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[Stewart McDonald @StewartMcDonald]

The claim that Kate Forbes was 'open to repealing' same-sex marriage is wholly false - she was consistently clear that the opposite was true. I would not have supported her otherwise, and to make such an egregiously false claim reinforces my view that I made the right choice.

[Robert Colvile @rcolvile]

Jesus Christ. Heathrow is a global hub airport with long-haul routes to the world’s high-growth areas, hugely valuable international freight and deeply constrained capacity. Manchester Airport is… not. https://t.co/rMjftwbMkm

[Ian Leslie @mrianleslie]

This is so poor from the PM. Heathrow is a national asset, this is obviously a national question. He's talking like he's still in his old job. https://t.co/ZBJHp5Bcoo

[Adam Zivo @AdamZivo]

Many western pro-Palestinian activists often have no real morals. They don’t care about war crimes or imperialism unless these issues can be used to vilify the West. They’re breathtakingly narcissistic about world affairs, too.

[Omri @OVisionIL]

Calling Ed Sheeran "Complicit in Genocide" is insane

We are actually witnessing mass psychosis

[Marcus Carslaw @marcuscarslaw1]

Everyone and their dog knows there won’t be a second independence referendum during this parliamentary term.

Today’s ‘debate’ is window dressing from a party that has failed to ask why it lost the 2014 referendum and refuses to level with its own membership.

[🗽 @TheGreatDXA]

Ed Sheeran has garnered more protests for Palestine than Donald Trump, not a serious movement

[Tim @trouble_man90]

Can anyone explain the very palpable lack of smoke for trump and Netanyahu in the pro Palestine movement?? There was a certain viciousness for Biden and Harris that's weirdly not there for Trump and Netanyahu; hes been able to slip in and out of US several times almost completely unscathed and un-protested. Strangely no where near what Biden and Harris got.

[Kaitlyn Hennessy @Kdoespolitics]

Netanyahu will be in New York in four days but everyone’s more focused on protesting Ed Sheeran and Dead Sea salt.

[Oz Katerji @OzKaterji]

Europe could have avoided the refugee wave from Syria and the resurgence of the far-right that followed it if they had simply bombed the Assad regime in 2013. The numbers could not be clearer, opposing regime change in Syria was a catastrophe for Europe politically.

[Peter Boghossian @peterboghossian]

Turkey raided gay bars and LGBTQ groups this week and jailed activists. (BBC, Reuters, & AP.) Same-sex relations aren’t even a crime there.

HRC, GLAAD, and Stonewall have not written a word. HRC spent the week posting Senate endorsements.

A week of mass arrests. Silence.

[Tim @trouble_man90]

Netanyahu himself will be in New York in five days and hasn’t generated even half the outrage Ed Sheeran has.

[Still An Annoyed INTP @DMC0821]

Donald Trump just sold $2 billion worth of arms to Israel and yet Ed Sheeran remains their top priority.

[Shannon Watts @shannonrwatts]

Same artist who performed in Russia in under Putin, in Syria under Bashar al-Assad, in Turkey under Erdoğan, and in Kazakhstan under Tokayev.

[Eve Barlow @Eve_Barlow]

So in a matter of days, Ed Sheeran has lost all his support acts, he's lost his house band, he's been banned from various commercial radio stations, Ireland's press has stated he's never welcome to return to the country, organized protests are being formed to take place in the grounds outside upcoming concert dates, he's been accused of having links to Jeffrey Epstein, and Goebbels-style cartoons have been pushed everywhere of his likeness.

And the left think this is progress?

[Shannon Watts @shannonrwatts]

Seems like it would be more impactful to organize a huge turnout in NYC where Netanyahu will be addressing the UN General Assembly…?

[the girl with a microphone @GWAMtweets]

I’m telling you, it’s because they can actually REACH Sheeran more easily. They don’t want to do the hard work of fighting a fascist so they attack celebrities. Who have zero sway.

It’s egocentric activism. It looks and feels good but gets nothing accomplished.

[Ghost of Shamble Bangs @Drea_got_banned]

Hillary has despised Netanyahu for decades. Had she been elected the middle east would look so different 🤦🏾‍♀️

[Jordan Klein @dodgersjordan]

It's funny Mehdi is criticizing a Palestinian who isn't "respected by [other] Palestinians" yet he and other leftists have no problem platforming Jews who are deeply out of step with the vast majority of Jews on Israel! It's all hypocrisy all the way down

[Michael A. Cohen (NOT TRUMP’S FORMER FIXER) @speechboy71]

A Palestinian writer lays out the enormous damage Hamas has done to the Palestinian people and excoriates those in the West who “play verbal gymnastics to mask support for Hamas, or resist calls to denounce them” … and Mehdi proves his point