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If anyone doubts Israel is waging a genocidal war in Gaza, just have a read through South Africa’s 84-page application to the World Court.
I’ve followed events closely, but even so, it was shocking to see it set out in one place the dimensions of what Israel has already done.
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BREAKING from the New York Times: Israeli intelligence officials discover Hamas command and control centre beneath The Hague
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So, it's illegitimate to evoke Nazi Germany when Israel kills 550 children (as it did in 2014). But it's legitimate to evoke Nazi Germany when Margaret Hodge receives a mild letter of rebuke after she verbally abused the leader of her party. Is that right?
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US military historian Robert Pape says: “Gaza is one of the most intense civilian punishment campaigns in history”
Israel's military campaign in Gaza seen as among the most destructive in history, experts say
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According to the former head of USAID in West Bank and Gaza, the much-publicised US air drop on Saturday delivered *less than one truckload* of food aid.
In other words, it was a depraved PR stunt designed to distract from and enable the infliction of famine.
🧵 Monday's humanitarian update; Gantz visit to DC.
The US Air Force air dropped 38,000 meals on Saturday into Gaza, less than one truck load equivalent. By contrast a relatively small US NGO,
@AneraOrg
delivers 150,000 meals daily, 4x the amount of this US Air Force drop.
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Israel's "investigation" into the killing of seven WCK aid workers in Gaza was led by the CEO of the company that supplied the murder weapon.
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Israel has annexed the West Bank. It denies non-Jews who live there any political, while regularly violating their human, rights. It is able to do this because other states, including the UK, are unwilling to impose on it any meaningful sanctions.
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For more than a decade, Gaza has been placed under a suffocating, criminal blockade. Israel's army has repeatedly bombarded its impoverished civilian population -- most of them children -- with heavy weaponry. Why has the world done nothing?
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Veteran Israeli journalist and dissident Gideon Levy: 'Corbyn is not an anti-Semite. He never was. His real sin is his staunch position against injustice in the world. . . The Jews and Israel’s true friends should hope that Corbyn is elected'.
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I joined Labour to get rid of all forms of oppression and injustice, including antisemitism. And it is precisely because I oppose racism, antisemitism, injustice that I am campaigning for Labour and Jeremy Corbyn to be our Prime Minister.
#Jews4Labour
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Don't want to rush to conclusions here, but, it seems 'antisemitism' was weaponised for factional purposes.
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Looks like this is what they meant when they called for a "humanitarian pause"
BREAKING: The UK will temporarily pause funding to the UN's relief agency in Gaza over claims members were involved in Hamas' attack on Israel
Full story ⬇️
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Kate Osamor, tomorrow:
I deeply regret my comments, which offensively implied that Palestinians are human beings. I now realise that nothing compares to the Nazis -- except Hamas, UNRWA, the UN, South Africa, the Houthis, Jeremy Corbyn, that Sky News presenter, and the ICJ.
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Jeremy Corbyn's historic candidacy represents fairness, unity, and hope for a better tomorrow.
Everything is still to play for.
And so, to the endless negativity & hostility generated by supporters of the status quo, we say:
To Love! To Labour! To LIFE (L'CHAIM)!
#Jews4Labour
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I sent this tweet to Norman Finkelstein - renowned scholar of the Israel-Palestine conflict and veteran campaigner for justice in Palestine. I am happy to share his considered response:
This is a genuinely despicable tweet, belittling the seriousness of the industrialised mass murder of six million Jews. Anyone who speaks like this has no place in the left whatsoever.
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Five years ago, pro-Israel activists in an audience misinterpret a speech by the Palestinian Ambassador. Corbyn jokes that even though they lived in England all their lives, they had less understanding of English irony than the Palestinian Ambassador. What's the problem?
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Al-Shifa doctor offers to share "all relevant documentation" of Flour Massacre with journalists -- "including x-rays and medical reports".
If subsequent media reports make no reference to such documentation, it's because they didn't want to know.
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NOAM CHOMSKY: "The charges of anti-Semitism against Corbyn are without merit, an underhanded contribution to the disgraceful efforts to fend off the threat that a political party might emerge that is led by an admirable and decent human being"
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A right-wing Israeli journalist reports:
"This morning the IDF killed ten Gazans who insisted on returning from the south . . . Anyone who crossed a certain line, the soldiers shot him with intention to kill. After ten bodies, the Gazans understood the hint " (31 Dec)
[1/3]
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All available evidence suggests antisemitism is lower among Labour constituencies than on the right and in society at large. There is no evidence that antisemitism in Labour increased under Corbyn. Freedland is just spinning this stuff out his arse.
