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Amnesty International UK Campaigns Manager: Crisis Response, Israel/Palestine, Syria. Keep on drummin’. Views all mine.

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London tonight - smart people agree
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“We are delighted to report that Chelsea and Westminster Hospital has removed a display of artwork designed by children from Gaza.” Defending Israeli apartheid does very strange things to your ethics.
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We just renamed the street outside the Saudi embassy in London
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Israeli Embassy, London. We’ve renamed your street.
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To those unhappy a statue of a slave trader was pulled down - would you be happy with a statue of Harold Shipman or Peter Sutcliffe in your city? Why are Colston’s extreme and mass crimes against black people acceptable to you and ‘polite society’?
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In two weeks or so, it will be interesting to see official statistics on how many US cops have been sacked and / or arrested. Given the dozens of videos of police violence we are seeing, there should be a spike...yea? We'll see. We'll see how much will change.
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Israeli Embassy, London. We’ve renamed your street (again)
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Syria will hold presidential elections on May 26 and it’s fair to say this is the most diverse set of candidates ever.
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@ChelseaFC An elite team needs an elite manager.
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Update - the apartheid apologists at UK lawyers for Israel edited the text in their ludicrous article, removing “delighted” and “designed by children from Gaza”, so they can appear less unhinged. A case study in the re-writing of history. Original & updated.
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Chinese human rights lawyer Yu Wensheng has been sentenced to 4 years in jail after a secret trial. His family believe he has been targeted because of an open letter he wrote criticizing Chinese President Xi Jinping’s totalitarian rule.
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@alexander_olly Challenging the racist double standards of Eurovision is also important.
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@mishtal Denial is one of the stages..
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A Syrian refugee kisses his daughter as he walks through a rainstorm towards Greece's border with Macedonia, near the village of Idomeni, Greece. From Reuter’s pictures of the decade.
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@cjwerleman Horrible. Cowards as well as criminals. This is apartheid.
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Imagine what these fascists do when there are no cameras. Or, you know, read the many accounts of torture from Palestinians that have been detained by the IOF.
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@ChelseaFC Imagine what an elite level manager could do with all this talent..
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@ChelseaFC Oh well. May as well play some of the academy lads in the remaining games. Suspects they’ll show more fight.
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Thoughts & prayers, guys..
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PR v Reality
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@johnredwood Why not? It’s a mystery
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@Maireadeen The normalisation of inhumanity
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Cowards as well as apartheid defenders
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We’re gonna rename the street at the Saudi Embassy today
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Amnesty’s secretary general discussing Israel’s system of apartheid on BBC Hard Talk.
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Israeli forces murdered Shireen Abu Akleh. They lied about the killing and spread disinformation. They attacked her funeral. Now they say maybe the killing was a mistake but ‘no one will be punished’. This is ‘justice’ in Israel’s apartheid regime.
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“The Genocide in Gaza is the most extreme stage of a long standing settler-colonial process of erasure of the native Palestinians” @FranceskAlbs just now in the Human Rights Council presenting her new report.
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@NikkiHaley I can think of several billion reasons why the US government thinks it should have a say..
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@GaryLineker Great message. Thanks for not backing down and for showing this real solidarity ✊🏽
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What SARS taught us about COVID-19 Here's a short message from a colleague in Hong Kong: "We need to stand up for our rights to healthcare and information, so that in future we are better prepared to protect people and save lives"
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Putin’s Russia supported Assad militarily & diplomatically as his regime tortured & executed Syrians on an industrial scale. The ‘civilised’ world still invested in Russia and still gave them a World Cup. Monsters feed on complicity & impunity. What did you think would happen?
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@ChelseaFC What you had. So foolish to let this winner go.
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Just look at that. This is a significant moment in the global campaign to end Israeli apartheid. States need to pick a side. Justice or injustice.
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A Russian withdrawal from parts of Ukraine? Hmmm please do all check how they played the ‘international community’ with these ‘withdrawal’ and ‘de-escalation’ games in Syria.
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We just renamed 30 streets around the Chinese Embassy in London
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@realDonaldTrump 30m were watching to see if you did a nazi salute or tripped down the stairs
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'Lone wolf' suggests these massacres happen in a vacuum - this helps remove responsibility from the enablers.
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“Israel has imposed upon Palestine an apartheid reality in a post-apartheid world.” This is a significant UN expert report which gives a major boost to the global #EndIsraeliApartheid campaign. Pick a side, people: Justice or injustice.
