This is quite a big deal: The Times, Britain's rightwing newspaper of record and a jewel in Murdoch's crown, has come out against the proscription of Palestine Action. Says the group is "an antisocial menace to public order" but not a terror threat.

“It was supposed to be an upstream policy done with Muslim communities, but it became a policy done to Muslim communities," she says. "It wasn't about a battle of ideas - it became about policing communities." bbc.com/news/articles/…

Zohran Mamdani represents incredibly modest reforms of the type Eisenhower Republicans could have supported, precipitating this embarrassing total meltdown by the Democratic establishment.

7 progressive rabbis in NYC wrote this op-ed supporting Mamdani. On “globalise,” I agree with this sentence: “It is fundamentally important that our next mayor listens to and understands both associations and resists the flattening of people’s histories into soundbites.”

New euphemism just dropped

Proscribing Palestine Action: A blunt tool for a complex challenge - ⁦our view Institute for Strategic Dialogue⁩ isdglobal.org/digital_dispat…

This has always been levied as a threat which has never borne out in reality with wealth taxes in Norway, Switzerland, and elsewhere.

I loved working at the Home Office in 1995 where I gave every new immigrant a copy of Modern Life is Rubbish. If you played it backwards, Damon Albarn would tell the listener to form a Caliphate Inshallah

Good thread and a reminder that so many clips you see on here are wrenched from their context in service of inflammatory politics, and you should treat such material with skepticism, especially if it confirms your own priors or the poster's.

Lots of things have never happened… but this is in the top 5 things of definitely never happened

Um… four of four didn’t need to happen 🙈

It’s been almost impossible for me to cook for the kids lately so I’m doing my best to deliver clean water every day instead to areas that most aid groups cannot reach especially along the coast of Gaza. These places are often forgotten while most relief efforts focus on the big

.I've Had It Podcast - 7/4/2025 - Jennifer Welch calling out Hakeem Jeffries This Week interview for not defending Zohran Kwame Mamdani on antisemitism "This was your moment Hakeem...this kind of cherry picking because of who donates to Hakeem Jeffries. AIPAC donates to Hakeem

To those who say we shouldn’t use the term “concentration camp” for Gaza: what do you call a plan to concentrate all of the population in one place and not let them leave?

Elen: "Dad, come stay with us." Dr Adnan al Bursh: "Yes will come to you tomorrow. Take care of your mum." Listen to the late Palestinian surgeon's final call with his family before he was taken by Israel in our Zeteo documentary 'Gaza: Doctors Under Attack.' Link in next post.

'Vacations.' The word is 'vacations.'

Radar Festival was coerced into cancelling Bob Vylan in private talks with “the venue, its co-owners AMG and Live Nation, and local authorities.” They were given an “ultimatum” — cancel the band’s appearance or the entire festival would be shut down on its biggest day.

A "humanitarian zone" built on the ruins of an entire city that was systematically razed to the ground. Just like ethnic cleansing has become "voluntary migration", death traps have become "aid distribution sites", and blown up children have become "collateral damage".