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In yesterday's New Statesman, Rachel Cunliffe wrote that it is "widely considered" an "anti-Semitic trope" to reference the "Israel lobby".
But to judge by the New Statesman's back issues, her colleagues don't share in this alleged consensus:
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They’re scared. If Corbyn had access to state secrets, just think of all the crimes - and criminals - he would expose
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As you read through the Labour dossier, keep in mind that Emilie Oldknow was reportedly Keir Starmer's pick for General Secretary.
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'I am not making any kind of political statement here' - as he reproduces with endorsement an evidence-free, selectively-focused, solipsistic screed timed to cause maximum damage to one party in an election. What did we do to deserve such embarrassing excuses for journalists?
The Chief Rabbi’s intervention in the general election is without precedent. I find it heartbreaking, as a Jew, that the rabbi who by convention is seen as the figurehead of the Jewish community, feels compelled to write this about Labour and its leader. I am not...
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In response to popular nonviolent protests in
#Gaza
,
@SenSanders
condemned Israel's "shooting at unarmed protesters" and called for an end to "the inhumane blockade". This photo was taken in Gaza today:
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Israel's War on Hospitals - a CNN investigation finds:
> 20 out of 22 hospitals in northern Gaza damaged or destroyed in two months
> 14 directly hit
> 2 completely flattened
> Result: Only 4 hospitals still partly functioned. "None had surgery capacity".
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Over 200 Jewish Labour members and supporters say: Jeremy Corbyn’s Labour is a crucial ally in the fight against antisemitism
#Jews4Labour
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The EHRC says that Jewish Labour members are ‘more likely‘ to make antisemitism complaints.
The crazy truth is:
In 2019, most complaints were submitted by a one person, who’s not Jewish.
Jewish members have almost certainly been disproportionately ACCUSED of antisemitism.
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The great Israeli journalist and dissident Gideon Levy, in
@Haaretz
: "[Corbyn is] a man of conscience, and I hope he’ll be Britain’s prime minister. It could be good for Israel as well."
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ICJ initial reaction:
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@normfinkelstein
and
@MouinRabbani
called it right. Dispute? Yes. Plausible case? Yes. Emergency measures? Yes. Ceasefire? No.
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Like my grandfather, Lord Dubs came to the UK on the Kindertransport. He rejects the smear campaign against Jeremy Corbyn: "He is fit to be Prime Minister. I do not believe he is antisemitic... or racist or Islamophobic. He is none of those things."
"I think he is fit to be prime minister... I do not believe he is anti-Semitic"
Labour's Lord Dubs - who came to the UK on the Kindertransport - believes
@chiefrabbi
"has gone a bit far" in his criticism of
@jeremycorbyn
#r4today
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@bbcnickrobinson
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I received this powerful statement from Professor Avi Shlaim (University of Oxford) in defence of UN Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese, who is currently 'under savage attack in the Israeli press and in social media for alleged antisemitism' – please read and share
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The ‘Labour antisemitism’ media campaign: a representative case study in deceit.
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This from Labour's Rochdale candidate did cross a line:
"However integrated Jews become and however many corners they manage to smooth, they remain at heart a Middle Eastern race"
My mistake, it's actually from the editor of the Jewish Chronicle.
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New EHRC Chair: IHRA Working Definition of Antisemitism is "extremely poorly worded" and "directly conflicts with the duty on universities to protect free speech"
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Norman Finkelstein, the leading American Jewish scholar and son of Holocaust survivors, responds to Margaret Hodge. Everyone sick and tired of the cynical and deranged attacks on the elected Labour leadership should watch this and share.
#HodgeComparisons
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Starmer alleges that Long-Bailey shared an "antisemitic conspiracy theory", and sacked her for it.
Jon Lansman says he also shared it.
Will Labour now suspend/expel one of its most prominent Jewish members, for antisemitism?
I retweeted this 5 hours ago without comment in a break in a Labour Party antisemitism panel - my 4th in the last month. In my view there is nothing in what Maxine Peake said that a Labour panel would view as antisemitic.
