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Pauline P Schneider's avatar

The BBC concluded with: “At least 54,607 people have been killed in Gaza since then, including 4,335 since Israel resumed its offensive on 18 March, according to the Hamas-run Gaza health ministry.”

Is BBC writing “Hamas-run Gaza health ministry” meant to invalidate the IOF atrocities, crimes against humanity, and genocide?

Base hacks. Hell is too good for them.

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Nicholas Pretzel's avatar

It's a criticism I hear so often and the reason so many Israel apologists doubt the fatality figures they give. Yet time and again, throughout its history, it's figures have been proved to be accurate and correct. The fact that the Gaza health ministry is run by a despicable group like Hamas, whose terrorist acts not only harm Israelis but the Palestinians too, doesn't alter that.

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gypsy33's avatar

Are you being sarcastic, or are you actually calling Hamas a “despicable group”?

Who the fuck do you think provided services for the Gazans? Built schools and universities? Maintained roads and water supplies? Did everything a governmental body is supposed to do?

You DO, realize, asshole, that the vast majority of the world’s nations do not classify Hamas as a “terrorist organization”? Only Amerikkka and its bitches.

And you clearly believe that history began on 10/7/23.

Your brain’s been twisted into a pretzel, shithead.

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Vin LoPresti's avatar

Ah, yes, my dear gyp, so well said. Anyone using that language is brain-rotted by Zionist propaganda -- so many available sources out there to provide that rubbish.

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JP McEvoy's avatar

Bullseye! 🎯

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Klaus Hubbertz's avatar

🔥🔥🔥 🧨🧨🧨 !!! 👍👍👍

Thank you so much !!!

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Major Depressive 🎢's avatar

Dude, Normal Island is bizarro upside~down world. Recognize satire or we know you're a bot. Read some past posts or maybe The Onion for a while.

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gypsy33's avatar

I ain’t no “dude”, shitforbrains.

And I was replying to an asinine comment, NOT LAURA.

Go fuck yourself if you can find your prick.

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Major Depressive 🎢's avatar

Thanks for telling us who you are. Goodbye.

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gypsy33's avatar

🖕

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A stands for privacy's avatar

Yeah, hamas the bad one which use their tanks and bombs to destroy hospitals and civilian infrastructure as well as snipers and drones targeting children playing near tents... oh wait... all the awful killings are all commited by israel. My bad 😒

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I Know Nothing's avatar

The realistic death toll of the Israeli holocaust of the Palestinian people is more likely somewhere between 300,000 and 500,000

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gypsy33's avatar

Exactly, IKN.

The administries have only counted RECORDED deaths. We all are aware of the fact that there are far, far more unrecorded.

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Kevin Donnellon's avatar

I just wish she had the courage of her conviction and not apologised!

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Wiremu Harpuka's avatar

Her "conviction"? Mate, that arch and twee little Selfie was about as far from the word as one can get. I couldn't listen to it all for the squirming fear it conveyed of who runs entertainment and media.

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Kevin Donnellon's avatar

to be fair i didn't listen to it as French took the post down. i'm sick of people backing down and apologising in general though to appease the zio-fascists that run this world! Jeremy Corbyn had NOTHING to apologise for either - although he repeatedly apologised.

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Julie O'Rourke's avatar

Yes, absolutely. And what of all the journalists they've imprisoned or castigated for criticising genocide?

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Wiremu Harpuka's avatar

It was insufferable, Frendo!

Corbyn should never have apologised, of course not, civil discourse was discredited-which was the point.

I think people might forget that not only were the Jewish lobby out to neuter him but the last remaining UK industry (weapons) would have been decimated if israel was deemed as vile as it is in terms of trade and human rights.

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Kevin Donnellon's avatar

yes

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Steve's avatar

Corbyn (though a decent & honest man of great integrity) was weak, and let’s be honest…. Just a little bit dim. Imagining that you could make that faked antisemitism ‘crisis’ go away by appeasing appalling organisations like The Board of Deputies, The CAA, The CST, and the JC, shows a level of innocence, or stupidity that is Homeric! He also fed allies & colleagues to the Zionist wolves….. not a good look. Then it was a great pity that he didn’t have the nous & killer instinct to form a new party (Real Labour anyone) the moment he was kicked out by Kid Starver. He could have taken most of those 100,000s of new members with him. That would have had the PLP apparatchiks shitting in their pants. All too late now.😞

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Kevin Donnellon's avatar

Agreed. he was a reluctant leader from the start and didn't have the balls for a fight, not even to defend his allies and hence he threw them under the bus; Chris Williamson, Jackie Walker, Marc Wadsworth etc etc. I argued at the time that he should have began deselecting the traitors - which Starmer did with relish the moment he came to power [on a pack of outright lies and false promises to the 'left'].

