Youth Demand activists in Old Street, central London, April 5, 2025
DOZENS of activists from Youth Demand blocked streets in central London on Saturday, calling for the government to impose a total trade embargo on Israel.
The activists also said the super-rich and fossil fuel elites should be made to pay damages to communities and countries worst harmed by fossil fuel burning.
Monday-Malachi Rosenfeld, 22, a politics and international relations student from east London, took part in the action.
He said: “Every day the Labour government is killing children in Palestine and they do not care so long as the money from Israeli trade keeps flowing.
“We have all seen what’s happening in Gaza and we must not look away. Children are dying. Entire families are starving.
“Our government has a direct part in this genocide and they know it. Just two weeks ago, [Foreign Secretary] David Lammy himself admitted that Israel was violating international humanitarian law.
“Instead of having any humanity, our government is trying to silence and suppress those speaking out about these crimes.”
Genocide denier and Current UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer is quoted that he supports Zionism without qualification. He also confirms that UK air force support has been essential in Israel’s mass-murdering genocide. Includes URLs https://www.declassifieduk.org/keir-starmers-100-spy-flights-over-gaza-in-support-of-israel/ and https://youtu.be/O74hZCKKdpAUK Foreign Minister David Lammy confirms that UK government and military are active participants in Israel’s genocides and that the F-35 parts that they suspended from supplying to Israel are instead simply diverted via the United States. He says see https://youtu.be/QILgUHrdWRE
We come back to Gaza, as all serious discussion must at present. I cannot come to terms with the fact that the takeover of the political Establishment by zionist interests – itself a consequence in the massive growth of the comparative wealth of the ultra-rich – is making it possible for the most brutal genocide possible to happen before the eyes of the world, with active support for [from?] the western establishment.
It is not that the people do not want to stop it. It is that there is no mechanism connecting the popular will to the instruments of government. The major parties all support Israel’s genocide in almost all the western “democracies”.
It has become impossible to deny the intention of Genocide now. Israel has stepped up its killing of children to dozens every day, is openly executing medics and destroying all healthcare facilities, is bombing desalination plants and is blockading all food.
The zionist narrative on social media has shifted from denial of genocide to justification of genocide.
I simply cannot understand the mainstream tolerance of this Holocaust. I am living in an age where the power structures and social narratives I do not recognise as part of a societal organisation to which I can consent to belong. It is the British Labour Party which is actively supporting genocide whilst targeting the most vulnerable at home for cuts in income. It is the EU which is doing everything possible to promote World War 3 and transforming into a militarily aggressive organisation of Nazi leanings.
Still, it's not all bad news.
Israel's genocidal President Isaac Herzog welcomed Ruth Smeeth, Louise Ellman, Christian Wakeford and Margaret Hodge with open arms.
Look at Margaret's face. She was having the time of her life. Bless her.
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The UK, US and other first world nations are radically cutting overseas aid to provide money for imperialist military aggression. The broadly social democratic consensus of the western world in my youth involved much dull compromise: but it was infinitely better and more hopeful than this Hell we are creating.
UK Foreign Minister David Lammy confirms that UK government and military are active participants in Israel’s genocides and that the F-35 parts that they suspended from supplying to Israel are instead simply diverted via the United States. He says see https://youtu.be/QILgUHrdWRE
Yet the Western media will keep treating Israeli lies about war crimes as credible claims
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So what we have here is an unbelievably grave war crime – the massacre of 15 Red Crescent medics and first responders, which the Israeli military covered up and lied about.
If this had been 15 Israeli medics and first responders butchered by Hamas, the media coverage would be deafening. It would be front page news and lead news bulletins. Every Western leader under the sun would issue damning statements condemning the utter evil of Hamas.Subscribe
But these victims were Palestinian. On the BBC news website, it’s four stories down – but most damningly, the headline is: “Video footage appears to contradict Israeli account of Gaza medic killings.”
“Appears” to contradict? What does this even mean? The footage definitively proves the Israeli account is a litany of lies. What possible room for doubt exists here?
Just imagine this footage had never been uncovered. Indeed, in the case of so many of Israel’s war crimes, there is no such footage, and Israeli claims are simply allowed to stand.
And what’s even more disturbing is this will not change the Western media’s modus operandi. As I’ve noted, Western media outlets have done rebuttals of Israeli claims before. CNN took apart Israeli claims about the so-called Flour Massacre, when over 100 Palestinians were massacred while waiting for flour. The Washington Post took apart Israel’s claims about the November 2023 assault on al-Shifa hospital. The New York Times examined how, contrary to Israeli claims, 2,000lb bombs were being dropped on so-called ‘safe zones’ by the Israeli military.
The point isn’t just that these rebuttals aren’t frequent enough, or given proper prominence, or treated with the requisite gravity – i.e. as evidence of extreme war crimes. It’s that they are orphaned from the wider narrative. Western media outlets should make clear that Israel has a proven record of entirely false statements about such atrocities. But, like a perverse Groundhog Day, they act as though these rebuttals never happened.
Inmates the Trump administration alleges are linked to criminal organizations are lined up by guards in their cells at the Terrorism Confinement Center, a maximum security prison, on March 16, 2025 in Tecoluca, El Salvador. (Photo: Salvadoran Government via Getty Images)
“How the government reacts will tell us so much about how far down the road to autocracy we are,” said one lawyer.
A U.S. judge on Friday ordered the return of a Maryland resident who the Trump administration mistakenly deported to a prison in El Salvador last month, according to The Associated Press.
Prior to issuing the ruling, U.S. District Judge Paula Xinis called the deportation of Kilmar Abrego Garcia “an illegal act.”
The judge, an appointee of former President Barack Obama, gave the Trump administration end of the day of the day on Monday to bring him back to the United States.
Supporters outside the courtroom cheered as the judge handed down her order, according to The Washington Post.
Responding to the ruling on social media, U.S. Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-Wash.) said: “This is a big win. Now Trump must comply with the judge’s order.”
Immigration lawyer Ava Benach wrote: “The right decision. How the government reacts will tell us so much about how far down the road to autocracy we are.”
The right decision. How the government reacts will tell us so much about how far down the road to autocracy we are.
Abrego Garcia was among hundreds of people the administration expelled in mid-March to a notorious megaprison in El Salvador after targeting them for alleged gang ties.
In a court papers filed earlier this week in the U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland, an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) acting field office director admitted that the removal of Abrego Garcia on March 15 “was an error.”
Abrego Garcia was deported despite the fact that in 2019, a U.S. immigration judge ruled that he could not be deported to his native El Salvador because he would likely face gang persecution there.
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