Kneecap’s Liam Og O hAnnaidh, aka Mo Chara, speaks to supporters outside Woolwich Crown Court, London, September 26, 2025
IRISH rappers Kneecap have said that they will “not be silent” ahead of a further legal challenge over a British court’s decision to throw out the terrorism case against Liam Og O hAnnaidh.
Mr O hAnnaidh, aka Mo Chara, was accused of displaying a flag in support of proscribed terrorist organisation Hezbollah at a gig in November 2024, until a technical error in the way he was charged led to the chief magistrate ruling he could not try the case.
The rap trio said in a post on social media on Thursday morning that the British government has issued them with a notice that it intends to appeal against the court’s decision.
Last year, the Crown Prosecution Service said it would be appealing against the decision because “we believe there is an important point of law which needs to be clarified.”
Keir Starmer objects to criticism of the IDF. He asks how could anyone object to them starving people to death, forced marches like the Nazis did, bombing Gaza’s hospitals and universities, mass-murdering journalists, healthworkers and starving people queuing for food, killing and raping prisoners and murdering children. He calls for people to stop obstructing his genocide for Israel.Orcas discuss Genocide-supporting and complicit Zionists. Donald Trump, Keith Starmer, David Lammy, Rachel Reeves, Angela Rayner and Wes Streeting are acknowledged as evil genocide-complicit and supporting cnuts.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/O74hZCKKdpA
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A view of a damaged building, belonged to medical charity Doctors Without Borders (MSF), following the Israeli attack in al-Mawasi, Khan Yunis, Gaza on February 21, 2024 [Ashraf Amra/Anadolu Agency]
Israeli occupation authorities have notified more than ten international humanitarian organisations that their permits to operate in the occupied West Bank and the Gaza Strip will be revoked, according to local reports.
A correspondent said the organisations affected include Doctors Without Borders and other international aid groups that are among the most active in providing humanitarian assistance in Gaza.
According to the Israeli notice, the permits will be withdrawn from 1 January 2026, and the organisations have been instructed to cease all operations by 1 March 2026.
Israeli authorities said the decision was taken because the organisations allegedly failed to complete newly required registration procedures for humanitarian work.
However, a source within one of the affected organisations said the dispute stems from an Israeli requirement that aid groups submit lists of Palestinian employees for so-called “security vetting”. The source said some organisations complied with the demand, while others refused.
Israeli authorities have claimed that some staff members working for the organisations are involved in what they described as “terrorist activity”. The source rejected the accusations, saying they are being used as a pretext to obstruct and restrict humanitarian work.
The decision is expected to result in the suspension of humanitarian operations by the affected organisations, the dismissal of hundreds of employees, and a further weakening of efforts to address the catastrophic humanitarian situation in the Gaza Strip.
Aid groups have repeatedly warned that any reduction in humanitarian presence would have severe consequences for civilians in Gaza, where basic services and lifesaving assistance already face extreme strain.
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The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) Commissioner General Philippe Lazzarini holds a press conference at the UN headquarters on September 25, 2025, in New York City, USA.[Selçuk Acar – Anadolu Agency]
The Commissioner-General of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees, Philippe Lazzarini, has condemned an Israeli Knesset (Parliament) vote targeting the agency, describing it as “outrageous”.
In a statement published on the X platform on Tuesday, Lazzarini said the legislation constitutes a blatant violation of the mandate granted to United Nations Relief and Works Agency by the UN General Assembly and represents a direct challenge to rulings issued by the International Court of Justice.
He said the legislation grants the Israeli government authority to confiscate UN property in occupied East Jerusalem, including UNRWA’s headquarters and its vocational training centre.
Lazzarini added that the bill explicitly excludes the agency from the immunities and privileges normally afforded to UN bodies, a move he said is intended to end UNRWA’s presence in occupied Jerusalem and sever all contact with its officials.
The UNRWA chief described the legislation as a serious blow to the multilateral system and part of a systematic campaign to discredit the agency and obstruct its role in delivering essential humanitarian assistance and development services to Palestinian refugees.
He stressed that Israel is obligated to act within the framework of the United Nations and its Charter, adding that any objections raised by Israel should be addressed through the appropriate UN deliberative bodies, rather than through unilateral legislative measures.