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Francesca's avatar

This

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PeeGee's avatar

Says the guy in a wheelchair wearing a keyiffah ! 🤣🤣🤣

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Kevin Donnellon's avatar

and your point is? utter prick.

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PeeGee's avatar

Wheel yourself along blaming them for all that ails you. 🤣

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Kevin Donnellon's avatar

at least i don't hide behind a Benny Hill picture, knobhead. you sound like you're about 12 - does Mummy know you're on her computer?

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PeeGee's avatar

That’s a bit rich coming from Keyiffah Lou!

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Kevin Donnellon's avatar

you can't even spell :) utter moron

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Wiremu Harpuka's avatar

The fvck does that matter?Plenty of IDF with their limbs thankfully blown off by Gazan resistance still wear that terrifying blue star thing.

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Terence Callachan's avatar

Hey , police , come get me , i agree that Israel is committing genocide killing innocent people , embarrass yourself further come arrest me for my opinions , ransack my house , more people than you imagine think the same as me and will say the same as me, you think you can stop our thoughts ? you cant, human strength reaches further than your bullying.

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William Bowles's avatar

"Dawn French says sorry for posting 'one-sided' Gaza video

BBC

5 hours ago

The BBC pulled this story within a short time of publishing it, we'll never know why.

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roger hawcroft's avatar

On the contrary, we already know why. They pulled it because their lords and masters support Israel's Netanyahu led, Zionist ideology and carnage of genocide of the Palestinian people. Those 'in charge' act corruptly, in similar vein to the ones whose perfidy created the State of Israel and caused the first dispossession of 750,000 Palestinians from their land.

The BBC does as it is told when royalty, the wealthy, the powerful and the influential right wing lobbyists dictate to them.

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The Revolution Continues's avatar

So the Vicar of Dibley can't stand tall and voice her own opinions without chickening out later? And it didn't do her a bit of good it sounds like. Stand courageous and NEVER back down, Dawn!

#FreePalestine

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Jane D's avatar

I am sorry that politics have become so disgracefully bitter and twisted in Britain that all its decent values are being utterly trashed. Shame on those in power.

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Julie O'Rourke's avatar

Nothing changes. Colonialism.

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Poshlost's avatar

Maybe someone needs to explain to French that being "one-sided" is exactly the point when you "criticise" those executing "Genocidal Ethnic Cleansing"? There is no "impartiality" when describing the Monsters carrying out such deliberate acts of pure unadulterated crimes against humanity?

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BBC's avatar

What! Freedom of expression is dead I this country. all those who voted left are now reaping what they sow...

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JennyStokes's avatar

What 'left?' There is no left in the bastardised British Empire. They are clones of the USA

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roger hawcroft's avatar

There has never been any really significant 'left wing' ideology in Britain. The average citizen has always succumbed to an indoctrinated view that he or she should know and 'keep their place' for this was how things were meant to be. That those that rule have a right to do so and are the best able to do so has been well implanted in the British psyche and largely remains so - hence the acceptance of a corrupt monarchy and obsequious fawning of a King who deceived a naive young girl into marriage in order to provide heirs to the throne, whilst already having a long time relationship with another woman and maintaining that woman throughout his marriage to that girl - a woman whose shoes he was never fit to lick.

If you wish to understand this appalling manipulation of the British people you need only read: "The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists" by Robert Tressell - probably the best depicting of this appalling affliction that the British people suffer.

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Wiremu Harpuka's avatar

Leaning against a pillar in Covent Garden decades ago a bumptious BBC woman shoved a Mic in my face and demanded "What do you think of Lady Di?" I said "I've never met her"

End of interview.

But I really doubt she was as completely naïve as you suggest. She came from an establishment family; no doubt.

