@meralhusseinece.bsky.social
Londoner. Human rights. Turkish speaker. House of Lords. Lib Dem.
🎙️ Did you know #EU public funds are supporting conservative networks spreading misinformation about #womenshealth?
Host @sophieintveld.bsky.social talks with MEP @luciayar.bsky.social to uncover how money fuels the anti-gender movement.
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Incredible.
07.10.2025 10:06 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Guterres urges action, lasting ceasefire on Gaza war’s second anniversary - https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/guterres-urges-action-lasting-ceasefire-gaza-wars-second-anniversary
07.10.2025 09:38 — 👍 11 🔁 6 💬 0 📌 0Weasel words which he can’t even back up. At least be honest when you’re being racist.
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Appalled by this attack on a place of worship. Members of the Muslim community must be free to worship and live without the fear of Islamophobic violence and intimidation. I stand shoulder to shoulder in solidarity with British Muslims and against this hate. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
05.10.2025 17:27 — 👍 21 🔁 11 💬 0 📌 0I’ll believe it when we can see Netanyahu has stopped the killing & destruction & urgently needed aid gets into Gaza.
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A 64-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of arson with intent to endanger life after a fire at a London hotel housing asylum seekers.
This is where we are now. Where are the politicians to call this out? Or do they not want to upset their right wing base?
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When you consider the *ecocide* alongside the genocide being perpetrated in Gaza, you begin to grasp the totality of the Israeli state’s attempt to eliminate both the Palestinians and their homeland.
My column today.
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One thing I've learned from the Internet is that a lie needs 0% proof to be believed, but the truth requires thousands of pages of proof and still won't be believed.
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Sadiq Khan has said a record number of Americans have applied for British citizenship following the election of Trump.
“It’s also our liberal values that make us stand out – celebrating our diversity in London as a strength, not as a threat to society.”
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"What is happening in Gaza is a genocide. And the President of the United States, who wants a Nobel Peace Prize, is doing nothing to stop it."
@EdDavey.LibDems.org.uk
Ali M. Aljbour chuffed.org/project/1293...
28.08.2025 17:25 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Why, you might ask, do the BBC and Sky News, casting their editorial guidelines to the wind, keep giving massive airtime to the far right, while shutting out leftwing voices? Don't their bosses understand the likely consequences?
Only one explanation now remains.
They do.
And it is what they want.
Cartoon by @andertoon.bsky.social.
Another school shooting...
"Refugees are here because we are there" - public policy creates the migrant 'crisis'. Anti-Apartheid activist, grassroots anti-racism and anti-capitalist campaigner and human rights activist Reederwan Craayenstein writes...
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Trump chooses not to end the Gaza slaughter. That’s why I’ll boycott the state dinner when he meets King Charles | Ed Davey
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Mass starvation in Gaza and over 1,000 Palestinians killed while seeking aid since May. The government says the situation is intolerable yet they continue to tolerate it. The UK needs to stop all arms exports to the Israeli Government - today.
The UK needs to stop all arms exports to the Israeli Government - today.
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Letter from Calum Miller MP to Rt Hon David Lammy MP Dear David, I write to you following Tuesday’s reports that Israel’s Defence Minister, Israel Katz, has instructed the Israeli military to prepare a plan to move all Palestinians in Gaza into a "humanitarian city" on the ruins of the city of Rafah. These proposals are utterly abhorrent and, if realised, would amount to the forced displacement of the entire population of Gaza. Further reported details of this plan - including that Palestinians, once inside, would not be allowed to leave - are also, clearly, entirely unacceptable. Does the Government agree that these proposals, if realised, would constitute an egregious breach of international law, and must be resolutely rejected in their entirety? Last month, Liberal Democrats welcomed the Government’s decision to sanction the extremist Ministers Ben-Gvir and Smotrich. It was only right that they faced consequences for their relentless calls for the forced dispossession of Palestinians, which have so egregiously undermined prospects for securing a just and sustainable peace in the region. On 23 May, I wrote to you proposing that you consider sanctioning Minister Katz for his role in advocating for the aid blockade and the expanded military operation in Gaza. In light of these fresh proposals, I would ask that the Government now urgently assesses the case for sanctioning Minister Katz. They are only the latest proposals for dispossession which he has publicly advocated - including his support for the establishment of 22 new settlements in the West Bank in May on the basis that it constituted “a strategic move that prevents the establishment of a Palestinian state”.