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UNICEF: In occupied Gaza, “since 7 October, there have been over 115 Palestinan children reported killed each day.” “Children account for 40% of the deaths, which is unprecedented”
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BIG NEWS - Anwar Raslan, a former colonel in Assad’s regime was just sentenced to life in prison for crimes against humanity. The Koblenz torture trial is the first of its kind worldwide. It won’t be the last. Our full reaction soon.
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“We don't want apartheid liberalized. We want it dismantled. You can't improve something that is intrinsically evil.” - Tutu
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@ChelseaFC Stop playing Kepa. The whole team is nervous when he plays.
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Historic - The UN General Assembly just voted to establish a new body that will work to reveal the fate of over 100,000 people missing or forcibly disappeared in #Syria . Yes - 83 No - 11 Abstained - 62 Massive respect to the Syrian human rights activists who led this work.
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Israeli Apartheid will be dismantled
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UN Gaza statement (as of 22:00 today): - 15 Palestinians killed - 1,416 injured by Israeli forces - 750 hit by live ammunition - 20 in a critical condition - Medical facilities in besieged Gaza struggling to cope
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Amhara security forces are responsible for a surge of mass detentions, killings and forced expulsions of ethnic Tigrayans in the Western Tigray territory of northern Ethiopia - new from Amnesty & HRW
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Even if the amount was £1, the UK should not be in any way complicit in Israeli mass atrocities. BTW, the UK provides around 15% of the components in the F-35 fighter jet currently pummeling Gaza’s civilians - this is not a ‘meaningless’ amount…
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South Africa's foreign minister calls out Israel’s colonialism, racism and apartheid practices against Palestinians. Contrast that to the cowardice and complicity of politicians in the US, UK, and EU.
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@ChelseaFC The points were lost when Potter made that negative substitution at 1-0. There was no need to take the pressure off Everton. Attack! #PotterOut
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@David_Cameron Instead of calling on the Israeli military to investigate itself, it would be wiser to call on the ICC prosecutor to speed up his investigations and issue arrest warrants.
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Keep talking, Itamar. Keep talking
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Here are some of the people supporting this nonsense
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Celtic fans were warned not to display Palestine flags by UEFA - that turned out well. Respect indeed....
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@Peston “there is unease among those close to Starmer about the phrase “the collective punishment of the Palestinian people”” It’s a shame the actual collective punishment of the Palestinian people (happening long before Oct 7) doesn’t seem to make him uneasy.
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Can’t make this up. Serial hospital bomber in Damascus condemns hospital bombing in Gaza.
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إن الجمهورية العربية السورية تعتبر أن ما أقدمت عليه قـ.ـوات الإجـ.ـرام الصـ.ـهيونية في عـ.ـدوانها على مستشفى المـ.ـعمداني بقطـ.ـاع غـ.ـزة يشكل واحدة من أبشع المـ.ـجازر ضد الانسانية في العصر الحديث، وأكثرها دمـ.ـويةً.
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@CFCPys @JacobSteinberg The owners must be flexible if they want an elite level manager - including on transfer policy.
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New Amnesty research on Israel’s May offensive on the occupied Gaza Strip. “The root cause of this unspeakable violence is Israel’s system of apartheid. This system must be dismantled”
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@DavidLammy @UKLabour Labour do not come out of this looking any better than the government- the cynical political games are extremely clear.
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Two weeks ago, Israeli authorities issued an order to demolish her family’s house, as part of an ongoing campaign to displace Bedouin communities, as part of Israel’s racist system of apartheid over Palestinians.
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Exclusive: These are the first pictures of Amina al-Hassouni, the seven-year-old Arab Bedouin girl who was left seriously wounded when an Iranian missile hit her home in southern Israel on Saturday night. Her father, Mohammed al-Hassouni, 49, told the @JewishChron : “She is in a…
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@ChelseaFC The result doesn’t mask the deficiencies. A better team would have beaten Chelsea. Potter needs to be replaced.
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@FabrizioRomano @AnfieldWatch Will be kinda funny if Chelsea don’t beat Fulham though!
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‘Self-defence’
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Instead of EU officials reflecting on von der Leyen’s offensive video, and using the backlash to challenge their colonialist mindsets, they’re doubling down saying the reaction is “unacceptable”. This is what liberal white supremacy looks like.