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roger hawcroft's avatar

Well you may doubt it and you may be right to do so. I can't know for sure but the fact that she came from "an establishment family" does not preclude naivety, nor does it alter the fact that she was used by an overly privileged man without scruples or honesty who was already in a long term and adulterous relationship which he had no intention of ending.

Perhaps I am wrong to do so or naive myself in feeling this way but I regard infidelity as one of the most despicable and hurtful behaviours towards a supposed intimate partner that is possible.

If two people agree, without coercion, to have relationships with others whilst continuing their relationship that's up to them. However when it is a secretive or hidden betrayal I cannot accept it as a decent or kind behaviour.

Of course, as a commoner without status, privilege or wealth of any kind, I can't know all that was known or that happened. So, if I'm wrong, then I'm wrong and if someone can evidence it then I will need to rethink at least some of what I currently believe now. My knowledge is limited to reading of various commentary and accounts and I admit to having no fondness for monarchy or any type of elitist hierarchy or 'divine right' to rule, let alone to pass on that right by procreation, so yes, perhaps I have a bias. In mitigation or explanation I can only say that what I have understood from a range of sources does not suggest Diana had either prior knowledge or approval for Charles's infidelity. Nor have I seen anything to suggest that she would have pursued the relationship had she been aware.

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Wiremu Harpuka's avatar

In those circles infidelity is taken as given; to be expected. Good God, it's in every account of British history where upper echelon are mentioned.

Spencer is a noble family so entirely au fait with protocol, custom, history and the details (however sordid) of marriage.

I suppose one could postulate she was slightly gormless if she thought the Prince was going to play doting husband for more than six months but that might be an insult to her obvious intelligence and breeding.

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Julie O'Rourke's avatar

V. likely a Goldsmith.

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JennyStokes's avatar

Yes she did.

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roger hawcroft's avatar

"Yes she did", what? Are you referring to her being a child of parents from an 'establishment' background? If so, as I've said elsewhere, that does not preclude naivety nor excuse Charles's obnoxious and scurrilous behaviour.

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JennyStokes's avatar

Yes. Generally I take absolutely no notice of these people. They are not important.

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Rebel Nun's avatar

Thank you, Roger! I will read that book.

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Julie O'Rourke's avatar

I think there is a following, around 10m, but the media and establishment set out to destroy this in the early 20th century. They had to give us some crumbs after WW2. But since Thatcher...slowly, the status quo returns. JC got a lot of votes last time, remember.

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JennyStokes's avatar

There was a 'left.' Blair put paid to that and Jeremy Corbyn was hounded for his anti-Zionist views..

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roger hawcroft's avatar

I can't agree with your assertion. I am from a British working class family and a keen student of politics and have seen no evidence of any significant 'left wing' of political ideology in Britain. Quite the contrary in fact. I'd suggest that you read "The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists" and more if you really believe what you assert.

Of course, I accept that my view may be a mistaken one, however I have seen no evidence to suggest it.

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Julie O'Rourke's avatar

No, it's the reverse. A lot of power in central London, always was. Colonialism, Freemasonry, Satanic worship.

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roger hawcroft's avatar

You appear to be responding to my assertion that there has never been any real or significant 'left wing' political ideology in Britain and that the opposite is true.

If that is the case then I have absolutely no idea how you could arrive at such a conclusion or why you would then make contradictory statements which support what I suggested.

However, I dislike the method that Substack uses to track posts and responses in threads and have often found it to be in error or at least appear to be so. Perhaps this is a case in point.

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Lisa's avatar

As if the Bullingdon-approved fascism-facilitator — who character-assassinated Jeremy Corbyn, hijacked Labour, and ideologically-cleansed the Labour Party of everyone with any integrity, FOR THE SOLE SAKE OF ROBBING THE BRITISH PUBLIC OF ANY OPPORTUNITY TO VOTE LEFT — is the "left."

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roger hawcroft's avatar

I have absolutely no idea what your comment is supposed to mean or why you felt the need to shout much of it. If you can explain clearly and without the unnecessary hyperbole then I'd be interested to hear your view.

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Jaime Cooper's avatar

Are you seriously suggesting that Starmer and his neoliberal ghouls are 'the left'?

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Mel's avatar

BBC collect £15 a month for every household only to show bias news.

