Salma Yaqoob
@SalmaYaqoob
Passionate about social justice. Proud NHS worker (Disclaimer: personal views, & RT=interesting, not endorsement)
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24-04-2009 13:49:26
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Devastating Fergal Keane piece on BBC News (UK) 10 just now, using an American medic’s footage from Gaza. Children nearly dead from starvation-gaunt, lifeless, cadaverous. Unimaginable suffering for innocents.
This makes extremely grim reading. The terms 'genocide' and 'ethnic cleansing' may conceivably be open to debate, but the term 'Occupied Territory' simply reflects the legal status of Gaza and the West Bank in International Law. The New York Times is siding with extremists like Ben Gvir &
Solidarity and love to Charlotte Church - of course she shouldn’t have to write this. But it’s a beautiful thing she has:
In the run up to #InternationalWomensDay I remember the vilification of the women protesting for their basic human rights. We now commemorate & celebrate those protestors. A century later the ruling party is still vilifying protestors - and history will again judge the protestors
He is right. A vicious ‘culture war’ scapegoating Muslims and taking away civil liberties is being unleashed by a failed govt which is supporting a genocidal war abroad.
I, alongside others, have had some political differences with George Galloway MP but the issue of genocide
Once again Peter Oborne nails it: UK politicians are whipping up an anti-Muslim panic. Where’s the evidence? middleeasteye.net/opinion/uk-cla…