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Barry#exlaboursocialist💪 retweeted
So you don't view Arab citizens as Israelis? Thanks for clarifying, Mr. Ambassador.
Today is election day in Israel, which is a national holiday. All voting is in person, ID required. No mail-in or absentee ballots. Arabs vote same as Israelis. Contentious process, but it's a democracy-not many of those in this region!
Readers added context they thought people might want to know
The Arab voters are Israeli citizens. Listing them in contrast to Israelis is misconstruing the facts.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arab_citi…
cfr.org/backgrounders/…
Barry#exlaboursocialist💪 retweeted
Anti-Zionist Green Cllrs are hitting back!
The Labour Party have completely misjudged this and it will hurt them electorally, as long as good people like Alexi and Charlie HOLD THE LINE!
Barry#exlaboursocialist💪 retweeted
Sign the petition to get an inquiry into British support for Israel’s operations in Gaza: petition.parliament.uk/petit…
Barry#exlaboursocialist💪 retweeted
.@IainDale is either ignorant or malign
Zionism was formally established at the First Zionist Congress in 1897
This was at the height of European colonialism
Zionism was an explicitly colonial project from the start
ALL colonialism is founded on racism
Zionism is racism
NEW SUBSTACK: Israel is NOT a colonial construct.
iaindale.substack.com/p/isra…
Barry#exlaboursocialist💪 retweeted
A petition calling for an inquiry into the UK's role in Gaza has reached over 11,000 signatures 👇
Barry#exlaboursocialist💪 retweeted
20,000 and counting. It’s time to expose the full truth about Britain’s complicity in genocide.
Our petition for a public inquiry into Britain’s role in Gaza has hit 10,000 signatures.
Now, let’s get it to 100,000 to force a debate.
The public deserves to know the full scale of Britain’s complicity in genocide.
Sign here: petition.parliament.uk/petit…
Barry#exlaboursocialist💪 retweeted
📰 My new report “Truth under the Rubble: Media in the Time of Genocide” is out
🔗 Available in all official UN Languages: ohchr.org/en/documents/count…
🇺🇳 FOLLOW THE PRESENTATION
@ the UN General Assembly, New York
>Monday 26 October
2pm EST/ 7pm CET
Livestream details will follow.
Barry#exlaboursocialist💪 retweeted
Incredibly powerful speech....
🇵🇸 WATCH THIS. EVERY WORD. 🇵🇸
Lubna Speitan, the Palestinian woman who wrote the Greens4Palestine "Zionism is racism" motion, says what millions of us have been feeling for two years.
"We as Palestinians are being silenced and gaslit and vilified [as we] witness the annihilation, the cold-blooded murder of our families, of our people... our children burnt with phosphorus, having to endure amputations with no anaesthetic... being starved to death."
Think about that.
Your family is being wiped out. Your children are being burnt and starved. And you're the one told to calm down, watch your tone and prove you're not the racist.
That's the world we live in. The people suffering ethnic cleansing, apartheid and genocide are put on trial, while the people doing it play the victim.
She's not asking for sympathy. She's asking for justice. Equal rights, freedom and dignity for every Palestinian, in every part of their land.
From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free 🇵🇸
Share this. Make them hear it 🔁
Barry#exlaboursocialist💪 retweeted
The @BBCNews correspondent describes Netanyahu as 'slick, experienced, media-savvy'.
How about: 'subject to an ICC arrest warrant for war crimes in Gaza'?
BBC 'News' = propaganda by omission.
The BBC’s Middle East correspondent frames the Israeli elections as Netanyahu against “leftist” and “centrist” figures like Eisenkot, whom she describes as “softly spoken” and “lowkey”.
What she leaves out is that he’s a former general and the architect of the Dahiyeh Doctrine, which calls for disproportionate force and deliberate targeting of civilians and their infrastructure.
In what world is that left wing?
Barry#exlaboursocialist💪 retweeted
Spot on. Frankly there is not going to be anyone in any coalition in Israel that opposed the genocide, the occupation, the massive settlement expansion, the system of apartheid.
Daniel Levy | Former Israeli Peace Negotiator | US/Middle East Project (@USMEP):
Netanyahu did not alone commit genocide for 3 years. He did not alone maintain decades of illegal occupation. It was system-wide.
