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Greg Hadfield retweeted
Today Israeli authorities barred me and other European elected representatives from entering the West Bank to meet Palestinian students and civil society leaders, as part of a @ProgIntl delegation.
We knew that by crossing into the occupied Palestinian territories, we risked being detained, interrogated and turned away by Israeli authorities. And that, alas, is exactly what happened.
For more than eight hours, we were held, interrogated and made to feel as though we had done something wrong simply by attempting to enter.
The simple truth is we had done nothing wrong. We went to show our support for the Palestinian people and highlight the terrible injustice and violence being perpetrated against them. We want to ensure that people back home do not look away from the reality of what is happening.
Ultimately, we went to show solidarity. But we left with an even greater determination to speak out. We will not be silenced, and we will not look away. None of us should.
Greg Hadfield retweeted
This is the moment Channel 4 News Foreign Affairs Correspondent Secunder Kermani was charged at by a group of Israeli settlers in the Occupied West Bank.
The settlers have laid siege to a Palestinian home, while nearby Israeli soldiers keep watch but do not intervene.
Violent attacks by Israeli settlers against Palestinians in the West Bank have risen dramatically over the past two years, while Israel's government has approved a record number of new settlements.
Greg Hadfield retweeted
The incarceration of Fergie Chambers in Spain, pending extradition to the US for showing solidarity with Palestine, is an international scandal. Join me in demanding his release!
Greg Hadfield retweeted
Must-watch from Oborne, as ever.
The Butcher of Beirut – Israel’s alternative to Netanyahu.
Peter Oborne – just returned from almost a month in the Occupied Territories – came into the Double Down Newswatch studio to talk about the Israeli election, Britain’s feeble surrender to the Israelis over the consulate in East Jerusalem and the ongoing horror in the West Bank and Israeli prisons.
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Greg Hadfield retweeted
I Just Left the West Bank: What Israel is Planning is TERRIFYING @OborneTweets
Greg Hadfield retweeted
Thanks for the @waitrose boycott list @HeidiBachram
Don’t buy apartheid and genocide. Boycott Israeli products wherever you shop.
Greg Hadfield retweeted
Looking forward to speaking in Brighton on Monday night.
Greg Hadfield retweeted
@SecKermani telling it as it is in the West Bank
A grim snapshot of Palestinian life in the West Bank - that we witnessed over a week:
- Settlers besieging a family in their own home
- Israeli authorities demolishing Palestinian properties
- Settlers repeatedly attacking farmers, even beating to death more than a dozen lambs
- Israeli soldiers blocking the delivery of water to an isolated community
Watch our full report here:
youtu.be/lhRXrmg4_6M?is=NgRj…
Greg Hadfield retweeted
We spent a week in the Occupied West Bank:
We saw bloody settler attacks, Palestinian homes demolished & tense interactions with Israeli soldiers
Here's a short clip ⬇️
Including our attempt to reach a Palestinian family besieged by "hilltop youth" settlers - before we were violently stopped
With @MillyTeasdale @MackesonPaul Ayman Abu Ramouz & Nava Mizrahi
Greg Hadfield retweeted
Collective punishment is a war crime
BBC News - Israeli forces begin demolishing Palestinian buildings in Hebron after two Israeli soldiers shot dead
bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cq4g…
Greg Hadfield retweeted
Forget the euphoria of Britain's change of policy on settlements. Palestinians, totally abandoned by the international community, are being ethnically cleansed in occupied east Jerusalem. I report for Middle East Eye on house demolitions in Al Bustan:
middleeasteye.net/opinion/we…
Greg Hadfield retweeted
The Bell Report really is a shocker.
The government's antisemitism in schools report is a travesty.
It's riddled with errors, distortions and contradictions.
And it will be used to silence people over Palestine 👇
zeteo.uk/p/debunked-the-anti…
Greg Hadfield retweeted
Memorial service held for veteran TV presenter Dermot Murnaghan who passed away aged 68 from prostate cancer trib.al/C0zMeIx
Greg Hadfield retweeted
Memorial service held for 'extraordinary' broadcaster Dermot Murnaghan trib.al/IcokTOE
Greg Hadfield retweeted
It appears that opposing Zionism is popular…
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Greg Hadfield retweeted
Good on Havant. Don't be cowed.
🟢 New: Havant Green Group is the latest to say they won’t be asking the party leadership to reject the ZIR motion.
Group leader Netty Shepard says she recognises that the wording of the motion is “problematic for some and is creating division and fear” but the accusation that the motion is anti-semitic is unfounded. She also says it was a democratic vote so she can’t ask the leadership to do something that “is not in their power”.
In a letter to the Havant Labour leader she said: “As a group we welcomed Andy Burnham's call for a different kind of politics, one based on problem solving, not point scoring. It would be truly ironic if the Labour Party National Executive Committee insist that you leave this coalition over a political point that the Green Group in Havant have no control over.
“I believe we have more in common than divides us and I ask you to continue to work with Havant Greens. We value you as colleagues and I believe you value us too.”
Greg Hadfield retweeted
That is so true if only they would push the propaganda away and see through all the lies they would be able to realise that war is the enemy of the people all of the time
Greg Hadfield retweeted
Two days ago, the Israeli army blew up the family home of journalist Radwan Mortada in Bint Jbeil
The terrorist demolition of Radwan's home comes as his film exposing the players behind Israel's pager attack becomes the most viewed documentary in recent history at Al Jazeera
Lebanese journalist Radwan Mortada's investigation into Israel’s pager attacks is one of Al Jazeera most-watched documentaries
Mortada tells The Grayzone's @wyattreed13 how he tracked key players in the attack and got a hold of an unexploded pager
Watch our full interview 🔽