jane clarke

[Richard Burgon MP @RichardBurgon]

I joined health workers this week at Downing Street to hand in a letter from over 800 child health professionals about Israel's war on Gaza.

It calls for an end to all arms exports to Israel and for immediate sanctions on Israel until it complies with international law.

[Jennie Formby @Jennieformby1]

5 yrs since I finished treatment for breast cancer🙏
I’m now a volunteer for MacMillan speaking to women going through it or considering reconstruction. If it wld be helpful for you or your loved one to have a confidential chat with someone who’s been through it, just inbox me😊

[Dr Rachel Clarke @doctor_oxford]

I cannot stand silently by as @gmcuk fails patients in the PA debacle.

Its entire point is to keep patients safe from harm - but it’s failing dismally.

My piece on why the GMC is no longer fit for purpose👇

https://t.co/Zn8BkBstoG

[Richard Burgon MP @RichardBurgon]

A new poll shows Britain prefers socialism to capitalism.

In fact the four most popular ideologies in Britain are environmentalism, feminism, liberalism & socialism.

All are more popular than conservatism, capitalism and nationalism.

We can win the fight for a better society!

[Michael Rosen 💙💙🎓🎓 NICE 爷爷 @MichaelRosenYes]

It seems to be beyond some news agencies to report from Syria AND Gaza. It's as if events in Syria have hoovered up all the journalists and now Gaza doesn't exist. It's been deleted. Nothing is there. There is nothing to report. Nothing to say.

[Richard Burgon MP @RichardBurgon]

When Israel faces no consequences for its repeated war crimes in Gaza, it's emboldened to escalate.

Israeli forces entering Syrian territory even beyond the occupied Golan Heights is an example of this

Sanctions on Israel are needed to force it to comply with international law.

[Michael Rosen 💙💙🎓🎓 NICE 爷爷 @MichaelRosenYes]

Thoughts?

[Led By Donkeys @ByDonkeys]

“My name is Amos Goldberg. I am an Israeli Professor of Holocaust Studies. For nearly 30 years I have researched and taught the Holocaust, genocide and state violence.

And I want to tell whoever is willing to listen that what’s happening now in Gaza is a genocide.

A year ago when October 7th happened, like all Israelis I was in shock. It was a war crime and a crime against humanity. 1200 people - more than 800 of them civilians - were killed in one day. Children and the elderly were among those taken hostage. Communities were destroyed. It was outrageous, traumatizing, personal. Like most Israelis, I know people who were killed, who lost loved ones or whose loved ones were taken hostage.

But immediately afterwards came Israel’s response and within weeks thousands of civilians were killed in Gaza. It took me some time to digest what was unfolding before my eyes. It was agonizing to confront that reality. I was reluctant to call it a genocide.

But if you read Raphael Lemkin – the Jewish-Polish legal scholar who coined the term ‘genocide’ and was the major driving force behind the 1948 United Nations Genocide Convention – what is happening in Gaza now is exactly what he had in mind when he spoke about genocide.

It does not need to look like the Holocaust to be a genocide. Each genocide looks different and not all involve killing of millions or the entire group. The United Nations Genocide Convention explicitly asserts that genocide is the act of deliberately destroying a group in whole or in part. Those are the words.

But there does need to be a clear intent.

And indeed, there are clear indications of intent to destroy Gaza: Israel’s leaders - including the prime minister and the minister of defence - and many high-ranking military officers, media personalities, rabbis, as well as ordinary soldiers were very open about what they wanted to achieve. There were countless documented incitements to turn the whole of Gaza into rubble and claims that there are no innocent people living there.

A radical atmosphere of dehumanization of the Palestinians prevails in Israeli society to an extent that I can’t remember in my 58 years of living here.

Now that vision has been enacted. Tens of thousands of innocent children, women and men have been killed. Over a hundred thousand were wounded. There is a near total destruction of infrastructure, intentional starvation and blocking of humanitarian aid. There are mass graves and reliable testimony of summary executions. Children that were shot by snipers. All the universities and almost all hospitals are gone. Almost all the population is displaced. There have been numerous bombings of civilians in so-called ‘safe zones’. Gaza does not exist anymore. It is completely destroyed. Thus, the outcome fits perfectly with the stated intentions of Israel’s leadership.

