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Andrew Garfield’s cowardly swipe at JK Rowling
Celebrities are not known for their common sense. From apologism for genocidal regimes to slathering themselves in Korean snail slime, they are a remarkably stupid caste. Nowhere is this clearer than in their treatment of JK Rowling, where the approved line among those with more Botox than brain cells is that her insistence that biology is real is ‘dangerous’.
The latest dullard sleb to bleat about Rowling is Andrew Garfield. The Los Angeles-based star of Spider-Man told Hits Radio last week that he still enjoys the Harry Potter films, despite the ‘controversy’. He declined to name their creator, instead referring to her as ‘she that shall remain nameless’ – a nod to Lord Voldemort, the series’ arch villain, variously described as ‘You Know Who’ and ‘He Who Must Not Be Named’.
Unlike Garfield, ‘she’ is a woman who has inspired generations of children, donated millions to good causes and built her success from scratch. And with a new Harry Potter series in the pipeline, ‘she’ is also quite capable of managing without the approval of red-carpet sniffers. Yet Garfield spoke as though sitting on his arse to watch the films inspired by Rowling was a radical and brave act. ‘I feel like, oh man, we can’t throw the baby out with the bathwater’, he said. ‘There are so many beautiful artists who worked on those films.’
Naturally, he did not elucidate which of Rowling’s beliefs or actions is so heinous that even her name must not be spoken. Perhaps it is her funding of a women-only rape crisis centre, Beira’s Place, which she did because survivors in Scotland were self-excluding because ‘trans inclusive’ policies had opened the door to men. Perhaps it is her thoughtful 2020 essay reflecting on her experience as a survivor of domestic abuse, in which she champions freedom of speech and calls for empathy. Or perhaps it is her view that gender-identity ideology is in tension with gay rights, and that placing children on a medical pathway with potentially sterilising consequences is negligent – a position now reflected in the findings of the Cass Review and in the growing shift among clinicians away from the ‘affirmation model’.
Garfield’s position that art should be separated from the artist is doubtless informed by his past. In 2016, he helped usher Mel Gibson back into polite company after years in the wilderness, following his anti-Semitic rants and allegations of domestic abuse. Garfield insisted that Gibson had ‘done a lot of beautiful healing with himself’, a generous assessment of a man once recorded blaming Jews for ‘all the wars in the world’. He added that Gibson ‘deserves to make films’ because of his ‘very, very big, compassionate heart’. Whatever one makes of Gibson’s misdemeanours or subsequent rehabilitation, the inconsistency in Garfield’s approach is striking.
Garfield has joined the tuneless chorus of cretinous celebs bashing JK Rowling. The ingrates she made famous – Daniel Radcliffe, Emma Watson and Rupert Grint – have all publicly and pointedly claimed that ‘transwomen are women’. Meanwhile, Pedro Pascal, star of HBO’s The Last of Us, has referred to Rowling as a ‘heinous loser’. Of course, none has dared to take on the beliefs of ‘she who must not be named’. That’s because, stripped of caricature, her arguments are not extreme but recognisably grounded in everyday reality.
It would be truly illuminating if actors like Andrew Garfield were ever asked to explain their own position. Why, precisely, should rapists be housed in women’s prisons, if they say they’re trans? Why should disabled people be denied the right to request same-sex intimate care? Why shouldn’t gays and lesbians be able to reject opposite-sex partners from their dating apps? These are not abstract questions but practical ones.
The lazy platitudes spewed out by the likes of Garfield are not the product of careful thought, but of a fashionable, elite worldview – one sustained at a comfortable distance from its consequences. Celebs won’t find themselves on an NHS ward, queuing for a public lavatory, or trying to protect their kids from trans ideology in the classroom. They can afford their fantasies precisely because they will never have to live with the consequences of them.
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Israel has murdered two more UN peacekeepers in Southern Lebanon, according to the UN Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL). This marks the latest lethal attack against UN forces, leaving at least three dead this week.
In a statement on social media, UNIFIL said:
Two UNIFIL peacekeepers were tragically killed in south Lebanon today, when an explosion of unknown origin destroyed their vehicle near Bani Hayyan. A third peacekeeper was severely injured, and a fourth was also hurt.
This is the second fatal incident in the last 24 hours. We reiterate that no one should ever have to die serving the cause of peace.
