@metpoliceuk@SadiqKhan Just back from the march. So many women of all religions and ethnicities walking side by side for peace. Jews, Christians and Muslims together. Police were brilliant!
To Hamas I say End the violence and Let them Go
To Israel I say End the Occupation and Let them Live
#CeasefireNow
My intervention on the 🇮🇱🇵🇸 debate @UKHouseofLords
I awoke in the night, panicking about Gaza.
For me (and I suspect millions of others) that was just a nightmare.
In Gaza is it an unimaginable reality.
No one can ignore what Hamas did on 7 October. It was unambiguously wrong.
But we cannot ignore what Israel is doing either. It is not proportionate. It is way beyond self defence. It too is unambiguously wrong.
That is why calls for a ceasefire are right. These wrongs must end, now. The lives of Palestinians, Jews and others impacted all matter. Right now, nothing matters more.
It is the legal duty of all politicians in every country that has signed the Geneva Convention of 1949 to uphold it. That must mean calling for an end to this war, now.
When will the UK’s political leaders call for a ceasefire? Leaving it another day will be too late.
⚠️ HAPPENING NOW AT NYC'S GRAND CENTRAL STATION: THOUSANDS OF JEWS AND ALLIES HOLD AN EMERGENCY SIT-IN, DEMANDING A CEASEFIRE IN GAZA. WE'RE TAKING OVER THE GRAND CONCOURSE. WE'RE REFUSING TO ALLOW A GENOCIDE BE CARRIED OUT IN OUR NAMES. CEASEFIRE NOW! NEVER AGAIN FOR ANYONE! ⚠️
@AJEnglish tmosphere of racism and xenophobia in Germany, hand in hand with a constraining and paternalistic philo-Semitism. We reject in particular the conflation of anti-Semitism and any criticism of the state of Israel
@AJEnglish From Jewish artists in Germany - makes your point -
As Jews, we reject this pretext for racist violence and express full solidarity with our Arab, Muslim, and particularly our Palestinian neighbors. We refuse to live in prejudicial fear. What frightens us is the prevailing a
This important and scholarly piece by genocide scholar Raz Segal is being smeared because, well, it's important and scholarly and it's easier to smear than debate. https://t.co/KtqDYyAkJA
Stage/Theatre News: Blizzard review – Emily Woof’s delightful storm of ideas and feeling: Summerhall, Edinburgh
This brainy solo show follows Woof’s intuitive thinker, standing in to deliver a lecture for her hyper-rational neuroscientist husband
And… https://t.co/6fvFJO5PUG
The BBC said #GaryLineker will not present MOTD until an agreement is reached on his social media use, after he was embroiled in a row over impartiality comparing language used to launch a new government asylum policy with 1930s Germany
Like and retweet if you agree with Gary
Where’s the political support? Gary is right to call out this morally repugnant policy, express solidarity with refugees fleeing oppression & learn lessons from the 30s which started with language that dehumanised minorities. Footballers showing more backbone than MPs #ImWithGary
First they came for the refugees, then they came for drag queens and trans men & women, next up was protesters, then they came for lawyers, next was the turn of climate presenters and national treasures, and now they’ve come for sports presenters.
You don’t have to agree with all of the above, but you do need to defend their rights, because if you don’t, then when they come for you too, who’ll still want to stand at your side.
Put aside your prejudices, hatred and fear is their weapon of choice, rise above it, you’re better that this, and them.
The Government are systematically targeting dissent and silencing criticism, they’re controlling our public broadcaster, and the narrative, because that’s all they have left.
This is a pivotal moment, a slice of history, you only need to decide if you want to be able to hold your head high and say that you stood against tyranny and creeping fascism, or forever regret enabling it.
#FascismCreeps #ToriesOut #ImwithGaryLineker #BBC #GeneralElectionNow #MOTD #Corruption
@GaryLineker@BBCMOTD They say - pick your battles. GL good for you! This one worth fighting for! I work with refugees and so grateful for your courage. Speak truth to power! Keep going! It matters!
The past two days I have had so much abuse and crap on twitter.
I'm retweeting this video because it'll upset them even more. But give the rest of us a bloody good laugh 😃 enjoy... and you're welcome.
🎥@larryandpaul#CabinetMembersAppeal