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Socialist, antifascist, writer in various places, geriatric millennial, GQ's 9th Worst Dressed Man in 2016. He/him. YouTube channel https://t.co/KOwFSPHf2t 🏳️‍🌈
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Nov 13 5 tweets 2 min read
Here's the thing.

Whenever you get smeared with a false claim of antisemitism - I dunno, you object to Israeli hooligans beating people up, or Israeli soldiers shooting kids in the head - click on their profile.

You will almost always come across a sewer of racism. On the one hand, there are the right-wing extremists who openly incite racist bile against Arabs and Muslims.

Then there are the 'liberals' who don't even pretend to treat Palestinian or Muslim life as having worth, or treat anti-Arab racism as having meaning.

All are racists.
Nov 9 7 tweets 3 min read
This is a massive media scandal.

@SkyNews posted a video accurately describing what happened in Amsterdam.

It described violence perpetrated by Israeli football hooligans, and their hideous racism.

They then deleted it. This is the original.

They then posted a re-edit.

Except it's not a re-edit. It's a totally different video, which now qualifies as disinformation.

@SkyNews then posted a tweet saying their previous video didn't meet their standards for balance and impartiality.

That was deleted too. Image
Nov 8 16 tweets 5 min read
Imagine Russian football fans in a foreign city:

- Interrupted a minute’s silence in memory of dead flood victims with chants in support of killing Ukrainian children

- Rampaged through the city

- Ripped down Ukrainian flags

- Chanted “death to Ukrainians”

- Attacked local residents

Imagine then, when local residents attacked them, they were presented as victims of a racist pogrom. Mainstream media outlets and politicians are simply lying about Amsterdam.

This gaslighting is just insane.

We can see for ourselves what racist, genocidal Israeli football hooligans chanted and did 👇

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Oct 21 26 tweets 8 min read
This was posted by Mohammad Magadli, journalist and Palestinian citizen of Israel.

It's a video of a girl in Gaza, maybe 7 or 8, walking barefoot with her injured sister.

“I'm tired, I have been carrying her for an hour and I can’t now”.

Brace yourself for the responses. This is Almog Cohen.

He's an elected Israeli politician in his mid-30s, a former police officer who founded a militia force in the Negev.

His tweet has been liked 1,200 times.

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Oct 14 14 tweets 4 min read
Israel will be studied for decades as an example of a nation overwhelmed with genocidal mania.

An Israeli peace activist shares a video of Palestinian children burning alive after an Israeli missile hits a hospital.

Let's see responses from Israelis and hit 'Translate post'. Image This is Yair Oriel, former director of digital at Israeli TV Channel 14.

(Always bear in mind these are responses to someone sharing footage of Palestinian children being burned alive by an Israeli missile) Image
Aug 18 7 tweets 2 min read
Israel killed Hind Rajab, her cousins, her aunt and uncle.

They slaughtered the paramedics sent to save her.

If this one atrocity had been committed by Hamas against Israelis on 7th October, it would be seen as one of the most depraved acts that day 👇

theguardian.com/commentisfree/… This is one of thousands of atrocities committed by Israel.

While war crimes committed on 7th October are used to define the nature of Hamas, that does not apply to the never-ending litany of crimes committed by Israel.
Aug 6 53 tweets 15 min read
What we are witnessing in England is a mixture of a far-right racist riot, pogrom and terrorist insurgency.

It has been whipped up by our media and political elites for decades.

Some of those decrying this horror played their part in making it happen. As our politicians presided over crumbling public services, the trashing of secure jobs, an escalating housing crisis, and falling living standards, it was convenient for both political elites and media outlets to whip up anti-migrant hostility.
Jul 21 5 tweets 2 min read
Joe Biden has the blood of tens of thousands of Palestinians on his hand.

Israel would never have been able to raze Gaza to the ground without him.

I'm a non-believer, but if Hell exists, that man would have a first class ticket there.

A monster who belongs in jail. There will be outraged responses to this, I'm sure.

But if you're outraged, you simply do not believe Palestinians are human beings, certainly not in a meaningful sense, and that should be the scandal here.
Jul 21 6 tweets 2 min read
This repeated attempt to conflate 'Israel' and 'Jews' is a) a desperate and disturbing smear and b) implicitly antisemitic,.

