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@LeeAndersonMP_
Why are you paying Katy less than £30k a year when you literally have the option to pay her up to £37,466 per year? She deserves it - especially if she is going to be subject to public postings like this from you in an effort to exploit her for cheap political points on austerity
Hey
@JuliaHB1
you're not very used to brown people speaking up for themselves are you? That is evidently why you did an islamophobic slur toward
@MustafaBarghoti
with your comment about letting women speak...
People like you do so much harm & peddle so much racism.
Vile.
Document containing the UNRWA allegations is absolutely scandalous for multiple reasons - but the most striking is that if this is the 'dossier' that various governments used to justify suspending funds then it should make waves politically speaking because there is NO evidence..
It is now appropriate for me to announce that I have raised this with the
@metpoliceuk
as an instance of racist hate crime and act of vandalism.
It is my hope that Yoseph Haddad, should he still be in London, will be placed under arrest and charged for his incitement, racism and…
Okay, even though I don't get paid for this, let's go... we will start with the overall premise of your article: That Israel isn't Apartheid South Africa.
You are correct. That is why every single human rights organisation & legal advocacy group doesn't make that analogy 1/?
So twitter ('X') has now suspended the account of one of the most eminent Palestinian writers & bloggers
@mariambarghouti
...
We are seeing this more & more now a silencing of Palestinian activists & their social media accounts.
Anti-Palestinian racism goes right to the top!
Situation at al-Shifa hospital is worse than what most people are capable of imagining... there are patients who have severe wounds that are infected, teenagers who are amputees with maggots crawling around in their open flesh... no food, water, and increasingly limited medical…
Blake knows full well that the Palestinian intifadahs were a response to violent oppression by Israel. He knows that intifadah is an Arabic word to 'shake off' I.e. resist. He knows this is not a call to murder Jews.
But he will demonise Palestinians anyway because he's racist.
We should not simply dismiss the allegations made in the WSJ piece alleging that 10% of UNRWA employees have links to militants. However, it is right to scrutinise the background of one of the authors of the article in terms of their links to the IDF & the IDF spokesperson unit.
Imagine being so hateful and so desperate to demonise Palestinians that this is what you tweet out.
Seeing young people playing games at religious sites should be looked at as a lovely heart warming thing... but for Emily it's just another opportunity to promote hate & bigotry.
Actually, Israel is one of the few countries in the world engaged in a belligerent long-term military occupation and mass violent oppression of a civilian population that then tries to portray itself as a victim defending itself.
Is Russia defending itself by occupying Ukraine?
This is... quite something... Mandela was explicit in his support for Palestinians and the liberation of Palestine. He also spoke quite eloquently of how lessons from South Africa could be used to help heal other conflicts around the world including Israel-Palestine.
Today we visited the
#MandelaSquare
with Arab Israeli activist
@YosephHaddad
to remember the legacy of Nelson
#Mandela
and show solidarity with Israel.
Contrary to popular belief, Mandela was a strong supporter of
#Israel
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@KSI
@MrBeast
Twitter is also a reflection of the state of society today in terms of the desperation people feel as a result of poverty, the rising cost of simply living with some kind of dignity, and more.
People are allowed to criticise the model that you influencers use.
I have lodged a formal complaint with Blackrod at the
@UKHouseofLords
regarding
@LordIanAustin
's islamophobic rhetoric and incitement.
I will also be writing to the Lords Commissioner of Standards too.
You all can email in as well: lordsstandards
@parliament
.uk
David here wants to mislead you on two crucial matters:
1. That Jews purchasing land prior to 1948 means that private land ownership justifies expression of exclusive sovereignty (essentially saying land has an ethnicity/national identity by virtue of who owns the land)
1/2
You only have to go to the archives to see mountains of files about Arabs selling land to the Jews long before 1948.
The fact anti-Israel activists continually claim the Jews 'stole' the land is just more ignorant, ahistorical, antisemitic nonsense.
@LozzaFox
You’ve just appropriated MLK in order to prop up your own white privilege and toxic masculinity. Does it hurt that a woman of colour called you out on your white privileged? It must do given the amount of whining you’re doing on twitter today. You’ve a racism & sexism problem.
