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Kate 🍉
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Grumpy Londoner, distracting myself from the state of the world by watching too much cycling.
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Israeli settlers set fire to mosque, spray anti-Muslim graffiti in West Bank - https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/israeli-settlers-set-fire-mosque-spray-anti-muslim-graffiti-west-bank
Israeli settlers set fire to mosque, spray anti-Muslim graffiti in West Bank
<article data-history-node-id="431422" about="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/israeli-settlers-set-fire-mosque-spray-anti-muslim-graffiti-west-bank" class="live-blog-update default clearfix"> <h2> <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/israeli-settlers-set-fire-mosque-spray-anti-muslim-graffiti-west-bank" rel="bookmark"> <span class="field field-title">Israeli settlers set fire to mosque, spray anti-Muslim graffiti in West Bank</span> </a> </h2> <div class="content"> <div class="field field-field-text"><p>Illegal Israeli settlers on Thursday set fire to a mosque in the village of Deir Istiya in the northern West Bank, Palestinian media reported.&nbsp;</p> <p>The fire caused damage inside the building and Hebrew graffiti was sprayed on the walls.</p> <p>Some of the graffiti reads, “We’re not afraid of Avi Blot,” who heads the Israeli forces' central command, and “Muhammad is a pig.”</p> <blockquote class="twitter-tweet"> <p dir="rtl" lang="ar">🚨 متابعة | مليشيات المستوطنين تحرق مسجد الحاجة حميدة بين بلدتي ديراستيا وكفل حارس غرب سلفيت وتخط شعارات عدوانية على جدرانه. <a href="https://t.co/J9oF6SyfXk">pic.twitter.com/J9oF6SyfXk</a></p> — فلسطين أون لايـن (@F24online) <a href="https://twitter.com/F24online/status/1988845292184093097?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 13, 2025</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></div> </div> </article>
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November 13, 2025 at 7:10 AM
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Your hourly portion of Israeli war crimes.

www.bbc.com/news/article...
Israel has destroyed more than 1,500 buildings in Gaza since ceasefire
Entire neighbourhoods controlled by Israel have been levelled in less than a month, the images show.
www.bbc.com
November 12, 2025 at 11:28 PM
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13sarahmurphy.bsky.social
Farage is a GB news shareholder and is paid through a private company for his appearances on the channel.
So, here he is shit-stirring with Trump over the BBC and grifting his nasty little arse off…
There is really nothing of ours he won’t ruin to grab for power and wealth for himself.
(iPaper+LFF)
White House is going all out to make GB News feel at home Simon Marks (Extract from article) When Donald Trump visited the UK in mid-September; not not enough attention was paid at the time to one history-making element of his joint press conference with Sir Keir Starmer: Both men proffered their traditional opening statements, and then turned to questions from the assembled press corps. After Starmer invited Trump to select an American reporter to pose a question. Trump instead directed his gaze at Bev Turner, the GB News anchor who had recently relocated to Washington, DC. Turner had travelled back to the UK aboard Air Force One, and, for the first time in recorded history, an American president failed at first blush to pick a reporter representing a US-based news outlet to ask a question while on foreign soil. Today, as Trump threatens to sue the BBC for $Ibn ($760m) over Panorama's clumsy editing of his 6 January 2021 speech ahead of the Capitol riots, GB News is in the ascendancy at the White House. From the moment Turner arrived to expand the network's Washington bureau, Trump and his top lieutenants have embraced her nightly, two-hour live broadeast as a vehicle for advancing the US President's agenda. The White House press secretary, Karoline Leavitt, has slammed the BBC, posting on X over the weekend that BBC News "is dying because they are anti-Trump Fake News" while going on to say that "everyone should watch GBNEWS!” Nigel Farage's admission that he discussed the BBC crisis with Trump on Friday is also a fresh indication of trouble ahead for Starmer, who should fear the open communication between the two political soulmates, as well as the US administration's backing of GB News. In short: Trump has got the BBC and its fact-based journalism on the run - and GB News is enthusiastically on his side. * LEFT FOOT FORWARD Reform UK leader Nigel Farage has increased his shareholding in GB News, as the arch Brexiteer continues to deepen his relationship with the right-wing channel. According to the latest documents filed to Companies House this week, Farage has increased his shares from 300,000 to 500,000. It comes as Farage continues to rake it in from the channel, making £60,000 for just 20 hours of work according to his latest register of interests.
November 12, 2025 at 7:27 AM
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bylinetimes.bsky.social
🧵On our revelations today about the BBC Coup and the Prescott Dossier.