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These organisations are either deranged or totally lacking in good faith. They want Corbyn gone, and they can't be appeased. Labour should not concede to them a single inch, but decide its own policy in line with the values and wishes of its members.
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Emeritus Professor of Comparative European History Donald Sassoon, on Hobson-gate: "The campaign about antisemitism in Corbyn’s Labour party is getting absurd"
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The full dossier must be published.
This is not just a legal dispute. It was an unprecedented national controversy, and it is vital that the truth about what went on is established.
Exclusive: Labour lawyers decide an 860-page dossier on failures to handle AS complaints, compiled in last months of Corbyn's leadership, should not be sent to the EHRC.
Some close to Mr. Corbyn are furious, with one saying: "the truth must come out"
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The Labour Party has formally investigated at least 25 Jewish members, for antisemitism.
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As unarmed demonstrators in
#Gaza
are targeted by Israeli snipers, remember: in 2017, the UK Government approved £216 million in arms sales to Israel, including sniper rifles.
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Deputy Mayor of Jerusalem:
“
@idfonline
is eliminating the Muslim Nazis in Gaza. We must increase the rate. If the decision was in my hands, I would have called for four D-9s, put them behind these mounds of dirt, and given the order to cover all these hundreds of Nazis… [1/2]
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Geoffrey Alderman is a leading historian of British Jewry. He is also politically conservative and a 'proud Zionist'. One might imagine that his scepticism toward the 'Labour antisemitism' smear campaign would therefore qualify as newsworthy.
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After 3 years of brazenly dishonest reporting on this issue, shouldn't journalists exercise minimal critical faculties BEFORE endorsing the latest allegation? This would require hesitating two seconds before tweeting, but on the plus side, it would avoid betraying a movement.
I'm being told by people I trust that the Sunday Times may have got parts of this Labour/antisemitism story seriously wrong, which wouldn't surprise me. Watch this space.
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Four years of unprecedented media controversy over 'Labour antisemitism'.
Tweets & Facebook posts by random Labour members were given headline coverage.
Now look at the media reaction when presented with masses of evidence undermining key elements of that story:
I mentioned the leaked Labour dossier to a colleague last night on Skype & all I got was a blank look. Labour: you are a microdot on the horizon, even to people with a professional interest in Politics. Let that sink in.
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Former Head of Israeli Military Intelligence: Gaza is 'the largest prison camp in human history'; its residents 'have a similar feeling' to Jews who resisted in the Warsaw Ghetto; there must be a 'complete removal of the Israeli blockade of Gaza'
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THE GOVERNMENT: "There are many definitions, but we do not use a single definition of Islamophobia, and I do not accept that there is a need for a definitive one." So why is Labour being attacked for having not adopted the full IHRA definition?
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What The Guardian is willing to publish, now that it no longer matters: 'the attacks against Corbyn . . . aren’t about defeating antisemitism so much as using it as a narrative device to undermine a worldview'
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'The Labour Party's antisemitism problem is cultural, not mathematical' --> translation: We have no evidence.
JLC Chair
@jonnysgoldstein
has written to members of the Shadow Cabinet ahead of their unprecedented meeting on antisemitism.
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Such awful advice. First, he has nothing to apologise for. Second, he has apologised already, multiple times. Third, the demand for an apology never satisfies any of the critics - it is just a means to extract an admission of guilt .
He doesn’t make this any easier for himself or us. He should have apologised.
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Starmer, Rayner, Whittome, JLM are all leaning in to this Nottingham East CLP story to convey the impression of abusive CLPs and perhaps justify mass suspensions.
Worth putting a pin in that, since no one has yet established whether those allegations are true.
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If the
@EHRC
has the authority to compel Labour to transfer relevant evidentiary materials to it, then, surely it should demand to see the Labour dossier. Is there any doubt that the materials therein are pertinent to its Investigation?
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The Guardian, before we were pretending to be outraged: "JA Hobson’s influential classic, Imperialism (1902) whose 2011 edition contains Jeremy’s own perfectly decent introductory essay"
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Life-long Jewish Labour member, son of veteran Labour MP: I've "never" seen antisemitism in the Labour Party; allegations of a Labour antisemitism crisis are part of an "outrageous . . . smear campaign"
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Bernie Sanders just called Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu “a reactionary racist”.
