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Sika @sikadm.bsky.social · Nov 20

“Rape culture is a society that condones male aggression both emotionally and physically towards women. It’s a society that has made sexual remarks, sexual touching, to rape itself, a norm for all members of the community & inflicts fear into the hearts of all women everywhere they may go.” #r4today

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Sika @sikadm.bsky.social · 17h

Another day, another Gaza story - and once again, Emma Barnett performs her familiar routine: read the headline, avoid the substance.

She read out the headline, but that’s as close as she’ll ever get to acknowledging that Israel’s genocidal regime is starving Gazans to death.

#r4today

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Sika @sikadm.bsky.social · 17h

“From the trauma of Israel’s murdered and kidnapped to the destruction in Gaza where families and neighbours have been lost.”

The Rabbi’s ‘Thought for the Day’ reveals whose deaths are grievable and believable and whose are inconvenient fictions to be parsed, questioned and qualified.

#r4today

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 1d

tfw your 1,000-word tweets aren't working

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Sika @sikadm.bsky.social · 1d

“President Trump has said that if Hamas doesn’t disarm in line with the Gaza ceasefire deal, they’ll be disarmed quickly - and perhaps violently.”

You know the moment in gangster films when the criminal enterprise tries to go legit? That’s basically the US-backed ‘peace plan’ in action.

#r4today

Sika @sikadm.bsky.social · 1d

Has Emma Barnett been quietly banned from interviewing Palestinians or did she just excuse herself from that tiresome chore?

Hard to recall the last time she spoke to one. Maybe #r4today editors finally accepted that her lack of empathy for Gazans was just too hard to mask.

Sika @sikadm.bsky.social · 1d

Interesting how #r4today devotes more airtime to Hamas executing rivals than it ever did to Israel shooting children in the head & using them for target practice over the past two years.

The IOF’s ability to inflict violence w/ impunity never seems to bother Western journalists.

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Sika @sikadm.bsky.social · 1d

According to Justin Webb, after two years of relentless bombing, lack of security in Gaza is no longer the IOF’s fault - it’s the Palestinians’ fault now.

#r4today’s resident hasbara representative never skips a beat.

One can only imagine the riveting chats he has with his bestie Jeremy Bowen.

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onion person @junlper.beer · 3d

watching the UKs green party elect an actual unafraid leftist into leadership and see party membership double in under a month is once again endless proof that if you stand up for leftist causes and treat the electorate like adults, you’ll win people over easily

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Sika @sikadm.bsky.social · 2d

Come on, Nick. Shamima Begum was 15 - a child - when she was groomed and trafficked by Daesh.

The British government effectively washed its hands of a minor it had a duty to protect. And we’re supposed to believe her race played no role in that decision?

That dog won’t hunt. #r4today

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Sika @sikadm.bsky.social · 2d

Really wish Emma Barnett was presenting today. Then again, it’s hard to imagine her conducting that interview with Mishal Husain.

She couldn’t even be bothered to turn up for Mishal’s final day on #r4today.

Where art thou, Emma? Oh wait - no one’s really asking.

*chuckles derisively*

Sika @sikadm.bsky.social · 2d

No textbook for dealing with the abduction of Israelis? Maybe the good doctor should speak to the families of Palestinians abducted by the IOF.

#r4today

Sika @sikadm.bsky.social · 3d

The BBC World Service touched on this briefly, and #r4today alluded to it earlier.

So while Trump loyalists hand out red MAGA hats in Tel Aviv, remember: Trump has repeatedly claimed he has the power to stop Israel from doing things he opposes.

What does that tell us about the Gaza genocide?

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Sika @sikadm.bsky.social · 3d

#r4today The US political class possess an astonishing lack of self-awareness. The idea that Trump deserves the Nobel Peace Prize is absurd - he brokered a ceasefire only when it suited his political interests and benefited a genocidal regime, despite having ample leverage to intervene much earlier.

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Sika @sikadm.bsky.social · 3d

“Tony Blair has got a long experience in the region” - yes, a long experience of destroying countries in it.

The idea that his track record in MENA countries qualifies him to rebuild one is coloniser logic at its finest.

“Peace is the white man’s word. Liberation is ours.” #r4today

Sika @sikadm.bsky.social · 3d

The Minister for the Middle East & North Africa is hurried off #r4today to make room for coverage of Trump’s photo opportunity in Tel Aviv.

Clearly it’s an important day - just not important enough for anything a British minister has to say to matter more than Trump’s latest soundbite.

Sika @sikadm.bsky.social · 3d

#r4today has a lot to say about Jared Kushner - just not the part where Netanyahu is a close family friend who used to sleep in Jared’s New Jersey bedroom during visits.

Oh, and their “key Middle East negotiator” openly refers to Palestinians as barbarians.

Nice touch of diplomacy, that.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 5d

Jared Kushner in Tel Aviv: "Instead of replicating the barbarism of the enemy, you chose to be exceptional, you chose to stand for the values that you stand for, and I couldn't be prouder to be a friend of Israel."

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Sika @sikadm.bsky.social · 3d

Anna Foster can’t seem to stop gushing about the Israeli flag - at this point, I wouldn’t be surprised if she was waving one while reporting live from Tel Aviv.

#r4today

Sika @sikadm.bsky.social · 6d

“France has an incredibly generous welfare state.”

Of course a British journalist wld say that - she’s used to a political culture where both major parties think a strong economy isn’t possible w/o robbing the poor of their dignity.

The French welfare system is humane, not “generous”.

#r4today

Sika @sikadm.bsky.social · 6d

Why didn’t Nick Robinson challenge Yvette “let me be clear” Cooper on this?

She falsely claimed that the intelligence services backed the proscription of Palestine Action. That wasn’t true - so why isn’t the Home Secretary being held accountable for lying to the public?

#r4today

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Sika @sikadm.bsky.social · 7d

Nick to the father of a hostage:

“You’re in a rage with your leader. I’m struck by how political you’re being this morning - but your thoughts are clearly with your son.”

The personal is always political. Especially when a corrupt government puts its agenda above the life of your child. #r4today

Sika @sikadm.bsky.social · 7d

Haskell is deeply worried abt Hamas members rejoining society - no concern, though, abt IOF soldiers returning back to Western countries after two years of conducting a campaign of mass extermination & turning Gaza into a blood-soaked graveyard.

Funny how that’s never the worry, isn’t it? #r4today

Sika @sikadm.bsky.social · 7d

Your job isn’t to “understand” Sharon Haskell’s position, Amol. Your job is to INTERROGATE it. Stop stenographing Israeli government propaganda.

If you believe whatever the Israelis tell you, you're not a journalist, just a hasbara volunteer.

Do your effing job. #r4today

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Sika @sikadm.bsky.social · 7d

“We are told that the essay was the princess taking the lead, with some help from a Harvard professor.”

LOL. And #r4today expects us to believe everything we’re spoon-fed about the royals. Did Catherine take the lead on this essay the same way she ‘took the lead’ on her wedding makeup?

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Dan Sohege @danielsohege.bsky.social · 8d

In the current climate of far right hostility, Jenrick is actively inciting violence against these judges with this. Badenoch may have defended his explicit racism yesterday, but this alone should see him lose both his position as shadow justice secretary and the whip immediately.

#r4today

Robert Jenrick names judges he would sack for ‘pro-migrant bias'

The shadow justice secretary has accused 'activists' within the judiciary of having links to political causes that compromise their independence

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Jane G @janeger.bsky.social · 9d

For the benefit of Starmer, Barnett and all the other pro-genocide voices. Isaeli violence in Palestine has been on going for over 70 years. It did not start on the 7 October 2023.
#r4today

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