This is why we were marching today because we can’t stand by when we see scenes like this. We march for a ceasefire that would bring an end to the suffering on all sides, an end to the killing, the release of hostages, the lifting of the blockade and the start of a peace process. https://t.co/X8TyGDAbEk
Reports conflict but it seems three babies have died so far, with a further 36 in danger.
Israel has claimed that Hamas terrorists have an underground tunnel network beneath the Gaza strip, and recently that their headquarters are beneath al-Shifa hospital.
But there is absolutely no verifiable evidence to prove this. Until any such evidence appears, we must consider this an excuse, made in order to justify military action against a hospital, which would otherwise be – very clearly – a serious war crime.
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Words should not be necessary: this image of a grieving Palestinian mother is not following the massacre of October 7 but used for illustrative purposes. Any images following the actual events are likely to be too disturbing for publication.
The figures come from Save the Children:
To all those that keep constantly repeating the line that a country has the right to defend itself but must abide by international law, is the killing of 3,195 children the adherence to international law? https://t.co/d9qEPPepZN
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Here are the names of the murdered – yes, murdered – children, as gathered by a Jewish organisation. The list was of those known to have been killed by last Thursday (October 26). I await claims that the Gaza Ministry of Health is lying – probably from people who say every word that comes out of Tel Aviv is God’s truth:
This is what genocide looks like. These are the 2913 Palestinian children killed by the Israeli military this month, as of Thursday, October 26. As the Israeli airstrikes on Gaza intensify, we recognize with horror and grief that this death toll is already inaccurate.
The U.S. is also responsible for the horror in Gaza. 80% of the bombs that the Israeli military drops on Gaza, that are used to kill these children, are American-made. We are called on to do everything we can to stop this genocide.
Here’s a response to the deaths, by a doctor who was himself a child refugee:
I saw images of body parts of little children blown up in Gaza. I started sobbing. They took me straight to the times in Afghanistan conflict when our (and other people's) loved ones would be returned in bags but only their body parts.
Oh… and you know that line about Hamas taking more than 230 people hostage?
What about the 1,200 that Israel has taken from the West Bank since October 7?
More than 90 people have been killed, mostly in altercations with the IDF, and 1,200 Palestinians have been arrested by Israeli forces in the West Bank since the conflict broke out, according to Palestinian data.
In numbers alone, Israel has caused far more suffering to Palestine than the Palestinians have to Israel. When you hear the propaganda that is pushed on the mainstream media, just ask yourself: who are the victims here?
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Children have the right to a clean, healthy and sustainable environment, and governments must urgently act to ensure this, the United Nations says.
In a new report, the UN Child Rights Committee says that climate change is affecting children’s rights to life, survival and development.
It says young children are among the most vulnerable, yet their voices are rarely heard in climate change debates.
Tuesday’s report outlines new guidance for governments to follow.
Drawn up with the help of young people, it includes phasing out fossil fuels and switching to renewable energy.
UN countries will also be required to take measures to protect children from the harmful effects of climate change, such as monitoring air quality, regulating food safety and tackling emissions and toxic lead exposure.
Countries should also address the “clear emerging link” between climate change and children’s mental health, identifying eco-anxiety and depression as conditions that are on the rise.
And the UN says that young people must be included when drawing up new guidance.
None of this will happen in the UK, of course. Remember what happened when a UN rapporteur found that the government of this nation institutionally discriminates against disabled people? (Hint: nothing came of it apart from a stream of abuse directed at the rapporteur concerned, from the UK government.)
Meanwhile, what’s going on here in the UK?
"The Kent area also suffers from nutrient enrichment of coastal waters due to sewage discharge…
In 2023, between Herne Bay and Whistable alone, Southern Water has already released sewage into the ocean at least 374 times via storm overflows." https://t.co/ZT0EAqsSFh
And let’s be fair: attempts to improve the environment have been aimed in the wrong direction – at people who have little choice about whether to use polluting systems, rather than the 100 or so corporations that cause 70 per cent of the pollution in the world:
Exxon Mobil lobbyists threw their weight behind a carbon tax because they knew it would turn people against ‘the green agenda’ – and they were right.
Taxing people for moving without offering alternatives just helps big oil.
We can see which way the smog is blowing, can’t we?
The UN can tell every country in the world what needs to be done, and governments will tell private citizens that they need to clean up all the pollution, while allowing the culprit corporations to continue stinking up the land, waterways and skies – and possibly taking donations from those big businesses while doing so.
