Zoe

There is no final victory, as there is no final defeat. There is just the same battle. To be fought, over and over again. So toughen up, bloody toughen up.

[Normal Island News @NormalIslandNws]

Caroline Lucas has reacted angrily to Zack Polanski’s woeful campaign in Holborn and St Pancras and will not rule out asking him to step aside. I can’t say I blame her.

Polanski disgraced himself by more than tripling the Greens’ vote share from the last election, taking 33% in a Labour safe seat during Burnham’s honeymoon period. This was only the second best by-election performance in the Greens’ history. Every sensible person is suggesting that Polanski resign.

Among those sensible people is the former Green leader, who once nearly became prime minister by offering to form a coalition government made up exclusively of women and forgetting to suggest a single black or brown woman for her fantasy cabinet. Let’s be honest, who hasn’t forgot other races exist?

Caroline Lucas is the nation’s leading expert in not getting the Greens into power. I’m therefore honoured that she’s written this piece for her favourite establishment publication, Normal Island News:

It’s hugely disappointing to see Zack Polanski take 33% of the vote share in Holborn and St Pancras and turn the Greens into a serious electoral force.When I was Green leader, I had the good grace to only take 3.8% in that seat in 2017. Not many people know that I privately apologised to the Tories for exceeding expectations because 3.8% was far too high.

Our national vote share was just 1.6%. I accomplished this by making no serious attempt to engage with voters or make their lives better. Everyone who supported one of the other parties thought I was doing a brilliant job. Now, thanks to Zack, people who never liked the Greens are saying they wouldn’t vote for them.

In the past six months, we’ve seen Zack’s popularity go down among the people who would never vote Green—thanks to the type of media campaign that we only see when politicians threaten change.

This hate campaign is definitely Zack’s own fault. If he hadn’t threatened to change a system that’s not working for anyone but the rich, they wouldn’t be lying about him this way.

The Greens have a proud history of being a neoliberal party that pretends to be socialist. It’s supposed to mop up a few left votes so it looks like we have plurality, while making radical change seem unpopular. Unfortunately, Zack has convinced young people that change is possible because he is charismatic and genuinely cares.

Regrettably, the Green Party is no longer a safe space for Tories on bikes. One of my councillor friends was so upset by Polanski’s recent successes that he felt he no longer belongs in the party. Therefore he defected to the Conservatives—a party he was previously a member of until 2021.

Not only has Zack turned off the handful of Tories who pretend to care about the environment, he’s attracted voters who are supposed to be disenfranchised. As such I utterly reject him and everything he stands for.

Zack offered a serious challenge to a candidate that I never would’ve beaten in a million years. He’s pushing the government so far left that the Labour candidate even backed the nationalisation of Thames Water. There’s now a very real risk of sewage not being dumped on our beaches.

I much preferred the days when the Greens accomplished nothing and were rewarded with regular TV invites. Those invites have dried up for everyone but Greens like me, who are prepared to slag off their party leadership. It’s like the Corbyn years all over again!

Obviously, this is all connected to the fact that Zack criticises Israel. It’s highly illegal for the leader of a party in the UK to not support Israel. This is why myself and the rest of the establishment have expressed more anger at that “Zionism is racism” motion than we have at genocide.

Israel’s supporters have almost every other party to choose from and this is not enough. Israel’s opponents only have the Greens to vote for and this is one party too many.

Opponents of genocide don’t deserve representation any more than people who want affordable bills or a habitable planet. I don’t think I can forgive Zack for making the public think we are serious about any of these things. If the Greens’ poll ratings don’t collapse, I will have no choice but to demand his resignation.

[Matt Kennard @kennardmatt]

Most of focus on the Greens' Zionism is Racism motion has been on its title. But it's worth reading the document in full: it is a comprehensive call for Palestinian liberation, authored by Palestinians

Political parties, trade unions, multilateral organisations and governments across the globe must immediately begin adopting the same policies. This document is now the gold standard - and the bare minimum

***

Synopsis

This motion defines Zionism, recognises its continued harm to Palestinians, and seeks to clarify that the Green Party is opposed to Zionism. It further affirms the right to self-determination and liberation of the Palestinian people and supports the establishment of a single democratic Palestinian State in all of historic Palestine.