Rebecca Long-Bailey recently agreed that it is “antisemitic” to “describe Israel [or] its policies” as “racist.”
So, would RLB suspend Bernie Sanders from the Labour Party for antisemitism?
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As many as 85,000 children under the age of five may have starved to death during the Saudi-led war on Yemen. In 2016, some 100 Labour MPs helped defeat a motion to suspend UK support for the Saudi coalition. If we are in a suspending mood, isn't this the right place to start?
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Another option: take your blackmail, your extortion and your cynical theatrics and leave the party, if you wish. Labour's Code of Conduct should be determined by its members and their elected representatives, and them alone.
‘The only way Jeremy Corbyn can put this issue to bed is to prove everybody wrong and take the action we are all urging him to take. That is he should adopt the internationally agreed definition of anti-semitism in full.
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Tom Bower? And the Mail? Full of shit, you say? Surely not!
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"Israel and Zionism are both inextricably Jewish," insist the Board of Deputies, CST and Jewish Leadership Council. But, doesn't their beloved IHRA definition rule out such conflations as antisemitic?
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Antisemitism is lower on the Left & among Labour supporters than on the Right & among Conservative supporters. There's no evidence it is widespread or increasing in Labour. (The aim of these leaks is to sap morale and divert attention. Don't let them.)
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According to a recent paper by
@rrgould
, the UK Government adopted only the IHRA definition, not the accompanying examples. Why is Labour being raked over the coals for not adopting ALL of the IHRA examples, if the Government has not adopted ANY of them?
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In 2016, as the people of Yemen faced starvation, the Labour Party moved to suspend UK support for the Saudi military that was bombing and blockading them.
The motion was defeated because David Lammy, along with dozens of his Labour colleagues, chose not to vote for it.
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"We are not prepared to be used as cannon fodder in what is really a political siege of the Labour party." Terrific letters in the Guardian from Labour-supporting Jews who see through its awful coverage:
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Chief Rabbi Mirvis says "Labour antisemitism" was significantly about support for Israel; says he acted "in concert with key Jewish figures and ... organisations" to use "influence" against Labour (a conspiracy trope?); gloats over "emphatic landslide victory"
h/t
@ChronometerJ
WATCH: “Today I issue a call to the Jews of America, please take a leaf out of our book and please speak with one voice.”
The Chief Rabbi speaking to the 18,000 delegates gathered at the
@AIPAC
General Session at their Policy Conference in Washington DC
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Now are we going to talk about important problems rather than a joke told five years ago or shall we all carry on being insane?
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While other politicians foment mass famine in Yemen, and sell arms to Israel so it can mutilate and murder children, Corbyn stands firm against the war criminals. For this alone, Corbyn has my vote for life.
Israeli PM
@Netanyahu
's claims about my actions and words are false.
What deserves unequivocal condemnation is the killing of over 160 Palestinian protesters in Gaza by Israeli forces since March, including dozens of children.
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Can you imagine if the Labour Party started routinely suspending black members, on the grounds of anti-black racism?
In a context where most complaints of anti-black racism, were submitted by one deranged white guy?
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British-Israeli journalist Anshel Pfeffer, writing for Ha'aretz in 2015, provides the best response to Margaret Hodge's lunacy:
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Bill Ackman's proposals for Gaza are as original as his wife's PhD
“THE INSIPID FLATNESS OF OUR PRESENT BOURGEOISIE IS TO BE MEASURED BY THE ALTITUDE OF ITS ‘GREAT INTELLECTS’” (Karl Marx, CAPITAL)
The last time billionaire Bill Ackman was heard from, he perpetrated the most brazen assault on academic freedom in our country’s history. He
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The fraudulent 'Labour antisemitism' controversy has empowered the most thuggish elements in the organised British Jewish community.
Case in point: the Campaign Against Antisemitism effectively calls for Professor David Feldman to keep quiet or be sacked.
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I am an ISRAELI JEWISH leftist and I have been SHOCKED and HURT by this anti-Labour smear campaign that has left me feeling profoundly UNSAFE.
(Did I convince Owen Jones yet?)
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Sky News has misunderstood the significance of these emails. They show Jennie Formby et al. trying to *speed up* the resolution of Jackie Walker's case, while protecting the party from legal challenge.
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Rayner: 'There’s no debating whether antisemitism exists in the Labour Party'. Correct: this is not the debate.
