Notices by JuneSim63 (junesim63@mstdn.social), page 5

I prefer to call this the Fascist International.

"International far-right leaders, including France’s Marine Le Pen, Hungary’s Viktor Orbán, Italy’s Giorgia Meloni and Argentina’s Javier Milei, came together in Madrid to rail against socialism and “massive illegal migration”

Other visitors included Israeli minister Amichai Chikli, André Ventura, the leader of Portugal’s far-right Chega party, and the Chilean far-right leader José Antonio Kast.

Lovely.

#Fascism
https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/may/19/european-far-right-leaders-gather-ahead-of-eu-elections

The Labour Party has been accused of “disgusting” behaviour towards a Palestinian man who lost his family in Gaza, after refusing to reveal what information the party has gathered on him.
Police dragged Dalloul Neder out of a Labour fundraising event attended by the party’s deputy leader, Angela Rayner, in January, after he held up a picture of his late mother and told the audience: “I lost my family in Gaza… I want to show you my mum.”

#LabourParty #Gaza #UKPolitics
https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/freedom-of-information/labour-accused-racism-palestinian-dalloul-neder-angela-rayner-subject-access-request-gaza/?_kx=Y6Jr9DX7uTfIhCWL5xh7Xk6toSLI9GmA13iML-VdLDs.YjCYwm

"This is not the life of any normal human being. There is nothing: no water, no food, no health care, not even a toilet. My children ask me if they could just have potatoes but we have no money now. All we have is canned food distributed [by the United Nations],” she said.

“My children have already had flu, and fevers, and hepatitis. They are weak now, and there aren’t enough antibiotics, so I’m very worried.”

#Gaza #Israel #Rafah #AlMawasi #WarCrimes #Genocide

https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/may/15/no-water-food-health-care-toilet-desperation-deepens-in-gazas-camps

Worrying article on the rise in female genital mutilation (FGM) in Africa,particularly in conflict zones where the rights of women and girls are being eroded.

Content warning: detailed descriptions of FGM.

#FGM #Africa #Somalia #Guinea #Djibouti #Sudan #WomensHealth #HumanRights #Unicef

Female genital mutilation is on the rise in Africa: disturbing new trends are driving up the numbers
https://theconversation.com/female-genital-mutilation-is-on-the-rise-in-africa-disturbing-new-trends-are-driving-up-the-numbers-227175

A new study reveals that before northern Africa dried out, 5,500 years ago, its climate “flickered” between two stable climatic states before tipping permanently. This is the first time it’s been shown such flickering happened in Earth’s past. And it suggests that places with highly variable cycles of changing climate today may in some cases be headed for tipping points of their own.

#Climate #Africa #Sahara #Drought #TippingPoint

https://theconversation.com/africa-dramatically-dried-out-5-500-years-ago-our-new-study-may-warn-us-of-future-climate-tipping-points-229323

Ministers in charge of the UK’s climate policies met with fossil fuel companies and lobbyists over 100 times last year, four times as much as they did external climate scientists, campaigners, and charities.
These ministerial oil and gas industry meetings came as the government backtracked on several policies designed to meet the UK’s 2050 net zero emissions target.

#ClimateEmergency #Oil #Gas #FossilFuels #ToryCorruption #UKPolitics

https://www.desmog.com/2024/05/09/net-zero-ministers-met-oil-and-gas-representatives-twice-a-week-2023/

"In Rafah I saw children who had amputations, but were living in tents because hospitals are full. Those children – and many, many more – are now being told to go to zones such as Al Mawasi. The so called “safe zone” of Al Mawasi: where UNICEF reported on a little boy, Mustafa, who went to get some parsley for the family dinner. Mustafa was shot in the head, and killed … in the “safe zone” of Al Mawasi"

Statement from Unicef. Read it all.

#Unicef #Rafah #Gaza #Israel
https://www.unicef.org/press-releases/when-nightmare-becomes-reality

Good from Prof Richard Murphy on why we need taxation and what taxes actually do (paying for public services is not included).
#Taxation #Economics #MMT

There are six reasons why we need taxes
https://www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2024/05/07/there-are-six-reasons-why-we-need-taxes/

"The Israeli military on Monday called on Palestinians to move out of the eastern parts of Rafah ahead of what it calls a ‘limited scope operation’ in Gaza’s south. The order came after a night of intense Israeli bombardment on Rafah killed 22 people, including eight children"

And so Israel’s ground operation in Rafah begins. Let's see how Biden and the US react to this blatant provocation.

#Israel #Gaza #Rafah
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2024/5/6/israels-war-on-gaza-live-israel-pounds-rafah-as-truce-talks-stall

"In the tented camps and crowded streets of Rafah, the pro-Palestine campus protests in the US have been followed closely.