Motion text

Zionism is a political ideology which called for the creation – and, now it exists, the continuity – of an ethnonationalist Jewish State in historic Palestine to the exclusion and/or domination of the non-Jewish population. The real, material manifestation of Zionism has been the historic and ongoing dehumanisation, displacement, dispossession, disenfranchisement and destruction of Palestinians. This is based upon European settler-colonial systems of domination and oppression, which has also created racial hierarchies between Jews of different ethnicities in Palestine.

CONFERENCE RESOLVES THAT:

1. The Green Party declares itself to be an anti-Zionist party.

2. The Green Party rejects attempts to normalise the racist subjugation and oppression of Palestinians; to equate anti-Zionism with antisemitism; to deny or minimise Palestinian human rights; to create hierarchies of racism; and to normalise or attempt to justify apartheid, ethnic cleansing or genocide. We affirm that definitions of anti-Jewish discrimination should not equate Jewish identity with Zionist ideology or political practice. As with any ethnicity or faith group, no single political ideology should be ascribed to an entire people.

3. Following from Motion E05, which affirmed that Israel is an apartheid State committing genocide, and Motion E07 supporting reparations and accountability, the Green Party supports the establishment of a single democratic Palestinian State in all of historic Palestine with Jerusalem as its capital, equal rights for all, and the right of return for Palestinians and their descendants.

4. The Green Party affirms the Palestinian people's inalienable right to self-determination, including the right of the Palestinian people to resistance and liberation from Israeli occupation, domination and subjugation, and acknowledges that the struggle to achieve that liberation by all available means under international law is legitimate.

5. The Green Party heeds the call from Palestinian civil society to impose broad boycotts and implement divestment initiatives against Israel similar to those applied to South Africa in the apartheid era, and calls upon the United Kingdom Government to impose full embargoes and sanctions against Israel.

6. The Green Party calls for the release of all Palestinian prisoners of conscience (including Marwan Barghouti), the end of the use of administrative detention of Palestinians by Israel, and the treatment of Palestinian combatants in accordance with international humanitarian law, including in particular those provisions dealing with prisoners of war in the First Additional Protocol of the 1977 amendments to the Four Genevan Conventions of 1949 relating to the Protection of Victims of International Armed Conflicts.

7. The Green Party calls for the removal of Palestine Action from the list of proscribed organisations in Schedule 2 to the Terrorism Act 2000 (i.e. de-proscription).

8. The Green Party calls for the release of all prisoners detained for non-violent direct action in support of Palestinian rights and the end of the genocide, apartheid and the illegal occupation of Palestine and supports the demands of the Prisoners for Palestine.

ACTIONS FOR THE PARTY TO TAKE:

The Green Party adopts the following action points:

This motion will be incorporated into the Green Party’s Record of Policy Statements as appropriate and promoted in accordance with our rules and procedures.

Zionism, as defined above, will be treated as any other form of racism.

We affirm our commitment to explicitly opposing Zionism in our internal and external communications going forward.

The UK and Welsh Parliaments, the London and Mayoral Assemblies, and Local Councils and Local Authorities must exercise their authority to end the genocide, occupation and apartheid. Elected Green representatives will continue to put pressure on all and any relevant bodies to achieve these goals. This motion ensures our positions comply with international law, equity, and our commitment to justice and human rights.

MPs, London and Mayoral Assembly Members, Councillors, and prospective Members of the Senedd should take measures at their respective chambers to create local, sub-national, and national action for Palestine, ending any investments in Israel; demanding peace and accountability, and an end to the egregious violations of international humanitarian law and the genocide conventions, and an immediate move towards accountability, reparations, and justice for the Palestinian people.

