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A fierce angry rant about falling healthy life expectancy, the inequality of its incidence, the legacy of austerity and Starmer and Reeves's seeming disinterest in doing anything about it
Gavin Newsom likens Israel to ‘an apartheid state’
When even a 'moderate' like Newsom is calling it apartheid the tectonic plates are not moving they've moved
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
Bell Ribeiro-Addy asked the Justice Secretary how much they were spending prosecuting Lift the Ban protesters
They replied they have no idea how much of our cash they are wasting on suppressing free speech
There's unlimited cash for this but not for schools etc etc
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since the events in Amsterdam and we have supported the ban
Attempts to spin this ban into an example of antisemitism are one of the most extreme examples of weaponisation, supposedly in support of Israel we have seen
Yet again the sensitivities, even the safety of Muslim people is disregarded.
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Last Autumn fans of Maccabi Tel Aviv were banned from a match in Birmingham against Aston Villa; this led to a huge controversy with allegations of antisemitism and the resignation of the Chief Constable
JVL has been posting about the appalling behaviour of these fans https://is.gd/lIDEyl
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This OUturn has all the grace of one of Starmer's but it's great news that they have placed academic freedom over the demands of those who prefer censorship
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The Open University (OU) appears to have rowed back on a commitment it made to a pro-Israel lobby group to stop using the term ‘ancient Palestine’ which sparked outrage among teaching staff and high-profile academics.
novaramedia.com/2026/03/03/o...
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UK slashes climate aid programmes for developing countries
Schemes worth hundreds of millions of pounds to protect biodiversity and oceans likely to be substantially reduced
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Apart from the performative cruelty of this proposal you have to question where the Home Office will find the capacity to do all these 30 month reviews and appeals when it is struggling and failing to process initial applications
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
Just one in four Americans support US strikes on Iran, Reuters/Ipsos poll finds - www.reuters.com/world/us/jus...
Another one bites the dust - #LabourNoLongerTogether
Labour minister Josh Simons resigns after falsely linking journalists to ‘pro-Kremlin’ network
Makerfield MP has been under pressure over thinktank’s commissioning of PR firm to investigate reporters www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Americans' Sympathies in the Middle East Situation
41% of Americans now say they sympathize more with the Palestinians, while 36% sympathize more with the Israelis The 5% difference is not statistically significant, but it contrasts with a clear lead for the Israelis only a year ago (46% vs. 33%) and larger leads over the prior 24 years
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To be fair to the Guardian this is one of their articles
Israeli fire killed 86 journalists last year, the CPJ said, the majority of them Palestinians reporting from Gaza.The toll also included 31 media workers killed in a strike on a Houthi media centre in Yemen described by the group as the second deadliest attack on journalists it had ever recorded
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It was the 2nd consecutive year in which killings of members of the press reached unprecedented levels, and the 2nd year running in which Israel was responsible for roughly 2/3 of the total, the New York-based independent organisation, which documents attacks on journalists worldwide, said
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A record 129 journalists and media workers were killed in the course of their work in 2025, two-thirds of them by Israeli forces, according to the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ)
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2026/feb/25/record-number-journalists-killed-2025-israel-gaza-war
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The US will provide on-site consular services in two Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank for the first time, breaking with previous policy, in a move that has been criticised by Palestinian officials as “a clear violation of international law”.
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/f...
Among those missing records are three interviews related to a woman who told agents that Epstein had repeatedly abused her starting when she was approximately 13 years old, and who also accused Trump of sexually assaulting her
Move along, move along, nothing to see here
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An evidence log provided to attorneys for Epstein associate Ghislaine Maxwell includes serial numbers for about 325 FBI witness interview records – but more than 90 of those records, over a quarter of the list, don’t appear to be present on the DOJ website, according to CNN’s review.
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Dozens of FBI witness interviews from the investigation of Jeffrey Epstein appear to be missing from the massive trove of files released by the Dept of Justice last month, including three interviews related to a woman who accused Trump of sexually assaulting her decades ago.
https://is.gd/FOsa32
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The investigation was conducted by the independent research groups Airwars and Forensic Architecture, drawing on eyewitness testimonies and detailed analysis of audio and visual evidence
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Investigation into the Rafah paramedic massacre has revealed that Israeli soldiers fired approximately 1,000 bullets, including at least eight shots discharged from extremely close range.
gazaherald.com/2026/02/24/r...
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The energy they generate is denied to the Palestinians who often live beside them, next to the lands that were once their own
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Palestinians in the West Bank often obtain their energy from solar panels–when settlers aren’t destroying them
Meanwhile their lands are being seized for construction of immense solar energy farms, from which Israel and international corporations are profiting @972mag.com
https://is.gd/lSNhhP
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Microsoft has been at the forefront, its servers revealed last year as storing the vast amounts of data gathered by Israeli intelligence on Palestinian civilians in the West Bank and Gaza as prelude to using it to attack them
Under pressure, Microsoft backed off but not for long.
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The role of surveillance technology in the armoury of repressive regimes is spiralling upwards
Israel is one of the great pioneers, but it wouldn’t be possible without the backup provided by the world’s largest tech companies
@972mag.com
https://www.972mag.com/ice-microsoft-azure-leaked-files/
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What “would make a Jew – a group so conscious of its minority status, one that tells holy stories about escaping persecution and historical ones about its consequences – join Reform?”
A combination of Israel, fear of Muslims and migrants in general, desire to be a “model minority”
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