Gary Lineker - What's going on there (Gaza), the mass murder of thousands of children is something we should have an opinion on.
Amol Rajan - The BBC needs to be impartial about it.
Gary Lineker - Why? It needs to be factual.
NewsThreads #GaryLineker #BBC #NewsMedia #Genocide #Palestine #IsraelLobby #Complicity
Sanctions do not work (episode 6,874,464)
"Russian fertiliser baron Kantor delisted in EU sanctions deal"
(I am quoting in full because paywall.)
Fertiliser baron Moshe Kantor and three other Russians are to be taken off the EU’s blacklist in a last-minute deal with Hungary.
The other three are: Russian sports minister Mikhail Degtyaryov, an oligarch’s sister called Gulbahor Ismailova, and Russian businessman Vladimir Rashevsky Three recently deceased people (a Russian politician and two military officers - Nikolai Ryzhkov, Andrei Ermishko, and Aleksei Bolshakov) are also to be taken out, in a routine clean-up exercise.
The 11th-hour compromise means all 1,872 other individuals will remain under an asset-freeze and visa-ban until 15 September, when the next six-month rollover falls due.
The Kremlin-friendly Hungary, backed by Slovakia, had also pushed to delist Russian moguls Pyotr Aven, Musa Bazhaev, Mikhail Fridman, Dmitry Mazepin, and Alisher Usmanov (Ismailova’s brother), under a threat to veto the whole EU list if it did not get its way.
Luxembourg had, likewise, sought to get Fridman delisted, the FT reported, after he sued the Duchy for billions over his asset-freeze, because one of his holding companies is based there.
The EU has frozen some €24.9bn of private Russian assets under the blacklist.
Kantor was the biggest fish out of the four to be let off the hook.
The 71-year-old was previously the head of the European Jewish Congress, a Brussels-based lobby group, which had often pleaded for him to be let back into the EU.
He also has British and Israeli citizenship, reportedly lives in Tel Aviv, and is said by US magazine Forbes to be worth €8bn.
"He has close ties to [Russian] president Vladimir Putin. This connection with the Russian president has helped him to maintain his considerable wealth. He has openly declared his support to and friendship for president Putin on numerous occasions, and enjoys good relations with the Kremlin," his EU-sanctions notice had earlier said.
Hungarian pressure aside, Rashevsky’s delisting was agreed due to an EU consensus that the legal case against him was "weak", an EU diplomat said, given some 110 legal challenges by Russians against EU sanctions at the EU courts in Luxembourg. The 51-year-old used to be CEO of fertiliser firm Eurochem, which the EU had accused of supplying ammonia to Russia-occupied parts of Ukraine, but he left his post when he was first blacklisted in 2022.
"Legal solidity [of the sanctions regime] is of utmost importance. We cannot allow ourselves to be weak and lose cases," a second EU diplomat said.
The EU rollover comes amid US pressure on Russia to join a ceasefire pact agreed between Washington and Kyiv.
The EU has also frozen €210bn of Russian central bank assets, embargoed some €140bn a year worth of Russian trade, and blacklisted over 500 Russian companies and other entities in 16 rounds of sanctions since Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022.
Meanwhile, Ukraine and Hungary will also top the agenda when EU foreign ministers meet in Brussels on 17 March.
EU foreign affairs chief Kaja Kallas has proposed new military aid to Ukraine based on a percentage of member states’ gross national income, to make sure everyone paid their fair share.
The scheme is to be joined on a voluntary basis to bypass Hungary’s veto powers.
The Netherlands and Lithuania have advocated a benchmark of at least €40bn in total EU contributions, while earlier discussions had focused on figures from €30bn to €20bn.
"Gary Lineker, Ruth Negga, Juliet Stevenson and Miriam Margolyes are among 500 film, TV and other media professionals calling on the BBC to reinstate its documentary on children and young people living in Gaza, describing it as an “essential piece of journalism”..."
#BBC #IsraelLobby #Gaza #Palestinian
#GaryLineker #Journalism
#AliAbunimah tells about why and how he was arrested in Switzerland.
https://asawinstanley.substack.com/p/ei-live-ali-abunimah-on-his-detention
Quote from Professor David Miller, after #Essex Police refused to arrest him when the Daily Telegraph accused him of being antisemitic, yet again.