Very successful? This is selective footage. You ended up raging at them because they successfully disrupted your talk with a protest and you got really upset when they laughed at you.
Also at the University of Exeter, anti-Israeli students tried to sabotage my lecture... but again they did not succeed and the event took place and was very successful.
Yalla on my way to the next destination 💪🏽
Attacking someone who is LGBTQ+ for showing solidarity with Palestinians, implying that because they are LGBTQ+ they shouldn't care about Palestinian human rights and fundamental freedoms, isn't just racist towards Palestinians but also homophobic and deeply problematic.
אם סם סמית כבר החליט להחרים את ישראל והפך בגלל זה לגיבור הפרו-פלסטינים החדש, אולי שכבר ילך פשוט להופיע בעזה או ברמאללה, אני בטוח שהוא יתקבל באהבה גדולה לא?
I have contacted
@CreativeDebuts
in an email alerting them to the fact a complaint has been raised with
@metpoliceuk
regarding the defacing of their artwork. It is my hope that they will make a statement this morning on the matter and raise a direct complaint with authorities…
Anti-Palestinian bigots want the world to think there's no other explanation for Palestinian anger towards Israel other than them being 'taught Jew-hate' from a young age and that its all antisemitism....
Come along now, just ignore the decades of constant violent oppression...
@fayekinley
@JackDunc1
Sending this unsolicited is a crime and you can report him and his number to the police. He’ll likely have a contract phone so police will be able to trace him.
If this was a video of Palestinians engaged in target practice we would see wall to wall condemnation and immediate criticism of the clear incitement.
But because it's an extremist settler in Hebron it barely makes the news and has (presently) a handful of retweets & replies.
This is a vile tweet from a despicable individual.
This is nothing but incitement & dehumanisation of Palestinians - in particular through the grotesque suggesting the Palestinians deserve to live under Israeli oppression & violence because of one individual (Amin Al-Husseini)
I think it's important that people are aware that this 'Palestinians desecrate Al Aqsa by playing football in the mosque' line has been used multiple times each year by hasbarists looking for ways to further demonise & dehumanise Palestinians and justify brutal Israeli violence.
No. You are illegally settling in occupied territory in violation of international law.
Land doesn't have an ethnicity and doesn't belong to one group of people over another. The territory is recognised as occupied Palestinian territory.
You shouldn't be there at all.
I live in a Jewish community built on barren hilltop in Judea were there was never ever an Arab Palestine.
I'm not a thief, I'm a resettler. The Land is my people's.
I'm am telling you my truth. If you choose to deny it, that's your business, but it won't get rid of us.
..not a single piece of evidence is presented in the entirety of the document. It contains allegations and a political statement attacking UNRWA and the staff identified.
Nome of the claims can be independently verified because the evidence is not contained in the document.
@YosephHaddad
@TelAvivUni
Running around screaming at protesting students isn't the look you think it is... 🤣 just reveals how nasty, vicious, and violent you are towards those you consider opponents. We all knew you had a chauvinism problem. This is just confirmation of your insecurities. Desperate!
Some of the top human rights organisations in the world, using the international convention rather than an analogy to South Africa, say it is apartheid:
1. Amnesty:
2. Human Rights Watch:
3. OHCRH:
@LordIanAustin
Israel really isn't a democracy. It is an ethnocratic state. Suggest you look up what that means since it's clear you need an education.
Also what is outrageous here is a privileged ageing white man having the audacity to tweet what is and isn't an insult to black South Africans
Outrageous that Labour Friends of Israel, under Christian Wakeford MP, is hosting an event in Parliament on 7th May 2024 entitled 'UNRWA, antisemitism and a better future for Gaza'.
This is despicable at a time where Gaza is utterly destroyed & unliveable.
Surreal to have met this man an hour before the verdict came in for him and I'm so pleased he's in my home town of Newcastle able to relax, celebrate and enjoy himself.
@darrengrimes_
Oh fuck off Darren. It's so blatantly obvious you've just been instructed to tweet this out to falsely stir another nonsense culture war over the false claim that Easter eggs aren't being called such in stores anymore.
Here we have a white Conservative MP telling a person of colour to ‘be nice’ and ‘appreciate the country’... this is brazenly racist and a massive dog whistle too. I’ll be lodging a formal complaint with both Parliamentary standards and the Conservative party.
