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Asghar @asghar123.bsky.social · 15h

She wants the freedom to sell off all of Venezuela’s oil and make them another client state of the oligarchy….

It seems embarrassing she was awarded this until you realise that they made the decision based on what Alfred Nobel (also know as the merchant of death) would have wanted…

Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 16h

Machado issues her first statement since being awarded the Nobel Peace Prize and makes a thinly-veiled appeal to Trump for US intervention in Venezuela:

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This recognition of the struggle of all Venezuelans is a boost to conclude our task: to conquer Freedom.
We are on the threshold of victory and today, more than ever, we count on President Trump, the people of the United States, the peoples of Latin America, and the democratic nations of the world as our principal allies to achieve Freedom and democracy.
I dedicate this prize to the suffering people of Venezuela and to President Trump for his decisive support of our cause!
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Asghar @asghar123.bsky.social · 22h

Yvette Cooper is a piece of shit, she is complicit in genocide alongside the majority of the British political class.

Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 23h

The foreign secretary says the UK has been contributing to the peace process.

No. What the UK govt has been contributing to is the extermination of the Palestinian people.

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Al Quds News Network @alqudsnewsnet.bsky.social · 1d

The raids haven't stopped... The occupation army continues to bombard Gaza with heavy artillery and air

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Asghar @asghar123.bsky.social · 1d

No one should receive a Nobel peace prize for deciding to stop a genocide they have ruthlessly carried out for 2 years

Trump, Biden, Starmer, Lammy, Sunak, Netanyahu, Merz, Blair and many others all belong in The Hague

Apartheid, settler colonialism and western imperialism must all be dismantled

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Asghar @asghar123.bsky.social · 1d

Palestinians celebrate, they deserve to breathe, to sleep a night not worrying it is their last.

We in the west cannot allow the norm of apartheid, ethnic cleansing, settler colonialism to continue.

A choice between genocide or apartheid and imperialism is not a choice, it does not free Palestine.

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David Wearing @davidwearing.bsky.social · 1d

Palestinians will feel understandable relief. The West should feel nothing but shame. Gaza has been obliterated. The territory rendered uninhabitable. Tens of thousands murdered in cold blood. The entire population subjected to starvation tactics. And now, colonial subjugation under Trump and Blair

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Justin Salhani @justinsalhani.bsky.social · 2d

Al Jazeera: Israeli forces have continued their attacks on Gaza despite the announcement, carrying out strikes in both the north and south of the enclave.

Justin Salhani @justinsalhani.bsky.social · 2d

I have little faith either the US or Israel will be faithful to this deal (just look at Lebanon’s ceasefire). But the ‘I’m powerless’ play was nonsense when US spent 31$ bn supporting/assisting Israel’s war across the region across 2 admins. Some care more about Biden’s rep than our lives

Nick Brumfield @nickjbrumfield.bsky.social · 2d

"It won't last" maybe yeah but it's undoubtedly better than "eh, this is just kind of the new normal"

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Asghar @asghar123.bsky.social · 2d

Further evidence that the Pahlavi fan boy Djalili is an utter bellend

Maryam Aldossari @maryamaldossari.bsky.social · 2d

What an absolute disgrace. 284 people excluded this year, countless imprisoned for tweets, others trapped under travel bans. Women are still being sent to ‘care homes’ for disobedience — and this clown dares lecture us about progress in Saudi Arabia? www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

I have been criticised for being part of the Riyadh comedy festival. This is why I did it | Omid Djalili

The headlines focus on money, but the gigs were great and I think there are different ways to achieve progress. Art, especially comedy, can be part of that, says stand-up comedian, Omid Djalili.

www.theguardian.com

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Asghar @asghar123.bsky.social · 2d

White people/Kier Starmer; you shouldn’t protest that genocide because you might upset some Zionists and their right to not be offended about the mass murder they support is more important than brown/arab/muslim Peoples right not to be genocided…

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Asghar @asghar123.bsky.social · 2d

Starmer lurching to an even greater authoritarian position to suppress his complicity in genocide.

He justifies this with imagined claims protestors are calling to harm the Jewish community and conflates British Jews with the state of israel.

The pathetic excuse for a human belongs in The Hague..

Starmer considers police crackdown on chants at pro-Palestine protests

Prime minister’s comments come after students across the country defied his calls and took part in pro-Gaza marches

www.independent.co.uk

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Asghar @asghar123.bsky.social · 2d

A reminder that the man who thinks the tone and timing of protesting against a genocide is ‘distasteful’ joked about spiking his wife’s drink with a ‘little bit of rohypnol‘ on the same day a new policy on spiking was announced….

flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 2d

“Why haven’t the protests against successive governments’ complicity in genocide stopped”, a mystery that is apparently beyond our finest political minds to fathom

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Asghar @asghar123.bsky.social · 3d

If only there were a live streamed genocide which would allow us to test this theory….

