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<p>I’m an elderly lefty, living in South West England who’s looking for a nice place in the fediverse where I can share/ learn/ politely disagree etc with others &amp; (occasionally) vent my frustrations &amp; concerns about the parlous state of the world that my grandkids are growing up in! When I’m not “doom scrolling” I enjoy gardening, bird watching, bread baking &amp; being the best granddad I can be.</p>

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    “Will UK Greens fold to Israel lobby?” by Asa Winstanley in Palestine is Still the Issue on Substack @palestine@fedibird.com @Palestine@masto.ai @palestine@lemmy.ml @iran @iraq@mastodon.social @palestinenews@gts.liberated.press @thegreenparty @uk_politics “The Green Party of England and Wales made global headlines on 4 October after members voted by 1,022 votes to 813 for a motion declaring the party to be anti-Zionist.” [..] “Since the policy was brought into effect, there has been...

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    “HSBC ‘sharia‑compliant’ fund spent over $100m on five Israeli military‑linked firms” by Imran Mulla in Middle East Eye @palestine@fedibird.com @Palestine@masto.ai @palestine@lemmy.ml @iran @iraq@mastodon.social @palestinenews@gts.liberated.press “MEE’s analysis of the Islamic Global Equity Index Fund’s activities in the first half of 2026, detailed in its semi-annual report, has established that the fund purchased $35.7m worth of shares in RTX, the world’s second-largest arms company....

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    Today’s edition of the always excellent Middle East Eye: https://www.middleeasteye.net/ @palestine@fedibird.com @Palestine@masto.ai @palestine@lemmy.ml @iran @iraq@mastodon.social @palestinenews@gts.liberated.press #Press #SocialMedia #Journalism #Gaza #PalestinianGenocide #Zionism #SettlerColonialism #Resistance #EradicateZionism #DecolonizePalestine #GlobaliseTheIntifada #Iran #War #Trump #Israel #Lebanon #Hezbollah

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    “UN official sounds alarm as Hormuz fertilizer deadlock pushes Asia, Africa toward food crisis” by the Cradle News Desk @palestine@fedibird.com @Palestine@masto.ai @palestine@lemmy.ml @iran @iraq@mastodon.social @palestinenews@gts.liberated.press “A UN official says the planting season will be lost unless Washington and Tehran strike a deal within weeks” https://thecradle.co/articles/un-official-sounds-alarm-as-hormuz-fertilizer-deadlock-pushes-asia-africa-toward-food-crisis #Press #Soc...

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    Today’s edition of the always excellent Cradle: https://thecradle.co/ @palestine@fedibird.com @Palestine@masto.ai @palestine@lemmy.ml @iran @iraq@mastodon.social @palestinenews@gts.liberated.press #Press #SocialMedia #Journalism #Gaza #PalestinianGenocide #Zionism #SettlerColonialism #Resistance #EradicateZionism #DecolonizePalestine #GlobaliseTheIntifada #Iran #War #Trump #Israel #Lebanon #Hezbollah

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    “Today’s Headlines: Woman Killed in Gaza | Sexual Torture and Abuse | 21,806 Students, Staff Killed” by Palestine Chronicle Staff @palestine@fedibird.com @Palestine@masto.ai @palestine@lemmy.ml @iran @iraq@mastodon.social @palestinenews@gts.liberated.press “Read the latest headlines and summaries from today’s coverage by The Palestine Chronicle” https://www.palestinechronicle.com/todays-headlines-woman-killed-in-gaza-sexual-torture-and-abuse-21806-students-staff-killed/ #Press #SocialM...

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    All the trustworthy news &amp; analysis on #Israel’s ongoing #PalestinianGenocide in Gaza &amp; the West Bank - and the heroic #Palestinian #resistance - that you won’t get from the corrupt genocide-enabling #Vichy #LegacyMedia - especially the #Zionist-run #BBC state propaganda ‘service’! Now also including Trump’s renewed attacks on Iran following the #US/ Israel surrender after #OperationEpsteinFury &amp; Netanyahu’s ongoing “Greater Israel” desecration of #Lebanon! https://www.palestinechro...

