What Benjamin Zephaniah had to say about Coconuts

The UN Security Council is where a country that claims to uphold "democracy" and "international law" can use its veto power to override both democracy and international law.

Honouring Benjamin Zephaniah’s poetry and politics | Brief letters theguardian.com/books/2023/dec…

No, Sultan Al Jaber, the #COP28 deal is not an "historic achievement". It is yet another historic failure. One step further towards Earth systems collapse.

The average rate of children killed in modern war is 6 to 8% of the casualties. In Gaza, it's 42%.

“The climate challenge we face 2day is 40 billion tonnes of CO2 harder than it was last year, & around 1/3 of a trillion tonnes more difficult than at t/ time of t/ Paris Agr/. #COP28 might well h/ been appropriate if it had taken place in 2000, but in 2023 it falls far short..”

We should all be terrified of this level of impunity btw. Red lines don’t exist anymore, not for us. Israel went from denying that they bombed hospitals a month ago to bombing them live on air now. World leaders have given Israel the green light from the first massacre.

One of the most horrific and heartbreaking of our investigations: hospital by hospital in Gaza targeted, put under siege, invaded…mass graves of patients, children and medical staff desparately dug in courtyards. A step by step recon. of this systematic and widespread crime.

“There are no safe spaces, and there’s no adequate humanitarian response possible under the current circumstances.” Mirjana Spoljaric (Archive) Mirjana Spoljaric recently visited Gaza and tells me “there is no street that I passed where I didn’t see houses destroyed.”

A list of 40 Israeli commanding officers believed to be executing and planning the assault on Gaza has been submitted to the International Criminal Court prosecutor for investigation for complicity in possible war crimes and crimes against humanity. dawnmena.org/international-…

Hundreds of UK health workers have shut down the central London headquarters of US tech giant Palantir after it was awarded a £330m contract by NHS England. Palantir professes to be keeping the Israeli government “armed and ahead” in its ongoing bombardment of Gaza.

It is disgraceful that European states, which claim to value human rights, have failed to intervene in any way whatsoever to stop the war crimes, massacres and mass starvation being perpetrated by the ruling classes of the United States and Israel. Disgraceful.

"We write in grief, but also in hope: violence and oppression are not inevitable when we stand together in solidarity and in courage. We can affirm our differences just as we affirm our common humanity." To love and liberation in 2024. 🍉 whoseknowledge.org/solidarity-ref…

Dead children. Dead children buried under rubble. Dead babies. Dead babies. Dead children. Babies being bombed. Children with the roof collapsed on them as they sleep. Children in pyjamas burnt. Bloodied mangled babies. DONT LOOK AWAY. MAKE IT STOP!!!

The world is waking up.

BREAKING: This is central Rafah. They are running for safety... but there's nowhere safe for them to go... Please keep sharing. ALL EYES ON RAFAH

Israel DOES occupy the West Bank incl. east Jerusalem and the Gaza Strip. It does it brutally. Israel DOES practice apartheid: e.g. it has two legal systems, civil law for Israeli settlers illegally residing in occupied territory and martial law for the Palestinians. It has used