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“The obliterative machinery is also evident in the effort to arm Israeli civilians & extend the state’s monopoly of legitimate violence to them.

The Israeli govt deploys the settlers as a whip for the Palestinians—terror, pogroms, arrests, expulsion of whole communities by violent means…” #r4today

Palestinians are under attack every day, every min, every hour. What’s happening in Gaza is being used as a pretext for settlers to attack Palestinians with impunity.

Israel’s two-tier legal sys shields settlers from accountability while criminalising Palestinians for defending themselves.#r4today

Jewish settlers haven’t merely intensified their efforts to drive out Palestinians — they’ve intensified their campaign of state-sanctioned violence.

Settler violence isn’t incidental; it’s integral to Israel’s 75-yr colonial process of expulsion and dispossession of the Palestinian ppl.

#r4today

Standard genocidaire propaganda.

Stellar journalism on #r4today this morning: Justin Webb offered a member of Netanyahu’s government a platform to regurgitate Israeli regime propaganda, completely unchallenged.

Could’ve saved a lot of time and just opened with, “This broadcast is brought to you by the Israeli government.”

She repeatedly asks abt his mum’s well-being, yet cuts him off when he mentions the need for more aid to Gaza. Are Palestinians not equally deserving of compassion?

The selective empathy is grotesque. The lives of Gazans being starved by Israel are no less valuable than those of Israelis. #r4today

“And then there’s the question about whether the aid is getting in… but that’s not for you to be asked about as a citizen.”

A revealing remark from Emma Barnett — especially after she spent most of the interview focused on the well-being of the Israeli guest and his family.

#r4today

Emma, predictably, leverages an interview with an Israeli guest to advance her Zionist point of view.

This is what counts as “objective” reporting at the BBC.

Maybe someone needs to remind the #r4today editor and journalists that objective journalism is truthful and non-partisan.

“I’m probably the only person in this studio who can speak French.”

LOL. Meanwhile, Emma spent a few months living in Wales and still won’t say hello in Welsh.

That’s what privilege looks like — not having to try because you know others will accommodate your monolingual existence.

#r4today

Priti Patel in summary:

Recognising Palestinian sovereignty after 20 months genocide is completely wrong. That’s what my Israeli handlers have asked me to say and I stand firmly by it.

#r4today

As #r4today mourns the death of a beloved racehorse, it’s worth noting that over 200 racehorses were sent to slaughter in England in just the first five months of 2025.

Horseracing is a sadistic activity disguised as a “sport”.

Why are Gazans expected to travel to an aid distribution point? By definition, humanitarian aid goes to those in need — not demand they come to it.

As for the IDF’s supposed “regret” over civilian harm in Gaza, no one’s buying it after 20 mths of relentless, murderous collective violence. #r4today

Emma Barnett has spent the week avoiding any headlines about Israel’s use of forced starvation in Gaza — but has no issue reading out Netanyahu’s reaction to Starmer’s derisory, conditional nod to Palestinian sovereignty.

I suppose all #r4today journalists come with their own set of biases.

The British media persistently demonises refugees from countries their government helped destabilise, only to then travel to other European countries and engage in self-righteous criticism of immigration policies that are even more white supremacist than their own.

#r4today

A clear sign an #r4today episode won’t be worth your time is the presenter breathlessly reporting from outside Buckingham Palace.

Indeed.

A dreary edition of the Today programme, fronted by one of its dullest presenters. Feels more like a tedious episode of Woman’s Hour than serious journalism.

#r4today

How many times do guests have to explain on #r4today that humanitarian aid is being blocked by Israeli bureaucratic restrictions?

This isn’t new. Anyone with a basic knowledge of Gaza knows Israel systematically uses bureaucracy as a weapon. Enough w/ the uncritical parroting of regime propaganda.

Israel has been claiming it’s doing “its utmost to ensure humanitarian aid reaches Gaza” since the final days of the Biden admin.

That narrative no longer holds up. The social breakdown we’re witnessing in Gaza is not a by product of the harm Israel’s inflicting. It’s the central element. #r4today

Given Israel’s prolonged annihilatory siege of Gaza, the BBC ought to be ashamed of any language that downplays or sanitises the Israeli government’s actions.

#r4today

Can’t believe an #r4today journalist just described the current Israeli govt as merely “nationalist”. What a gross and misleading characterisation of an administration widely regarded as far-right and intent on pursuing sadistic policies to engineer a world without Palestinians.

Apparently, Hulk Hogan’s racist remarks turned a lot of Americans off — though evidently not the same Americans who elected a white supremacist president.

Twice. #r4today

Farage on votes at 16...

Politico: “It’s an attempt to rig the political system, but we intend to give them a nasty surprise.”

Not sure about that. Tele: Votes at 16 in 2024 "would’ve added 206,000 votes to Labour, 101,000 to the Greens … and only 40,000 to Reform."

“Working hard never guarantees upward mobility in a capitalist society. Actually, those gaining the greatest profits are those who work the least.

Capitalism REQUIRES poverty, in order to generate profits, there has to be a group of ppl who have NOTHING to sell but their labour power.” #r4today

“My dad didn’t riot. He got on his bike and looked for work.”

What his dad did is irrelevant. This is victim blaming ideology.

Bootstraps individualism is often used to silence valid critiques of capitalism, stigmatise the poor & deny that poverty is a systemic issue.

#r4today

Why is Justin Webb discussing the forcible displacement of Palestinians so calmly, as if it isn’t a violation of international law?

#r4today

Wanted war criminal nominates convicted felon for the Noble peace prize.

The jokes write themselves.

#r4today

Re: Diddy being acquitted on sex trafficking charges, one of the reasons the MeToo backlash has been so effective is because the court system enables a commentary class to say the absence of a guilty verdict means that women and victims are liars. In reality it’s incredibly hard and rare to convict

Indeed, it’s glaringly obvious.