We extend our sincerest condolences to the family, friends, and colleagues of those brave peacekeepers who gave their lives in service of peace.
Since Israel began its bombardment and subsequent invasion of Lebanon, more than 1,000 people have been murdered and more than a million are internally displaced. Over 120 of those deaths are children, highlighting, as we’ve long reported, that Israel does not distinguish between civilians or combatants.
Furthermore, the UN recently recently warned that 370,000 more children could be displaced by the illegal Israeli invasion.
Given that the occupational power is unfazed by the idea of murdering peacekeepers, supposedly protected under international law, the fate of Lebanon’s children hangs in the balance.
The UN has condemned the deaths of three Indonesian peacekeepers in southern Lebanon, who were killed in two separate incidents, including a vehicle explosion.
They are the latest UN casualties since Israel expanded its ground invasion. pic.twitter.com/gwqjTZaLLW
— Al Jazeera English (@AJEnglish) March 30, 2026
UNIFIL says “the violence must end”
Israel renewed its bombardment and subsequent ground invasion of Lebanon after attacking Iran in late February. Under the pretext of Hezbollah’s links to Iran, Israeli Occupational Forces (IOF) intend to continue their landgrabs as part of their push towards their “Greater Israel.”
However, once again, it appears Israel is doing little to disguise its sinister motives, murdering UN peacekeepers in their alleged “war on terror.”
UNIFIL has been on the record condemning the IOF’s flagrant violations of international law:
We reiterate the urgent need for all actors to uphold their obligations under international law and to ensure the safety and security of UN personnel and property at all times, including avoiding any actions that may put peacekeepers in danger.
Deliberate attacks on peacekeepers are grave violations of international humanitarian law and of Security Council Resolution 1701, and may constitute war crimes.
Pointing out what Western leaders are desperate to ignore, they have also said:
The human cost of this conflict is far too high. The violence, as we have said before, must end.
This fatal attack followed the murder of another peacekeeper on Sunday near the southern Lebanese village of Aadshit al-Qusayr. UNIFIL states that it’s not clear where the projectile originated from but is investigating the matter.
UN peacekeeping mission in Lebanon said early Monday that one of its peacekeepers was killed and another critically injured after a projectile exploded Sunday night at one of its positions in southern Lebanon https://t.co/FjqQSwPM54 pic.twitter.com/KvxAHKcTaJ
— Anadolu English (@anadoluagency) March 30, 2026
One of the peacekeepers who was killed is an Indonesian national, as was confirmed by his country foreign affairs ministry. They also reported that three more of their citizens were wounded in an attack described as “indirect artillery fire.”
The Government of the Republic of Indonesia expresses its deepest condolences following the death of one Indonesian peacekeeper and the injury of three others serving with the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL), after indirect artillery fire in the vicinity of the…
— MoFA Indonesia (@Kemlu_RI) March 30, 2026
Every murder is intentional
Israel has demonstrated its capacity to carry out targeted strikes in Iran and Lebanon. This makes the repeated killing of civilians, peacekeepers, and journalists all the more revealing, underscoring the intent behind how the state conducts its military operations.
Basically, if you’re Arab, you’re fair game.
Our own Jamal Awar wrote recently about three Lebanese journalists murdered by IOF bombs in a double-tap strike:
Journalists Ali Shuaib (Al-Manar) and Fatima Ftouni (Al-Mayadeen), along with Fatima’s brother, camera operator Mohamad Ftouni, join a long list of Lebanese journalists killed by Israel. An Israeli warplane fired five missiles at their car, travelling in the countryside next to the city of Jezzine, around 30 km north of the border with occupied Palestine. The last two missiles were fired at 2 civilians, one of them from the Lebanese Civil Defence, who were trying to save the targeted journalists.
If those war crimes tell us anything, it is that:
- Israel intentionally targets journalists everywhere they can
- Journalism is as important as taking up arms on the path of resisting colonialism
It is clear that the same logic applies to anyone resisting Zionist colonisers, including UN peacekeeping forces. After all, in Israel’s mind, if there are no witnesses then there can be no crime.
This UN official has had enough of this:
Yesterday, Israel deliberately killed a UN Indonesian peacekeeper and wounded others in Lebanon.
Israel cannot continue to be treated as a full member of the UN.
