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Stewart Brandon retweeted
Pete Hegseth just now: "In the 250 years of our American republic, no Secretary of War or Secretary of Defense has ever been impeached for carrying out lawful military operations"
Hey genius, that’s because impeachment is for Secretary of Wars who actually broke the law like you did 8 times.
Stewart Brandon retweeted
Ahahahahahahahaha @coldwarsteve need an award for his services to Twitter. Brilliant and hilarious
Stewart Brandon retweeted
I've no idea how many Jewish people I went to school with
But I could tell you *exactly* how many black & brown people I did
Diane Abbott was right, & @UKLabour's hierarchy of racism is a bloody disgrace @LucyMPowell @andyburnham
Stewart Brandon retweeted
Trans people are tiny minority but you wouldn’t know that from listening to the constant rhetoric and them.
Stewart Brandon retweeted
I explain here why I voted for the “Zionism is racism” motion at the Green Party conference. I now find myself, despite being Jewish, labelled “antisemitic” and “extremist” or sometimes worse. Obviously, I do not accept these labels
Here is my thinking
1. The dominant Israeli and Western narrative is that Zionism means (a) the right for Jews to have a homeland in their biblical land and (b) the right to have a place of safety after persecution culminating in the horror of the Holocaust
2. This, on its face, is very reasonable, right & proper. This is the core of the UK political & media response to the Greens motion
3. Sadly, the early Zionist slogan that Palestine would be “a land without people, for a people without a land” was not true - the land DID have people, Palestinians
4. The great Palestinian-American intellectual, Edward Said, wrote a 1979 essay called “Zionism from the viewpoint of its victims”
5. That viewpoint is conspicuously absent from much discussion in the West
6. Zionism has meant decades of ethnic cleansing, oppression, apartheid & killing of millions of Palestinians BECAUSE they are Palestinians
7. This is why Zionism is racism
8. One of my (many) Jewish heroes is Marek Edelman, the last surviving commander of the resistance in the Warsaw Ghetto. He did not go to live in Israel. He was an anti-Zionist. He said, “To be a Jew means always being with the oppressed, never with the oppressors”
Stewart Brandon retweeted
Mary-Ann Stephenson of the @EHRC is now claiming that "trans activists are wrong" and that trans people are protected from discrimination in law. That is true to some extent, but:
Perhaps tell that to Dr Cal Horton, fleeing the UK because of transphobia, saying things have got much worse since the SCJ and EHRC CoP.
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Dr Beth Upton forced to leave the UK because of transphobia - hounded by the media, who were quite happy to protect a disgusting racist while doing so.
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Dr Vicky McCloud, a former High Court judge, again quit the UK because of transphobia and now lives in Ireland - she says things are much worse now too.
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Emily Brothers, a blind GRC holding trans woman who was recently banned from putting her bum on a seat at a conference purely because she is transgender.
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The circa 600 members of Unison, all of whom say they have been impacted.
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The circa 3000 discrimination cases recorded by TransActual.
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The 500 Girlguiding volunteers reported by @guardian who were leaving because it was no longer inclusive.
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The hundreds of WI branches that closed down, citing the same reasons as Girlguiding.
And where was the EHRC during all of this mayhem?
Nowhere.
Stewart Brandon retweeted
And here we have it concentration camps for trans people.
Republican House members Nancy Mace and Ronny Jackson have called for all transgender people to be rounded up and forcibly institutionalized. trib.al/X10aID4
Stewart Brandon retweeted
Mandy Patinkin is an incredibly brave Jewish man. You can hear the heartbreak in his voice every time he speaks about what’s happening to Palestinians. He cares so deeply, and he refuses to stay quiet about it. Protect this man at all costs. ❤️
Stewart Brandon retweeted
1. Most people in UK know Israel is committing unspeakable war crimes
2. Most people in UK know that these crimes are not the fault of Jews in the UK
3. When Jewish “leaders” deny or justify the crimes of Israel THAT does not help UK Jews whatsoever
4. When UK Jews condemn Israel’s crimes, that does help UK Jews
Stewart Brandon retweeted
Jewish comedian Rachel Arieff just recorded the video more of us need to make.
She says she opposes Israel because it acts against her Jewish values. She calls the so-called “Jewish State” a defilement of those values. She refuses to let Israel use Jews as cover.
Her words:
“I am a Jew against the genocide being committed in my name by the so-called Jewish State against our Palestinian cousins in Gaza.”
“Never again” means never again for everybody.
#JewsAgainstZionism #FreePalestine
Stewart Brandon retweeted
The people who will face eternal shame are the apologists for Israel's genocide.
Not those of us who opposed wiping Gaza from the face of the earth, bombing hospitals, slaughtering children and raping detainees to death.
In his keynote speech at @HolocaustUK annual fundraiser @simon_schama says:”We will not have our job done until anybody uttering the notion that Israel is committing genocide is made to be ashamed for doing so.”
Stewart Brandon retweeted
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If anybody in the MSM criticise Israel or pro-Israel influencers they get stood down👇
🚨BREAKING: Loose Woman Nadia Sawalha and husband Mark Adderley CALL OUT Rachel Riley for racism and Islamophobia. Claim @Channel4 would react differently if it was ‘the other way around’ and are fed up with the LIES and HYPOCRISY🔥🔥🔥