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Oct 9, 2021 8 tweets 6 min read Read on X
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

electronicintifada.net/blogs/asa-wins…
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

electronicintifada.net/blogs/asa-wins…
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:

electronicintifada.net/blogs/asa-wins…

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Sep 27
Just watched "We Will Dance Again," a BBC film written & directed by former (?) Israeli army reservist Yariv Mozer (who took part in the failed 2006 invasion of Lebanon).

Many significant omissions but perhaps most striking: the disappearance of the "Hamas rape campaign" lies. Image
Aside from two interviewees in the film who make extremely vague insinuations of fears of rape, even the word "rape" does not feature.

It didn't happen. @AliAbunimah has led the way in debunking this particularly malignant lie: electronicintifada.net/tags/mass-rape…
Raz Cohen, the former Israeli special forces soldier who repeatedly lied to mainstream media about seeing people raped at the Supernova festival –– and whose quote was behind the NYT's notoriously fake "Screams Without Words" headline –– DOES NOT APPEAR and isn't mentioned. Image
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Sep 10
🧵A thread of Britain's direct military & intelligence participation in Israel's Gaza genocide, based on @kennardmatt's @declassifiedUK reporting:

1) 8 May: "The Royal Air Force (RAF) has flown 200 surveillance flights over Gaza since December..."
declassifieduk.org/revealed-uk-mi…
"... March saw the highest number of British spy flights over Gaza with 44 missions ... Gaza sits around 30 minutes flight time from the base [in Cyprus] so it is likely the RAF has gathered around 1,000 hours of surveillance footage over Gaza."
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Jan 26
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.
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Nov 3, 2023
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.
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Jul 23, 2023
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?
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Nov 10, 2021
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…
Last year @TzipiHotovely called the Nakba, the well-documented 1948 expulsion of 800,000 Palestinians "a popular Arab lie": middleeasteye.net/news/uk-israel…
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