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Grumpy Old Archaeologist/Time Team Pot Monkey/Beer Drinker/Biker/Green Socialist/Gardener/Bird Feeder/Pond botherer. People's Republic of Merseyside. SaintsRL/LiverpoolFC/ChicagoWhiteSox

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Open letter to EAA calling for a boycott of Israel Please fill out the form below to add your name to this open letter calling on the European Association of Archaeologists to respond to ICOMOS Palestine's appeal to cultural heritage organisations to ...

@archaeologyeaa.bsky.social must boycott apartheid and genocide Israel. Sign and share the open letter. Deadline Tuesday August 12th! #archaeology #archaeology🏺 #🏺#eaa2025 forms.gle/bW8cmekgefV1...

04.08.2025 11:30 β€” πŸ‘ 23    πŸ” 15    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 3
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'It comes with the territory': How Israel's archaeologists legitimize annexation Weaponizing antiquities is part of Israel's colonial legacy, says Rafi Greenberg, whose colleagues have largely remained silent about Gaza's destruction.

β€˜It comes with the territory’: How Israel’s archaeologists legitimize annexation - www.972mag.com/israel-archa...

01.07.2025 17:21 β€” πŸ‘ 32    πŸ” 15    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 7

This is 100% world-class bullshit

05.08.2025 10:27 β€” πŸ‘ 25    πŸ” 9    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 0
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In the Israeli parliament MP Ofer Cassif was pulled away from the podium & prevented from continuing his speech. Why? Because he said genocide was taking place in Gaza.

Meanwhile here in the UK we're constantly told Israel is a democracy.

05.08.2025 10:31 β€” πŸ‘ 58    πŸ” 48    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 4

Small world. Three years after you took that pic, I was digging a hole and pot-bothering on the top of one of the hills in the background in that shot!

05.08.2025 10:41 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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PMO: Benjamin Netanyahu decides full IDF occupation of Gaza | The Jerusalem Post The Prime Minister's Office conveyed the message to the Chief of Staff: If this does not suit you, then you should resign.

Think about every pro-Israel person who denied this was the plan for the past 22 months; who gaslit you; denied this to you; pretended this wasn't the plan.

And then never believe those liars about anything ever again.

04.08.2025 18:31 β€” πŸ‘ 3589    πŸ” 1411    πŸ’¬ 137    πŸ“Œ 118

Starmer has supported and enabled this

05.08.2025 09:54 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

This, on the anniversary of Hiroshima...

05.08.2025 09:47 β€” πŸ‘ 9    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0
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The government is asked by @jeremycorbyn about Israel's possession of nuclear weapons.

Yet again, it defends Israel by refusing to say what it knows.

#DCUKparliament

05.08.2025 07:18 β€” πŸ‘ 53    πŸ” 29    πŸ’¬ 4    πŸ“Œ 2
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Israel has murdered a classroom full of Palestinian children every single day for the last 22 months.

And of course the actual number of children killed is much higher.

05.08.2025 07:22 β€” πŸ‘ 38    πŸ” 19    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1
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After 12 months, the UK government is still "considering" its response to the ICJ's determination that Israel's occupation of Palestinian territory is unlawful.

Because accepting it would require the UK comply.

#DCUKparliament

05.08.2025 07:24 β€” πŸ‘ 74    πŸ” 45    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 2
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Attempt to protect rare chalk streams in planning bill rejected by Labour MPs Government vetoes cross-party effort to protect threatened waterways from push to rip up environmental red tape

ICYMI (I did). The list "Things Starmer's Labour hates" also contains "chalk streams" alongside bats, newts, swifts, and allotments.