Attacking UN peacekeepers is an abomination which was in the past perpetrated by terrorists, but never by members of…
— Mohamad Safa (@mhdksafa) March 30, 2026
It is long past time since Israel should have been rejected by the international community. The fact that the Zionist entity is still welcome shows the complicity of the world order in genocide.
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The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs launched a public consultation on Thursday 26 March 2026 to finally ban trail hunting. This move aims to close legal loopholes which have allowed the illegal persecution of wildlife under a smokescreen for over 20 fucking years.
No more loopholes
The Hunt Saboteurs Association (HSA) welcomed this consultation, but warns that any new law must be watertight. Hunters have used loopholes, such as following trails during hunting as a cover for illegal activity. Huntsman claim to lay false trails to follow. Yet most of the time, this is a lie. Whilst claiming to follow a person-laid scent, the hunt usually just use this to hunt real foxes. And I have seen it with my own eyes. Men on quadbikes claim to lay the trail behind them, a barefaced fucking lie. The diesel fumes would cover these within an instant if it was true.
A press spokesperson for the HSA stated that using trail hunting as a smokescreen is part of the ‘illegal persecution of wildlife’. They emphasised that the public must help ensure the updated act has no further exemptions ripe for exploitation.
The police (who strangely never appear on scene when actual illegal hunting occurs) have also raised concerns about the current law. Matt Longman, the national police lead for fox hunting, has previously stated that illegal activity is frequently disguised using trail hunting methods. This consultation will explore how to prevent animal-based scents from being used as an excuse for the hounds to ‘accidentally’ find and rip apart a live fox.
The HSA needs our help
Public opinion both in the city and in the country, remains firmly against these blood-thirsty sports. Just a few weeks ago the HSA filmed a pack of hounds shredding a fox in someone’s garden. There was damage to a fence, as well as trespassing from the local hunt who didn’t have permission to be on the property. By the way, trail hunting often leads to such trespasses and chaos as seen here. But, desperate to hide their poor, fuzzy victim, they entered anyway and manhandled a sab in the process.
81% of people living in rural areas are sick to death of this entitled bullshit from the hunt. They are sick of their property being damaged, of hounds running rampant and causing accidents. On top of this, a whopping 85% of the population believes fox hunting should remain illegal. Remember, tell your parents/nana that Nigel Farage is a big fan of the hunt, kids! Yet, on the other hand, the hunt claims that hunting is a necessary part of country life—bullshit.
It is nothing but an excuse for these inbred wankers to get out their weird bloodlust, with trail hunting used as a justification for continuing their cruel activities.
The HSA has used direct action for the last 60 years. They have come away with broken bones, knife wounds and so much more over those years, just to save animals from pointless deaths. And they are now urging supporters to engage with the legal process. In short, they need our help to get over this last hurdle and end fox hunting once and for all. The organisation plans to release guidance to help people complete the consultation before 18 June 2026. This follows a petition signed by over 100,000 people asking for a total ban, further highlighting the public’s opposition to trail hunting.
A better world for wildlife
This consultation is a part of a wider shift towards stronger protections for wildlife in the UK. Along with the hunting of trails being banned, the government is looking to end the use of snares and puppy smuggling. How the hell that wasn’t already a thing is beyond me. For activist, this could be the end of a 20-year fight to save lives.
The question is, does the government have the balls to end fox hunting once and for all? Will it uphold the will of the majority? Or will it fold to the will of a bunch of arseholes on horseback?
Please help us, and have your say here.
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Our wonderful grassroots football team Great Western FC kicked arse on Saturday 28 March 2026. The reserves team played Coleview in the fast-paced semi-finals for the Swindon District Community Football League Plate final. This win is about more than football. It is about a community that refuses to leave its young men behind — championing them at every stage.
But the match was not so close as the scoreboard suggested. Great Western FC controlled the match for most of the afternoon. Our lads headed into half-time with a 3-1 lead. While a late penalty for Coleview made the closing minutes tense, the result was never really in doubt
A captain’s goal and a rare smile
The pressure was relentless on Coleview for the first half. Liam Irwin smashed two goals into the back of the net first. Team Captain, Levi Dunn, doubled down on the lead with a low-drilled free kick. This clinical finish helped the reserves head into the halftime break with a comfortable 3-1 lead.