Eisenkot was part of it & served in the military. He sat in the emergency unity security cabinet after Oct. 7 - during the genocide.
Israeli generals, soldiers & judges - all part of a system-wide mobilization. Dissenting voices existed but remained marginal.
Barry#exlaboursocialist💪 retweeted
Everyday, a prominent Republican - the president, a cabinet official, a primetime Fox host, the Michigan Senate candidate - says something insanely racist about Muslims or Arabs.
Meanwhile, my timeline is full of prominent Democrats and liberals getting mad about a random ad attacking Israel and screaming about antisemitism.
Crickets from them on the out-of-control Islamophobia from the GOP.
Barry#exlaboursocialist💪 retweeted
Yesterday, I was barred from entering the West Bank by Israeli officials, as part of a @ProgIntl delegation.
What's happening here in Palestine is unjust. We've just witnessed what Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch and many others have called a genocide unfold in Gaza.
We came here to show the world, and to show solidarity with the Palestinian people. The Israeli government didn't allow that.
Barry#exlaboursocialist💪 retweeted
This is nonsense. You may have taken a leave of absence but you remain a peer and you can sit in the Lords again. You enjoy a formidable network and considerable influence because of that status.
It's a revolving door and you are cynically swinging through it.
Mr Polanski, I know you have a reputation for being scrupulous about checking your facts, but you’ve missed an important detail.
My contract requires me to remain on leave from the Lords, surrender my parliamentary pass and forgo all access and voting rights for the duration of my employment at Palantir. I do not, therefore, take any whip.
I fear this makes me rather less useful to the whips’ office than you imply.
Barry#exlaboursocialist💪 retweeted
As Israel goes to the polls Peter Oborne - just returned from the Occupied Territories - offers a powerful denunciation of an entire system rooted in terror on Double Down Newswatch.
Barry#exlaboursocialist💪 retweeted
This Israeli politician wasn't just a genocidal racist maniac.
He had a level of maturity below the average toddler.
This Israeli racist is worse than a toddler
Barry#exlaboursocialist💪 retweeted
There was no response form @robertshrimsley to this.
That's because there isn't an answer.
Antisemitism is a real evil
AND
There is an international campaign to weaponise it to shut down opposition to a Western ally's crimes.
That's not happening with other forms of racism!
Replying to @robertshrimsley
You're not responding to a point I made?
I said antisemitism is both a real and monstrous evil, and it is cynically weaponised to shut down opposition to what a consensus of genocide scholars consider to be genocide.
That is what is different. There is not an internationally orchestrated campaign to use anti-Black racism to shut down scrutiny of a key Western ally, with mass deplatformings, sackings, arrests, imprisonment and even deportation as a consequence.
You're not bothering to rebut this because there isn't a rebuttal. It is the obvious difference.
The answer, of course, is to take action against actual antisemitism and not to shut down discussion of Israel's crimes.
That includes defending a strict demarcation between Israel and its crimes, and the Jewish people as a whole. The trashing of this demarcation is driving antisemitism. That should be obvious. But both antisemites and Israel's cheerleaders both push this conflation.
The government's report promotes the implementation of IHRA in schools. IHRA has been rolled out in universities and has been used to target opposition to Israel. The same is clearly going to happen in schools.
Perhaps you could try and engage with these points? What is the rebuttal?
Barry#exlaboursocialist💪 retweeted
British actor Simon Pegg appears in video calling for donations for Palestine; calls Gaza a “nightmare” for children.
“Gaza is still a nightmare for children. Many are so traumatized they can no longer eat, sleep or even speak.”
Barry#exlaboursocialist💪 retweeted
🇬🇧🚨The #HindRajabFoundation, has filed a criminal complaint in the United Kingdom against Lidor Dafna, an Israeli soldier serving in the 603rd Combat Engineering Battalion of the 7th Armored Brigade, for war crimes and genocide committed in the Gaza Strip. Dafna is now walking free in London, touring the city. ➡️ More → bit.ly/4kiw1mF


































