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I admit that I completely broke down today. I cried uncontrollably. I couldn’t hold myself together after witnessing what I saw with my own eyes.
Today, we went to film a journalistic report inside the displacement tents along the seashore. I swear, what we witnessed was beyond what any human being should have to endure.
I saw men crying bitterly. Men I had never seen cry when they lost their children or when their homes were destroyed. Today, I saw them crying because they were powerless to do the simplest thing: protect their children from the water and the cold.
We spoke to families who told us they had spent the entire night carrying their children in their arms after floodwater covered the floors of their tents and soaked their mattresses. They couldn’t find a single dry place to put their children. They couldn’t even give them a few hours of sleep.
I saw children no older than five, without proper clothes to protect them from the cold, without heating, and without a dry place to sleep. Children shivering inside tents that cannot keep out the rain, protect them from the wind, or provide even the most basic sense of safety.
What more must happen for this world to act? How much more suffering must people endure before someone remembers that they are human beings?
I am sick of this world. I am sick of its hypocrisy and empty slogans. To hell with a world that talks endlessly about human rights while leaving children to drown inside their tents. To hell with everyone who has witnessed this suffering and chosen silence, and to hell with the governments and institutions that have the power to act but continue to turn their backs on us.
Paging @SimonHarrisTD
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It’s hard to grasp the BBC’s systematic attempt to launder Israeli propaganda until you see the sheer scale of it. Here's a compilation of them doing it at 2x speed.
The latest was on Newsnight on 4 November. When Bernie Sanders called Israel’s government extremist, Victoria Derbyshire answered for it: “And the Israeli government would deny that they are extremists.”
As this video shows, BBC presenters repeatedly do this as guests describe Israel’s crimes: “Israel would say.” “Israel would deny.” “They would reject that.”
We counted 70 of these denials and justifications in 52 aired interviews. The BBC calls this impartiality. But in not one of those 52 did a presenter raise any of these words from Israel’s own leaders:
- “We are fighting human animals.” Yoav Gallant, 9 October 2023
- “It is an entire nation out there that is responsible.” Isaac Herzog, 12 October 2023
- “They will not receive a drop of water or a single battery until they leave the world.” Israel Katz, 13 October 2023
- “Remember what Amalek did to you.” Benjamin Netanyahu, 3 November 2023
- Starving two million people in Gaza until the hostages came back might be “justified and moral”. Bezalel Smotrich, 5 August 2024
On 10 October 2023, Tahani Mustafa told the BBC that Israeli forces were not distinguishing civilians from fighters. The presenter replied: “They would reject that.” Mustafa then had to bring up Gallant’s “human animals” herself. The BBC supplied the denial. The guest had to supply Israel’s own words.
That is cherry-picking. The Royal Charter requires the BBC to be impartial, and the public pays for it through the licence fee. In these interviews, it handed its audience Israel’s denials and left out its leaders’ own words, during a genocide streamed live to the world.
We have archived the BBC’s coverage for three years, and we are now counting all of it: 50,000 video clips and many more written excerpts.
We are calling this first part: "BBC: The Would Say Files".
Handing Israel its denials is only one of the ways the BBC launders Israeli propaganda, so we will count every other technique too. Over the next few weeks, we will announce each milestone as we complete the report.
These are the first results, with every clip, quote and source: newscord.org/editorials/bbc-…
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Breaking: Netanyahu to be replaced by another violent, genocide loving colonizer
Gadi Eisenkot to be tasked with forming next Israeli government, placing him one step closer to ousting Netanyahu, though path remains complicated. cnn.it/4iwDVGs
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Nous agirons frontalement au secours des Palestiniens, à la fois contre le génocide à Gaza et contre l’annexion progressive de la Cisjordanie.
Les navires français, s’il le fallait, escorteront les flottilles de citoyens mobilisés pour faire valoir leurs droits.
Nous n’acceptons pas l’annexion progressive de la Cisjordanie, ni du Sud-Liban, ni du plateau du Golan.
Nous organiserons concrètement la mobilisation contre l’extension des cruautés aux communautés chrétiennes assiégées, persécutées en Palestine et au Liban.
#Melenchon2027 #JLMBourget
The absolute filth that is @UKLabour
Of course he did. Palantir hired Tom Watson to schmooze his old pals. And he did.
There is no world in which Palantir helps boost "the UK's tech sovereignty". We need to know exactly how @YvetteCooperMP made this decision, based on what evidence & what data?
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#NoToLana
Why must Lana Nusseibeh, the UAE’s candidate, never allowed to become the next UN Secretary-General?
Watch this video to understand why her candidacy must be opposed.
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A quarter of my entire country's electricity usage is because of data centres. That is insane.
thejournal.ie/dublin-data-ce…
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So let me get this straight. You think it's perfectly acceptable for a serving PSNI officer to march in a band displaying UVF or UDA terrorist regalia, then return to duty the following morning and expect the entire community to have unquestioning confidence in their impartiality? Are you seriously suggesting that's a non-story?
And your argument that membership of private organisations is nobody's business completely misses the point. Police officers aren't just any employees. They exercise extraordinary powers over the public and are expected to maintain the highest standards of impartiality, both on and off duty. Nobody is suggesting that every Orangeman is a terrorist or that membership automatically makes an officer unprofessional. But there's a world of difference between belonging to a lawful cultural organisation and publicly participating in an event glorifying organisations responsible for murdering innocent people.
You ask for evidence that professionalism was affected. Fair enough. But public confidence in policing matters too. Should communities simply ignore the symbolism of organisations that terrorised them?
If a serving officer marched behind IRA regalia, would you be equally relaxed about it?
Because if the answer is no, then perhaps you should explain why loyalist terrorist symbolism deserves a different standard.
Terrorism doesn't become culture because somebody puts on a sash or picks up a drum
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I would love if we could channel the datacenter backlash into curbing the excesses of Big Tech in general. Get screens out of cars. Get computers out of refrigerators. Stop surveilling everything all the time, stop forcing me into the app, stop trying to steal my data.
Utterly mental @PSNIBelfast
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A reminder that the JRCI appeared before an Oireactas Committee and defended illegal West Bank settlements.
An extremist group.
A United Nations title should not place anyone above scrutiny. Yet that is precisely what appears to have happened during Francesca Albanese's visit to Ireland.
Despite international condemnation, calls for resignation from European governments and demands for a UN investigation, Albanese was welcomed by Irish political representatives without question.
She dismissed documented antisemitism against Irish Jews on national radio, then appeared before an Oireachtas committee making a series of outrageous, unsubstantiated allegations.
Not one demand for evidence. Not one challenge to her most shocking claims.
Instead, she got praise, admiration and smiling photographs.
Since when did an Oireachtas committee become a place where extraordinary allegations are applauded rather than examined?
Our elected representatives have a duty to exercise independent judgement, ask difficult questions and demand evidence for serious allegations. That responsibility should never be set aside, regardless of who is speaking.
JRCI's full statement is attached.
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Govt Misinformation #101 1. Rush Abolition Of Triple Lock Debate Thru Dàil & Cttee Stage 2. Announce Deployment of Irish Troops to #Lebanon on Non-UN Mandated EU ‘Peace Enforcement’ ‘Support’ Mission to Assist ‘Disarmament’ of #Hezbollah 3. Accuse Opposition of ‘Misinformation’🤷