The leaked ‘BBC Bias’ memo Trump used to attack the BBC was authored by Michael Prescott — a Hanover lobbyist paid by US tech/media giants tied to Trump. Full story: bylinetimes.com/2025/11/11/b... 1/12
'BBC Bias' Memo Was Authored by Lobbyist Tied to Pro-Trump Tech Giants
The leaked memo that fuelled Trump’s attack on the BBC was written by a lobbyist at a firm paid by US tech giants tied to the President
bylinetimes.com
November 11, 2025 at 9:19 PM
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paleofuture.bsky.social
UNICEF says Israel blocking one million syringes needed to vaccinate Gaza children
www.reuters.com
November 11, 2025 at 8:32 PM
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bylinetimes.bsky.social
🔴'BBC Bias’ Memo Was Authored by Lobbyist Tied to Pro-Trump Tech Giants

The leaked memo that fuelled Trump’s attack on the BBC was written by a lobbyist at a firm paid by US tech giants tied to the President, reports @nafeez.bsky.social

bylinetimes.com/2025/11/11/b...
'BBC Bias' Memo Was Authored by Lobbyist Tied to Pro-Trump Tech Giants
The leaked memo that fuelled Trump’s attack on the BBC was written by a lobbyist at a firm paid by US tech giants tied to the President
bylinetimes.com
November 11, 2025 at 1:58 PM
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lorenzlm.bsky.social
If Sarah Kendzior is indeed blocked on @bsky.app, this is a completely unjustified and highly questionable move. Sarah Kendzior is among the best voices of knowledge-based critical journalism in the US. See to it that this is corrected immediately and with an apology, @pfrazee.com!
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November 11, 2025 at 7:16 AM
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indyfromspace.bsky.social
Bluesky suspended Sarah Kendzior today for no reason whatsoever. She just shared excerpts of her articles, which were as always incisive and not offensive at all. Hey @pfrazee.com this is super not OK. I know her- we've interacted a fair bit via chats and her work is essential.
November 11, 2025 at 5:02 AM
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Well, this is quite a serious allegation. I do hope the BBC shows true impartiality and investigate whether or not some of its Board members are systemically biased. www.theguardian.com/media/2025/n...
BBC board member with Tory links ‘led charge’ in systemic bias claims, say insiders
Sources say Robbie Gibb amplified criticisms of Trump, Gaza and trans rights coverage, and had ‘a lot of oxygen in the room’
www.theguardian.com
November 11, 2025 at 7:34 AM
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writesbright.bsky.social
It takes an obscene amount of hubris to lecture the BBC when you have The Telegraph’s record on truth-telling.