Tough luck, kids. Reach into your pockets or your wallets and take out some paper money, if you have it. Take a good look at it because it is more important to the people who shape the future than you are.
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Big baby: apparently, under the Tories, the only babies we’re likely to see are overgrown juveniles like Boris Johnson.
I was wondering why so many TV adverts were about aids for… ehm… erectile dysfunction.
Now we all know the answer:
Fertility rate in England/Wales down to about 1..5 – lower than pandemic and almost certainly lowest since records began (and before..) pic.twitter.com/u9M2mO7ktt
According to the accompanying article in Byline Times (from 2021 but still relevant today),
Not only have there have been major cuts to the benefit system in the 2010s but they have been targeted particularly at low-income families with children. The benefit freeze, cuts to housing benefit, and most of all the two-child limit [on child benefit] all impact such families disproportionately. Analysis by Howard Reed and myself for the Equality and Human Rights Commission suggests that the overall impact of changes to the tax and benefit system costs poor families an average of about £5,000 a year, about a fifth of their total income. On top of that, cuts to local authority funding have disproportionately fallen on Sure Start and other children’s’ services.
Developments in the labour and housing markets following the financial crisis have exacerbated these pressures. The combination of high and rising house prices – again, driven in part by government policies like Help to Buy – with stagnant real wages has made it much harder for lower and middle-income young couples to buy a house unless they get significant financial support from their parents. That in turn – given the UK’s cultural norms about homeownership and the nuclear family – makes starting a family much harder. And while the UK has made huge strides towards gender equity in the workplace, there is still a very large “child penalty” for mothers – but not for fathers. Unsurprisingly, an increasingly well-educated generation of women is unwilling to accept this.
Much attention has – rightly – been paid to the analysis of Sir Michael Marmot and others, which has demonstrated the connection between austerity and a general slowdown in the rate at which life expectancy is growing – with actual falls for some low-income groups. But it looks increasingly plausible that austerity has equally had an impact at the other end of the life course: not just shorter lives, but fewer babies.
So we’re not having children because the government has made it practically impossible to raise them (and, looking at the education system, impossible to ensure that they have all the opportunities they should be able to take).
As the article predicts, this will have serious detrimental effects on the nation’s future prosperity.
It seems the Tories are determined to wreck everything they can affect – and that even includes our sex lives.
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Rishi Sunak: another UK prime minister has been caught lying to the public.
Outrage as Sunak’s claims about the Labour Party and lawyers ‘undermine the rule of law’
Rishi Sunak has disgraced himself and his government again, with a false claim that the Labour Party and “a subset of lawyers” are supporting alleged criminal gangs who are said to be bringing people into the UK from abroad for illegal purposes.
Here’s his claim:
This is what we’re up against.
The Labour Party, a subset of lawyers, criminal gangs – they're all on the same side, propping up a system of exploitation that profits from getting people to the UK illegally.
It isn’t true and it has provoked a storm of outrage – particularly as previous falsehoods by Sunak have led to an attempt on one solicitor’s life.
Pamela Fitzpatrick, who is director of Harrow Law Centre, tweeted: “This is completely irresponsible of Sunak. Solicitors are officers of the Court subject to a professional code of conduct. This type of misinformation by Sunak has already led to a far right extremist trying to kill a Harrow immigration Solicitor. It must stop.”
This appears to be a reference to alleged far-right extremist Cavan Medlock, who was accused of trying to murder Harrow immigration solicitor Toufique Hossain because “he objected to the solicitor Hossain’s involvement in preventing the Government from deporting immigrants”.
The alleged attack took place on September 7, 2020. It seems likely to have been provoked by claims such as this, from Sunak’s Tory colleague, then-Home Secretary Priti Patel:
Today we removed people who came here via small boat.
They had previously claimed asylum elsewhere and had no legal right to be in the UK.
Removals continue to be frustrated by activist lawyers, but I will not let up until this route is unviable https://t.co/oc1sOTTOae
The trial was last reported to be taking place on June 26 this year – but This Writer can find no report of it. News blackout?
Going back to Sunak’s allegation, there is no evidence that the Labour Party – even in its current incarnation as a Substitute Tory Party (STP) – has ever supported people-trafficking by criminal gangs.
And shadow immigration minister Stephen Kinnock has called for the Solicitors’ Regulation Authority to launch an inquiry into any attempt to help people get into the UK under false pretences, according to the Mirror.
