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Barry#exlaboursocialist💪 retweeted
Your party is the Genocide Party.
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.
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Barry#exlaboursocialist💪 retweeted
.@ZackPolanski: "Andy Burnham.. needs to explain to communities their bins won't be collected, social services will collapse, libraries will be closed, because he's more worried about defending the genocide he's arming than working with Green councillors"
Well said Zack.
Barry#exlaboursocialist💪 retweeted
You can be as insulting (and tacky in your search for clicksn and engagement) as you want, but under Polanski the Greens won 587 local council seats five months ago, took over long-time Labour-dominated Councils, and helped catalyse Starmer's resignation two years after he won a landslide election.
That has forced the whole Burnham operation rhetorically left and pushed the government to take (still plainly insufficient) steps to bring in sanctions on Israeli settlements.
Now Burnham is trying to collapse local governments in response to a Green Party motion, which undermines his own rhetoric on devolution and undercuts his commitment to electoral reform and cooperative government.
Burnham is taking the risk of causing serious upheaval, backlash and turmoil in response to a Green Party MOTION. A motion! That's genuinely insane - and illustration of the Green's power and influence, not the obverse.
Seems pretty serious to me.
Barry#exlaboursocialist💪 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.
Barry#exlaboursocialist💪 retweeted
Superb letter by Green councillor Charli Anne Thompson. The excellent letters from numerous Greens illustrate that when a position is held with commitment & intellectual rigour it is very easy to argue for it. Unlike the pathetic offerings from Labour of antiZionism=antisemitism, a view that is intellectually disingenuous & in itself racist, as it ascribes an ideology, Zionism, to all Jews.
Barry#exlaboursocialist💪 retweeted
As a British Jew I am very pleased that @ZackPolanski has the courage to speak up on these issues while so many stay SILENT
Barry#exlaboursocialist💪 retweeted
🔴WHERE IS YOUR HUMANITY, CAROLINE LUCAS❓
@CarolineLucas has called for @TheGreenParty member Lubna Speitan—who has had 56 relatives killed in Gaza genocide—to be SUSPENDED.
Speitan’s crime?
Naming the ideology which killed her family Lucas is getting loads of airtime because she is doing the establishment’s work for them.
Extremely ugly spectacle.
- @kennardmatt
@ZackPolanski @MothinAli @GreenJennyJones @natalieben @Greens4P
#LubnaSpeitan
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"I think let's just see what happens in the coming days and weeks"
Former Green Party leader Caroline Lucas on whether Zack Polanski should stand down as leader of the party in England and Wales.
#Newsnight
Barry#exlaboursocialist💪 retweeted
Many journalists know that a terrible evil is being committed by Israel.
But they choose to stay silent - because they're scared of speaking out.
It is unforgivable.
Barry#exlaboursocialist💪 retweeted
A Palestinian violently expelled from their home during the Nakba cannot return. But as a British Jew, I can move to Israel and become a citizen.
That is racism.
Barry#exlaboursocialist💪 retweeted
As a British Jew, I'm deeply concerned about the cynical blurring of Zionism & Judaism.
Whatever our political differences, Jewish people must never face prejudice or discrimination.
So after the Labour Government apologised over Gaza: why are they still arming Israel?
As a British Jew, I am deeply concerned by the Green Party's vote to declare Zionism racism.
Whatever our political differences, Jewish people must never face prejudice or discrimination.
Yesterday, I raised these concerns in Parliament and asked how Jewish communities can be reassured.
I welcome the Home Secretary's clear response: every council, regardless of political control, must uphold equality law and protect its residents from discrimination.
Barry#exlaboursocialist💪 retweeted
No, ALL the establishment parties, including Reform, are obsessed with supporting Israel.
@TheGreenParty debated 140 motions last weekend. But the bought and bullied political and media class united in a hysterical response over one motion. Who’s obsessed?
“You are obsessed with Gaza, you are obsessed with everyone else but the British people.”
Reform UK councillor Jaymey McIvor tells Green Party deputy leader Rachel Millward why he believes the party’s brand has been “very damaged.”
#Newsnight
Barry#exlaboursocialist💪 retweeted
You’ve not mentioned her work on Israel’s genocide in Gaza. Is that because you’re complicit, Ursula?
Congratulations to lawyer and human rights activist Navanethem “Navi” Pillay on her Nobel Peace Prize.
Few have devoted their lives to justice, peace and human dignity like she did.
From the violence of apartheid in South Africa to the horrors of the Rwandan genocide, she has confronted some of humanity’s darkest chapters.
She has looked the brutality of injustice in the eye and never looked away.
She is the defender of the persecuted, the vulnerable, the voiceless and the excluded.
Of the rule of law over the right of might.
In a world that needs justice more than ever, her courage and moral clarity are a precious compass.
Barry#exlaboursocialist💪 retweeted
My words at the @PSCupdates protest on three years of genocide, the journey ahead, and the @TheGreenParty motion.
Barry#exlaboursocialist💪 retweeted
The line that Tony Blair crossed was to profit personally from wars & arms companies, while
millions died. He’s a repulsive war profiteer who has no moral standing to comment on anything
Barry#exlaboursocialist💪 retweeted
What on earth do the police think they are doing here? Blatant aggression against Palestine protestors today.
Barry#exlaboursocialist💪 retweeted
In an excited column on the "Burnham bounce", Jonathan Freedland, the notorious anti-Palestinian racist and genocide apologist, calls Zack Polanski a "charlatan and a coward".
Another timely reminder that the Guardian's main role is to keep the left tethered to neoliberalism.