Jon Simons

Environmental activism, Israel-Palestine activism, recovering academic -anyone remember Foucault? - random walks around Nottingham, occasional poetry, woodwork

[Ofer Cassif עופר כסיף عوفر كسيف @ofercass]

This Wednesday, I will bring forward a motion to establish a parliamentary commission of inquiry into the detention conditions of Palestinian prisoners:

https://t.co/HuPQq8tyzZ

[🟣 UK Friends of Standing Together 🟣 @UK_FOST]

Please support the brilliant work of Standing Together. Jewish &Palestinian Israelis in solidarity. Open the link to see how your donation enables their grassroots campaigns to continue. Every ££ helps. Please share far& wide& give if you can. Thank you: https://t.co/3XEcjYwC6d

[Jon Simons @JonSimons2]

@Palestinia12961 Hadash do, and Balad, and probably Ra'am though they don't talk about that much.

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Breaking: Keir Starmer to be Minister for Train Sets in new @AndyBurnhamGM government

[🟣 UK Friends of Standing Together 🟣 @UK_FOST]

Next @nottsfost rally is Sunday June 28th at 13.00 opposite Zara. See details& spread the word. #solidarity

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The Hope Cycle https://t.co/XV4s6vuWof

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@YvetteCooperMP @hzomlot Please take action by following the Foreign Affair's Committee's recommendations to sanction settlements and organisations doing business with them.

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Far right newspapers are trying to run a smear campaign against Misan Harriman. We can't let them.
Add your name to the open letter, and stand against hate and division. https://t.co/0XM1Z4u7cO via @goodlawproject

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@HeidiBachram @southbankcentre No, he doesn't "compare it to the Holocaust." He reflects on what Jewish-American cultural critic said in relation to the Holocaust, that 80% of the people are open to being persuaded by charlatans like Reform.

[גלעד קריב @KarivGilad]

ממשיכים להשמיע קול ברור למען פתרון מדיני.
יש אלטרנטיבה למלחמות הנצח של נתניהו ושותפיו.

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@gershonbaskin Wishing you a complete and speedy recovery, for your good heart 💜

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NATURAL WORLD (for the 100th birthday of Sir David Attenborough) https://t.co/U8tZrGMiql via @YouTube "We are all part of the natural world, we are not separate from nature."

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@BoardofDeputies @JLC_uk Inviting Nigel Farage to speak in a rally against antisemitism? No way. Reform is an anti-immigrant party, scapegoating them for all of the UK's woes. We Jews are all (descendants of) immigrants. Sign here for true solidarity. https://t.co/GVJpTvsG3x

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@pengreen91 @ofercass Eye witnesses said he was looking around for visibly Jewish victims. There was method in his madness.

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@SSinijlawi I read that the turn out was very low, much lower than in the West Bank. Does that matter?

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@BenChillingPhD @BoardofDeputies @IsraelMFA No, but I'm a white Jewish guy who grew up in the UK in the 1970s, so as well as experiencing anti-Jewish racism, I also absorbed a lot of racism, so I do get things wrong from time to time. But the point is to admit to those mistakes, not to double down on them.

[Ofer Cassif עופר כסיף عوفر كسيف @ofercass]

Settler violence against Palestinian communities in the West Bank is neither accidental nor the work of a few bad apples. It is a tool wielded by the Israeli government in service of a deliberate policy of ethnic cleansing and terror against the Palestinian people. Amichai Shikli, Minister of Diaspora Affairs and Combating Antisemitism, recently visited a settler militia directly responsible for the attempting murder of three Israeli peace activists in the West Bank, offering them his open support. He has called explicitly for the occupation and Jewish Settlement of every inch of the Occupied Territories.
That the minister tasked with “combating antisemitism” is actively promoting pogroms against innocent civilians, precisely the kind of violence inflicted on Jewish communities across Europe by antisemitic mobs, would be deeply ironic, if it weren’t so grotesque.

These violent criminals and those who direct them must be brought to justice.
End the occupation now!

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Trump and Netanyahu dragged us all into this war. We say enough. Sign the petition 👇
https://t.co/fUu3LsghJo

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The Israeli Death Penalty Law is a moral disgrace.Sign this letter and join me and more than 500 UK Jews in standing up to Israeli apartheid:https://t.co/Z1VMg6x93y