Supporters said Dunn smiled for the first time this season when the final whistle blew. This squad is the antithesis of working class, and this victory was a glorious snapshot in working-class survival. The players come from diverse backgrounds, some of them rocking criminal records, who have found a stunning support network through Great Western.
In a system that discards young lads with a record, Great Western offers them hope and solidarity. Research shows that sports-based resettlement programmes can reduce reoffending rates significantly. And for these lads, many of whom have felt the sharp end of the justice system, the football pitch is the rehab that the state refuses to provide. And Great Western Reserves show exactly what can be achieved with the right support.
Late drama in Southbrook
Coleview pushed back in the second half, as Great Western expected. With only five minutes left until the end whistle, one of our players accidentally tripped an opponent in the penalty box.
Coleview won the penalty, bringing the score to 3-2. However, our young reserves held their nerve until the very end. The squad of 16, includes six players under the age of 21. Two of the lads have only just turned 18.
This young group is thriving, despite a national crisis in grassroots sports. Over 90% of grassroots clubs say running costs have skyrocketed recently. Almost half of those clubs estimate their weekly running costs at £250 or more. Meanwhile, we have big Football Association players on buck-wild wages that they can never hope to spend.
The FA doesn’t give a shit about small teams
The success of Great Western FC comes despite a complete lack of support from the football’s governing bodies. Whilst the FA claims a social return on investment of £15.6bn, very little of this wealth trickles down to the grassroots teams. Recent data shows that 95% of the annual broadcast revenue stays with the top 26 clubs. That is a fucking shambles.
The FA ignores the reality of working-class teams. For teams like Great Western FC, the survival of the club depends on the community in the form of fees, but these only go so far. The real money behind our little team comes from the dwindling wages of the members, not the bureaucrats in Wembley.
Most local games attract three spectators, and if they’re lucky, a dog. Saturday was different. Over 50 friends and family members cheered the team towards the final. And afterwards they celebrated the win in the most working-class way. In the fucking pub!
The reserves will now face Lambourne FC in the final on 9 May 2026. The match will be held at the Webbswood stadium, home of Swindon Supermarine FC. And the squad will spend next month training their arses off to make sure they bring home the win.
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Karl Turner MP has had the Labour whip suspended after a series of strong public criticisms of No 10 and government policy.
Turner has been particularly vocal in his opposition to jury trial reforms, but has also publicly criticised the Keir Starmer operation.
PoliticsHome understands that the suspension did not relate to a specific incident and was in response to a pattern of behaviour towards colleagues.
Some Labour MPs were unhappy with an interview that the Hull East MP gave to campaigner Jody McIntyre, who stood against Labour MP Jess Phillips at the last general election.
Turner claimed that he had not been made aware that he had had the whip suspended before it was reported by the media.
Writing on X on Tuesday afternoon after the suspension was confirmed to PoliticsHome, he said: “I am being told that I have had the whip suspended but I have not had any notification from the whips about this. It seems journalists have been told but I have not.”
Turner, who was first elected in 2010, wrote in The House in December that he was prepared to break the whip for the first time since being elected to oppose the government’s plans to scale back jury trials.
It came after PoliticsHome reported that Turner was organising a backbench letter to protest proposals.
While some MPs had said they were opposed to the plans to scale back jury trials for less serious offences, the bill passed its first hurdle in the House of Commons earlier this month.
As a Conservative donor, I speak regularly with senior Tory figures, and I keep hearing the same optimistic lines about the party’s awful standing in the polls. ‘Kemi’s net favourability is improving’, they say. ‘She’s more popular than Nigel Farage’, they insist. Both are arguably true. Yet both miss the point.
Politics isn’t measured in favourability ratings. It is measured in votes. And by this metric, the Conservative Party may soon find itself in intensive care. The latest polling aggregator puts the Tories on 18.1 per cent, behind both Reform (28.5 per cent) and Labour (19.8 per cent), and only slightly ahead of the Greens (14.1 per cent). The Conservatives have become irrelevant, and the biggest barrier to recovery is the degree of in-house denial.
Some party figures are sanguine. They say the Tories’ standing is simply the legacy of 14 difficult years in government. They predict that time will heal the wounds of this torrid legacy. The truth is less convenient.
