Han

✊🏾🕊️She/Her, Socialist, ex-Labour member. Opinionated. Anti-racist & anti-colonialist. Educate before you condemn. Sarcasm keeps me sane.
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[Naila @BrownNaila]

"I’m personally a Holocaust survivor as an infant, I barely survived. My grandparents were killed in Aushwitz and most of my extended family were killed. I became a Zionist; this dream of the Jewish people resurrected in their historical homeland and the barbed wire of Aushwitz being replaced by the boundaries of a Jewish state with a powerful army…and then I found out that it wasn’t exactly like that, that in order to make this Jewish dream a reality we had to visit a nightmare on the local population.

There’s no way you could have ever created a Jewish state without oppressing and expelling the local population. Jewish Israeli historians have shown without a doubt that the expulsion of Palestinians was persistent, pervasive, cruel, murderous and with deliberate intent - that’s what’s called the 'Nakba' in Arabic; the 'disaster' or the 'catastrophe'. There’s a law that you cannot deny the Holocaust, but in Israel you’re not allowed to mention the Nakba, even though it’s at the very basis of the foundation of Israel.

I visited the Occupied Territories (West Bank) during the first intifada. I cried every day for two weeks at what I saw; the brutality of the occupation, the petty harassment, the murderousness of it, the cutting down of Palestinian olive groves, the denial of water rights, the humiliations...and this went on, and now it’s much worse than it was then.

It’s the longest ethnic cleansing operation in the 20th and 21st century. I could land in Tel Aviv tomorrow and demand citizenship but my Palestinian friend in Vancouver, who was born in Jerusalem, can’t even visit!

So then you have these miserable people packed into this, horrible…people call it an 'outdoor prison', which is what it is. You don’t have to support Hamas policies to stand up for Palestinian rights, that’s a complete falsity. You think the worse thing you can say about Hamas, multiply it by a thousand times, and it still will not meet the Israeli repression and killing and dispossession of Palestinians.

And 'anybody who criticises Israel is an anti-Semite' is simply an egregious attempt to intimidate good non-Jews who are willing to stand up for what is true."

[RS Archer @archer_rs]

Don't let people forget. The French government has repeatedly offered to build a refugee processing centre for the UK in France, they have offered to help fund it and to allow British immigration staff to work there.
It would instantly solve the "boats" problem

The UK refused.

[Andrew Godsell 💙 🎗️📚 💚 @AndrewGodsell]

Hello Gillian, as the percentage pay offer to teachers is lower than the current rate of inflation, lots of us realise this is a real terms pay cut.

Please can you do your homework again, and come back with a better explanation?

1/10 more effort required.

@GillianKeegan

[Han @HanDusty12]

@SuellaBraverman So charging migrants who work hard for OUR NHS to stay healthy and able to do that work makes more sense than taxing inordinate wealth that CANNOT BE SPENT IN SEVERAL LIFETIMES? Yeah OK, makes sense 🤔🤷‍♀️

[Evan Cull 💚🟣 @EvanCull]

@skedeschi Rinder did a good talk on the dynamic.
https://t.co/nyvA8BIQr8

[Han @HanDusty12]

@Desuetudine Oh dear. And yet 'yay!' Another win for Corbyn. Do they have to make it so easy though? Why would anyone in Islignton vote Mason over Corbyn? I can't way for the media shock on the night though ...

[Dawn Butler ✊🏾💙 @DawnButlerBrent]

I gave the Deputy Prime Minister, @OliverDowden, another chance to correct the record on his false claim.

Once again, he failed to do so. He is disrespecting @CommonsSpeaker, @HouseofCommons & the country.

According to the ministerial code, the Deputy PM should now resign!

[Clive Lewis MP @labourlewis]

Privatised water is catastrophically failing to invest in protecting us from the impacts of the climate crisis.

Instead, it's siphoned off £72,000,000,000 of public money to shareholders.

Water must be taken back under public control.

[Harry Eccles @Heccles94]

As the Junior Doctors are set for their largest ever strike, remember:

👉 Their pay is down by 35%

👉 Their job roles grow ever more vast and complex

👉 We are loosing our Drs overseas where pay is better

👉 The Govt are the ones refusing to act, not the Drs

#SOSNHS

[Robert Lindsay @RobertLindsay]

One of the greatest if not the greatest moments in British history was the inspiration to create the #NHS a service for all no matter what our background and it’s served us well.
It’s crying for help and it’s workers need help.
#SaveOurNHS

[BaldyBane🌹😷♿🇵🇸🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿💙💜🇱🇧♿ @bane_baldy]

The outrage from a lot of respondents about "violating" his wedding day!

Were you all "outraged" when 334,000 UK people were killed by his Austerity?

If you don't understand that Billions more will die from the Climate Crisis,

Get a f'ing Grip!

It was only Orange Confetti!

[Holocaust Memorial Day Trust @HMD_UK]

This month marks 28 years since the genocide in Bosnia, when around 8,000 Muslim men and boys were murdered in Srebrenica.

The genocide in Bosnia is the largest incidence of mass-murder in Europe since World War Two.

[Politics Polls @PoliticsPollss]

Do you think asylum seekers can integrate into British society? #AsylumSeekers

[Saul Staniforth @SaulStaniforth]

Wes Streeting: Labour would buy spare capacity in the private sector

Where does Wes think the Drs & nurses who work in the private sector come from? By shovelling cash into private medicine you build that sector & undermine the NHS

[Jon Trickett MP @jon_trickett]

No, Mr Blair no. Wrong again

https://t.co/CWxz2RO03H

[Ash Sarkar @AyoCaesar]

People pay exorbitant sums to send their children to private schools, only for them to spend their whole careers being performatively stupid.

[Rania Zabaneh @RZabaneh]

Most of the Palestinians detained by Israeli forces from Jenin refugee camp, we’re being told, are civilians… Most of the fighters are believed to have left the camp.
This is what it’s like when Israeli forces raid Palestinian homes:

[Aisha @Aishalifett]

‘To understand how we arrived at this dark moment, one in which seemingly anyone or anything can be cancelled as antisemitic, it is necessary to grapple with the term’s constantly mutating meaning – and the political uses this confusion is being put to.’ @Jonathan_K_Cook