What he recommends is needed across all Western nations.
Canadian political leaders like Foreign Minister Mélanie Joly have refused or cancelled meetings with the UN Special Rapporteur #FrancescaAlbanese on her visit to Canada.
"It's happening because of the pressure from pro-Israel lobby groups who are very vocal, and very virulent, very aggressive. What are they fearing? What are they fearing? I'm telling you...the truth!"
[followup] Israeli media reporting on Columbia affiliates letter condemning suspension of Shai Davidai while calling for its reversal, are forgetting to include this part ...
University spokesperson Millie Wert wrote in a statement to the Columbia Spectator at the time of the suspension:
[…] Davidai was temporarily barred from campus on Oct. 15 for “repeatedly harass[ing] and intimidat[ing] University employees in violation of University policy,”
[…] Davidai’s campus access will be restored once he goes through a training on University policies for employee behavior, according to Wert.
[…] “Columbia is committed to combating antisemitism and all forms of discrimination and taking sustained, concrete action toward a campus where everyone in our community feels valued and is able to thrive,” University spokesperson Samantha Slater wrote in a statement to Spectator.
Davidai, as far as he’s concerned, continues to make inflammatory intimidating comments, demonstrating why his suspension was not only justified, it might need to be permanent.
[…] “They don’t care about anything other than who makes the most noise, and right now, the students and faculty that are supporting Hamas are making the most noise.”
CNN is complicit in genocide and war crimes 
*CNN did a sympathy piece on an IOF soldier and halfway through the piece you find out he was a D9 bulldozer driver who regularly drove over people while they were alive.
Me too!
It’s almost as if the Labour Zionists, in cahoots with Mr Pompeo’s %CIA, our military #Unit77 #psyops folks and other assorted #IsraelLobby assets somehow *knew* #Russia was gonna invade #Ukraine and #Hamas was gonna stage a jail-break!
Had he been PM, #Corbyn would *never* have got behind Genocide Joe in either circumstance!
#Starmer on the other hand …
"The Israel Lobby and U.S. #foreignPolicy" is a book by John Mearsheimer and Stephen Walt, published in 2007. In it, they emphasize that the lobby is not a cabal or a conspiracy but simply a powerful interest group, like the National Rifle Association of America or the agrobusiness lobby.
“Since World War Two, the United States has been involved in every nook and cranny of the world, fighting wars here, there, and everywhere. And to do that, you need a very powerful administrative state that can help manage that foreign policy. But in the process, what happens is you get all of these high-level, middle-level, and low-level bureaucrats who become established in positions in the Pentagon, the State Department, and the intelligence community — you name it. And they end up having a vested interest in pursuing a particular foreign policy.”
Watch John Mearsheimer discuss the US #DeepState: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uvFtyDy_Bt0&t=70s
These “lovely people” attending the American Israel Council’s DC summit are the cream of the crop of American zionism.
c: @CodePink on X, Threads & IG
#Lowkey sagt, was das #auslandsjournal (Sendung, siehe unten) verschweigt (oder nicht weiß).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wkP14WVrEaM
#TommyRobinson #EnglishDefenceLeague #EDL #Großbritannien #VereinigtesKönigreich #Ausschreitungen #UKRiots #IsraelLobby #ZionistischeLobby #ZionistLobby #JonathanHoffman #RobertaMoore #JewishDefenseLeague #JDL #JDL_UK #Kahanismus #Kahanism #MeirKahane #Israel #MFA #ZoA #MiddleEastForum #ZDF #InternationalSolidarityMovement #ISM #RachelCorrie #Palästina #Palestine @palestine
#US / GOP megadonor Miriam Adelson plans to do whatever it takes to help Trump win with $100 million PAC
[…] “President Trump deserves the full support of the entire Jewish people, […] and anyone who cares about Israel’s security and prosperity, this must be our pledge to him — this must be our promise to him — that the White House will be his again come January.”