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@FabrizioRomano @NizaarKinsella Pep is smart. Keep your competitors weak.
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@ChelseaFC Dear @todd_boehly , this is what happens when you recruit a manager who has low expectations, no experience at an elite level, and what seems like limited tactical & strategic knowledge. There’s no shame in accepting the Potter experiment failed.
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@BarakRavid @axios Did they say which year though…?
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Assad meets the UN’s Refugee chief. How do the millions of displaced Syrians created by Assad’s regime feel about that smile..?
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@FrankKhalidUK He’ll be blaming Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and Covid next.
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After you watch the (very charming) John Lewis #bustertheboxer ad, watch this from @StopFundingHate .
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Dear defenders of Israel's racist system of apartheid 👇🏾 Your predictable outrage at our campaign to help end Israeli apartheid has zero impact on our human rights strategy. If you were cheering us on, I'd be worried - then we truly would have "lost our way"!
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‘There Are No Good Options In Syria,’ Sighs Man Who Has Devoted 12 Minutes Of Research To Topic
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Amnesty International: “Once again, Israeli security forces have shown the world what apartheid looks like”
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@ChelseaFC Can you substitute Potter?
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@ChelseaFC A relief. So much better. Kova and Kai showed why they’re big game players. But man, Potter’s substitutions really broke up our rhythm and composure. Anyway..loads to build on.
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A man who worked for the Syrian government has testified at the Al-Khatib trial in Germany. He described vast mass graves, and documents listing tens of thousands of corpses. Assad’s mass atrocities are slowly being revealed.
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@FrankKhalidUK @todd_boehly Hope you told him to end this ridiculous experiment with Potter and get a top quality manager in pronto
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UN human rights experts today called on the ICC prosecutor to investigate Israel for its “apparent extrajudicial killings” of three Palestinian men at the Ibn Sina hospital in Jenin.   Instead of arresting them, “Israel chose to murder them”.   They say “killing a defenceless…
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THIS IS APARTHEID Yes it is. @btselem speaking truth to power as Biden visits the region.
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Normalisation means ignoring or even justifying the Assad regimes crimes against humanity and ongoing impunity. It means accepting a massive attack on civilians, international law, and human rights - with ramifications far beyond Syria.
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@David_Cameron @netanyahu @Israel_katz Netanyahu said a few hours ago that he'll be ignoring you. Basically, 'arm us, use your veto to protect us from justice, and be quiet'.
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“I am not interested in picking up crumbs of compassion thrown from the table of someone who considers himself my master. I want the full menu of human rights” RIP Tutu
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“Israel’s laws, policies and practices regarding the Palestinian people fulfil the international legal definition of apartheid” - the Presbyterian Church. They are correct. #EndIsraeliApartheid
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“All the findings indicate the shots that killed Shireen Abu Akleh were fired by the Israeli military” - @btselem  investigation #JusticeForShireen
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@ChelseaFC @BenChilwell Good to see him getting back to full fitness. Him and Reece in top gear marauding down the wings are unstoppable.
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Amnesty UK on this Kim Johnson/Keir Starmer #apartheid issue.
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For more than a year and a half, a largely invisible campaign of ethnic cleansing has played out in Ethiopia’s northern region of Tigray.
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London - a statue of slave trader Robert Milligan has been removed today.
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I just watched the full speech by Fatima Mohammed. Easy to see why it's making defenders of apartheid, racism, and colonialism uncomfortable. That, in itself, is a good thing.
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Please read the full statement from the CUNY Board of Trustees and @ChancellorCUNY .
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@Ostrov_A You sound disappointed
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Ending Israeli apartheid with every bite of knafeh!
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@ChelseaFC What a mess. Defeat is inevitable when the opposition is given so much time and space.
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@FrankKhalidUK Chelsea could bring Messi, Mbappe, and Haaland and Potter would still turn them into Brighton reserve team players.
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Joint statement from @Amnesty & @hrw reacting to the outrageous news today that the Israeli government has designated six Palestinian human rights organizations as “terrorist organizations”.
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Love this photo. Absolutely fierce. #RepealTheEighth
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@guardian What’s worse? Genocide, apartheid and the climate catastrophe or protesting against genocide, apartheid, and the climate catastrophe. Our zombie government has an answer.
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@David_Cameron Hello….Take a look at current UK policy in Israel / Palestine. More arms for an increasingly aggressive and lawless Israel and more impunity only leads to more instability and escalation.
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