The Times are running a hit piece on me over a Green Party motion opposing sanctions on Iran and some tweets of mine. They contacted my employer and asked for my response. @thetimes
I’m publishing my statement here so people can read my position and principles behind it in full.
Glad to see @NYCMayor not backing off from saying this, even under bad-faith attacks from pro-Israel, pro-genocide ghouls. But he also concedes he doesn't have the power to arrest ICC indicted war criminal Netanyahu and calls out the US federal government for not joining the ICC.
Our councillors just before they go into the council chamber to support the motion proposed by Bow East ClIr Jonathan Purcell to divest the Tower Hamlets Local Government
Pension Scheme (LGPS) from companies involved in Israel's genocide and illegal occupation of Palestine.
I expect further sickening revelations in the national media in the coming months. It is now morally indefensible for the government to reduce children’s legal protections in favour of local authorities. I have written again to the Ed Sec. Further inaction risks being complicit.
To my knowledge no one has been fired or held accountable. I have also given her evidence of an epidemic of avoidable SEND child suicide caused by public authority negligence, including by some of these same local authorities. 2/n
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The Education Secretary has described the sickening revelations from a SEND local authority whistleblower on ITV as “completely unacceptable”. I have supplied her with similar evidence of widespread local authority misconduct, some possibly criminal, for over a year. 1/n
Since 2020, our family has been involved in ongoing disputes concerning educational provision, disability-related needs, safeguarding concerns and access to appropriate support.
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Palestine Action can be directly compared to the Suffragettes, irrespective of what reactionary judges and Labour politicians say.
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The Epstein class created a challenge - we will meet it with Ink and brawn.
Let me tell you what is coming. Not as a headline, and not as a thread you will scroll past while waiting for your coffee. I am asking you to sit with this, because what I am about to describe is not a distant possibility. It is the weather system already forming above our heads, and if you are visibly Muslim in Britain today, you can already feel the pressure dropping in your chest when you walk out the door.