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Keir Starmer objects to criticism of the IDF. He asks how could anyone object to them starving people to death, forced marches like the Nazis did, bombing Gaza’s hospitals and universities, mass-murdering journalists, healthworkers and starving people queuing for food, killing and raping prisoners and murdering children. He calls for people to stop obstructing his genocide for Israel.Orcas discuss Genocide-supporting and complicit Zionists. Donald Trump, Keith Starmer, David Lammy, Rachel Reeves, Angela Rayner and Wes Streeting are acknowledged as evil genocide-complicit and supporting cnuts.Vote Labour for Genocide.
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Displaced Palestinians living in makeshift tents are trying to carry on their daily lives under harsh conditions in Deir al Balah, Gaza on December 29, 2025. [Mohammed Nassar – Anadolu Agency]
Eight European nations, Japan, and Canada on Tuesday expressed “serious concerns” about the renewed deterioration of the humanitarian situation in the Gaza Strip, Anadolu reports.
In a joint statement, foreign ministers of Canada, Denmark, Finland, France, Iceland, Japan, Norway, Sweden, Switzerland, and the UK recalled the “catastrophic” humanitarian situation in the besieged enclave.
The statement mentioned the appalling conditions that are exacerbated by winter, noting that 1.3 million Gazans still require urgent shelter assistance.
The foreign ministers cited the latest Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) report, which was published earlier in December, as evidence that the situation remains desperate.
The statement expressed their appreciation for the ceasefire in Gaza but stated that they will not lose sight of the plight of Gaza’s civilian population.
It called on Israel to ensure that the UN, its partners, and NGOs can continue their vital work and lift unreasonable restrictions on imports considered to have a dual use.
Saying that many established international NGO partners are at risk of being deregistered because of Israel’s restrictive new requirements, it warned that deregistration could result in the forced closure of humanitarian operations within 60 days in Gaza and the West Bank.
“This would have a severe impact on access to essential services including healthcare,” said the statement.
Ensuring UN, its partners can continue their vital work is ‘essential’
It also underlined that ensuring the UN and its partners can continue their vital work is “essential” to the impartial, neutral, and independent delivery of aid throughout Gaza.
“This includes UNRWA, which provides essential services, such as healthcare and education, to millions of Palestinian refugees,” said the foreign ministers.
The statement also called on Tel Aviv to open crossings and increase the flow of humanitarian aid into Gaza.
“The target of 4,200 trucks per week, including an allocation of 250 UN trucks per day, should be a floor not a ceiling,” it said, adding that these targets should be lifted so they can be sure the vital supplies are getting in at the vast scale needed.
The nations also underlined that ongoing restrictions limit the capacity for aid to be delivered at the scale needed, in accordance with international humanitarian law, or for repairs to be made to support recovery and reconstruction efforts.
“We now urge the Government of Israel to remove these humanitarian access constraints, and to deliver and honour the Comprehensive Plan to End the Gaza Conflict,” it added.
Despite the ceasefire, Israel continues to keep Gaza’s crossings largely closed, preventing the entry of mobile homes and reconstruction materials and worsening the humanitarian crisis affecting over 2 million people.
Palestinian officials say that at least 414 people in Gaza have been killed since the ceasefire deal between Israel and Hamas took place on Oct. 10.
Since October 2023, Israeli attacks have killed over 71,000 Palestinians in the enclave, most of them women and children, and rendered it largely uninhabitable.
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Keir Starmer objects to criticism of the IDF. He asks how could anyone object to them starving people to death, forced marches like the Nazis did, bombing Gaza’s hospitals and universities, mass-murdering journalists, healthworkers and starving people queuing for food, killing and raping prisoners and murdering children. He calls for people to stop obstructing his genocide for Israel.Orcas discuss Genocide-supporting and complicit Zionists. Donald Trump, Keith Starmer, David Lammy, Rachel Reeves, Angela Rayner and Wes Streeting are acknowledged as evil genocide-complicit and supporting cnuts.Vote Labour for Genocide.
The flags of Indonesia (L) and Israel (R) displayed together [AI generated image]
In recent months, as I continued investigating how pro-Israel narratives are being systematically injected into Indonesia’s social media ecosystem, I encountered yet another account demanding scrutiny. Operating alongside other digital efforts to sanitize Israel’s record, this account advances normalization not through debate or diplomacy, but through relentless repetition, emotional manipulation and the strategic erasure of context. The Instagram and Facebook account @israellovesindonesia is one such example.
