James Wilson Undy @UndyWilson

My speech at a @LabWomenDec event, on why the draft conversion practices bill is so troubling. Not an exaggeration to say this bill represents one of the most dramatic, disproportionate and illiberal incursions into our fundamental democratic rights 👇 youtu.be/yYwVKRGyAYU?si…

A classic example of how playing the ‘both sides’ card is a means of avoiding, or even denying, obvious truths. “We can never allow conflict overseas to divide us at home”, Khan says. But only one side imports the conflict here. Only one side targets the other on British streets every week. The two sides are not, in fact, the same.

Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan @MayorofLondon

2 weeks ago

My statement on the third anniversary of the October 7 attacks.

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God forbid Jews have even *one day* to mourn their people. Holocaust Day now means *all* Holocausts, October 7 is now about Israelis *and* Palestinians. And every other day of the year is only devoted to the Palestinians, not the 1200 Israelis that Hamas raped and murdered

Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan @MayorofLondon

2 weeks ago

My statement on the third anniversary of the October 7 attacks.

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Today we remember the victims of the October 7 massacre – the killing of innocent Israeli people, the torture, mutilation, rape and kidnapping, parading of the dead, the wanton cruelty and the depraved celebrations of murder, the gleeful delight in brutality, the degeneracy of its perpetrators and supporters. It is a day that stands out for its unparalleled sadism and nihilism. The scale of the killing of people of all sorts, all races, Jewish and Arab and others, is unequalled in a single day in modern times. It was the greatest murder of Jewish people since the Holocaust. Its cruelty and barbarism seem to belong to cruel times long ago – this was a lurch back to the raids and slaughters of the Mongols or the Huns - but it is unique too in its 21stcentury hi-tech modernity: it was filmed live by its perpetrators and other cameras and so unlike any other atrocity in all of human history, its details are beyond question. It is the most documented butchery and sadism ever perpetrated – and therefore the reactions to it are simply the clearest and most unequalled test of humanity available to us, reactions that will be remembered in the future. It was also a crime against peace: its effects were utterly destructive for Israelis but also for Palestinians and the innocent people across the whole region who perished in the wars it unleashed. More than that, it was an atrocity against humanity itself - and the humanist values that mark all decent people, the values of liberal, free, kind societies and communities everywhere. Its effects were utterly destructive for Israelis but also for the Palestinians and the rest of the region. Today we remember those who died, those who were wounded, those who were kidnapped, tortured, raped and killed in the tunnels of Gaza, those who lost friends and compatriots. It was a crime of annihilation to launch the liquidation of an entire people and nation, to kill and torture Israelis and Jews. Am Yisrael Chai.

Three years since October 7, 2023. We remember the lives stolen by Palestinian Hamas. We honor the heroes. We carry the scars. And still, we stand. We rebuild. We live. We choose hope. Am Yisrael Chai. 🇮🇱 #UNFORGO7TEN

Labour's conversion practices bill is one of the most dramatic, disproportionate and illiberal incursions into our fundamental democratic rights that will create an almighty legal mess. Whether Andy Burnham is smart enough to junk will be a major test of his premiership. 🧵

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What I would like to see, in the wake of today, is a clear commitment from both Labour & the Liberal Democrats that in the event of a hung Parliament, they will not form a coalition with the Greens. British Jews - and everyone else, tbh - should know what they’re voting for.

I’ve written about the grim trend of people asking @JewishNewsUK to remove their names from old articles because they no longer want to be publicly identifiable as Jewish. This morning was the saddest yet. The children of a remarkable man, honoured by the late Queen, asked us to remove his obituary because it mentions them. Britain has been enriched for generations by stalwarts of our community who were proud to put their names to what they built, created and contributed. Now their children are asking for those names to disappear. The question is no longer whether British Jewish life is in retreat. It is how much of it will soon be left. This is not a country where my children can build their lives.

BBC contributing to the myth Israel has targeted press in Gaza rather than reporting on how Hamas & their terrorist allies have deliberately posed as press to ensure they achieved international martyr status if killed in combat has played no small part in distorting the conflict.

S Sebag Montefiore @simonmontefiore

4 weeks ago

BBC still lists dead terrorists as ‘journalists who died for truth’ - then Hamas & Pal Islamic Jihad themselves have now claimed 50+ of them as its own fighters in official martyr notices. A correction is overdue - when Hamas’s fact checking is ahead of the BBC & i wonder if &

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Meaningless sloganeering that fails to grapple with the fact that male demands for access to female-only services and changing facilities on the basis of self-ID undermine women’s hard-won rights, and illustrates the misogyny of the trade union movement in four short paragraphs.