[Shaiel Ben-Ephraim @academic_la]

In May 1948, Egypt caught two Israeli soldiers near the wells of Gaza and accused Israel of trying to poison its water. At the UN, Israel's representative called the charge medieval anti-Semitic incitement. Israel called it a "wicked libel."

In 2022, the Israeli historians Benny Morris and Benjamin Z. Kedar published the IDF's own documents. The operation was real. It had a code name: Cast Thy Bread.

I served in Israel's Foreign Ministry and was an analyst in Unit 8200. I never heard of this operation until Haaretz published the files. This video walks through what they show: Ben-Gurion's diary, Yigael Yadin's orders, the wells near Jerusalem, the typhoid outbreak in Acre, the Gaza mission, the denial at the UN Security Council, and the officers who objected.

Israel has never acknowledged Cast Thy Bread. It has never taken back the words "wicked libel."

This video is part of what will be an ongoing series on Israeli lies and crimes. All the threads are linked in my pinned post on X.

[neyi kaybettiğini hatırla @neyikaybettik]

🚨 SON DAKİKA:

De Niro: "Söylemekten nefret ediyorum, ama ülkemizi sevmek, istismar edilen bir eşin istismarcısını sevdiğini söylemeye başlaması gibi geliyor.

Aptalca, insanlık dışı savaşlar yürüten, binlerce masum insanı öldüren ve dolaylı yoldan milyonlarcasının ölümüne ve acı çekmesine neden olan bir ülkeyi sevemem.

Milyonların sağlık hizmetini elinden alan ve o parayı Trump'ın Epstein çevresini zenginleştirmek için kullanan bir ülkeyi sevemem.

Maskeli milisleri sokağa salıp vatandaşları vuran, komşularımızı terörize eden ve aileleri parçalayan bir ülkeyi sevemem.

Irkçı, kadın düşmanı, yabancı düşmanı bir zalim tarafından yönetilen bir ülkeyi sevemem.

Ve bunu açıkça söyleyeyim: Donald Trump ve yaltakçı kabinesi tarafından yönetilen bir ülkeyi sevemem."

[neyi kaybettiğini hatırla @neyikaybettik]

🚨Gazze'de açıklama yapan Avustralyalı kadın doktorlar:

▪️Bu videoyu çekiyoruz çünkü her an ölebiliriz.
▪️Hastalarımızın %70-80'i çocuk ve hamile kadınlar.
▪️9 aylık hamile, başı kesilmiş bir kadını doğurttum.
▪️Lütfen bu terör ve dehşeti durdurun.

[Shaiel Ben-Ephraim @academic_la]

Hanoch Milwidsky of Member of Knesset for the Likud explains why Israel is a nation blessed by God and therefore does not have to follow any of the laws which bind other nations. As perfect an encapsulation of the Jewish supremacy behind Israeli policy that you can find.

[Earth Hippy 🌎🕊️💚 @hippyygoat]

It's time to remind ourselves what Desmond Tutu said…

"If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor."

[Neville Southall @NevilleSouthall]

Good morning everyone
Today I will be thinking of the incredible RNLI volunteers who risk their lives to save others
Traitors 😡
They are fucking
Heroes
❤️❤️❤️💙❤️❤️❤️

[Sen. Bernie Sanders @SenSanders]

Netanyahu: I need $12 billion
Trump: Approved

Elon Musk: SpaceX needs $4.16 billion
Trump: Approved

Jeff Bezos: Amazon needs $17.5 billion
Trump: Approved

Top 1%: We need a $1 trillion tax cut
Trump: Approved

Average Joe: My wife has cancer. Can we get Medicaid?
Trump: Denied

[susan abulhawa | سوزان ابو الهوى @susanabulhawa]

Here's what really happened on October 7th...

