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500 days. These are the names and faces of 73 hostages stolen from their lives, still held in Gaza:
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Red Cross: Humanitarian bystander of the year
ft. @ShutupLyle
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“More people were arrested in Britain for what they said online in 2015-16 than were arrested in the US during the entire First Red Scare… Brits have no idea how bad they have it.”
Greg Lukianoff on the UK’s free-speech crisis.
Watch below and tell us what you think below👇
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This is Emily Damari, a British hostage held by Hamas in Gaza. There's not one mention of her on either the @10DowningStreet or @Keir_Starmer timelines.
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That thing that never happens has happened again. nypost.com/2024/12/29/us-new…
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Written 8 years ago but more relevant than ever.
Despite the failure of the left's universalist project, it continues to use it as cover for anti-Semitism.
Alan realised this earlier than most, and concluded that we must all be Zionists.
If you are still unsure, please read.
🧵Five reasons I am a non-Israeli, non-Jewish, two-state Zionist (a thread)
1/ First, Sean Matgamna
It was Sean Matgamna – or ‘Rebbe Matgamna’ as some in the Union of Jewish Students affectionately called this brilliant Irish intellectual and former Docker at the time – who woke me from my dogmatic One-State slumber in the mid-1980s. Sean was the leading theoretician of Socialist Organiser, the far-left group I had been a member of since 1980. Out of a clear blue sky he walked in one day with a paper arguing that we should drop the demand for a ‘democratic secular state’ and embrace ‘two states for two peoples.’ After a long internal debate – the sophistication and seriousness of which I was never to find in academia – his arguments prevailed.
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This is thoughtful but read it to the end for the fifth and final insight which is when you see how deeply Alan gets it. It’s beautiful.
🧵Five reasons I am a non-Israeli, non-Jewish, two-state Zionist (a thread)
1/ First, Sean Matgamna
It was Sean Matgamna – or ‘Rebbe Matgamna’ as some in the Union of Jewish Students affectionately called this brilliant Irish intellectual and former Docker at the time – who woke me from my dogmatic One-State slumber in the mid-1980s. Sean was the leading theoretician of Socialist Organiser, the far-left group I had been a member of since 1980. Out of a clear blue sky he walked in one day with a paper arguing that we should drop the demand for a ‘democratic secular state’ and embrace ‘two states for two peoples.’ After a long internal debate – the sophistication and seriousness of which I was never to find in academia – his arguments prevailed.
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Terrific mini essay by Alan here. And yes, Sean Matgamna, David Hirsh, etc.
🧵Five reasons I am a non-Israeli, non-Jewish, two-state Zionist (a thread)
1/ First, Sean Matgamna
It was Sean Matgamna – or ‘Rebbe Matgamna’ as some in the Union of Jewish Students affectionately called this brilliant Irish intellectual and former Docker at the time – who woke me from my dogmatic One-State slumber in the mid-1980s. Sean was the leading theoretician of Socialist Organiser, the far-left group I had been a member of since 1980. Out of a clear blue sky he walked in one day with a paper arguing that we should drop the demand for a ‘democratic secular state’ and embrace ‘two states for two peoples.’ After a long internal debate – the sophistication and seriousness of which I was never to find in academia – his arguments prevailed.
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A left winger’s argument for Zionism
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🧵Five reasons I am a non-Israeli, non-Jewish, two-state Zionist (a thread)
1/ First, Sean Matgamna
It was Sean Matgamna – or ‘Rebbe Matgamna’ as some in the Union of Jewish Students affectionately called this brilliant Irish intellectual and former Docker at the time – who woke me from my dogmatic One-State slumber in the mid-1980s. Sean was the leading theoretician of Socialist Organiser, the far-left group I had been a member of since 1980. Out of a clear blue sky he walked in one day with a paper arguing that we should drop the demand for a ‘democratic secular state’ and embrace ‘two states for two peoples.’ After a long internal debate – the sophistication and seriousness of which I was never to find in academia – his arguments prevailed.
RT @HenMazzig: Not that it matters to the BBC, but the five men mentioned below were part of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad, a UK proscribed…
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'The Oxen' by Thomas Hardy is about a West Country legend that on the anniversary of Christ's Nativity, each Christmas Day, farm animals kneel in their stalls in homage. First pub. in @thetimes in December 1915.
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At the very least, please send a sceptical female journalist to interview Syria’s new leader inews.co.uk/opinion/very-lea…
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I read these sections of the judgment open-mouthed. A high court judge implying family court judges have the same level of agency as a lookout on the Titanic or a foot solider on the Somme. And revealing a lack of understanding of domestic/child abuse and its risks for children.
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.@SpursOfficial fans release hundreds of yellow balloons in tribute to Emily Damari, who has been held hostage in Gaza for over 440 days.
She’s one of our own, bring her home 🎗️💔