Some of the paper’s errors this year are so bad they’re almost laughable 👇🏻
The Telegraph’s BBC hypocrisy
A paper that knows a thing or two about editorial f*ck-ups...
writesbright.substack.com
November 10, 2025 at 7:48 PM
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🚨The Palestinian Centre for Human Rights says it has collected new testimonies from recently released captives and documented systematic sexual torture of Palestinian detainees, including rape, forced stripping, and filming, describing it as part of Israel’s broader campaign to destroy human....
🚨The Palestinian Centre for Human Rights says it has collected new testimonies from recently released captives and documented systematic sexual torture of Palestinian detainees, including rape, forced stripping, and filming, describing it as part of Israel’s broader campaign to destroy human dignity in Gaza. Among the cases is N.A., a 42-year-old mother from northern Gaza, who told PCHR she was raped four times by Israeli soldiers and subjected to repeated torture and humiliation in detention after she was detained while passing through an Israeli checkpoint set up in northern Gaza in November 2024. 📌 Her testimony in full: “At dawn I heard the soldiers shouting, saying that morning prayers were forbidden, and I think it was the fourth day after my arrest from Gaza. The soldiers moved me to a place I didn’t know because my eyes were blindfolded, and they ordered me to take off my clothes. I did so. They put me on a metal table, pressed my chest and head against it, cuffed my hands to the end of the bed, and pulled my legs apart forcefully. I felt a penis penetrating my anus and a man raping me. I started screaming, and they beat me on my back and head while I was blindfolded. I felt the man who was raping me ejaculate inside my anus. I kept screaming and being beaten, and I could hear a camera—so I believe they were filming me. The rape lasted about 10 minutes. After that, they left me for an hour in the same position, with my hands cuffed to the bed with metal handcuffs, my face on the bed, my feet on the floor, and I was completely naked. Again, after an hour, I was raped fully in the same position, with penetration into my vagina, and I was beaten while I screamed. There were several soldiers; I heard them laughing and the camera clicking as it took pictures. This rape was very quick and there was no ejaculation. During the rape they beat me with their hands on my head and back. Again, after an hour, I was raped fully in the same position, with penetration into my vagina, and I was beaten while I screamed. There were several soldiers; I heard them laughing and the camera clicking as it took pictures. This rape was very quick and there was no ejaculation. During the rape they beat me with their hands on my head and back. I cannot describe what I felt; I wished for death every moment. After they raped me, I was left alone in the same room, hands still cuffed to the bed and without clothes for many hours. I could hear the soldiers outside speaking Hebrew and laughing. Later, I was raped again vaginally. I screamed, but they beat me whenever I tried to resist. After more than an hour, I’m not sure about the time, a masked soldier entered, removed my blindfold, lifted his face covering; he had white skin and was tall. He asked if I spoke English; I said no. He said he was Russian and ordered me to masturbate his penis. I refused, and he hit me in the face after raping me. That day I was raped twice. I was left naked the whole day in the room where I spent three days. On the first day I was raped twice; on the second day I was raped twice; on the third day I remained without clothes while they looked at me through the door slit and filmed me. One soldier said they would post my photos on social media. While I was in the room, my period started; then they told me to put on clothes and transferred me to another room.” Palestinian Centre for Human Rights: November 10, 2025. PCHR Documents Testimonies of Systematic Rape and Sexual Torture in Israeli Detention Against Released Palestinian Detainees
November 10, 2025 at 8:55 PM
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privateeyenews.bsky.social
With millions in public money handed to private interests and serious questions over transparency and accountability, why hasn’t there been an inquiry into the goings-on on Teesside?

Watch the full episode of Page 94, the Private Eye podcast, on YouTube.
November 10, 2025 at 7:13 PM
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scotnational.bsky.social
As the UK-based Campaign Against the Arms Trade (CAAT) has ­highlighted, the fact that UK military equipment ­supplied to the UAE could be transferred to the RSF represents at the very least a shocking failure in UK export controls, writes David Pratt ✍️
David Pratt: The West is shamefully complicity in Sudan’s horrors
www.thenational.scot
November 9, 2025 at 8:14 PM
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palestineproject.bsky.social
Israeli settlers have attacked Palestinian villagers, activists, & journalists, including Reuters reporter Raneen Sawafta, near Nablus. The assault is the latest in a surge of settler violence across the occupied West Bank during the olive harvesting season, with over 760 attacks recorded in October
Israeli settlers attack journalists at olive harvest in occupied West Bank
Israeli settlers have attacked Palestinian villagers, activists, and journalists near Nablus.
www.aljazeera.com
November 10, 2025 at 7:52 AM
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bylinetimes.bsky.social
🚨 The BBC’s Road to Appeasement

As the BBC comes under growing criticism for its coverage of Reform, we republish @adambienkov.bsky.social and @baghdaddi.bsky.social’s 2024 investigation into how the corporation's leadership became cowed by the right

www.bylinesupplement.com/p/the-bbcs-r...
The BBC’s Road to Appeasement
As the BBC comes under growing criticism for its coverage of Reform, we republish Adam Bienkov and Patrick Howse's 2024 investigation into how the corporation's leadership became cowed by the right
www.bylinesupplement.com
November 9, 2025 at 11:28 PM
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simonajeger.bsky.social
Jana Ayyad (8 yo) passed away one week ago. She followed her sister Joury (2 yo) who was also starved to death recently.
Like around 16.000 other #Gazan children, Jana was on the evacuation list, but wasn't cleared by Cogat/#Israel.
RIP, Jana and Joury 🕊️🤍

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...
‘She could die any moment’: family of girl, eight, plead for urgent evacuation from Gaza
Officials say they applied for Jana Ayyad to be transferred to Jordan two weeks ago but have not received Israeli approval
www.theguardian.com
September 25, 2025 at 11:52 AM
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Israel's rape crisis centers report 81% of sex offense cases closed without indictment in 2023, with most victims being minors attacked by people they knew.