Outside a General Election, the real scoreboard in politics is voting intention. Opinion polls are the equivalent of the Saturday results for a Premier League manager. One or two bad weeks can happen to anyone. But a long run of defeats ought to lead to difficult conversations. At the moment, the Conservative Party is a team that is losing three-nil every week, but wants to talk positively about its possession statistics.
I say that with no pleasure. I became a donor because of Kemi. I like her directness. When she won the leadership contest and said, ‘The time has come to tell the truth’, I was genuinely inspired to write a cheque. But telling the truth must start inside the Conservative Party. It is time to ditch the self-delusion about favourability ratings. If they mattered at all, then Ed Davey would be prime minister.
To be clear, I am not arguing that Badenoch should go. Leadership musical chairs would only make things worse. Being known for moral honesty and purpose is a strategy, but denial is not. For Badenoch and the party to survive, there must be candour about the years of Conservative rule from 2010 to 2024. Voters will not forgive the party for its failures until they are acknowledged.
Candour alone does not win elections. Inspiring hope, however, will. And hope comes from sharing a heartfelt moral mission that the public can believe in: a fairer country where work is rewarded, where virtue matters and where bad behaviour carries consequences.
The Britain we need leading out of is a place where millions toil just to survive, while others idle at home on benefits. It is a Britain where MPs step over rough sleepers near the gates of parliament without breaking stride. There is a great moral argument waiting to be made, and whoever makes that argument the strongest will win the next election. Policy-wise, a four-year commitment to make the first £18,000 of earnings tax-free would be a start. Not as a gimmick, but as a statement of what the party believes: that work should pay, and that there is a Conservative answer to widely accepted decline.
Badenoch has the instincts for this fight. But instinct alone will not be enough. She must be honest about what went wrong, what must change, and what the nation she wishes to lead stands for. Many voters like Kemi Badenoch. But almost none are convinced to vote for her – yet.
Andy Preston was mayor of Middlesbrough from 2019 until 2023.
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The US has said it ‘respects Israel’s right to determine its own laws’. Meanwhile, it is denying countries with a Muslim majority, such as Iran, that same right.
BREAKING: US says it respects Israel’s ‘right to determine its own laws’ after Knesset approves death penalty for Palestinians
🔴 LIVE updates: https://t.co/jUFsTtQBHU pic.twitter.com/M7cIT20LOW
— Al Jazeera Breaking News (@AJENews) March 31, 2026
The whole premise of the US and Israel’s illegal invasion was ‘regime change’ and ‘freeing Iranian women’. Of course, they do that by bombing little school girls, blowing up hospitals, and killing United Nations (UN) workers. They have not freed a single woman; instead, they’ve murdered them.
Israel above all
Now, Israel has introduced yet another barbaric law solely for Palestinians.
Palestinians who Israel has detained illegally, and often without reason or trial, will face the death penalty. Israelis in detention for a variety of similar offences will not.
But in 2023, the US sanctioned Uganda for introducing the death penalty specifically for LGBTQ individuals.
US actually sanctioned Uganda for death penalty law against LGBQ. https://t.co/eqMdwNL3JX
— Francis Wanjiku (@TheNjoroge) March 31, 2026
Then-President Joe Biden called the move “a tragic violation” of human rights. Of course, Trump is not Biden, but we can presume that a fellow Zionist would be similarly atrocious at standing up to Israel’s repeated human rights abuses. All in the name of antisemitism, after all.
Some African nations have been unable to pass laws reflecting their people’s views due to U.S. pressure. Look at this…🤔 https://t.co/eYzEgWjQU6
— OAL (@Deji_Dokun) March 31, 2026
Additionally, Ghana passed the ‘Proper Human Sexual Rights and Family Values Bill’ in February 2024. This effectively criminalises LGBTQ activities and advocacy.
The US stated that it would:
threaten all Ghanaians’ constitutionally protected freedoms of speech, press, and assembly.
The same could be said for Venezuela, Cuba, and Iraq.
The US seems extremely concerned with the ‘human rights’ and ‘freedoms’ in countries governed by Black and brown people. But where’s the outrage for human rights when the tables are turned, and genocidal Zionists are in charge?
Apartheid
The US respects Israel’s right to ‘determine its own laws’. More like, the US respects Israel’s right to apartheid.
“The US respects Israel’s right to apartheid” https://t.co/unVlmNaJuL
— @ (@wbn199) March 31, 2026
I guess there is always a trade-off between Western morality and oil.
