Here at Bath I direct a Masters programme in Humanitarianism, Conflict & Development. I invite
@EmilyThornberry
to enrol and learn about International Humanitarian & Human Rights Law.
“Why won’t you answer?”
@vicderbyshire
asks Labour’s Shadow Attorney General Emily Thornberry if Israel cutting off power and supplies to Gaza is in line with international law.
#Newsnight
@chriswingrove74
@paulmasonnews
Children slaughtered in Yemen with weaponry supplied by US & UK to Saudi, allegedly includes white phosphorus supplied by US. If our leaders care about children why continue to enable the Saudis to do this? Fact is attack on Syria is in name of children only. Sheer hypocrisy.
@make_trouble
@JoeHunter_
Two-thirds of my family were murdered by the Nazis. I am truly disgusted by Margaret Hodge for the way she uses the Holocaust for her own political agenda. Utterly shameful. How can you not see this?
@the_awakend
Both of these speakers - so appalled at Corbyn- are involved in relaunch of Zionist 'Herut' group in the UK. Herut was the Israeli political party led by Menachem Begin and Yitzhak Shamir - both of them responsible for terrorism in the 1940s.
@SaulStaniforth
Ermm. Doesn't his plan also mean that £billions have to be spent on 'compensating shareholders'? With nationalisation may be that's necessary but it's one-off. His plan seems an exercise in subsidising corporate profiteering potentially without end. Have I missed something?
@chriswingrove74
@paulmasonnews
In Yemen we're not just watching children burn and die, we are enabling the Saudis to do this. How can you NOT question the motives of May and Trump when they claim to care about Syrian children while enabling arms deals to Saudi and providing the regime with political cover?
@veeined
@whatsinitforme
@CELESTRON1957
@williamnhutton
Yup, we could be doing even more to destabilise the Middle East through another illegal war. And then watch another centrist Labour ex-PM supplement his pension by assisting dictators around the globe. What a missed opportunity...
@OwenJones84
@JoshuaFunnell2
@AliAbunimah
@UKLabour
Do the 200 Jewish supporters / members of Labour who wrote in the Guardian last week not count as 'Jewish sisters and brothers'? On what basis do you decide who is, or isn't, part of the 'community'?
@TheMendozaWoman
Kerry-Anne, whatever the issues with Owen Jones, you have to see that doubling-down on your appalling tweet is so damaging: not just to you and Canary but to efforts to achieve justice for the Palestinian people.
@chriswingrove74
@SPC_1974
@paulmasonnews
Quite the opposite. I've been amongst the many people calling upon May and her predecessors to stop selling arms to the Saudis. That would be action that saves civilian lives. But BAE profits are consistently prioritised. You really haven't thought this through, have you?
Delighted to share the news that I've been promoted to Professor. Deepest thanks to wonderful colleagues at the Universities of Bath, Oxford & Geneva who supported me along the way.
@CraigMurrayOrg
Dear Mr Murray. You don't know me. But I just want to say that your courage, integrity and compassion are a great inspiration. I wish you and your family all the best in the challenges that lie ahead.
@davidschneider
@OborneTweets
A shameful take, David. Many members of JVL have spent a lifetime fighting against antisemitism and all forms of racism. At the very least you owe them a hearing before you pass judgement. Anything less is naked prejudice.
@Jacqui_Smith1
@mrjamesob
@UKLabour
Jacqui, I wasn't too chuffed about my taxes funding an illegal war in Iraq. A war that you and various Labour colleagues were only too willing to support. It amazes me that any of you should still think your views are welcome.
@veeined
@whatsinitforme
@CELESTRON1957
@williamnhutton
I agree centrists not necessarily warmongers. But as we saw in 2002-3, self-interest led many to support Blair's warmongering ignoring (a) lack of evidence & (b) popular opposition. David Miliband was a case in point. No principles whatsoever. Same today amongst Labour centrists.
@johnharris1969
@sharpeleven
@guardian
Good journalists engage with diverse perspectives. You ignored the many calls to talk to Jewish members of Labour who were deeply concerned about the weaponisation of anti-semitism.
@jonnymorris
@UKLabour
Once again it is left to principled politicians like
@zarahsultana
to point out the institutionalised corruption in our government. This should be the work of the LOTO.
@DocsControl
@SirRogerGale
A better analogy: a person who promises something clearly and repeatedly, who says that not delivering that thing would signal their own failure. When they then fail to deliver that thing, they should resign, no?
@jrc1921
"The ICRC considers Gaza to remain occupied territory on the basis that Israel still exercises key elements of authority over the strip, including over its borders (airspace, sea and land – at the exception of the border with Egypt)." ).