Labour🌹Unions @labourunionsuk

4 weeks ago

Joint Statement from National TULO - Labour's 11 affiliated unions. Solidarity with the trans and non-binary community.

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Observing the Equality Act is "kowtowing" and unions can make up other versions of the law they like better. Who knew? I guess employers can, too, then? What on earth has gone wrong with people? It's like waking up in the Night of The Living Dead.

Lisa Mackenzie @lnmackenzie1

4 weeks ago

“The union is not obliged to kowtow to the established limits of protected characteristics.” - counsel for Community Union in court today.

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I’m struggling with the concept of someone who goes big on the moral importance of recognising the death & devastation in Gaza, & then 2 weeks later sits down with the Foreign Minister of a regime which this year murdered tens of thousands of people over the course of 72 hours.

Open Source Intel @Osint613

4 weeks ago

Meeting and discussion between Seyed Abbas Araghchi, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Islamic Republic of Iran, and David Milliband, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the United Kingdom, on the sidelines of the 81st session of the United Nations General Assembly.

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Wait, so our oh-so-ethical Foreign Secretary won’t talk to Israel but has a friendly sit down with the representative from the Islamic Republic of Iran which killed 40,000 protesters in January and is still killing protesters? The world grows ever more upside down.

Clash Report @clashreport

4 weeks ago

Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi met with the UK's Ed Miliband on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly.

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As with so much in our now-polarised politics, opposition to the deal coming mostly from the right (who happen to be out of power) - and the corresponding presumption that support is the correct position on the left (who happen to be in power) - obscures the real substance.

David Blagden @blagden_david

2 years ago

Another flurry of Chagos incredulity on here, yet with some from the left asking ‘does anyone really care?’ or ‘will it actually cut through outside Twitter?’ Well - irrespective of whether it cuts through off Twitter - here are a few left-leaning problems with the deal. 🧵

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Exc: Labour MP Dan Carden has called on Andy Burnham to kill off the Chagos Islands deal Carden links the govt stance on the islands to Argentine president Javier Milei’s recent sabre-rattling over the Falklands “I’m still amazed that so few Labour MPs have had anything to say about it. I just say to any of them, go meet one of your constituents, try and explain the Chagos deal to them, and see how it goes down... “I have been saying, it might be an idea to drop this terrible policy because you’re going to get beaten around with it, and then you get the Falklands [controversy]. “It will be a domino effect, and we don’t take overseas territories seriously. “We need to look at how we actually give the territories a stake in parliament and a stake in government. So I hope Andy is capable of doing that, and I have some hope that he will look at the disastrous Chagos deal and drop it, and look to do something different – because he’s got the ability and the capacity to do that.”

@jfdta @roseveniceallan I will spend the rest of my life baffled by privileged and protected so called 'progressive' women MPs, who stand by and cheer as working women have to endure the indignity of enforced mixed sex changing areas because a straight man is wearing a new long wig and lipstick to work.

The Lib Dems here say they want to 'refresh' the law to undermine women's rights to single-sex facilities & services. Sarah Olney also completely wrong that the Supreme Court has created a 'conflict' in our law. Hopeless stuff. The Lib Dems cannot be trusted on women's rights.

GB News @GBNEWS

a month ago

'There are important areas where trans people's rights are not protected.' Sarah Olney defends the Liberal Democrats' stance on single-sex spaces ahead of their vote. 📺 Freeview 236, Sky 512, Virgin 604 🇬🇧 Become a Friend of GB News: gbnews.com/support

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Being able to not have an opinion on any single given issue in the world is absolutely one of the most important freedoms you have and anyone saying that you must not have said freedom is completely and utterly your enemy

A few key revelations related to Gaza coverage in last few days: - Almost all of the media in Gaza were in a Hamas-run WhatsApp group that dictated and coordinated coverage. Including contributors to major western news organizations. - Al Jazeera fired 24 of their media members from Gaza for direct ties to terror groups - Admission that anyone in Gaza who reported anything contrary to Hamas claims was likely to be killed by Hamas. Almost all of the information that came out of Gaza was part of a coordinated disinformation campaign by the very people who started the war.

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