Yasmin, why don’t you just try to be nice? Maybe appreciate just a little the country and the people you have chosen the live, work and benefit from all of your life.
Essentially, this doc is a briefing file without the sources included or attached. There can be no scrutiny whatsoever because it simply refers to 'intelligence sources'.
Honestly, the UK Government's complicity in trying to dismantle UNRWA at the behest of Israel is shameful.
Ultimately, I have proven in the above thread that
@LordIanAustin
talks out his arse and has no real grasp of the factual reality in Israel-Palestine.
He has zero interest in a just and peaceful solution to this conflict. He simply repeats right-wing Israeli hasbara.
Israel's Palestinian & Arab citizens absolutely do not have freedom of movement and most definitely the Palestinians held in the Occupied Palestinian Territory do not have free movement.
There is also mass employment & study discrimination against Arabs in Israel.
@LexiAlex
@LaraFriedmanDC
They're mad because young people, by in large, reject Israeli propaganda and are engaging directly with content from Palestine and Palestinians.
They're upset because Palestinians are being humanised through these platforms.
They're mad because ordinary people are listening.
If a pro-Palestine public figure took an image outside of a congresspersons office where there is an Israeli flag flying (there are several examples where this is the case) and published on twitter 'who are they representing' it would be criticised as racist & antisemitic.
Furthermore, an Arab Israeli or Palestinian citizen of Israel cannot marry a partner from the Occupied Palestinian Territory and live with them inside Israel. In comparison a Jewish Israeli can marry an illegal settler and live basically anywhere.
Israel is not a multi-ethnic democracy. It is an ethnocracy. This is why the overall rhetoric, laws and its very foundation are based on the necessity of maintaining a Jewish demographic majority
In addition, there is a whole list of discriminatory laws:
I have not and never will deny Jewish history, Yishai.
Yet here you are calling Palestinians a fake people... you are nothing but a racist scumbag and an illegal settler.
I hope one day to see you in prison for the crimes and bigotry you engage in on a daily basis.
Anti-Palestinian propagandists are desperate to condition audiences around the world into thinking that Palestinians killed by Israel all look like this and are all militants. It is a total fabrication and is part of a wider agenda to completely dehumanise Palestinians.
Palestinian terrorists target and kill civilians.
The IDF and Israel security forces target terrorists.
There’s a HUGE difference.
Next time you see “X Palestinians killed” keep in mind they don’t differentiate between men who look like this ⬇️ and civilian casualties:
In addition to reputable international organisations, we also have Israeli & Palestinian organisations telling you (
@LordIanAustin
) that it is apartheid:
1. B'tselem:
2. Al-Haq:
3. Al-Mezan:
Emily wants you to believe it's totally fine for the Israeli military to murder Palestinians and that images like this are what you should think of whenever you hear about a Palestinian being killed.
For Emily there is no such thing as an innocent Palestinian. Period.
Evil.
Palestinians: Stop demolishing our homes, terrorising our people, illegally settling our land and violently oppressing us.
Israeli propagandists: My parents came from Iraq and Tunisia so shut up and stop complaining.
In using the legal definitions and the convention under international law what we are doing here
@LordIanAustin
is reviewing how the LAW applies rather than whether some vague analogy is accurate or not. We aren't discussing opinion here, rather, we are looking at facts.
Israel advocacy always insists on inserting the claim that Palestine solidarity activists are comparing Israel to Apartheid South Africa but this simply isn't true.
We look at the International Convention on the crime of Apartheid -
You are an antisemite Ben. Period.
You don't get to go around telling your audience that
@SenSanders
isn't Jewish because you dislike his politics. Judaism isn't decided like that, & to tell a Jew they aren't Jewish because they support Palestinians is invoking the traitor trope
@_LFI
HI
@_LFI
, this tweet is attrocious and demonstrates a total lack of empathy and even basic humanity. Hamas is not the instigator of these protests. They are NOT responsible for the deaths of Palestinians at the hands of Israeli snipers with a shoot to kill rule of engagement.