@lucywatsonitv
@itvnews
Lucy, please spare us 'this is not the 3rd World, this is Europe' line. Racism is not needed to evoke empathy for Ukrainians' suffering. We all share the same humanity & the same yearning to live in peace & dignity - whether in Ukraine, Palestine, Afghanistan, Sanaa or wherever.
USSR heavily vetoed in UN after 1945. But in the last 25 years of Cold War, the UK cast twice the number of vetoes in UN Security Council as USSR, and US 5 times as many. In the mainstream this is referred to as ‘Russian obstruction of the UN’. (from my book, The Great Deception)
@Bathacademic
speaking at the Palestine Peace Rally in
#Bath
today:
“After the Nazi Holocaust the world said, never again. We repeated those words after the Rwanda genocide in 1994, and on so many other occasions in recent decades, from Argentina to the Philippines. Today, we
The world is shouting stop the slaughter in Gaza.
Israel must be held accountable for its actions & for turning its face against a ceasefire.
The position of the Israeli Ambassador to Ireland is untenable while Israel persists with deepening violence & ignoring ceasefire calls.
@AaronBastani
@EmilyThornberry
@UKLabour
And is a member of Labour Friends of Israel. Remaining so even after (a) Aljazeera documentary and (b) appalling attempt to whitewash Israel's recent murder of civilian protestors in Gaza. Some Labour colleagues left at that latter point. Not Ms Thornberry.
@JolyonMaugham
The comparison is unwarranted. Ken Loach is one of this country's finest film-makers and a lifelong campaigner against injustice. He has been smeared royally. Discussing film with Loach is in no way comparable to hanging out with Epstein. This is lazy argumentation.
@johnharris1969
John, why do journalists routinely ignore Jewish supporters / members of Labour who articulate a different view / experience? 200 of them wrote to your paper 2 weeks ago? Surely journalistic integrity requires that they are listened to as well?
Hoping & striving for a society in which human dignity is upheld, the natural environment is protected, & no child goes hungry. Humanistic socialism to replace the failed neoliberal project.
#FollowBackFriday
@DavidGauke
@faisalislam
Conversely, a Conservative Party with the likes of Bojo, J R-M, McVey, Patel, Cleverly, Raab, Gove and the rest of the chancers, liars and self-servers doesn't and shouldn't have any future whatsoever.
Anyone know Labour's current position on arms sales to Saudi? A year ago Thornberry called on gov't to suspend sales in line with US position. US has since resumed arms sales. If you don't know the answer please RT! Many thanks.
@andrewfeinstein
@SeanDromgoole
This is my MP David Warburton. He voted with other Tories to allow sewage to be dumped in rivers & sea. To be fair though, David himself has been swimming in s**t for months.
@Morvern_C_
@ivanjblair
@jimwebber
@MichaelRosenYes
My mother died in a nursing home of a 'chest infection'. Two other residents died of the same thing within a 24 hour period. No doctor visited to determine cause of death. Likely there are many people who did not have 'COVID-19' on their death certificates who should have.
I am a British academic and I call for a free Palestine and an end to the Israeli state's apartheid. This is integral to both my moral world view and my scholarship. Pass it on.
I am a Jordanian academic and I call for a free Palestine and an end to the Israeli state's apartheid. This is integral to both my moral world view and my scholarship. Pass it on.
The Jewish Chronicle has led the campaign of antisemitism smears against the Labour party. Now one of its victims has fought back – and the paper has been forced to pay libel damages
My latest: By waging an all-out war not only on his predecessor, Jeremy Corbyn, but on the left and its ideas, Starmer has strangled hope of change in a time of crisis. In the process, he risks driving voters towards right-wing authoritarians
On my way home from the rally. Such a diverse crowd of people all seeking an end to the violence and genuine peace with justice. Don't believe any claims to the contrary.
@nicolelampert
@MichaelRosenYes
That's a pretty shameful question to ask, Nicole. Is the next question along the lines of "are you the right kind of Jew"? (e.g. one whose funeral Rabbi Sacks would agree to attend).
@paulmathiasuk
@piersmorgan
My mother died in a care home 4 weeks ago: one of three who died in 24 hours. No testing was done & the GP didn't visit to determine cause of death. The certificate mentioned 'bronchial infection'. So, I'm leaving my 'pinch of salt' in the salt cellar.
@mikegalsworthy
@AdamBienkov
Is Starmer 'consistent or compelling' on anything? Is this the person to deliver a progressive agenda that is radically different from the Tories? I can't see it.