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    “From the Six-Day War to the 12-Day War: Israel’s Military Decline” by Jeremy Salt in The Palestine Chronicle @palestine@fedibird.com @Palestine@masto.ai @palestine@lemmy.ml @iran @iraq@mastodon.social @palestinenews@gts.liberated.press “Despite the signs of steady strategic decline since 1967, Israel remains fixated on war as the solution to the problems it has created for itself through its lawlessness and brutality. This ‘solution’ cannot work. After nearly 80 years, indifferent to l...

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    “Today’s Headlines: Four-Year-Old Dies from Wounds | No Evacuation, Hundred Killed | ‘It’s Genocide, I’m Into It’” by Palestine Chronicle Staff @palestine@fedibird.com @Palestine@masto.ai @palestine@lemmy.ml @iran @iraq@mastodon.social @palestinenews@gts.liberated.press https://www.palestinechronicle.com/todays-headlines-four-year-old-dies-from-wounds-no-evacuation-hundred-killed-its-genocide-im-into-it/ #Press #SocialMedia #Journalism #Gaza #PalestinianGenocide #Zionism #SettlerColonia...

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    All the trustworthy news &amp; analysis on #Israel’s ongoing #PalestinianGenocide in Gaza &amp; the West Bank - and the heroic #Palestinian #resistance - that you won’t get from the corrupt genocide-enabling #Vichy #LegacyMedia - especially the #Zionist-run #BBC state propaganda ‘service’! Now also including Trump’s renewed attacks on Iran following the #US/ Israel surrender after #OperationEpsteinFury &amp; Netanyahu’s ongoing “Greater Israel” desecration of #Lebanon! https://www.palestinechro...

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    “REVEALED: THE BRITISH MAN WHO FOUGHT FOR ISRAEL IN GAZA” by Hamza Yusuf, Dania Akkad, Shaimaa Marwan and Phil Miller in Declassified UK @palestine@fedibird.com @Palestine@masto.ai @palestine@lemmy.ml @iran @iraq@mastodon.social @palestinenews@gts.liberated.press @uk_politics “A British man fought for the Israeli army in Gaza when war crimes appear to have been committed, a four-month investigation by Declassified has found. Jonathan #Burman, who is in his mid-20s and from Manchester, p...

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    “No Evacuation, Hundreds Killed: Israeli Soldiers Expose Gaza Genocide Orders – Report” by Palestine Chronicle Staff @palestine@fedibird.com @Palestine@masto.ai @palestine@lemmy.ml @iran @iraq@mastodon.social @palestinenews@gts.liberated.press “Key Takeaways: - Soldiers said the military deliberately bombed inhabited buildings in #Jabaliya without evacuation to prevent one Hamas commander from escaping. - An intelligence estimate anticipating harm to 250–300 people was referred directly...

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    All the trustworthy news &amp; analysis on #Israel’s ongoing #PalestinianGenocide in Gaza &amp; the West Bank - and the heroic #Palestinian #resistance - that you won’t get from the corrupt genocide-enabling #Vichy #LegacyMedia - especially the #Zionist-run #BBC state propaganda ‘service’! Now also including Trump’s renewed attacks on Iran following the #US/ Israel surrender after #OperationEpsteinFury &amp; Netanyahu’s ongoing “Greater Israel” desecration of #Lebanon! https://www.palestinechro...

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    “Iran 1953: How Britain and the CIA Overthrew a Country to Keep Its Oil” by Kathy in Manufacturing Dissent on Substack @palestine@fedibird.com @Palestine@masto.ai @palestine@lemmy.ml @iran @palestinenews@gts.liberated.press “Most Westerners grow up with a cartoon version of Iran’s history. A neat little story about a ‘crazy regime,’ a ‘backward country,’ and a ‘dangerous revolution.’ What they never hear is that Iran once had a democracy. A real one. And the West destroyed it because Iran...