Also, gay marriage isn't legal in Israel. If you want to get married in a same sex relationship or basically anything outside of a religious/ethnic marriage then you have to fly to Cyprus and then get the Israeli govt to retroactively acknowledge your marriage as valid/legal.
Update
@LordIanAustin
responded to my tweets but almost instantly deleted what he said - I didn't get a screenshot but he essentially claimed this thread was the 'usual bluster' and demanded I respond to specific points (lol) as though the above thread doesn't do that...
In the last 24-48 hours alone I have received no fewer than 9 death threats and at least 20 messages threatening physical harm to me and my family... all because I have stood up for Palestinian human rights. Not content with just twitter they've stalked my Facebook and IG too
@BoardofDeputies
Appalling statement from the BoD on the issue of Gaza. It’s shameful that you lay sole blame with Hamas. This is victim blaming par excellence and is abhorrent. But go right ahead, ignore Israel’s unlawful killing of unarmed civilians. Ignore international law. Ignore facts.
Once again, I have raised the actions & activities of Yoseph Haddad with
@metpoliceuk
as a matter of urgency.
These videos he is creating incite racism and hatred towards Palestinians and promote acts of vandalism against public pieces of graffiti art.
This incitement is a…
After the pro-Palestinian terrorist supporters in London vandalized a mural of Kfir Bibas, tore down posters of the hostages, and commit violent and anti-Semitic acts against Jews and supporters of Israel, we stopped being silent!
So after we covered their mural this week, they…
It is evident that it is not appropriate for Carrie Keller-Lynn to be part of the journalistic team reporting on these allegations in the WSJ. Her past close relationship w/ Aliza Landes, who was assigned to the IDF Spokesperson Unit, is an important matter not the be overlooked
NB: If purchasing land suddenly started meaning we can extend sovereignty based on ethnic or national identity then places like London would suddenly have vast islands of Russian, Qatari, UAE, Iranian and Saudi Arabian mini states popping up everywhere... the notion is ridiculous
In Israel, the judiciary does not counter discrimination and prejudice. We have seen this repeatedly in court cases involving settlements, freedom of movement, arrests and detentions, legalising housing discrimination and land ownership discrimination.. the list goes on and on
2. That examples of land purchases where Jews have bought land from Palestinian Arabs can be used to erase the vast number of very well documented instances of land theft by the State of Israel, the Jewish National Fund, Israeli settlers in Occupied Territory & many others.
2/2
Questions must be asked - was the decision to suspend funds based solely on this 'dossier' or was there other discussions between
@David_Cameron
and Israeli ministers on his recent trip there?
Why did UK government suspend funding without solid evidence presented?
This is how normalised the theft of Palestinian lands in the Occupied West Bank is... a casual post in a facebook group... settler colonialism in action - and it is made to look so simple and easy too:
I have now submitted a formal complaint to the Labour Party about the conduct and statements released by the Labour Friends of Israel and asking for an investigation into whether they bring the party into disrepute (I think they do). LFI make a mockery out of our Labour values.
Okay, now we have dispensed with the false premise used by
@LordIanAustin
as the basis of his article (Because we already know Israel isn't Apartheid South Africa) let's take a closer look at some of the claims he makes in his article...
It begs the question why a journalist with clear links to the Israeli Defence Forces is the one doing the reporting on a matter heavily based on IDF intelligence gathering. If the IDF & Israeli officials wanted the matter reported on properly they could have sent the evidence >
Of course
@LordIanAustin
doesn't want to listen to any of this because he is absolutely committed to being an apologist for all these crimes and issues. Anyway, moving on to the next section:
@GonenYonatan
Attempts to white wash and sanitise the Israeli military really are getting desperate if you think these videos of occasional kindness or morality from IDF soldiers erases the fact the Israeli military as an establishment are engaged in routine violent oppression of Palestinians.
@HadleyFreeman
@LeaveEUOfficial
Someone must seriously answer the question of why leave EU is upset that Holocaust-deniers lost the French president election.
@labourpress
@Conservatives
It also violates twitters verified accounts rules - they’ve changed their account to mislead whilst retaining their @ handle for their blue tick. They weren’t verified as ‘Fact Check UK’ and as such they’ve violated twitters rules.
Everyone involved with Israel-Palestine should abhor & unequivocally condemn the killing of 14-year-old Benjamin Ahimeir.