Reason 12838339393949 why western morality is a joke https://t.co/Lxb9NqBEMP
— BTStani⁷ ⊙⊝⊜ (@btstanipk) March 31, 2026
The US doesn’t respect the laws in Black and brown countries, but it will respect the laws of genocidal terrorists and elite pedophiles.
So USA doesn’t respect other countries around the world then… they just respect satanic pedophiles…. https://t.co/CIsqqA0bzc
— Mtho (@MthoNgwenya06) March 31, 2026
Earlier this year, Iran executed three people for killing police officers and:
carrying out operations in favour of the United States and Israel.
Donald Trump described these executions as “terrible”.
The cop killer that was rightfully hanged in Iran last month was called barbaric by the West. https://t.co/5sTdHdQrO2
— Buhari (@Buharibawa) March 31, 2026
In January, Trump also said the US would take “very strong action” against Iran if it executed protesters. He earlier told Iranians that “help is on the way”.
But where’s the very strong action against Israel? Where’s the help for Palestinians?
Colonialism
The US’s unequivocal backing of Israel is nothing short of colonialism.
Western countries seem to collectively decide which countries’ sovereignty they should respect, and which need to be carpet-bombed to ‘restore order’, and it’s bullshit.
Interesting how the West decides which countries sovereignty should be respected whilst others need to be bombed to civilise them. https://t.co/kBMxUxVB1q
— Dr Rehana Parveen (@rehanaparv) March 31, 2026
The West gives some countries the right to kill whoever the hell they want; meanwhile, others are ‘regimes’ and ‘tyrants’.
Totally normal, so very normal. Some countries have rights to kill whomever they want to kill, others have regimes and tyrants. https://t.co/Ri0GvSX7ZX
— Maya Wardeh 🍉 (@maroshcka) March 31, 2026
Let’s face it – liberating women or restoring order usually means stealing oil and privatising it.
But they will bomb Iran to “liberate the people” or some shit. What about Iran’s right to make their own laws? This hypocrisy is nothing but a demonstration of colonial power and impunity, and they know it. https://t.co/Fm3dNfAESC
— Eclectic Eel (@zang808) March 31, 2026
The US and Israel care more about their illegal Jewish-supremacist ethnostate project than the lives of Black and brown people. That much has been clear since Zionists started colonising Palestine in 1922.
But Iran has the right to make its own laws free of Western interference, and Operation Epstein is showing us over and over again why Israel should cease to exist.
However, when Israel already has so much influence over US laws and is literally bankrolling its politicians, how can we expect the US to stop Israel from introducing genocidal laws?
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The UK government joined France, Germany, and Italy in issuing a statement expressing their “deep concern” ahead of Israel’s decision to default to the death penalty for Palestinians charged with fatal crimes. This horrifying bill, which passed by 62 to 48, will undoubtedly further the extermination of Palestinians. The Israeli Occupation Army’s (IOF’s) entirely biased military courts apply these convictions, leaving powerless defendants with almost no access to justice.
The joint statement from Western nations read:
We, the Foreign Ministers of Germany, France, Italy and the United Kingdom, express our deep concern about a bill that would significantly expand the possibilities to impose the death penalty in Israel and that could be voted into law next week. We are particularly worried about the de facto discriminatory character of the bill. The adoption of this bill would risk undermining Israel’s commitments with regards to democratic principles.
The death penalty is an inhumane and degrading form of punishment without any deterring effect. This is why we oppose the death penalty, whatever the circumstances around the world. The rejection of the death penalty is a fundamental value that unites us.
We urge the Israeli decision makers in Knesset and Government to abandon these plans.
While Western opposition to the death penalty is welcome and aligns with international law, those who drafted the statement shamefully couldn’t bring themselves to even mention Palestinians. Since this law applies exclusively to Palestinians, while Israeli citizens remain exempt, such erasure is not just negligent – it is contemptible. And, it makes the UK, Germany, France, and Italy entirely complicit in the erasure of Palestinians that is central to genocide.
Israel – Western complicity
For decades, these Western governments have enabled Netanyahu’s administration through political, military, and diplomatic support. This unqualified support came despite mounting, indisputable evidence that Israel’s policies amount to a system of apartheid and genocide.