When the Minister for the Middle East announced the sanctions against Israeli Cabinet ministers on 10 June, he said in his statement to the House “This Government will never accept the unlawful transfer of Gazans from or within Gaza”. Can you confirm whether your Department will expand the sanctions implemented against Ministers Ben-Gvir and Smotrich to Minister Katz? These proposals once again bring into sharp focus the July 2024 advisory opinion of the International Court of Justice (ICJ) on Israel’s occupation of Palestinian territories. The intention of these new plans - to displace Palestinians from their homes - sits alongside the pattern of increasing settler violence and expansion in the West Bank. When I wrote to you on 8 May, I asked whether you could confirm the timeframe within which the Attorney General will provide his view on this opinion. Can you reassure me that that opinion will be delivered before Parliament returns from Recess on 1 September? I look forward to your response. Yours sincerely, Calum Miller MP Liberal Democrat Spokesperson for Foreign Affairs
The proposals from Israel's Defence Minister Israel Katz to contain all 2.1m Gazans in a new compound are illegal and utterly abhorrent. I have written today to David Lammy asking him again to sanction Minister Katz, and to set out the Government's legal view of Israel's occupation of Palestine.
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Dear David, I am writing following deeply troubling reports (3 July) by the Associated Press and the BBC on the operation of the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF). Drawing on testimony from former GHF security contractors, the reports allege that armed security personnel - operating under contracts linked to humanitarian distribution sites - have opened fire on unarmed civilians queuing for food. According to the reports, eyewitnesses described unarmed individuals being shot while waiting in line for essential supplies, with no clear threat posed to those providing security. On one occasion, a guard is alleged to have opened fire from a watchtower with a machinegun because a group of women, children and elderly people were moving too slowly away from an aid site. These alarming allegations must be considered in light of wider reports - including those published by the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) on 24 June - that suggest that over 400 Palestinians have been killed while queuing for food at or near GHF distribution sites since the end of May. There appears to be little or no accountability around these grave incidents, raising serious concerns about the operational standards, oversight and accountability mechanisms governing current humanitarian access in Gaza.
In light of these reports, please can you confirm: • What assessment your Department has made of these latest reports and what steps are being taken to verify the allegations they raise? • Whether you have raised the rules of engagement of security contractors working for the GHF with the US Secretary of State? • If you have spoken directly with the Israeli authorities to raise the deaths of civilians, including women and children, queuing for food at humanitarian distribution centres? These reports demand immediate attention. At a time when international humanitarian law must be upheld more rigorously than ever, the UK has a responsibility to ensure that aid - and those contracted to deliver or secure it - are not contributing to further harm. That responsibility also includes the UK working to secure the full reopening of aid supply routes into Gaza, to be operated under the auspices of the UN. I would welcome an update from you on whatfurthersteps the Governmentis taking to ensure this happens. I look forward to your response. Yours sincerely, Calum Miller
I am appalled by reports suggesting a culture of impunity among private security contractors who have killed Gazan civilians.
It is time for the UK to press the Israeli and US governments for accountability.
I have written to the Foreign Secretary to urge him to take action.
In the 19th century, a New Orleans doctor sent the skulls of 19 Black Americans to a doctor in Germany, where they were used as part of now discredited racial science. The remains were recently returned to the city, where they will be laid to rest on Saturday.
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RAF Akrotiri base in Cyprus was on Friday accused of supporting Israeli operations in Gaza through intelligence-gathering missions carried out from British soil. cyprus-mail.com/2025/05/30/c...
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Finally. www.gov.uk/government/n...
20.05.2025 05:06 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Inspirational maiden speech by @shaffaqmohd @LibDemLords @UKHouseofLords www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
14.05.2025 07:00 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0Labour are teaching us that if you have over 400 MPs and are in the first year of government, so no need for elections until 2029, you should definitely focus your policies on what a party with five MPs is calling for, rather than doing what's best for the country,
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A massive development but much to work through on this. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
12.05.2025 10:34 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0I’ve donated. I hope it helps 🙏
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Not a chart we see on mainstream media- Reform have 676 council seats.
05.05.2025 06:59 — 👍 10 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0I'd like to wish Dame Andrea Jenkyns all the luck in the world explaining to Lincolnshire why it doesn't need seasonal immigrant labour and climate change isn't real
02.05.2025 06:39 — 👍 134 🔁 33 💬 9 📌 1Left: Reform's Mayor of Greater Lincolnshire, Andrea Jenkyns says asylum seekers should be housed in tents, except Ukrainians who are a different matter
Right: Andrea Jenkyns doing what Andrea Jenkyns does
Finally honest, albeit horrific, reporting. @itvnews.bsky.social
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