1. 07 OCTOBER 2022.
Israeli forces opened fire on a group of Palestinian children near the Apartheid wall in Qalqiliya, killing a 14-year-old boy with live ammunition (UN OCHA report)

2. 07 OCTOBER 2021.
Israeli settlers from the Telem settlement cut down more than 100 olive seedlings on Palestinian-owned land in Turqumiya, Hebron, belonging to 'Aziz Jamil Ja'afrah — the same land where settlers had uprooted trees the year before. (PCHR, 7–13 Oct 2021)

Israeli forces raided at least nine homes overnight and arrested eleven people, including a father and son together (Wadi al-Far'a, Tubas) and a 16-year-old (Adham Abu Srour, Dawha), without charge. A 55-year-old activist was separately arrested without charge at the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound.

Israeli forces demolished two residential structures in Bab al-Shams village (East Jerusalem area) belonging to two brothers — the third demolition of their homes within a single year.

Israeli gunboats fired on a Palestinian fishing boat off Gaza for roughly two and a half hours overnight.

Checkpoints and closures were imposed in Jericho, Bethlehem, Hebron, and Nablus.

3. 07 OCTOBER 2020.
Israeli forces raided Aida refugee camp, Bethlehem, blew open the doors of the camp's People's Committee office, and damaged nearby homes in the process — Palestinians officials called it part of a "terror campaign" against the camp. (PCHR, 1–7 Oct 2020)

Israeli forces raided a boys' school (al-Jamla School) in Jenin, confiscated staff IDs, and copied footage from the school's security camera system.

Multiple home-raid arrests took place in Beita, Yatta, al-Eizariya, al-Hashimia (Jenin), Qusra, and Qabatiya.

Israeli settlers from the Leshem settlement set fire to Palestinian-owned land in Deir Ballut, Salfit, burning 50 olive trees.

Multiple checkpoints/closures reported in Hebron (4), Nablus, and elsewhere, disrupting children's abilities to attend school and commutes to work and cutting off access to medical facilities and family.

4. 07 OCTOBER 2019.
20-year-old Fadi Osama Hejazi, died from sniper wounds sustained months earlier at Great March of Return protests (PCHR, 3–9 Oct 2019)

Israeli forces raided at least nine homes overnight across Bethlehem (al-Duheisha camp, Wad Ma'ali), Ramallah (al-Mazra'ah al-Gharbiyah), Jenin ('Anza village), Tulkarm ('Atil village), and Salfit (Hares village, two homes), arresting at least 12 people.

Israeli forces raided and ransacked the Hanthala Cultural Centre in Safa village (a heritage/youth-skills organization), breaking its main door and confiscating files.

Israeli forces guarding the Apartheid wall shot two Palestinian men near Zeta and Tulkarm while they attempted to cross into Israel for work.

Settlers from the Yitzhar settlement cut down 36 olive trees overnight in Burin village (Nablus). Later that morning, settlers from the same settlement attacked Burin's mixed school under military protection, forcing the administration to evacuate students.

In order to prevent Palestinians from leaving their homes during Jewish holiday, Israel began a full closure of the Tunnel, 300, al-Jeeb, and Hizma checkpoints (separating Jerusalem from Bethlehem and nearby areas) for three days during Yom Kippur, alongside closures of Arab village/neighborhood entrances with iron barriers and cement blocks, preventing anyone from accessing school, work, or medical facilities during that time.

5. 07 OCTOBER 2018.
Israeli forces raided homes in Jenin, Beit Ummer (Hebron), and al-Jalazoun refugee camp (Ramallah), arresting at least eight people; in Jalazoun, soldiers also confiscated 2,500 shekels (~$700) in cash from one household during the raid. (PCHR, 4–10 Oct 2018)

Israeli forces raided homes and a shop in Beit Led (Tulkarm), confiscating surveillance camera recordings, and arrested a 47-year-old man along with his 19-year-old son without charge.

Israeli forces carried out 20 additional home invasions (without arrests) across Hebron, Tulkarm, and Qalqiliya-area villages.

An Israeli drone fired a missile at a group of civilians near al-Shawka village, east of Rafah, Gaza.

