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Owen Jones
@owenjonesjourno
Socialist, antifascist, writer in various places, geriatric millennial, GQ's 9th Worst Dressed Man in 2016. He/him. YouTube channel https://t.co/KOwFSPHf2t 🍉
Jul 9 • 10 tweets • 2 min read
This is infuriating crap.

He says:

“There's increasing evidence that war crimes appear to have been committed.”

He knows Israel has committed war crimes on an industrial scale.

He’s refusing to say so because it would impose legal obligations on him to actually act. He talks about “criticising” Israel’s actions.

Which part will you “criticise”, @andyburnham?

The part where Israeli soldiers deliberately kill Palestinian children, as per a recent UN Commission?

The slaughter of 1,700 medics?

Deliberate starvation?
Jun 10 • 10 tweets • 3 min read
You see these scenes from Belfast?

That's our future if Reform, Restore, the Tories, GB News, Elon Musk and the right-wing media get their way.

Except this will be on a much bigger scale.

We have to decide: do we want those inciting hatred to destroy our country? We already had our warning.

We had a national right-wing uprising / attempted pogrom in August 2024.

They tried to burn refugees alive.

They attacked shops, cars, mosques.

They attacked the homes of minorities, attacked people of colour in the street, dragged people from cars Image
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Jun 9 • 7 tweets • 3 min read
In 2024, a white neo-Nazi tried to behead a Kurdish barber.

Did Patrick Christys say:

"I preferred our country before white men started trying to behead people in the street"?

No. He said zilch.

Both the perpetrator and the victim had the wrong skin colour for condemnation Image In 2024, a white man tried to behead his female partner.

Nothing from @PatrickChristys condemning white men trying to behead people then, either. Image
Jun 3 • 7 tweets • 3 min read
A request for help.

Steve Laws demands all Sikhs are deported after Henry Nowak's murder.

But he supports deporting everyone with "non-British" heritage.

Henry Nowak had Polish heritage.

Would you have deported Henry Nowak?

I keep asking.

He won't answer.

So please ask him Steve Laws has latched on to the murder of Henry Nowak to advance his racist agenda.

But Laws wants to deport Polish Brits.

So answer the question about Henry Nowak and his family, @Steve_Laws_ Image
May 1 • 9 tweets • 2 min read
A retweet by Zack Polanski is now the main story across every single media outlet.

Two days ago, it was revealed that Nigel Farage failed to disclose a £5 million gift from a crypto-billionaire.

It gets nowhere near the media attention, for straightforward political reasons. I've worked in the British media for 15 years.

Aside from the fact that most newspapers have an aggressively right-wing orientation:

It's stuffed with people who regard the parameters of acceptable political views as being 'centrist to very right-wing'.
Apr 2 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
"We're going to bring them back to the Stone Ages where they belong."

Here's what has happened.

The West armed Israel while it exterminated Gaza and Israeli leaders bragged about their war crimes.

And that normalised a descent into barbarism.

While Israel was committing a livestreamed genocide, if you either:

1) Supported it

2) Stayed silent, apart from empty, meaningless handwringing

Then you have no right to cry over Donald Trump boasting of his war crimes.

You did this. You normalised our descent into barbarism
Jan 18 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
"Pretending Israel is committing genocide."

The world's pre-eminent scholars of genocide have concluded Israel has committed genocide.

Including Israeli scholars, like Prof. Omer Bartov, the Dean's Professor of Holocaust and Genocide Studies at Brown University. Image Gaza genocide deniers like @DavidHirsh should explain, clearly and plainly:

Why have pre-eminent scholars - including in Israel - who dedicate their lives to studying genocide and indeed the Holocaust independently concluded that Israel has committed genocide?
Nov 11, 2025 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
The claim that the BBC has a pro-trans bias is absolutely and completely insane.

Let's start with this case study.

The BBC published a piece claiming trans women were preying on lesbians.

It was based on an anti-trans group, a bogus study, and someone with hateful views.Image The BBC Today programme Justin Webb makes ZERO effort to disguise his views on trans rights.

Name a prominent BBC presenter who goes on air making clear their pro-trans views in the same way.

Clue: You will not find them! Image
Nov 6, 2025 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
We said - all along - that Maccabi Tel Aviv fans were banned because of THEIR hooliganism.

And we were right.

You have been lied to your government.

You have been lied to by your media.

This should be a national scandal. Image The government and media spread the disgusting lie that Maccabi fans were banned for being Jewish.

In doing so, they:

- Smeared Birmingham

- Whipped up anti-Muslim bile

All to protect some racist football hooligans from a foreign genocidal state!
Nov 3, 2025 • 7 tweets • 3 min read
Where is the Western media outrage?

A Palestinian man was gang raped by Israeli soldiers.

That triggered PRO-RAPE riots in Tel Aviv (not an exaggeration!)

While the IDF's chief lawyer is under arrest for leaking the video OF THE RAPE. The original BBC headline framed the scandal as being over the video of the rape being leaked.