It's my birthday. No cinema or other such treat😢
But
@brendanbakes
has made me a special birthday cake & it's vegan🥳 A chocolate & pear bûche. I'd invite you over for some but, y'know, social distancing...
@margarethodge
As a prominent Labour Friend of Israel did you express the same disgust to the Government of Israel when it was deporting refugees to Rwanda in 2014?
“The hospital resembles a slaughterhouse and the majority of casualties who are coming in are children.”
I spoke to
@TimesRadio
for
@MedicalAidPal
about the deteriorating situation in
#Gaza
.
The world must act to stop this.
@lukemcgee
@BerlinFaustino
Not a question of who is right and who is wrong but, rather, why is British foreign policy in the Middle East such a disaster. Are we supposed to wait to have that conversation - and then be told not to dwell on the past?
@rtmiller99
@brexit_sham
@mrjamesob
@RoryStewartUK
Doesn't mean he isn't spot-on about Boris Johnson. Sad that people can't see right through our soon-to-be PM when his dishonesty, self-serving and dismal record are plain for all to see.
@AaronBastani
He also made a big noise about sewage discharge in our waterways before voting with government to allow water companies to continue polluting.
@AsaWinstanley
@OrientXXI
Thank you Asa for your organisation's efforts to obtain and share this important material. I hope it will be seen very widely around the world.
I've signed
@zarahsultana
's amendment to the King's Speech calling for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza.
We must end the bloodshed, allow desperately needed aid to reach those most in need, and create space for real negotiations.
That's why we need a
#CeasefireNow
@AnneMcGarryMars
@the_awakend
It says everything about the failure of our mainstream media that such a person is given airtime to make herself out to be a victim.
@Revenator
@BBCBreaking
Will 'making our own way like we did before' entail colonisation of other countries & exploitation of their resources? Reinstatement of the slave trade? The massacre of native populations who dare to resist British rule? Or are you thinking of a different history of this country?
@MairavZ
Agree 100%. But with the extreme right increasing their control, what hope for a 'solution' that doesn't involve ethnic cleansing, even genocide?
@Mr_JDTraynor
@AsaWinstanley
Same firm represented Ronnie Fraser in his legal attack on UCU. The tribunal panel called it: "an impermissible attempt to achieve a political end by litigious means” showing a “worrying disregard for pluralism, tolerance and freedom of expression.”
@mishtal
@amnesty
Demonstrable nonsense.
Two clicks would have led Collier to Amnesty's country-by-country summary of the human rights situation across the MENA region. Was that too difficult for him to do, or did it not fit his spurious narrative?
@TheMendozaWoman
Kerry-Anne, your original tweet was crass and deeply unhelpful. I hold no brief for Owen Jones, but he was right to call you out. Please don't double down on a misjudged tweet.
Many congratulations to
@francesmary1980
for passing her Ph.D viva today subject to minor corrections! Thanks to the brilliant examiners Heather Montgomery,
@Vicky_Canning
&
@aurelmondon
and to
@EmmaKCarmel
for great management of the process as chair.
"...for Freedland and the entire spectrum of the corporate media, the only discussion they care to have is about who might best serve a superficial, ephemeral political power – without actually defining or even alluding to real power."
My latest: Sanders is a glitch in power’s story, like Corbyn was in the UK. They are the first signs of a tentative political awakening – an inevitable outcome of the ever greater difficulty power faces in concealing the self-destructive path it is on
I wonder if free speech warriors such as Toby Young and Lawrence Fox will raise their voices against this attempt to close down critical debate about Israel. 🤔
My latest: Despite threats from the government, less than a quarter of UK universities have adopted the Israel lobby's bogus definition of anti-Semitism:
@Mark_Pickles
@BoardofDeputies
@BritishQuakers
When people start defaming the Quakers and the EAPPI we reach the point where accusations of anti-semitism risk becoming meaningless. See here for information about the EAPPI and ignore this nonsense.
#BBCRadio4Today
:
Gives platform to expert to talk about the harrowing experience of giving testimony in a sexual abuse trial.
Also
#BBCRadio4Today
:
Gives platform to brother of convicted offender to trash testimony of women in a sexual abuse trial.
Israel has ‘that right’ to cut off water, food and electricity, says Sir Keir. But it ‘should be done within international law’. But cutting off water, food and electricity isn’t within international law. Imagine what he would be capable of as PM.
@davidschneider
A legitimate argument if the oppression of the Palestinians began with Netanyahu. But that's not the case. Governments of both left & right have discriminated & dispossessed systematically. That is not an accident but rather an expression of the ideology of Political Zionism.