Thread by @OwenJones84

Tzipi Hotovely is a right wing extremist who supports the annexation of all Palestinian land and describes the 'nabka' - the expulsion of Palestinians in 1948 - as an "Arab lie".

She's the Ambassador of a state deemed by Human Rights Watch to practice Apartheid.

Just as anti-apartheid protesters were right to protest the South African Embassy - which they did far more aggressively than anything that happened last night at LSE - students are entitled to protest an extremist Israeli Ambassador who freely spoke at their university.

For those saying: "What about China!" Please do protest the Chinese Ambassador if he does a talk at your university legitimising the persecution of Uighur Muslims.

The difference is Israel is our ally - armed and backed by our government, and the UK helped cause this whole mess!

And I'm sorry, but anti-Palestinian racism infests this "debate".

If you believed Palestinian lives mattered, you wouldn't condemn protests against someone advocating the theft of literally all of their land, when they already suffer what HRW damns as Apartheid.

Sorry, that should read ‘nakba’

Truth just gets destroyed at times like this, doesn't it? Hotovely wasn't prevented from attending any debate. Here she is at LSE, speaking freely and unchallenged.

https://twitter.com/isra_saker/status/1458269442840858626

Here is testimony from one of the student protesters.

https://twitter.com/isra_saker/status/1458228454344777737

Another young woman tells me: "I would like to also add that I go to LSE, attended the protest and it was extremely peaceful! the moral panic that it has caused is insanity."

So basically this is where we are at: "free speech" is under threat on university campuses, but students must be arrested if they boo and heckle the far right racist Ambassador of a state condemned as Apartheid by Human Rights Watch after she freely speaks at their university.

I'm also being contacted by Jewish students noting the exceptionally offensive comments made by Tzipi Hotovely against Diaspora Jews.

Labour's Shadow Foreign Secretary comes to the defence of a far-right extremist who calls for the annexation of all Palestinian land, against young students - including Jewish students - opposing racism and what Human Rights Watch deems to be Apartheid.

https://twitter.com/lisanandy/status/1458404080792096774

The Shadow Home Secretary has used his platform to denounce young students at LSE as antisemites - because they protested against an Israeli Ambassador who is a right-wing extremist who wants to annex all Palestinian land.

He needs to justify his claim.

https://twitter.com/NickTorfaen/status/1458428527880118273

As someone who's been targeted in the street by Tommy Robinson supporters claiming I'm a stooge of Hamas and Hezbollah, both @lisanandy and @NickTorfaen are playing with fire here.

By demonising student protesters like this, they're putting massive targets on the students' backs

All LSE students did is boo at a right wing extremist who wants to permanently annex all Palestinian land after she spoke freely at their university.

Can those whipping up hysteria over this explain why this is wrong or contradicts the right to peacefully protest.

Don’t answer if you think booing constitutes violence.

I've spoken to multiple LSE students, all of whom are insistent that 'lseclasswar' - cited as evidence of violent intent - is a fake account, widely believed to be operated by a right-winger, but certainly none of the protest organisers.

https://mobile.twitter.com/isra_saker/status/1458400865065308176

LSE students also tell me that they are being targeted by menacing posts by hard right Twitter accounts because of the storm which has been whipped up by the media, the Tory government, and - shamefully, it must be said - Labour shadow ministers.