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Benjamin Zac
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I like politics and porridge.

People need to know!

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Netanyahu writes to Israeli president requesting pardon in corruption cases
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November 30, 2025 at 11:00 AM
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'There is a temptation to see all of this as heavy-handed policing or bureaucratic overreach. But that understates the cohesion of what is happening. This is not an accident; this is architecture.'
Megan Davidson, via Common Weal
The criminalisation of conscience — Common Weal
A new wave of criminalisation is sweeping the UK, targeting activists, communities, and anyone who refuses the official narrative. Here’s why the terror label is no longer about terror.
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November 30, 2025 at 1:00 PM
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Tens of thousands in Paris rally for Gaza on solidarity day
<article data-history-node-id="432100" about="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/tens-thousands-paris-rally-gaza-solidarity-day" class="live-blog-update default clearfix"> <h2> <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/tens-thousands-paris-rally-gaza-solidarity-day" rel="bookmark"> <span class="field field-title">Tens of thousands in Paris rally for Gaza on solidarity day</span> </a> </h2> <div class="content"> <div class="field field-field-text"><p data-end="96" data-start="0">Paris saw a massive show of support for Palestine on Saturday as tens of thousands of people filled the streets to mark the International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People.</p> <p data-end="572" data-start="289">Organisers estimated the crowd at roughly 50,000. Marchers carried Palestinian flags and held banners reading “Palestine, we will not be silent” and “Stop the genocide”, while chants of “Gaza, Gaza, Paris is with you” and “From Paris to Gaza, the resistance” echoed through the city.</p> <p data-end="724" data-is-last-node data-is-only-node data-start="574">The demonstration added to growing public anger in Europe over Israel’s assault on Gaza and the staggering scale of Palestinian suffering under siege.</p> </div> </div> </article>
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November 29, 2025 at 9:42 PM
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Rachel Reeves says on Laura Kuenssberg that she's asking working people to pay a little bit more.

This was all under the cover of a made up "black hole" whilst refusing to tax the super rich.

This Labour Government showing again exactly who they are and who they serve.
November 30, 2025 at 11:38 AM
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Just for absolute clarity, the government’s proscription of Palestine Action is a self-evident farce, deeply unethical and morally bankrupt. It is an unforgivable waste of time and resources, and makes them look both deeply unserious and as ideologically compromised as they clearly are.
November 30, 2025 at 10:47 AM
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Italian and Canadian activists wounded by Israeli settlers in West Bank
<article data-history-node-id="432107" about="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/italian-and-canadian-activists-wounded-israeli-settlers-west-bank" class="live-blog-update default clearfix"> <h2> <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/italian-and-canadian-activists-wounded-israeli-settlers-west-bank" rel="bookmark"> <span class="field field-title">Italian and Canadian activists wounded by Israeli settlers in West Bank</span> </a> </h2> <div class="content"> <div class="field field-field-text"><p dir="LTR">Four foreign activists were wounded on Sunday in an attack carried out by Israeli settlers in the Ein al-Duyuk community near Jericho, in the occupied West Bank, Wafa news agency reported.</p> <p dir="LTR">Palestinian security and medical sources told Wafa that settlers broke into the house the activists were staying in and assaulted them. Three were left with moderate injuries, while one critically wounded.&nbsp;</p> <p dir="LTR">According to the sources, around 10 masked Israeli settlers stormed the activists' residence at dawn, beat them, and stole personal belongings, including passports and mobile phones.</p> <p dir="LTR">Three of the wounded activists are Italian nationals, while the other holds Canadian citizenship.</p> </div> </div> </article>
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November 30, 2025 at 1:08 PM
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Palestine Action: Police in Sheffield arrest 18 peaceful protesters against genocide as outrage at free speech gag grows

36 police officers were required to arrest the anti-apartheid activists, in an episode described by a local councillor as “shameful”.

