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Emissary Of Night | ليلى @diplomatofnight.com · 4h

The thing that I see pro-Israel commentators struggle with the most of all is that anti-Israel sentiment is just not going to recede. The reason for this is really simple but it's one that they can't even comprehend because they don't see it this way: the Palestinian question isn't resolved.

Emissary Of Night | ليلى @diplomatofnight.com · 4h

It is not clear to me what exactly would be permissive to say about Israel's regime of control over Palestinians if one can't even assess what they saw with their own eyes on a personal visit to the very site of the situation.

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DavidMcKenna @davidmckenna.bsky.social · 3h

Oh man, very sad indeed. Just three albums but an unimpeachable run, and 'Black Messiah' is surely one of the greatest comeback albums of all

Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 3h

D'Angelo has died after a battle with pancreatic cancer, his former manager says. He was 51

D'Angelo Dead at 51

Grammy-winning R&B soul singer D'Angelo is dead from pancreatic cancer ... TMZ has learned.

www.tmz.com

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DavidMcKenna @davidmckenna.bsky.social · 4h

ha yes exactly

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DavidMcKenna @davidmckenna.bsky.social · 5h

Should be noted that the loan for my entire time at uni would just about cover fees & accommodation for a single year now

DavidMcKenna @davidmckenna.bsky.social · 5h

Love it, beating the system by *checks notes* ah...

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DavidMcKenna @davidmckenna.bsky.social · 5h

It's official, I'm now too old and have at no point in my life earned enough to have to start paying back my student loan! Yesss!

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Robert Wilfort @robertwilfort.bsky.social · 6h

In the dying days of my Labour membership I witnessed on a video call a Jewish member trying to raise points that anti-Semitism was being weaponised and Corbyn scapegoated only to be shouted down by Labour right members and muted from the chat.

DavidMcKenna @davidmckenna.bsky.social · 9h

Re: the Labour shenanigans detailed in The Fraud. "Gordstein", it should be noted, was not a real person but an invention of Euan Philipps of Labour Against Antisemitism, who is not Jewish but made complaints under what he obviously considered to be a 'Jewish-sounding' name

Stefan Mohamed @stefmowords.bsky.social · 9h

particularly callous and inhumane detail here. these people never gave a fuck about Jews

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DavidMcKenna @davidmckenna.bsky.social · 8h

As others have pointed out, he must have gone full JK Rowling originally with 'Goldstein' and then decided it was a bit too on the nose

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DavidMcKenna @davidmckenna.bsky.social · 8h

just unbelievable stuff

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DavidMcKenna @davidmckenna.bsky.social · 9h

Re: the Labour shenanigans detailed in The Fraud. "Gordstein", it should be noted, was not a real person but an invention of Euan Philipps of Labour Against Antisemitism, who is not Jewish but made complaints under what he obviously considered to be a 'Jewish-sounding' name

Stefan Mohamed @stefmowords.bsky.social · 9h

particularly callous and inhumane detail here. these people never gave a fuck about Jews

"In September 2020 “Gordstein” was one of three complainants against Riva Joffe, an 80-year-old Jewish veteran of the anti-Apartheid struggle in South Africa.

Her sin was to have described Israel as an Apartheid state (a view shared by Amnesty, Human Rights Watch and the Israeli human rights organisation B’tselem) and to have urged Jeremy Corbyn to stand up to the “Zionist lobby.”

The Labour Party opened a formal investigation and Joffe spent the closing days of her life penning an immensely dignified response from her death bed. “This frenzy of purging you are driven to – it’s not the behaviour of mature adults. It smacks of desperation, fear and panic,” she wrote.

Joffe lived in Starmer’s constituency and knew him personally. But a direct request on behalf of her son that the charges against her be posthumously dropped did not even elicit a response."

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DavidMcKenna @davidmckenna.bsky.social · 9h

Have been sorting out my vinyl, here are some Italian things

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DavidMcKenna @davidmckenna.bsky.social · 10h

Tonight's Rockfort on @resonancefm.bsky.social at 19.30 (BST) features Brigitte Fontaine (pictured), Bloody$anji & Idée Noire, KCIDY, Al Les Axes, Ino Casablanca & LinLin, Toc & Jean-Luc Guionnet and Laurent Paris www.resonancefm.com

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David Willoughby @davidwilloughby.bsky.social · 1d

Peace in Gaza represents an opportunity to forget; to erase from collective consciousness an era in which western countries took a bludgeon to international norms & institutions & indeed their own domestic politics in order to force through the destruction of Gaza www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

While the perpetrators of Gaza’s genocide pose as its saviours, survivors return home – to a wasteland | Nesrine Malik

Western leaders attending the Sharm el-Sheikh summit have enabled and sponsored this slaughter. They are in no position to build a Palestinian future, says Guardian columnist Nesrine Malik

www.theguardian.com

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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 1d

"The book is absolutely chock full of pretty scandalous revelations"

Paul Holden on #politicslive talking about his new book 'The Fraud'

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+972 Magazine @972mag.com · 6d

An analysis of dozens of 3D animations published by the Israeli army discovered digital assets sourced not from classified intelligence but rather from commercial libraries and content creators as far afield as Scotland and Port Orchard.

www.972mag.com/israeli-army...

