Father of Ol, Dom, Al & Freddie, grandfather of Sophia, Zadie, Robin & Sammy. Green Party councillor, West Berkshire Council. 100% Blade. Edited @guardianstyle
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David Marsh retweeted
The more children Israel kills, the more the official discourse is dominated by the complete fiction that “antisemitism” is a major problem in Israel’s allied countries.
David Marsh retweeted
Not an ounce of contrition.
No apology, no guilt, no remorse.
Covid inquiry?
Tens of thousands of needless deaths?
Water off a duck's back.
It was only the little people anyway.
@KemiBadenoch @Conservatives @griffitha @alexburghart @Jeremy_Hunt @michaelgove @BorisJohnson
David Marsh retweeted
The past 20 days have marked one of the most monolithic pushes by British media to vilify the Zionism is Racism Green Party motion.
Imbalanced coverage would be an understatement.
The papers wrote 447 articles on the Greens' Zionism vote. Israel, pro-Israel groups and the Chief Rabbi got 12,133 words. Palestinians got 3,173.
Any institution that parades as a "news outlet" can no longer be taken seriously if it covers this motion without also covering the people, Palestinians, who have endured, suffered and been oppressed the most by the ideology in action.
What the figures show:
• Israel's government alone got 3,904 words. More than every Palestinian put together.
• 2,422 of the 3,173 Palestinian words came in stories tying Lubna Speitan, the Palestinian who proposed the motion, to al-Qaeda.
• Apart from Lubna, two Palestinians were quoted across 436 articles, for 76 words between them. Nobody in Gaza, the occupied West Bank or Lebanon was quoted at all.
• Lubna told the Telegraph that 56 members of her family had been killed in Gaza. One article mentioned it: the Telegraph's own al-Qaeda story, in paragraph 44 of 51.
• Lubna has received death and rape threats since the vote. Al Jazeera reported it. None of the 447 British articles did.
• 43 articles said, in the paper's own voice, that the motion meant the destruction or abolition of Israel. The motion calls for one state with "equal rights for all".
• 36 headlines said antisemitism. Not one of 447 said genocide.
• 304 of the 436 articles we read in full never mentioned the genocide at all.
• 0 of 89 comment pieces backed the motion.
• The Daily Mail ran 38 articles on the motion, and in that time, just 2 on Israel's ongoing attacks across Gaza, the West Bank and Lebanon.
Full report: newscord.org/editorials/zion…
David Marsh retweeted
Again @mhclg @andyburnham where is the water 💦 supply coming from for the hundreds of AI data centres and 1.5m extra homes? How can the chalk aquifers recharge when they’re covered in concrete? Where are the new reservoirs? Where is the common sense? It’s time your brains engage, get a handle on what’s getting built, and how you can deliver water for a fast growing population!!
It’s quite simple..no rain means no water 💦 supply…how does this government intend to supply water to 1.5m extra homes and god knows how many AI data centres? Especially in the highly populated and already severely water stressed south east and east of England?
@AngelaRayner @KanishkaNarayan
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David Marsh retweeted
Why does the Greens' "Zionism is racism" policy provoke such fear from the UK's political and media class?
Because it collapses their key script – by emphasising that the struggle to end Palestinian oppression is against a racist political movement, Zionism, not against Jews.
The political and media class are so desperate to keep advancing this script that they're now forced to defame the UK's only Jewish party leader as an antisemite to make it make sense.
It doesn't make sense – can never make sense – because it's a lie.
David Marsh retweeted
Isn't it funny how you recall things when you get older. When I was younger the Labour Party stood for vulnerable people, social justice, international justice, fair distribution of wealth, homes, education and healthcare for all.
Now?
You're describing the Green Party.
David Marsh retweeted
A majority of the 635 children held in Israeli prisons in 2025 were put in solitary confinement, usually for between one and two weeks – some up to eight times.
92 per cent of those children had not been sentenced.
A third had not even been charged with an offence.
The world's highest court says Israel is an apartheid state. Its decades-long occupation is illegal.
David Marsh retweeted
On 19 July 2024, I published two posts on my X account in which I made allegations about Mr Mothin Ali being involved in the Harehills riots. I have accepted these were incorrect and I have jointly made a statement in open Court in order to apologise to Mr Ali and correct the record which is below.
archive.org/details/JSIOC-MA…
David Marsh retweeted
Andy Burnham deliberately conflating Anti-Semtism with Anti-Zionism makes Jewish people like myself, less safe.