As such, it’s hard to take messages of opposition remotely seriously:
BREAKING: UK Foreign Secretary Yvette Cooper has put out a joint statement with France, Germany and Italy opposing the passing of a law in Israel which will make the death penalty the default punishment for Palestinians convicted of murdering Israelis.https://t.co/3X2Gb8T18Z pic.twitter.com/WuX6EDf6nI
— Sky News (@SkyNews) March 31, 2026
After all, Palestinians have been illegally murdered for years now – why would the legalisation of Israel’s genocidal policy change anything?
Israel receive condemnation
Military officials and other Israeli ministers have also raised concerns that this law violates international law. They further add that applying this law could expose Israeli officials to arrest abroad under warrants issued by the International Criminal Court (ICC).
Furthermore, Israel’s leading civil rights group, the Association for Civil Rights, have reportedly filed an appeal against the law with the Supreme Court saying the law is:
an act of institutionalised discrimination and racist violence against Palestinians.
Israel’s Supreme Court of Israel could still strike down this law, potentially curbing the most extremist and violent acts of Zionism. Yet whether it takes the form of so-called “polite” Zionism or outright violence, all versions undermine the rights of indigenous Palestinians.
Many have come out decrying the cruel and illegal punishment, with the UN Human Rights for Palestine underscoring the UN’s opposition to the death penalty “under all circumstances”:
Israel must immediately repeal the discriminatory death penalty law passed today by the Knesset, as it contravenes Israel’s obligations under international law.
The United Nations opposes the death penalty under all circumstances. The implementation of this new law would violate…— UN Human Rights Palestine (@OHCHR_Palestine) March 30, 2026
Lawyer Jessica Simor has also pointed out the sick rhetoric being purposefully deployed by those who still wish to protect Israel from accountability:
“Controversial” ? Seriously?
How about: “immoral”, “unethical”; contrary to all democratic norms”? How about: “in breach of international law”? How about “heinous”, “stomach-turning”, “irredeemably revealing of a sick society in need of help”? https://t.co/S27dPqv3qn
— Jessica Simor KC (@JMPSimor) March 30, 2026
UN representative Mohamad Safa pointed out the international laws that are contravened by this sadistic law:
Israel just passed death penalty law for ~10,000 Palestinian prisoners.
This violates the Common Article 3 applies to all four Geneva Conventions, but international law clearly doesn’t apply to Israel. pic.twitter.com/5m8HvCc2mi
— Mohamad Safa (@mhdksafa) March 30, 2026
Amnesty International has condemned Israel using the death penalty as “part of the system of apartheid, genocide and occupation” imposed on Palestinians:
Israel now has one of the world’s most extreme death penalty laws.
Israel is brazenly granting itself free rein to execute Palestinians while stripping away the most basic fair-trial safeguards.
The death penalty will now become part of the system of apartheid, genocide and… pic.twitter.com/nKvf29vjAx
— Amnesty UK (@AmnestyUK) March 31, 2026
‘Justice’ delivered by an illegal occupier
We reported on the atrocious odds stacked against Palestinians in Israeli military courts, which conveniently see a 99.7% conviction rate. The impossible conviction rate alone highlights the unlikely justice to be found, making the court little more than a “place of transition“.
We wrote:
The trials usually last about 10 minutes and the testimony of an Israeli soldier is enough to secure a conviction.
The odds of a fair trial are stacked against Palestinians. They’re conducted in Hebrew and the poor translations do little to help Palestinians understand what is happening or even what they’re accused of. So each trial essentially boils down to plea bargaining. The Palestinian defendant pleads guilty to get a lesser sentence.
The likelihood that Israeli forces and prosecutors will manufacture crimes whilst pressuring Palestinians to plead guilty is practically a certainty. As ever the Israeli government haven’t shied away from making their intentions clear. The annihilation of Palestinians has always been their ultimate goal.
As these X posts highlight:
Open Incitement Against Our Mothers in the West Bank!
The extremist “Ben-Gvir” threatens mothers in the West Bank, vowing that their children’s fate will be “the gallows.” He asserted that the occupation will not bow to international pressure to halt these racist laws. pic.twitter.com/JUfNQhFGBt— Eye on Palestine (@EyeonPalestine) March 30, 2026
Look at this photo.
A woman holds up a noose and a lethal injection, celebrating Israeli plans to introduce the death penalty for Palestinians.