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November 29, 2025 at 10:45 PM
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Pope Leo to appeal for peace during Lebanon trip, amid daily Israeli strikes
<article data-history-node-id="432103" about="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/pope-leo-appeal-peace-during-lebanon-trip-amid-daily-israeli-strikes" class="live-blog-update default clearfix"> <h2> <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/pope-leo-appeal-peace-during-lebanon-trip-amid-daily-israeli-strikes" rel="bookmark"> <span class="field field-title">Pope Leo to appeal for peace during Lebanon trip, amid daily Israeli strikes</span> </a> </h2> <div class="content"> <div class="field field-field-text"><p>Pope Leo&nbsp;travels to Lebanon on Sunday, where he is expected to appeal for peace in a country that is a continued target of Israeli air strikes.</p> <p>The first American pope will arrive from Turkey, where he has been visiting for four days and warned that&nbsp;humanity's future was at risk&nbsp;because of the number of bloody conflicts and&nbsp;condemned violence in the name of religion.</p> <p>Leo is due to land at Beirut's Hariri International Airport at 3:45pm (1345 GMT), ahead of meetings with the Lebanese president and prime minister and an address to national leaders.</p> <p>Hezbollah leader&nbsp;Naim Qassem&nbsp;said on Friday that he hoped Leo's visit would help bring an end to Israeli attacks. Despite a ceasefire agreed a year ago, Israeli forces carry out near daily strikes on Lebanon.</p> <p>Lebanon's diverse communities have also welcomed the papal trip, with leading Druze cleric Sheikh Sami Abi al-Muna saying Lebanon "needs the glimmer of hope represented by this visit".</p> <p>The pope has a crowded itinerary in Lebanon, visiting five cities and towns from Sunday to Tuesday, when he returns to Rome. Leo&nbsp;will not travel to the south,&nbsp;the target of Israeli strikes.</p> <p>His schedule includes a prayer at the site of a&nbsp;2020 chemical explosion&nbsp;at the Beirut port that killed 200 people and caused billions of dollars' worth of damage.</p> </div> </div> </article>
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November 30, 2025 at 9:52 AM
Why did the Premier League ban Palestinian flags, football tops etc

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November 30, 2025 at 10:03 AM
This is the kind of brainwashed ignorant replies you find from those that don’t do their research and are trigger happy.

‘Israel exists in Israel. There is no Palestine’.

Historical revisionism at its worst exploited to serve the aims of ethnic cleansing and genocide.
November 30, 2025 at 9:50 AM
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Israeli army demolishes more Jenin buildings in ongoing West Bank raid
<article data-history-node-id="432095" about="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/israeli-army-demolishes-more-jenin-buildings-ongoing-west-bank-raid" class="live-blog-update default clearfix"> <h2> <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/israeli-army-demolishes-more-jenin-buildings-ongoing-west-bank-raid" rel="bookmark"> <span class="field field-title">Israeli army demolishes more Jenin buildings in ongoing West Bank raid</span> </a> </h2> <div class="content"> <div class="field field-field-text"><p data-end="444" data-start="283">The Israeli army says it has kept up its assault on Jenin, tearing down more buildings across the occupied West Bank city as part of its latest large-scale raid.</p> <p data-end="738" data-start="446">In a brief statement, the military said its forces “continue our activity in the northern West Bank and destroyed explosive devices and weapons in Jenin”. It added that troops were “continuing the process of demolishing buildings in the Jenin area and we have found a bomb-making laboratory”.</p> <p data-end="1019" data-start="740">Israel has used similar claims to justify repeated incursions into Jenin, where bulldozers and armoured units routinely flatten homes, shops and roads. Palestinian residents say the army’s operations amount to collective punishment, with entire neighbourhoods left uninhabitable.</p> </div> </div> </article>
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November 29, 2025 at 5:28 PM
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Breaking | Israeli artillery shells the eastern areas of Gaza City.
November 28, 2025 at 9:19 PM
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Convincing evidence
Israel backed aid convoy looters in Gaza, historian says

Account of visit to Gaza by French professor describes Israeli military attacks on security personnel protecting convoys
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November 29, 2025 at 12:23 PM
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🚨 Marwan Barghouti’s son has released a new video from the West Bank village of Kobar, his father’s birthplace, launching an int'l push to free his father — the most popular Palestinian political leader who has languished for over 2 decades in prison — & to free all Palestinian political prisoners.
November 29, 2025 at 6:37 PM
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🇮🇹 Italian general strikes for Palestine ‘must connect this rage with action’

With the third general strike in Italy set for Friday, Arthur Townend spoke to USB union member Roberto and student Sara about trade unions and the question of Palestine.

Read on
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November 28, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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💰One of the biggest problems with PFI? Following the money.

Contracts change hands. Investors come and go. Money disappears into complex corporate structures.

The public funds it. But who's profiting?

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November 29, 2025 at 8:48 AM
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“Newly declassified British documents expose how radioactive clouds from nuclear tests in Australia took days—not hours—to clear, contaminating vast areas in the lead-up to the 1956 Melbourne Olympics.”

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UK Government begins to release Australia's nuclear tests documents after 75 years - Australian Institute of International Affairs
Newly declassified British documents expose how radioactive clouds from nuclear tests in Australia took days—not hours—to clear, contaminating vast areas in the lead-up to the 1956 Melbourne Olympics....
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November 29, 2025 at 2:23 PM
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Scottish activists offered £100 fines for 'terrorism' offences

Prosecutors face claims they have reduced terrorism to the level of a parking ticket after asking activists accused of supporting a proscribed group if they will pay fine instead of going to court.

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'Like a parking ticket': Scottish activists face £100 fines for 'terrorism'
SCOTTISH prosecutors face claims they have reduced terrorism to the level of a parking ticket after asking activists accused of supporting a…
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November 28, 2025 at 1:32 PM