Israeli gunboats opened heavy fire on Palestinian fishing boats off Rafah, firing flare bombs and forcing fishermen to flee.

Israeli forces conducted a limited ground invasion into eastern al-Bureij, central Gaza.

6. 07 OCTOBER 2017.

Israeli forces raided three homes overnight — in Ya'bud (Jenin), Wad Rahal (Bethlehem), and Bethlehem city — arresting three people, including two minors, without charge.

Israeli forces arrested without charge a 44-year-old man, Naser al-Jundi, at a checkpoint set up at the entrance to Al Fawwar refugee camp, south of Hebron.

Israeli gunboats twice opened fire on Palestinian fishing boats off Beit Lahia and al-Sudaniya (northern Gaza), chasing them; no injuries or damage reported.

Israeli forces stationed along the Gaza perimeter fence near Umm al-Nasser Bedouin village opened sporadic fire and fired flare bombs into the border area, terrorizing residents.

Israeli forces conducted six additional home invasions without arrests in al-Samou', Bani Na'im, Sa'ir, and al-Jalajel (Hebron) and Bedia and Masha (Salfit).

Temporary military checkpoints were set up at Halhoul and al-Dahiriya (Hebron), four locations around Qalqiliya, and three in Salfit, further restricting Palestinian movement. That night, hundreds of Israeli settlers entered 'Awerta village (Nablus) under military protection to perform religious rituals in Palestinian towns.

7. 07 OCTOBER 2016.
Israeli forces raided homes in Sabastiya (Nablus) and Nour al-Shams refugee camp (Tulkarm) overnight, arresting five people without charge.

Israeli forces entered al-Far'a refugee camp (Tubas); when young men gathered and threw stones, soldiers fired live rounds, hitting three civilians.

Israeli naval forces intercepted a fishing boat at sea, ordered the two fishermen (one a 17-year-old) to strip and swim to the gunboat, then detained them; one was released later that day, the other and the boat remained in custody.

Weekly Friday protests in Bil'in, Ni'lin, al-Nabi Saleh, and Kafr Qaddum were attacked with live fire, rubber bullets, tear gas, and sound bombs; in Bil'in, soldiers assaulted a farmer trying to reach his own field and confiscated his vehicle.

In Gaza, Israeli forces opened fire on young men gathered near the perimeter fence in solidarity with Jerusalem (Shuja'iya and al-Bureij), wounding two with live rounds.

Israeli settlers attacked Palestinian olive pickers from Yasouf village (Salfit) while they worked their land.

Dozens of settlers, escorted by Israeli forces, entered Ta'nak village (Jenin) to pray at a religious site; soldiers closed the village's main street to secure the visit, locking thousands of Palestinians in their homes.

Checkpoints went up on the Tarusah village road (west of Dura) and at Hebron's southern entrance (al-Fahes), further restricting Palestinian movement.

8. 07 OCTOBER 2015.
An Israeli settler shot a Palestinian girl from Sur Baher four times in Jerusalem's Old City; Israeli forces claimed she had stabbed him, an account PCHR notes it could not independently verify.

Hundreds of Bir Zeit University students and other civilians protested near a checkpoint and settlement outside al-Bireh; Israeli forces fired live ammunition, wounding ten (eight by live fire), while undercover Israeli units embedded in the crowd violently kidnapped three students — one shot in the leg, another shot in the head and left in serious condition.

Israeli forces raided homes across Hebron governorate overnight, kidnapping at least 16 people, including a 12-year-old (Amir Abu Romouz) and a 13-year-old (Nasim al-Teiti), in Hebron city, Dura, Halhoul, and Al Fawwar and Al Arroub refugee camps.

Israeli forces raided two homes in Nablus, arresting two men without charge.

Soldiers occupied an uninhabited home in Halhoul, raised an Israeli flag over it, and briefly operated a checkpoint from the site before withdrawing but continuing to occupy the house.

