Position statement.
If Zionism were simply about establishing the right of Jews to live safely wherever they are, including in their ancestral homeland, I would be a Zionist.
But this isn't what Zionism is about. It is, and always has been, about creating a Jewish-majority state in a land where the majority of people are not Jewish. This necessarily means either removing most non-Jews or denying them citizenship. Zionists have done, and are still doing, both.
I believe in the right of ALL people to live safely wherever they are. I oppose every means used to drive people out of their homes and lands: mass murder, ethnic cleansing, systematic violence, denial of citizenship, violation of basic human rights.
Zionism uses all these means to create and maintain its Jewish state.
Therefore I am an anti-Zionist.
@ChrisIzatt@Glenn_Diesen No, the govt does NOT want to regulate hugs & kisses from family. A Rape Crisis Centre wants children to set their own boundaries on hugs & kisses.
You have a problem with children's right to give or withhold consert. That says a lot about you, and it's not at all good.
In Ireland, they had an advertising campaign discouraging grandparents from hugging their grandkids without their consent. Don't forget to bring your consent forms to the next family Christmas dinner!
Can anyone remember the last time @BBCNews interviewed a Palestinian about their experience of the racism of Zionism? Having spent the last two weeks interviewing elderly Nakba survivors in Jordan, driven off their land in their teens because of their ethnicity and religion, I'd be happy to suggest some astonishingly articulate victims of Israeli racism who would be only too happy to tell their tragic stories of eviction, slaughter and dispossession. It is like reporting on the Civil Rights movement in the US and only interviewing outraged Whites
@bbclaurak@bbcnickrobinson@JustinOnWeb@BBCr4today
@GerryHassan No country has a right to exist.
And zionism is racism. Ever since modern political zionism emerged in the 1880s as a settler-colonual project, there has been no non-racist version of zionism.
It's sad to see @GerryHassan denouncing Zack Polanski for telling the truth.
Following a vote by our party Council, the Scottish Greens will no longer be posting on Twitter/X.
We have serious concerns about the site's direction of travel, particularly how it has spread misinformation and hate
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This is Jennifer Gerber. She was @AndyBurnham’s principal adviser during his 3 ministerial roles from 2007-10
After Labour lost the 2010 election, she became executive director of Israeli embassy front group "Labour Friends of Israel" (LFI). She would stay in the role for a decade, playing a leading role in the campaign to destroy pro-Palestinian Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn from 2015-19
Gerber is still listed as a director of LFI on Companies House
Andy Burnham was funded by LFI and Israeli Foreign Ministry in 2004 to go on a propaganda tour of Israel. The then chair of LFI was James Purnell. Burnham recently appointed Purnell as his chief of staff in No 10
At the LFI leadership hustings in 2015, Burnham said that Israel would be the first place he visited if he won the Labour leadership race. The year after, Burnham joined LFI
The lobby has the whole political class sewn up
"If you're Jewish or non-Jewish, please, let the world know:
Thousands of Orthodox Jews lined up in London to oppose Zionism while chanting “Israeli Government Shame On You!”
Our voice is silenced that’s why you don’t hear from us, but NOT because it’s not there.
Torah Observant Jews understand the dangers of Israel’s false claims of representing Jews and are pushing back strongly!
Help us get our voice heard!
@ZacGoldsmith You are replying g to a post which clearly says "The death penalty should not exist, let alone be a live-streamed spectacle."
Which part of that is unclear to you?
Sorry, I disagree.
If you are going to be sick and depraved enough to commit cold-blooded murder, then do it public. With close-up views of every last one of the monsters involved in the killing.
Televising a public execution is beyond disgusting and barbaric. The death penalty should not exist, let alone be a live-streamed spectacle.
This is a grotesque violation of human dignity. We must oppose this - and the death penalty - everywhere.
https://t.co/VGHDcHryHo
So you've 1) kept the building open but taken away the staff, 2) renamed the office so it's not actually a consulate general anymore, 3) refused to do anything reciprocal to Israel's diplomatic staff, even though equal treatment is a standard diplomatic protocol?
If this is standing up to Israel, what is giving in?
To be 'ostracised' by the war-mongering, genocide-cheerleading German Greens is to be on the side of the good - it is a badge of honour. https://t.co/d40iHswUqV
No anti-Zionist has ever called me a "kapo".
No anti-Zionist has ever called me a "self-hating Jew".
No anti-Zionist has ever called me an "as-a-Jew".
Zionists do this all the time.
Indeed, the only antisemitism I've ever experienced has come from Zionists.