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I'm a double amputee.
I recieve 3,600 a year in PIP
@Helen_Whately receives *39,000* a year in housing.
If our Hels wants to cut down the welfare bill I've an idea where she should start...
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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…
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This is Jennifer Gerber. She was @AndyBurnham’s principal adviser during his 3 ministerial roles from 2007-10
After Labour lost the 2010 election, she became executive director of Israeli embassy front group "Labour Friends of Israel" (LFI). She would stay in the role for a decade, playing a leading role in the campaign to destroy pro-Palestinian Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn from 2015-19
Gerber is still listed as a director of LFI on Companies House
Andy Burnham was funded by LFI and Israeli Foreign Ministry in 2004 to go on a propaganda tour of Israel. The then chair of LFI was James Purnell. Burnham recently appointed Purnell as his chief of staff in No 10
At the LFI leadership hustings in 2015, Burnham said that Israel would be the first place he visited if he won the Labour leadership race. The year after, Burnham joined LFI
The lobby has the whole political class sewn up
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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…
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The dangerous & irresponsible blurring of challenging Israel & Antisemitism is deeply revealing.
A Labour Government who apologised over their actions over Gaza is demonstrating that it was all performative. Andy Burnham still stands with Israel whilst it kills innocent people.
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Long-standing Labour Friend of Israel refuses to work with anti-racist party led by Jewish man.
ALT A screenshot of a statement by Andy Burnham which begins "As a long-standing Labour Friend of Israel". Sourced from a tweet posted by North West Friends of Israel on April 05 2017: https://x.com/NorthWestFOI/status/849564734160596993
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A selection of articles published by The Spectator after Michael Gove took over as editor:
ALT https://spectator.com/article/the-hunting-of-andrew-mountbatten-windsor-has-gone-too-far/
ALT https://spectator.com/article/spare-us-an-enquiry-into-jeffrey-epstein/
ALT https://spectator.com/article/has-the-hounding-of-andrew-mountbatten-windsor-gone-too-far/
ALT https://spectator.com/article/what-would-an-epstein-inquiry-teach-us/
New: Michael Gove to replace Fraser Nelson as Spectator editor under new ownership pressgazette.co.uk/publisher…
eusker retweeted
The hypocrisy of the UK govt laid bare.
Defence minister @LukePollard (talking about the Houthis & Iran): "You are responsible if you fire a missile at a civilian target.. countries should not have their civilian infrastructure targeted by extremists or by another state"
eusker retweeted
Why has the level of outrage heard from Labour MPs yesterday not been heard when Palestinian children have been murdered by Israel on an industrial scale?
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It really is not much more complex than: America is 100% behind Israel destroying the Palestinians, and that means our leaders are also behind it, which means the entire press pack is behind it, and they pretend together that it’s insane to say anything about resisting it.
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Zionism is racism because Palestinian refugees are banned from returning to their homeland *because* they are Palestinian. It is not a matter of debate. It doesn’t mean multiple things. This is a factual description of a racist project.
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Just a reminder for anyone interested in Abu Dhabi in Manchester. We conducted a forensic investigation into the deal with a range of findings that seem more relevant than ever....land deals, tax payments, offshore companies + 'sweetheart deals'
sheffield.ac.uk/management/n…
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Yesterday, PM @AndyBurnham sent an A400M military plane from RAF Akrotiri on Cyprus to Nevatim Air Base in southern Israel
Nevatim is the central node through which the Gaza genocide was supplied and enacted
The A400M can carry a payload of 81,600 lbs and 116 troops
Israel’s PM Benjamin Netanyahu is indicted by the ICC—of which Britain is a member—for war crimes and crimes against humanity
You are paying for all this
eusker retweeted
The UK government now just lies about our involvement in wars, using this ridiculous new fig leaf of defensive measures. We are helping the U.S. bomb Iran and now helping Saudi Arabia bomb Yemen. With these bombings we are also bombing our standard of living and international law
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I am shocked, shocked to learn that anti-genocide sentiment has been officially banned from the taxpayer-funded stadiums controlled by Irving Azoff & his billionaire business partner who was famously photographed terrorizing the black kids sent to desegregate his school & the billionaire Epstein buddy arrested at that asian massage parlor & the other billionaire Epstein buddy who perp-walked a coach out of the building for wearing a tiny Lebanese flag on his sleeve & the cofounder of Apollo Global Management & the sister of Les Wexner's mobbed-up sex predator mall developer business partner & the hedge fund manager who made $3 billion buying the penny stocks of a bunch of banks that had just sold a trillion dollars in derivatives tied to the default probability of their 100 shittiest loans..