Andy Burnham rules out any partnership between Labour and the Green Party due to their controversial motion declaring "Zionism is racism".
🔗 trib.al/c05KDDg
David Marsh retweeted
It hadn’t taken much for Burnham to revert from ‘we got Gaza wrong’ to heavy-handed Starmer-style repression of pro-Palestinian sentiment. Whether Zionism is Racism is right or wrong, it is *not* antisemitic. Burnham is wrecking sensible cooperation in local authorities in a crude attempt to crush the Greens as Starmer crushed Corbynism.
BREAKING: The Labour Party has said that power-sharing agreements with the Green Party will end unless local Greens explicitly reject their party's "Zionism is racism" policy
The Labour Party has asked all Labour groups in power-sharing agreements with the Green Party to review their arrangements in local government after the prime minister's words at PMQs yesterday.
Bridget Phillipson MP, Chair of the Labour Party, said:
“The Prime Minister has been completely clear: this policy is wrong and antisemitic, and has no place in British politics.
“Where local Labour Parties currently have an arrangement with the Greens in local government, we expect their Green counterparts to make clear that they reject this position and to call on their national leadership to reconsider the policy.
“We have asked local Green groups to respond as a matter of urgency. Where they are unable to provide that assurance, Labour will bring any such local arrangement to an end. This isn’t an issue of party politics; it’s about doing what is right and upholding the values anyone holding public office should share.
“The Labour Party fought hard to address antisemitism within our own party and ensure it had no place in our politics. We have a responsibility to uphold those same standards in our relationships with other parties.”
David Marsh retweeted
For the Prime Minister to lecture and 'Goysplain' Anti-Semitism to Zack Polanksi the only Jewish Leader of a UK political party is a disgrace......but this is what Labour do
David Marsh retweeted
You can buy books from Ian Brady, Charles Bronson, and the Kray twins in the UK, but you can't buy books from Sally Rooney because she opposes Israel's genocide.
She should've done something respectable like serial killing and her books would be fine.
David Marsh retweeted
Zionists claim that criticizing Israel or opposing Zionism is antisemitic.
Meanwhile, tens of thousands of Orthodox Jews gather in New York to declare that Zionism violates the Jewish faith and does not represent Judaism.
David Marsh retweeted
ITV undercover caught Reform
councillors saying:
• “If she was my daughter it would still be bath night on a Thursday… I’ll wash you properly this time”
• “If she’d given me a hug I’d have fucking fingered her”
• “Cut the cunt’s head off” ( Referring to King Charles while calling him a Muslim)
• “Drag them out of their homes, stick them on planes and fuck them off to Pakistan”
• “No more than 1% of the British population can be non-white”
• Black kids = “fucking animals”
• Used the slur “Paki” throughout
• “I’ll take them out… you’ve got to kill or you’re going to be killed… these fuckers have come to rape and pillage and fucking kill us”
• Train young men in “insurgency tactics” to go street-by-street, house-by-house
• “I didn’t realise curry was an exchange that you could then rape all our kids”
• Suggested burying pork chops to stop a mosque
• “They should all be shot against the wall”
Alan Feeney, Chris Whelan, Dean Miller, Raymond Dunning and Jamie Campbell should never get to work in the political field again.
David Marsh retweeted
Antisemitism is serious.
That’s precisely why it should never be weaponised as a political football. Labour doing so should disgust people across every community.
And all this while they continue to arm a genocide and lock up pensioners.
Antisemitism is a cancer in our politics.
We fought hard to root it out of our party.
We will not stand by and watch it infect public life again.
theguardian.com/politics/202…
David Marsh retweeted
Martin Abram's speech to full council last night about his experiences as a Jewish man facing antisemitism, the dangers of turning antisemitism into a political football, and our drive to make Lambeth a borough of sanctuary and solidarity for all – no hatred used to divide us!
David Marsh retweeted
An incredible speech.
The Jewish leader of Lambeth council denounces Labour’s weaponisation of antisemitism.
Conflating the evil of antisemitism with opposing Israel’s crimes has to stop
David Marsh retweeted
🚨 POLL ꟾ Brits say Israel is committing genocide.
🔵 It is genocide – 50%
🟡 It is NOT genocide – 17%
(Source: @YouGov, 2-3 July 2026)
David Marsh retweeted
Apparently Sally Rooney is Antisemitic because she opposes genocide.
People in Ireland are Antisemitic because they oppose genocide.
This is why Andy Burnhams comments yesterday were so deeply irresponsible - blurring all the lines between being Jewish & criticising Israel.