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    “What the Attacks on the Green Party Demonstrate is that Despite the Genocide, the Murder of 20,000+ Children, Journalists, Doctors &amp; Red Cross Workers, Imperialism Will Not Abandon Its Racist Rotweiler” by veteran UK socialist &amp; anti-Zionist campaigner Tony Greenstein’s @palestine@fedibird.com @Palestine@masto.ai @palestine@lemmy.ml @iran @iraq@mastodon.social @palestinenews@gts.liberated.press @thegreenparty @nickadamsmt@bird.makeup @guardian@flipboard.social @guardian@mastodo...

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    “No state has a ‘right’ to exist – least of all an apartheid, genocidal state like Israel” by Jonathan Cook on Substack @palestine@fedibird.com @Palestine@masto.ai @palestine@lemmy.ml @iran @iraq@mastodon.social @palestinenews@gts.liberated.press “After the Greens passed a motion declaring ‘Zionism is racism’, every establishment journalist is suddenly playing dumb about the most elementary of issues in international law” https://jonathancook.substack.com/p/no-state-has-a-right-to-exist...

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    All the trustworthy news &amp; analysis on #Israel’s ongoing #PalestinianGenocide in Gaza &amp; the West Bank - and the heroic #Palestinian #resistance - that you won’t get from the genocide-enabling #Vichy #LegacyMedia - especially the #Zionist-run #BBC state propaganda ‘service’! Now also including Trump’s renewed attacks on Iran following the #US/ Israel surrender after #OperationEpsteinFury &amp; Netanyahu’s ongoing “Greater Israel” desecration of #Lebanon! https://www.palestinechronicle.co...

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    “German Court Rules Comparing Israel to Nazi Regime is Protected Speech” by Palestine Chronicle Staff @palestine@fedibird.com @Palestine@masto.ai @palestine@lemmy.ml @iran @iraq@mastodon.social @palestinenews@gts.liberated.press “Key Developments: - A German appeals court acquitted a woman convicted over pro-Palestine Instagram posts comparing Israel to Nazi Germany. - The court ruled the posts constituted protected political expression rather than unlawful use of Nazi symbols. - Judges...

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    *Satire alert*! “Israel identifies ‘terror tunnels’ under Oslo after Nobel awards peace prize to Navi Pillay” by Laura and Normal Island News on Substack @palestine@fedibird.com @Palestine@masto.ai @palestine@lemmy.ml @iran @iraq@mastodon.social @palestinenews@gts.liberated.press “Clearly, Israel has every right to defend itself from this woman—and from the Nobel Committee. Thankfully, Israel has identified terror tunnels under the Nobel Institute and is planning to drop 2,000lb dumb bo...

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    “The civilisational collapse cult” by Sam Bright on Substack @uk_politics @thegreenparty @green “Nigel Farage has said he thinks it’s ‘absolutely nuts’ for CO2 to be considered a pollutant, while Kemi Badenoch says candidates aren’t welcome in the Conservative Party who support the UK’s 2050 net zero emissions target. The backdrop? Wildfires raging across Europe, forcing more than 300,000 people to flee their homes. Welcome to the civilisational collapse cult” https://open.substack.com/...

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    “Leaked files expose Britain’s covert influence campaign in Iraq” by Kit Klarenberg in The Cradle @palestine@fedibird.com @Palestine@masto.ai @palestine@lemmy.ml @iran @iraq@mastodon.social @palestinenews@gts.liberated.press @uk_politics “Leaked documents describe an elaborate campaign built during the war against ISIS, with Baghdad’s youth-oriented news and social media platform Yalla at its center. They detail how a British government contractor planned to use its considerable reach t...

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    “‘By the Way, the World is Not Stopping Us’: The Secret of Israel’s ‘Success’” by Jeremy Salt in The Palestine Chronicle @palestine@fedibird.com @Palestine@masto.ai @palestine@lemmy.ml @iran @iraq@mastodon.social @palestinenews@gts.liberated.press “Had a multinational military force been sent to Gaza to protect the Palestinians, Israel would have had to choose between confrontation and withdrawal, but this option wasn’t even considered by an ‘international community’ committed to upholdi...