Rather than the ACTUAL GANG RAPE. Image
Oct 28, 2025 • 8 tweets • 2 min read
Because British political journalists and columnists

a) are politically hostile to the left

b) don’t see the left as legitimate political actors

c) think “legitimate concerns” includes backlash at migrants, but not economic injustice

d) don’t understand the left Political journalism isn’t about allowing voters to make informed decisions, thus enhancing democracy.

It’s about setting and policing the parameters of political debate - determining everything from what’s considered extreme, to what’s considered scandalous.
Aug 5, 2025 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
55.6% of Jewish Israelis say they are "not at all troubled" by the "reports of famine and suffering among the Palestinian population in Gaza".

Another 23.4% are "not so troubled".

Only 13.5% say "somewhat troubled".

Just 6.7% say "very troubled".

This is genocidal mania. Genocidal mania has three components:

1) Ethnic chauvinism

2) Victimhood

3) Impunity

Mix those three factors together and you will have catastrophic consequences, as we can all see.
Jul 6, 2025 • 27 tweets • 10 min read
I've got ADHD, Joanne.

It comes with the territory.

Now we've cleared that up:

What's the explanation for The World's Number One Women's Rights Defender™ saying zero, zilch, nada about the impact of Israel's genocide on Palestinian women?

Here's a thread on what JK won't say Image 70% of Palestinians killed by Israel are women and children.

@jk_rowling says nothing. Image
Jun 30, 2025 • 7 tweets • 3 min read
Cindy McCain says there's no evidence that Hamas is stealing aid.

But what does she know.

She's only the director of the World Food Programme, and widow of the hawkishly pro-Israel Republican Senator John McCain.

Then there's David Satterfield, the diplomat who served Bush, Obama, Trump and Biden, former US Ambassador, former Special Envoy for Humanitarian Issues.

He says Israel has never offered privately alleged or offered evidence of Hamas stealing aid.

Jun 29, 2025 • 8 tweets • 3 min read
This depraved psycho publicly declared that hundreds of thousands of Palestinian children can just go to hell.

This morally warped man called for the death of hundreds of thousands of kids - which is what his statement means in practise - and thinks he has a moral high ground. Image He publicly supports the mass murder of innocent civilians.

Yet instead of disappearing into a hole somewhere forever, @DPJHodges has faced no consequences for his support for genocide and feels able to adjudicate on morality.

Fucked up doesn't begin to cover it. Image
Jun 27, 2025 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
Israeli officers and soldiers have revealed they’ve been ordered to deliberately shoot at unarmed Palestinians trying to get aid.

That’s in Israeli newspaper Haaretz.

Israel is deliberately massacring civilians it’s deliberately starving.

There are few crimes more depraved. Image It’s easy to feel like you’re going mad watching a live streamed genocide for a very obvious reason.

You can see overwhelming evidence that the most depraved crimes are being committed every day, yet you’re treated as a hateful extremist if you say so.
Apr 27, 2025 • 13 tweets • 3 min read
Trans women legally obliged to use men's toilets, trans men legally obliged to use women's toilets.

Trans people are not going to do this. Every visit to the toilet would be humiliating, at worse dangerous.

In practise, it means trans people not using public toilets. What happens to your life if the very act of using a public toilet becomes a source of fear or panic?

Well, it largely means you don't leave your home unless you really have to. You don't go to pubs or bars or cinemas or theatres. Do you even go shopping?
Apr 18, 2025 • 8 tweets • 2 min read
Israel's lies about the massacre of the Red Crescent medics are comprehensively taken apart by Sky News.

Israel's initial lies, and subsequent lies, are taken apart.

This is important journalism.

But it isn't good enough. Here's why.

news.sky.com/story/two-hour… Since the genocide began, Western media outlets have sporadically taken apart Israel's lies about atrocities it has perpetrated.

For example:

- The Flour Massacre

- The November 2023 attack on al-Shifa hospital

- The use of 2,000lb bombs in so-called 'safe areas'
Apr 14, 2025 • 16 tweets • 3 min read
Opposition to Israel’s genocide is a position shared by millions of people.

And yet there are some on this website who want to make it a fringe position, by imposing a purity test which would exclude the vast majority who oppose the genocide. Even if you oppose the genocide, even if you support a total arms embargo and sweeping sanctions on Israel, the arrest of the entire military and political leadership, the creation of a single state with equal rights for all:

Even then, they will say you’re not pure enough.
Feb 25, 2025 • 16 tweets • 3 min read
We are getting to the point where we are increasingly normalising the idea that direct war with Russia is inevitable.

This will significantly increase the chance of nuclear apocalypse, in which the lucky ones will die in the initial blast.

It is OK to resist this. There is no question that Vladimir Putin is a very unpleasant irredentist autocrat.

My question here is, leaving aside existing Western horrors inflicted on the world, if Donald Trump achieves his goal of annexing, say, Gaza and Greenland, are we going to war with the US?
Feb 1, 2025 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
Keir Starmer's aides openly brief that he is not actually running the country.

He's just the frontman for Labour's most right-wing faction, a bunch of unpleasant political gangsters who don't believe in much, apart from hating the left. Image Fascinating how Keir Starmer's leadership campaign lying to and conning the Labour membership can be treated as just a throwaway line.

Rather than a scandalous act of deception, which drenched Starmer's political project in dishonesty from the start. Image