Here's a few things detailed in my latest article, about Labour conference 🧵👇
Shadow foreign minister @lisanandy was given a massive round of applause by Labour Friends of Israel for undermining the @PSCupdates motion against Israeli apartheid
Addressing Labour Friends of Israel at their annual reception, @lisanandy promised the lobby group she would "always, always, always" stand with them -- and said the Corbyn era was a "nightmare" now ended
Nandy applauded as veteran Israel lobbyist @LouiseEllman boasted that Labour members who oppose Labour Friends of Israel have now "been defeated".
Labour MP & @PeoplesMomentum candidate Charlotte Nichols (@charlotte2153) posed for photos at LFI booth w/ director Michael Rubin -- who you may remember admitted LFI was a front for the Israeli embassy: “publicly we just try to keep the LFI as a separate identity to the embassy”
Labour Friends of Israel's now executive director also admitted in the undercover filming that his group can receive funding from the Israeli embassy:
Another guest of honour at the LFI reception alongside @lisanandy & @LouiseEllman was @OrenMarmorstein, deputy to Israeli ambassador @TzipiHotovely -- a far-right racist who says there is "no Palestinian people," calls for destruction of their villages and wants to invade Jordan
Of course, this was all enthusiastically approved by Labour's right-wing leader @Keir_Starmer, who also immediately undermined the @PSCupdates motion voted through by members, and promised to be star speaker at an LFI lunch in November
In summary, the Israel lobby’s grip on the Labour Party now looks iron-clad. Full article here:
Breaking: ICJ dismisses Israeli attempt to rule out the South African case of genocide against Palestinians on technical grounds –– i.e. the court rules it a fact that there is a dispute between SA and Isr. on the question.
Breaking: ICJ rules there's a prima facie case to answer in South Africa's genocide case against Israel.
Breaking: The ICJ judge is now running through the genocidal language of Israeli politicians.
Cites infamous statements by war minister Yoav Gallant on siege and "human animals," as well as president Isaac Herzog's "entire nation" bile.
Nasrallah: The Al-Aqsa Flood operation was 100% a decision of the Palestinian resistance alone, and we salute the secrecy in planning.
Nasrallah: Al-Aqsa Flood proved once again that the entity is weaker than a spider's web. There are now some Israelis who believe this too.
Nasrallah: Al-Aqsa Flood was the right, correct and courageous choice. The enemy was in a state of loss and confused. It seems they were all asleep. It took hours for Netanyahu, Gallant and the others to show their faces.
Gutted to announce: my Bristol book talk tomorrow has been postponed after senior Unite leaders (seemingly @UniteSharon & @gailcartmail themselves) intervened to block local activists and staff from hosting me at Tony Benn House. @AliAbunimah reports: electronicintifada.net/blogs/ali-abun…
Assistant general secretary @gailcartmail even had the chutzpah to smear my book in exactly the same terms as the Israel lobby, claiming it “has already caused deep hurt among Jews in Britain” and that it is "inflammatory."
Since when are unions not supposed not to debate "inflammatory" political topics just because it might hurt feelings?!
If unions can't even discuss controversial topics now, what even is the point of them?
With the student protest against @TzipiHotovely at LSE being roundly attacked by both the Israel lobby and the British government, here's a thread reminder of the Israeli ambassador's long record of far-right extremism 🧵👇
In May @TzipiHotovely was the star speaker at a Zionist demonstration in support of the Israeli embassy in London at which participants called for Palestinian villages to be burned and chanted in support of the genocidal Rabbi Meir Kahane electronicintifada.net/content/london…
Breaking: A leaked document shows that the lawyer @BristolUni instructed to investigate David Miller totally exonerated him of anti-Semitism or any other wrongdoing 🧵👇 electronicintifada.net/blogs/asa-wins…
The lawyer found that Professor David Miller "had no case to answer". Despite this @BristolUni bowed to the dictates of Israel and its lobby and fired him anyway.
The leaked document also proves that the complaint against Miller was instigated by Israel lobby groups the @CST_UK and @UJS_UK -- not by "terrified" students on campus.
Here's @OwenJones84, yet again, fuelling Labour's McCarthyist purge of socialists and Palestine solidarity activists.
Owen Jones is a willing lackey of the Israel lobby. Thread: 🧵👇
Owen Jones -- as usual -- wants to have it both ways. He claims not to "support" expulsion of @KenLoachSixteen, yet in the same breath implies expulsion was correct -- because a play he directed in 1987 expressed Forbidden Criticism of Zionism (Israel's racist official ideology).
Owen Jones even has the chutzpah to imply @KenLoachSixteen -- who was a socialist when Jones was still in nappies -- is not really even "someone on the left"!