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    “Today’s Headlines: Two Palestinians Killed | Ceasefire without Meaning | ‘Kingdom of Hypocrisy’” by Palestine Chronicle Staff @palestine@fedibird.com @Palestine@masto.ai @palestine@lemmy.ml @iran @iraq@mastodon.social @palestinenews@gts.liberated.press “Read the latest headlines and summaries from today’s coverage by The Palestine Chronicle” https://www.palestinechronicle.com/todays-headlines-two-palestinians-killed-ceasefire-without-meaning-kingdom-of-hypocrisy/ #Press #SocialMedia #...

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    All the trustworthy news &amp; analysis on #Israel’s ongoing #PalestinianGenocide in Gaza &amp; the West Bank - and the heroic #Palestinian #resistance - that you won’t get from the genocide-enabling #Vichy #LegacyMedia - especially the #Zionist-run #BBC state propaganda ‘service’! Now also including Trump’s renewed attacks on Iran following the #US/ Israel surrender after #OperationEpsteinFury &amp; Netanyahu’s ongoing “Greater Israel” desecration of #Lebanon! https://www.palestinechronicle.co...

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    “The US springboarded its regime change in Iraq from Saudi Arabia and its Persian Gulf allies, working alongside them to collapse one government after another across the region. Now it is targeting Iran in order to take out the only nation on earth that backs up resistance factions across the region. Hence the propaganda aimed at convincing people that Sunni and Shia Muslims should be at war, it is a trick aimed at convincing populations across West Asia to kill each other in order to strengthen...

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    “The ‘Mecca Pact’ Exposed: A Muslim Alliance Fighting Yemen with Israel’s Help” by Robert Inlakesh in The Palestine Chronicle @palestine@fedibird.com @Palestine@masto.ai @palestine@lemmy.ml @iran @iraq@mastodon.social @palestinenews@gts.liberated.press “Pakistan and Turkiye have declared their intention to back Saudi Arabia in its war on Yemen, implementing the mutual defense clause embedded within the recently signed ‘Mecca Pact’. Originally portrayed as the emergence of a Sunni Muslim...

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    “Today’s Headlines: Tanker Struck near Qatar | ‘Mecca Pact’ Exposed | Who Will Monitor Europe?” by Palestine Chronicle Staff @palestine@fedibird.com @Palestine@masto.ai @palestine@lemmy.ml @iran @iraq@mastodon.social @palestinenews@gts.liberated.press “Read the latest headlines and summaries from today’s coverage by The Palestine Chronicle” https://www.palestinechronicle.com/todays-headlines-tanker-struck-near-qatar-mecca-pact-exposed-who-will-monitor-europe/ #Press #SocialMedia #Journ...

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    All the trustworthy news &amp; analysis on #Israel’s ongoing #PalestinianGenocide in Gaza &amp; the West Bank - and the heroic #Palestinian #resistance - that you won’t get from the genocide-enabling #Vichy #LegacyMedia - especially the #Zionist-run #BBC state propaganda ‘service’! Now also including Trump’s renewed attacks on Iran following the #US/ Israel surrender after #OperationEpsteinFury &amp; Netanyahu’s ongoing “Greater Israel” desecration of #Lebanon! https://www.palestinechronicle.co...

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    “Why Britain is being forced to revisit the Balfour Declaration” by Soumaya Ghannoushi in Middle East Eye @palestine@fedibird.com @Palestine@masto.ai @palestine@lemmy.ml @iran @iraq@mastodon.social @palestinenews@gts.liberated.press “For decades, western politics permitted criticism of Israel, provided it stopped short of Zionism itself. Governments could be condemned, [..] Netanyahu denounced - but the founding ideology remained beyond the limits of respectable debate. That line has n...

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    “British support for Israel is shattering” by David Hearst in Middle East Eye @palestine@fedibird.com @Palestine@masto.ai @palestine@lemmy.ml @iran @iraq@mastodon.social @palestinenews@gts.liberated.press @UKLabour@mastodon.cloud @thegreenparty @uk_politics “A dam has burst in British politics.” [..] “For the first time, a British foreign secretary told those fighting for justice for the Palestinians that they were right. For the first time, Britain has committed itself to a UN d...