Re-upping this thread today

Elizabeth Tsurkov, for me, is an example of a rare Jewish Israeli who decided to embrace the Middle East as her home, immersed itself in Arabic language and culture, struggled and put herself at risk for justice and liberty for people in Palestine, Syria and Iraq. She's a model of how things can be.

‎שיחה חשובה על הדרישות הקפדניות שממשלת ישראל משיתה על אירגוני סיוע בין לאומיים הפועלים בעזה ובגדה והשלכותיהן youtu.be/c-L-PLbRbdg?...

Regardless of whether Reform's deportation plan "works", if they get a chance to try it - like the Tories' Rwanda policy, or Trump's deportations - it will ostentatiously torment thousands of people and further engrain racism in British politics. It must be opposed on that basis.

At least 15 people killed, including 4 children, in the latest Russian missile and drone attack on Kyiv, says Ukraine Interior Ministry. And EU mission and British Council buildings were damaged. Biggest attack since Trump met Putin, and one of the deadliest attacks this year.

1/ Why are Trump and Putin talking ceasefire without Europeans? Some facts in thread: Despite the shifting frontlines, prolonging the war at terrible human cost, there has been little territorial gain by either side and fundamental realities have not budged. www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/eur...

This is a good companion piece to the Foreign Affairs article I shared yesterday, as it tries to provide a materialist analysis as to why the anti-Netanyahu alliance failed to become an anti-war one, and extended support for genocide. jacobin.com/2025/08/war-...

This piece, by @dahliasc.bsky.social, gives a very good and accurate overview of how right wing Israeli public opinion has become over the past decade, and why Netanyahu is not an outlier. These are my takeaways - and differences. 1/ www.foreignaffairs.com/israel/israe...

Dozens of journalists gathered in Damascus to protest Israel’s war and the killing of five Al Jazeera staff members in Gaza, on Monday August 11, 2025. 📸 Andalou Agency

David Chichkan, 39, artist, anarchist, anti-authoritarian activist, gravely wounded defending Ukraine on August 8, died on August 9, 2025. Pictures below from moving tributes to him on Instagram, where you can also see footage of him appearing in Oleksiy Radynski’s 2016 documentary film ‘Landslide’

I wrote this to explain how we reached this point, in the hope it would be a resource for people arguing with friends and family, people with questions, perhaps even people thinking of joining a protest. Do share with anyone who might find it useful. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Barely an hour ago, Palestinian journalist Anas Al-Sharif warned us all: “If this madness doesn’t end, Gaza will be reduced to ruins, its people’s voices silenced, their faces erased — and history will remember you as silent witnesses to a genocide you chose not to stop.” Israel just killed him.

Today in London, two liberal Jewish representatives were shouted down and removed from stage in a "March for the hostages" event as they expressed support for an end to the war - which is widely supported in Israel. The establishment is fully aligned with the Kahanist govt.

23 Palestinians were killed by aid packages dropped from the air, hundreds have been injured while *thousands* of aid trucks are waiting at crossing points prevented from entering Gaza by Israel.

The Palestine Action proscription is a signature Starmer move: overreach, double down, lose the debate

Fascinating post by Or Bassok @verfassungsblog.de verfassungsblog.de/fraenkel-isr...

"Every life - an entire world”: UK-Based Israelis staged Protest Outside Foreign Office in London yesterday to demand sanctions *Mi-neged activists raise 98 hand-made globes, one for every person Israel killed in Gaza in 24 hours* 1/

The Board of Deputies and various UK Jewish orgs have called a march this sunday, one which is really an anti-peace and anti-hostage demonstration. I felt compelled to write about it: josephfinlay.com/march-of-the...

"People don’t stop to think of the fact that every number was a human being ... Because surely, if they did, governments like ours would have done everything in their power to have stopped this war by now." Strong piece by @aloner.bsky.social www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/world/israel...

Our mi-neged protest at the UK Foreign Office yesterday

With the brilliant Tirza Leibowitz on the Bosnian Hayat TV, speaking about the Gaza genocide. We address the centrality of the destruction of the health system, as well as the issue of special intent. youtu.be/k8O2Oj51Lhg?...

There are more Christian Zionists in the US than there are Jews in the entire world, and polls consistently show that they hold, on average, more right-wing views on Israel-Palestine than do American Jews. But no one is spray-painting "Stop the genocide" on a megachurch in Omaha.

Once again I'm hearing (@newsagents.bsky.social podcast) that the UK took the symbolic act of recognising Palestine because "what else could it do". Well look at the UK sanctions on Russia following the Crimea invasion, you'd be surprised what the UK can do when it wants to do something.