Fellow Labour MP Chris Bryant also condemned Sunak’s claim: “In his desperation he has plumbed a new depth… He debases his office and forgets act as PM of the United Kingdom not seek to sow division.”
And shadow Attorney General Emily Thornberry tweeted: “Usually, I try and maintain some sense of respect for the office of the Prime Minister, but it’s just impossible when the man doing the job is willing to demean it like this. What a desperate attempt to deflect from his own dismal failures. Utterly pathetic.”
The Bar Council – the organisation representing all barristers in England and Wales – stated: “The comments by the Prime Minister… are clearly an attempt to play politics with the legal profession. This damaging rhetoric undermines the rule of law, trust in lawyers and confidence in the UK legal system and is to be deplored.”
For the sake of accuracy, the organisation had to also state: “Lawyers are not beyond reproach, and all professions have individuals who commit misconduct and are dishonest. Regulators are there to discipline them.” Sunak is likely to point to this as evidence to support his wafer-thin claim.
It’s not likely to sway thinking members of the public. For example:
“Sunak did not get into politics to make a better world for the people of Britain – only to make more money for himself and his rich friends – and now his grubby inhumanity is exposed for all to see. Better he had never been PM and that his inadequacy had remained his secret,” tweeted science journalist Marcus Chown.
Finally, there is a question over whether Sunak’s government colluded with the Daily Mail on the article, in order to have some kind of “fig leaf” with which to cover its draconian and internationally-illegal new measures against people fleeing persecution in foreign countries.
Here’s another member of the law-practising community that Sunak has attacked:
2/ Before anyone cries "crank!" and "conspiracy theory!" at me, Labour did something similar in respect of "bogus asylum seekers" when Blunkett was Home Sec, as recounted some time ago by Peter Oborne here: https://t.co/OOKodjuv72
Zionist origins of BBC reporter who challenged politician on anti-Semitism raise serious question about BBC impartiality
It's been revealed that the @BBCNews reporter, who cut off ex-chair of Uxbridge Constituency Labour Party who'd challenged the 'Labour antisemitism' scam, was a pro-Israel activist!
Strange. When This Writer was trained as a journalist, I was taught to be fair and impartial – that is, not to colour my reporting of events with falsehoods.
Now it seems the BBC – the biggest news organisation in the world, if I recall correctly – is employing people with an ideological bias towards the exact opposite.
Samantha Simmonds, the interviewer who reeled off false claims of anti-Semitism against the Labour Party under Jeremy Corbyn’s leadership, was a member of a Zionist group and may have had an interest in discrediting the former leader and his supporters.
If she allowed her own personal politics to slant her on-air reporting, the BBC should be considering this to be a very serious matter indeed.
Watch her interview again and see how she presented falsehoods as facts and, when countered by former Uxbridge and South Ruislip Labour chair David Williams with the truth, cut him off:
The BBC relies heavily on its reputation as a factual news reporter – and its dominance of the news media means a majority of the public relies on it too.
When one of its representatives is found to be regurgitating untrue propaganda for political ends (Jeremy Corbyn sought a peaceful solution for the Israel/Palestine question, including freedom for Palestine and Zionism demands that all Palestinian territory must become part of Israel, with its inhabitants thrown out), it brings the integrity of the BBC as a whole into question.
Knowing what has happened here, will you be ready to believe BBC reporting on the next big controversy?
If you want to complain, the BBC has a web page telling you how to do so. Feel free to use it.
Keir Starmer claims he’ll give every child ‘the best opportunities’ – after condemning hundreds of thousands to poverty
You are a liar. It will be impossible for every child to have "the best opportunities in life" while you continue to impose the two-child limit on child benefit.
You will be sealing those children and their families into poverty and you know it. https://t.co/PFnRHL1lGh
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Robert Jenrick: thanks to his actions – and those of his colleagues, someone should refer the Tory government to the NSPCC.
Paint over Mickey Mouse Burn Where the Wild Things Are Pulverise the lego Set fire to the Christmas tree star.
Seize all the teddies Bury every skipping rope Paint the walls dark brown Abolish all hope.
— Michael Rosen 💙💙🎓🎓 (@MichaelRosenYes) July 9, 2023
This should never have happened:
After saying there’s no money for anything, the Conservatives hired workers and sent them to a refugee detention centre for children – to paint over murals showing a smiling Mickey and Minnie Mouse, and other characters, because they didn’t want the kids there to feel comforted.
One of our ministers decided he doesn’t want children to feel safe & welcome, so ordered walls with Mickey Mouse on to be repainted. We have invaded countries on the basis of preserving democracy, protecting civilians & human rights. Some called us the oppressor. Are they right?