Israel is a Western-backed state committing a genocide with Western arms and complicity.

Yes, I am focused on this. That is not "obsession" with "Jews". Note: I am not quoting a random person here.

This is a former BBC journalist.
Jul 16 8 tweets 2 min read
He's the independent MP who defeated Starmer ally @JonAshworth.

Since then, he's been smeared over Gaza - as part of a campaign to delegitimise his election win.

Now @shockatadam speaks out.

Judge for yourself. When Labour lost seats over Gaza and the lack of a genuine alternative to the Tories, it had a choice.

It could have said, 'We want to listen and learn, we want to rebuild trust.'

It did not do this. Instead Labour launched a campaign claiming that it was cheated.
Jun 27 6 tweets 3 min read
Yoav Gallant, Israel's defence minister - a murderous war criminal - has threatened to take Lebanon back to the Stone Age.

That's the purpose of his threat.

That's why it has been reported as such by notoriously left-wing pro-Palestinian media outlets as... The Daily Telegraph.
Image Yoav Gallant has a long track record in threatening to "return Lebanon to the Stone Age;.

Here he is in August 2023, i.e. before 7th October.

Israel has repeatedly bombed Lebanon, and invaded it, committing war crimes so obscene that even Ronald Reagan was repulsed. Image
Jun 17 8 tweets 2 min read
This is an Starmerite journo talking about yours truly.

It's really striking how they refuse to accept the left have principled objections and that it must all be a personal grudge.

I don't want to be Starmer's pen pal. I just wanted him to stick by his leadership promises! Image Starmer's apologists know that the left has a legitimate case.

- Starmer promised transformative domestic policies, then junked them, and promised a broad church, then went to war with the left.

- He backed Tory benefit cuts which drive kids into poverty, and Israeli war crimes
Jun 15 22 tweets 6 min read
Here is a case study in moral bankruptcy and desperation.

Let's go through it, shall we.

Firstly, the caption was "Welcome to Gaza. You wanted war? You got war. Long live Israel."

As I said. Genocidal mania. There are countless examples of Israeli soldiers posing for pictures in the homes of Palestinians they've displaced and butchered.

Including posing with women's lingerie and kids' toys and scrawling genocidal graffiti.

By countless I mean there's too many examples to count.


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May 30 6 tweets 2 min read
Keir Starmer previously described @faizashaheen as a “fantastic candidate”.

He now publicly defames her, while standing by candidates who, are among other things, have said racist things and had sexual harassment claims upheld.
Image Keir Starmer also described @faizashaheen as a “fabulous” candidate.

She’s now been pushed by his goons because of factional spite. Image
May 27 8 tweets 2 min read
We all know that if Russian forces had burned alive dozens of refugees, including little kids, there would be justified screams of outrage and disgust from Western leaders and media outlets.

It would be used as key evidence that Putin is one of the great monsters of our age. But when Palestinians are burned alive by Israel, the best that can be hoped up for is handwringing, and Israeli lies and attempts at deflection and muddying the waters being indulged.

There hasn't even been an attempt to disguise how little worth is attached to Palestinian life
May 20 11 tweets 2 min read
The International Criminal Court has just issued arrest warrants for Benjamin Netanyahu and Defence Minister Yoav Gallant, and Hamas leaders.

Israel's leadership is charged with

- Starvation

- Causing great suffering

- Wilful killing / murder

- Directing attacks against a civilian population

- Crimes against humanity of extermination and murder

- Persecution and other humane acts It shouldn't just be Israel's leadership who should be trebling right now.

To the commentators and politicians who legitimised this heinous crime, and those who stayed silent, knowing that a great crime was being committed:

You should fear accountability, too.
Apr 29 7 tweets 2 min read
No big deal, just Israel’s Finance Minister casually tweeting out in support of the “complete destruction” of Gaza.

Just the latest addition to countless examples of genocidal intent and incitement by Israeli leaders.

Yet the media focuses more scrutiny on student placards.
Image Here, again, is an example of what is the greatest scandal of journalism of our time.

Genocidal statements by Israeli leaders should have framed all coverage of Israel’s onslaught.

But they’re generally barely reported on. That is deceit by omission.
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