Im wondering why UK politicians turn a blind eye from ongoing genocide in Gaza.

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Rebel Nun's avatar

The greatest tragedy in the world today is that vulnerable victims like Kern and Oberman and their friends in the US are being made uncomfortable. To correct this terrible human rights violation, we must silence completely the Hamas-controlled independent media, the Hamas-controlled University students and faculties, the Hamas-controlled rogue states like Ireland and Sourh Africa and a hundred others, the Hamas-controlled UN, the Hamas-controlled internet with its fake videos of mangled children and demolished buildings, and the Hamas-controlled Mediterranean Sea with its do-gooder-filled ships. The only thing in the way of our goal is reality. Reality might win.

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Poshlost's avatar

You are coming to understand that “power and control” of the direction that humanity has taken is, at this point in time, out of the hands of the vast majority of humanity. That agency, has been ripped from the hands of the individuals engaged in the enterprise of survival by a small group of psychotic narcissistic materialists who care nothing for the humanity they see simply as just another commodity, to be used and exploited to further their corrupt and venal goal of total control.

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JennyStokes's avatar

To my mind: The great British Empire is dead BUT it won't let itself die. Why?

Misogynist politics.

This "EMERALD ISLE" could be a place of peace.

Grow your own food/support the earth BUT the people are like sheep.

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roger hawcroft's avatar

I understand what you mean but no, people are significantly different to sheep. Sheep herd together for security and out of instinct. People follow social norms into which they are indoctrinated, predominantly through schooling, institutional modelling and significant others. This may appear to be similar to sheep following one another but the difference is that beyond the fact that we are social animals and 'choose' to live in groups, we are capable of relatively high levels of thought and understanding and those who use their minds are well capable and often do transgress those 'norms' because they recognise that they are false, destructive, obsolescent, immoral or simply 'wrong.'

Self righteous demagogues will never accept that their glory days are over nor that they may have been or were flawed and should never have existed in any case. That is why so many hold on to obsolescent traditions, rituals and notions of a supposed magnificent British past of Empire. In fact, it was a time of the worst perversion, disruption, breach of human rights, lack of justice, dispossession, theft, fraud, distortion, human trafficking, slavery and prejudicial injustice that the World has probably ever known.

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Dx's avatar

Are you suggesting 'we' try and take over Ireland - again?

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Vin LoPresti's avatar

You'd have to ask an AI brain like Gary Marcus if this were possible and how it might be executed, but I hypothesize that Zionism has already taken over the digital information structures of the planet through all these "partnerships" with tech to start, and through machinations of Mossad, and through the admission that Israeli society has been very clever about technology development. As far as I'm concerned, folks need to be aware of a Zionist system of some kind invading the entirety of the planet.

And go ahead someone, tell me this is anti-Semitic; hell I just praised Israel's cleverness. So you see it IS anti-Zionist but ISN'T Antisemitic. HA!

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Wiremu Harpuka's avatar

Why not say "Jews"?

Most of that wonder-Tech, IP , Comms, Military, Medical, Spy, Commercial was and is stolen by or given to israel and it's sayanim who then resell it on for glorious profit.

The US taxpayer funded most of the initial research and then uniformly illiterate, awkward and obnoxious ghouls such as Karp, Theil, Altman & Zukckerburg implement the most distasteful and murderous manipulations therefrom.

Why was Epstein so thoroughly ensconced at Harvard, why was Charles Lieber convicted and where is the latter now?

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XxYwise's avatar

THE OCTOBER 7 FOOTAGE IS AI-GENERATED.

You can verify it for yourself by zooming in on limbs, hands, feet, and faces (among other physics violations) at 1080p / .25x

It was a kidnapping mission.

Just look.

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Jean Marie Wilson-Main's avatar

It’s a pity Dawn French apologized. She was probably threatened with the end of her career and other things. Britain is totally right wing now and the BBC simply isn’t reliable in any way. As for HAMAS, if this was happening in any other country they’d be freedom fighters.

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Wiremu Harpuka's avatar

Celebrities get a call at some awkward hour or the big names get taken to lunch and management gives them the career news. Who runs entertainment and the media?

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Kevin Hammond CMT's avatar

Israhell has the right to kiss my Irish ASS!!

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