ThatKaren

@wokekaren.bsky.social

Zionism is Racism. Voting Green. Democratic Socialist. Love London, politics, dogs, art, history, comedy, food . . .

130+ lawyers & legal academics warn Andy Burnham that new sanctions against Israeli settlements fail to meet the UK’s obligations under international law. The 6-page letter was sent to Burnham today after Ed Miliband recently announced a ban on the import of goods from illegal Israeli settlements

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Following the Israeli government's ban of Green MPs from entering Israel, Palestinian members have issued an invitation to all Green MPs to visit a free Palestine, liberated from Israeli settler colonists who have murdered and ethnically cleansed Palestinians for nearly 80 years.

Dear Green Party MPs,
The recent decision by the Israeli authorities to ban Green Party MPs from entering Israel is a stark reminder of the system Palestinians have lived under for generations: one in which movement, borders, land and access are controlled, and those who challenge that system are simply denied entry.
For us as Palestinians in the Green Party, this is deeply personal. Our people have endured dispossession, occupation, ethnic cleansing and, today, the Genocide in Gaza and increased settler terrorism in the West Bank.
Yet we want to respond to exclusion with an invitation.
We invite every one of you to visit a Free Palestine, from the river to the sea. Come and visit our Holy sites, taste the oranges of Yaffa. Eat fish by the shores of Tiberias. Dip fresh bread into Palestinian olive oil. Walk through Jerusalem, Bethlehem and the villages from which so many Palestinian families were displaced
We would like you to know Palestine not simply as a political question, but as a living homeland: its people, food, history, memory and extraordinary beauty.
Sadly, today this invitation can only be symbolic. Palestinians themselves do not control the borders of Palestine, and millions of Palestinian refugees cannot freely return to the places their families called home because the right of return is not part of today's political conversation.
But there is something within your control.
At the Green Party Conference, you will have the opportunity to stand with Palestinian members and support our motion recognising Zionism as racism. We ask you to listen to Palestinian lived experience and recognise the system of ethno-national privilege and dispossession against which our motion
One day, we hope our invitation will no longer be symbolic. We hope to welcome you to a Free Palestine, where nobody's right to enter, remain, return or belong is determined by ethnicity or religion, or in your case, political position.
Until then, we ask you to stand with us.
In solidarit…

A reminder that Netanyahu's opposition are also horrific Jewish Supremacists who won't tolerate the truth or accept that Palestinians have any rights. Not will they tolerate Israelis and other Jews who dissent from the genocidal ethnic cleansing consensus. www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...

Netanyahu rivals: NAZA 'horrific blood libel,' filmmakers 'enemies of Israel'

Gadi Eisenkot, Naftali Bennett and Avigdor Lieberman joined right-wing leaders in denouncing the award-winning Gaza documentary, while Democrats leader Yair Golan has remained silent

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"Finally grasp the nettle and bring not just water but every critical asset that this country has, from data to health to housing, where people need it, under our control, owned by us" 🔥🔥🔥 @labourlewis.bsky.social says we need public ownership to tackle the risks facing this country

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BBC News: Mass trespass staged in PM Andy Burnham's constituency "They walked on to the Winstanley Hall estate in Wigan as part of their calls for a change in the law to bring in a Scottish-style right of responsible access to land and water that is privately owned." www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Mass trespass staged in Prime Minister Andy Burnham's Makerfield constituency

Protestors walked on to a private estate in Wigan as part of their calls for the right to roam.

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Israel’s Culture Minister Miki Zohar said he will work to revoke citizenship of filmmakers behind Gaza documentary “NAZA,” which won a Venice Film Festival prize. Zohar called the film, which alleges deliberate Israeli killings in Gaza, “vile” and “constitutes treason.” tr.ee/cwMEY9

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