Thread by @TheBirmingham6

THREAD of clips from the 'Antisemitism' debate held in London where the 'battle of ideas' was convincingly and easily won by @mehdirhasan and @pappe54.
This first clip was Mehdi's summing up against the 'ludicrous, offensive and dishonest motion'

@mehdirhasan @pappe54 This second clip is Ilan Pappe's summing up :
"Think of how it would be if someone came to you in the dead of night in London and said I used to live in your house 2000 years ago and so it belongs to me." Zionism was a settler-colonialist project in the 19th Century and today.

@mehdirhasan @pappe54 Israeli historian Ilan Pappe tells the audience historically Jews were treated far better in the Arab world than they were in the Christian world ...until the rise of Zionist ideology

@mehdirhasan @pappe54 Mehdi addresses the Israeli propagandist trope about 'Israel being singled out' by pointing out how his first #iq2 debate was condemning Saudi. Says it's high time Israel were sanctioned by the UN like other human rights abusers

@mehdirhasan @pappe54 Ilan Pappe on THE viable solution. "One State which ensures equal rights to everyone. And the return of the refugees who were expelled". So simple and obvious but the media/ political class censor,deflect,obfuscate truth in their complicity with racist Zionist ideology.

@mehdirhasan @pappe54 Mehdi illustrates the point about the Israeli apartheid state where the Knesset and Supreme Court block any attempt to make Israel/Palestine a state for all its citizens

@mehdirhasan @pappe54 A student of Religion, Philosophy and Ethics asks Melanie Phillips about Ashkenazi

@mehdirhasan @pappe54 Ilan Pappe defines the Nakba ('the catastrophe'). "An operation of ethnic cleansing to systematically expel Palestinians to 'de-Arabise' the land of Palestine BUT the Nakba continues today and we should discuss the destruction of Palestine not the nonsense tonight."

@mehdirhasan @pappe54 Mehdi : "This is what the pro-Israeli argument has always been to silence the Palestinians, to silence their opposition to Occupation, to silence their resistance against a Nationalistic ideology which treats them as second class citizens"

@mehdirhasan @pappe54 The Moderator of the Panel @BBCCarrie concludes the evening by revealing the extent of the conclusive democratic defeat of @melanielatest and @EWilf in the 'battle of ideas'.
Well done Mehdi and Ilan. #FreePalestine

@mehdirhasan @pappe54 @BBCCarrie @MelanieLatest @EWilf Just for completeness. Here are the 'official' clips #iq2 made available
Mehdi Hasan, arguing AGAINST the motion, asks what it means to tell Palestinians "that you're either a Zionist or a racist".

@mehdirhasan @pappe54 @BBCCarrie @MelanieLatest @EWilf Ilan Pappe

@mehdirhasan @pappe54 @BBCCarrie @MelanieLatest @EWilf "We will not be silenced, we will not be bullied, we will not be cowed, we will not be smeared.."
@mehdirhasan
speaking AGAINST the motion 'Anti-Zionism is Anti-Semitism.' #iq2

@mehdirhasan @pappe54 @BBCCarrie @MelanieLatest @EWilf "It is an undeniable indisputable fact that many many European anti-Semites did support Zionism at the outset". Mehdi Hasan