A thing of beauty is a joy forever, and a robot is for kicking you in the balls.

Completely correct; O'Callaghan has in reality achieved the square root of fuck all but he's done a lot of anti-migrant rhetoric and inside baseball bullshit so that'll do I guess? Also, "no obvious winners"? Catherine Connolly???

One year ago, Israeli forces detained Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya after violently shutting down Kamal Adwan Hospital in Gaza. He remains imprisoned today. A few weeks before his detention, he told +972, “I will stay inside my hospital until the last moment.” www.972mag.com/kamal-adwan-...

After two years of war, and months after the October ceasefire, Christian Palestinians in Gaza marked Christmas while mourning loved ones killed, homes destroyed, and churches bombed. Videos provided by Ruwaida Amer.

The arrest of Greta Thunberg for peacefully opposing genocide and supporting those on hunger strike is wrongful and disturbing. This is yet another shocking example of the UK’s broad terrorism laws being used to target those exercising their right to freedom of expression and assembly rights.

From Eamonn McCann in Hot Press, October 1987. Still the best explanation for how hard it is to write history about real people's lives; everyone has shit going on.

My absolute favourite Christmas image. Happy Christmas everyone and God bless.

Socialist Worker meets the Irish Democrat, London c.1975. Another scene features erudite discussion on the relative merits of Johan Cruyff and Georgie Best. Would love to see this film www.youtube.com/watch?v=b05b...

I'd like to point out that palestinians are having this debate. Something youre apparently not allowed to say in pro palestine spaces in the US 🙄 youtu.be/gbG2HxwLHgk?...

For Spectre I did a deep dive into the way that fascist figures like Richard Spencer, Nick Fuentes, and many others have rebranded to maintain relevance as the GOP moves further into their ideological terrain. It involves religiosity, liberal signaling, and more. spectrejournal.com/varieties-of...

Left: Greta Thunberg arrested for holding a placard in London Right: Labour's Baron Hain, "This gov is treating Palestine action as equivalent to ISIS or al-Qaeda, which is intellectually bankrupt, politically unprincipled and morally wrong. I'm deeply ashamed"

He was the best of us. #ManiForever

The lack of coverage is disturbing

Early this morning, Israeli forces demolished a residential building in the Wadi Qaddum neighborhood of Ras al-Amud, in Silwan in East Jerusalem. The building contained 13 apartments and was home to around 100 Palestinian residents, according to local Palestinian media.  (1/3)

I spoke with @benlorber8.bsky.social on antisemitism, the antizionist right wing, and how we can understand this moment. www.iheart.com/podcast/105-...

When leading Palestine solidarity 'influencers' see nothing wrong with hosting Nick Griffin I'm inclined to think we are back to this academic.oup.com/ahr/article-...

I love this letter from a reader on why “we’re not doing presents this year!” is often a miserable, middle class pursuit. www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

In the last two years, Yuval Abraham @972mag.com brought groundbreaking investigative reporting on war crimes in Gaza. This podcast gives a glimpse into the work behind it - and why you should support it. www.972mag.com/podcast-unco...

I would say that it points to Israel's plan to replicate in the West Bank what it did in Gaza. NYT on Israel's ethnic cleansing of the West Bank. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Joyous, defiant & full of sense of the times: here's my end of year op-ed about the amazing CMAT www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Is there any old man who didn’t associate with Jeffrey Epstein

B'Tselem reports 90% of Gazans lost their homes since October 2023, with the average resident displaced six times. Israel often gave people minutes' notice before evacuation, forcing families into tents, shelters, and dangerous conditions amid bombing. www.haaretz.com/gaza/2025-12...

Since we are again having this discussion, and now in the UK with draconic legal powers: my thread on Intifada and "globalise the Intifada"

Kentucky Frighting Championship

Noam Chomsky has spent about 60 years telling us that billionaires control the world through corporate propaganda.

UK: My warning as the new head of Unison: never again will we prop up politicians hostile to unions www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

#Sudan: El Fasher fell to the Rapid Support Forces on Oct. 26 after months of siege. Noor, Mawahib, Mohammed and Nasr, now refugees in #Chad, share the story of their city's destruction. Watch our documentary, #Sudan: El Fasher under siege: https://youtu.be/-nVGeUHQH3g

A great dissection of the common anti-imperial leftist tropes like 'imperialism is only when sea' and 'if Russia does colonialism, then those people deserved it'.

Neo-liberal, management driven DEI or "decolonisation" was always a vapid exercise which - in the environment and economy of the 2010-20s - was quite likely to trigger or excuse a severe political backlash.

Doing more for real solidarity than all the internet exhibitionists who think being rude online to people they've never met makes them part of the 'resistance'

“… it doesn’t always look like we’re “winning”, the habit of resistance – as opposed to the habit of compliance – is something we instil in each other through trust, care and solidarity. And it’s that habit which reminds us that we always have choices, we always have our imaginations.”

Standing Together is celebrating its 10th anniversary after a period of rapid expansion. But as it grows, so do questions about its political stances, its electoral ambitions, and the limits of binational organizing. Samah Watad reports. www.972mag.com/standing-tog...

Superb by @gabyhinsliff.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Trump, Farage, Putin, Netanyahu, followers, rage bate media, all shaking, shaking the jar, making you angry and upset #peace #war #culturewars #media don’t be manipulated. Try to fight injustice and inequality, in acts as small and as big as you can manage, always inspired by love not hate.

"The massacre might have put some things in perspective, suggesting that the biggest problem facing Jews is not “globalize the intifada” — a slogan neither especially popular, nor described as a call for violence by many of its proponents — but rather murderous violence by antisemitic zealots."

We are deeply concerned for the health of Qesser Zuhrah, who has been on hunger strike for 46 days. We join those calling on the government to act now, and address the serious concerns raised by lawyers acting for the prisoners.

An infant froze to death in Gaza last night, starved and cold.

Letter now republished by #LeftRenewal leftrenewal.org/statements-e... and @ukfost.bsky.social ukfost.co.uk/holocaust-st... Cc @edgyjewishthinking.bsky.social @duhaut.bsky.social @evafrojmovic0.bsky.social @guesnet.bsky.social @clairelefoll.bsky.social @brendanmcgeever.bsky.social

Ben @bengidley.bsky.social and I have put together this open letter urging Holocaust Memorial Day Trust to rehire Melanie Goldberg. We are proud to have a number of eminent scholars of Holocaust and Jewish studies in the UK as the primary signatories. docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Infant Saeed Abdeen, only one month old, died this morning in Al-Mawasi, Khan Yunis, Gaza, due to hypothermia. The fourth child in just over a week to die after freezing in a displacement tent camp.