Shared values apparently

www.jpost.com/israel-news/...
Israeli reports of rape rises to 55,000 in 2023 | The Jerusalem Post
Israel's rape crisis centers report 81% of sex offense cases closed without indictment in 2023, with most victims being minors attacked by people they knew.
www.jpost.com
November 9, 2025 at 12:39 PM
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monkemma.bsky.social
It blows my mind that there are real people who see a post like this and actually believe the whole “Christmas is being cancelled by Muslims” BS 🙄

Let’s have a quick look at what’s happening to Sheffield so you can put your Express reading uncle’s mind at ease!😆

1/15
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November 8, 2025 at 3:58 PM
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tambria.bsky.social
Ceasefires look different these days
Death toll in Israel’s war on Gaza surpasses 69,000 as attacks continue
Israeli forces kill several people across Gaza, as settlers and military continue attacks in the occupied West Bank.
www.aljazeera.com
November 8, 2025 at 11:31 PM
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writesbright.bsky.social
🔴 Tufton Street’s influence is epitomised by the Charity Commission’s total failure to regulate Tufton Street.

📝 A new rant about the regulator’s latest investigation into the IEA 👇
Captured by the ‘free market’ fanatics
The Charity Commission’s political naivety complex...
writesbright.substack.com
November 7, 2025 at 9:52 AM
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theguardian.com
Israel’s underground jail, where Palestinians are held without charge and never see daylight
Israel’s underground jail, where Palestinians are held without charge and never see daylight
Exclusive: Detainees at Rakefet include nurse and teenager who have been deprived of natural light since January Israel is holding dozens of Palestinians from Gaza isolated in an underground jail where they never see daylight, are deprived of adequate food and barred from receiving news of their families or the outside world. The detainees include at least two civilians who are being held without charge or trial: a nurse detained in his scrubs, and a young food seller, according to lawyers from the Public Committee Against Torture in Israel (PCATI) who represent both men. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
November 8, 2025 at 8:14 AM
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palestineproject.bsky.social
YouTube deleted the accounts of three prominent Palestinian human rights groups — a capitulation to Trump sanctions.
theintercept.com/2025/11/04/y...
YouTube Quietly Erased More Than 700 Videos Documenting Israeli Human Rights Violations
The tech giant deleted the accounts of three prominent Palestinian human rights groups — a capitulation to Trump sanctions.
theintercept.com
November 5, 2025 at 2:30 AM
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ayoub.bsky.social
The ceasefire continues according to virtually every media outlet. Israel is demolishing entire neighbourhoods in Gaza to make sure Palestinians never go back.

The genocide is ongoing
middleeasteye-rss.bsky.social Middle East Eye (Unofficial) @middleeasteye-rss.bsky.social · 11d
Israel razes entire neighbourhoods east of Khan Younis: Report - https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/israel-razes-entire-neighbourhoods-east-khan-younis-report
Israel razes entire neighbourhoods east of Khan Younis: Report
<article data-history-node-id="430958" about="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/israel-razes-entire-neighbourhoods-east-khan-younis-report" class="live-blog-update default clearfix"> <h2> <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/israel-razes-entire-neighbourhoods-east-khan-younis-report" rel="bookmark"> <span class="field field-title">Israel razes entire neighbourhoods east of Khan Younis: Report</span> </a> </h2> <div class="content"> <div class="field field-field-text"><article data-scroll-anchor="true" data-testid="conversation-turn-110" data-turn="assistant" data-turn-id="request-6901b48e-cf20-832a-9f2e-41bb2cc7fcbc-38" dir="auto" tabindex="-1"> <p data-end="277" data-start="76">Israeli occupation forces are bulldozing large swathes of land east of Khan Younis in southern Gaza, destroying what little remains of homes and infrastructure after months of relentless bombardment.</p> <p data-end="447" data-start="279">Al Jazeera's correspondent on the ground reported that the army is conducting extensive demolition operations in the area, flattening residential blocks and farmland.</p> </article> </div> </div> </article>
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November 1, 2025 at 11:33 PM
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mjamurphy.bsky.social
This should be the biggest news story in the world right now
November 1, 2025 at 10:32 PM
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brian-goldstone.bsky.social
Staggering atrocities in Sudan.

Following the mass slaughter of nearly 500 men, women, and children at a maternity hospital, UN officials say: "The situation is simply horrifying... El Fasher, already the scene of catastrophic levels of human suffering, has descended into an even darker hell."
UN leaders condemn ‘horrifying’ mass killings in Sudan
Emergency security council session criticises killings of civilians in El Fasher and external supply of arms to RSF
www.theguardian.com
November 1, 2025 at 1:33 PM