Raytheon. The MoD paid the companies €2m each to develop their bids. The development period was supposed to run until mid-August, meaning the final decision is imminent. Elbit has certainly done its best to get the inside track with the ministry, appointing two top former MoD figures to its UK board of directors: Sir Simon Bollom (who made the move in June - see Eye 1651) and Sir Mark Poffley. The firm already has similar contracts with the MoD. Since 2023 it has run Project Vulcan, a €57m, ten-year contract of simulation-based training for tank crews. But the new deal would be a significant step up, both in value and in its relationship with the MoD. The Eye asked the MoD if it would be appropriate to give a company so involved in the Gaza war such a major contract, but it did not respond. • Meanwhile, the anger across Europe over Israel's attacks on Gaza didn't prevent Serbia from agreeing a $1.64bn deal, announced last week, for Elbit to supply "a range of defence solutions" including artillery-rocket systems and attack drones.

Starmer’s Labour government says there’s no money to scrap the two-child benefit cap and lift 500,000 children out of poverty — but there is £2,000,000,000 for Elbit, Israel’s partner in genocide.

This obscene deal must be stopped.

They have Palestinian blood on their hands.

Salah shows support for Gaza as he calls out UEFA in online post Read here.

NEW: Mo Salah shows support for Gaza as he calls out UEFA in online post #lfc

Mo Salah respond to a post by UEFA with: Can you tell us how he died, where, and why? The UEFA post reads: Farewell to Suleiman al-Obeid, the 'Palestinian Pelé'. A talent who gave hope to countless children, even in the darkest of times

Well said, Mo Salah.

Suleiman al-Obeid was shot dead by IDF forces whilst waiting for food aid in southern Gaza.