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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 3h

"You go to some places like Handsworth.. parts of Dewsbury, Bradford, Leicester, where you see.. a single ethnicity.. we don't think that's healthy thing"

Kevin Hollinrake is MP for Thirsk and Malton, which according to the 2021 census is 98% white.

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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 4h

James Cleverly: "I cannot understand the motivation for protests of this type so regularly"

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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 4h

Rory Challands: "[Keir Starmer] says that some people have been using Palestine solidarity demos to call for the murder of Jewish people, though he doesn't actually provide any examples of where or when this took place"

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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 5h

There's more racism in football because there's more racism in society, & there's more racism in society because racism has been mainstreamed & racists are emboldened.

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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 5h

The destruction of Gaza. Genocide.

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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 5h

Daniel Levy making the point that the fault line in Israeli society isn't about the genocide in Gaza but centres around the govt deprioritising the return of the hostages.

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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 5h

"Thousands have taken to the streets of Colombia's capital Bogota. They're demanding an end to the war in Gaza"

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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 5h

"Palestinian solidarity demonstrators have marched through Mexico & Chiles capitals demanding their govts sever diplomatic ties with Israel"

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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 5h

Israel continues to attack & seize vessels in international waters & kidnapping those on board

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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 5h

"You'll see certain people, including political pundits, saying lets not be hysterical, Britain is not lurching towards authoritarianism. I don't know what else you call it, it absolutely is, & its a direct result of its support for Israels genocide"

Barry Malone on @novaramedia.com

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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 6h

Conservative shadow minister: "There's not a lot that Nigel [Farage] says that we really disagree with" #GMB

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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 1d

Adam Parsons: "For Saba this war is not just about what happened on Oct 7th.. its about generations of struggle & anger, about feeling that Israel is oppressing the Palestinian people"

Feeling?

Israels brutal occupation of Palestine is a fact.

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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 1d

Three Palestinians in Gaza speak about the last 2 years.

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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 1d

Juliette Touma from UNRWA is asked about her reflections on what's happened in Gaza over the past 2 years.

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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 1d

A paratrooper in the IDF reads out a message about how Israel is driven by love & the desire to protect life.

No. The entire world has watched Israel's genocide live streamed over the last 2 years and knows exactly what Israel is. A genocidal apartheid regime.

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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 1d

Shaina Low from the Norwegian Refugee Council is clear, Israel will keep violating international law & committing war crimes until the international community starts to hold it accountable.

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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 1d

"We are seeing efforts being made... to strangle all aspects of life inside Gaza"

Shaina Low from the Norwegian Refugee Council is asked to describe the situation in Gaza two years on.

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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 1d

"I bore witness with my own eyes the appalling humanitarian catastrophe, the genocide that's being carried out. Each time I've been to Gaza its worse than the time before"

NHS surgeon Nick Maynard is asked about his reflections from working in Gaza

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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 1d

"the IDF say they attack hospitals because Hamas use them as areas to fight from..."

NHS surgeon Nick Maynard: "Its disappointing to hear that this is still being raised by the media in our country... there has been no credible evidence to support those claims"

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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 1d

@bphillipsonmp.bsky.social : "I see the appalling loss of life in Gaza"

Who's killing them? The country that you're supporting, arming, trading with, providing military assistance to, the country whose soldiers you're training & whose senior officers you're hosting. You're complicit.

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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 1d

"Just because you have the right to protest throughout the year doesn't mean you have to protest on every single day of the year"

20 seconds later...

"The appalling scenes that we see every single day & the suffering of people in Gaza"

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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 1d

A senior minister in a govt complicit in Israel's genocide talks about the need for people to show humanity.

What Bridget Phillipson is doing here is cynically exploiting the synagogue attack to target & ban protests against the genocide she & they are complicit in.

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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 1d

"the PM has condemned plans for pro Palestinian marches"

The mainstream media never say these protests are also against our govts complicity in Israels genocide, do they? Because then we start to get nearer to the truth, that the PM is condemning marches that are critical of him

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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 1d

Alex Rossi: "You should remember its not just the anniversary of Oct 7th, its also the anniversary of the military campaign, 2yrs to the day of war inside Gaza, we can see smoke on the horizon now, we're hearing the crump of artillery every couple of mins, that war is continuing"

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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 1d

Can you imagine if Russia attacked and seized a UK vessel in international waters & kidnapped the people on board, including UK citizens, and the only response from the UK govt was to say that's "a matter for the Russian govt".

No, me neither.

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