Isn't it astonishing, that they think members are fooled by these silly rhetorical tricks?
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Report: "the Forde inquiry’s terms of reference have been watered down". What is no longer being investigated? "[T]he truth or otherwise of the main allegations in the [Leaked] report"
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The Israeli military (IDF) has announced an investigation into the
#FlourMassacre
by "an INDEPENDENT, professional and expert body".
What is this “independent” body?
That would be... the IDF’s General Staff Review Mechanism, led by IDF Major General Moti Baruch.
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The EHRC's argument that political interference to SPEED UP the resolution of AS complaints, and to urge more SEVERE sanctions against those accused, constitutes unlawful indirect discrimination AGAINST (rather than in favour of) Jewish members, is certainly... bold.
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Reminder: Yesterday,
@lmharpin
of the
@JewishChron
,
@antisemitism
and
@lucianaberger
falsely smeared veteran Jewish peace activist Glyn Secker as an antisemite in order to discredit Labour, Jewish dissenters and the Palestine solidarity movement.
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Israeli journalist and mensch Gideon Levy: “Corbyn is a victim of a systematic campaign... We should not surrender to those labels and those accusations, because they are there in order to blackmail, in order to fight anyone who dares to criticise Israel”.
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The blood boils. But it’s not about a “lifetime ban”. What’s needed is a full and transparent establishing of what happened.
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'To be the guests of Israel without mentioning its crimes; to commemorate the Holocaust while ignoring its lessons; to visit Jerusalem without travelling to the Gaza ghetto... – one can barely think of any greater hypocrisy.'
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British Palestinian voices have been virtually excluded from five years of public debate over antisemitism and Palestine advocacy.
But these fanatics don't want to control 99% of the discussion. They demand 100%. So:
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The bottom line is:
Even the American judge found it plausible that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza.
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The rhetoric has become so deranged. The 'Labour antisemitism' smear campaign is taking on the dimensions of a psychosis. The headline is another useful warning for the left to resist the temptations of censorship - the norm will be turned against you.
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But if the people of Gaza cannot tilt the balance of global power, they still weigh on Corbyn's conscience. Corbyn's moral calculus upends the bloody realpolitik underpinning UK policy. This - not some wreath - is why entrenched powers are gunning for him.
Israeli PM
@Netanyahu
's claims about my actions and words are false.
What deserves unequivocal condemnation is the killing of over 160 Palestinian protesters in Gaza by Israeli forces since March, including dozens of children.
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According to Israel's leading human rights organisation, Israel is a Jewish supremacist regime that enforces apartheid on Palestinians.
The Board of Deputies is determined to help this supremacist regime escape even minimal accountability - here, an investigation - under the law
ICC dodged investigating China over claims of actual genocide against the Uyghurs, but yet this... We see you ICC 👀
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The people of
#Gaza
thank
@SenSanders
for his courageous and principled stand against Israel's repression and against the illegal blockade:
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These all sound plausible to me. Corbyn's joke was that the Palestinian Ambassador, a non-native, understood English irony better than his English critics. The premise of the joke was that the 'Zionists' who'd misunderstood him *were* English, not that they *weren't*.
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It is worth noting: had Rep. Ilhan Omar been a member of the Labour Party, she would have been suspended. Those who rose to her defence - Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren, Kamala Harris among them - would have risked suspension as well.
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Isn’t it obvious that Britain is suffering from an antisemitism ‘crisis’?
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Gideon Levy, who has covered Israel's occupation for Ha'aretz for decades: 'Israeli soldiers shoot children... Israeli soldiers are allowed to shoot children. Nobody punishes them for shooting children. When a Palestinian child is shot it’s not a story'.
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Leading UK authority on antisemitism rejects Jonathan Sacks's "vile" comments about Jeremy Corbyn, scorns Dame Hodge for "brazenly exploiting" antisemitism fears for partisan ends, and urges Labour to "abandon" the "deeply flawed"
#IHRA
definition
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…while they are alive. They are not humans nor human animals, they are sub-humans and should be treated as such. Destroy the memory of Amalek, we will not forget.” [2/2]
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In short, the outrage over Labour's alleged failure to adopt the IHRA definition is fake; the IHRA definition has repeatedly been used to silence legitimate criticism of Israel; and its adoption by
@UKLabour
would pose a clear and serious threat to free speech.
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