It doesn’t get more vulgar than this, but at least it’s out in the open.
https://www.cnbc.com/2024/08/16/donald-trump-miriam-adelson-campaign-funding.html
#palestine
#israellobby
@palestine
"In AIPAC’s absence, a Samuels campaign staffer and pro-Israel super PAC donors strategize to oust another Squad member"
"Members of a WhatsApp group founded by wealthy pro-Israel donors coordinated to infuse last-minute cash into Don Samuels’s primary race against Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn"
One message says: “WE ALL HAVE THE POWER TO HELP GET RID OF ~the squad~ AND PUBLIC ENEMY #1 TO JEWS, ISRAEL, AND AMERICA- ~ilhan omar~”"
https://theintercept.com/2024/08/11/ilhan-omar-don-samuels-primary-super-pac-israel/
Yet another assault by the #IsraelLobby vs the Beeb for not being sufficiently pro-Israel and pro-genocide!
The #BBC reputedly has a whole team of people whose *only* role is to deal with #Zionist bitching ref anything which strays from the #Hasbara “line”!
As the #Gaza-based and wider #Axis resistance continues to defeat Israel, these assaults on free speech are getting increasingly belligerent and desperate!
#Skwawkbox | Israel lobby trying to outlaw independent candidates and campaigns
https://skwawkbox.org/2024/07/16/israel-lobby-trying-to-outlaw-independent-candidates-and-campaigns/
Here is right-wing UK Labour
member and advisor to Keir Starmer, Luke Akehurst, admitting Zionist organisations have infiltrated UK universities/unions to groom young, impressionable adults and "convert" them to zionism. Talk about the radicalization of university students.
"A level of influence that is anti-democratic
The coordinated and effective campaign to have her sacked – ostensibly for an innocuous post – has revealed the insidious and disproportionate influence of the Israeli lobby in the media and its determination to ensure there is only a one sided narrative in a news story of vital importance – the genocide has created a level of instability in the region that threatens a broader war. A one sided narrative in the media cultivates ignorance in the public and enables our leaders to maintain unquestioned entrenched support for Israel, not only with words but with supplies and intelligence, and possibly with armed forces should they see fit to do so. Attempts to interfere and prevent the interrogation of our foreign policy are anti democratic."
https://johnmenadue.com/antoinette-lattouf-should-be-reinstated/
#AusPol #IsraelPalestineConflict #Israel #Palestine #Genocide #propaganda #disinformation #IsraelLobby
Whose "perception", indeed. Is ABC management “biased and not balanced”. Do they prefer a certain bias? Are they intimidated by the Israel lobby?
https://twitter.com/RonniSalt/status/1747752193737031688
#AusPol #IsraelPalestineConflict #Israel #Palestine #Genocide #propaganda #disinformation #IsraelLobby
![RonniSalt
@RonniSalt
Now let's look at the directions given directly to #AntoinetteLattouf
The ABC states - in its own submission!! - that Latouff was directed not to post anything "controversial" due to a "perception" that she was biased and not balanced.
And whose "perception" exactly is that?
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The ABC confirmed in a submission to the Fair Work Commission, seen by Guardian Australia on Tuesday, Lattouf was in December terminated from hosting Sydney Mornings on ABC radio two days before her contract ended after she reposted a Human Rights Watch video on Instagram to her personal account.
Lattouf has said in her submission she was told by management it was acceptable to post factual-based content, while the ABC has claimed in its submission Lattouf was told [underline begins]“it’s probably better that you don’t post anything while you’re with us because of the risk of the perception that you are biased and not balanced”[underline ends].
The ABC will defend the wrongful termination claim from Lattouf at the Fair Work Commission in Sydney on Thursday.
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@RonniSalt
Now let's look at the directions given directly to #AntoinetteLattouf
The ABC states - in its own submission!! - that Latouff was directed not to post anything \"controversial\" due to a \"perception\" that she was biased and not balanced.
And whose \"perception\" exactly is that?
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The ABC confirmed in a submission to the Fair Work Commission, seen by Guardian Australia on Tuesday, Lattouf was in December terminated from hosting Sydney Mornings on ABC radio two days before her contract ended after she reposted a Human Rights Watch video on Instagram to her personal account.
Lattouf has said in her submission she was told by management it was acceptable to post factual-based content, while the ABC has claimed in its submission Lattouf was told [underline begins]“it’s probably better that you don’t post anything while you’re with us because of the risk of the perception that you are biased and not balanced”[underline ends].
The ABC will defend the wrongful termination claim from Lattouf at the Fair Work Commission in Sydney on Thursday.
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