Thread by @hurryupharry

The other day Hastings and Rye Palestine Solidarity Campaign hosted Asa Winstanley and Jonathan Cooke to discuss "Propaganda, Censorship and the Israel lobby"

Find out about Israel's "troll army" and why @DavidHirsh is "poisonous"

Cooke is helpful in that he defines just who he thinks the Israel lobby actually are. Hint it's a bunch of Jewish charities mainly

And by the way "we talk a lot about Vladimir Putin and troll armies well Israel..."

Asa remembers the name of a Jew who gave money to Kier Starmer, big story he "wrote an article about it when it came out"

Jewish students calling for solidarity against racism are undertaking "a utilisation of identity politics" but perhaps "there's reason to believe someone's being dishonest about something and might have an ulterior motive so it's reasonable to question" them

"a particularly poisonous pro-Israel academic called @DavidHirsh..."

Winstanley explains (badly) Macpherson inquiry emanating from Stephen Lawrence's murder perhaps not realising Baroness Doreen Lawrence, Steven's mother, sits on the @UKLabour Antisemitism Advisory Board

And then we really go off piste. Pro Israel student activists are apparently claiming to feel "threatened" & "unsafe" as part of a strategy to "shut David Miller down".

Perhaps the truth is that they really feel unsafe as a result of Miller's comments? #JustSaying

"When he [Corbyn] became a realistic prospect for leader of the @uklabour Party all these rightwing newspapers had to play catch up, right? and they had to start to find ways to discredit him [corbyn] & where did they turn to? Well they turned to the Israel lobby!"

To conclude...probably not worth getting your facts from these two.