Here we go again... The BBC dragging its feet on publicising a DEC appeal for Gaza, just like they did in 2009, after Israeli "Operation Cast Lead" had killed over 1,300 people incl 460 children.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/sep/06/aid-agency-insiders-claim-bbc-blocking-gaza-humanitarian-appeal

We need Tony Benn again. Over 40,000 people killed, incl. 10,000 children & 6,000 women (source ap news https://apnews.com/article/israel-hamas-gaza-war-palestinians-statistics-40000-7ebec13101f6d08fe10cedbf5e172dde )

Here's Tony Benn refusing to be silenced.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=itvWlKJrc2s

https://pressgazette.co.uk/publishers/broadcast/tony-benn-hijacks-bbcs-today-to-make-gaza-appeal/

#BBC
#DECAppeal
#Gaza
#Israel
#Palestine

Very unpleasant reading, but very necessary reading, if you are trying to understand what is happening in the occupied territories.

I trust the source, whom I have followed for some time.

https://mondoweiss.net/2024/07/netanyahus-willing-executioners-how-ordinary-israelis-became-mass-murderers/
#Genocide
#Israel
#Palestine
#Gaza
#WestBank
#WarCrimes
#IDF
#Holocaust
#Nazis

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/article/2024/may/31/labour-underestimating-impact-treatment-diane-abbott-lawyer-says

Don't forget that Labour employed an ex IDF unit 8200 cyberspy, one Asaf Kaplan, to police potential/existing Labour candidates' social media history. Today's mess is no "accident".
https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20210130-what-is-a-former-israeli-spy-doing-in-the-british-labour-partys-head-office/

It's also worth remembering that they commissioned Mr Forde to independently investigate al this stuff, but his report didn't go the way they expected & was shelved for months. He wasn't happy.
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2023/mar/17/labour-accused-still-not-engaging-hierarchy-racism-claims

https://labourheartlands.com/shaheen-vs-labour-racism-allegations-and-forde-report-disregard/
#Labour #Starmer

https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/may/21/gove-accuses-uk-university-protests-of-antisemitism-repurposed-for-instagram-age

Be very worried about Gove.

Note the almost total conflation of "antisemitism" with criticism of Israel, or anti-Zionism, because it is "intimidatory" to Jewish students or "perceived as hostile" to them.

No mention of how non-Zionist Jews & Palestinians feel whenever Netanyahu or his Cabinet or their supporters voice their hate and genocidal intent

Gove's rhetoric makes life for diaspora Jews of all viewpoints, MORE risky, not less.
#Antisemitism
#Gove

@LALegault

A reminder of an earlier flotilla being welcomed by Israeli special forces about 13 years ago.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xFEBbDkyrqQ

@aral @Sevslv

Thx. I know how to do that on images I put in my posts, & have a reminder set to assist. But how to do it in a boosted post? (Android, adv Web interface). Nothing on the context menu if I open the image.
Suggestions welcome.

@mondoweiss
It looks like genocide, smells like genocide, even talks like genocide, & everyone xc President Biden, Rishi Sunak. Keir Starmer & EU leaders, admits it IS genocide.
Netanyahu is a war criminal, exterminating the people of Palestine, destroying Israel, & endangering lives of Jews worldwide. He should be forced to resign, or impeached.
#Israel
#Palestine
#Gaza
#Genocide

@stylo_the_unicorn

You are wrong.
MMT does not say that.
MMT says a sovereign gov't with a central bank and a fiat currency creates money by spending it (investing in services/infrastructure) and destroys it by taxation. Taxation is a tool to control the money supply and hence, inflation. It rubbishes the idea of "public debt" as a fiction, gov't borrowing from itself. It also rejects the myth that taxation "pays for" government expenditure.
@MMT
@RichardJMurphy
#MMT

@stylo_the_unicorn @MMT @RichardJMurphy

I'll go get my dictionary and look up some of your words.

@stylo_the_unicorn @MMT @RichardJMurphy

Another function of taxation is redistributive. If money needs destroying, tax those with most money - their money is lazy, sitting in savings, overseas. If you want to generate spending in the real economy (the pockets of the low paid, whose money works hard, as they spend it (usually LOCALLY) because they NEED stuff to survive) then cut taxes for the lower paid. @RichardJMurphy 's blog is a great resource. https://www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/
#MMT