This is obscene. The British press is covering up the fact that Maccabi Tel Aviv fan are notoriously violent and racist hooligans who have a long record of beating up anyone who looks a bit Muslim or pro-Palestinian everywhere they go. Thread 🧵 Last month Maccabi fans were banned by Amsterdam city council, and declared “unwelcome” in the city after their violent rampage through the city the year before. This is from Israeli site Ynet:
ynetnews.com/sport/article/…

New: @DefendourJuries write to @metpoliceuk Commissioner Mark Rowley to say they will return to Parliament Square holding "I Support Palestine Action" signs on Saturday. 🧵

And it looks like civil disobedience will expand to Manchester and Cardiff too. In the new letter, the group is challenging the Met, asking if they really will investigate the hundreds of thousands who "have re-posted images [online] expressing support for Palestine Action".

This appears to be the first public act of civil disobedience in Britain against the proscription of Palestine Action.

For news reporting purposes:

https://twitter.com/hussainshafiei/status/1941280084532289759

More civil disobedience against the proscription of Palestine Action: University of Exeter professor Laleh Khalili:

https://twitter.com/lalehkhalili/status/1941422910008418374

Just came back from the “We are all Palestine Action” (@Pal_action) protest against @YvetteCooperMP’s proposed ban of the group as “terrorist.”

Riot police were very aggressive and appeared to make several arrests. I saw assaults by police against peaceful protestors Planned as a last minute response over the weekend, the protest had initially been called for nearby Parliament Square. But police imposed conditions, banning them from that location. So they held it in Trafalgar Square instead.

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. 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…

🧵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."

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.

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.

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."

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.

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…

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).

The legal unit of @UKLabour wrote to us demanding censorship of my (totally accurate and uncontested) reporting about their racist anti-Palestinian (and anti-Semitic) officials. We told them where to go:

electronicintifada.net/blogs/ali-abun… You can read the original article here which, despite @UKLabour's demands, we have refused to change to suit their whims:
electronicintifada.net/blogs/asa-wins…

Breaking: @jeremycorbyn suspended from Labour for his blandly factual statement today: "the scale of the problem was also dramatically overstated for political reasons by our opponents inside and outside the party, as well as by much of the media" What a disgrace. But many, many of @jeremycorbyn's supporters warned him since 2016 this day was coming.

Instead he listened to siren voices on the fake left who successfully steered him onto a political suicidal course of indulging the smears.

What a pity.

Breaking: the EHRC has failed to find Labour "institutionally anti-Semitic" as requested by the @JewishLabour Movement in its referral last year. Breaking: the EHRC, after a 17-month investigation into alleged institutional anti-Semitism has found only TWO cases of what it says were "unlawful acts" towards Jews.

In a defamatory article for Bristol student rag @TheTab, their features editor @SabriSun_Miller demands the university fires Bristol professor David Miller (@Tracking_Power) for making "controversial comments about Israel" which make her "uncomfortable".

Poisonous McCarthyism. I refuse to link to her article because it's honestly pure trash. Full of the usual lies about supposed left-wing anti-Semitism. With an extra CampusWatch-style McCarthyist twist, which is quite chilling.

The hidden toll of Labour's manufactured anti-Semitism "crisis" on left-wing Jews:

One "has taken an overdose following expulsion from the party. 'Notices of Investigation' sent to party members include a telephone number for the Samaritans." middleeasteye.net/big-story/labo… George Wilmers says his mistreatment by Labour is antisemitism: "I have been targeted as a Jew by fanatical persons who hold that political support for the ethnocratic nature of the actually existing state of Israel is an essential characteristic of being Jewish."

NEW: A group of leading Palestinian citizens of Britain have written to the Labour Party insisting on their right to oppose Zionism, and insisting it's racist to say they can't: electronicintifada.net/blogs/asa-wins… Will @jeremycorbyn support this British Palestinian call to end the "shrinking space" for their rights in the Labour Party?

Just got off the phone with one of the @Pal_action activists holding a sit-in on the roof of the Shenstone factory owned by Israeli drone maker @ElbitSystemsLtd.

This small group has managed to shutter this death-factory for three days running now! Direct action works. .@ElbitSystemsLtd market their weapons as “field-tested” on Palestinian civilians in Gaza

The activists are demanding "all Elbit Systems sites to be shut down in the UK, and an end to UK complicity with Israeli apartheid".

How a rogue inquiry by a Labour staffer with close ties to the Israeli embassy triggered Labour’s “anti-Semitism crisis”.

Read my latest investigative piece: electronicintifada.net/content/bogus-… “As I recall, what I actually said was that there is ‘influence wielded over elections by high net-worth individuals.’ I would never blame this on Jewish people.”

The level of fabrication and lies in this sorry story knows no bounds.