Starmer asks people not to protest against Gaza genocide (except he doesn't use the word) this weekend. On the contrary, Gaza is at the root of the rise in antisemitism and attacks on Jews. All the more reason to protest.
https://t.co/Z2dsGKw0S3
Pollard calls UN report on Israeli genocide a “blood libel”:
https://t.co/w8MThw9GVJ
See, just as one example, para 30 of the report. Are all these doctors lying?
https://t.co/JdBhYd1i4t
Corbyn is a unifier. This means creating a broad based Party in which there is healthy debate but consensus on the basic issues. David Miller wants to impose his own views so we all think exactly the same; paradoxically, he is a divider.
https://t.co/x43UJagILq
Jake Wallis Simons: "Such has been the success of the propaganda that huge numbers of people just don’t see why supporting Israel in its war against Islamist terror is the only ethical position to hold."
https://t.co/RQKVUMSATU
Comment is superfluous.
JC Ed Daniel Schammenthal writes from the deluded dream-world that he, Melanie Phillips and Jake Wallis Simons inhabit:
"Even committed Zionists must not let compassion cloud reality."
https://t.co/QAfraYPdBQ
But see this
“Fiona Sharpe, a spokesperson for .... Labour Against Antisemitism, told the JC it was ‘sad’ to see ‘a groundbreaking MP – the first black woman to be elected – reduced to not knowing the difference between the Israel Defence Force and “Jewish Defence Forces”’.”
Jones explains that Mirvis conflates “Jewish people as a whole with an army whose actions have led the international criminal court to issue arrest warrants for Netanyahu and his former defence minister for war crimes and crimes against humanity”. Such conflation is antisemitic.
Chief Rabbi calls anti-IDF chant a “national shame” and “vile Jew hate”.
https://t.co/Rs5hr75yJQ
See response by Owen Jones in the Guardian:
https://t.co/nsSWEM9Xmj
Unfortunately the Chief Rabbi has come back to the UK. He says his thoughts are with the people of Israel and with the hostages. No mention of the people of Gaza:
https://t.co/79grNYhDuY
JC piece on Chief Rabbi Sir Ephraim Mirvis features an X greeting from him from Israel. He says Israeli children have "outstanding role models" in fathers and other relatives who serve in the IDF. Comment is superfluous:
https://t.co/MXy7DWsABT
https://t.co/EmYnstWBKV
Schwammenthal: "Israel may have done the world an incalculable service." Comment is superfluous, except to say that the disastrous consequences of Israel's latest insane actions are incalculable.
https://t.co/qi5tXM6DT5
See Skwawkbox post showing Channel 4 interviewer pointing out that this was an entirely separate incident and not verified as Hamas. See Mencer meltdown in response.
https://t.co/b78RkrjYvu
JC lies from two CAMERA UK editors:
https://t.co/Dy72i22HF2
“none of the outlets we mentioned saw fit to report on an IDF video posted on X on Sunday evening appearing to show Palestinian gunmen in Gaza shooting at civilians reportedly going to collect aid”.
See next tweet:
I have been editing a book called Christ the Tiger. It consists of essays on T. S. Eliot by my father, Hyam Maccoby. The book is due to be published soon. Here is an advance picture of the cover:
https://t.co/OoKumiP591
JC comment: "Israel’s policy is to allow any Gazans who wish to leave the Strip to do so voluntarily. There is no policy of forced displacement and the Israeli government has repeatedly emphasised its opposition to such measures."
https://t.co/PEU3LTkTB1
See next tweet.