Yes, he was a settler at an illegal outpost in the Occupied West Bank and he shouldn't have been there to begin with but this doesn't justify his kidnap and…
1. You are a racist Yishai. And you promote some of the most grotesque ideology.
2. You promote extremism and support attacks on Palestinians and the theft of Palestinian property.
3. You were apparently born in Haifa with parents from the Soviet Union. Haifa is not Judea.
@GarySpedding
1. I'm not a racist, I'm a Middle Easterner following the region's rules.
2. I'm not an extremist, just a Jewish patriot who wants my nation to stay alive.
3. Illegal settler? I'm a Jew from Judea. This is my land.
4. Jail? I was already freed from Twitter jail.
@BoardofDeputies
I’m alarmed that the
@BoardofDeputies
is taking this position, demonising largely non-violent Palestinian protestors, stripping away their humanity and laying sole blame for this on Hamas instead of the Israeli Military who predetermined that violence & death would result.
Anti-Palestinian peopagandists are trying to victim blame and gaslight Palestinians with allegations that what has unfolded at Al Aqsa has been done purposefully by Palestinians so it can be used to incite other Palestinians elsewhere...
The hasbara narrative is absolutely wild
I have this evening submitted a preliminary complaint to
@UKLabour
to investigate newly elected NEC member
@lukeakehurst
for expressing views that are racist towards Palestinians and for making sweeping generalisations regarding Palestinian refugees, terrorism & genocide.
Also where is the oversight from
@CommonsForeign
and members of Parliament who should have been provided this document in order to scrutinise it properly?
Why is UK government not presenting full and proper answers to the House on these matters for MPs to debate it?
> to an independent journalist for review and publication or to a fact-checking and investigative journalist inside Israel such as Barak Ravid.
Instead we have a WSJ piece that reads like it's lifted straight from an IDF spokesperson press release written by a biased journalist
None of my tweets are denying Jewish history.
Your backwards view that ancient history justifies the modern day oppression and violent dispossession of the indigenous Palestinian population to make way for illegal settlers like you is insulting and an abuse of Jewish culture.
@GarySpedding
Gary, you spend good time (instead of playing rugby) making silly claims that Jews are foreigners and occupiers in Judea. I was just pointing out that you are actually the foreigner and that your tweets denying Jewish history are merely the continuation of Euro colonialism.
As of now, based on this 'dossier', it can be concluded that the suspension of funding for UNRWA is baseless and should never have happened. The allegations should be investigated. But also why did UNRWA fire its staff without an investigation first? They could have suspended!
No.
1. She doesn't need to disprove a malicious and false allegation
2. Asking a Jewish person to defend you on the internet because they are Jewish is extremely problematic and in itself racist. Using Jews as political pawns is antisemitic. Not something
@IlhanMN
would do.
If Representative
@IlhanMN
Omar wants to prove she’s not antisemitic she should just have one of the many Jewish employees on her Congressional staff speak in her defense.
@SalfordMe2023
If the number is registered to either Snapchat or Instagram sometimes people use their real names or surnames as part of their users worth a look.
@NadineDorries
Hi Nadine, why don’t you just try to be not racist? Maybe appreciate just a little bit that the country you’ve chosen to live in is a diverse, multiethnic and multicultural country. Perhaps reflect upon the white privilege that you’ve benefited from since the moment you were born
We must hold our government accountable on this issue of UNRWA funding suspension. We deserve to know the truth about what information the government does and doesn't hold regarding the allegations against UNRWA.
The issue isn't whether Jews are indigenous or not... it is the effort to erase the indigeneity of Palestinians and the misuse of historical, cultural, and religious connection to justify domination & oppression of Palestinians... that is the issue here.
Jews have lived in the Levant since before Christianity and Islam ever existed because that’s how history works. I’m happy to have a debate about who should be in charge, but you will never convinced me that Jews aren’t indigenous to the Levant. Sorry. You really won’t. Ever.
Aggressively shouting at students - a grown man going onto university campuses to aggressively repeat talking point propaganda as though it gives him a victory.
It doesn't. All it does is reveal himself to be an aggressive intimidatory hasbarist who is a danger to students.