Her husband holds a gun labelled ‘occupation’, a plane labelled ‘expulsion’, and a house labelled ‘settlement’.
This grinning, leering… pic.twitter.com/7PGzdIcD7n— EuropeanPowell (@EuropeanPowell) March 29, 2026
One X user commented:
Zionist Knesset deputy grinning with noose and lethal injection while her husband flaunts occupation, expulsion, and settlements. Pure sadistic bloodlust against Palestinians! Israel’s far-right monsters reveal their true genocidal face.
These are human beings
Citizens across the UK have been horrified as they watch their leaders attempt to shield and defend Israel whilst it conducts the indefensible. This has led to the murder of hundreds of thousands of men, women, children, and babies, while the rest of the world watches the genocide unfold on livestream.
It’s clear the statement from these Western leaders is mere lip service to recognise their legal commitments to oppose the imposition of death penalties. After all, they clearly fail to recognise the complexities and nuances unique to Palestinian people living under occupation, showing that they miss much of the gravity of the issue.
Enforcing a death penalty against a population of captive people, living for decades under oppression and brutality, is another method of state-mandated genocide.
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Reform UK is a party that exists because the Conservatives weren’t right-wing enough. Restore Britain, meanwhile, is a party that exists because Reform UK weren’t right-wing enough.
The problem for the three parties is that they agree on most issues, so they have to find increasingly niche topics to stand out from one another. This is what led to the following:
We are a pro-dog political party.
— Restore Britain (@RestoreBritain_) March 30, 2026
To be clear, this isn’t niche because it’s a minority opinion; it’s niche because political parties don’t need to clarify that dogs should not be executed.
Ordinarily, this post would have warranted little more than a shrug. The reason it’s drawn people’s attention is because Restore leader Rupert Lowe once had his dog put down by shotgun.
According to him, however, he did it in a pro-dog fashion.
Rupert Lowe, shotweiller
According to the Standard, Lowe had 17-year-old dog euthanized by shotgun. If you’re worried this makes him sound like a serial killer, don’t worry; he didn’t take the shot himself. Instead, man of the people Lowe had his groundskeeper pull the trigger.
This is what Lowe told the Mail on Sunday:
My keeper shot our dog the other day. He was a Labrador of 17. Dogs do go through ups and downs for a bit, but in the end Cromwell’s back legs went and our keeper Kevin very kindly did the job.
Cromwell didn’t go anywhere, he wasn’t away from home and he wouldn’t have known anything about it. So much kinder. They are not driven to the vet, they don’t smell the vet, it’s just all over very quickly.
Obviously it’s hard to put yourself in Lowe’s shoes, because most of us don’t have grounds or groundskeepers.
And, there are same-day pet euthanization services in the UK. This would have been slower, obviously, but it would have saved Lowe having to tell people he had an employee merc his own pet.
Speaking on having his man make the kill, Lowe said:
I would find it difficult, which is why my keeper did it. So you can call me a coward on that basis, if you want.
I’ve got friends who can shoot their dogs. [They] just take them on a walk, put a shooting rifle at the back of their head and bang, done. They don’t feel anything. I would have found it hard. He was 17 and had been with us that long.
I would be proud to tell you it was me who did it, [but] I can’t claim that credit.
Poverty can’t buy you many things, but it does afford you the luxury of never having to say the above.
Commenters had a field day with all this, anyway:
The pending community note. 🤣 pic.twitter.com/demelYn5Om
— Mukhtar (@I_amMukhtar) March 31, 2026
Restore Britain is very funny tbh. It’s literally just a party for the insane and incoherent nonsense that chronically online fascists believe and appeals to exactly no one else.
— cez (@cezthesocialist) March 31, 2026
Niche politics
If you’re wondering why Restore Britain are talking up dogs, it’s because – you guessed it – ‘foreigners’:
🚨NEW: Rupert Lowe:
“If a foreigner doesn’t want to live in a dog-living country, I’ll pay for their taxi to the airport myself.”
— GB Politics (@GBPolitcs) March 30, 2026
Let’s be real; we live in a country that has many problems, so most of us aren’t worried about who does or doesn’t love dogs.
You know who does have time to worry, though?
That’s right – rich people with no problems of their own.
Rich people who are wealthy enough to pay staff to shoot their pets.
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