@bethhk.bsky.social
Progressive, pro-European, reader, traveller, grandmother. Support Palestine and Ukraine. Believe in peace and compromise - not an absolutist. DownSyndromeAwareness and AutismAwareness. Green gardening/food forest I’m finally writing a book 🫣
Who's still buzzing from our incredible conference in Bournemouth one week on? 🤚 💚
In what kind of country do political journalists withhold very consequential key facts that they all know about politicians, without having to be told they should keep them quiet, only occasionally alluding to things everyone has always known? A very transparent, democratic one, I’m sure.
Unbelievable that no troops have been deployed to assist by any country. WTF is wrong with this world? What is so bad about Palestinians?
NEW: Palestinians moving back towards Gaza City are being fired upon.
Israeli forces say the ceasefire does not exist until the government votes for it.
At least 8 Palestinians have been killed in Gaza since dawn.
(🎥 Al Jazeera)
Calling English a 'rip-off degree' is one of the most blatant exhibitions of personal barbarism I've ever seen. You've demonstrated nothing but the poverty of your own mind.
Israel marks two years of Gaza genocide with fresh bombings - https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/israel-marks-two-years-gaza-genocide-fresh-bombings
Finally!!! The real scandal of the asylum hotels. Why, instead of shining the light on these parasites, months were spent on demonising vulnerable people at their mercy?
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
When the Tories were last in office - according to international Human Rights Watch - UK was on course to make list of countries that abuse rather than protect human rights. Is it any wonder they want us to join Russia & Belarus as only European countries outside the ECHR
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"alijadallah66
Palestinians injured in the Israeli attacks are brought to al-Shifa Hospital for treatment in Gaza City, Gaza , 2025. (Photo by Ali Jadallah/Anadolu via Getty Images)"
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The ECHR is much more than a treaty. It’s a quiet promise - a shield against abuse of power, a lifeline for the vulnerable, a declaration of who we are as a nation. In an age of upheaval and division, we must not let it be torn up for political convenience
1) Either the ECHR significantly constraints government action. Then "it has to go because of that" means "we plan to, want to and will do things that are currently considered to violate human rights" or
2) Human rights protection remains the same. Then... why leave the ECHR?
I would add one thing: we are bombarded with two claims: 1) the UK can leave the ECHR without lowering human rights protection and 2) the ECHR significantly limits what the government can do and hence the UK has to leave it.
These cannot both be true. /1
Sounds excellent - ordered!
Whilst I agree that the government ministers involved should also be brought to account I do not agree that the companies involved did something inevitable - they also took advantage of a terrible situation and the idea that this is ok is quite shocking
#famine #starvation #gaza #blockade #siege #israel #palestine #ethnic-cleansing #malnutrition
Food, medicine & infant formula are in effect weapons of war in Gaza. Children are not dying from bombs alone, but from empty stomachs, untreated illnesses & the deliberate denial of aid by Israel.
‘I don’t call on anyone to stop protesting’: Polanski on pro-Palestine marches
www.channel4.com/news/i-dont-...
Day 2 and the energy at @greenparty.org.uk conference is amazing!
Join today - and we could even overtake the Lib Dems in membership by the end tomorrow. Let's do this!!!! 🚀
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This week, the Global Sumud Flotilla tried to deliver life-saving aid to Gaza.
Instead, 461 people—including New Yorkers—have been detained by the Israeli military.
They must be freed at once. And the deliberate starvation of Palestinians must end now.
UNRWA warns the world that Israel has labeled thousands of people besieged in Gaza City and northern Gaza as “terrorists or terror supporters.”
Israel is in preparations for large-scale massacres.
People recognised as refugees fleeing persecution & granted the right to live in the UK to be denied the right to be joined safely by their spouse & children.
This Labour govt is a moral void, a stinking darkness, an empty hollow of cowardice & contempt. #r4today www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Will try to have something more constructive to say eventually but this is unbelievably spiteful and stupid.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Same same
Palestinian factions express concern over Donald Trump's Gaza 'peace plan' - https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/palestinian-factions-express-concern-over-donald-trumps-gaza-peace-plan
Dear Labour, people aren’t leaning towards the Greens because they don’t know what the Greens are, but because they see what you, Labour, are doing.
The best way to stop them going to the Greens, is to have more left wing, less xenophobic, less stupid policies.
Attacking the Greens doesn’t help.
Someone had had a haircut and is very excited about it! #dogsofbluesky #terriers #jackhighland
When members of the Murdoch family lived and worked in the UK, did they come on a boat like this?
Is there a reason I ask that the Times are using a picture of asylum seekers in a boat to describe rules for migrants who came on legal routes such as skilled worker visas for doctors?
Yes, there’s a reason alright.
It certainly appears the United States murdered an innocent fisherman who was a husband and father to four children, claimed he was a "narco-terrorist," posted a video of the execution, and then made jokes about it
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/29/u...