Asha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social · 4d

We’re in a moment now where it would be worth people taking three hours to watch Gandhi, particularly the scene of the salt march. There is value to making the brutality of your opponent so plain as day that no one can argue with it. The clarity of that brought down an empire

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Remi Kanazi @remikanazi.bsky.social · 3d

“Where were you on October 7?”

Where were you for 77 years of massacre, ethnic cleansing, and state brutality?

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Asghar @asghar123.bsky.social · 3d

Kier Starmer unsurprisingly opposes protests which point out he and his backers are active participants in a genocide.

Starmer says those that oppose genocide are un-British, presumably this is in reference to the thousands of war crimes carried out by the british state both now and historically..

Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 4d

The smearing of people who oppose Israels genocide and our govts complicity in it continues apace #GMB

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Asghar @asghar123.bsky.social · 4d

You should probably have a word with your leader then….

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Drop Site @dropsitenews.com · 4d

She called out world leaders for sitting by and watching a live-streamed genocide without taking action.

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Asghar @asghar123.bsky.social · 4d

This guys default setting is being a despicable piece of shit

Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 4d

Keir Starmer’s spokesman asked about Israel detaining British citizens who were on the Gaza aid flotilla, while in international waters, replies that it is a “matter for the Israeli Government”

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Asghar @asghar123.bsky.social · 5d

Tracey Ann Oberman makes me feel unsafe every time she appears on tv, she pushes racist narratives which support genocide and make brown and Muslim people targets for hate.

By her logic this means that she should be banned/legislated against/proscribed….

Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 5d

"We've had repeated marches week after week with slogans and chants and placards that have left our community feeling intimidated and threatened"

Tracy-Ann Oberman smearing protests in support of the Palestinian people and against our govts complicity in Israels genocide.

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Asghar @asghar123.bsky.social · 5d

Trevor Phillips has taken a day off hanging about with his fascist mates on the streets of London ‘protecting our cuntry’ to instead interviewing one of his deranged racist friends on tv…

Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 5d

The IDF is a brutal occupying army currently committing genocide. Chanting death to the IDF isn't antisemitic.

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Asghar @asghar123.bsky.social · 5d

When will the media be covering the unprovoked stabbing of Imam Shaykh Mohamed Yusuf in Hounslow just over a week ago, for which there has been 0 media attention?

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Asghar @asghar123.bsky.social · 5d

Will this be treated as a terrorist attack?

Peacehaven: Fire at East Sussex mosque probed as 'hate crime'

Video appears to show two people in balaclavas at the mosque before a large blaze spreads.

www.bbc.com

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Asghar @asghar123.bsky.social · 5d

When will Kier Starmer be returning to the UK to hold an emergency Cobra meeting for this?

Ben Whitham @drbenwhitham.bsky.social · 5d

These cases of extreme, far-right racist violence targeting Muslims and people seeking asylum are being blithely ignored by most media and politicians because they see no political capital in addressing them.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Man arrested after fire at London asylum seekers' hotel

The blaze is being treated as a hate crime by officers investigating.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Asghar @asghar123.bsky.social · 5d

Labour weaponise an unrelated attack to erode civil liberties on behalf of an ethno-supremacist state

They claim it's because people 'feel unsafe', but for the past 2 years I've watched as we assist a genocide of people that look just like me and my family, while being told it's all fine and normal

Police to get new powers to crack down on repeated protests, says Home Office

Move follows arrest of almost 500 people at latest pro-Palestinian demonstration in London on Saturday

www.theguardian.com

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Asghar @asghar123.bsky.social · 7d

Adlestone‘s speech is utterly abhorrent.

Zionists have no shame, weaponising a horrific incident here in the UK in order to push their pro-genocide agenda in Gaza through conflation and slander.

These people could not care less about the Jewish community and their actions make them less safe.

ʀak @raksky.bsky.social · 7d

Mark Adlestone's challenge "is to stop this hateful narrative":

"No longer can people claim to be anti-Zionist, and yet not Jew-haters…"

"We can no longer appease the extremists... those of the far left and radical Islamists."

"… stop the Palestinian marches… a glorification of the death of Jews"

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Jonathan Cook @jonathan-cook.bsky.social · 7d

The attack on a Manchester synagogue is evidence not of a rising tide of antisemitism but of something else entirely: a growing and dangerous political illiteracy being cultivated in our societies.

Read my latest here: jonathancook.substack.com/p/whos-reall...

Who's really encouraging attacks like the one on a synagogue? Look to our leaders

The attack in Manchester is evidence not of a rising tide of antisemitism but of something else entirely: a growing and dangerous political illiteracy being cultivated in our societies

jonathancook.substack.com

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