@mekomit.bsky.social

How a Scottish maritime museum ended up in Israel’s 3D propaganda

An analysis of dozens of Israeli army animations discovered digital assets sourced not from classified intelligence but commercial libraries and content creators.

www.972mag.com

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DavidMcKenna @davidmckenna.bsky.social · 3d

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DavidMcKenna @davidmckenna.bsky.social · 3d

Enjoyed One Battle After Another but it could have done with more inflatable frogs

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 4d

It’s worth bearing in mind that to the libs, “defenders of democracy” can mean anything from “Barack Obama” to “Islamist militia we have armed to the teeth” or “death squad carrying out a genocide”, and that in practice, these warm approving terms tend to mean “cooperative with America”.

Shawn's Socialist Slipstreaming（宇祥）- he/him/他/dia @shawnybantzy.bsky.social · 4d

Apparently our newest Nobel Peace Prize winner wrote to fucking Netanyahu for help in overthrowing the government of her own country dawg

The population of Venezuela needs international protection against the widespread and systematic attack to which the Venezuelan regime subjects it. This is demonstrated by the report dated May 29, 2018, submitted by the Organisation of American States to the International Criminal Court. This has served as the basis for nine states, including Argentina, to file complaints against the regime before that international body. We deeply appreciate this effort, which is decisive for the outcome of the Venezuelan tragedy.

I am convinced that the international community, in accordance with the responsibility to protect doctrine, is called upon to provide Venezuelans with the necessary support to bring about the regime change that is urgently needed to restore national and international security. Therefore, I have recently sent letters to several of the world’s leading figures to promote before the United Nations Security Council the adoption of effective protection measures for Venezuela by fostering regime change, a step that necessarily entails strengthening international security. Today I want to ask Israel and Argentina to contribute their expertise and influence to advance a sound and urgent decision-making process in the Security Council.

Such measures are imperative in the face of a hemispheric security hotspot like the one currently posed by the regime oppressing Venezuela. The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees and the International Organisation for Migration have certified that the current refugee crisis of people fleeing Venezuela is the largest in the history of the Americas. Argentina is an example of this crisis, having welcomed hundreds of thousands of our compatriots—a gesture for which Venezuelans will always be grateful. However, we must be aware that without a change of regime in our country, hemispheric and global security will be at risk.

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DavidMcKenna @davidmckenna.bsky.social · 4d

"We all stand together"

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Spooky Scary Lorna @florilegia.bsky.social · 4d

Three cheers for the inflatable frog!

Headline from the (extremely right wing) Daily Telegraph: "Unmasked: Inflatable frog tormenting ICE is non-binary ‘Antifa terrorist’"

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LiLBazula 👻 @lilbazza.bsky.social · 4d

Fucking hell this is good. Can't remember a British politician ever speaking like this on a mainstream news & current affairs programme. Or anywhere, for that matter

The Daily Politik @dailypolitik.bsky.social · 4d

Zack Polanski used the ‘F’ word twice on BBCQT last night… and the audience applauded him for it 👇

"You actually are a fascist from a far right party… this is racism, this is facism and we should call it out"

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DavidMcKenna @davidmckenna.bsky.social · 4d

Also bangs www.youtube.com/watch?v=vfUF...

EXTAZ

YouTube video by Ino Casablanca - Topic

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DavidMcKenna @davidmckenna.bsky.social · 4d

This is joyous from Franco-Moroccan rapper Ino Casablanca www.youtube.com/watch?v=ruR2...

INO CASABLANCA - DIMA RAVE

YouTube video by Ino Casablanca

www.youtube.com

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DavidMcKenna @davidmckenna.bsky.social · 4d

Filthy EP from BLOODY$ANJI & Idée Noire www.youtube.com/watch?v=FuvY...

DEAFCOAST

YouTube video by BLOODY$aNJI - Topic

www.youtube.com

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DavidMcKenna @davidmckenna.bsky.social · 4d

#nowplaying La Tène 'Moreïne / Déclives', the last album from the shapeshifting group to feature Alexis Degrenier. Here they're an all-Swiss trio, there's no hurdy-gurdy but more electronics and the percussion hits hard lateneband.bandcamp.com/album/more-n...

Moreïne / Déclives, by La Tène

2 track album

lateneband.bandcamp.com

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