Strongly recommend this extended discussion on Palestine Deep Dive in which 4 articulate Palestinian intellectuals discuss if Zionism is Racism (spoiler: they all think it is) podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/p...

The Zionism Conversation BBC Won't Have

Podcast Episode · Palestine Deep Dive · 8 October · 1hr 40min

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Another great 🧵 from Annie - we have talked about starting a radical Jewish history podcast together - hopefully we’ll get round to it one day!

Annie Gottfried Cohen@annsplaining.bsky.social · 2d ago

We could spend eternity debating whether it was the right move to make "zionism is racism" part of Green Party policy (and it seems like some people plan to do that). What if we actually talk about it 🧵

Really good piece

damniel spookradski@self.agency · 4d ago

What happens when you hold Jewish institutions' statements about Gaza to the same standard they developed for identifying Holocaust denial? My latest.

I’d say 33%, up 22% in a safe Labour seat, during the Burnham bounce is a good result for the Greens. I don’t think the motion made much difference. Zack is surely the most effective leader the party has had. He’s not going anywhere.

As others pointed out, Farage lost multiple times before having a single victory. And every loss was accompanied with a media discourse playing up his influence. They kept that up until he actually won.

Lee Hurley@hleehurley.com · 4d ago

Imagine if Reform had tripled their vote in this election and how the coverage would look...

Compulsory nationalisation of Taylor & Francis at zero cost

Listening to the News Agents say that nobody is calling for the dismantling of other settler colonies such as the USA and Australia. Many people are. Abolish all settler colonies and transform them into states of all their citizens which honour the cultures and history of the indegenous population

The JC gets the heir of Mosley and Enoch Powell to write about antisemitism. Do not take this fascist ghoul of a newspaper seriously any more.

I wrote this short piece 2 years ago, 7th October 2024, and I think it still stands up www.toratalbion.org.uk/zakhor/

Zakhor

Remembering All the Victims of the Last Year

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Every life stolen was an entire world. The point is not to pretend that all we need is shared mourning, or to equate the suffering on both sides. Reckoning and accountability are required.

Three Years Later, We Still Haven't Figured Out How to Mourn:

On October 7th, resisting the flattening of empathy.

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Great panel on legacies of Cable Street at @bisa-bkk.bsky.social last night - was wonderful to speak alongside @liamliburd.bsky.social and Nadia Valman. In one of my favourite ever slipups, I was talking about the groups Stop the Hate and Our Fight but actually said 'Stop the Fight' and 'Our Hate'.

Good 🧵

Annie Gottfried Cohen@annsplaining.bsky.social · 6d ago

Reading the news, it would be easy to believe that the Green Party has adopted a policy to expel its Jewish members, prevent them from attending synagogue or at the very least scrutinise their activities outside the party. *None of that has happened* 🧵

@annsplaining.bsky.social of Jewish Greens was great in this BBC Radio 5 discussion, starts at 1:05:45 www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

Naga Munchetty - 05/10/2026 - BBC Sounds

Naga Munchetty features news, experiences, and big name interviews from around the UK.

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The actual text of the Zionism is Racism motion, so people can see what is and isn’t in it greens4palestine.uk/assets/motio...

Do come to this - it's going to be great

BISA at Birkbeck@bisa-bkk.bsky.social · last wk.

We’re looking forward to ‘The Battle of Cable Street ninety years on: the struggle against fascism and antisemitism, then and now’ tomorrow with with Nadia Valman, Liam Liburd (@liamliburd.bsky.social) and Joseph Finlay (@josephfinlay.bsky.social). Book here to join us: bit.ly/4xoQuJC

The most problematic word in Zionism is Racism is the ‘is’. Most people can see that since 1948 Zionism has necessarily involved racism towards Palestinians and still does. But that isn’t the sum total of what Zionism has meant. For Jews it was a nationalist movement, especially pre-48.

There will be many wild statements calling the Green Party antisemitic; these are a predictable consequence of a motion that focused on language and ideology rather than the material practices of occupation and apartheid. A motion committing the Green Party to BDS would have been far better.

Again, I think the ZiR motion is pretty silly, doesn't help Palestinians, and won't amount to much. But this statement from the Movement for Progressive Judaism (I belong to a synagogue affiliated to it) is completely ridiculous progressivejudaism.org.uk/statement-co...

Statement condemning Green Party 'Zionism is Racism' motion - The Movement for Progressive Judaism

By Rabbi Charley Baginsky and Rabbi Josh Levy Co-Leads, The Movement for Progressive Judaism The Movement for Progressive Judaism condemns the Green Party’s adoption of the motion ‘Zionism is Racism’....

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Given that most of the Jews on the official Cable Street 90th anniversary march today were associated with the Jewish Bloc for Palestine and broadly support the ideas of the motion, whether or not they think it was smart politics / tactical, no it isn't actually

So it passed. As I said, not a disaster. It’s a piece of untactical performative politics but let’s not make it out to be the new Nuremberg laws. The proposers of the motion were very clear that it couldn’t lead to sanctions against members. No Zionists will be expelled from the party.

Joseph Finlay@josephfinlay.bsky.social · last wk.

It will not be a disaster if the Zionism is Racism motion passes or if it falls. It’s just a conference motion. Everyone needs to calm down. It was UNGA policy between 1975 and 1991 and didn’t lead to the liberation of Palestine or the sky falling in.

It will not be a disaster if the Zionism is Racism motion passes or if it falls. It’s just a conference motion. Everyone needs to calm down. It was UNGA policy between 1975 and 1991 and didn’t lead to the liberation of Palestine or the sky falling in.

Very good thread

Nathan Tankus@nathantankus.bsky.social · 2w ago

Antisemitism was very much a racial system of subordination and its most virulently ideological forms emerged out of that, or alongside it. To ignore this is to not really understand the past 150 years. The Jew is a person who must live in the Pale of Settlement.

Simon Schama has lost the right to lecture anyone on anything, or to be considered a good historian

Jewish News@jewishnews.bsky.social · 2w ago

Stinging attack on foreign secretary came during an address to an audience of 500 who he urged to remain in the UK to fight to maintain a vibrant Jewish life

In relation to the attempted plane hijacking half my timeline is salivating over Israeli heroism and the other half is calling it a false flag.

🟰On this day 16 years ago the Equality Act came into force in Britain. ⚖️ However part of this, the socio-economic duty, which would require public bodies to consider socio-economic inequality, was never brought into force. 1/5

Sanction all countries that practice capital punishment, including the US.

It’s fine to try to get people to join the party to suppprt a particular policy. It’s not fine to work with the AZM, which is closely tied to David Miller and Rahmeh Aladwan, both of whom are racist. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Now people are claiming that the attempted air-hijacking was a false flag. Don't get sucked into these conspiracies. And don't share anything from the Canary.

People realise that just because the police are no longer categorising the Golders Green stabbing as terrorism it’s still a real thing that happened right? It’s now being classified as a hate crime, presumably because they think the attacker acted alone. Don’t give me any of this false flag shit