“We hear a lot of news about students’ demonstrations in American universities … When I saw that, I was very happy that there are still those who stand beside us and in support of us,” said Nevin Abu Shahma, 39, who fled to Rafah from northern Gaza early in the war"

#Israel #Gaza #Rafah #USPolitics #CampusProtests

https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/may/05/i-was-happy-they-still-stand-beside-us-palestinians-in-rafah-on-us-campus-protests

Faith schools in England will no longer have to offer up to half of their places to children who don’t belong to their religion, under changes to state school admissions rules sneakily announced by the government, after serious lobbying by the Catholic Church.

I propose, therefore, that the 100% funding they get from the state is also scrapped. I don't object to faith schools. I do object to them being funded by the state.
#Education #FaithSchools

https://www.theguardian.com/education/2024/may/01/england-scraps-50-rule-on-faith-school-admissions?CMP=GTUK_email

"But all these claims have served a purpose. They keep western publics focused on evil humanitarian aid workers and evil anti-war protesters rather than the kind of evil that dares in broad daylight to kill 15,000 children, destroy hospitals, and hide bodies in mass graves.

Jonathan Cook on how an ‘antisemitism hoax' drowned out the discovery of mass graves in Gaza.

#Israel #Gaza #Antisemitism #MassGraves #UKPolitics #USPolitics

https://jonathancook.substack.com/p/how-an-antisemitism-hoax-drowned

"Police in Scotland have been put on alert because of the high risks of street protests and attempts by pro-refugee campaigners to stop detentions.

Local communities in Scotland have twice prevented deportations by staging mass protests on Kenmure Street in Glasgow, in May 2021, and in Nicolson Square, Edinburgh, in June 2022."

We need the spirit of Kenmure Street across the UK.

#HomeOffice #Scotland #AsylumSeekers #Rwanda #Deportation #UKPolitics

The Home Office will launch a surprise operation to detain asylum seekers across the UK tomorrow..
Officials will hold refugees who turn up for routine meetings at immigration offices & also pick people up nationwide.
They will be immediately transferred to previously prepared detention centres & held to be put on later flights to Rwanda.

Anyone who takes part in this disgusting operation is breaking international law.

#HomeOffice #Rwanda #AsylumSeekers #UKPolitics

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/apr/28/home-office-to-detain-asylum-seekers-across-uk-in-shock-rwanda-operation

Good morning. Spare a thought today for the children of Gaza, who anxiously await Israel's ground invasion.
In this heartbreaking film from Al Jazeera's Close Up team, one small girl says:
"When they enter Rafah, they will start by killing children." I can't even...

#Israel #Gaza #Rafah #Children

How Gaza’s children are preparing for Israel’s invasion of Rafah I Close Up | Gaza | Al Jazeera
https://www.aljazeera.com/program/al-jazeera-close-up/2024/4/25/how-gazas-children-prepare-for-israels-invasion-of-rafah-i-close-up

"The immigration debate has become so warped, though, that opening safe, legal routes is seen by many as the equivalent of an “open border”, while mass deportation is viewed, in Sunak’s words, as “compassionate”. There is nothing compassionate or constructive about the performative cruelty that now stands for immigration policy"

Kenan Malik on how govt policy, far from being a deterrent, promotes the small boats in the Channel.

#AsylumSeekers #Refugees #UKPolitics

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/apr/28/for-migrants-deterrence-doesnt-deter-cruelty-not-compassion-rishi-sunak

"I've just returned from the London Book Fair, which is one of the most important annual events in our industry," says Ziv Lewis, the acquisitions editor at Kinneret Zmora-Bitan Dvir publishing house. "I arrive at every fair with a book or two of ours, and try to sell the translation rights internationally. This time I didn't even try. Based on what I gathered and heard, there has never been a worse time for Israeli art. There's no open door and no desire to listen."

#Israel #Gaza #Boycott

"Overall, we are pretty much like Russia now, only it isn't official yet with us. That may actually be worse, because if it were official, at least we'd be able to fight it," says Adar Shafran ("Running on Sand"), the director and head of the Israeli Producers Association. "When they want to submit a film to a festival, the Russians are told in advance not to do so. We aren't told that – our films simply aren't accepted."
Haaretz

#Israel #Culture #Gaza #BDS #Boycott

https://archive.is/RbCxq#selection-1215.0-1215.42

"So two things are being asserted:

1. Famine in Gaza is now unavoidable and will kill many civilian noncombatants even if more food aid starts getting in now.

2. The responsibility for this starvation of children, women and noncombatant males lies squarely with Israel, which is obstructing food aid deliveries"

Conclusions of a memo to Anthony Blinken from US State Dept officials seen by foreign policy journalist Colum Lynch.

#Israel #Gaza #Famine

https://www.juancole.com/2024/04/unavoidable-exponential-outpacing.html

"Lynch has seen a memo entitled “Famine Inevitable, Changes Could Reduce but Not Stop Widespread Civilian Deaths,” which was produced by food security experts in US AID and the State Department, and which they sent to Secretary of State Antony Blinken. These US officials gave the memo a subheading that is damning for the Israeli government of PM Benjamin Netanyahu: “Israel-imposed administrative challenges are preventing the delivery” of food"
#Israel #Gaza #Famine #Starvation