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Watch this.
Lubna Speitan, author of the Greens4Palestine motion “Zionism is racism”, spells out the central obscenity of our age – the grotesque inversion whereby the victims of ethnic cleansing, Apartheid and genocide must constantly fend off accusations from their tormentors that it is they who are the racists.
“We as Palestinians are being silenced and gaslit and vilified [as we] witness the annihilation, the cold-blooded murder of our families, of our people… our children burnt with phosphorus, having to endure amputations with no anaesthetic, having their limbs torn and shredded, their bodies burnt by phosphorus, being starved to death … And to have to sit here … and try to bury my feelings so I can eloquently and diplomatically shield my anger, my rage, my anguish that every Palestinian is feeling, is an insult.” /1
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Un nettoyage ethnique est en cours en Cisjordanie occupée.
Les responsables politiques qui se limitent condamner le « problème des colons violents » contribuent à dédouaner Israël et son armée dans la poursuite d’une politique de colonisation de peuplement.
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🚨 NEW: Andy Burnham and John Healey are set to force the approval of Rosebank despite the Energy Secretary's reluctance
Minister: "Both Andy and John have decided Rosebank needs to go ahead. The economic and energy security case is so strong"
[@DPJHodges]
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I guess it wasnt about Hamas or the hostages after all, but always about ethnic cleansing. Who’d have known!!
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Three years ago today Israel killed my family.
I shall not forgive or forget.
I will keep their memory alive.
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This guy gets it. I know he must be tired. But we need him everywhere
🎥 “We want to go the Farage route, not the Lib Dem route.”
Ashok Kumar of Greens for Palestine spoke to Novara Media about strategy behind the Green Party’s “Zionism is racism” motion, which took a year to organize and was designed to expose Labour’s politics. He said PM Andy Burnham’s response revealed him as little different from Keir Starmer.
Inspired by Jean-Luc Mélenchon’s France Unbowed and its “strategy of conflict,” the idea is to set the terms of debate, provoke a backlash, and heighten contradictions to force opponents to reveal positions.
Rather than chase more MPs by moderating its politics, Kumar says the Greens should use confrontation to shift the debate leftward and become an anti-establishment force.
“We want to drag [the paradigm] to the left kicking and screaming.”
@comrade_kumar_ | @novaramedia
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People who attack Palestinians for choosing the poppy as a symbol should see the blooms on the remains of Burayr, a Gaza district village erased by Haganah units in 1948 its inhabitants murdered in their homes or as they fled in terror to what is now the Gaza Strip.
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No further action to be taken against the wife of the Prime Minister’s national security adviser for support of Palestine Action
3,800+ arrests of people peacefully holding signs, and 36 counter-terror home raids for social media posts have taken place.
thenational.scot/news/266465…
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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.
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Remember: if Sally Rooney had said that she supports Israel's war crimes, apartheid, occupation and genocide in Gaza, her books could still be sold in Britain.
Bestselling Irish author Sally Rooney has announced that her books can no longer be sold in the UK due to the British government’s ban on Palestine Action.
In a statement on Wednesday, the award-winning Normal People author said that due to her publicly-stated intention to go on supporting Palestine Action, including with royalties from her work, “the fulfilment of contracts to publish my work in the UK could now constitute a serious criminal offence”.
Rooney added: “After a process of consultation and deliberation, and with my full agreement, my publisher Faber has therefore determined that it can no longer supply my work within the UK. I have made every effort to be honest with the public about my beliefs and intentions, and I am wholly prepared to accept the consequences.”
Palestine Action became the first direct action group in British history to be proscribed as a terror organisation under Keir Starmer’s Labour government last summer.
Palestine Action is not proscribed or otherwise banned in the Republic of Ireland, where Rooney lives.
Rooney’s outspoken support for Palestine Action has previously disrupted her work in Britain. In September 2025, she was forced to cancel a trip to the UK to receive the Sky Arts award for her latest novel, 2024’s Intermezzo, due to the risk she would be arrested under the Terrorism Act.