The minister responsible was Robert Jenrick, who overspent on his first campaign to be an MP, charged the public £100,000 for a third home he rarely used, and has given tens of millions of pounds worth of help to Tory donors.
WTF Home Office!!
Robert Jenrick(Immigration Minister) has had Mickey Mouse & other cartoon characters, inside an asylum center for children in Dover, painted over because he thought it sent to welcoming a message.#BBCBreakfastpic.twitter.com/JSDyIwCCth
This is absolutely appalling. How were these people ever allowed any where near high office. What a depressing low point for our country. They must be thrown out of office at the first opportunity https://t.co/RxHL73yZfI
— Peter Stefanovic (@PeterStefanovi2) July 7, 2023
But when she was challenged on it, the Tory Financial Secretary to the Treasury – Victoria Atkins – actually had the front to tell Sophy Ridge her government wants to look after children “well”.
If you ever have any doubts about why these brutal, inhumane, cruel Tories have to be removed from office as soon as possible just watch this & remind yourself how they treated some of the most vulnerable & traumatised children arriving in our country pleading for help & kindness https://t.co/HZT8AE411P
— John McDonnell MP (@johnmcdonnellMP) July 9, 2023
Here’s an example of how well the Tories look after children:
⚠️⚠️⚠️
Home Office admit placing lone 9 year old in Brighton asylum seeker hotel. A 9 year old… ALONE… in a hotel where children have gone missing before because there were “shortages”
That’s right. Tories look after children in their care so well that they send them alone to hotels from which they know others have been taken. And what is the purpose of taking them? People trafficking? Dare I suggest sex trafficking?
Tories know what happens to these kids when the send them to places like that – but they send them anyway.
Would you call that looking after children well? Or would you call it something else?
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Do Israeli armed forces murder children? Well, here’s Muhammad Tamimi. His two-year-old life was ended after a member of the Israel Defence Forces raided his village and shot this defenceless toddler in the head.
There’s a meme going the rounds on the social media about the British Broadcasting Corporation.
It says when one person says it’s raining and another says it is sunny, it isn’t the BBC’s job to present a balance of the two viewpoints; the BBC’s job is to look out the window and see which of them is right.
Let’s apply this to a complaint made by the far-right, Israeli-government-supporting Board of Deputies of British Jews, that made a complaint to the BBC about this Newsnight sequence in which the attack on the refugee campaign in the Palestinian city of Jenin by the Israel Defence Force was questioned:
🔥 WOW 🔥
This is massive. First time I've seen a BBC newsreader actually challenge the narrative on apartheid Israel!
Respect to @AnjanaGadgil. She will almost certainly now lose her job because the CAA, the Board of Deputies will take legal action. pic.twitter.com/jN6Gbl3Cnz
(I have no idea why Jimmy Hill’s face kept appearing in the clip; presumably it’s a comment by whoever made it about the veracity of Mr Bennett’s claims.)
The Board of Deputies made a complaint, which you can read below. And below that, you can find evidence refuting its claim:
Watch this clip from 2017 of the IDF shooting an unarmed Palestinian teen during the March of Return protests and then laugh having done it. They seem to be enjoying killing very much indeed, calling their unarmed victim a ‘son of a whore!’ https://t.co/KPftRsTCC5
Only last month, an IDF trooper shot two-year-old toddler Muhammad Tamimi in the head, in what is believed to have been a deliberate act of aggression against the child:
Images from my friend Bilal Tamimi after leaving the hospital. And the two-year-old in the hospital.
It therefore seems unsupportable that the Board of Deputies of British Jews can claim that it is “disgraceful” to say the IDF forces seem happy to kill children. The evidence is there, for all to see.
Sadly, it seems the BBC has not looked out of the window to check what the weather is actually doing.
“I am pleased that the BBC have apologised for the clearly unacceptable language which was used in their interview with Naftali Bennett. Having written to the Director General on this matter today, I appreciate the Corporation’s speedy response.”
— Board of Deputies of British Jews (@BoardofDeputies) July 5, 2023
In fairness, the BBC apology said the line of questioning was appropriate – it was just the language that was used that caused offence.
But that was enough for the Board of Deputies to crow about it.
Considering the way both organisations have responded to this incident, perhaps the BBC should look into the subject more deeply.
Perhaps Panorama could run a film examining the number of children the IDF have murdered and the frequency of these killings, alongside the after-the-event excuses for them, with analysis of whether the claims of the Israeli government actually stand up to scrutiny.
