For any British viewer, watching these Irish commentators explain why it is important for Ireland to boycott a football match against Israel is like being thrust into an alternate universe. One where morality – not money – guides the agenda.
A different world is possible.
Banning Cenk Uyghur and Hasan Piker from entering the UK is an absurd and cowardly decision from an increasingly authoritarian government.
Let us call this what it is: an attack on the freedom to criticise Israel, as well as the UK government’s own complicity in genocide.
the uk has revoked my visa as well. all at the behest of israel. the west is betraying "liberal values" for a genocidal fascist foreign government. soon we will all become israel.
This is a really grim decision alongside Cenk.
People often talk about dangerous road we'd go down under a Reform government - this is another clear warning we're down there already.
A Labour government doing everything possible to silence criticism of the Israeli Government.
How many times are they going to put their money on a new centrist hope before they accept that the same failed, rigged politics, with a new face, just won't wash?
aipac knows that democrats who play ball w the establishment are malleable and are better for their cause than those who oppose israel w moral conviction. this is why i pointed out saikats demands for blocking defensive & offensive weapons as a signal for his authenticity
This guy is doing it. Everything centrists and moderates and liberals said was a pipe dream because “that’s not how the world works” is getting done quickly by this mayor. So yes, it is possible and this is the level of leadership we should be demanding
David Taylor MP demanded Kneecap be banned from Glastonbury for criticising Israel, demanded Bob Vylan be banned from Glastonbury for criticising Israel, and is now demanding Hasan Piker be barred from entering the country for — yes, you guessed it — criticising Israel.
Students from the Colin Powell School at City College of New York heckled Linda Thomas-Greenfield, the former US ambassador to the UN during the Biden administration, at their graduation ceremony on Thursday
My newish video, on the antisemitism smears against the Greens, in which I offer the following advice:
- Show solidarity, offering support to those targeted
- Stand up for freedom of speech rather than apologising
- Don’t abandon the Palestinian struggle
https://t.co/3GJfB5FjOC
3/3: I'm not having a dig at Owen Jones. I'm using his video as a publicly available example of a position I've heard many times over the yrs, including since the Gaza genocide, from people who are part of the local left, in the hope of starting a discussion on how we oppose it.
2/3: An example of the left falling into the trap of taking on zionist positions: “Angry denunciations of ‘Zionists’ mean one thing whatever the intention of the speaker: purely and simply, a contemporary manifestation of age-old tirades against the Jews.” https://t.co/QNR0ka4gnj
1/3: The antisemitism smears against Corbyn's Labour led some leftists to oppose talking about zionism. As the Greens approach a vote on their Zionism is Racism motion, similar positions will be put once again. It's important to oppose these and to assert that zionism is racism.
So, I have a friend who works at the BBC.
Yesterday, they told me the Tony Blair Institute basically selected the entire panel for @bbcquestiontime — hence why there was no balance and it was essentially dangerous big tech propaganda. Loads of staff pissed off, but silenced.
It's time to take the contract for Question Time away from the company that produces it for the BBC. A company that has persistently overrepresented right wing ideology, has been actively enabling creeping Fascism and is now shilling for the Tony Blair Institute and its funders.