Diarmuid Kennan

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Francesca Albanese, the United Nations special rapporteur on the occupied Palestinian territory, said, “The United States is actively contributing to make the international criminal law architecture that it has been building, from the Nuremberg trials up until now, crumble on our head.”

UN Palestine Rapporteur Slams Nations’ Complicity as Netanyahu Meets Trump

Francesca Albanese also comments on settler- and soldier-led pogroms in the occupied West Bank.

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"I could never lend myself to any transaction, however respectable, that would commercialize on the prestige and dignity of the office of the presidency. Show me a man that gets rich by being a politician, and I'll show you a crook." Harry Truman

Both the government and the Court of Appeal now treat protesters as terrorists and terrorists as protesters. It's hard to accept that a "Labour" government is imposing rightwing authoritarianism on the UK, but please read this column to see what's happening.+🧵 www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

The Belfast riots, Palestine Action protests. What is terrorism now – and why the hypocrisy? | George Monbiot

The right is obsessed with ‘two-tier policing’. This is indeed a two-tier government – but the real victims are progressives, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

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Daniel Levy: "every day Israeli senior officials still tells us what their intentions are.. displacement, eradication.. & unless & until there is a serious pushback against that, in terms of holding Israel accountable, in terms of not allowing Israeli impunity.."

German Chancellor Merz: It is quite obvious that the Americans have absolutely no coherent strategy whatsoever. There is a sense that a whole nation is being humiliated by the Iranian leadership, particularly the Revolutionary Guards.

In the occupied West Bank Ali & his wife Waad took their 4 children for a day out. Undercover Israeli forces murdered Ali, Waad & two of their sons, Mohammed (5) & Othman (7). The two surviving children (aged 11 and 8) were dragged out of the car and beaten. Nida' Ibrahim reports

Teach a man who hates socialism and votes for authoritarianism to farm and he can receive socialist handouts for life from the government that bankrupted him in the first place.