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Next Wednesday sees the launch of Double Down Newswatch, a new weekly magazine programme that will showcase the best of independent media.
Here I explain why it's needed.
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IT'S NOT TOO LATE
This Saturday hundreds of people will be outside the US Embassy in London with signs reading "I oppose genocide, I support Palestine Action".
Missed last night's open call? It's not too late to get involved.
Visit wedonotcomply.org for more information.
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📹NEW VIDEO -- This UN Expert Just EXPOSED The Pro-Israel Media
We spoke with Francesca Albanese about how the Western media covered Israel's genocide in Gaza.
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The absence of any kind of radical
Burnhamite programme in the budget is only surprising if you believed he had one. As I wrote months ago, that’s not who Burnham is. He’s a connection politician not a conviction politician. By their budgets shall ye know them and now we know.
The Israeli election proves definitively a) that a clear majority of Jewish Israelis are psychotically racist and b) the opposition will only oust the psychotically racist right by allying with Palestinians which they won't do because ... see point a).
Israel’s parliament deadlocked after election leaves no clear winner
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Journalists should be able to question politicians without being smeared and libelled like this.
Defenders of the Israeli government have run out of rational arguments to support it.
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"Jewish Israeli and Palestinian Israeli parties teaming up to form a coalition is seen as a political taboo – particularly after anti-Arab sentiment rose in the wake of the October 7 attacks"
Gdn-speak to describe a political system is that deeply racist and normally works on the understanding that Palestinian votes don't count.
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This is frankly disgusting from @TiceRichard. Solidarity with @declassifiedUK who are a superb journalistic outlet and put Britain's mainstream media to shame.
As Peter Oborne forecast on Double Down Newswatch - it looks as if Israel's opposition may be forced, kicking and screaming, into coalition with Palestinian parties.
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Israel going to the polls changes NOTHING for Palestinians.
Western media treats the election as a contest between Netanyahu’s far-right coalition and a "moderate" opposition. In reality, the alternative to Netanyahu is an alliance of generals and hardliners who have driven the exact same machinery of violence and dispossession for decades:
Gadi Eisenkot: The opposition frontrunner who formulated the Dahiya doctrine—mandating the deliberate, disproportionate destruction of civilian infrastructure. He sat in the war cabinet over Gaza and dismissed ICC war crimes investigations as "antisemitism."
Yair Lapid: The supposed centrist whose stated principle is "maximum Jews on maximum land with minimum Palestinians."
Avigdor Lieberman: Declared "there are no innocents in Gaza" while cutting off water, power, and food.
Naftali Bennett: Boasted on record, "I have killed many Arabs in my life, and there is no problem with that."
As Peter Oborne reports from the West Bank, an opposition victory might actually be far more dangerous internationally. It would provide Western allies with the diplomatic PR cover they crave to drop pressure, restore impunity, and pretend Israel is back to being a "rules-based democracy."
Meanwhile, on the ground:
State-armed settlers continue expelling Palestinian communities at gunpoint.
Demolitions across East Jerusalem accelerate unabated.
Human rights bodies document systemic, industrial torture across detention camps.
The ballot box in Tel Aviv is not a choice between occupation and peace. It is a choice between overt extremism under Netanyahu and an internationally sanitized version of the exact same apartheid state under his rivals.
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Israel election opposition in their own words
"There are no innocents in Gaza"
"Maximum Jews on maximum land with minimum Palestinians"
"I've killed many Arabs & there's no problem with that"
"Maximum havoc, disruption & destruction of civilian infrastructure to send message"
A Campaign Against Antisemitism steward was filmed by Al Jazeera offering to provide “muscle” at a rally organised by Turning Point UK, a far right group that Al Jazeera revealed to have links to Loyalist paramilitary contract killers.
The CAA was already thoroughly discredited last December when a judge ruled a case it had brought against the comedian Reginald Hunter was “vexatious” and “abusive” and aimed purely at getting him “cancelled”. So horrified was the judge by their behaviour he instructed a copy of his ruling to be attached to any future legal action brought by the CAA.
It is astonishing the CAA still has charitable status and more astonishing still that the BBC interviews it as being representative of the Jewish community.
Lorna Hosford reports for Double Down Newswatch.
EXPOSED: Campaign Against Antisemitism Steward Tied to Far-Right Hitman for Hire Scandal @lornahosford
A Campaign Against Antisemitism steward was filmed by Al Jazeera offering to provide “muscle” at a rally organised by Turning Point UK, a far right group that Al Jazeera revealed to have links to Loyalist paramilitary contract killers.
The CAA was already thoroughly discredited last December when a judge ruled a case it had brought against the comedian Reginald Hunter was “vexatious” and “abusive” and aimed purely at getting him “cancelled”. So horrified was the judge by their behaviour he instructed a copy of his ruling to be attached to any future legal action brought by the CAA.
It is astonishing the CAA still has charitable status and more astonishing still that the BBC interviews it as being representative of the Jewish community.
Lorna Hosford reports for Double Down Newswatch.
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My interview with Richard Sanders on what today’s Israeli election means for Palestinians:
As Israel goes to the polls Peter Oborne - just returned from the Occupied Territories - offers a powerful denunciation of an entire system rooted in terror on Double Down Newswatch.
For a slightly less rose-tinted view of the Israeli opposition watch Peter Oborne on Double Down Newswatch. /1
The BBC’s Middle East correspondent frames the Israeli elections as Netanyahu against “leftist” and “centrist” figures like Eisenkot, whom she describes as “softly spoken” and “lowkey”.
What she leaves out is that he’s a former general and the architect of the Dahiyeh Doctrine, which calls for disproportionate force and deliberate targeting of civilians and their infrastructure.
In what world is that left wing?
Watch this.
Lubna Speitan, author of the Greens4Palestine motion “Zionism is racism”, spells out the central obscenity of our age – the grotesque inversion whereby the victims of ethnic cleansing, Apartheid and genocide must constantly fend off accusations from their tormentors that it is they who are the racists.
“We as Palestinians are being silenced and gaslit and vilified [as we] witness the annihilation, the cold-blooded murder of our families, of our people… our children burnt with phosphorus, having to endure amputations with no anaesthetic, having their limbs torn and shredded, their bodies burnt by phosphorus, being starved to death … And to have to sit here … and try to bury my feelings so I can eloquently and diplomatically shield my anger, my rage, my anguish that every Palestinian is feeling, is an insult.” /1
Full press conference here. Thanks to @CrispinShow for footage.