This was the seventh consecutive day Nablus remained under a full Israeli military cordon (imposed since October 1 as collective punishment), with the Huwwara, Jeet, al-Naqoura, and Deir Sharaf checkpoints all tightened, denying and delaying movement for residents.

IT GOES ON LIKE THIS EVERY DAY OF EVERY YEAR AS FAR BACK AS YOU LOOK

[GHADA 🇵🇸 @ghadda_p]

Don't stop talking about Palestine,,

[Seyed Mohammad Marandi @s_m_marandi]

The BBC doesn't want you to know that the Zionists raped him to death

[OGHI @Oghi_Oco]

@nickdearden75

[Ounka @OunkaOnX]

Courtney Bonneau reported: The IDF came in the night, rigged a school for disabled children with C4, and detonated it. Possibly the only school for disabled kids in the country

Just a coincidence. Happens all the time in the "only democracy."

[. @jdpoc]

Islamic prayer room in Blackburn was fire bombed today.

It’s on every live news channel, with reporters at the scene.

No wait, who am I kidding, none of them have mentioned it.

[Jeremy Corbyn @jeremycorbyn]

This country might be about to have its 6th Prime Minister in 7 years.

Why? Because they’ve all failed to take on a rigged economic system that enriches the few at the expense of us all.

People want a society where children don’t go hungry. That is really not too much to ask.

[LongTime🤓FirstTime👨‍💻 @LongTimeHistory]

ICE take 10 year old boy to court to deport him—all alone without even a lawyer.

He urinated on himself and wet all his clothing—no one offered him a change for many hours.

"I was scared because it was my first time in court," he said.

Separated from his mom for 4 months now after she was detained during a traffic stop.

Wilfredo and his mother are originally from Venezuela with a pending asylum case.

ICE is now trying to deport him alone without legal representation to Ecuador—a country he's never been to and does not know a single person.

He is temporarily staying with his mom's former boss in Houston, Texas.

[Andrew Feinstein @andrewfeinstein]

Filton 6 defendant: “I am so proud I took part in this”, said Zoe Rogers. “I am proud that I overcame my fear and took action because of course I was scared, you don’t just break into an Israeli weapons factory for fun”.
Rogers added: “I can say with absolute certainty that this is the best thing that I have ever done”.

[Andrew Feinstein @andrewfeinstein]

Palestine Action defendants dismiss lawyers to address jury directly: Rare move sees pro-Palestine activists represent themselves in court and deliver impassioned speeches about Britain’s role in Gaza genocide

https://t.co/uVCRXWcqHI

[Furkan Gözükara @FurkanGozukara]

So far verified list of nationalities that Israel kidnapped today in Global Sumud Flotilla (29-30 April 2026)

🇪🇸 Spain : 31
🇮🇹 Italy : 23
🇹🇷 Türkiye : 17
🇺🇸 United States : 14
🇫🇷 France : 11
🇬🇧 United Kingdom : 10
🇲🇾 Malaysia : 10
🇩🇪 Germany : 7
🇮🇪 Ireland : 7
🇦🇷 Argentina : 6
🇦🇺 Australia : 6
🇧🇪 Belgium : 4
🇳🇿 New Zealand : 4
🇧🇷 Brazil : 3
🇳🇱 Netherlands : 3
🇵🇹 Portugal : 3
🇨🇦 Canada : 2
🇨🇴 Colombia : 2
🇵🇱 Poland : 2
🇺🇾 Uruguay : 2
🇧🇬 Bulgaria : 1
🇧🇭 Bahrain : 1
🇧🇾 Belarus : 1
🇨🇱 Chile : 1
🇫🇮 Finland : 1
🇭🇺 Hungary : 1
🇲🇽 Mexico : 1
🇳🇴 Norway : 1
🇴🇲 Oman : 1
🇵🇰 Pakistan : 1
🇸🇪 Sweden : 1
🇸🇰 Slovakia : 1
🇺🇦 Ukraine : 1

Total : 180

Some sources reports even bigger