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Apr 17 8 tweets 2 min read
This is one of the most warped attacks I've ever had.

What he's done here is splice together me

a) condemning antisemitism

b) discussing Jewish peace activists I've interviewed / who've done actions

This guy works for a charity supposedly devoted to fighting antisemitism. So if I hadn't repeatedly condemned antisemitism, @DannyMMorris wouldn't have been able to put this hit video together.

Instead he'd have said I never condemn antisemitism.

He's managed to turn someone repeatedly condemning antisemitism into something sinister.
Apr 10 10 tweets 4 min read
The Cass review claims that boys play with trucks and girls play with dolls partly because of "prenatal and postnatal hormonal influence".

I will definitely take a review which offers that kind of claim seriously, if I ever start taking crack. So they've done a review which de facto raises adulthood to 25, when in fact trans people of all ages are stuck for years and years on waiting lists for healthcare.

really great stuff here

Apr 10 4 tweets 2 min read
Israel has carried out the worst slaughter of journalists in history.

They've also banned from journalists from entering Gaza.

Why? To cover up their crimes.

And the truth is worse than you think 👇


Image There's now an estimated 20,000 Palestinians buried under the rubble.

They're not included in the official death toll, which is around 33,4872.

That would bring the total to over 53,000.

Apr 8 13 tweets 4 min read
Well, this is a extremely interesting - and infuriating - case in point.

In his latest article in The Times newspaper, Matthew Syed has taken two quotes from my latest Guardian column, published last week. Image How do I know this?

1) The first appearance of Giora Eiland's quote (written on 7th October) in the Western media was my column.

2) I missed the "the" from Gallant's "restraints" quote, and Syed replicated my error. In the UK media, it's only been quoted one other time - by me Image
Apr 3 15 tweets 4 min read
The famine and slaughter in Gaza was completely inevitable from the start.

It was promised by Israel leaders and officials from day one.

There is no excuses for not knowing what would happen.

New column 👇

theguardian.com/commentisfree/… Gaza represents one of the biggest scandals in the history of Western journalism.

Rarely has a state been so open in advance about its intent to commit extreme crimes.

Yet media outlets failed to frame their coverage around these open, unashamed confessions. Image
Mar 13 4 tweets 2 min read
Jess Phillips once boasted she'd told Diane Abbott to "fuck off".

Diane Abbott later said this never even happened.

So my question to @jessphillips is:

Did you lie about abusing @HackneyAbbott to get some sort of kudos, despite knowing how much abuse she gets?
Image Jess Phillips presents herself as a champion of women in politics against abuse, but just look at this?

She knows that a study found Diane Abbott got more abuse than every female Labour MP put together, but look at the state of this?

Mar 13 16 tweets 4 min read
The Speaker has to resign after failing to take a question from Diane Abbott.

It’s not possible to argue he takes racism seriously.

The scandal should be at the forefront of his mind - if so, he just doesn’t care about racism.

Or what he forgot? - so racism isn’t a priority. The House of Commons cannot have a Speaker who - whichever way you look at it - does not treat racism as a priority.

So he must either resign or be forced out of his job.

Otherwise what message are politicians sending Black Britons exactly?
Mar 11 4 tweets 2 min read
This is frankly shocking.

The celebrated historian @simon_schama posted and then deleted without any apology or explanation an article alleging a Palestinian plot to take over the world. Image The article includes passages like this.

How have we got to the stage where public figures can post stuff like this without any resulting controversy? Image
Mar 10 4 tweets 1 min read
Hi there Fania.

You support a military onslaught which has killed over 14,000 children, virtually razed Gaza off the face of the earth, and reduced many survivors to eating animal feed.

You also claimed the IDF protected civilian life.

This isn't moderation or compassion. This is like listening to someone extol their passionate vegetarianism as they loudly chew on a big juicy beef burger.
Feb 22 8 tweets 2 min read
Here’s what’s going on.

Israel’s onslaught is clearly now, to most voters, an obscene and indefensible mass slaughter.

That’s left MPs who justified it exposed.

So they’re now trying to protect themselves from scrutiny by claiming it puts their safety at risk. We can quickly test this claim to destruction.

