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Timeline of my tweets and interviews on Israel-Palestine between 7th & 15th October

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Sun, 15/10/2023 - 21:36

Ever since Hamas attacked Israel, my tweets and interviews have caused much controversy. In the interests of both those who agree with me and those who disagree with me, I list below every one of those interventions. An honest debate founded on what each one of us has said (as opposed to what various trolls […]

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Why I refuse to condemn Hamas or the Israeli settlers but insist that we, Europeans & Americans, are the culprits for the atrocities in Israel-Palestine

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Sun, 15/10/2023 - 22:59

When Hamas launched its offensive into Israel, appalled by the butchery and the human toll it would bring on, I tried to pierce through the fog of war, through all the fear and all the loathing, and to focus instead on what could end the endless cycle of inhumanity. What was its root cause? Hamas? […]

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104 Israeli and international groups call on UN to reject IHRA ‘definition’ of antisemitism

https://skwawkbox.org/2023/04/24/104-israeli-and-international-groups-call-on-u…
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Tue, 25/04/2023 - 08:42
Media tune starts to change on the supposed ‘international’ definition as coalition civic organisations tell UN that it will put its own staff at risk if they approve right-wingers’ favourite tool to suppress pro-Palestinian speech A coalition of 104 civic society groups from an array of nations – including Israel – have written publicly to […]

Labour suspends first Black woman MP Abbott for highlighting party’s hierarchy of racism

https://skwawkbox.org/2023/04/23/labour-suspends-first-black-woman-mp-abbott-fo…
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Sun, 23/04/2023 - 23:09
Letter in Guardian – apparently an incomplete draft sent in error for which Abbott has apologised – was clumsily worded but the reaction to it is yet another demonstration of how other forms of racism don’t count in Labour Keir Starmer’s Labour has suspended left-winger Diane Abbott – the first Black woman MP in UK […]

Jewish Voice for Labour: the reaction to Abbott’s comment and her suspension were wrong

https://skwawkbox.org/2023/04/23/jewish-voice-for-labour-the-reaction-to-abbott…
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Mon, 24/04/2023 - 07:45
Jewish group targeted by Starmer and co speaks out for Britain’s first Black woman MP after Labour’s hierarchy of racism strikes again Left-wing Jewish group Jewish Voice for Labour knows what it is like to be targeted by the Labour right. Its leadership is hundreds of times more likely to be targeted by the party […]

Evans to tour Wirral doorsteps as Labour targets Jewish councillor yet again

https://skwawkbox.org/2023/04/14/evans-to-tour-wirral-doorsteps-as-labour-targe…
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Fri, 14/04/2023 - 09:59
Imagine the joy as householders answer door to that Keir Starmer’s sidekick, dreary general secretary David Evans, is going to Wirral later today to canvass for Labour votes, according to a note sent by the party pleading with what’s left of the Labour membership to come out and join him on the doorstep: Imagine the […]

Right-wing trolls and media target Rosen over Newbon death – here’s what they should be asking instead

https://skwawkbox.org/2023/04/10/right-wing-trolls-and-media-target-rosen-over-…
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Tue, 11/04/2023 - 01:52
Newbon inquest rules suicide – but the right are targeting the one man who wasn’t even mentioned Right-wingers, including the ‘Labour’ right, have again joined with the media in harassing renowned Jewish author Michael Rosen for daring to complain about the racist bastardisation of his work, after Dr Peter Newbon, who published a disgusting image […]
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