At first glance, the account appears marginal. Active since August 2020, it has published more than 1,600 posts on Instagram but attracted only about 1,114 followers. Engagement is thin; likes rarely exceed 50, and comments are often sparse. When discussions do surface, many Indonesian users openly accuse the account of being a “buzzer,” shorthand for coordinated propaganda. Its Facebook counterpart, with roughly 1,000 followers, shows similarly limited reach.
But influence does not always announce itself through scale. Often, it works through persistence.
What @israellovesindonesia seeks to do is not to persuade Indonesians in a single moment, but to gradually dull resistance. The account relentlessly promotes positive news about Israel from mainstream outlets, highlights Israeli advances in agriculture and technology, and repeatedly urges Indonesia to sign what it calls a “Historic Peace Agreement.” Before October 2023, its feed was saturated with carefully curated images of coexistence: Israeli Jews providing medical aid, sharing Ramadan greetings and engaging in charitable acts. These posts were not neutral. They were designed to detach Israel’s image from its policies — to replace occupation with optics.
After October 2023, as Gaza was devastated, tens of thousands of Palestinians were killed, and Israel’s campaign was increasingly described by legal scholars, human rights organizations and states as genocidal, the tone shifted. The account pivoted toward emotionally manipulative storytelling, foregrounding narratives about Israeli hostages allegedly taken by Hamas while erasing the broader context of siege, apartheid and a genocide unfolding in full view of the world. More recently, it has begun openly endorsing Israeli geopolitical maneuvers, including Israel’s recognition of Somaliland — a move widely criticized as cynical and destabilizing.
On Facebook, the effects of this messaging are already visible. Posts quoting U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s assertion that Gaza should not be rebuilt until Hamas is disarmed have drawn comments explicitly endorsing collective punishment. One user wrote, “Why keep terrorists alive? Spending huge amounts of money to rebuild Gaza will only turn it back into a terrorist nest. That’s a waste of money.” Another added, “It’s only normal that it shouldn’t be rebuilt — there are too many Hamas terrorists, as long as Hamas hasn’t been wiped out.”
These comments matter. They show how normalization functions in practice: by reframing genocide as security policy, mass civilian destruction as pragmatism, and Palestinian life as expendable.
In another post about South Africa revoking visas for Palestinians accused of misuse, commenters mocked Pretoria’s pro-Palestinian stance using religious contempt and whataboutism. This rhetorical maneuver — deflection instead of accountability — is a familiar companion to atrocity. It allows genocide to be minimized, relativized or dismissed altogether.
These accounts are not spontaneous. They are connected to The Peace Factory, founded by Ronny Edry, an Israeli graphic designer celebrated in Western media for his 2012 viral image declaring, “Iranians, we will never bomb your country.” Edry has since presented his work at TED, MIT and other international forums, promoting a vision of peace built through people-to-people messaging rather than politics.
But peace without truth is not peace. It is propaganda.
Campaigns like The Peace Factory deliberately evacuate power from the conversation. They erase occupation, apartheid and now genocide, replacing them with abstract appeals to empathy and mutual understanding. They ask the colonized to affirm the humanity of the colonizer while remaining silent about systems of domination and mass killing. In the context of Palestine, this is not naïveté. It is ideological laundering.
The danger is not that @israellovesindonesia will suddenly convince Indonesians to abandon Palestine. The danger is that normalization advances quietly and persistently, wrapped in the language of pragmatism, until genocide becomes background noise and outrage is trained to fade. Occupation is not a side issue. Apartheid is not an inconvenience. Genocide is not a policy disagreement to be managed away.
Indonesia’s position on Palestine is not incidental. It is rooted in the country’s founding identity. The Indonesian Constitution explicitly rejects colonialism in all its forms — a principle forged through Indonesia’s own experience of dispossession and struggle. To normalize relations with Israel while Palestinians endure occupation, apartheid and genocide would not be realism. It would be a moral collapse.
Peace cannot be built on curated social media feeds while Palestine lies in ruins. Friendship cannot be forged by demanding silence in the face of genocide. And normalization does not become ethical simply because it arrives wrapped in the language of love. Indonesia must resist this soft-power offensive — not because it is loud, but because it is patient, disciplined and designed to make injustice, even genocide, feel ordinary.
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Kneecap’s Liam Og O hAnnaidh, aka Mo Chara, speaks to supporters outside Woolwich Crown Court, London, September 26, 2025
