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Radical author, a bit of an anarchist - preaching the stuff the mainstream dare not touch. Woke as an insomniac after ten cups of coffee. 🏴‍☠️🍉🌍 Get my books here: https://payhip.com/JossSheldon

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Joss Sheldon @josssheldon.bsky.social · Nov 14

"FREEDOM: The Case For Open Borders" is out now.

It's a manifesto of love & equality - making the historical, scientific, cultural, political, economic & philosophical cases for free movement...

· amazon.com/dp/B0CSX554Y4
· audible.com/pd/Freedom-A...
· www.barnesandnoble.com/w/freedom-jo...

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Joss Sheldon @josssheldon.bsky.social · 16h

If a bunch of foreigners came to Britain, and said - "We want to colonise all of Britain, but we'll compromise and accept England. The English can go and live in Scotland and Wales" - do you think Brits would accept that?

Of course they wouldn't!

So why should the Palestinians?

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Joss Sheldon @josssheldon.bsky.social · 3d

Come on UEFA!
Finish the job.
You know what you gotta do...

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Joss Sheldon @josssheldon.bsky.social · 7d

SOURCES:

The claim that no children were released, was made by Human Rights Watch, on Novara Media:
youtu.be/FHTSm6--YW8?...

This report, by Defence For Children International, details the torture of Palestinian children in Israeli hostage facilities:
www.dci-palestine.org/palestinian_...

Palestinian child prisoners: The systematic and institutionalised ill-treatment and torture of Palestinian children by Israeli authorities

www.dci-palestine.org

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Joss Sheldon @josssheldon.bsky.social · 7d

Israel hasn't released any of the child hostages its kidnapped.

Israel still holds 300+ Palestinian children.

Some of the children have been tortured – subjected to violent shaking, blasts of freezing air, and deafening music.

This is evil.

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Joss Sheldon @josssheldon.bsky.social · 10d

You cannot have peace without justice.

The victims of injustice, will always fight for their rights. This is natural.

To secure peace, therefore, we must give the Palestinians their justice.

The refugees must be allowed to return home.

The apartheid system must be dismantled.

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Joss Sheldon @josssheldon.bsky.social · 14d

Two-years ago today, on the 7th October 2023, the IDF invoked the Hannibal Directive: It conducted a wave of murderous attacks, which claimed the lives of scores of Israeli Jews.

The IDF is a terrorist organisation.

It ought to be proscribed.

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Joss Sheldon @josssheldon.bsky.social · 14d

It's worth remembering that the First Intifada was wholly non-violent.

The Great March of Return was non-violent.

The violence we witnessed on October 7th was inevitable, because non-violent protests such as these (and others) were ignored.

They've been ignored since 1948.

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Joss Sheldon @josssheldon.bsky.social · 14d

On the 2-year anniversary of the October Uprising, let's remember:

1) This didn't start in 2023. Zionist colonialism began with the First Aliyah in 1881.

2) Zionists knew the locals would resist their occupation.

3) The continued that occupation, KNOWING JEWS WOULD BE KILLED!

Joss Sheldon @josssheldon.bsky.social · 16d

The actions of Israel, provoke antisemitism around the world. That leads to attacks, like the one we saw in Manchester on Yom Kippur.

The solution is simple: Get out on the streets, and protests against the Zionist State.

No Jew is safe, while Israel still exists.

Joss Sheldon @josssheldon.bsky.social · 16d

I'm Jewish

So I'm apalled by the senseless murders of two Jews in Manchester

But I'm equally apalled, each time I hear that two people have been senselessly murdered in Gaza, Ukraine, or anywhere else

Why should I feel any different?

We're all members of the same human family

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Joss Sheldon @josssheldon.bsky.social · 17d

If Hamas are being asked to disarm, then the IDF should be asked to disarm as well.

The IDF has more weapons and more militants. It kills more people, kidnaps more people, and destroys more property.

Israel is a terror state.

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Joss Sheldon @josssheldon.bsky.social · 17d

The terrorist attacks on Jews at a Manchester synagogue were a disgrace.

The terrorist kidnappings by the IDF in international waters were a disgrace.

The murder of 10,000s in Gaza is a disgrace.

We should speak out and protest against all three.

Anything else is hypoocrisy.

Joss Sheldon @josssheldon.bsky.social · 18d

The IOF are staging a terrorist attack on the Sumud Flotilla - using violence and the threat of violence to take even more hostages.

Our thoughts and prayers are with the victims.

#BringThemHomeNow

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Joss Sheldon @josssheldon.bsky.social · 19d

If Israel only deployed its military in self-defence, as it claims while bombing Gaza, then it'd never go after the likes of the Sumud Flotilla - which poses absolutely no physical threat.

The fact Israel WOULD attack the flotilla, shows this has never been about "self-defence".

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Joss Sheldon @josssheldon.bsky.social · 20d

If you're not ANTIFA, you're PROFA.

You either oppose fascism or you support it.

There's no sitting this one out.

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Joss Sheldon @josssheldon.bsky.social · 20d

First, they came for the foreigners. And I didn't speak up, 'cos I was a xenophobe.

Then, they came for the Muslims. And I didn't speak up, 'cos I was an Islamphobe.

Then, they came for the Transgender folk. And I didn't speak up, 'cos I was a Transphobe.

Then they came for me.

Joss Sheldon @josssheldon.bsky.social · 20d

We've had 46 years of right-wing rule.

Economic conditions have gotten worse and worse, throughout that period.

And some people are like: "I know, we can fix this by moving EVEN FURTHER to the right".

Are they inasane?

Joss Sheldon @josssheldon.bsky.social · 23d

Hostage swap NOW!
#BringThemHome

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Joss Sheldon @josssheldon.bsky.social · 25d

I'm a British Jew, and I say that Starmer's recogintion of Palestine is not enough. We need to derecognise "Israel", close its British embassy, impose an arms embargo, support the Palestinians' right of return, and offer citizenships to Jews who wish to leave Israel.

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Joss Sheldon @josssheldon.bsky.social · Sep 20

"Bloody foreigners, coming here and taking our jobs. And they just sit around on welfare, without even working, the scabs!"
#SocialistSunday

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Joss Sheldon @josssheldon.bsky.social · Sep 20

A foreign rapist is being housed in Britain, at the taxpayer's expense.

We should deport him right away!

(His name, by the way, is Donald Trump).

Joss Sheldon @josssheldon.bsky.social · Sep 19

Muslim Catch 22...

If they DON'T engage in British politics, it's because they cannot assimilate - they're too different and should be expelled.

If they DO engage in British politics, it's because they want to take over - they're a threat and should be expelled.

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Joss Sheldon @josssheldon.bsky.social · Sep 16

You have to be capable of some extreme mental gymnastics, to attend a "Unite The Nation" march, and then call for immigrants to be divided from non-immigrants, Christians to be divided from non-Christians, and so-called "illegals" to be divided from everyone else. Bonkers!

Joss Sheldon @josssheldon.bsky.social · Sep 16

Unfortunately, our MPs have stakes in the current system: They're shareholders & landlords. They're funded by corporate donations, backed by the corporate media, and have 2nd jobs in the corporate sector.

They won't allow economic change.

And so they'll enable fascism instead.

Joss Sheldon @josssheldon.bsky.social · Sep 16

A speaker at the "Unite The Kingdom" hate-march called for Britain to be turned back into a Christian nation.

Someone should've told him that Christianity is a Palestinian religion, which was imposed on Britain by Romans.

Paganism is Britain's indiginous religion.