This Writer has a feeling the results would be illuminating – but I don’t think the BBC, under its shrinking-violet director general Tim Davie, would have the nerve.
For now, it seems the best advice possible for both parties in this dispute is to say that, if the Board of Deputies doesn’t want to see reports saying Israeli armed forces murder children…
Perhaps it should call on the Israeli armed forces to stop murdering children.
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It is hard to see how the police may ever restore their shattered reputation after this.
First we saw a string of offences committed by serving police officers including rape and murder.
Then we saw a damning report on the Metropolitan Police that said (among other criticisms) that rape might as well be legal in London.
Now we see a former head of the organisation that was supposed to guarantee that police uphold the highest standards being accused of sexual offences against an under-age girl.
We all know power corrupts. If these charges are proved, then it will once again be clear that the police have been given far too much of it.
And where is the Tory government in all this? Home Office ministers are supposed to ensure that the police bring justice to lawbreakers – not become criminals themselves.
Is this yet another example of the rot brought to the UK by the likes of Boris Johnson, who sends his lawbreaking friends to the House of Lords?
The former head of the police watchdog for England and Wales has been charged with rape and other sexual offences against a girl under the age of 16.
Michael Lockwood, 64, former director-general of the Independent Office for Police Conduct, was charged with three offences of rape and six counts of indecent assault, the Crown Prosecution Service said on Friday.
Lockwood stepped down in December after the police investigation into the historical allegations became public.
The charges will be seen as another blow to public trust in policing. They come just a week after Andy Cooke, the Chief Inspector of Constabulary, warned in his annual report that police forces in England and Wales were experiencing “one of their biggest crises in living memory” and that trust was “hanging by a thread”.
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Muhammad Tamimi: his two-year-old life was ended after a member of the Israel Defence Forces raided his village and shot this defenceless toddler in the head.
Remember last week, when This Site commented on Jewish Chronicle reviewer Jonathan Sacerdoti’s critique of Maureen Lipman’s performance in the play Rose, in which he stated that it invests “dramatic capital in the outdated notion that Jews kill children”.
Outdated?
This happened last week:
Israeli soldiers shot a 2-year-old in the head!
Haytam Tamimi and his son Muhammad were among five Palestinians injured during a raid on the village of Nabi Saleh that lasted hours.
Israel claims they responded to being shot at in the Neveh Tzuf settlement. This is a lie pic.twitter.com/EjlPnqTsVP
I think it’s time we discussed some of these “notions” that certain people are constantly telling us are “outdated”.
Certainly the claim that armed Israelis shoot children is neither a notion, nor outdated. It is a terrifying fact.
Some have tried to justify the killing of a child by saying his parents put him in the line of fire. This is clearly false; the shooting happened during a raid on a Palestinian village by members of the Israel Defence Forces.
They claimed that they were responding to Palestinian aggression and I am not going to debate that. It might be true but that is irrelevant to what has happened, which is this:
Armed military aggressors attacked unarmed civilians in their homes and shot a toddler in the head, causing injuries from which he later died.
There is no explanation that can justify such an act.
It is unacceptable on any level at all – as all civilised observers must agree. Nobody can ever say they shot an unarmed toddler in the head as an act of self-defence.
And the very least the rest of us should expect is a little contrition from people like Mr Sacerdoti.
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Police: was it really necessary for them to strip-search so many children?
There cannot be a good explanation for this:
In 2021, the Met Police carried out 269 “More Thorough Searches that expose Intimate Parts” on children. It previously reported the number as 99.
Commissioner Sir Mark Rowley said last month the Met had “misused” the power.
The issue was recently scrutinised by Dame Rachel de Souza, the children’s commissioner for England.
She found that across the country, there were “systemic problems with transparency, scrutiny and non-compliance with guidelines when children were being strip-searched under stop-and-search powers”.
Pastor Lorraine Jones, CEO of the Dwayne Simpson Foundation, a Brixton-based organisation that aims to steer young people away from crime, called the misreported figures a “disgrace”.
She asked what kind of aftercare and compensation was given to such children and questioned how the Met could regain community trust over the issue of intimate searches of minors.
It can’t, as far as This Writer can see.
It tells us that the officers who carried out these searches may not be serious officials carrying out a duty, but are more likely to be a bunch of paedophiles who’ve put themselves in uniform to force youngsters to accept mistreatment that they otherwise would not have to.
Can anyone prove me wrong?
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