muddybeard

@mohamz.bsky.social just a note to remind all who follow you on other platforms to share the content you post everywhere else on IG. They can’t silence all of us.

I’ve just seen they’ve taken the new one down too

The graver Israel's atrocities in Gaza, the quieter the BBC grows <article data-history-node-id="420841" about="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/graver-israels-atrocities-gaza-quieter-bbc-grows" class="live-blog-update default clearfix"> <h2> <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/graver-israels-atrocities-gaza-quieter-bbc-grows" rel="bookmark"> <span class="field field-title">The graver Israel's atrocities in Gaza, the quieter the BBC grows</span> </a> </h2> <div class="content"> <div class="field field-field-text"><p>The BBC’s news verification service, Verify,&nbsp;<a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/videos/cn4wzyv21jvo" target="_blank">digitally reconstructed</a>&nbsp;a residential tower block in Mandalay earlier this week to show how it had collapsed in a huge earthquake on 28 March in Myanmar, a country in Southeast Asia largely&nbsp;<a href="https://www.cnn.com/2025/03/28/asia/central-myanmar-quake-intl-hnk/index.html" target="_blank">cut off</a>&nbsp;from the outside world.&nbsp;</p> <p>The broadcaster painstakingly pieced together damage to other parts of the city using a combination of phone videos, satellite imagery and Nasa heat detection images.&nbsp;</p> <p>Verify dedicated much time and effort to this task for a simple reason: to expose as patently false the claims made by the ruling military junta that only 2,000 people were killed by Myanmar’s 7.7-magnitude earthquake.&nbsp;</p> <p>The West sees the country’s generals as an official enemy, and the BBC wanted to show that the junta’s account of events could not be trusted. Myanmar’s rulers have an interest in undercounting the dead to protect the regime’s image.</p> <p>The BBC’s determined effort to strip away these lies contrasted strongly with its coverage - or rather, lack of it - of another important story this week.&nbsp;</p> <h3>Read more:&nbsp;<a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/graver-israels-atrocities-gaza-quieter-bbc-grows">The graver Israel's atrocities in Gaza, the quieter the BBC grows</a></h3> <p><img alt="Palestinian Red Crescent paramedics mourn a colleague after an Israeli air strike in northern Gaza on 4 January 2025 (Omar al-Qattaa/AFP)" src="https://www.middleeasteye.net/sites/default/files/styles/max_2600x2600/public/images-story/palestine-gaza-paramedics-mourn-january-2025-omar-al-qattaa-afp.jpg.jpg?itok=aY6eDKJL"></p> <section>&nbsp;</section> </div> </div> </article>

The graver Israel's atrocities in Gaza, the quieter the BBC grows - https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/graver-israels-atrocities-gaza-quieter-bbc-grows

Palestine wants justice

Israel wants tyranny

There is nothing complicated

Full Amnesty International report on the Gaza Genocide

Then on top of that he’s got Putin, who they all backed the ICC arrest warrants for, putting out hypersonic missile mixtapes against him. The ICC migraine. 2/2

I think Keir Starmer’s out of his depth today with the ICC arrest warrants - the UK being a founding member of the ICC - so he has to defend the UK’s membership of the ICC while rejecting the arrest warrants… 1/2

The British government is helping commit genocide without even having as much as a single debate in Parliament about its direct military involvement — never mind a vote — and you think we live in a democracy?

ARE YOU FUCKING OK?

White House Staffers to Biden: “You Are Running Out of Time” on Gaza The letter urges President Joe Biden to follow through on an ultimatum his administration issued to Israel over humanitarian aid.

The letter urges President Biden to follow through on the ultimatum his administration issued to Israel over humanitarian aid.

11/ Peaceful Palestinian resistance—through diplomacy, protests, or boycotts—has been met with repression. Yet when Palestinians fight back, they’re denied even the most basic right: the right to defend themselves.

10/ Israel’s violence isn’t reactive. History didn’t begin on October 7, 2023. For 76+ years, Palestinians have faced ethnic cleansing, apartheid, and brutal violence at the hands of a settler-colonial state.

9/ Reminder: “Self-defense” does not justify collective punishment, targeting civilians, destroying hospitals, or murdering aid workers. These are war crimes, not defense.

8/ Yet Western politicians and media will never mention Palestine’s right to self-defense. Instead, they justify Israeli war crimes with “self-defense,” even when hospitals, schools, and civilians are the targets.

7/ And the UN has said it outright: Palestinians’ fight against colonial domination, apartheid, and occupation is legitimate. Their right to resist is recognized, even through armed struggle (within humanitarian law).

6/ So what does international law say about self-defense? It applies to Palestinians. Under the UN Charter, occupied people have the right to armed resistance to achieve self-determination and liberation. Yes, including Palestinians.

5/ Every Israeli airstrike, every missile, every soldier in Gaza is an illegal act. Israel’s legal obligation isn’t bombing Palestinians—it’s ending the occupation, dismantling settlements, and withdrawing.

4/ In 2004, the World Court affirmed that Israel’s occupation makes it ineligible to claim self-defense in Gaza. In 2024, it reiterated this: Israel’s occupation itself is illegal under international law.

3/ The UN Charter (binding on all member states) prohibits the use of force against other states unless in self-defense from external attacks. But Gaza isn’t “external” to Israel—it’s occupied territory.

2/ Let’s start with international law: Israel, as an occupying power, cannot claim self-defense to wage war on the territories it occupies—Gaza, the West Bank, East Jerusalem, and the Golan Heights. Here’s why. 👇

1/ “Israel has a right to defend itself.” It’s the West’s go-to excuse for every Israeli war crime. But here’s the truth: this claim isn’t just wrong—it’s a blatant lie. Legally, morally, and logically. Let’s break it down. 🧵

Palestine against an eco-apartheid world In coming years, eco-apartheid will become more prominent worldwide as colonial violence is used to maintain and safeguard Western interests and profits. We are seeing this future in Gaza today.

The Palestinian resistance is currently articulating the clearest expression of anti-colonial dissent, of a national liberation movement that refuses to have its humanity cancelled, and its populations erased and sacrificed for the imperial core. mondoweiss.net/2024/11/pale...

Diary of a Paramedic - مُذكرات مُسعف Diary of a Paramedic - مُذكرات مُسعف

Alialturk.com - Diary of a Paramedic (Gaza) - Purchase to support Ali and his family. Very well written.

Trump’s Election Is Also a Win for Tech’s Right-Wing “Warrior Class” With Trump’s election, Silicon Valley has successfully rebranded military contracting as a proud national duty for the industry.

Silicon Valley has successfully rebranded military contracting as a proud national duty for the industry.

The family of Al Jazeera cameraman Fadi al-Wahidi is staging a hunger strike to demand that Israeli forces allow his evacuation from Gaza, reports our colleagues at Al Jazeera Arabic.

🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/h54y

Not everyone can agree on stuff like politics and religion, but everyone can agree that they all want to see Jake Paul get knocked out tonight

Witnesses say the Israeli army is using facial recognition technology in its assault on north Gaza Witness testimony from northern Gaza shows that Israel is using facial recognition technology to organize how it conducts mass arrests and forcible displacement. Some Palestinians say the technology i...

Israel now using facial recognition tech to target people in Gaza. Because genocide wasn’t dystopian enough already.
mondoweiss.net/2024/10/witn...

Māori MPs briefly suspended the Aotearoa parliament’s attempts to reinterpret their founding treaty in the most bad ass use of the Haka I’ve ever seen.

Concentration camps

Why Israel is NOT a democracy 🧵👇