Former Israeli ambassador to France, Professor Elie Barnavi, and historian @vincentlemaire.bsky.social write in Le Monde, following Macron's recognition of a Palestinian state. "Mr President, if immediate sanctions are not imposed on Israel, you will end up recognising a cemetery."

Following a huge UK-Jewish & Israeli led protest at FCDO, organised by @naamoduk.bsky.social & mi-neged, Israelis in London are keeping up the pressure on the UK gov't & asking for support at a creative act of protest against Israel's genocide this Thursday in London. Sign up: tinyurl.com/yc6tysh8

Following a huge UK-Jewish & Israeli led protest at FCDO, organised by @naamoduk.bsky.social & mi-neged, Israelis in London are keeping up the pressure on the UK gov't & asking for support at a creative act of protest against Israel's genocide this Thursday in London. Sign up: tinyurl.com/yc6tysh8

Israeli media reports that the cabinet is gearing up to instruct the IDF to occupy all parts of the Gaza Strip. The implications are a severe escalation of the carnage, starvation, and ethnic cleansing. UK+EU sanctions should preempt this catastrophe - not respond to it belatedly.

“This is not a genocide that can still be prevented…What remains is a long trajectory of harm…through illness too late to treat, collapsed public health & the absence of a generation of medical professionals.” Fundraise & spread awareness of the vital work of www.hanoon.org Insta: @fqmspalestine

The question of efficacy is - who has the most leverage over the Israeli government? The answer is - the military, the banks, the financial sector, investors, and key exporters of goods and services; 2/2

This is a very illuminating essay that compellingly situates Starmer in the post-war human rights regime. It’s almost as much about that latter topic as it is Starmer himself.

8/ With the destruction of an entire medical system and a generation of medical professionals, this genocide will continue to kill its victims for years to come, some of whom will be normal patients who will simply not be able to get the treatment they need.

6/ What remains is the urgent duty to terminate it—and to pursue both legal and political accountability for its commission.

5/ We thought hard about this question while drafting the final paragraphs. There, we echo the Genocide Convention’s own language, and confront the fact that the time to realize the duty to prevent this genocide has passed.

“In May 2024 activists in London unfurled a banner showing a giant dove carrying a key and flying through a breach in Israel’s apartheid wall. A police officer noticed that the dove was flying in what he described as ‘a clear blue sky with no clouds’…” 1/2

It's amazing to see that this fundraiser managed to raise £40k The link will remain active til Monday, as there are many essential things needed, & donations that come in will still go directly to the families who, by their very existence, are fighting against the ethnic cleansing of the West Bank.

My view, the most effective sanctions on Israel would be, in descending order: 1. Halting/downgrading military cooperation 2. Sanctions on banks (literally all are involved in settlements). 3. Trade sanctions 4. Cancelling the visa-free travel 5. Science and academic cooperation 1/

David Tartakover (1944-2025) This poster is from 2006

Kate Greenberg’s tribute to Awdah Hathaleen at our protest on Monday with Mi-neged. Awdah was murdered by a settler in the occupied West Bank on that same day.

The UK government has a responsibility to do everything in its power to stop the destruction, deliberate starvation and genocide of Gaza and its people.

Over 600 people turned up to yesterday’s Foreign Office protest led by Jews and Israelis from mi-neged and Na’amod to demand SANCTIONS NOW on Israel.

Estimated 700 in @naamoduk.bsky.social and mi-neged's demo today opposite the Foreign Office

SANCTIONS NOW!

Support @naamoduk.bsky.social and share our letter demanding the UK government impose: a full arms embargo on Israel; an end to military cooperation; and sanctions against individuals and organisations responsible for violations of international law. drive.google.com/file/d/1JzXc...

Join Mi-neged and more than 250 Israeli's living in the UK in demanding that Britain suspend its trade agreement with Israel as long as the Israeli government starves Gaza: actionnetwork.org/petitions/an...

SANCTIONS NOW! 📣📣

Na’amod, UK Jews against occupation and apartheid, have delivered a letter of demands to Lammy outlining the UK’s “legal obligation to stop providing material or political support for crimes against humanity” and calling on the government to “apply maximum pressure on Israel”.

Mi-neged, a newly formed group of UK-based Israelis, has just sent Keir Starmer and David Lammy a letter signed by over 200 Israeli citizens living in the UK. “Horrified, we watch Israel commit heinous crimes and we ask you, our representatives in the UK, to act.”

Both groups are demanding that the UK impose sanctions on Israel and on Israelis, suspend trade, stop all military coordination, and not give diplomatic immunity to Israelis who are suspected of war crimes.