Lemkin - that scholar who coined the term ‘genocide’ - described two phases of a genocide. The first is the destruction of the annihilated group and the second is what he called ‘imposition of the national pattern’ of the perpetrator. We are now witnessing the second phase as Israel prepares ethnically cleansed areas for Israeli settlements.

And therefore, I have come to the conclusion that this is exactly what a genocide looks like. We don’t teach about genocides in order to realize it retrospectively. We teach about it in order to prevent it and to stop it.

But like in every other case of genocide in history right now we have mass denial. Both here in Israel and around the world.

But reality cannot be denied.

So yes, it is a genocide.

And once you come to this conclusion you cannot remain silent.”

- Statement to Led By Donkeys, December 2024
- Photo: Parliament Square, London, 8.40am, 4th December 2024

[Michael Rosen 💙💙🎓🎓 NICE 爷爷 @MichaelRosenYes]

When I was 15, I said to my Dad, my friend Dave says the kibbutzim in Israel are socialism. My Dad said, who can live in these kibbutzim? I asked Dave. He said, Jews. I told my Dad. He said, Socialism for just one people? Is that socialism?

[John McDonnell @johnmcdonnellMP]

Fully agree with @MedicalAidPal

[Hazzy Clarke @HazzyC]

🤦‍♀️ lack of care for human bodies clearly a problem, even in many democracies (such as in relation to war, covid, poverty, climate emergency)

E.g. Yvette referring to “huge troubles across the Middle East” insufficiently acknowledges the devastation in Gaza, doesn’t it!? 😳

[Craig Murray @CraigMurrayOrg]

I was awoken by the most incredible explosion, I think around 4am. Our entire apartment shook
Nobody yet knows how many are killed, first estimate I am hearing is about 90 dead and hundreds injured. Desperate rescue attempts ongoing.
No warning. An entirely civilian block.

[jane clarke @drewittclarke]

@LeanneSpurs @angelaeagle Lower number of votes than Corbyn got in 2017 and 2019

[Roger Gall @Shambles151]

@angelaeagle "No Keir Starmer won a landslide majority Theresa May lost hers."

Yes - Theresa May lost her overall majority to a Labour Party led by democratic socialist & policies that voters wanted.

Last time - voters would have voted for any old shit - to remove Tory Govt.

And they did.

[Richard Burgon MP @RichardBurgon]

Over 60 MPs from eight parties have now backed my Parliamentary motion calling for sanctions on Israel.

Israel is carrying out war crime after war crime.

Our Government must impose widespread sanctions on Israel to force it to stop.

[JewishVoiceForLiberation @JVoiceLiberatio]

There is a lot of misinformation being pumped out about an imaginary antisemitic pogrom in Amsterdam
This is from another WhatsApp group...

" .Pinched from someone living in Amsterdam
I live in Amsterdam, what is NOT mentioned here is that over 2 days crowds of hooligans were stealing Palestinian flags off buildings, burning them, attacking Muslim taxi driver, crowding around other Muslim drivers with chains being brandished, chanting "Death to Arabs" "IDF will kill all Arabs" "No schools in Gaza cause all the kids are dead" and SO ON. The violence was provoked, this football club has been censored even in Israel for it's exterminating language and racism, and their hooligans are known to cause violence in attacks in every city they play.

Maybe people should not have responded as they did to the provocation but to deliberately refuse to acknowledge it is a deliberate political act to try to undermine opposition to genocide

[Hazzy Clarke @HazzyC]

Riad roof reading Haraway on Goldsworthy 🙏🙌
Holiday heaven!

(@drewittclarke and I saw Goldsworthy @NevillHoltFest earlier this year)

[Hazzy Clarke @HazzyC]

Tuesday Volubilis and Meknes; Wednesday Marinids with my niece Naomi, above Fes for sundown view; Thursday morning local walk — some of our #fes based adventuring in #morocco with @drewittclarke

[Democratic Wins Media @DemocraticWins]

BREAKING: In a stunningly senile moment, Donald Trump just shouted out David McCormick while thinking he was in Pennsylvania. Donald Trump is in North Carolina. It’s clear he’s not well.

[Yanis Varoufakis @yanisvaroufakis]

BREAKING - Palestinian Ministry of Health in Gaza:
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We appeal to the free people of the world to do everything possible to save what can be saved in Kamal Adwan Hospital.

We do not understand how the world allows itself to stand by and watch the most heinous genocide and the most widespread systematic operation to destroy the health system and kill and arrest patients and medical staff without moving a finger.