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Iman Saleem🍁🍉

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Journalism student. The name rhymes with Iran. Proud member of the “X permanently suspended me” club. 📍Dystopian England

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Iman Saleem🍁🍉 @imansaleem.bsky.social · Sep 6

Known as the “Rawalpindi Experiments.” (Rawalpindi is a city now in modern day Pakistan.)

The British Empire was among history’s most depraved, evil empires.

Britain isn’t looking to shake off its ‘coloniser’ label anytime soon and the issue of Palestine proves this.

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Iman Saleem🍁🍉 @imansaleem.bsky.social · 2h

I imagine there’s a significant number of Jewish Americans who despise the fact that their religious icons and sites have been hijacked by a settler colony.

Iman Saleem🍁🍉 @imansaleem.bsky.social · 4h

Laura’s onto something there. All diplomats go to Mecca and then circulate around the Kabah before getting down to business.

Do something about the Muslim takeover, somebody, anybody? 🤣

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Iman Saleem🍁🍉 @imansaleem.bsky.social · 4h

I don’t know about anyone else but the trained IOF soldiers in captivity in Gaza pose more of a threat to society than a doc.

You know those same ones who snipe from building at walking pedestrians. 🤷‍♀️

Iman Saleem🍁🍉 @imansaleem.bsky.social · 5h

I saw Richard Medhurst made a great point; the West wants to put in Tony Blair as some sort of ‘viceroy’ to govern Gaza on its behalf.

It doesn’t get more colonial than a viceroy.

Iman Saleem🍁🍉 @imansaleem.bsky.social · 5h

Who should or should not be governing is a decision that should be made by the Palestinian people ALONE!

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Caitlin Johnstone @caitoz.bsky.social · 6h

"Why aren't the Free Palestine people cheering about the ceasefire?"

If you saw a man beating a child into a coma, would you cheer after the beating stopped? No, your first reaction would be horror at what happened and your second would be fear that he'll attack the kid again.

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Declassified UK @declassifieduk.org · 10h

Pearson Engineering is owned by the Israeli government. Now, it has hired a lobbying firm run by the husband of Hollie Ridley, Labour’s general secretary.

www.declassifieduk.org/top-labour-o...

Top Labour official married to lobbyist for Israeli arms firm

Pearson Engineering is owned by the Israeli government. Now, it has hired a lobbying firm run by the husband of Hollie Ridley, Labour’s general secretary.

www.declassifieduk.org

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Declassified UK @declassifieduk.org · 10h

Sixty years ago, Harold Wilson’s government secretly conspired with the Indonesian military as it conducted one of the postwar world’s worst bloodbaths.

www.declassifieduk.org/ruthless-ter...

‘Ruthless terror’ – When Labour aided genocide in Indonesia

Sixty years ago, Harold Wilson’s government secretly conspired with the Indonesian military as it conducted one of the postwar world’s worst bloodbaths.

www.declassifieduk.org

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Iman Saleem🍁🍉 @imansaleem.bsky.social · 10h

When it’s YOURS, you do not scurry away to Tel Aviv airport— come hell or high water.

Iman Saleem🍁🍉 @imansaleem.bsky.social · 19h

My new read!

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Wear The Peace @wearthepeace.bsky.social · 20h

A Palestinian man records a group of puppies in the besieged north of Gaza after he returns back to his home. He says, “life is returning to north Gaza”

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Bold Politics with Zack Polanski @boldpolitics.bsky.social · 1d

"I don't think the plane is going to cry from it's hurt wounds" 🎤⤵️

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Drop Site @dropsitenews.com · 1d

Thousands of displaced Palestinians returned to north Gaza on Friday, making their way along the coastal Al-Rashid road after the ceasefire took effect at noon. Israeli troops withdrew to agreed lines, retaining control of 53% of the Strip.

Journalist & Drop Site contributor Abd Sabbah captured...

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Democracy Now! @democracynow.org · 1d

The Trump-backed Gaza ceasefire deal "is not a peace agreement," says Palestinian human rights lawyer Diana Buttu. "This is not an end to the occupation."

Full interview: https://www.democracynow.org/2025/10/10/gaza_ceasefire_deal

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Working Class History @workingclasshistory.com · 2d

#OtD 9 Oct 1945 the UK Labour govt defended its jailing of 226 Spanish Civil War and anti-Nazi resistance fighters, describing them as "members of an enemy paramilitary organisation". Some killed themselves, others were deported to Spain for execution stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1094...

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Working Class History @workingclasshistory.com · 1d

#OtD 10 Oct 1972 Black sailors from the USS Kitty Hawk in the Philippines during the Vietnam war decided to disrupt a favourite hangout of white sailors in a segregated whites-only area in protest at the beating of a Black sailor the previous night. More: workingclasshistory.com/2018/08/06/e...

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Marina Purkiss @marina-purkiss.bsky.social · 2d

You don’t get to bankroll a genocide…

Embolden and cheer on the perpetrators

…and then call yourself a hero for pulling the plug.

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Iman Saleem🍁🍉 @imansaleem.bsky.social · 1d

Israel’s ceasefire definition:

Hamas returns our hostages and agrees to disarm. Israel continues as normal.

Collateral Damage @coldamage.bsky.social · 1d

2 hours ago:

Breaking: a series of Israeli air raids on several areas in the southwest Gaza City.

#FreePalestine #GazaHolocaust

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Mondoweiss @mondoweiss.net · 2d

The world must hold Israel accountable for genocide.

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Iman Saleem🍁🍉 @imansaleem.bsky.social · 2d

Today, we dress it up as “self defense” and it’s all good! 😌

Collateral Damage @coldamage.bsky.social · 2d

Remember when this used to be called terrorism? Good times.

#FreePalestine #GazaHolocaust

Iman Saleem🍁🍉 @imansaleem.bsky.social · 2d

Yes, I think that’s also true of him but don’t quote me on it.

Iman Saleem🍁🍉 @imansaleem.bsky.social · 2d

Wasn’t Obama’s deportation numbers through the roof too?

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Iman Saleem🍁🍉 @imansaleem.bsky.social · 2d

Yeah, there is that too.

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Zarah Sultana MP @zarahsultana.bsky.social · 2d

Peace means more than a ceasefire.

It means freedom from military occupation and apartheid.

It means Palestinians deciding their own future — not war criminals like Tony Blair.

As Israel’s bombs still fall on Gaza, Palestinians celebrate a ceasefire — a testament to their unbreakable spirit.

But peace means more than a ceasefire.

It means freedom from military occupation and apartheid.

It means Palestinians deciding their own future — not war criminals like Tony Blair.

We will keep marching, boycotting, divesting and speaking out until Palestine is free — and until those who enabled this genocide are held accountable for their crimes 🇵🇸

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Its ruaa @itsmeio.bsky.social · 2d

honestly fu** you if you think gazans are only allowed to ask for help to cover their very basic necessities when they’re starving or being killed, calling a gazan a grifter for trying to secure her education proves that you don’t see gazans as humans who deserve to live equally.

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