05.08.2025 09:22 β€” πŸ‘ 8    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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"What we're seeing now is that everybody is living in tents & this is where the bombs are going off so there is no protection, so now the injuries are much more severe"

Dr Victoria Rose is then asked about the long term struggles injured people will face & what care they'll get

05.08.2025 07:39 β€” πŸ‘ 24    πŸ” 14    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Mail column by Boris Johnson: The Channel migrants are shock troops recruited by Macron for his jihad against Brexit

Mail column by Boris Johnson: The Channel migrants are shock troops recruited by Macron for his jihad against Brexit

Just the former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom there, informing you that the President of France is engaged in with a Holy War against British sovereignty using black and brown people as β€˜shock troops’.

05.08.2025 07:41 β€” πŸ‘ 233    πŸ” 70    πŸ’¬ 4    πŸ“Œ 22
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Never forget.

05.08.2025 08:35 β€” πŸ‘ 47    πŸ” 32    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 1

What, this Lord Dannatt, the Lord Dannatt with no track record whatsoever of being a corrupt bastard?

05.08.2025 08:51 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Twelve men have been charged with child sex offences. I’m sure all the β€˜concerned parents’ will be out in force any time now. Unless there’s something… different about these perverts..?

04.08.2025 15:11 β€” πŸ‘ 788    πŸ” 254    πŸ’¬ 33    πŸ“Œ 17

"Champagne socialist" is such a weird insult. Like you're only allowed to show empathy if you live in a cave and eat lichen.

04.08.2025 11:55 β€” πŸ‘ 464    πŸ” 44    πŸ’¬ 30    πŸ“Œ 10

Isabel Oakeshott has been on BBC Question Time 15 times in the last 11 years. She may be a lying racist shit-stirrer, but she had a VERY expensive private education and thus deserves a continual platform on the BBC, unlike you peasants.

04.08.2025 12:24 β€” πŸ‘ 15    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

Thjey're doing that already. Streeting is lining his pockets while doing so.

04.08.2025 12:15 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

New Labour always were Thatcherites. Thatcher described them as her "greatest achievement".

04.08.2025 12:09 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

He's a shill, Always was. A copper's nark with a knighthood.

04.08.2025 09:58 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

That gets funnier every time I hear it.

04.08.2025 09:57 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Rayner declares war on allotments Angela Rayner has given the green light for cash-strapped councils to sell off allotments to raise funds.

You can now add "allotments" to ""bats, newts, and swifts" on the list "Things that Starmer's Labour hate". Rayner has already personally approved the sale of eight allotment sites across England since Labour came to power. The list doesn't include genocidaires or violent racists though, obviously

04.08.2025 09:38 β€” πŸ‘ 10    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 4    πŸ“Œ 0

A Labour minster there, combatting fascists by agreeing with them

04.08.2025 09:27 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Given it was 2018, are you sure they weren't accusing you of being an anti-Semite?

03.08.2025 20:34 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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BREAKING: Israeli attacks across Gaza have killed at least 79 Palestinians, including 41 aid seekers, since the early hours of this morning, medical sources told Al Jazeera.

πŸ”΄ LIVE updates: aje.io/dok3fu

03.08.2025 17:04 β€” πŸ‘ 372    πŸ” 300    πŸ’¬ 27    πŸ“Œ 29
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#OtD 2 Aug 1939 Walter Altmann and Gunther Mann, two Jewish refugees from Nazi Germany, were deported from the UK back to Belgium where they had crossed the Channel in a small dinghy which capsized. Both were likely sent to the concentration camps stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9167...

02.08.2025 08:35 β€” πŸ‘ 140    πŸ” 85    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 4
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Poll: Most Israelis fear they won’t be able to travel abroad as global anger mounts As anti-Israel incidents grow, 56% say they fear not being able to go overseas; 67% of Israelis don't feel government represents them, 62% want comprehensive hostage-ceasefire deal

Palestinians worry that they will be be bombed, starved, ethnically cleansed. Israelis worry that they won’t be comfortable on their vacations abroad.

www.timesofisrael.com/poll-most-is...

02.08.2025 14:09 β€” πŸ‘ 385    πŸ” 115    πŸ’¬ 6    πŸ“Œ 6

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