From each according to their ability, to each according to their needs. Socialist. Parent. Cyclist. Dog lover,Liverpool & Blades fan.
Sheffield
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Brian Tweedale retweeted
I really don’t understand if capitalism is so great then why do big corporations need tax breaks, subsidies, grants, bailouts and extra legal protections to survive and when ordinary people like you and me ask for help then it suddenly becomes socialism. Why so much hypocrisy?
Brian Tweedale retweeted
The claim in Sir David Bell's report that 3 in 5 Jewish students have experienced antisemitism was based on just 29 people - and was untrue.
My latest for Double Down Newswatch.
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Brian Tweedale retweeted
You're silent because it's not your son, are you?
You're silent because your house wasn't destroyed!
But a person doesn't stay silent!
They react!
Brian Tweedale retweeted
More than any other account, Israel hates THIS account. They hate it.
Hey @grok, concise no spin.
What nationality would Jesus be if he was born today in 2026?
Nationality only.
Brian Tweedale retweeted
Incredible
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…
Brian Tweedale retweeted
The Labour Party has fundamentally miscalculated. In Sheffield and other cities it is now faced with the prospect of collapsing local government because the Greens have criticised Israel.
This is now no longer about the Zionism is racism motion. It's about whether the political/media class has the right to dictate to us what we are allowed to believe.
Brian Tweedale retweeted
Severe settler + soldier attack on olive harvesters in Abu Falah. American WaPo journalist Heidi Levine badly wounded. Machine gunfire—at least one Palestinian shot. Tear gas. Soldiers assaulting journalists.
Brian Tweedale retweeted
Labour admitted ethnic cleansing is taking place in the West Bank, yet it is unwilling and unable to examine and admit the ideology that enables and justifies this crime. Ethnic cleansing does not happen in an ideological vacuum. Where a nationalist project privileges one people's claim to land over another's rights to remain on it, that ideology deserves scrutiny, and condemnation. If the forced removal of Palestinians is wrong because it denies them equal rights and self-determination, why is it unreasonable to describe as racist the ideology that legitimises their dispossession? Condemning the consequences while refusing to name the ideology that produces them is downright dishonesty.
Is ethnic cleansing and genocide wrong, or is the Labour Party going back on its words, like it's doing with almost everything else?
Brian Tweedale retweeted
- @SteveReedMP's interview at the Jewish Labour Movement conference is extraordinary.
He recounts the story of two Jewish constituents coming to him because a local school had handed out biscuits with icing depicting the Palestinian flag on a "cultural day."
“The police didn’t even come when we called the police. I had my neighbours out there shouting at them because they were scaring their children. I had a member of my family vomiting down the toilet in fear. Even though I was able to give the names of two of those individuals to the police, nobody was ever prosecuted for it."
Reed is my local MP. The story at least shows Lambeth police aren't quite as deranged as him.
"I am a Zionist" - he proudly declares, which at least has the virtue of honesty. A strong Green or independent candidate and he'll be gone at the next election.
Would love to hear the full story of the "antisemitic" biscuits from anyone who was on the receiving end of Reed's insanity. My DM's are open.
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Brian Tweedale retweeted
@TheRealJamieKay, someone posted this on Facebook. I couldn't find the original to retweet, so I shared it.... Excellent question for @SuellaBraverman
Brian Tweedale retweeted
I think Caroline Lucas liked being the one and only Green Party MP too much.
Brian Tweedale retweeted
It's not a difficult question to answer @bbcnickrobinson so let's look at what you are asking:
First, you need to understand that the question of whether Israel has a right to exist is already answered in international law: No, Israel does not have such a right and no right is codified anywhere in international law for any state, country or political entity.
Second, the demand for Palestinians to recognise Israel's 'right to exist' is a political mechanism meant to force Palestinians to retrospectively legitimise the Zionist movement, the displacement and ethnic cleansing of the 1948 Arab majority in the Nakba, and the termination of the Palestinian right of return.
Third, it is also a question meant to formally recognise Israel as an exclusively Jewish state which codifies unequal status for non-Jewish citizens—such as Palestinian citizens of Israel—by framing the country around a singular ethnic-religious identity rather than a state of all its citizens.
Fourth, this rhetorical focus on Israel's "right to exist" has historically been used to deflect international attention from ongoing territorial expansion, settlements, violence and murder of Palestinians, and the lack of an independent Palestinian state.
Lastly, by asking politicians this question you are engaging in pro-Israel advocacy - either knowingly or unknowingly - and as such you should take a moment to reflect.
I am glad @ZackPolanski didn't answer you but for sure he should have responded emphatically with a 'No, Israel does not have a right to exist.'
Also I am disgusted at your instrumentalisation of the Holocaust, the pogroms, and antisemitism in order to attempt to justify Israel's existence at the expense of the Palestinians.
Brian Tweedale retweeted
There needs to be a serious conversation about what these Jews are taught in Synagogues and prayer groups which has led to such a rise of mental illness in their community
Brian Tweedale retweeted
Israel murdered many of its own citizens on October 7th. . They blamed Hamas to justify the genocide in Gaza.
Hannibal Directive
Brian Tweedale retweeted
But it wasn’t a ‘terror plot’ was it, it was a diesel stealing plot, and Iran had nothing to do with it.