Jo Cox was murdered by a far right, racist terrorist.

How often is her murder cited in debates about immigration, that approaches must be drastically changed given the far right threat to MPs?
Feb 13 5 tweets 4 min read
So, I hold no candle for Graham Jones.

I mean, for a start, he once called me an "Iranian hangmen" [sic] because I opposed Saudi Arabia's murderous war on Yemen. Weird!

But there was nothing morally wrong with what he said and it's absurd he was suspended.

Israel is currently under investigation for alleged genocide by the International Court of Justice - the highest court on earth.

There is an abundance of evidence that Israel is committing severe war crimes in Gaza - some of it posted by triumphant IDF soldiers themselves on social media.

Now, Graham Jones got the law wrong, believing that it's a criminal offence to fight for a country the UK isn't in a military alliance with.

And unlike the other Jones, I'm a believer in due process.

But obviously any British citizen should be prohibited from serving in an army under investigation for genocide, and they should face a criminal investigation if they do so.

That's the argument he should have made, but if you met the guy you'd realise that's asking a lot.

Now given Graham Jones comes from the most right-wing flank of Labour possible, a factional response on my part would be to celebrate his likely political demise.

But it's the factional weaponisation of episodes which have been arbitrarily placed in a box labelled 'antisemitism' which is the problem here.

As the Forde Report - which was commissioned by Keir Starmer! - found, questions to do with antisemitism in Labour were weaponised for factional reasons. That has nothing to do with advancing anti-racism.

Clearly what Graham Jones said is not antisemitic. Ever since the current horror began, some have sought to entirely erase the demarcation we are all rightly supposed to observe between 'the state of Israel' and 'Jewish people'.

In some cases, there isn't even a pretence this demarcation exists anymore.

This is absurd, outrageous and incredibly irresponsible too?

It is very legitimately said that it is not for non-Jews to define antisemitism, and when we are discussing exclusively questions of racism against Jewish people, this is absolutely true: when it includes discussing the plight and treatment of the Palestinian people, who are themselves a protected people, that does not follow.

Objecting to British citizens serving in the army of a state placed on trial by the world's highest court for what has been deemed a plausible genocide against the Palestinian people of Gaza is not antisemitism. I mean, can we get real here?

Indeed, this itself smacks of anti-Palestinian racism - it erases the very presence of a protected group from the discussion of a conflict which plausibly constitutes a genocide against Palestinians.

The problem for Starmer's leadership is they suspended left-winger Kate Osamor for describing Israel's onslaught against genocide on the day the ICJ ruled it could be a genocide. That's not antisemitism.

They also suspended left-wing Andy McDonald for saying “We won’t rest until we have justice, until all people, Israelis and Palestinians, between the river and the sea can live in peaceful liberty." That's not antisemitism either.

So they've set a precedent whereby, as we see with Jones, that if even their own loyalists privately express discontent about the mass slaughter of Gaza - a cowardly thing to do if they're not doing it in public - they are now liable to face calls to get booted out the Labour party.

But I'm not going to enjoy any schadenfreude over this.

It is ludicrous that the only people being held to account amidst this horror are those who oppose an alleged genocide - rather than those actively cheering on war crimes, including Starmer himself when he supported Israel's right to cut off water and energy (despite later lying about it).

Their transparent factionalism has rebounded on them, but they've helped to make opposition to the mass slaughter of Gaza ever harder in the process. Just for more context there - as well as suggesting I hanged people on behalf of Iran, Graham Jones suggested I said torturing and killing children was ok.

This was literally because I opposed UK support for Saudi's onslaught against Yemen, for which he's an apologist. Image
Jan 26 13 tweets 2 min read
The ICJ has just ruled that the evidence is "sufficient to conclude that at least some" of South Africa's claims of genocide against Israel "are plausible".

They can't adjudicate at this stage on whether it is genocide.

They have concluded there's a plausible risk of genocide. This is devastating.

Absolutely devastating.
Jan 16 13 tweets 4 min read
Last month, I reported I'd been 'shadowbanned' by Facebook.

While my video traffic on YouTube is higher than ever before, on Facebook traffic abruptly collapsed at the end of November.