She also submitted a statement to the High Court in support of the legal challenge to Palestine Action’s proscription in November 2025, arguing that the ban impeded free expression, including cultural and artistic expression, and warning that her works could disappear from UK booksellers altogether.
Faber, Rooney's UK and Ireland publisher, said: “Current legislation in the UK has led to circumstances where Faber cannot pass on UK earnings to Sally Rooney for her work. To sell a writer’s work and not be able to pass on earnings is an unconscionable situation for a publisher.
“As such, and in full agreement with Sally, we have taken the decision that we can no longer supply her works in the UK in any format. We remain the proud publisher of her remarkable body of work, which we will continue to sell in other territories.”
Since the ban on Palestine Action came into force, more than 3,700 people have been arrested for opposing the proscription, the vast majority for holding paper signs that read: “I oppose genocide. I support Palestine Action.”
According to the Home Office’s own data, terror-related arrests have risen by 1,553% in the last year, with 94% of them linked to support for Palestine Action.
Palestine Action co-founder Huda Ammori is challenging the proscription in the Supreme Court, beginning on 4 November.
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Sally Rooney's books can no longer be sold in Britain due to her support for Palestine Action.
She refused to withdraw her support for the direct action group which targeted the Israeli arms industry, costing her the royalties from all of her UK sales.
theguardian.com/uk-news/2026…
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David, are u encouraging folks to read more? Fantastic, bc John Reynolds & I wrote a book coming out on Nov 10 w @haymarketbooks to help you clear up any confusion that Zionism is, at essence, a racist & colonial ideology preceding Israel’s establishment
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I have to say that the history of the establishment of the state of Israel as related on here by some leading supporters of the 'Zionism is racism' motion, is just a caricature. As is the version peddled by the Israeli government. I know people don't like being told that something is complicated, but this one really is very complicated.
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Honestly, the erasure of Palestinian voices by the British media in the last 24 hours is something else.
It is - obviously! - racism.
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“As a Palestinian, I am the direct subject of Zionism. I’m an expert on it, in fact, because it is practised on my body”
Mohammed El-Kurd defines Zionism in under 5 minutes. He says everything that needs to be said👇
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531 Palestinian villages and neighbourhoods were depopulated or razed to the ground between November 1947 and early 1949, amply documented.
Around 750,000 Palestinians were displaced, around 12-15,000 murdered.
Ben-Gurion’s own diaries show that rape by Zionist militias was widespread.
I read Schama’s ‘Citizens’ as a teen and rather enjoyed it. But he is now sadly no better than a crude historical revisionist and genocide denier. Shame.
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Ahem, bad but enduring because it's the grammar of class war.
“The credit card is maxed out… my fear come 28 October is that they look to the endless piggy bank of business.”
Lord Walker, executive chairman of Iceland, looks ahead to the Autumn Budget.
#Newsnight
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We knew this day would come. We knew we’d get to a point where they’d try to backpedal, where they’d try to explain, where they’d say that they were with the Palestinian people all along. They’re shameless and we should never let them off the hook.
"I don't quite know where I got it wrong."
At Labour party conference, Novara Media's @MichaeljsWalker asked Emily Thornberry whether she regretted her comments that Israel had an "absolute right to defend itself" when asked if cutting off food, water and electricity to Gaza was within international law.
The comments were made to BBC Newsnight in 2023 when she was shadow Attorney General.
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The decision to ban Palestine Action was a political one. This isn't a matter to pass along and leave to the courts.
Labour can lift the ban immediately and drop the prosecutions.
'We don't supply bombs and bullets to Israel that contribute to the occupation.'
Foreign Secretary @Ed_Miliband opposes 'grannies and vicars' from Palestine Action being labelled as 'terrorists'.
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BREAKING: THE POLICE GAVE UP
At 5am this morning, after over 150 arrests on terrorism charges and a stand off that lasted over 16 hours, @MerseyPolice left a group of people outside the Labour Party Conference still displaying their “terrorist” signs.
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