But now followers have got in touch to explain something absolutely wild that's happening. Most tell me that notifications for my new videos have suddenly stopped.

But others explain that when they do get a notification for a video, they click on it and it sends them to something completely different.
Jan 9 7 tweets 2 min read
I approached the BBC for a response to this study.

It's frankly embarrassing.

They don't answer why they give far, far less weight to Palestinian deaths.

Neither is this an answer to why they use much less humanising language with Palestinian deaths.
Image Here's how the study compared mentions of Israeli and Palestinian deaths in BBC coverage, with the total number of Israeli and Palestinian deaths.

There are far more Palestinian deaths, happening on a daily basis - but that's not reflected in BBC coverage. At all.

Look at it! Image
Jan 2 4 tweets 1 min read
I've read South Africa's case alleging genocide against Israel.

It is one of the most shocking things I've ever read.

It feels like you're reading a gruesome historical document about how a genocide was allowed to happen, then you realise this is now.

icj-cij.org/sites/default/… Even if you think you've been following Israel's war crimes in close detail, this lawyerly, profoundly evidenced file is shocking.

From the violent slaughter of civilians to the use of hunger and disease as weapons of war, the gravity of the crime spelled out is overwhelming.
Dec 15, 2023 5 tweets 2 min read
His courage is endless.

The day after his family was wiped out by an Israeli strike, he went back to work.

He’s now been injured in the line of duty.

To those Western journalists who couldn’t bring yourself to show solidarity with Gaza’s embattled journalists: shame on you It's been proven that Israel has deliberately assassinated journalists in southern Lebanon, which is a war crime.

Given the apocalyptic conditions in Gaza, it's harder to investigate circumstances.

But it's crucial that the truth is investigated.

Dec 13, 2023 4 tweets 1 min read
"Behaving badly"?

That makes this sound like a toddler having a tantrum, or a bunch of lads having an OTT stag party.

Setting fire to food and water supplies - amidst a starving population lacking access to clean water - is indicative of war crimes. Image Would the @Telegraph look at videos of Russian soldiers setting fire to food and water supplies amidst a starving Ukrainian population denied access to clean water, and headline that with "Viral videos show Russian troops behaving badly"?
Nov 11, 2023 6 tweets 2 min read
Here’s what happened today.

The Government and much of the media whipped up a thuggish far right mob.

On the other hand, hundreds of thousands - Muslims, Christians, Jews, non-believers - took to the streets against the mass slaughter of thousands of civilians.
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Rather than take responsibility for inciting a fascist mob, commentators are desperately searching for any unrepresentative bigot to tarnish a peaceful, inclusive demo.

Many of these commentators work for racist newspapers which whip up hate against marginalised minorities.
Oct 18, 2023 13 tweets 3 min read
We don't know who bombed the hospital yet, and we should reserve judgement.

What we do know is Israel has bombed hospitals, killed medics, killed huge numbers of civilians, cut off water, and promised to reduce Gaza to a "city of tents" and to "eliminate everything." Truth is a matter of life and death in a horror show like this.

That so many are sceptical is because Israel's authorities have a history of deception - they lied about killing the journalist Shireen Abu Akleh, for example - and Hamas' rockets are generally frankly flimsy.
Aug 19, 2023 13 tweets 2 min read
Female serial killers are rare, the two most famous in the UK - Rosemary West and Myra Hindley - murdered people in conjunction with a man.

These two serial killers, for example, had childhoods defined by violence, trauma and abuse. I’ve seen a lot of commentary about the media portrayal of the Lucy Letby case which I sympathise with - basically “how could this nice looking smiling woman from a ‘normal background’ commit such horror.”

For example, if she wasn’t white, would that commentary still stand?
Jul 10, 2023 10 tweets 3 min read
This is potentially a massive scandal involving The Sun newspaper and their conduct.

Never, ever, ever, ever jump to conclusions based on what The Sun newspaper prints.

It's ridiculous that this needs to be said!

bbc.co.uk/news/entertain… The Sun relied entirely on the testimony of the young person's mother.

The young person's lawyer says they approached the Sun on Friday saying there was "no truth to it".

They still printed the article - triggering a disgusting online witch hunt.

An epic scandal.